Wednesday, March 30, 2011

True Romance - Seven Saturdays (Teen Daze Remix)

True Romance (Teen Daze Remix) OFFICIAL from Seven Saturdays on Vimeo.

Don't forget that the entire album is now available for free on bandcamp.

Yuck - Doctors in my Bed



From Yuck's blog, the B Side to the Get Away single. You know what these guys do by now, and you know they always do it perfectly.

Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean

Fleet Foxes just keep leaking cuts from their new album Helplessness Blues left and right. This time our new track, Grown Ocean comes attached to an appropriately dusty music video. All the songs we've heard have sounded very much like Fleet Foxes songs, but its looking like the bands focusing on more traditional song structures this time around.

LYF


More info at the band's website, including a pretty sick teaser for their new album "Tell Fire to the Mountain" and a new song with an old name (Heavy Pop)

Coma Cinema - Empty Palace


Coma Cinema's most recent blog update features a new album's cover art and this short note:

TBA 2011

EXHAUSTION PREVAILS/ PARTNERS IN CRIME/ EMPTY PALACE/ HURT EVERYTHING/ ROAD SIDE MEMORIAL/ SURVIVOR’S GUILT/ LANDING

It is also important to note that this may never be released, and it is likely to be the last coma cinema record.

Check out our first preview of the album, an acoustic rendition of Survivor's Guilt below, along with a few sketches.

These sketches were both written and recorded by Cothran under very strict time constraints, and mostly served to reduce the stress that "official recording" can all too often cause.

Kate Reads the Bible - Coma Cinema

Shy Water - Coma Cinema ft

Oh and I really hope the last part of that note isn't true.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Asura - Unreleasables




Ghibli mastermind Thomas Michael tipped me onto a musical peer of his today, and I've pretty much been foaming at the mouth ever sense. Sure, chopping up vaguely familiar diva wails is far from groundbreaking in 2011, but on "He Sees Through Her" Asura manages to mangle his vocal sources until they're pushed outside the realm of western music. Similarly, tracks like "This Chain" and "Kissing On a Rose" push the line between sonic revelations and straight up heart attacks with their hyperactivity. The album is rounded out by a few remixes of R&B/Rap classics that aren't entirely kosher by copyright standards, including the second remix* of Drake's Over I've heard in the past two days. I'm still not sure what Asura was thinking when he labeled these tracks unreleasable, but I'm certainly glad that he changed his mind.

*Bonus: Here's the first remix Drake's Over I've heard in the past two days:
Over (Drake Vs Starkey) - Midnighter Mashup

The Weeknd



Pretty much everyone on the internet is going nuts for the Weeknd this week. The Weeknd is just the latest in a long string of artist that have been bringing R&B influences more credibility in the worlds of underground music. Even though I've enjoyed most of these artists, for some reason I felt immune to the hype. I've been too busy to check them out and for some reason I didn't think I'd like them before I'd even heard a note. I finally decided to check them out after a conversation with my roommate and a BNM from pitchfork, and man was I wrong. Anything I could say about the mixtape has probably already been said, so just go download it.