Made a visit to the "sweat box" that Modified Arts turns into in the summer, saw Turn Back, O Man for the first time and you can color me "very impressed". They ripped through about eight bluesey/soul/country/good Chris Isaak (Forever Blue) feeling songs that I can't wait to get on some sort of "listen to it again in my car" format. Phoenix was AA Bondy's last stop on a 30 something show tour and even though it was a billion degrees and he looked hella tired he put on a freaking GREAT solo performance with all the feeling of someone that just drove around the country by himself playing in small clubs. My favorite was the foot stomping (literally) ode to all things drugs and liquor jam "Vice Rag". I took a bunch of pics you can check out after the break and check out even MORE on our flickr page by clicking HERE
It's a bit of a slow week for new releases. But who are we kidding? There is only one album being released today that we are interested in. We've been posting about the latest Wilco album for the past several months now and today Wilco (The Album) finally gets released.
Wilco's latest is amazing. I've already listened to the album from start to finish twice this morning and have a feeling this one will be in pretty heavy rotation for a long time. Don't take my word for how amazing this album is, though. If you want to give it a test drive you can head on over to NPR and stream the album in full.
Here are some other new releases this week worth checking out.
We've been really enjoying the latest album from the Dirty Projectors since we got our hands on it a few weeks ago. Here is the the official video for "Stillness is the Move", which is definitely my favorite song off of Bitte Orca.
Fellow Brooklynites (not with us but other people that live in Brooklyn) and chain smokers Paul and the Patients got a new remix for "Blogspot" from their album To The Lions available to download right here on this very website you are reading right now.
One of my favorite local musicians Courtney Marie Andrews has a new album coming out this July and is offering up a free and legal download from the new album. The song "The Buffalo and the Bird" comes off Andrews' new album Painters Hand and Seventh Son which is due July 31st from River Jones Music Label. If you can't wait that long, you can purchase the digital album online at ThinkIndie.
Courtney Marie Andrews is right in the middle of a west coast tour but will be playing July 31st at Modified Arts for the CD release party.
Have you guys heard of The Coathangers yet? Well I have been hearing them on my secret audio preview sources and have grown quite fond of them over the last couple of weeks and have now just gotten around to posting this mp3. I am really sorry about that and I will do my best to be more proactive in posting these types of things in the future. Please don't leave me...I can change I SWEAR! Their album "Scramble" is out now on Suicide Squeeze Records!
Lily Allen is the best, she doesn't care about swearing, clothes, being a little overweight or getting caught doing drugs and all it does is make her more popular. I don't understand why when my fat ass walks around town with no pants on, high as shit on horse tranquilizers and calling everybody I see "cock bear" I don't get the same level of acceptance? It's gotta be the accent...right?
Ok, so I realized that the video is censored so I found a video with just the audio and its isn't censored so just hit play on BOTH of them at the same time and mute the top one...got it? It's really not that confusing.
Local favorites What Laura Says recently stopped by the Daytrotter studios to record a few tracks for the website. The Tempe band played a few tunes off of their album Thinks and Feels as well as a previously unreleased song, "I Suppose", which sounds fantastic. Take a listen below.
I might be a bit biased, being that the band is a local favorite of mine, but this is definetely one of my favorite Daytrotter sessions in a while. Be sure to head on over to Daytrotter to check out the rest of the songs from What Laura Says.
You can catch AA Bondy performing along with Turn Back O Man tonight(6/29) at Modified Arts. Should be a great show and you can catch our very own photographer and man about town Shawn there tonight as well. Be sure to stop by and say hello if you see him.
So you are there at the Neil Young concert having a great time and he starts playing "A Day in the Life" and you think 'Hey, that's pretty cool' THEN Paul Fucking McCartney comes out on stage and your man nipples start producing milk. They should have made everybody pay and extra $100 on the way out for the privilege.
Idle Hands out of Minneapolis have graciously provided us with the first single off of their upcoming album The Hearts We Broke On The Way To The Show it's called "Loaded" and that is exactly what you should be at all times when you listen to music and/or drive. Just kidding don't drink or do drugs before you drive...do it WHILE you are driving so it doesn't hit you till you get where you are going.
Jay-Z continues his assault on auto-tune with this video for his song "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" and even manages to get a cameo from LeBron James and Harvey Keitel.
Don't forget, you can catch Jay-Z with Fabolous this Thursday(July 2nd) at Dodge Theatre.
Oh, hi there. I know that I've been away for the blog for a while now, but it's with good reason. I had a baby and babies are a lot of work and don't leave a whole lot of time for blogging.
