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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Capgun Coup - Sitting On The Sidewalk
Never been to Omaha, but it sounds like a simple place, where starting a band would be a relatively easy proposition. That one dude and that one label have done okay. But seriously, Capgun Coup's Highway 61 re-revisit is about as urbane as grits, which is to say not very. And they're better for it–never during "Sitting On A Sidewalk" do you doubt that these dudes see lots of stars every night and think paying five dollars for a beer is insane. That's admirable. Their second LP, Maudlin, is out tomorrow through the aforementioned dude's Team Love, and they'll also be out on tour with Cursive in November and December. Dates on their MySpace.
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.
DOWNLOAD: Frankie Rose - Thee Only One
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In a weird turn of events, former Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls drummer Frankie Rose, the woman responsible for the truly awesome "Where Do You Run To," has turned prog with her solo vehicle. Psych! She's actually still surfing swells of crusty garage-pop, wooing like a dove under all the noise. "Thee Only One" is the A-side to a new single for the yet-again-on-point Slumberland, which arrived on Tuesday as a green 7-inch.
CMJ DOWNLOAD: Screaming Females - Bell
Screaming Females is actually half-misleading–these New Brunswick basement heroes only have one female (singer/guitarist Marissa Paternoster), and she doesn't scream all the time. Sometimes she sings like Bob Mould and sometimes she shreds virtuosically. We are not exaggerating. "Bell" is probably the only under-three-minute garage-rock song to boast a guitar solo worthy of Steve Vai. They are playing the Mercury Lounge tonight and two Brooklyn shows on Saturday. Three guesses as to where that info lies.
DOWNLOAD: The Soft Pack - Fences (Phoenix Cover)
There's something questionable about a deadpan San Diego punk band covering one of the most pants-wettingly melodic groups in existence, but considering we ride for both Phoenix and The Soft Pack (née The Muslims, lest you forget) we indulged this one out of curiosity–and it's pretty good! Sounds like Lou Reed if he'd just been released from prison (or ever went there) and proves Phoenix's wind-at-your-back bombast has less to do with chords and lyrics than we initially thought. Revelations!
The Soft Pack - Fences (Phoenix Cover)
Previously:
The Soft Pack - Red Headed Girl (Acoustic)
The Soft Pack - Call It A Day (Acoustic)
DOWNLOAD: White Denim - I Start To Run
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Only seven more days until we Americans can non-exorbitantly obtain the rusty prog-soul of White Denim's sophomore album, Fits. Downtown's giving the record a proper US release next Tuesday (10/20), though for the intrepid or just impatient we have album track "I Start To Run"–it, like all great White Denim songs, propellingly virtuosic and maniacally wild-eyed. A national tour will follow the release, those dates available after the break.
Previously:
White Denim - World As A Waiting Room
White Denim - Paint Silver Gold
White Denim - Mess Your Hair Up
DOWNLOAD: The Fresh & Onlys - Dude's Got A Tender Heart
San Francisco's The Fresh & Onlys always sound like they're emanating from a graveyard radio, Spectorian girl group and garage rock ghosts absorbed in from the ether. That's not to say they sound morbid, just totally of another time. The two-part "Dude's Got A Tender Heart" comes from Grey-Eyed Girls, their second LP out now through the always killing it Woodsist.
The Fresh & Onlys - Dude's Got A Tender Heart
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DOWNLOAD: Dark Meat - The Faint Smell Of Moss
Listening to this song is sort of like standing on the side of the road and having that train from Dr. Seuss' If I Ran The Circus drive by, only now it's filled with facepainted longhairs shaking tambourines and blowing flutes in your face. That is how we imagine Dark Meat roll–constantly. The Athens, GA band, which just slimmed down to nine members from like twenty-seven and may or may not also go by Vomit Lasers Family Band, has a new album due October 20th through Emergency Umbrella. It's called Truce Opium. Would've loved to have been present at that brainstorming session.
Dark Meat - The Faint Smell Of Moss
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DOWNLOAD: Reigning Sound - Stick Up for Me
In the Red’s profile may have risen in recent years through releases by King Khan & BBQ, Vivian Girls and Jay Reatard, but for years the L.A. label’s been buttering your croissant with permanently cool, stylishly unfashionable garage-rawk like what this here Reigning Sound band makes. Frontman Greg Cartwright (who had the wheel on Shangri-La Mary Weiss’s comeback record) leads the group from North Carolina, but it’s his original base of Memphis that provides the R&B flavor on the Reigning Sound sound. This tune (a cover of ’60s American psych band Glass Sun) makes the personal political, but it’s Reigning Sound that makes you pump your fist to it. Look at those mugs up there—don’t you wish these guys were your dad uncle high-school janitor?
DOWNLOAD: The Fresh & Onlys - Invisible Forces
It's labor day, which means roomates are home watching Martha Stewart on daytime TV and I'm cocooning myself from the activity zone by playing this song over and over. Sorry Martha, don't want to make doilies today, want to listen to zombie garage rock songs. On September 15th, San Francisco's The Fresh & Onlys will release their new Grey-Eyed Girls LP through Woodsist; shortly thereafter they'll head out for a run to the East Coast and back. Those dates after the break.
The Fresh & Onlys - Invisible Forces
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