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We are both teachers and next week is our last week of work. We are ready for summer break and anxious to get out on the road and play some shows.
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DOWNLOAD: Cause Co-Motion - Which Way Is Up?
You can’t get drunk on YooHoo, but if you could, Cause Co-Motion would be your band. The Brooklyn quartet—regulars in the Todd P circuit—play buoyant punk for the zit set, fast tunes that barely make it to the end (which is only a minute and a half away) because the beat has just wandered off somewhere else entirely to (presumably) talk to a girl. “Which Was Is Up?” is all slap-happy hits and cheeseball three-note riffs but not ironic and thoroughly enjoyable. If you’re Friday night is looking like budget tallboy cans and a house party, you’ll probably want to get down with this.
Sounds like: Vivian Girls, Alex & The Horribles, Matt And Kim
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Musée Mécanique - The Propellors + Like Home
You learn something new everyday: Musée Mécanique is an impeccably-dressed Portland dream pop outfit that take their name from a museum in San Francisco. That museum houses the world's largest privately owned collection of 'mechanically operated antique musical instruments and antique arcade machines,' none of which were stolen by bandmembers to craft their just released—and excellent— LP, "Hold This Ghost". A record populated by nearly as many instruments as their namesake, it's also teeming with sleepy, perfectly arranged pajama pop that's more Technicolor than sepia tone. Grab RCRD LBL exclusive "The Propellors" and additional album cut "Like Home" or pay the price.
Sounds Like: Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Flaming Lips, Blonde Redhead
Exclusive Download: Musée de Mécanique - The Propellors
FEATURED: The New Year + Dirty On Purpose Play Some Shows Together
(Dirty On Purpose)
Tonight two bands that we’re pretty fond of—The New Year and Dirty On Purpose—will set out for a few New England shows together, hitting Philly, Boston, New York, and Providence over the weekend. If you like your indie rock subtle and fulfilling and live around the area, make sure to head out, full info after the links. After the Providence gig, The New Year will continue their tour around Midwest and Europe, full dates over at their MySpace.
Download: The New Year - The Company I Can Get
Download: Dirty On Purpose - Leaving
Download: Dirty On Purpose - Hard To Tell You
Download: Dirty On Purpose - The Thing About Getaways
Download: Dirty On Purpose - Canned Fumes
Stream: Dirty On Purpose - Audience In The Room
Stream: Dirty On Purpose - Like Bees
Dirty On Purpose's RCRD LBL Page
Tour Dates For The New Year & Dirty On Purpose:
10/09 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
10/10 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall Of Williamsburg
10/11 – Boston, MA – Middle East
10/12 – Providence, RI – Living Room
DOWNLOAD: PRE - Drool + Popping Showers
In 2002 I went to a dirty, low-ceilinged rock club in London (maybe Islington?) and saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Liars and McLusky (in that order?) and was simultaneously knocked down, spun around and thrown through the roof. There are elements of all 3 of those bands in the music of PRE - the sexy yelping of the YYYs, the calculated start-stop-dissolve shambolics of the Liars and the cleverly sinister and catchy melodies of McLusky all brought to you with a twist from this London 5 piece. Epic Fits, born on September 18th weighing 14 songs and coming in just over 20 minutes tall, was recorded on two inch tape, and if "Drool" and "Popping Showers," don't make you go on an epic search to get your hands on this record then you probably won't care that these nutters covered "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," for a SKiN GRAFT AC/DC covers record (that comes as a deluxe double 7" and comic book set in November) that runs like a merry-go-round on crack.
Sounds Like: Thomas Tantrum, Liars, Duchess Says, McLusky
DOWNLOAD: Frances - All The While
There is something utterly monumental about a band playing one note on one beat over and over again. Usually, this happens at the end of a tune, drawing out the energy to a tumultuous, unified climax. But Frances doesn’t roll like that. The recent Gigantic signees open their new single “All The While” with swelling blasts of together-sound, propped-up with some strings and dainty piano. It’s like that almost all the way through, lulling underneath when it’s not out there in the front, always falling back in line after breaking rank for a few pop inflections. Think the Arcade Fire if they let loose a little bit on those tempos and actually got some, you know, swing.