Anyways, here is a track that caught my attention while I was away. The song, "Wet Gold", comes from Austin band Octopus Project and comes from their upcoming EP Golden Beds.
Hey, did you hear that Michael Jackson died last week? One of our favorite sites LastNightsParty.com has put together a little tribute to the King of Pop and Molestation.
Nathan Williams has taken a break from his nervous breakdown...just kiddin, I am sure he didn't have anything to do with this video and is still having having a nervous breakdown. Apparently the footage for the video was shot on the very same European tour of the breakdown. I wish my life was so busy and overwhelming with awesome stuff that I could have a nervous breakdown, get in a fight with my drummer and insult a bunch of dirty Spaniards...but alas I can't even find an embeddable version of this video so you will just have to go to stupid Rolling Stones stupid website and watch it all tiny but clicking HERE. They are going to be playing a few dates this summer...
UPDATE::::HERE IS THE VIDEO
WAVVES
07/15 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom* 07/18 Chicago, IL Pitchfork Fest 08/28 San Diego, CA Street Scene
I can't let this weekend end without another Wilco post can I? Of coarse not! Wilco did "You and I" the duet with Feist from next weeks Wilco (The Album) live for the first time at their show at Wiltern Theatre in LA last night. Pretty bad ass song for sure and even better when your "duestest" is there with you.
Wilco will be live "webcasting" their show from the Greek Theater tomorrow night on their site AND through their free iPhone App starting around 8pm Pacific.
Sunday John Vanderslice and The Tallest Man on Earth at Modified Arts 8pm ($12) This one will probably sell out so get tix early Tickets also available at Stinkweeds, Zia and Hoodlums
Whilst the Fleet Foxes are in the UK playing some UK festival or something Robin Pecknold played and accoustic (what else would he play?...duh)version of a new song called "Blue Spotted Tail" and here it is for you, to listen on.
I fucking love The Mars Volta and I will not apologize for it! So when they have videos I freaking post them, that's what I do OK? I love the old timey TV set, retro is so retro...you know? Get their new album Octahedron HERE
The Watson Twins are coming The Watson Twins are coming...to Modfied Arts tonight. They are on some sort of tour I guess with Found Magazine so there is going to be skits and songs and other things to make you feel better about yourself for a couple of hours. Show starts at 8pm and tix are $10
If you can't get behind fat nerds with bears then GET OFF MY PLANELAWN umm...site? Yea GET OFF MY SITE! Just kiddin' but you really should get behind fat nerds with beards...they make the world go 'round. I will be waiting with my eyes closed.
Karli Fairbanks has been pretty active in the PNW for a few years now but I didn't hear about her till yesterday when her new album The Breaking of Our Days arrived on my digital doorstep. I am really digging it and have been listening to it on repeat for a couple hours now. why don't you have a listen via the mp3's below and after that you can buy the whole album HERE, come on she has to buy coats and firewood living up there in Washington, bear skin rugs are not free people.
I went to the Wilco/Grizzly Bear show last week and I have not talked about it until now because I am a little pissed. I took my camera AND my little flip video camera with me in hopes of getting some bad ass clips n' pics. I had second row seats for the love of god so I was 10 feet from the stage. Now here comes the part I am pissed about, I noticed on the back of the ticket it said "No cameras or recording devices", we had to park like 2 miles away because of the odd location of Centennial Hall in relationship to available parking so I wasn't going to take my big ass camera or the flip since I didn't want to get turned away and have to go ALL the way back to my car and miss half the show so I left it all in the trunk. BUT when we get in there and sit down it's like the fucking presidential press conference in there! Every person in the first five rows was snapping away like digital film is free or something. So alas I COULD have taken my camera and been just fine. Oh and they ran out of water before the show even started. BUT the saving grace to all of this complaining is that it was the best effing concert I have even been to in my life. Grizzly Bear was awesome albeit short since they were "opening" but Wilco played for almost two hours of pure awesomeness. If you can get tickets to any of the remaining shows on their tour DO IT! If not then I guess you will have to live with them on Conan last night.
