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Listen up music maniacs. It's Meathead here with your Raw Music Diet. Every day I'll be digging around in the online audio garden to bring you hand selected goodies for your iTunes. Hear all you want, I'll find more, and the only thing that will ever get fat is your hard drive. Now quit reading and jam these spicy new mp3 munchies into your ear holes!
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Check out this strange cover :
Vampire Weekend doing their version of Rancid's "Ruby Soho"
Vampire Weekend
"Ruby Soho"
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Band - The New Pornographers
Song - "Your Hands (Together)"
Album - Together
Release Date - 05/04/10
Label - Matador
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Band - Broken Social Scene
Song - "If It Ain't Broken"
Album - Forgiveness Rock Record
Release Date - 05/04/10
Label - Arts & Crafts
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Band - The Radio Dept.
Song - "Heaven's On Fire"
Album - Clinging To A Scene
Release Date - 04/10/10
Label - Labrador Records
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Band - Laura Veirs
Song - "July Flame"
Album - July Flame
Release Date - 01/12/10
Label - Bella Union
Band - Vampire Weekend
Song - "California English"
Album - Contra
Release Date - 01/08/10
Label - XL Recordings
Band - Beach House
Song - "Norway"
Album - Teen Dream
Release Date - 01/26/10
Label - Sub Pop
Band - Hot Chip
Song - "Take It In"
Album - One Life Stand
Release Date - 02/08/10
Label - Astralwerks
Band - Yeasayer
Song - "Ambling Alp"
Album - Odd Blood
Release Date - 02/09/10
Label - Secretly Canadian
Band - jj
Song - "Let Go"
Album - jj nº 3
Release Date - 03/09/10
Label - Secretly Canadian
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Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
"Trouble"
Through the Devil Softly
Nettwerk 09/29/09
DUG UP FROM: Tinyways
The band behind 1994's heart-crunching ballad "Fade Into You" was named Mazzy Star, a monumental songwriting duo consisting of David Roback on guitar and Hope Sandoval on voice. In 2001, Sandoval hit the singles circuit (so to speak) and recorded a seductive solo album with her group "The Warm Inventions" called Bavarian Fruit Bread. Eight years later, Sandoval readies the exhalation of her new breath of fresh air entitled Through the Devil Softly, for which My Bloody Valentine's Colm O'Coisoig was recruited for his guitar work, production skills and insurmountable awesomeness. "Trouble" is one of the spunkier numbers in this deck of triumphant downers, a lubricious collection tdestined to make the heart bleed, eyes tear and lips say "I Love You."
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The xx
"Crystallized" & "Basic Space"
XX
Young Turks/XL Recordings
DUG UP FROM: Covert Curiosity
The xx are a young quartet of kiddos who aren't even allowed to be served a pint of ale here in the States. Freshly plucked from the Elliott School in London, with musical alumni ranging from Hot Chip to Four Tet to Burial, the 20-year olds rely heavily on keyboards, synthezisers, and various audio appendages that help form a body of sound as healthy as The Knife, Crystal Castles, The Kills and Portishead. The young techno prodigies have substantially constructed a chivalrous ziggurat of tranquility-cool on their enchanting debut XX.
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The Cribs
"We Were Aborted" + "We Share The Same Skies"
Ignore The Ignorant
Warner Bros. 11/10/09
DUG UP FROM: ClickyClickyMusic & BlahBlahBlahScience
Because I am such a colossal fan of The Smiths, I will make most of this description about the co-founder of the most important band of the 1980s, Johnny Marr. Marr has often said that The Smiths were the love of his life and the rest of his collaborations, including The Pretenders, Talking Heads, Modest Mouse and more, were like his carefree breeezy romances. Dude is like the musical Don Juan, having casually made it with an ecclectic batch of artistis more stellar than the cast of We Are The World. Now the Manchester guitar god has joined forces with the brothers Jarman (Gary, Ryan, Ross) and lent his heavensent strings to The Cribs' fourth studio effort Ignore The Ignorant.
