M83 "Reunion"

When stuff comes out over the weekend you have to post it on Monday. That is the rule of casual music blogging. The only other rule is to not mention casual music blogging. I am also totally moving to Adam Yauch Ave., as soon as I save up enough blog credits to get out of here!

New Music Tuesday: Dirty Beaches, Four Tet, Gauntlet Hair, I Break Horses, Real Estate, Richard Swift

I drove 30 miles to take pictures of Paul Simon last night from 2 miles away. This list of new releases is much much better than that. Gauntlet Hair, M83, Real Estate, Richard Swift! The list goes on and on... literally, it's a very long list!

Acid House Kings: Heaven Knows I Miss Him Now
Balaclavas: Snake People
Body Language: Social Studies
Brown Bird: Salt for Salt
Brown Shoe: The Gift Horse
Carter Tanton: Freeclouds
Chris Isaak: Beyond the Sun
Class Actress: Rapprocher
Dirty Beaches: Lone Runner b/w Stye Eye
DJ Shadow: The Less You Know, The Better [vinyl]
Etta James: Heart & Soul / A Retrospective (4-CD box set)
Film School: Fission [vinyl]
Forest Fire: Staring At The X
Four Tet: Fabriclive 59
Garrett Pierce: Everybody Breaks
Gauntlet Hair: Gauntlet Hair
I Break Horses: Hearts
Jane's Addiction: Great Escape Artist
John Cale: Extra Playful EP
Jonti: Twirligig
Kimya Dawson: Thunder Thighs
Leonard Cohen: The Complete Studio Albums Collection (11-CD box set)
M83: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Marianne Faithfull: Strange Weather (reissue) [vinyl]
Merle Haggard: Working in Tennessee [vinyl]
Mick Fleetwood: Visitor (reissue)
Mike and the Censations: Don't Sell Your Soul
Miles Davis: In Person Friday & Saturday Nights at Blackhawk (reissue) [vinyl]
Miles Davis: Pangaea (reissue) [vinyl]
Moholy-Nagy: Like Mirage
The Mommyheads: Delicate Friction
My Brightest Diamond: All Things Will Unwind
Na Hawa Doumbia: La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 3
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Olivia Tremor Control: Vol. 1 - Black Foliage: Animation Music (reissue) [vinyl]
Penguin Prison: Penguin Prison
Psychic Ills: Hazed Dream
Pujol: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Real Estate: Days
Red Hot Chili Peppers: I'm with You [vinyl]
Richard Swift: Walt Wolfman
Rob Crow: He Thinks He's People
Sandro Perri: Impossible Spaces
Screaming Trees: Last Words: The Final Recordings
Shelby Lynne: Revelation Road
Siskiyou: Keep Away the Dead [vinyl]
The Smiths: The Smiths Complete (8-CD box set of remastered albums)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin: Tape Club
T Bone Burnett: T Bone Burnett Presents The Speaking Clock Revue
Tennis System: Teenagers
Tim Buckley: Tim Buckley (remastered with bonus CD)
Todd Rundgren: Something / Anything? (reissue) [vinyl]
Total Abuse: Prison Sweat
The Trophy Fire: Modern Hearts
Turf War: Years of Living Dangerously
Twerps: Twerps
Van Dyke Parks: Amazing Graces / Hold Back Time [vinyl]
Victory and Associates: These Things Are Facts

Here Comes Crescent Ballroom!

image courtesy of Phoenix New Times

It has been a long time coming and something that I have been dreaming and wishing for since we started this site in 2008.  A truly bad ass music venue downtown! Sure Modified had it charms, but good sound, not smelling like shit and AC were not those charms, and the Trunk Space... let's just not talk about the Trunk Space.

But news is hitting that the best and most wonderful Stateside Presents are finally fulfilling their destiny and opening up a venue of their very own. It's called Crescent Ballroom and even though we have seen the name pop up as the site for upcoming shows like St Vincent, tUne-YaRdS, M83 & We Were Promised Jetpacks we didn't really know any details. Now we know more details and those details are good. It's going to be size wise in between The Rhythm Room and Marquee Theatre, have food and drinks and be open everyday at 4pm to hang out, or something to that effect.

It looks like the first show is Unknown Mortal Orchestra with What Laura Says opening on Oct 4th. I am going to bet that it sells out, so I would get your tickets now, or whenever they become available because their site is not working yet I guess.

Video: UNKLE-"Heaven"

Here is the latest video from UNKLE for their song "Heaven" off of their 2008 album End Titles...Stories for Film. Footage for the video was taken directly from the skate video Fully Flared directed by Spike Jonze and Ty Evans. You may remember this footage from when it was pared with M83's song "Lower Your Eyelids to Die With The Sun." Personally, I feel like the M83 song works a little better with this footage and helps give it a more epic feel. I've embedded it here so you can see what I'm talking about.



Which do you guys like better?