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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
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
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doug
Valentine's Day with Band of Horses + Dirty on Purpose
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
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
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
DOWNLOAD: TK Webb & The Visions - Closed Caption Slang
The serpentine guitars in “Closed Caption Slang,” are just a hint of what Thomas Kelly Webb is capable of sweating out of a six-string, doing fret cartwheels around a hum-drum tempo and making it sound like the whole thing is emanating from a speaker stack high atop some Appalachian peak. Those on the East Coast will be able to catch Webb’s mind-melting (and ear-bleeding) playing when his band TK Webb & The Visions hit the road later this month with The Secret Machines. Grab the epic mountain song below and hit the jump for tour dates and a fantastically shot video for TK’s solo track “Lonely Wine."
Sounds like: The Black Angels, Dinosaur Jr., Dark Meat
Download: TK Webb & The Visions - Closed Caption Slang
TK Webb & The Visions' RCRD LBL Page
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Fiasco - Steve Herman
(Photo: Sam Horine)
The first thing you will likely hear about Fiasco is that they are very young (all three are still in high school) and that they have been shredding gnar in DIY spaces around their hometown of Brooklyn since they were just able to legally rent Twister. Like a hard-headed lovechild between Lightning Bolt and The Gun Club, Fiasco’s garage-prog is all sixteenth-note clipping and squeaky punk riffage; juvie jamming for wild, bottle-breaking souls. Their debut album Native Canadians is set to drop October 14 through Impose, and they’ve graciously hooked up an exclusive download of the record's leadoff track “Steve Herman,” which manages to pack every aspect of Fiasco’s ear-drum annihilation into a concise three and a half minutes. Detonate below.
Sounds like: Lightning Bolt, The Gun Club, Awesome Color
POP MONTREAL: DOWNLOAD: Hollerado - Americanarama + On My Own
There's something to be said for bands that know their way around a pop song. It's not the easiest thing to do, creating slick, catchy songs that stick in your head, make people sing along and generally make you feel good. Hollerado are a band that have cracked that magical formula and their Demo in a Bag EP is chock full of Sloan-esque auditorium fist pumpers. Hailing from Montreal by way of Manotick, ON, these dudes know how to orchestrate a good time - if you need any further evidence than these 2 ridiculously infectious songs, watch Kids In The Hall alum Dave Foley do some unwholesome dance moves in his tighty-lavenderies in the video for "Americanarama." They play POP Montreal this weekend and then CMJ in a couple more weekends, and I'm guessing the buzz around these boys'll be deafening.
Sounds Like: Sloan, Weezer, Thomas Tantrum
Download: Hollerado - Americanarama
Download: Hollerado - On My Own
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Happy Hollows - Bird Of Prey + Two More
Moving past an opening that sounds exactly like New Order’s “Ceremony,” California trio The Happy Hollows twitter like avian pros through their track “Bird Of Prey,” only pausing for a few grand choral pronouncements and some ace bongo tapping in the coda. We’ve just signed the band to RCRD LBL and the Raincoats-raised-on-Touch-And-Go steez of “Bird Of Prey” is the first exclusive they’ve hooked up with us. Grab the song below along with two other tracks—the swallowing Breeders guitars of “Tambourine” and the nineties Dischord homage “Labyrinth”—and if you’re in LA of SF, catch the band opening for Deerhoof this weekend, details at their MySpace.
Sounds like: Deerhoof, The Raincoats, New Order
Exclusive Download: The Happy Hollows - Bird Of Prey
Download: The Happy Hollows - Tambourine
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Annuals - Hot Night Hounds
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The key word here is epic: Annuals don't do anything on a small scale. Every track seems designed to be played at the Super Bowl Halftime Show, blaring from a gigantic rolling stage. Our exclusive "Hot Night Hounds" is another maximalist vamp: it's the first track the band wrote for their new record Such Fun, and its obvious that they came to the table with an embarrassment of ideas and influences. It opens with Right-Here-Right-Now piano and drops into a drum pattern that cycles throughout, interrupted only briefly by an approaching storm (literally) and a mass of confused voices. While the bands listed below are obvious antecedents, it also sounds a hell of a lot like Jane's Addiction, with its soupy mix of guitars, effects, and the choir of the damned. You've gotta admire that sort of more-is-more approach.
Sounds Like: The Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Flaming Lips
Exclusive Download: Annuals - Hot Night Hounds
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DOWNLOAD - White Arrows - Coming Or Going
As a rule, it's mostly songs that piss you off that get stuck in your head. The jeopardy theme or Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" come to mind. But us RCRD LBL cats are here to help you out. Here's a track that is bound to oscillate in your head all day - but this time, you may actually appreciate that. The New York-based White Arrows show the sunnier side of new wave rock. "Coming and Going" starts out with a distinctive whirling whistle- and then in comes scratchy, slurred vocals and a strong bass hook. A bit like Albert Hammond or the similiarly named White Rabbits. (Which brings up a tangential point on the extreme number of bands with either Black or White in their names coming out right now). So check it out below, let it sink in, and thank us later.
Sounds Like: White Rabbits, Albert Hammond Jr., The Strokes
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