RIP MCA Billboard - Shepard Fairey (Sunset / Las Palmas)
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Exitmusic - Passage
Another great Secretly Canadian band dropped its debut album last week. Exitmusic follows their 2011 EP with the full length Passage. I’m blown away by this title track. Dark but delicate, quiet and crashing. Feels like blasphemy, but I gotta say: this is what I wish the new Sigur Ros were.
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Hey LA. Uberhipness is coming to Hollywood this weekend.
In just 2 days PORTALS will be making its mark on LA with PORTALS Traveling Showcase - Los Angeles, CA w/ 6bit. Check out the setlist and details below. See you there?
Saturday, June 2nd 2012. Doors at 1 PM. Show from 2-10 PM.
At Space 15 Twenty
1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028⇒ RSVP HERE ⇐
⇒ Purchase Tickets by clicking the showcase images on the side-bar &/or footer of this PORTALS post ⇐
Setlist:
Tuesday Glass: 2pm – 2:30pm
Honeydrip: 2:45pm – 3:15pm
StaG: 3:30pm – 4pm
Mirror Lady: 4:15pm – 4:45pm
Eliot: 5pm – 5:30pm
Different Sleep: 5:45pm – 6:15pm
Slow Magic: 6:30pm – 7pm
Dreams.: 7:15pm – 7:45pm
Mister Lies: 8pm – 8:45pm
TV Girl: 9:05pm – 9:50/10pm
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Gossip - Melody Emergency
I love the new Gossip album. Beth Ditto has never sounded better, and producer Brian Higgins may have outdone Rick Rubin’s effort on their last album, Music for Men. The lurching “Melody Emergency” is the opening track that sets the scene for a varied LP that shifts from firey 80s pop (anyone else here “Eye of the Tiger” in “Perfect World”?) to straight up disco to slow jamz and back again. This is my early favorite. Don’t miss “Move In The Right Direction” either.
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Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should’ve Come Over (Live on KCRW)
Jeff Buckley died 15 years ago today. He recorded this stunning version of “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over,” from the now-famous Grace, at KCRW in the early 90s. Incredible.
Well I feel too young to hold on
And I’m much too old to break free and run
Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage I’ve done
Lover, you should’ve come over
‘Cause it’s not too late
Hat tip New Music Tipsheet for the pointer to this set.
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Stand By Me by Ben E. King
Happy birthday, Dad.
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Willie Nelson - Just Breathe (Pearl Jam cover featuring Lukas Nelson)
There are a couple excellent covers on Willie Nelson’s new album, Heroes. We heard his take on Coldplay’s The Scientist a while back. Turns out there’s an even better one. I just love this version of Pearl Jam’s Just Breathe by Willie and his son Lukas Nelson. It’s pretty true to the original, but that harp adds a lot and Willie sounds amazing.
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Florence + the Machine - Try A Little Tenderness (Otis Redding cover)
I have two great cover songs this week, so here’s one a day early. This recording is from Flo + the Machine’s MTV Unplugged session. “Try A Little Tenderness” — first performed in the 30s but made popular by Redding in 1966 — has been getting a lot of love lately. You may remember another subtle tribute that sampled Otis’s version. Ms. Welch, whose music is often called indie soul, puts her spin on a classic here.
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Lupe Fiasco - Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)
Chicago’s Lupe Fiasco has announced a sequel to Food & Liquor — one of my favorite albums of the last decade. I’m gonna hope and pray for some classic “Kick, Push” and “Daydreamin’” caliber awesomeness from Lupe. This first single is a step in the right direction (even if Pete Rock doesn’t like it). Food & Liquor II is due in September.
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The Walkmen - The House You Made
The new album from The Walkmen is pretty great. This is the first track that jumped out at me. It’s sort of Pulp Fiction meets Brooklyn. Love the bass section about 3 minutes in.
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Music For Your Morning: NPR Music is streaming Sigur Ros’ Valtari and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ Here and Saint Etienne’s Words And Music By Saint Etienne and The Walkmen’s Heaven and Regina Spektor’s What We Saw From The Cheap Seats.
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sigur rós - Varúð
The long anticipated new album from Sigur Ros drops a week from today. The band held a global listening party last week, and it’s now streaming on-demand via NPR and The Guardian. It goes without saying that I’m in love at first listen.
Preorder at http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/
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Shearwater - You As You Were
I’m wrapping up two weeks on the East Coast today. lacartaajena and I left Brooklyn about a week ago with no plans and only a vague notion that we wanted to visit Maine. We ended up in Bar Harbor this weekend and spent yesterday in Acadia National Park. What a place.
We listened to Shearwater’s Animal Joy en route to the trailhead of our epic hike. Shearwater’s sweeping, melodic pop is known for invoking the natural world and exploring otherworldly themes. It always makes me think of J.R.R. Tolkien. Animal Joy is a little less obscure than the recent trilogy of Palo Santo, Rook, and The Golden Archipelago, but still touches on the same concepts. An amazing soundtrack for a trip through coastal Maine — a place of astonishing natural beauty.
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The Golden Filter - Age of Consent (New Order cover)
From MOJO Magazine’s January edition. Happy Friday.
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Rural Ghosts - Rural Ghosts
I find myself in Portland, Maine this morning listening to local artist Rural Ghosts. This self-titled track opens the self-titled debut EP, which Erik Neilson self-released in March. It’s a safe bet that this song captures the essence of the project, which Neilson describes as “Sparse ballads of death, love and regret, set against the thick & mysterious ambiance of Maine’s North Woods.” If that line conjures images of the good winter in northern Wisconsin, you’ve got the idea.
The opening lines talk of being followed by ghosts “down wooded paths and by docks on crumbling piers.” Powerful imagery — especially as I trapse through Maine with no plans and little direction. Give the EP a listen on Bandcamp, and also check out the limited edition, handmade physical copy on Etsy.
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