WILCO DATES 06/25 - Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern Theatre^ 06/26 - Saratoga, GA @ The Mountain Winery^ 06/27 - Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre^ 06/28 - Stateline, NV @ Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena^ 06/30 - Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Pavilion^ 07/03 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Ampitheatre^ 07/08 - Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap% 07/10 - Wilmington, DE @ Frawley Stadium% 07/11 - Lowell, MA @ Lelacheur Park% 07/13 - Brooklyn, NY @ Keyspan Park^@ 07/17 - Portland, ME @ Maine State Pier% 07/18 - Wappingers Falls, NY @ Dutchess Stadium% 07/19 - Lewiston, NY @ Art Park% 07/21 - Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Theatre 07/23 - Detroit Lakes, MI @ 10,000 Lakes Festival 08/13 - Oslo, NO (Øya Festival) 08/14 - Gothenberg, SE (Way Out Festival) 08/17 - Helsinki, FI (Helsinki Festival) 08/20 - Hasselt, BE (Pukkelpop) 08/21 - Erfurt-Hohenfelden, DE (Highfield Festival) 08/22 - Biddinghuizen, NL (Lowlands Festival) 08/23 - Brecon Beacons, UK (Green Man Festival) 08/25 - London, UK @ Troxy# 08/27 - Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar Street# 08/28 - Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar Street#
^ w/ Okkervil River @ w/ Yo La Tengo % w/ Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band # w/ Blitzen Trapper
Up until recently I didn't really think anything interesting came from Wisconsin. That was until I heard Bon Iver's 2008 masterpiece For Emma, Forever Ago. Word is that Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver, is currently working on a follow up to For Emma, Forever Ago in between summer gigs(sadly none of them happen to be in Phoenix), but in the meantime Vernon's side project, Volcano Choir, is set to release thier debut LP this September.
Volcano Choir is a collaboration of Wisconsin artists Justin Vernon and the band Collections of Colonies of Bees. I haven't heard any tracks from the forthcoming LP but from what I've read it sounds as if this will be something completely different from Vernon's previous work. Regardless, I can pretty much bet this will be something worth checking out when the album comes out on September 22nd via Jagjaguwar.
Ida Maria, is playing tonight at Martini Ranch in support of Fortress Round My Heart one of my favorite albums of the year. Tix were $10 but looks like they are $12 day of the show (that's today dum dum) Should still be able to pick them up at the Marquee box office or Bookmans.
In conclusion there is tons of shit to do tonight so go out and see somebody, make a new friend, get in a fight with an old friend...SOMETHING! Check out silverplatter.info for even a few MORE shows, seriously.
Guess what guys? It's Deerhoof back with another video to trip your balls off and lull you into a false sense of awesomeness...They seriously and consistently have the most innovative videos out today. I also can NEVER get avocados to take my calls either, they are so fucking smug.
Swedish music person Sally Shapiro (it's a pseudonym...don't tell Canada) done got her song "Miracle" remixed by Bulgarian music person Bogdan Irkük. It makes my balls sweat!
Here is a little reminder of stuff that sucks so you can appreciate things that don't suck...I am sorry, I really am but this is for your own good. I know you were getting complacent with all of this good music coming out lately.
Big big big week in "new release" world today children. I need someone to send me a big iTunes or Amazon gift card STAT! No really please send me a gift card so I can buy all of this music. From what I have listened to so far the new Dinosaur Jr. is quite choice, Mars Volta "progs" your balls off as usual and Regina warms your heart like the exact opposite of the ending of Marley & Me. Here are the rest new albums worth checking out! If I missed anything please let me know!
On tap tonight at the Trunk Space you will find Detroit band Prussia, they sold all their houses for $6 each and went on tour so you better get your asses out there! It's only $6 and you get to see their WHOLE faces, not just their right sides! And super bonus Boys and Frogs are opening for them and Boys and Frogs are tight like a tiger and every time you can here them you should.
Check out silverplatter.info for other shows going on tonight (Mike REALLY needs to come back and start doing these again!!!)
I like Basement Jaxx as much as the next guy. That was about the worst post intro ever I think, but I do like them and I like to put widgets on my blog so this is like a marriage of two things I love the likes I have not seen since "cops" and "rock" in Cop Rock! I know it's just a giant ad but it looks cool and plays music so why are you getting so bitchy?
