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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Jackson Analogue - Glue (Radio Edit)
The Isle Of Wightian blooz fiends in Jackson Analogue are releasing their new Glue EP on November 2nd, though you preview its title track here. This is the kind of music people grow mutton chops for, you guys.
DOWNLOAD: Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Beating St. Louis
(Photo: Chris Becker Jr.)
Shilpa Ray is a 3rd-circle demon cast out of the underworld and reborn in human, blues-singer form. Or, at least, she’s arguably the best vocalist to emerge in New York this decade, first with Beat the Devil and now fronting Her Happy Hookers, who, as you might guess, have a more full-bodied sound. A lot has been written about her small stature and enormous voice, and her instrument, the harmonium. But that stuff would be merely notable if not for the completely unfiltered way she writes and performs. “Beating St. Louis” is a weary, elegantly reverbed waltz of destruction from the group’s debut, A Fish Hook An Open Eye, which we’ve been waiting decades for. But that might be sorted out by September 10, when the band plays with Boss Hog at the new Knitting Factory in Brooklyn.
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Beating St. Louis
Previously:
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Coward Cracked the Dawn (Radio Edit)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Joe Gideon & The Shark - Hide and Seek
When someone says “brother-sister guitar-drums duo,” you are no longer allowed to say “Oh, you mean like…”—even if Londoners Joe Gideon and his sister Viva do play rock music under some kind of cracked blues spell on the forthcoming Harum Scarum. Gideon is more a cockeyed storyteller than a singer, as the comically evil little tale within the thumping “Hide and Seek” proves. The uncommonly talented Viva represented Great Britain in the Barcelona Olympics as a rhythmic gymnast; now she merely drums, pianos, whoops and plays a little guitar—often at the same time. Which is probably why she gets a nickname like the Shark as opposed to the sort of things you call your little sister.
PITCHFORK FESTIVAL DOWNLOAD: The Dutchess And The Duke - Reservoir Park
(Photo: Andrew Waits)
Self-dubbed "campfire punk" duo The Dutchess And The Duke roll into Union Park on Saturday for a set at the seemingly inappropriate hour of 1:45. We say "inappropriate" because that's a little early to be pulling flasks from pockets and cooking marshmallows on sticks until they are dangerous, flaming torches of sugar. But hey, maybe it isn't. UP TO YOU. Regardless, you will probably hear "Reservoir Park"–taken from She's The Dutchess, He's The Duke, their Hardly Art debut–its Stones-in-a-flatbed-truck thing instantly making your afternoon more wild.
Sounds like: Deer Tick, The Dodos
DOWNLOAD: Sweet Tea + Heartless Bastards - If I Were A Carpenter
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I’ve never gotten my parents’ music. Rather, I’ve never gotten what it must have meant to them because I can’t imagine who they were. All those bongos and tapestries and Puka shells just couldn’t have represented them—two fantastic yupsters who own an antique shop and drive a Murano to my brother’s hockey games. Maybe my kids will say the same about my playlists. If Heartless Bastards and the newly-formed Sweet Tea are all that is left of the superb reincarnation of hippie sentiment and purple-colored arias, then I will have been proud of the time when I was young and it all meant something.
Sounds like: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Mamas & The Papas
Sweet Tea feat. Heartless Bastards - If I Were A Carpenter
Previously:
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
DOWNLOAD: BLK JKS - Molalatladi
(Photo: Demonica Orozco)
It's been a minute since we picked up the first BLK JKS 10" (actually, about a year and a half), and at this point the grooves are a little worn down so we're psyched the South African dub-prog quartet announced the release of their debut album. After Robots–out September 8th through Secretly Canadian–was recorded in Bloomington, IN by The Secret Machines' Brandon Curtis and features appearances from the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, who are profiled in the current New Yorker. Hypnotic's burps are all over the dare we say Zappa-ish "Molalatladi," which, according to the minds at P4K, translates to "rainbow." We can't confirm that but it will certainly make you see colors.
Sounds like: Frank Zappa, Sean Kuti & Egypt 80, The Mars Volta
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DOWNLOAD: UUVVWWZ - Shark Suit
We know exactly what you're thinking: another set of repeated consonants and some trippy cover art; you want to dislike UUVVWWZ based solely on first impressions. And that is just ridiculous. Because, one, there's only so much in a name (see: Psychedelic Horseshit) and, two, these four Nebraskans and their gummy, pliable blues-funk-punk couldn't be more likable. We are sitting here listening to "Shark Suit"–from their self-titled Saddle Creek debut, out July 7–wondering how we can mimic that dubby delay pedal trick they're using. Gets us every time.
Sounds like: Ponytail, Golden Triangle, Deerhoof
DOWNLOAD: Magic Wands - Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Remix)
A few weeks ago we introduced you to Magic Wands, the met-via-Internet Nashville duo who strutted their way onto these pages with the glam-pop nugget "Black Magic." Today we're offering a remix of that tune from Spain's Kitsune-signed Crystal Fighters, who turned out a "Township Funk"-indebted bassline house version. A bit less sex and a lot more epilepsy-inducing synth. Take your pick.
Sounds like: DJ Mujava, Santigold, The Kills
Magic Wands - Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Men Without Pants - And The Girls Go
The rap sheets for the two halves of Men Without Pants read like pages 4-10 of our freshmen year Case Logic in college. Russel Simins, drummer and co-founder of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, has also sat behind Tom Waits, Elliot Smith, Yoko Ono, and DJ Shadow, while his brother-in-pantslessness Dan The Automator produced, among many other things, Dr. Octagon, Handsome Boy Modeling School, and Head Automatica. He also produced the JSBE's Acme (great record, go check it out.) The Men Without Pants project is essentially the sum of its parts, some strutting fuzz box bombs taped together under Dan's careful, beat-maniacal eye. "And The Girls Go" also features Sean Lennon on keys, though the female vocalist, Amanda Garrett, remains unknown to these ears (if you've got more info, please shout it out in the comments). It also sounds a lot like Blur, which is never a bad thing.
Naturally is out now through Expansion Team Records.
Sounds like: Blur, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
DOWNLOAD: White Denim - Mirrored And Reverse
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At times there's a sullen, down-in-the-mouth restraint to White Denim's music that's thrilling to behold. Here on "Mirrored And Reverse", the first track to be lifted from new album Fits, that barely-managed sulk is in full swing: drummer Josh Block focused like a 'phet-gobbling long distance lorry driver, his steady beat sticking to the endless white line in the centre of the road as guitars flare up all around in agitated bursts of flange and stomp-box squeal. Ruefully for a band unsigned in their native land, White Denim's sound is all-American, but that's not to say it's pointlessly or excessively derivative. They're just the latest in a deep rock lineage and criticising them for that is like hollering at a boy for having his dad's eyes.
Sounds Like: Van Morrison, The Doors, Black Mountain
White Denim - Mirrored And Reverse
Previously:
White Denim - World As A Waiting Room
White Denim - Paint Silver Gold
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