DOWNLOAD: Death to Anders - Camera Lense + Ghost Rock
Sometimes you just want a good, stiff drink. Or a cigarette after you've "quit." Or a good lay. Or a car with a tank full of gas and an open road. Or the kind of song you can just pound the steering wheel and shout along to (that's not "Free Fallin'"). Sometimes you don't want songs with animal noises or weird glitches or lyrics that came out of Macbeth. Sometimes you just want a good rock song, something you can just live with in your head, that won't drive you crazy but can play over and over again and begin to feel classic. Sometimes you should really just put on Death to Anders.
Combining the melody that seems to come in the water in Silverlake like flouride with the abandon of four dudes making good rock songs with the ability to craft tunes that are both smart and so catchy they could be hummed walking down the street, Death to Anders has come as damn near close to making perfect rock songs as pretty much any band around. This isn't haphazard and it's not sludgey and it's not overly arty. This is Americana. This is a baseball game. Or drinking beer in the backyard with your buddies. Or sitting around a campfire with some guitars and some smokes and some girls and singing as loud as you can into the night. If you've been looking for some good new old rock songs, spend some time with Death to Anders and their Fictitious Business.
Sounds Like: Sam Champion, Pixies, Blitzen Trapper, Neutral Milk Hotel
Download: Death to Anders - Camera Lense
Download: E Reece, A New Breed
Downtown LA's hip-hop scene is developing strong so we wanted to keep it local. On a recent trip to a new sneaker emporium we met E Reece who caught us up on his new music, college circuit tour (with his band Core Elements) and TV placements.
This east coast transplant has been making moves in LA and has caught the attention of reality show dons Bunim/Murray Productions, who've used his joints on "The Real World" (MTV) and "Old School" (VH1). But, as we're still in NCAA season we wanted to share E Reece's drum and bass-inspired rap tune "Just Move" Bautista remix that is featured in 2K Sports' College Hoops 2008 (available for Xbox 360, Xbox Live and Playstation 3). This game is for the real rap heads and features music from Deltron 3030, Dilated Peoples, J Dilla & MF Doom, Guilty Simpson, Jurassic 5 and Percee P. Check out full details on the OST here.
"Taking hip hop’s vibe back to its foundation, when it was fun and not so much about how much money you had in your pockets or how many girls you had." Check out his EPs here or on the Lyricist Lounge mixtape "The Legendary Lyricist Lounge International Mixtape Series Vol. 1". E Reece was also kind enough to offer 2 downloads to SEEN readers, including the aforementioned "Just Move".
Download: E Reece - Just Move (Bautista Remix)
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: The Mae Shi - I Get (Almost) Everything I Want
If you have windows or doors or any fragile items or a roof, you better take this one outside. Disguised as experimental L.A. punk, it's actually a raging girlpower anthem that completely relieves this modern world of its need for Destiny's Child or whoever else. Forget girlpower. It's an everyonepower anthem. Dudes. Watch it define our generation. Seriously. It'll take like two minutes. For real. It's the new National Anthem. Twenty-five guys singing their absolute hearts and heads off only instead of words coming out they're just puking adrenaline all over the place and there are stars and fireworks and everyone's holding sparklers and your sister and her friends are all crying. We dare you not to get married to The Mae Shi. There's just no way you'll be able to resist. Listen to this goddamned song loud right now.
I WANT ALMOST EVERYTHING AND I GET ALMOST EVERYTHING I WANT.
DOWNLOAD: The Mae Shi - I Get (Almost) Everything I Want
Band Of The Day #5 - ABE VIGODA "Dead City"/"Waste Wilderness"
Like the majority of acts mooching around downtown LA venue the Smell, DiS has become rather enamoured with Abe Vigoda of late. As we head into December, it’s customary to the point of reflex to stop running, turn around and survey the wreckage of the last 12 months; glee and horror and all. First came No Age, in which Randy Randall and Dean Spunt were forced to slim previous outfit Wives and returned looking fitter than ever; pop, but with just enough noise on their bones to give us something to hang on to. Then, in whatever order, Mika Miko, Barr, the Mae Shi and more all stripped off pieces of our collective heart before HEALTH clattered into view in autumn and we thought that, surely, would be our lot.
No – Vigoda are great; self-proclaimed tropical punks lighting up what they claim unashamedly as their scene, lighting up England’s dark, November, concrete days, lighting up Christmas shopping like a Caribbean holiday brochure in the rubble of tack and toy. Full of youth and play, the quartet tune their guitars tight to steel-pan effect, teach drummer Reggie Guerrero to drum soca on turtle shells, record the thing, take it to the beach, bury it in sand and wait.
We’ve dug up this, an exclusive download of the act's forthcoming and still-in-production third album. Heading off into the weekend and the grey and grit of London, we'll be using it to stave off the pangs of pranging down we’re catching from the Burial record and all this inane Christmas lighting. Which hometown are Abe Vigoda tracking? “NAUGHTYVILLE, California, United States”.
Gimme gamelan, fuck Roy Wood.
Drownload: Abe Vigoda - Dead City / Waste Wilderness
http://www.myspace.com/abevigoda
http://www.myspace.com/thesmell
- Kev Kharas
