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DOWNLOAD: Crystal Antlers - Until The Sun Dies (Part 2)
Ever gargle chopped glass or rock candy with lighter fluid? No? Weird. Aside from boasting a percussionist named Sexual Chocolate as well as a growing armada of similarly epic, devil-horned psych adventures worth checking out as soon as you possibly can, Long Beach's Crystal Antler even fuck with organ. Sort of like your favorite post-harcore bands from the 90s on acid. LOTS of acid.
And again, they've got a percussionist named Sexual Chocolate, which is exactly what my brother always asked to go by growing up. What a weird little dude.
Sounds Like: The Stooges, Awesome Color, Blood Brothers, Comets on Fire
FEATURED: Everyone Is Tripping Out Over Graveyard
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Everyone from our A&R team to our CEO Peter Rojas to our esteemed blogger Daniel Arnold have been singing the praises of mighty Swedish stoner rockers Graveyard. As of today, Rolling Stone's own David Fricke is on board too. He just wrote them up as his Fricke Pick. Hop over to the RS site to check it out and of course grab the free downloads we have below.
Graveyard at Rolling Stone.com
Download: Graveyard - Thin Line
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Valet - Fire
After a few months on the road as part of Atlas Sound, collaborator extraordinaire Honey Owens is back in Portland, soaking up local talent and turning it into shimmery space blues as Valet. You gotta hear Naked Acid sometime. Late at night, probably, with the lights low. Or you could skip the music, paint your face, put on feathers, stay awake for three days and stare down your reflection in a pond surrounded by torches on a breezy night. But listening to the stoned slow-motion airplane crash in reverse that is her music is way way easier. And it's free. So just do that.
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Valet - Fire
DOWNLOAD: Dark Meat - Freedom Ritual
Dark Meat make psychedelic and psychotic look like synonyms. The 17-person Athens collective take the best elements of old voodoo Dr. John and Captain Beefheart and infuse it with so much flailing adrenaline that the whole thing threatens to complete fall apart at least once a verse. Tambourines seize out atop writhing sweat drenched arms with hairy pits alongside the old world fur hat horn section, tripped out and bleating. It's downright religious. Definitely, definitely see them live. And don't skip the mp3 either.
INTERVIEW: The Morning Benders + DOWNLOAD: Crosseyed
The Morning Benders are good medicine. Whatever evolutionary magic gave melody the power to flutter our girly hearts, they got it figured out. Four dudes out of Berkeley, they turn the San Francisco Bay blues pink with perfect hooks on jangly air puffed gems that you can listen to 15 times over before you realize they're on repeat. Because they sing so sweet, we thought we'd give them a chance to do some talking, too. Figure they're probably pretty good at it.
Read the interview and check the band's favorite RCRD LBL jams here
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Yellow Fever - Cats And Rats
We love White Magic a ton. Think they're the greatest. Make no mistake. But sometimes when that keening drone has gone on for half an hour or so, we think, maybe it would be sorta alright if these guys would kick it out once in a while.
Thank God we found Yellow Fever. They got the slowed down vanilla pudding lady vocals, the psychedelic headspin and enough mood to dimly light a Wal-Mart and even make it look kinda sexy. But they also got this groovy arty backend -- minimal post-punk basslines, killer bridges and hooky girl-girl harmonies. It's music for falling in love to and with. Morning in the bedroom music. Spooky and delicious and seductive.
DOWNLOAD: Yellow Fever - Cats And Rats
DOWNLOAD: Citay - Eye On The Dollar
Citay's not making it any easier not to move to San Francisco. Yeah Brooklyn's cozy, but all the music here makes you clench your teeth and stare hard. Out there everything seems to be eyes closed and mouths open in a neverending '70s soda commercial. Everything feels good.
This new Citay jam... mama... call out the instigator. Heavy reverb turns already blissed out vocals into out-of-body experiences. It's this beachy mix of jangly acoustic guitar and ELO synth and the back-up singers say oooh ahhhhhhhhh... It doesn't hurt that the two man band has blossomed into a bonafide collective, borrowing talent from members of Tussle, Crime in Choir, The Dry Spells, Meridians, 3 Leafs, Galactic Bunz, and Sweet Potatoes. "Eye On The Dollar" is a perfect breezy follow-up to "First Fantasy." The kinda thing that begs to be listened to in a car. Damn you Brooklyn.
DOWNLOAD: Citay - Eye On The Dollar
CONTEST: Win tickets to see Sam Champion and Drug Rug tomm night in NYC!
If you totally slept on making post-Valentine’s Day plans (if people even do that), and dig dirty, really groovy rock ‘n’ roll, you’re in luck: we’re giving away a pair of tickets to Sam Champion and Drug Rug’s show tomorrow night at the Bowery Ballroom. If you’re not already, be prepare to fall in love with the Champ’s updated take on ‘90s indie rock, and Drug Rug’s (we like that name more and more every time we type it) straight up delta blues psych rock. All you have to do is email contests@rcrdlbl.com with “SAM CHAMPION” in the subject line. May the best fan win!
Download: San Champion - So Good To Me
FEATURED: Violens play tonight with Yeasayer and MGMT
If you're into the NYC music scene, tonight's bill at the Bowery Ballroom is the show of the season: RCRD LBL artist Violens are supporting MGMT and Yeasayer on their first headlining slot at our favorite mid-sized venue. If you've been able to score a ticket, then hold onto it for dear life, because someone, somewhere is probably ready to commit grave, horrible crimes for it.
Make sure to get there early to see Violens, who are one of our favorite NYC darlings at the moment. Download their current RCRD LBL single, "Violent Sensation Descends", below...
DOWNLOAD: Quinn Walker - Plenty Of Water For Mud
Quinn Walker's making some name for himself. Got people calling him "shaman," "genius," "an entire fun house orchestra," and all this from a two disc, 29-track solo debut. Unheard of. Or maybe not. Because, see, Quinn Walker, he's got it. Sounds like House On The Rock looks. An inexplicable but undeniably inspired ramshackle collection/collision of a world of influences and visions. Beatlesy orchestration, Bowie balls, religious fervor, k-5 carelessness, psychy far out freakness... Let's just say that his association with Animal Collective is more than just a passing thing.
On "Plenty Of Water For Mud," he pushes his medicine man aesthetic from humble folky beginnings to gleeful bathrobe-clad cult stuff, grandiose and yelping. From Wooden Wand to Dark Meat to Harlem Gospel Choir. Gives your goosebumps chills. Makes your tears cry. Major stuff. Under no circumstances should you miss it. See the light. Go.
DOWNLOAD: Quinn Walker - Plenty Of Water For Mud
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