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Thom Yorke
"Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses" + "Hollow Earth"
12"
W.A.S.T.E. 10/06/09
This thumpy 7-minute scooch of frost is accredited to Thom Yorke, although I sincerely believe that Ed, Colin and Phil didn't have to beg to get in on the recording of this electrifying amusement. After the Canadian printing plant leaked the 411 that these two singles were being birthed shortly, the lazy-eyed singer of Radiohead posted this alert on the band's official website, "FeelingPulledApartbyHorses is written & played by Jonny and I and is a radical rework of an old tune thats been kicking around without a home since 2001? i think. The Hollow Earth is a bass menace that was born out of the Eraser period but needed a little more time. Both were produced by Nigel Godrich as ever. And mastered by Bob Ludwig." Heads can purchase the new noise on Radiohead's official site now, and digitally in October. Its rumored that one of these tunes will appear on the New Moon soundtrack, but it is also rumored that Vampires are amongt us and suck young blood.
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Salem
"Frost"
"Frost"/"Legend" 7"
Audraglint 09/22/09
DUG UP FROM: Stereogum
If your ears crave insanely morbid female vocals strewn on top of a synthetic barrage of keyboards, this oddball outfit from Michigan named Salem are the group for you. Salem deliver a mysterious backbite of goth-noise in a similarly scary sphere of Crystal Castles, Coco Rosie or Telepathe. Get ready to get your electronic-weird on.
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Noah And The Whale
"Five Years Time" + "The First Days Of Spring"
The First Days Of Spring
Cherrytree 10/06/09
DUG UP FROM: OMCD
Noah And The Whale are a sensational Scottish band who ganked their namesake from an independent movie of the same name, which also starred The Big Lebowski! I am extremely thrilled to introduce you to this splendid quartet of gents whose album The First Days Of Spring sits mighty high atop my 2009 records of the year list, so much so, that I want to stuff a pair of songs in each of your ears. "Five Years Time" flashes back to Cornershop's "Brimful Of Asha" with its East-meets-West guitar strum, jocund harmonies and overall sprightly effervescence. "The First Days Of Spring," the albums lead off track, shines a gray bloom of haunting contrast to "Five Years Time". From the intial thump of the shuddersome drum, a creeping parade of spectral strings float in and provacatively strangle every last drop of love and beauty out of every beating heart.
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Julian Casablancas
"11th Dimension"
Phrazes For The Young
Cult/RCA Records 10/20/09
DUG UP FROM: Impressionable Youth
The Strokes have not broken up, but singer/mastermind Julian Casablancas couldn't wait any longer to unleash his singular splash of solo fury called Phrazes For The Young. Judging from the Tron-like cover on the single "11th Dimension", an accelerated blast of futuristic keyboards mixed with cuckoo calypso from the planet Krypton, the cosmical debut from Mr. Stroke is destined to sound like one gigantic brain-shattering big bang.
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F*ck Buttons
"Flight Of The Feathered Serpent"
Tarot Sport
ATP Recordings 10/09
Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power formed in Bristol, England 2004 and music velivolant noise under the moniker F*ck Buttons. Dudes are plugged into more computers than Neo in The Matrix, galvanizing virtual pandemonium with the lightnight quick press of a few hot keys. The duo's sophomore album Tarot Sport comes out this October. Don't expect a heavy assemblage of sappy lyrics to invade your mothership, Hung and Power (which sounds like the most bad ass porno tag-team ever) are artificially intelligent creatures married only to their laptops and divorced from their dear diaries.
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The Dodos
"Fables"
Time To Die
Frenchkiss 09/15/09
DUG UP FROM: Musicsnitch
Posessing the unparalled skill of flight, Meric Long and Logan Kroeber are a couple of non-extinct soarers from San Francisco known as The Dodos. Produced by legendary knobber Phil Ek, who has worked with The Shins, Band Of Horses, Built To Spill and Modest Mouse, Fleet Foxes, Time To Die, although titled rather morbidly, is an uplifting incarnation of spotles allurement. The Dodos are the perfect combination of cute and quirky, acoustic and electric, indie pop and electric folk rock. These winsome tunes are the perfect soundtrack to making out in a parked car with a syrupy honeypie at the beach, sneaking a peek out across the great blue Atlantic Ocean as the sun begins to set or rise, and silently slapping yourself high five.
