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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 + VIDEO: Bobby Birdman - Weighty Wait
Today brings our second gift from Bobby Birdman off his upcoming New Moods. “Weighty Weight” is a slow-burning track, coasting in and out of guitar plucks and white noise. In the new vid, a hypnotic TV glare lures us in with skate videos, priming us for optimum scare when Bobby’s creepily half-lit face emerges out of nowhere. Look, man, we didn’t know anyone was home, so we’ll just back out of here, all right? We don’t want any trouble.
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Uninhabitable Mansions - Do You Have A Strategy + The Speed Is Deceiving
Uninhabitable Mansions could be considered a super-collective, what with band members from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Au Revoir Simone, Dirty on Purpose and Radical Dads. As you’d suspect, they make big, strummy, fading-light pop that hits right into the soft spot of your swelling indie heart. You should have that thing looked at, dude. Pick up the album here after lifting the two excellent tracks below and check in with the band's MySpace for updates on their 2010 tour schedule.
Uninhabitable Mansions - Do You Have A Strategy
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Thao With The Get Down Stay Down - When We Swam + Know Better Learn Faster
(Photo: Tarina Westlund)
While we're told their new album, Know Better Learn Faster, is a break-up record, San Franciscan indie trio Thao With The Get Down Stay Down don't do mopey. "When We Swam" paints the severance in beach metaphors and twisted doo-wop rhythms, while the title track is shuffling and agrarian, fiddle and slide guitar laced throughout. Both are below, the former exclusively, while the band roll through New York tonight to play the Bowery Ballroom. More tour dates after the break.
Thao With The Get Down Stay Down - When We Swam
Thao With The Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster
DOWNLOAD: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars (Saint Etienne Visits Lord Spank Remix)
The yesterday's dreamers in The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart will release a remix EP in the UK next week for their single "Higher Than The Stars," this version from seasoned dance group Saint Etienne being an obvious highlight. We're never not cloudsurfing at sunset with Saint Etienne, and this remix–weightless with foggy keys and unsinkable hand drums–is no exception. Just don't ask us who Lord Spank is. Pains will be over in Europe for a few weeks of shows in November in December, those dates and more after the break.
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars (Saint Etienne Visits Lord Spank Remix)
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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Friction
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - A Teenager In Love
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You
DOWNLOAD: The Soft Pack - Answer To Yourself
The Soft Pack just finished recording their debut LP for Kemado with veteran D.C. hardcore knobsman Eli Janney, and already "Answer To Yourself" is out amongst the wolves, with nary an album title or release date in site. That's fine, really–who could sweat the details when we're already sweating to three minutes of Modern Lovers-doing-Hot Snakes jangle. We really weren't expecting an anthem here, but that's what we got.
The Soft Pack - Answer To Yourself
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The Soft Pack - Fences (Phoenix Cover)
The Soft Pack - Red Headed Girl (Acoustic)
DOWNLOAD: The Mary Onettes - Puzzles + Dare
Sweden’s answer to new-new-wave, The Mary Onettes make woozy, 80s-inspired pop. Though oft-lauded for their unabashed leanings towards the more mass side of The Cure and New Order—the side where we all begrudgingly agree those bands were not actually for romantic misfits alone—the fellows take a moodier (but no less catchy) turn on their latest album. Islands drops November 3rd on Labrador while two excellent, keyboard-riddled tracks await below.
Sounds like: Echo and the Bunnymen
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home + 40 Day Dream
A few years back, it seemed every act was heavy on beards, light on shirts, and roaming around in vagabond packs, stealing shoes and using buttons as currency. We miss that. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros are this year’s merry pranksters, and their bajillion-piece band makes both cathedral music and campfire tunes. Check tour dates here and below, snap up “Home,” available for a limited time, and “40 Day Dream” for a sampling of their big, beautiful and worthwhile record Up From Below. It’s Lake Wobegon meets Arcade Fire, and through an insanely awesome promo you can buy the album for $1.99 tomorrow only, right here.
Sounds like: Animal Collective, Yeasayer, Jefferson Airplane
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
DOWNLOAD: Pylon - Beep
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Because just reissuing a criminally overlooked band's debut isn't enough, DFA are now going the distance and re-releasing the second Pylon LP, Chomp. That is something we might use the word "kudos" for. "Beep," like all great Pylon songs (there are many) is incisive and headspinning, an obviously fundamental part of Thee Indie Rock DNA. Seriously, tell us Karen O does not regularly emulate the way Vanessa Briscoe Hay yells "five minutes!" in this song.
DOWNLOAD: Midnight Masses - Walk On Water
For an epically-minded project with lots of people involved (production and assistance from TVOTR's Gerard Smith and Jaleel Bunton, contributions from members of Trail Of Dead and Here We Go Magic), Midnight Masses are thankfully not very dense. "Walk On Water" is super lean, like being led through an empty cathedral with only Bunton's voice, some piano, and a sad slide guitar as torch fuel. The band's debut album, Rapture Ready, I Gazed At The Body, is out November 10 via Collect Records.
Midnight Masses - Walk On Water
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