Monday, February 8, 2010
Tonight In Phoenix: Joe Pug & Matthew Reveles @ The Rhythm Room
Hey everybody everybody. Joe Pug is playing tonight at The Rhythm Room. Joe is an upcoming singer songwriter out of Chicago. I am going to be there and since I am really cool if you want to be cool also maybe you should. And if the above video wasn't enough incentive our very own Matthew Reveles is opening the show. Tickets are $10 and you can get them HERE.
Get Yeasayers Odd Blood a Day Early... Only $3.99
I was lucky enough to get a copy of Yeasayer's Odd Blood
a few weeks ago and have been lovin' it like a dog loves it's balls, OR a nice dog bone actually because the other thing is gross. But I digress, over at the Amazon music store you can get Odd Blood a day early and for $3.99. Your Welcome! Check out this pretty NSFW video for "Ambling Alp", if you dare.Stream Gil Scott-Heron's I'm New Here
Don't know how we missed this last week but there is a widget to play Gil Scott-Heron's new album I'm New Here
in it's completeness. And I went ahead and embedded it right here on this post. I am listening to it right now and it's pretty good. Check it out and me know what you think. Video: Syntaks "Blue Sunshine"
Here is a little something to ease you back into the work week. It's pretty chill song but I really like the video for it's textures and the way it makes me want to live on the beach. You don't necessarily see any beaches in the video but for some reason I want to move to the beach... like RIGHT NOW! You can pick up Syntaks album Ylajali HERE
. You can also download the mp3 of "Blue Sunshine" HERE
Stream Shearwater's 'The Golden Archipelago' Over At NPR
. We're still a few weeks from the albums February 23rd release date on Matador but you can stream the album in full over at NPR.Listen: Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
New MGMT Album This April
During an interview with MTV recently MGMT let it slip that we could see a new album from them as soon as this April. And now that there is a clock counting down to April 13th, which is a Tuesday by the way, on MGMT's website it seems to be pretty much confirmed at this point.
Normally, I don't post much about new album releases until I have at least a mp3 or video to go with it but I thought this would be worth mentioning for one reason: I am so sick of the song "Kids" by MGMT that I'm hoping a new album worth of material will convince people to stop playing that song.
Don't get me wrong folks, MGMT's album Oracular Spectacular
was a good if not great album. And the song "Kids" was alright the first hundred times I heard it. But since its 2007 release I have heard the song "Kids" ad nauseum. I know I use our very own Edge, er uh, X 103.9 as a punching bag quite often but it's a fact that they play that song so often that I want to I stab my ear drums every time it comes on. It's not even the best song on the album, you guys, c'mon!So, MGMT, if you're reading this, and I hope you are, please, please, please make a good album so that radio stations not just here but everywhere will put that awful song to bed.
Video: Neon Indian "Deadbeat Summer" on Laundro Matinee
Is it just me or does this just not sound very good? And it also sounds just like they sounded live when I saw them last year. So maybe Neon Indian are just not very good live? I don't like to be a "negative nancy" (on this blog at least) but I think Alan and pals need to spend some more time in the practice studio OR maybe I am just being a jerk? I do love the album
so don't think this is some sort of "chillwave backlash" because it's not. This is just good old fashioned "meh". In fact when I reviewed the show last year I made a big stink about how it kinda sucked but I blamed that on my own personal "bad day" I was having, but I think I might have been wrong... I think it WAS them. DUN DUN DUN!