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CFCF
"Monolith"
Continent
Paper Bag Records 10/26/09
DUG UP FROM: Stereogum
Who needs vocals? Lyrics are overrated! This creepy crawler is an enigmatic instrumental from electronic mental case out of Montreal named Michael Silver (aka CFCF). Kid has remixed some wild electronic acts including HEALTH, Justice, Spank Rock, and on October 26 he will serve up an igneous circus of thermoionic ecstacy. Serve up this serene slice of computerized strange with a large glass of lemon ice water for a sweet, sour and refreshing treat.
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The Big Pink
"Dominos"
A Brief History of Love
4AD 09/22/09
DUG UP FROM: KissAtlanta
The Big Pink, Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell (not sure which is Big and which is Pink), are an electro-dance duo from London, England. Lifting their name from an album title by The Band, these life-long pals scooped up the illustrious NME Philip Hall Radar Award for best new act in 2009, were signed to 4AD, and have released a whopping stash of synth-trash, dancefloor smash singles, leading up to their debut full length release A Brief History of Love on September 22. "Dominos", produced by legendary dance-master-producer Paul Epworth, is a chipper compound of medium-grade industrial choas, with an infectious low-funk hook that repeats until your poor red feet hate your ass for dancing until the sun starts to shine.
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The Clientele
"Harvest Time"
Bonfires On The Heath
Merge 10/06/09
DUG UP FROM: TSURADIO
The murky abstraction "Harvest Time" is a radiant phantasm plucked from British rock band The Clientele's fifth album, Bonfires On The Heath. The narcotic vocals sound like a placid conversation between The Moody Blues and Pink Floyd inside an underwater elevator going straight down to the bottom of the sea. Like an ice cold glass of pysch pop from Galaxy 500 or Love or The Zombies, The Clientele are cool harmony scientists operating inside a lush panorama of ultraviolet efflorescence, undebased territory and festive nobility.
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Atlas Sound
"Walkabout"
Logos
Kranky 10/20/09
DUG UP FROM: Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Bradford Cox is one of this decade's most gifted and eccentric musicians. When dude is not frontin his Atlanta psych-shoegaze-dreampunk band Deerhunter, he makes solo noise under the name Atlas Sound. Logos is the second solo effort recorded by this mega music making machine, the quizzical follow up to the Cox's palatial solo debut Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel. Cox puts out records like Tommy Lee puts out! "Walkabout" is a poppy, kooky, lively zap of bouncy merriment that features Noah Lennox from the band Panda Bear. Logos arrives via the Kranky label on October 20, so until then, you have time to answer the question - "what did you want to be when you grew up?"
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Sea Wolf
"Stanislaus"
White Water, White Bloom
Dangerbird 09/22/09
DUG UP FROM: IndiePaws
Sea Wolf are a lovely outfit from Los Angeles with a delightful lad named Alex Church at the helm. Church, who used to be in a band named Irving, has some affinity towards all things nautical, as water continues to make a splash on every album title the band has doused us with (Leaves In The River + Get To The River Before It Runs Too Low). On their second full length White Water, White Bloom, Sea Wolf (who snatched their name from a Jack London novel) release a Tsunami of elegance, powered with ripples of grace and waves of rich pulchritude.
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The Flaming Lips
"Silver Trembling Hands"
Embryonic
Warner Bros. 10/13/09
DUG UP FROM: Quarterlifeparty
If there is one band on Earth crazier than your wacked out grandpappy, its the fearless freaks from Oklahoma, The Flaming Lips. "Silver Trembling Hands" is trademark strange from Wayne Coyne and his crew of bizarre buds who have maniacally delivered cuckoo audio to you and your ears for the past twenty-five years! Oddballs screams, quirky strings and a mysterious bass line makes this ride feel like a Timothy Leary prescribed acid trip through a haunted amusement park on Mars. Embryonic will be a double-album, so drink lots of orange juice, take your vitamins, and prepare to trip both balls/boobs off!