Woods is going on a tour and they are coming to Phoenix and they are even playing at my favorite spot (The Rhythm Room) Please check out the dates below as well as the mp3 down there...you can pick up Woods new album that came out in April by clicking HERE
WOODS
07-04 Brooklyn, NY - 979 Broadway Backyard (Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival) 07-15 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^ 07-16 Brooklyn, NY - Cameo Gallery (Mexican Summer/Insound Party) 07-24 New York, NY - Whitney Museum * 08-06 Boston, MA - Great Scott 08-07 Montreal, Quebec - Divan Orange 08-08 Toronto, Ontario - Sneaky Dee's 08-10 Iowa City, IA - Picador % 08-12 Columbus, OH - TBD % 08-13 Buffalo, NY - Big Orbit's Soundlab % 08-14 Brooklyn, NY - Bell House % 08-15 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's % 08-17 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar % 08-18 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle % 08-19 Atlanta, GA - The Earl % 08-21 Austin, TX - Mohawk % 08-22 Dallas, TX - The Loft % 08-24 Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room % 08-26 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour %# 08-29 Big Sur, CA - Folk Yeah/Kemado Records/Mexican Summer Festival %# 08-30 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill %# 09-01 Portland, OR - TBD %# 09-02 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards %# 09-03 Seattle, WA - Neumo's %#
^ with Wavves, Real Estate, POPO * with Grooms % with Dungen # with Kurt Vile
So I have been hearing this song on the Sirius for a couple weeks now and I can't decide if I want to blow my brains out every time or get out of the car and dance around a little. So I don't do either except ponder the meaning of braille on drive through ATM's
There are a couple of good choices for shit to see/listen to tonight in Phoenix. In fact if you are one of the people that weren't Johny on the Spot with getting tickets to tonight's SOLD OUT Wilco/Grizzly Bear show down in Tucson then your best bet is to head on over to Modified Arts to check out my buddy River's Summer Folk Festival featuring Courtney Marie Andrews. It started at 2pm so if you can't get in there either...
Tom Brosseau at at Trunk Space sounds like a good time as well.
As always check out silverplatter.info for all the haps and deets on everything going on in Phoenix
If you have never heard or Esser then listen up, if you HAVE heard of Esser and want to catch him in American soil. Check out the tour dates I am posting below the MP3 for headlock...a truly banging dance song that make me want to dance.
15 Jun Le Royale - New York, New York 17 Jun Wrongbar - Toronto, Ontario 18 Jun Popscene - San Francisco, California 19 Jun Echoplex - Los Angeles, California 20 Jun Sonoteque - Chicago, Illinois
So I got my greedy little ears wrapped around Renminbi's new EP Surface coming out July 7th and I have to say if I was water and Renminbi was a pot I would be boiling because it's so dang hot! The best part of this is that if you register your email you can get Surface gratas. That's right free, no charge. What a bargain for something so choice. All you have to do is click HERE you also get to instantly download the first track called "Portland" as soon as you register.
Check out this little video with some clips of the recording sessions...go ahead it's OK
This video is nearly electronic...I always thought that we be a good pick up line at a bar "He there ma'am, I nearly electronic" But I didn't think of it till after i was married so will someone please try that out for me? Oh and check out Dance Upon Nothing's website for more information about them HERE
I love Ear Pwr and apparently so do five other people in Phoenix. Sometimes I just underestimate the "pwr" of Electric Mustache and the reliance people have on our daily concert calendar. You see yesterday we didn't have one so I can only assume that is the reason nobody showed up at Modified last night...right? Well Ear Pwr put on the best show they could under the circumstances. The sound guy was not exactly cooperative and playing to six people barely paying attention is not the funnest thing to do. We ended up hanging out with Devin, Sarah and their friend/driver/tour manager (whose name I can't for the life of me remember right now) for a couple of hours out on the sidewalk just bullshitting and having a grand ole' time. I can say from the deep down cockles of my heart that they are by far the coolest band I have ever hung out with and next time they come through Phoenix they are welcome to crash out my place. Enjoy the pics after the break!
In New York you get finer style of life. Things like subways and parks with grass. In Phoenix we have parks with dirt. You would think that IN PHOENIX we would have the type of radio station that would be able to get the BAND Phoenix to play some acoustic songs at least on the radio but NOOOOO! We get festivals with Panic! (fuck that exclamation point in the ass!) At the Disco. FML and enjoy the videos.
Happy iPhone software 3.0 day everybody with an iPhone and so sorry to the folks without. To go along with your landscape email writing you can download the Major Lazer by clicking HERE There is also a free "discovery" track you can download for free there also for free. This app will let you remix some songs, send ninja zombies to your neighbors loud parties, hold your hand when you cross the street and seduce old lady's all for only $5! What a bargain!
There is a lot of craziness going on here today, for ONE... Mike your usual concert calendar and New Music Tuesday man just ran out outa here because he got a call from his wife that she is having a baby! like right now as we speak and since this was the first he was hearing about it you can imagine his surprise ;-) So lets all send our "power dreams" their way. For TWO... this very post is our 499th post ever so I am trying to think of something good to do for the 500th, I don't know something like a free baby or something like that.