Sounds like: Aracde Fire, Annuals, Silverchair's Diorama Album
DOWNLOAD: I Led 3 Lives - Dragracing
The walloping tribal electro-jazz of I Led 3 Lives’ “Dragracing” is about the closest thing auto sports and psychedelia have in common today. Swirling like smoke signals around a brisk amalgam of skittering breakbeats and Tony Williams-worthy chops, the guitars, keys, and bass of this New York trio build and build for nigh on six minutes here, pausing only to let one another breathe before dunking themselves back into the bubbling madness. I Led 3 Lives—possibly named after a short-lived fifties TV series?—just put out a record called Peace Now (word) on New York's Nublu, the label associated with the East Village space of the same name. If anyone’s caught the house band playing some of their marathon jam sessions in there on a Saturday night, you know what you’re in for here: pure intoxicating virtuosity.
Sounds like: Brazilian Girls, Secret Machines, The Tony Williams Lifetime
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Cold War Kids - Bullies Always Win
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The beginning of this unreleased Cold War Kids track—a b-side only previously available with the iTunes pre-order of Loyalty To Loyalty—is about the closet thing the band have ever come to playing jazz. The guitars sound like they’re dripping down the walls and Nathan Willet’s feline stammer is born for Reno cocktail lounge, shuffling these cats towards a refrain that surrenders the mix to sheets of milky organ and a coda of jamming Velvet Underground noise with the usual soul hooks poking through. The track’s now available exclusively here to you at RCRD LBL, so make sure to grab it below.
Sounds like: Steve Winwood, The Velvet Underground, The Walkmen
Exclusive Download: Cold War Kids - Bullies Always Win
Previously:
Download: Cold War Kids – Something Is Not Right With Me (Richard Swift Onasis Remix)
Download: Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Black Osin - Number One + All There Was In The Deep Woods
There is something so deliciously old timey about Black Osin - from the accordion, melodophone, sparse guitar and Bert from Mary Poppins drum kit sounds playing songs that should be spilling onto a foggy street from an old pub - this is music from another time. Listening to the 17 tracks the band sent over, I put little stars next to half of them and deciding what to share with RCRD LBL was tricky. "Number One," sounds like the kind of song that would come from a song circle in Brooklyn with Dirty Projectors, TV on the Radio and Grizzly Bear sitting around coming up with tunes on the few instruments lying around. "All There Was In the Deep Woods," is the song that really throws me though, producing the sort of deja vu that makes me wonder, what candle and gas-lamp lit room was I in when I heard this song on a cool night with the stars above? Whether or not either of those scenarios ever happen, it's nice to know Black Osin is making music this undeniably lovely.
Sounds Like: Grizzly Bear, Scarlett Johansson, Orouni, Vadoinmessico, Department of Eagles
Download: Black Osin - Number One
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Under Byen - Samme Stof Som Stof (Make Me Fall In Love Remix By Polmo Polpo)
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Danish experimentalists Under Byen (pronounced “Oh’nah-Boon” apparently, thanks MySpace) are currently at work on a new album that probably has a ton of weird instruments on it and is sung in a language we don’t understand but will still make us dream of lands with neon flowers and dark castles. No details have emerged yet but in order to satisfy those awaiting the next orchestrations from the group, our friends at Paper Bag have us hooked up with an exclusive remix from obscure ambient dude Polmo Polpo of “Samme Stof Som Stof”, from the 2007 album of the same name. If you're in Europe, head to the Paper Bag RCRD LBL blog for tour dates.
Sounds like: múm, Björk, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Under Byen At The Paper Bag RCRD LBL Blog
Exclusive Download: Under Byen - Samme Stof Som Stof (Make Me Fall In Love Remix By Polmo Polpo)
Previously:
Download: Under Byen - Det Er Mig Der Holder Træerne Sammen
Download: Under Byen - Byen Driver
Download: Under Byen - Sylfiden
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