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The Raveonettes
"Suicide"
In & Out of Control
Vice 10/06/09
DUG UP FROM: Living Ears
The Raveonettes are a Danish dude and dame tag team with two of the coolest names on the planet: Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo. Hidden behind an explosive facade of Fender guitars, pedals, distortion contraptions and virtual Radio Shack of bedlam-causing apparati, Sune and Sharin wildly mash up 1950's pop with 1980's noise, like Sonic Youth striking down Buddy Holly's airplane out of the clear blue sky. "Suicide" is an accelerated dreamride inside the Bonzai pipeline, gushing with raw adrenaline from peak to crash, this thrasher is one ferociously damp reverie.
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AIR
"Sing Sang Sung"
Love 2
Astralwerks 10/06/09
AIR are a pair of sultry musicians from France who have been timetraveling to the edge of electronic music while simaltaneously flashing back to the peak era of French pop, displacing the space time continuum with a carefree burst of neon cool. Nicholas Godin and J.B. Dunckel are synthetic superstars, capable of sensually strumming the electric bass and guitar one moment, then manipulating various electronic gizmos like Moogs, Vocoders, Wurlitzers and Synthesizers the next, as if the pair were born half men / half robots. "Sing Sang Sung" is a gleeful zing of pop from their ninth studio album Love 2, a chromatic chasm of breezy vocals and ravishing psychedelia.
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Grizzly Bear with Michael McDonald
"While You Wait For The Others"
(iTunes Single)
WARP 08/31/09
File this under WTF? Grizzly Bear are a mindblowing quartet from Brooklyn, NY and Michael McDonald is an old silver-haired fossil who used to sing with Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan (ask your parents about those dinosaur rockers). In May of 2009, Grizzly Bear unveiled their spellbinding album Veckatimest, and on said album, Dan Rossen provided vocals for "While You Wait For The Others", but on the B-side of the single (now available on iTunes) you can hear the elderly fart who sang "I Keep Forgettin'" lending his strained and akward vocals to this otherwise flawless jam. To be fair, the single escalates far beyond novelty status, although, you probably won't hear this quirky clip boom out of your neighborhood dive bar jukebox.
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VOLCANO CHOIR
"Island, IS"
Unmap
Jagjaguwar 09/22/09
Ok, I don't want to be biased here, but Volcano Choir is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE NEW MUSIC! An enormous collection of Miller Light drinking, Packer football loving cheeseheads from Wisconson, Volcano Choir is a hodge-podge of dudes from the obscure band Collections of Colonies of Bees and Justin Vernon from the indie darlings, Bon Iver. The vocals melt in your ears like M&Ms on a golden Summer day. while the gleeful loops flutter like hummingbirds in the warm sanctuary of Spring Quite simply, "Island, IS" is a standout track from this tremendously gifted collective and, try as I might, there trylu are not enough lovely adjectives to place upon the doorstep of this brilliantly assembled castle of azure. So, I'm totally biased, bfd!
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No Age
"You're A Target"
Losing Feeling
Sub Pop 10/06/09
You don't need to have more members than the Wu-Tang in order to be monstrous force in 2009, just ask the dynamite duo from Los Angeles, No Age. Guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Spunt haphazardly mix shitgaze with lo-fi punk to bake a rampageous pie of overwhelming eruption, worthy enough to be on the legendary Seattle label Sub Pop. The turbulent team's new 4-song EP, in vein of Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Dinosaur Jr., will come out on October 6 and its recommended that you listen to this freebie single "You're A Target" on something called a "record player." A vinyl record is what is pictured above. If you don't know what a record player is, please rush to your local record store (if there is still one in your town) and ask the hipster behind the counter to kick you in the butt, and then request the new No Age record.