Without further ado...today's new releases (less thorough than normal...sorry)
I am on a freaking hunt today! A hunt for you...dearest readers and occasional commentators of ElectricMustache and I have returned from the cold cruel wilderness that is the internet with a warm bowl of music that will fill your sound stomachs with happiness. What I give to you is the new title track to A.A. Bondy's forthcoming album When The Devil's Loose (out 9/1) you can listen to it, then download it, then put it into your ipod and listen to it again even. For fans of the real thing check out the tour dates below the mp3!
SOOOO apparently we have become a music video blog...Don't worry we got some other shit on the way but these awesome videos keep popping up and I can't help myself.
This video has everything you would ever want out of a video. Stuff like wigs, parties and the color blue. OH MAN I really that they were going to blow that party the smithereens!
Sometimes I feel really bad for the actress Tania Raymonde. First, she has all kinds of bad things happen to her character, Alex, on Lost and now she's being chased through the woods in this video from Cursive. This is the second single off of Cursive's latest awesome album Mama, I'm Swollen which is available now on Saddle Creek.
Here is the first single from White Denim's new album Fits. I'm really digging the song "I Start To Run" and the video is pretty entertaining as well. Its got a kind of Mad Max meets Deliverance feel to it set to some kick ass music. For those lucky of you to live in the UK you can pick up White Denim's new album on 6/22 from Fulltime Hobby. For everyone else you can shell out the price of an import or wait until White Denim finds a US record label. Which I still have no idea why this band remains unsigned in the US.
So I was scouring the nets for something to post about and happened upon this video from a 19 year old lad from Southern California (SoCal) named Will Sturgeon that is in like 9 bands, goes to Sailing Qualage and still finds time to cover Grizzly Bear's "Two Weeks" all by himself playing all the instruments and singing all the parts...by himself. I am not going to say it's better or even as good as the original but Grizzly Bear has four times the people working on it and they don't have to worry about studying for their next knot exam.
That would never fly in the U.S. post Columbine ;-)
The thing about not living in Europe is you sometimes don't hear about a good European band till pretty late in the game. But sometimes they send you an email introducing themselves and IN the email they put a link to a video, and the video is really good so you go to their myspace page and listen to some more tracks and they are ALSO really good. That is the part when I write a post letting all my friends know how good Souvenir is and give you all the ways to check them out yourselves n' shit like that. There is a video below, and below that is some MP3 action...please enjoy responsibly.
A couple of interesting shows this weekend. Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to go to the Handsome Furs show tonight at Chryo Arts in Scottsdale. I'm a huge fan of Dan Boeckner's other band, Wolf Parade and I've also really enjoyed the music from Handsome Furs as well. Also on Friday is Les Claypool of Primus playing at Marquee Theatre in Tempe.
For a full list of shows and events going on this weekend be sure to check out SilverPlatter.info. Friday
Handsome Furs, The Cinnamon Band, Dust Jacket Chryo Arts Tickets $13, 8:00 PM Showtime
Les Claypool Marquee Theatre Tickets $27, 7:00 PM Showtime
Saturday
The BellRays, The Sugar Thieves, Tractor Pull Divas, Matthew Reveles, The Cartwheels Mill Cue Club Tickets $5, 7:00 PM Showtime
Sunday
Peter Murphy Marquee Theatre Tickets $25, 6:30 PM Showtime
I'm really enjoying this new song from the Fruit Bats. The song "My Unusual Friend" comes off of the bands upcoming album The Ruminant Band, which is available 8/4 from Sub Pop. Enjoy!
Here's the video for "Summertime Clothes", which is the second single off of Animal Collective's latest Merriweather Post Pavillion. There isn't much I can say about the above video, so just watch it and prepare to have your collective mind's blown.
Get your acid out and get ready to trip to this video...on second thought you probably don't to take any acid because this video is going to make you trip with out it.
If your computer is not capable of playing back internet videos I am sorry but I have some good news for you. Ear Pwr are a touring band and you can catch them live by cross referencing the information below with a calendar and where you think you might be located on any of the given dates.
