New Music Tuesday: Animals vs People

Pretty cool day right? You got your new Miniature Tigers, Andrew Bird, White Rabbits, Bowerbirds, Said the Whale and Yellow Ostrich. There are also non animal named bands as well, like Xiu Xiu, Nurse With Wound and The Magnetic Fields.

Feel free to listen to albums from both camps though. This isn't Imperialistic Soviet Germany from the dark ages of the 1800's or anything. This is 'merica! Be Free!

Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself
Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works II (reissue) [vinyl]
Ava Luna: Ice Level
Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers: Bone Soldiers
The Bangles: Sweetheart of the Sun [vinyl]
Bob Dylan: Carnegie Chapter Hall 1961
Bon Iver: Towers/Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)
Bosco: Let Go of Me
Bowerbirds: The Clearing
Bright Eyes: A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded
Bright Eyes, Son Ambulance: Oh Holy Fools: The Music of Son, Ambulance and Bright Eyes (reissue) [vinyl]
Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball
Captain Beefheart: Merseytrout (reissue) [vinyl]
Captain Beefheart: Nan Trues Hole Tapes 3
Cass McCombs: Bradley Manning [vinyl]
Ceremony: Zoo
Dance Hall Pimps: Beast for Love
Denison Witmer: The Ones Who Wait
Dinowalrus: Best Behavior
Elfin Saddle: Devastates
Eric Chenaux: Guitar and Voice
Good Old War: Come Back as Rain
Javelin: EP 1
Julia Holter: Ekstasis
Kaiser Chiefs: Start the Revolution Without Me
Lovedrug: Wild Blood
Madonna: Give Me All Your Luvin'
The Magnetic Fields: Love at the Bottom of the Sea
The Men: Open Your Heart
Mike Wexler: Dispossession
Miniature Tigers: MIA PHARAOH
Nadia Ackerman: The Ocean Master
Nite Jewel: One Second of Love
Now, Now: Threads
Nu Sensae: Tea Swamp Park
Nurse With Wound: Creakiness and Other Misdemeanours
Pearl Jam: 1992 Broadcasts
Pond: Beard, Wives, Denim
Public Image Limited: Rockpalast Live 1983
Said the Whale: Little Mountain
Tim Fite: Ain't Ain't Ain't
Tim Foljahn: Songs for an Age of Extinction
Todd Snider: Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables
Uncle Roman's Jetboat: Floodlights in the Sunlight
White Rabbits: Milk Famous
Xiu Xiu: Always
Yellow Ostrich: Strange Lands

Cass McCombs "Robin Egg Blue"

Happy Monday y'all! Here is a sweet little song SLASH video combo from Cass McCombs! Love that guy!

Go See Cass McCombs Tonight

I would imagine that tonights show at yea old Crescent Ballroom is going to be pretty much the same except that Sharon Van Etten probably won't play her own song after a quick edit. In fact I am almost certain she won't be there at all. I guess there is always the chance that she WILL be there, just like there is a chance I am going to walk again. I am not holding my breath for either though.

The above paragraph was all material I am working on for my one man show entitled "If Jason Street from Friday Night Lights was a music blogger now".

Tickets are $12 HERE

New Music Tuesday: Cass McCombs, Atlas Sound, Esben and the Witch, Lissie

Welcome to Tuesday, not exactly sure what Mary Todd Lincoln is doing there but I am going to allow it. I have recently lost my sight and I have not yet learned brail or how to make my computer read stuff to me, so please someone send me a Youtube video of what, if anything on this list is good or not. I think I remember reading, before the accident, that Cass McCombs had a new album coming out. I hope so, I really like him.

