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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Ulysses - Toucan (Demo Mix)
(Photo: Dan Pak)
Because what's Thursday without indulging in a ten-minute krautrock cut with keyboards that sound like ooze dripping from our corneas and drums that had to have been played by someone with ten arms? (Answer: boring.) Ulysses is New York resident Elliot Taub, one half of the Neurotic Drum Band and seasoned NYC nightlife dude (that's him standing in front of the old club Fun, where he threw the Regressive Technologies parties in the early 2000s). He just put out a 12-inch of some more club-appropriate stuff on Wurst, go buy that here when you get to the other side of this unreleased epic.
Sounds like: Faze Action, Permanent Vacation, Liars at their most wasted
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Pink Skull - Endless Bummer
Philly brain swellers Pink Skull know how to title shit, and while we appreciate that immeasurably (it's hard to not adore a song called "Fuck You And The MicroKorg You Rode In On"), such nominal hijinks actually just hint at how bizonkers their music is. Like "Endless Bummer," which might appear innocuous next to a song called "Ritualistic Bug Use" (video after the break), but in actuality sounds like psychoactive toads having a drum circle inside James Chance's saxophone. It's from a new LP of the same name that just dropped on Tuesday via RVNG, go buy it here once you've scraped your brain off the floor.
Sounds like: !!!, Professor Murder
Previously:
Pink Skull - Drugs Will Keep Us Together
Pink Skull - Drugs Will Keep Us Together (33Hz Dub)
Pink Skull - Drugs Will Keep Us Together (Trevor Loveys Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home + 40 Day Dream
A few years back, it seemed every act was heavy on beards, light on shirts, and roaming around in vagabond packs, stealing shoes and using buttons as currency. We miss that. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros are this year’s merry pranksters, and their bajillion-piece band makes both cathedral music and campfire tunes. Check tour dates here and below, snap up “Home,” available for a limited time, and “40 Day Dream” for a sampling of their big, beautiful and worthwhile record Up From Below. It’s Lake Wobegon meets Arcade Fire, and through an insanely awesome promo you can buy the album for $1.99 tomorrow only, right here.
Sounds like: Animal Collective, Yeasayer, Jefferson Airplane
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
DOWNLOAD: The Gaslamp Killer - Baiafro
(Photo: Theo Jemison)
Did The Gaslamp Killer name this song after his hair? It's impossible to headbang to, but also has these synths that buzz like radioactive curling irons. So we're thinking maybe. He's popping around Europe for the next week or so, including a stop at London's Fabric club on Friday. Should look something like this.
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DOWNLOAD: Nudge - Two Hands
(Photo: Tim Schaar)
This song from Nudge–ostensibly the solo project of L.A. musician Brian Foote, with vocal assistance here from Valet's Honey Owens–is like watching a glass bottle break in reverse, seemingly dissimilar sounds (languid, wah-soaked guitar; a brush-stroked snare drum; barely-know-its-there bass) slowly coagulating together, as if together was their initial form. The project's second LP, As Good As Gone, dropped last month via perennial mindmelters Kranky, and tomorrow they play the Regen Projects Courtyard in L.A. before heading off to Europe for a month of shows with Lotus Plaza. All those dates are viewable here.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Spectre Folk - Falling Off the Map
If this new Spectre Folk jam was dropped into the next Michel Gondry film, it could cure millions. As it is, “Falling Off the Map” is the first blurt from Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo, the new album coming ’round the end of the month (on Arbitrary Signs) by this side/solo project from Pete Nolan, drummer-skater of Magik Markers and one of NYC’s raddest. The honeyed song drifts along on gentle, trippy impulse power; it makes your heart feel psychedelic. Grab the track below, and check out a lysergic video directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon for another song from the album here. And — stay mellow.
DOWNLOAD: Steve Gunn - Mr. Franklin
Just learned that Steve Gunn is releasing a new album next month and thought it was important that you hear a preview asap. Gunn represents a distinctly individual energy signature within the psychedelic-folk tradition traced out by deep searchers like Sandy Bull, John Fahey and Robbie Basho, and on the insanely cool jam “Mr. Franklin” (which features pedal steel from frequent cohort Marc Orleans) he picks and sings as if he’s got one eye on the infinite and the other gazing inward. It’s moving stuff and it could help you feel better. Three Lobed Recordings, a bottomless well of out-there delights, is putting out Gunn’s Boerum Palace on limited-edition vinyl and as a download, and if you pre-order here you can also lay claim to an additional disc of Gunn shots for just a couple more bucks. Deal!
DOWNLOAD: Hush Arbors - Day Before + Devil Made You High
Hush Arbors makes a vein of off-key, strummy, rock-pop that straddles the memories of Seattle-infused 90s and California-obsessed 60s. The tracks below leave us with a feeling of accessible wistfulness, almost an invigoratingly DIY-ness, as if we could grab the mailman, a few instruments and a couple of gallons of Sunny D (maybe some purple stuff too) and come up with something you might call music. A listen of the rest of the record and a sweep of the liner notes (record is produced by J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr.) and it all becomes painfully obvious that we’ve been duped. It only looks easy (kind of like that unkempt hairdo above). Maybe in our next life we’ll craft a plaintive record wild with psych-folk fuzz and promise like Yankee Reality but we doubt it.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Amazing - Dragon
I am trying to avoid the obvious. Must…resist…argh…okay okay okay, I surrender: Hey everybody, check out this Amazing song! Ahhhh. Sorry, really I am, because this Swedish quartet deserves better than my cornball routine — in fact, the airy folk-rock band (which includes two Dungen dudes) goes a long way to reclaiming the true meaning of their name from the hipster hordes who hurl the word “amazing” at every faint breeze. The Amazing’s self-titled debut, out in a couple of weeks through the always-fresh Subliminal Sounds label, takes seasonally affecting melancholy and makes it something other than sad. Dig the sweet sweet sweet “Dragon,” its Nick Drake–style strum balanced against an achingly familiar guitar line — pure autumnal romance. Please forgive me my banalities, but this stuff is kind of amazing.
DOWNLOAD: Bear In Heaven - Wholehearted Mess (Pink Skull Remix)
Brooklyn's Bear In Heaven have been at it since 2003, meaning they predate the handful of other ursine named bands from the area. I guess you'd call that unlucky foresight or something. And while their spectral, linear psych-funk is probably not on Jay and B's radar, it is assuredly on ours, as we await their new LP for Hometapes, Beast Rest Forth Mouth. That drops on October 13th, but out now is a 12-inch of lead single "Wholehearted Mess" that includes this version from Philly's Pink Skull, they of the excellent "Drugs Will Keep Us Together." MP3age below, hit the break for Bear In Heaven's scheduled tour dates.
Bear In Heaven - Wholehearted Mess (Pink Skull Remix)
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