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VIDEO: MINK - Get It Right
So you may have been wondering, when we featured our buddies- the rockers MINK - a month or so ago, why they were wearing such interesting zootsuits in the photo above. Well, they've just released their newest video to "Get It Right"- and it explains it all. Check it out and feel free to giggle with the beat. The remix by the Spankrock DJs, Devlin and Darko, of "Talk to Me" is also below. Sweet.
Download: MINK - Talk To Me (Devlin & Darko Remix)
DOWNLOAD: David Ramos - Kings and Queens
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Meet David. He's likes using synthesizers, Casios, shitty drum machines, glockenspiels, acoustic guitars, and melodicas. He also likes to sing and rap- often in the same song. I don't know if he likes walks on the beach so don't ask. What I do know is that he crafts some infectious indie rock with an extreme range. One second you'll be listening to crescendoing chamber pop- with layered instrumentals and sing-shout vocals ala Arcade Fire or Ra Ra Riot (see: "Kings and Queens.") Next second, he's white-boy rapping about some deep philosophical shit on "Don't Exist." And it's all good. Which is why I included his music and contact info below. Make the most of it.
Also as a special plus, we're debuting his video for "Kings and Queens." Here goes:
SOUNDS LIKE: Ra Ra Riot, The Why
Download: David Ramos- Kings and Queens
Download: David Ramos - Don't Exist
FEATURED: The War on Drugs at the FADER blog
Just when you thought new music had finally hit the most boring wall imaginable, and not one of these contrived bands could ever surprise you again, BAM, The War on Drugs bust out of Philly like a bat out of hell and make your head spin with their trippy psych-pop. We featured them a while back, and now the FADER have followed suit, posting “Taking the Farm” a majestic new track from their upcoming record Wagonwheel Blues. It sounds like Bruce Springsteen and the Cocteau Twins revving up a disused merry-go-round, and it just became the soundtrack to the rest of our day.
DOWNLOAD: The Black Angels- Doves
When we first watched The Black Angels at a side show in SXSW, our eyes all widened and ears cleared. It says a lot for local hippies from Austin to stand out amongst 1700 international bands. They were intoxicating.
The Black Angels birth heavy, dark layers of psychadelic sound- with emotive flair we rarely see any more. Like Velvet Underground's "Run Run Run" stage (after all, they're named after the Velvet Underground song, "The Black Angel's Death Song,"), they also craft quirky psychedelic compositions ala Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit over the dark, revertebrating undertones like Jesus & Mary Chain. To say the least, we've been deeply anticipating their new album, Directions To See A Ghost, which is digitally released today. Check out "Doves" below and thank us later.
DOWNLOAD: Bad Dudes- Finger
So yesterday, we introduced you to the frenetic, psychedelic madness that is the Bad Dudes' new album Eat Drugs. It probably launched most of you into some sort of frenzy you don't remember very well the next day. Which is why today, we're given you the perfect elixir to relieve your nerves. This one shows the softer side to Bad Dudes. "Finger" Finger is an ethereal choir of whispers and light chord plucks. It's friday. Enjoy.
Download: Dad Dudes- Heterosaucer
DOWNLOAD: Old Man River- L.A.
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Old Man River’s “L.A.” is giddy, happy-go-lucky pop rock; think Andrew Bird singing while drinking pina coladas the beach. Meanwhile, the jam “Sunshine” has an intensely psychedelic feel-reminiscent of “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” by The 5th Dimension- accentuated with Indian instruments. The young man behind Old Man River, Sydney-based Ohad Rein credits his sonic inspiration from his world-wide travels- through India, the Middle East, NY and Australia.
New Yorkers can check him out tonight at Lit and tomorrow night at the Bar on A.
Stream: C'Mon & Kypski - Where The Wild Things Are (feat Sadat X)
The classic book "Where the Wild Things Are" has always inspired crazed, exotic dreams, especiailly when we were little tots and scared of the dark. Now imagine if this book's soundtrack were set in the woods, while you are on acid, surrounded by talking trees and weird laser-shooting birds who were breakdancing next to friendly bears and psychadelic fairies. That's essentially what the Dutch four piece band C-Mon & Kypski decided to create when they packed up in a van and headed to the wilds of Morocco to craft these tracks. Enjoy.
Stream: C-Mon and Kypski - Where The Wild Things Are (feat Sadat X)
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Cotton Jones Basket Ride- It Comes to Me Now (In Fuzz)
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In his own studio, in the "Velvet Belt" of Maryland- (somwhere between Cumberland and Frostburg), Mike Nau and his crew crafts songs in a single take around a single microphone. In "It Comes To Me Now (In Fuzz)", you can feel that live vapor seeping through this recording of fuzzed-out jazz blues.At the same time, it is hypnotic enough to lure a snake from a basket. "Chewing Gum" has got cheeky 1950's soul.
(PS, If you miss CJBR in Austin, he's is playing in NYC with John Vanderslice at the Mercury Lounge afterward too.)
The Cotton Jones Basket Ride Schedule:
March 12 - 8 pm SXSW- SoHo Lounge: QuiSci/Suburban Sprawl/Quack! Media Showcase
March 12- 12pm SXSW-Day Party @ Lambert's Downtown BBQ- Quite Scientifc/ Secretly Canadian/Team Love
Download: Cotton Jones Basket Ride- It Comes to Me Now (In Fuzz)
Download: Cotton Jones Basket Ride- Chewing Gum
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: A Place To Bury Strangers- I Know I'll See You (The Clapp Remix)
Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers’ caustic percussion and intensely distorted guitars would have fit in with the dark days in NY, when the cavernous sticky basement at New York's Lit lounge reverberated with black, slunking noise. Live- APTBS are unlike anything else right now- it's a jaw-quaking, thirst-quenching- and almost pornographic sensory assault.
Surprising though, this exclusive remix by The Clapp reveals a bit of a softer side of APTBS- influenced by dreamy 80s shoe-gaze. It's Joy Division with APTBS's signature ear tingling reverb, set to a The Cure-esque infectious beat. Wicked.
Exclusive Download: A Place To Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You (The Clapp Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Blitzen Trapper- Wild Mountain Nation
Blitzen Trapper's rustic, 'nature's wild child’ music is highly recommended when:
A) You're chilling with your guitar on the front porch of the wooden shack that you built with your own bearclaws
B) Put on a mix between the Allman Brothers and The Band, while driving Route 66, windows down, dust trailing behind
C) Your hunter-gatherer tribe is alongside a trickling creek and 113-yeard-old fir trees, surrounded by fairy people who survive off select herbs, berries and the writings of Emerson
D) Paired with some peyote
The sextet's "Wild Mountain Nation" below is an ode to southern rock, heartfelt and deliberately rough around the edges- with fuzzed-out guitars and laidback twang. If you dig it, you'll be psyched to know that the dudes are putting in serious road mileage the next two months, performing in a ton of cities coast-to-coast. Check their myspace for more info.
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