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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Pack A.D. - Crazy
Vancouver's hosting that whole Olympics jam at the moment, but we'd wager hometown girls The Pack A.D. are having none of it. The irreverent stomp-blues duo have other things on the brain, mainly a new LP called We Kill Computers that they tracked live–to tape, obviously–and is due April 27 via Mint. "Crazy" is its first warning shot, a wailing, four-chord attitude bulldozer that's as catchy as it is elemental (such things are usually related). Also, bridge cowbell!
RCRD OF THE DAY: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Conscience Killer
California rock evangelists Black Rebel Motorcycle Club return on March 9 with Beat The Devil's Tattoo, their first proper album in almost three years (2008's The Effects Of 333 was entirely instrumental). If "Conscience Killer" is any indication, they're revisiting the floorboard-rattling fuzz assault of their first two LPs, albeit with shades of the gospel-inflected brilliance they found on 2005's Howl. It's what B.R.M.C. do best–a retro-futurist blues cannonball that will leave you completely blitzed and thoroughly converted.
Beat The Devil's Tattoo is out March 9 through Vagrant.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Conscience Killer
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Jackson Analogue - Glue (Radio Edit)
The Isle Of Wightian blooz fiends in Jackson Analogue are releasing their new Glue EP on November 2nd, though you preview its title track here. This is the kind of music people grow mutton chops for, you guys.
Jackson Analogue - Glue (Radio Edit)
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DOWNLOAD: Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Beating St. Louis
(Photo: Chris Becker Jr.)
Shilpa Ray is a 3rd-circle demon cast out of the underworld and reborn in human, blues-singer form. Or, at least, she’s arguably the best vocalist to emerge in New York this decade, first with Beat the Devil and now fronting Her Happy Hookers, who, as you might guess, have a more full-bodied sound. A lot has been written about her small stature and enormous voice, and her instrument, the harmonium. But that stuff would be merely notable if not for the completely unfiltered way she writes and performs. “Beating St. Louis” is a weary, elegantly reverbed waltz of destruction from the group’s debut, A Fish Hook An Open Eye, which we’ve been waiting decades for. But that might be sorted out by September 10, when the band plays with Boss Hog at the new Knitting Factory in Brooklyn.
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Beating St. Louis
Previously:
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Coward Cracked the Dawn (Radio Edit)
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Filthy and Free
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Joe Gideon & The Shark - Hide and Seek
When someone says “brother-sister guitar-drums duo,” you are no longer allowed to say “Oh, you mean like…”—even if Londoners Joe Gideon and his sister Viva do play rock music under some kind of cracked blues spell on the forthcoming Harum Scarum. Gideon is more a cockeyed storyteller than a singer, as the comically evil little tale within the thumping “Hide and Seek” proves. The uncommonly talented Viva represented Great Britain in the Barcelona Olympics as a rhythmic gymnast; now she merely drums, pianos, whoops and plays a little guitar—often at the same time. Which is probably why she gets a nickname like the Shark as opposed to the sort of things you call your little sister.
Joe Gideon & The Shark - Hide And Seek
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PITCHFORK FESTIVAL DOWNLOAD: The Dutchess And The Duke - Reservoir Park
(Photo: Andrew Waits)
Self-dubbed "campfire punk" duo The Dutchess And The Duke roll into Union Park on Saturday for a set at the seemingly inappropriate hour of 1:45. We say "inappropriate" because that's a little early to be pulling flasks from pockets and cooking marshmallows on sticks until they are dangerous, flaming torches of sugar. But hey, maybe it isn't. UP TO YOU. Regardless, you will probably hear "Reservoir Park"–taken from She's The Dutchess, He's The Duke, their Hardly Art debut–its Stones-in-a-flatbed-truck thing instantly making your afternoon more wild.
Sounds like: Deer Tick, The Dodos
The Dutchess and The Duke - Reservoir Park
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DOWNLOAD: Sweet Tea + Heartless Bastards - If I Were A Carpenter
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I’ve never gotten my parents’ music. Rather, I’ve never gotten what it must have meant to them because I can’t imagine who they were. All those bongos and tapestries and Puka shells just couldn’t have represented them—two fantastic yupsters who own an antique shop and drive a Murano to my brother’s hockey games. Maybe my kids will say the same about my playlists. If Heartless Bastards and the newly-formed Sweet Tea are all that is left of the superb reincarnation of hippie sentiment and purple-colored arias, then I will have been proud of the time when I was young and it all meant something.
Sounds like: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Mamas & The Papas
Sweet Tea feat. Heartless Bastards - If I Were A Carpenter
Previously:
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Heartless Bastards - Searching for the Ghost (Acoustic)
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DOWNLOAD: BLK JKS - Molalatladi
(Photo: Demonica Orozco)
It's been a minute since we picked up the first BLK JKS 10" (actually, about a year and a half), and at this point the grooves are a little worn down so we're psyched the South African dub-prog quartet announced the release of their debut album. After Robots–out September 8th through Secretly Canadian–was recorded in Bloomington, IN by The Secret Machines' Brandon Curtis and features appearances from the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, who are profiled in the current New Yorker. Hypnotic's burps are all over the dare we say Zappa-ish "Molalatladi," which, according to the minds at P4K, translates to "rainbow." We can't confirm that but it will certainly make you see colors.
Sounds like: Frank Zappa, Sean Kuti & Egypt 80, The Mars Volta
Previously:
BLK JKS - Summertime (Carlos Ramos version)
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