13ghosts: Garland of Bottle Flies
200 Years: 200 Years
Al Tuck: Under Your Shadow
And So I Watch You from Afar: Gangs
Animals as Leaders: Weightless
Atlas Sound: Parallax
Bear & Moose: Bear & Moose
The Beatles: The Beatles With Tony Sheridan: First Recordings 50th Anniversary Edition
Billy Joel: Piano Man (2 CD Legacy Edition) (remastered with bonus CD)
Brian Eno: Panic of Looking
Built Like Alaska: In Troubled Times
Buraka Som Sistema: Komba
Caitlin Rose: Own Side Now
The Cars: Candy-O (reissue)
The Carter Family: Greatest Hits 1927-1934
Cass McCombs: Humor Risk
City Lights: In It to Win It
Danny Barnes: Rocket
Dave Davies: The Album That Time Forgot
David Lynch: Crazy Clown Time
Disco Inferno: The 5 EPs
DJ Shadow: Less You Know the Better [vinyl]
DRC Music (Damon Albarn): Kinshasa One Two
Dwarr: Starting Over
Esben and the Witch: Hexagons EP
Etta James: The Dreamer
Florence and the Machine: Ceremonials [vinyl]
James Blake: Enough Thunder [vinyl]
Jennifer O'Connor: I Want What You Want
The Jezabels: Prisoner
Joker: The Vision
Jonathan Coulton: Artificial Heart
Justice: Audio Video Disco [vinyl]
King Krule: King Krule EP
King Midas Sound: Without You
Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo (Deluxe Edition)
Kurt Vile: So Outta Reach
Laura Veirs: Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs for Children
Lissie: Covered Up with Flowers
London Philharmonic Orchestra: The Greatest Video Game Music
Luke Roberts: Big Bells and Dime Songs
Mac Miller: Blue Slide Park
Mandolin Orange: Haste Make / Hard Hearted Stranger
Manic Street Preachers: National Treasures: The Complete Singles
Marissa Nadler: : Covers Volume II
Meshell Ndegeocello: Weather
Mike Patton: Solitude of Prime Numbers (soundtrack)
Misfits: Land of the Dead [vinyl]
Modeselektor andThom Yorke: Shipwreck EP [vinyl]
Noel Gallagher: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Olof Arnalds: Olof Sings
Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica
Owen: Ghost Town
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (remastered)
Pink Martini & Saoyi Yuki: 1969
Pop Will Eat Itself: New Noise Designed By a Sadist
Quilt: Quilt
R.E.M.: Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982: 2011
Steve Roach: Journey of One
Summer Camp: Welcome to Condale
Thee Oh Sees: Carrion Crawler/Dream
Treefight for Sunlight: A Collection of Vibrations For Your Skull
Various Artists: Robert Plant's Jukebox
Various Artists: Tender Loving Empire Presents Friends & Friends of Friends
Various Artists: This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark
Willie Nelson: Building Heartaches (reissue)
Wounded Lion: IVXLCDM
Zambri: Glossolalia EP
Yuck: Yuck [vinyl]
Zodiac Death Valley: Zodiac Death Valley

Cass McCombs "County Line"

Cass McCombs' new album Wit's End is definitely in my top ten for 2011, I listened to it for 6 hours straight driving from Anaheim to San Francisco last month.

You might think that such a mellow album would spell trouble for someone with narcolepsy on such a boring ass drive. But what you are forgetting is how easy it is to get crystal meth in central California. Do your research man, it's called pride... have some, it's free with a little hard work.

New Music Tuesday: An Horse, Cass McCombs, The Donkeys, Emmylou Harris, Thao & Mira & Two Door Cinema Club

As usual, except when it's not usual, there is a whole bunch of new albums to pick from. It's BANANAS!

Video: Cass McCombs - "The Executioner's Song"

Here is the second video from Cass McCombs' wonderful album Catacombs. The first video, for the song "You Saved My Life", was a bit of a snooze fest and to be honest this video is also short of any Michael Bay type action. But, just like all of the songs on the album "The Executioner's Song" is really good. So here you are. Enjoy!

The album Catacombs is available now from Domino.