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Last year’s Dum Dum Girls charming debut album was followed by the infectious He Gets Me High EP.
Their second album, Only in Dreams, will be available in late September.
“Coming Down” is the first single and a free download from the band as is the pop brilliance “Bedroom Eyes”.
“Coming Down”
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“Bedroom Eyes”
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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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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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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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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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Hysterical, the third album from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is scheduled for September.
It’s been over three years since we have last heard from this much-lauded Brooklyn-based quintet as they’ve been pursuing personal projects in the interim.
CYHSY is offering a free download of “Same Mistake”, the first track from the new album.
Sign-up below for yours.
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The band Yacht, not to be confused with the late 70s British New Wave band Yachts, hails from Portland, Oregon.
Led by the duo of Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, their album Shangri-La is due next week.
“Dystopia”, an ominous song of environmental doom, is from the album and a free download.
“The Earth is on fire
We don’t have no daughter
Let the motherfucker burn”
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Battles is an experimental rock trio from New York with a strong emphasis on instrumentation.
Gloss Drop, their just released second album, is primarily instrumental, with vocals on only four tracks by guest performers.
The quirky infectious song “Ice Cream” features the voice of clubkid, DJ, producer Matias Aguayo and is a free download from Spin.
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Sharon Van Etten is appearing at Bonnaroo this weekend.
The music of this singer/songwriter from Brooklyn via Tennessee and New Jersey is included in a Spin free download of 20 Bonnaroo bands, along with the likes of My Morning Jacket, the Walkmen, Robert Plant and Twin Shadow.
The vulnerable beauty heard in “Don’t Do It” is from Van Etten’s 2010 album Epic.
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Bonnaroo, the four day music and arts festival, begins today in Manchester, Tennessee.
This is the tenth year and the lineup is stellar.
In celebration of Bonnaroo, RCRDLBL has released from their archives a free download of 24 bands performing this year including Arcade Fire, Florence and the Machine, Sleigh Bells, Best Coast, Iron & Wine, and the Black Angels among others.
Featured here is Twin Shadow, the nom de plume of George Lewis, Jr., who developed his chops in Boston before reinventing himself in Brooklyn.
“I Can’t Wait” is from his debut album Forget.
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Hooray For Earth, a quartet of Boston transplants who honed their sound in New York, do not shy away from synthesizers or lush arrangements.
They impressively debut their album True Loves today.
Gorgeously rendered with layered sounds and horn accents, “No Love” is a free download.
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