First Aid Kit
Stay Gold is the title of the next album from the Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit.
Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes will once again produce as he did on 2012’s The Lion’s Roar.
“My Silver Lining” is the gorgeous first track.
The Mynabirds
The Mynabirds are singer/songwriter Laura Burhenn and a collective of musicians based in Omaha.
She is also a member of the Bright Eyes’ touring band.
GENERALS is the name of the 2nd Mynabirds album due on Saddle Creek Records in June.
“Generals” is the cool first single. (Free download here.)
First Aid Kit
Last year we featured a preview of First Aid Kit’s album The Lion’s Roar.
This is their first American-recorded album and their second full-length since their 2010 debut The Big Black & Blue.
These two Swedish sisters recorded in Omaha with Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis producing.
“Blue” is the new single.
Music To Know
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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Thursday Podcast
Artists featured on today’s podcast include:
Toro Y Moi
Travis Barker
Arcade Fire
tUnE-yArDs
The Raveonettes
Beady Eye
Dom
Burial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke
Warpaint
Bright Eyes
Dum Dum Girls
Bad Religion
White Denim
Hear it on CyberStationUSA at 5:00 pm Eastern and on-demand thereafter.
Live Broadcasts and On Demand
Today The Oedipus Project expands as we begin broadcasting on CyberStationUSA, a premier internet radio portal.
This hour long broadcast/podcast airs every Thursday at 5:00 pm Eastern and On Demand thereafter.
Radiohead
Fleet Foxes
The Strokes
PJ Harvey
Lykke Li
Cut Copy
Crystal Castles
British Sea Power
Bright Eyes
Beady Eye
The Decemberists
The Airborne Toxic Event
Cold Cave
Dum Dum Girls
Bright Eyes
Beginning in 1998 Bright Eyes was singer/songwriter/guitarist Conor Oberst and a revolving cast of musicians.
Since 2006 the band has settled into the permanent trio of Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott, while utilizing the talents of varying contributing musicians from the Omaha music scene.
Prolific and profound, the new Bright Eyes album is entitled The People’s Key.
Two free songs are available from the Saddle Creek website under the “downloads” section.
“Shell Games” is one of them.
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“Shell Games” by Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes and Sound Strike
The artist boycott of Arizona continues. I have written about it here in the past (refer to the June 1st post) and the list of Sound Strike artists has grown dramatically: those who refuse to aid Arizona economically in light of the passage of the egregious immigration law SB1070.
Money is being raised for the Sound Strike Fund which “donates needed resources to families caring for children in Arizona whose parents are detained or have been deported, immigrant rights organizing and legal defense”. Sound Strike Songs directly benefits this Fund. And the first Sound Strike Song is from Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes.
In an open letter to artists Conor says: “American ideals of democracy and liberty are built on the foundation that all people, regardless of race or country of origin, deserve fair and equal treatment by the government . . . We’ve all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope. Please join the Sound Strike Songs project by donating a track and help us . . . enable people to continue to dream.”
This exclusive moving Sound Strike Song “Coyote Song” from Bright Eyes is a $2.00 download. Below is the video.
Support The Sound Strike. Sign the petition. Download the song. Boycott Arizona!
Exclusive Song for The Sound Strike “Coyote Song” by Bright Eyes. from Producciones Cimarrón on Vimeo.
The Roots
In my first Podcast “Dear God 2.0” by Monsters of Folk was included as one of the best of 2010 thus far. (Monsters of Folk is a modern-day supergroup consisting of Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes and M. Ward.) The Roots, one of the great American hip hop bands (and currently the house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) brilliantly use the song as a basis for their own commentary on the current crisis of contemporary life. From The Roots new album How I Got Over, “Dear God 2.0” is the Song of the Day.
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“Dear God 2.0 (featuring Monsters of Folk)” by The Roots