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American Goldwing is the name of the forthcoming Blitzen Trapper album.
There is more of a country feel on this, their sixth album, as compared to last year’s Destroyer of the Void as heard here and here.
Mid-September is the slated release date by the Portland, Oregon quintet.
In the meantime, Sub Pop has a free download of the title track.
“American Goldwing”
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EMA is short for Erika M. Anderson.
She moved from South Dakota to LA when she was eighteen, taught herself guitar and played in a couple of bands before going solo.
Her debut album is entitled Past Life Martyred Saints.
“California” is a single and video from the album. “Milkman” is a free download.
“Milkman”
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He calls himself Washed Out. His friends in Georgia know him as Ernest Greene.
His debut album, Within and Without, will be released next week with one of the most alluring jacket covers of the year.
The music is equally evocative and luxurious.
“Eyes Be Closed” is the single. Free from Sub Pop.
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The Horrors, the quintet from England, prepare to release their third album, Skying, in August.
The Horrors’ sound certainly has matured since the raw post-punk stylings heard on their first record, The Horrors EP, in 2006 which included the song “Sheena is a Parasite”.
You can stream the entire Skying album on the band’s website.
“Still Life” is the richly rendered first single.
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Wilco’s new album The Whole Story will be available late September.
This will be the first release on their own label dBpm Records.
“I Might” is the first single from the record.
The band debuted the song at Solid Sound, the annual music and arts festival that Wilco curates at Mass MOCA in North Adams, MA.
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Björk’s new album Biophilia was composed partly on her iPad.
In collaboration with Apple, it will be the “first app album”, a multi-media extravaganza with each song corresponding to an individual app.
Discussing the Biophilia project on her website, Björk tells us that she researched “where music and nature meet, and structures in nature and structures in music and where they are similar and then going and writing the songs.”
“Crystalline” is our first taste of the music.
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True Blood Season 4 premiered last Sunday.
The debut show was entitled “She’s Not There”.
The Zombies’ song of the same title was rerecorded for the show by Neko Case and Nick Cave.
The combination of these two voices with the production of Louisiana musician CC Adcock adds a particularly eerie Cajun sound to this classic song.
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The new single from Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, the latest from the Beastie Boys, is “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win”.
The sound of the Beasties is enhanced on this track by a savory vocal collaboration with Santigold.
This version of the song was remixed by the production duo Major Lazer.
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DLF Music is filmmaker David Lynch’s music company created to benefit the David Lynch Foundation.
“The Foundation exists for consciousness-based education and world peace. The David Lynch Foundation was established in 2005 to fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities including Transcendental Meditation, for at-risk populations such as underserved inner-city students; veterans with PTSD and their families; American Indians suffering from diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and high suicide rates; homeless men participating in re-entry programs striving to overcome addictions; and incarcerated juveniles and adults.”
Of note, all of the funds from DLF Music sales go directly to the charitable programs and none to the support staff.
The first DLF Music album Music That Changes the World (Vol.1) will soon be released including songs from Ozomatli, Iggy Pop, Jakob Dylan/Daryl Hannah, Arrested Development, Peter Gabriel, Donovan, Heather Nova, Andy Summers/Geeta Novotny, Dave Stewart, Tom Waits, Ben Folds and Neon Trees.
Iggy Pop sings the blues classic “Milk Cow Blues”.
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From the Basement is an artist-friendly video music series of live performances without a host or an audience.
It was created by Nigel Godrich, best known for his production work with Radiohead.
“Staircase” is a new song from the band with the help of an additional drummer, Clive Deamer, who has worked with the likes of Portishead, Jeff Beck, Siouxsie Sioux, Hawkwind, Robert Plant and his own jazz/rock band Get the Blessing.
The entire Radiohead performance will air on July 1st
Glastonbury is currently in full sway in England, but a smaller festival closer to home will take place in East Hampton, NY, August 13-14.
MTK: Music to Know Festival will feature Vampire Weekend, Bright Eyes, Tom Tom Club, Matt & Kim, Ra Ra Riot , Fitz & the Tantrums, Cold War Kids, M. Ward, Tame Impala, The Naked and Famous, Chromeo, We Are Scientists and Ellie Goulding among others.
MTK is also a first of its kind as fashion will play a prominent role. Merchants large and small will be displaying and selling their wares.
RCRDLBL has a free download of mosto of the performing bands including a two remixes of “Genius of Love”, a hit song from the always wonderful Tom Tom Club.
“Genius of Love (Senor Coconut)
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“Genius of Love (The Pinker Tones)
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Glastonbury, the world’s largest music and arts festival, takes place this weekend in South West England.
Traditionally the last weekend in June, Glastonbury has been going strong since 1970 when T.Rex was the headliner.
Today, the line-up is daunting with hundreds of bands and performing artists on numerous stages covering 900 acres.
RCRDLBL has a free download of thirty-one of the bands appearing at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, including The Kills, Lykke Li, Janelle Monae, Battles, Fleet Foxes, Warpaint, Wu-Tang Clan and, and this song “Celestica” from Crystal Castles remixed by Thurston Moore.
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Last year Best Coast gave us one of the songs of the summer with “Boyfriend”.
This West Coast trio evokes the best of the girl-group pop sound, and we now have a new song from Best Coast just in time for summer 2011.
“Gone Again” is a free download from Adult Swim.
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Mr. Little Jeans is the pseudonym deftly utilized by Monica Birkenes.
The name comes from a character in the film Rushmore.
She’s a Norwegian, living in London and recording recently in Los Angeles.
She delicately and lovingly and hauntingly transforms Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs” into her own song.
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Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks have slated a new album, Mirror Traffic, for a late August release.
Produced by Beck, this will be the Pavement frontman’s fifth album with the Jicks.
On the first offering from the album, SM sings of the “Senator” and what the man truly wants. He’s also giving the song away for free.
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