February 9, 2010
Wild Beats' previous Two Dancers video for "All The King's Men" was set in a mystical forest peopled with various fair maidens (and the band). Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull, aka Institute For Eyes, pilot us toward some actual wild beasts in this clip for "We Still Got The Taste Dancin On Our Tongues," which we're told is "a tale of insatiable lust, full of twisted bawdiness and louche adventures." With that in mind, we find the guys floating on their backs in the presence of snorting, galloping horses. If the Institute For Eyes are referencing Zoo, its an interesting place to take this "insatiable lust." If they don't know the film? Hilarious.
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This week the world turns its attention to our northernly neighbor for Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympics. Not everyone's enthused. While the Thermals' one-off ode to Canada has no direct relation or reference to the world's most celebrated international pissing contest, that pissing contest is having its Opening Ceremonies in three days, and as if on cue, here is a power-pop homage to its host. It's loose and quick, a feel-good fist-raiser that sounds like it should be the theme music to a song about youths in Canada brought to you by the makers of That '70s Show. Listen:
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YACHT - "Holiday" (Weezer Cover) • Fun fact: according to Jona Bechtolt, his YACHT partner Claire L. Evans "...used to run the #2 most-popular Weezer fansite." Consider this cover a fan tribute then. "Holiday" is available on YACHT's recent iTunes Session EP, but you can listen at YACHT's Tumblr.
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We mentioned Blonde Redhead did the score for The Dungeon Masters, the Keven McAlester's Dungeons & Dragons documentary, when we directed you to its entertaining trailer. At the time I was going to make a joke about how BR's Kazu Makino would be the only female in the movie, but dark elf Elizabeth Reesman, aka "The Drow Princess," nixed that idea. We haven't seen the movie yet, but we do have "Il Padroni," a medley of Blonde Redhead's main theme and final reprise. The moody, pensive music beings after a quietly apocalyptic/ha ha ha sample.
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Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova Reissue Gets Four New Tracks • The original collaboration record One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels came out back in 2004, but the groups reunited last fall to write and record new songs at Mike Mogis's Omaha studio. The ten-track album will be out March 23. More at Saddle Creek.
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Los Angeles-via-Pennsylvania multi-instrumental singer and home recordist Evan Voytas -- sort of a more clean-cut Ariel Pink -- creates strange synth-pop/space-disco outings that feel danceable but private and insular. The idea's explored in the video for his most recent single "I Run With You, Spirit Animal." The clip was directed by Carlos Charlie Perez, who recently finished the upcoming Vampire Weekend video and shot those tongue-in-cheek promos that showed up on ithinkuracontra.com. You'll find that playfulness, here as well, after Voytas locates a place to rest his plank of wood while he tries on sunglasses and animal masks.
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Dr. Dog have been a band for over a decade now, Philadelphia-based throughout. Their hometown hasn't factored much into their sound, which throws back to the Beatles-era of the classic rock school, or their themes and lyrical schemes. That's changed with "Shadow People," the first single form the band's forthcoming, fifth LP Shame, Shame, a track they've called a "full-on West Philly diary." The sound's the same, decidedly not of their hometown in this time or even a past one, but the scenes painted by guitarist vocalist Scott McMicken are documenting his neighborhood, now, a section of Philly that can be shoddy, dangerous, and artistically vibrant, in turns but often at once. He says:
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We've heard the stylistically diverse "81" pastoral and jazzy "Good Intentions Paving Company" outing. Now, after adding the gorgeous 9-minute madrigal/short story "Kingfisher" to the Have One On Me tracklist, the only thing to be sure of is that the 3-CD collection won't be following one specific path. But color me impressed. You can hear the new song, per usual, at dragcity.com (via GvsB). And, speaking of tracklists, Drag City's made that available, too:
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