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Massive Attack
"Splitting The Atom"
Splitting The Atom EP
Virgin 10/05/09
DUG UP FROM: Billy Suede Wordpress
Trip hoppers reprazent! Here is a brand new slice of kule from Bristol's dynamic duo of 3-D and Daddy G, known as Massive Attack. Their spooky new four-track EP will haunt your dreams this October (just in time for Halloween) featuring a macabre cadre of guests including Tunde Adibempe from TV On The Radio, Guy Garvey from Elbow and Martina Topley Bird. "Splitting The Atom" roars similar to the simian sounds of the Gorillaz, with hairy synthesizers, oo-oo-ah-ah organs, and banana hand-claps with no opposable thumbs.
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Free Energy
"Free Energy"
Free Energy Single
DFA Records 08/18/09
DUG UP FROM: Fakepennycomics.com/blog
Free Energy are a five-piece from Philly, on the dance label DFA, which is home to such ass-shaking acts as LCD Soundsystem and The Juan Maclean. This song fits tight like a vintage Cheap Trick shirt or T. Rex vest, accentuated with explosive cowbell, free-ballin guitars and the whimsical attitude kids have when school is finally out for summer.
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Times New Viking
"Move To California" + "No Time, No Hope"
Born Again Revisted
Matador 09/22/09
Times New Viking are a sonically adventurous trio of distorted noisemakers from Columbus, Ohio. Their lo fi punk is equal to that of a blender screaming bloody murder 20,000 leagues under the sea where only the pop of distant echoes can be heard. Guitarist Jared Phillips, drummer Adam Elliott, and Beth Murphy on keyboards often chow through an entire song like a sack of Chinese takeout, tearing through chunky Egg Foo Young, gobbling down zesty Pork Fried Rice, consuming every inch of Spicy Chicken on your plate, delightfully punctuating each feast with a briiliant burp of sonic fufillment. Warning - do not try to adjust your weaker speakers, this hyper fuzz was created to torch your system. Don't bother trying to slow Times New Viking down, just turn their energy up real f#cking loud and allow them to conquer.
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A Place To Bury Strangers
"Exploding Head"
Exploding Head
Mute 10/06/09
DUG UP FROM: Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Lurking in the dark shadows of nasty city street, hiding behind dumpsters and creeping underneath overturned cars, are A Place To Bury Strangers. Their earsplitting brigade of New York noise is comparable to The Jesus and Mary Chain, Nine Inch Nails, The Jesus Lizard and other methodically insane industrialists of the supersonic chaos age. The follow up to their critically acclaimed self-titled debut, is a robust burst of fire that will torch the panties off of your screaming mad granny. "Exploding Head" is a pulsating rocket of gnarly synthesizers, pyscho guitars and menacing vocals that you are sure to fall in love, or hate with, like a terrifying horror flick.
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Simian Mobile Disco (with Beth Ditto of Gossip)
"Cruel Intentions"
Temporary Pleasure
Witchita 08/17/09 (UK)
DUG UP FROM: Audio Drums
Simian Mobile Disco are the production team of James Ford and Jas Shaw, who reworked tracks from artists like The Kills, Ladytron, AIR, Klaxons, Deerhunter and more. Off of there second album Temporary Pleasure comes this emphatic treasure "Cruel Intentions" which features luscious lyrics from the erotic powerhouse singer of Gossip, Beth Ditto. Even the clumsiest cadet in cuckoo college won't be able to flunk out of this jam session. If you have feet and love a spanking beat, do your butt a favor and play this one all day and night, on repeat.
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Radiohead
"These Are My Twisted Words"
ALBUM: TBA
DUG UP FROM: Dead Air Space
Hammering out jarringly impressive instrumentals for the first half of the song, the enigmatic quintet from Oxfordshire, England really let this new track breathe like a bottle of vintage wine. Although these British heads of radio are reportedly working with longtime producer Nigel Godrich on their eighth studio album, we shouldn't get our knickers twisted over internet chatter and fanatical speculation. Let us instead put our headphones on, turn up this new noise, and melt our eardrums into mush.
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