EAR PWR June 10th - Portland, OR @ Holocene* June 12th - San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern* June 13th - San Jose, CA @ Nickel City Arcade* June 14th - Los Angeles, CA @ Space 15 Twenty (Daytime show 1pm)* June 14th - Los Angeles, CA @ BBQ at Art and Mayhem (Afternoon show 4 - 10 p.m.)* June 15th - Los Angeles, CA @ Pehrspace* June 16th - Irvine, CA @ Acrobatics Every Day* June 17th - Phoenix, AZ @ Modified # June 19th - Austin, TX @ Beauty Bar* June 20th - Dallas, TX @ The Handsome Kitten* June 21st - Houston, TX @ Mango's Cafe* June 22nd - New Orleans, LA @ Saturn Bar* June 23rd - Little Rock, AK @ Rad Hizzy* June 24th - Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light* June 25th - Asheville, NC @ Mo Daddy's* June 26th - Atlanta, GA @ 529* June 27th - Durham, NC @ The Pin Hook* June 28th - Greenville, NC @ Spazz Haus* June 29th - Charlottesville, VA @ Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar* June 30th - Baltimore, MD @ The Zodiac* July 2nd - Brooklyn, NY @ Death By Audio*
This video reminds me a little bit of one of those videos from the '80's that would show the band on tour and would always be set to some power ballad. Those sucked, but this video is pretty cool. Check out this latest clip from Camera Obscura for their song "Honey in the Sun", which comes from their excellent album My Maudlin Career.
Very cool video of John Vanderslice performing his song "Too Much Time" with the Magik Magik Orchestra. The song is one of my favorites off Vanderslice's new album Romanian Names which is available now from Dead Oceans.
Very excited to see Portland indie rockers Helio Sequence play tonight(6/10) at The Rhythm Room. If you've never listened to the bands 2008 album Keep Your Eyes Ahead then you are definitely missing out. The albums was a big favorite of mine last year. Tickets are still available for the show for $12 and you can purchase them either online or at Zia Records, Hoodlums, or Stinkweeds. Opening the show will be local favorites Reubens Accomplice.
We here at The 'Stache like to think of ourselves as honest American's so when I got some news today that "These United States" are releasing their 3rd album on Sept 1st I said to myself "Who in the shit balls is These United States? So I looked them up like a good music blogger and found the video at the bottom of the post and I really liked it, so NOW I am on the hunt for their first two albums and am genuinely looking forward to their new release in September. Below I have copy then pasted their tour dates as well as the cover art and track listing for the previously mentioned Everything Touches Everything your welcome for the convenience.
These United States Dates 06/19 Chicago, IL Taste of Randolph St. * 06/27 Brooklyn, NY Prospect Park / Celebrate Brooklyn *# 07/01 San Francisco, CA Hemlock Tavern & 07/02 Berkeley, CA The Starry Plough 07/03 Big Sur, CA Mother Hips' Family Hipnic 07/04 Quincy, CA High Sierra Festival 07/05 Quincy, CA High Sierra Festival 07/07 Visalia, CA Cellar Door & 07/09 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex $ 07/11 St. Louis, MO The Luminary - Center for the Arts 07/12 Louisville, KY Forecastle Festival 07/23 Bridgeport, CT Gathering of the Vibes Festival 07/24 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom %
* = w/ Dr. Dog # = w/ Phosphorescent & = w/ Red Cortez $ = w/ Dusty Rhodes (ed. note I F*CKING LOVE Dusty Rhodes) % = w/ Deer Tick
These United States Everything Touches Everything (United Interests) Street date: Sept 1, 2009
1. I Want You to Keep Everything 2. Will It Ever 3. Everything Touches Everything 4. Night & the Revolution 5. The Secret Door 6. Conquest & Consequence 7. I'm Gonna Assemble a City 8. Good Bones 9. The Important Thing 10. End 11. Good Night Wish
If you were one of the smattering (then increasingly more, I guess) of people that were at The Rhythm Room last night you were treated to a show that either kicked you in the nuts or made you grow a pair...of nuts. What I am trying to say is the Crystal Antlers play music like they are trying to kick you in the balls, the balls in your ears. Some bands just try to massage your sound pussies but Crystal Antlers kick you in your ear balls. Ok enough of that shit...check out a shit ton of pics after the break and a giant shit ton of pics on our Flickr page, and when I say "giant shit ton" I am talking "manure on Biff" amounts.
Crazy Norwegians I was a King were also great but unfortunately I had to leave before the Constantines went on.
A couple of really interesting new releases this week. The album I'm most looking forward to this week is the fifth studio album from Dirty Projectors called Bite Orca. The new album was just given the "best new music" nod from Pitchfork and in my opinion it's pretty well deserved.
Also out this week is Sonic Youth's The Eternal. This marks the sixteenth studio album from the seminal rock group.
I just got this track from one of my clandestine sources and I had to post it immediately because I listened to a bunch of The Might Be Giants over the weekend and Rock Plaza Central (despite their silly name) have captured their essence without totally copying them. And they are Canadian (partly explains the name?)and listening to Canadian bands makes me think of people in the snow and snow makes me think of being cold and that helps me battle the "ass cock hotness" that is going on outside my office right now!!! Thus I say yea shall listen to this song now!
