DOWNLOAD: Abigail Warchild - Nixons Guns + Three More
Abigail Warchild are a Brooklyn-via-Boston quartet that sound like Wolf Parade with Marshall stacks or The Murder City Devils if they'd put out records on Merge. Unafraid of copious distortion but certainly in league with a lot of the new grizzly psych set, the band has just joined the roster at our RCRD LBL label and we're stoked to be putting out four of their tracks today. There are some big guitar sounds amongst these tunes, but we're mainly geeked on their unabashed use of B3, which will hopefully soon become the indie rock version of AutoTune.
Sounds like: Wolf Parade, Crystal Antlers, Awesome Color
Download: Abigail Warchild - Nixons Guns
Download: Abigail Warchild - The Dive
Download: Abigail Warchild - Trash Can Fire
Download: Abigail Warchild - The Silence
DOWNLOAD: 1913 - Can't Move On
Manchester group 1913 make open-ended rock music, stuff reared on the hooks of classic UK stadium bands like Manic Street Preachers and Duran Duran but still taking some energy from the fresh faces gracing the cover of the music weeklies over there (what up Kings Of Leon). Their first single “Can’t Move On” is a mid-tempo tune that’s got some great Johnny Marr guitars and a big hook that you can probably pump your fist to or whatever if you’re into that level of participation. Download below and if you live in the UK, you can pick up a copy of the limited edition seven-inch (only 500 pressed) at a handful of record shops, info over at their MySpace.
Sounds like: Manic Street Preachers, Glasvegas, Kings Of Leon
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Bell Hollow - Eyes Like Planets (Halo33 Remix)
Brooklyn post-punk quartet and RCRD LBL signees Bell Hollow are unveiling a new remix of their tune “Eyes Like Planets” today, courtesy of frequent NIN remixer and Revel Hotel drummer Barrett Hiatt, aka Halo 33. While Nick Niles’ dramatic tenor anchors the chorus with the line “It’s a yarn I spin for you,” Halo33 actually unravels most of the tune’s instrumentation, stripping away all percussion and leaving only some sanguine fishing-line guitars and scattered synth pads to fill in the rest. It’s pretty spare but still effective, managing to coax us our ears out of a groggy and rainy morning here in New York. More Bell Hollow remixes will be available on their upcoming b-sides EP Foxgloves Extras, due in December through five03 Records.
Sounds like: Nine Inch Nails, I Heart Lung, The Smiths
Exclusive Download: Bell Hollow - Eyes Like Planets (Halo33 Remix)
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Download: Bell Hollow - Copper Crayon (Project Jenny, Project Jan Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Tim Williams - Tape Your Head (4-Track Version)
While Tim Williams’ music centers itself around a bare, central acoustic progression--the actual song, if you will--the tunes find their heft amongst the mechanical programming and overweight keys that are buttressed all around. His single “Tape Your Head” cracks and bends and smacks its way through industrial punches and echoes, swimming around Williams’ simple hollow-bodied six-string like a dramatic childish patty-cake ritual. His album When Work Is Done (Dovecote), came out last year, but he recorded a special, Guided-By-Voices-inspired lo-fi version of the song just for us, available exclusively to you here at RCRD LBL. Grab the track below and see what this dude can whip up with some small organs and a dulled acoustic, coaxing his song out of its basket like a snake charmer on the streets of New Delhi.
Sounds like: Ryan Adams, Denison Whitmer, Merz
Exclusive Download: Tim Williams - Tape Your Head (4-Track Version)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Gay Blades - Hey She Say + O Shot (Black Jesuses Remix feat. Ant Stone)
The Gay Blades’ “Hey She Say” sounds like Ted Leo’s mod miming if dude didn’t listen to so much Madness. Instead of some ska backbeat and bass winding, The Gay Blades shoot straight for the title of Riff Champions, unwinding their tune with some pasty all-over-the-place shredding. The New York duo are releasing their debut album Ghosts today through Triple Crown (buy that here), and in celebration the RCRD LBL signees have given us two exclusive tracks, “Hey She Say” and a rap take on “O Shot” from Red Bank, NJ’s The Black Jesuses and Ant Stone. That one is all gospel choir samples and girthy organ, like Kanye messing with some industrial music or something (hey, it could totally happen...there are 808s And Heartbreak all over Pretty Hate Machine.)
Sounds like: Ted Leo & Pharmacists, Howlies, El-P
Exclusive Download: The Gay Blades - Hey She Say
Exclusive Download: The Gay Blades - O Shot (Black Jesuses Remix feat. Ant Stone)
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Exclusive Download: The Gay Blades - Mean Muses
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Dear And The Headlights - I'm Not Crying. You're Not Crying, Are You? + Talk About
Like a younger Okkervil River with less melodrama and some hefty ADD meds, Dear And The Headlights are a bunch of dudes from some desert town (Tempe, AZ) who play agile Americana songs that will fill speaker cones of rock joints both tiny and small in the coming days and months. These guys seem like road warriors—young, prepping their second LP (Drunk Like Bible Times out 9/30 on Equal Vision), packing the requisite facial stubble—and that’s where these songs were meant to live, in transit . Less for homebodies and more for homewreckers, this band plays mischievous rock songs for the everyman, the kind of music that can would work at both weddings and house parties, soaring loudly to make one lose their collective shit. We’ve got two cuts from the upcoming album available for download, so check them out below and thank me the next time you’re bored on a long drive, these sounds will have you slapping the dashboard and yelping along soon thereafter.
Sounds like: Okkervil River, Howlies, Born Ruffians
Exclusive Download: Dear And The Headlights - I'm Not Crying. You're Not Crying, Are You?
DOWNLOAD: Bird Names - Referents + Masters of Enjoyment
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The Daily Herald said of Chicago's Bird Names, "this band makes the Fiery Furnaces sound like Phil Collins," which I thought might be one of the best compliments written about a band in the last 5 years. It's true though, there is something so delightfully odd about Bird Names' newest release Open Relationship, it's hard to even come up with genres to explain what they're doing. Like other animal named bands (Panda Bear, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear) these 4 kids sound like they're throwing noises and sounds into the air and it's only when those ideas are floating around that they come together in cohesive songs. Like a vocal oom-pa band or an a capella fugue, "Referents" and "Masters of Enjoyment" are less records and more part of a sonic landscape it takes a whole album to create.
Sounds Like: Animal Collective, Fiery Furnaces, Panda Bear, Au
Download: Bird Names - Referents
Santogold "Lights Out" Video
Santogold is back at it again with this UK Import video for "Lights Out".
Love the awesome patterns and clothing changes on this one.
Cold War Kids! New Album! Tour! Video teaser!
Cold War Kids will be releasing their much-anticipated, to be named, second album on September 23.
Enjoy this video teaser with a song from the new album and footage of the recording process
If you're in New York City this Friday, catch the band at a free show at Prospect Park's Celebrate Brooklyn series. Also don't miss their national tour, starting in August.
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