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Youtube Is Weird

Posted 1/28/2008 1:09 PM by dirtyonpurpose

Tags: rock, youtube

I found these homemade videos for DOP songs on Youtube. It's moving, and weirdly voyeuristic, to peer into the world of total strangers who used our songs to soundtrack a slice of their lives.

The first one is nothing but shots of a woman in training for a marathon. We see her running on overpasses, sidewalks, leafy paths, beaches. I'm guessing she's in Florida, based on the vegetation, and that she's being filmed by her loving husband, cheering her along every step of the way. But who knows? Maybe she's being stalked. The song is "Girls and Sunshine," from our first EP. There's a very small cult that thinks this is our best song and call for it at shows. We pretend not to hear them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNUXB5QyfJA

And in this one a young Canadian takes a snowy bike ride around his subdivision, to the tune of "Your Summer Dress."  If only we had called the song "Your Winter Dress," this would be the perfect video. I love it. Thanks, nastyrats!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh5n05C1FHo

xo
doug

Valentine's Day with Band of Horses + Dirty on Purpose

Posted 1/28/2008 11:14 AM by dirtyonpurpose

Tags: rock

We are playing a show with Band of Horses on Valentine's Day (yeah yeah we know, a commercial holiday, but having a reason to make out is always good). The good folks over at JellyNYC put together the lovefest at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Kinda spooky, kinda romantic? We dig it. We hope you do too. You can purchase tickets at ticketweb.com.

Mixing with Mark Ephraim + Paul Mahajan, Damn Fine Handsome Producers

Posted 1/22/2008 4:04 PM by dirtyonpurpose

Tags: rock

Just some photos from the mixing process of our Dead Volcanoes EP for RCRDLBL.com. We would listen to those songs over and over and over again... They are finally finished! We can't wait for you to hear them... The last three songs come out in February, March and April.

Looks like George is getting hungry...

 

Doug is the laid-back type.

 

Paul stares into the abyss of the machine...

 

Mark, George and DJ are obviously concentrating very hard.

"Leaving" Lyrics

Posted 1/22/2008 3:40 PM by dirtyonpurpose

Tags: rock

i see you doing dishes
i know you're making wishes
for down the line

we're waiting on the weekend
as if we'll find some peace then
on down the line

you're making your advances
i think i like my chances
i'll hold the line

don't get so defensive
cause everything that ends is
still on the line

you're leaving here tonight
for no good reason
and no words to describe
it makes no difference
if i'm putting up a fight
or if i'm dead or alive
you're leaving here tonight

there's nothing I can say now
i'm like a dead volcano
just passing time

it's not enough to kiss you
i wish i could go with you
on down the line

you're leaving here tonight
for no good reason
and no words to describe
it makes no difference
if i'm putting up a fight
or if i'm dead or alive
you're leaving here tonight
you're leaving here tonight
she's leaving here tonight

it's not a rite of passage
just someone else's baggage

EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Cougar - Rhinelander

Posted 11/20/2009 2:32 PM by Samuel Duke

Tags: instrumental, rock

 

Sometimes we listen to technical music because it's nice to know that there are still people out there who practice their instruments 9000 hours a day, and sometimes when in that mood we listen to Cougar, who are precise and sharp and dense but also have a little bounce to them. They let go of "Rhinelander," from their recent album Patriot, on the eve of a show at New York's Mercury Lounge this Sunday (11/22). It sounds like Gregorian prog.

 

Cougar - Rhinelander

Previously:

Cougar - Foil Épée Sabre

Cougar - Stay Famous (Mike Ladd Remix)

Cougar - Stay Famous

Cougar's RCRD LBL Page

EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Holiday Shores - Your Motion Says (Arthur Russell Cover)

Posted 11/20/2009 11:20 AM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: rock, lounge, indie

Holiday Shores (Floridians, CMJ darlings, and all around affable guys) have a new tour-only cassette called Through The Thin Cloud and today they're gifting one of its exclusive tracks. Below, the band channels lounge lizards past in this boozy little cover of Arthur Russell’s “Your Motion Says,” replete with downtempo chords and cowbell. Hit up MySpace for tour info on where to lift the tape, or return the love by picking up their album.

 

Holiday Shores - Your Motion Says (Arthur Russell Cover)

Previously:

Holiday Shores - Phones Don't Fued

Holiday Shores - Edge Of Our Lives

 

DOWNLOAD: Ancestors - The Ambrose Law

Posted 11/20/2009 10:08 AM by Samuel Duke

Tags: metal, prog, rock

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We're going to be real with you: this Ancestors song is over thirteen minutes long. You might've surmised from the photo that these dudes aren't into brevity, but really you guys this is an almost quarter-hour of swashbuckling, organ-smeared doom riffage. It's a freaking leviathan. In terms of getting the most bang for you download or whatever, this trumps everything else. Should you need more, the album from whence it came is available from Tee Pee.

 

Ancestors - The Ambrose Law

Ancestors' RCRD LBL Page

DOWNLOAD: Birds & Batteries - Sneaky Times + Out In The Woods

Posted 11/19/2009 12:06 PM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: funk, alt-country, electro, rock

Birds & Batteries’ new EP Up To No Good came out this week and there’s been some talk about honky-tonk layering, Halloween freak boogie and lost in the woods funk. Also, cough syrup-induced dancing. Below, a little more throat coat with “Sneaky Times” and "Out In The Woods" until the full length anodyne drops in 2010.

 
 

Birds & Batteries - Out In The Woods

Birds & Batteries - Sneaky Times

Previously:

Birds & Batteries - The Villain

Birds & Batteries - Lightning (UTNG Version)

Birds & Batteries' RCRD LBL

DOWNLOAD: Grooms - Acid King Of Hell (Guitar Feelings)

Posted 11/17/2009 1:11 PM by Samuel Duke

Tags: rock, indie

There's nothing overtly psychedelic or doomy about Grooms' "Acid King Of Hell (Guitar Feelings)," but the parenthetical bears some insight, since it's on their loud-quiet-loud amp exorcisms that this one really gets lifted. More squalid shredding can be found on Rejoicer, the Brooklyn threesome's new album for Death By Audio, and on their current tour out to the West Coast (dates after the break).

 

Grooms - Acid King of Hell (Guitar Feelings)

Previously:

Grooms - Dreamsucker

Grooms' RCRD LBL Page

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DOWNLOAD: The Bravery - The Spectator

Posted 11/16/2009 11:26 AM by Hillary Kaylor

Tags: dance, rock, indie

Fresh off releasing “Slow Poison” (and our favorite steel drum remix), The Bravery has kindly gone ahead and dropped yet another track from their upcoming album Stir The Blood. “The Spectator” is lush with angst, strangled melodies and the band’s nuanced strain of dark dance. It also sounds a bit like MGMT, right? We think it works.

Sounds like: Editors, The Killers, MGMT

 

The Bravery - The Spectator

Previously:

The Bravery - Slow Poison (Drop The Lime Remix)

The Bravery's RCRD LBL Page

 

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