Did you know that we here at "The 'Stache" (that's what people are calling us these days) really like Animal Collective? Well we do, so whenever we see on some other blog that there is a rip roaring AC remix available we snatch it up just like graavy and put it on OUR blog, for YOU!
The new Sunset Rubdown album, Dragonslayer, isn't available for another few weeks but for those looking to get an early listen you can head on over to NPR to stream the album in full. I was a little disappointed with the last Sunset Rubdown album, Random Spirit Lover, but so far the latest album sounds pretty good.
Sunset Rubdown's Dragonslayer is available June 23rd from Jagjaguwar.
This one has been on repeat all morning long. Reportedly to be straight from Jay-Z's upcoming The Blueprint 3 comes the track "DOA(Death Of Autotone)".
You can catch Jay-Z when he performs on Thursday, July 2nd at Dodge Theatre.
New York rockers Yeah Yeah Yeahs are playing tonight(6/8) at Marquee Theatre. The show is sold out so if you were thinking about getting tickets today you are out of luck. Opening the show is All Leather and Grand Ole Party.
No better way to start off a new week than with some great new music. Before joining the Fleet Foxes as their drummer J Tillman had a successful solo career and will be releasing another solo album this September. The new album, called Year In The Kingdom, will be released on Western Vinyl. Take a listen to the awesome track from the new album "Earthly Bodies".
SEB is from England and I like him. I think that if I ever go to England I will look him up and say something like this "Hey SEB!!! SEB! Why are you ignoring me? HEY MAN, its Shawn... you know, from ElectricMustache. Remember when you emailed me that video and I posted it? I came all the way over here to see you man? Hey come on no need to get...HEY my Mom is NOT a bitch!" I think he will eventually calm down and we will become the best of friends though, why are people in England always in such a bad mood?
Here is the video for "New In Town" from recording artist Little Boots. If you like this video then I have a special surprise for you...you can stream the whole album on her myspace page HERE. If you like the whole album then I have an even bigger surprise for you. Its really a two part surprise, if you live in the UK you can get it next week, if you are lucky enough to live in the US of A then you get to wait all the way till next fall!!! HORRAY USA!!!
I took myself to the Cadillac Ranch last night and had some horrible mozzarella cheese sticks. Oh I also saw Sydney Sprague. I was expecting her to sit in a chair and play some acoustic songs on an acoustic guitar but what do you know?!?!? She was standing and had an electric guitar and sang electric songs...who knew? Not me that's for sure. The performance was as good if not better than what I heard/saw on the youtubes yesterday. The "more intimate" performance I was expecting would have sucked anyway since Cadillac Ranch is a breeding ground for douchbags that want to ride a mechanical bull and drink coors light, so the full band she had with her really helped drown out the sound of retards yelling at their whore girlfriends to ride said bull.
There are some more pics after the break and there is even a video at the end, good for you.
I'm glad to see that for their latest video Empire of the Sun went with a lo-fi, toned down, simple video. Oh, how I wish there was a font for sarcasm. Anyhoo, here is yet another over the top video from the Australian duo from their album Walking on a Dream.
Local favorites Miniature Tigers recently sat down for an interview on AOL's Interface. The band talked about their love of animal bands and how instant messaging helped bring the band together. Thanks, technology. The boys also performed a couple of tunes including "Japanese Woman" and "Cannibal Queen" and a few others. Check out the full interview and performances click here or you can download the podcast via your iTunes.
Who would've thought J Mascis was such an awesome skateboarder? In Dinosaur Jr's extreme new music video for the song "Over It" we learn that all of the members of the band are all really good at extreme sports. The song comes off the bands latest album Farm which will be available 6/23 via Jagjaguwar.
I have never even heard of Sydney Sprague till this afternoon but I have been listening to all her songs via her myspace page and then I saw she was playing a free show TONIGHT at Cadillac Ranch, so I just might have to brave Tempe to check it out. If you can't make it to the show you should at least check out her myspace page...right?
Yo La Tengo have a new album coming September 8th from Matador Records called Popular Songs. The song "Periodically Double Or Triple" is the first mp3 from the new album. Enjoy!
Legendary producer Eddie Chacon who produced some 2 live Crew and other awesome things that old white people hate teamed up with former school teacher (and now his wife) Sissy St. Marie a few years back and formed The Polyamorous Affair. Their first album came out last year and they already have a new one coming out called Bolshevik Disco, I hear Lenin had some really hot dance moves actually. Here are the details along with a track listing, go forth and read and listen.
