Cold War Kids! New Album! Tour! Video teaser!
Cold War Kids will be releasing their much-anticipated, to be named, second album on September 23.
Enjoy this video teaser with a song from the new album and footage of the recording process
If you're in New York City this Friday, catch the band at a free show at Prospect Park's Celebrate Brooklyn series. Also don't miss their national tour, starting in August.
DOWNLOAD: Daily Void - The Man Without A Face + Tapewurm
They're called the Daily Void. They have songs called "The Man Without A Face," and "Tapewurm." Their 'Top Friends' on MySpace are Santa Claus, The Moon, Anti-Christ and Hugo Ball. Their album art looks like MC Escher caught in a nightmare. Their band photos look like final pictures taken on a cadaver. The "ha ha ha ha" chorus on "The Man Without A Face,” sounds like the maniacal cackle of a serial killer stabbing you to death. There are bands that write songs and play shows and then there are bands that so carefully craft every aspect of what they put out they become the rulers of their own little world.
Welcome to the Daily Void kingdom. This is rock/punk/noise/whatever you want to call it, at its dirtiest. It's murky and full of banging, snarling and a sneer so permanent that when they sing lines like "I am him laughing," it sounds more like a threat than a description of anything resembling joy. Think Something Wicked This Way Comes meets Silence of the Lambs and you'll begin to understand the world of Daily Void.
Sounds Like: Jay Reatard, Lover!, Panthers, Tyrades, Witch
Download: Daily Void - The Man Without A Face
Santogold is MTV's Artist of the Week
MTV has named Santogold their Artist of the Week in their 52 Bands series. How cool is that? Very cool.
Stay tuned throughout the week for exclusive Santogold videos, taped in Coney Island and Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Click on the pic to see all of the videos...
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: The Smith Westerns - Irukandji + Spiritus Sanctus
Photo by: Chris Anderson
You know how in TV shows like Freaks & Geeks and The Wonder Years, even though the nerds were getting stuffed into lockers and being ignored by the blonde girls, their existence always seemed preferable because even though they may have been into D&D, they could have more fun on non-alcoholic beer than everyone at the kegger? Switch out the D&D for obsession with weird old punk and garage records, non-alcoholic keggers for shows at venues that serve real actual booze (though legally not to you) and caring about the other kids for hanging with your buddies and making goofily awesome songs with beat up guitars. You always sort of knew the nerds ended up alright, but the Smith Westerns are one up on those kids since they're already unquestionably more rad than most of the people in the room.
The shows thus far have consisted of underage boy shirtlessness, a gallon of milk passed around onstage, helmets worn to beat cymbals into submission and better choreography than your average high school dance. All that with fucking catchy songs to boot and you're beginning to get to the delightful disaster of the Smith Westerns. RCRD LBL is pleased to present two songs from their first 7" on HoZac Records, released just yesterday. Try figuring out what's so holy about the jangley "Spiritus Sanctus" other than the kind of racket that would make your grandma cover her ears and then try figuring out why you never put those four chords together to make a song as stingingly catchy as "Irukandji." Check out the songs and get a copy of the limited edition vinyl while you still can. If this seems like overly gushing excitement for a brand new band of whippersnappers, you try feeling 17 and in love with four Midwestern boys at once.
Sounds Like: Black Lips, Lover!, CoCocoma, Tyrades, Brian Jonestown Massacre
Download: The Smith Westerns - Irukandji
Santogold Virgin Instore Photos
Santogold recently rocked Virgin Megastore in LA - here are some lovely pics...
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DOWNLOAD: Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus + Upon Viewing Brueghel's "Landscape With The Fall of Icarus"
Titus Andronicus are New Jersey's rock & roll band salvation. No longer saddled with merely being the home of Bon Jovi, Springsteen or NJHXC's Social Decay, Titus Andronicus stand to become the Garden State's new Golden Boys. After 2 7"s, an LP The Airing of Grievances, touring, banging away in basements and barrooms all over NYC and with a motto of "The enemy is everywhere," these five fellas are coming for you. Combining Biblical references and questionably pretentious song titles ("Upon Viewing Brueghel's 'Landscape With The Fall of Icarus',") with one of the most perfect lead-ins to a group sung, double handclap chorus of "your life is over!" ("And they'll say/ No more cigarettes/ No more havin sex/ No more drinking til you fall on the floor" in "Titus Andronicus") these boys are not afraid of throwing all of the best earmarks of rock into the mixer and still emerging with a sound all their own.
Three guitars, choruses that dare you to not raise your beer in the air and sing along, dangerously cheeky vocals and full-on instrumental drop-outs are just the beginning. A review of a show at Pace University said, "given the fact that I was tempted to rip the Styrofoam cup holding my beverage into small pieces to plug my ears, I don't think I was their number one fan," which is a perfect intro to whether or not you're quickly going to put Titus Andronicus among your favorite bands. If hearing unabashedly enthusiastic rock music played with the intent of blowing your face off makes you want to rip up your cup instead of launching it still half full of beer into the air, this might not be the band for you. But then again, why are you going to rock shows in the first place?
Sounds Like: Call Me Lightning, Two Gallants, The Thermals, No Age, Les Savy Fav, Lover!
Download: Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus
Download: Titus Andronicus - Upon Viewing Brueghel's "Landscape With The Fall of Icarus"
Gnarls Barkley Performs "Going On" on David Letterman
Check this awesome clip of Gnarls Barkley performing "Going On" last night on David Letterman. If you're in the NYC area, come and see Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo do a free stripped down set at 7pm at the Soho Apple store.
Gnarls Barkley Myspace Secret Show Recap
A sweaty time was had by all last night at Irving Plaza, when Gnarls Barkley headlined the 150th Myspace Secret show, with opening performances by Janelle Monae and Battles. Though the heat forced Cee-Lo to undress throughout the show like a losing player in an epic game of strip poker, the band's game was tight like hip huggers straight from the dryer. See more photos and coverage at Brooklyn Vegan.
(Courtesy of BK Vegan)
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Set List:
Charity Case
Surprise
Gone Daddy Gone
Run
Blind Mary
Just A Thought
Going On
Whatever
Boogie Monster
Neighbors
Storm Coming
Crazy
A Little Better
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Save My Soul
Smiley Faces
Gnarls Barkley - Myspace Secret Show This Sunday In New York!
We at Downtown HQ are beyond excited for Gnarls Barkley's Myspace Secret Show, with Battles, no less, on Sunday at Irving Plaza in New York. Stay tuned for more coverage soon!
Jessie from Eagles of Death Metal Does Denny's
Downtown's own Jesse "The Devil" Hughes, of Eagles of Death Metal fame, recently stopped by a Los Angeles Denny's to add some special recipes to Denny's new Rock Star Menu. All of Jesse's creations have hearts, in honor of the new Eagles of Death Metal album coming this fall, "Heart-On". See more pics on the Denny's blog. Yes, late night restaurant chains have blogs too.
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