The Polyamorous Affair Bolshevik Disco (Manimal Vinyl) Street date: July 14, 2009 1. The Interrogation (Intro) 2. Face Control 3. Satellite of Love 4. White Hot Magic 5. Fashion 6. New York City 7. In Love 8. Eastern 9. You Are 10. The Fader
Here is the second video from Richard Swift's latest album Atlantic Ocean. The video for the song "Atlantic Ocean" features robots fighting in a car lot and a crazy ass dance party that I wish I would've been at. I've been enjoying Swift's latest LP since it came out in April, definitely worth checking out if you haven't already done so.
The album Atlantic Ocean is currently available now on Secretly Canadian.
Seattle indie pop rockers Throw Me The Statue have a new album on the way this August. The new album, called Creaturesque, will be released on August 4th via Secretly Canadian. Take a listen to the song "Ancestors" from the new album.
Turns out that video that we posted for "Paranoid" a while back was just a rough cut and this is the final version of the video. I have to say that 808s & Heartbreak is my least favorite Kanye West album but the song "Paranoid" is probably one of my favorite of his songs. Weird, I know. Also, Rihanna looks ridiculously hot in this video.
Holy Balls I am sooo very excited about this game! The Electric Mustache staff are huge and gigantic (literally and figuratively) fans of the Beatles, and I can say for myself that they are my all time favorite band of all time ever...of all time. So this video just gives me that antsy feeling you get on Christmas Eve. It will surely replace all other things in my life for the first couple of weeks after it comes out...Sorry Family.
St. Vincent playing this Saturday(5/31) at Modified Arts was without a doubt the best musical performance I've seen so far this year. She played a great mixture of tunes from her latest album Actor, as well as some of my favorties from Marry Me. I was also equally impressed by the opening band Pattern is Movement, who performed one of the best covers of Beyonce's "Crazy In Love" I've ever heard. Check out the rest of the pics after the break
For fans of Neil Young today must be just about as good as Christmas. Just released today is Neil Young's 8-CD box set Neil Young Archives, Vol. 1: 1963 - 1972. The collection spans Young's carrer from his earliest days of recording with the Squires in '63 to his classic album Harvest in '72. The collection features 116 tracks altogether and there are over 40 previously unreleased songs. And that's only volume 1.
You can check out the rest of our this weeks interesting new releases below.
Thanks to Mike's hard work on the street corners of Phoenix we just ordered a new lens for our camera that has auto focus and will thus enable us to take pictures that don't look like close ups of Abe Vigoda's balls, you know blurry.Check out the rest of the blurry photos after the break.
Just in time for the bands show tonight(6/2) at the Trunk Space in Phoenix comes a new video from L.A. band Mika Miko. The new lo-fi video is for the bands song "I Got A Lot(New New New)" which is off of the bands latest album We Be Xuxa from PPM.
Good news today from the UK as it was just announced that the Arctic Monkeys will release their third album on August 24th of this year. Since the 24th falls on a Monday this year, we're assuming that is the UK release date with the album available the following day here in the states.
The album is untitled at the moment but will feature ten brand new tracks produced by Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age/Eagles of Death Metal. See the track listing below:
01. My Propeller 02. Crying Lightning 03. Dangerous Animals 04. Secret Door 05. Potion Approaching 06. Fire & The Thud 07. Cornerstone 08. Dance Little Liar 09. Pretty Visitors 10. The Jeweller's Hands
If you have been sitting around all day just dreaming of a day when ElectricMustache would embed a youtube video of a documentary on Camera Obscura that was on British TV a couple weeks ago then your day dreams have come true my friends!!!
Seattle band The Cave Singers have just completed work on their second album called Welcome Joy and will release the new LP this August on Matador Records. Take a listen to the song "Beach House" from the new album. And no, it's not about the band of the same name.
We will have a bunch of pic of the show up later on today! Oh and sorry about that dudes giant freaking head in the way all the time. It was super packed in there and I could have punched a bunch of people in the face to get a better shot but I don't think that would have been appropriate.
When Micachu & The Shapes announced some US tour dates last week we were hugely disappointed that Phoenix was not among the list of cities they were planning on making a stop at. We'll just add that to the list of bands we'd really like to see who are passing us by. On the bright side Micachu & The Shapes have just put out a new video for their song "Golden Phone" off of their unbelievably great album Jewelry. I've been listening to Jewelry on repeat since its April release and if you haven't checked this group out yet then I highly recommend you do.
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