May 15, 2008
While you were waiting for the Strokes to get bored of looking cool with no place to go, Albert Hammond, Jr. has put together his second solo record. It was recorded in a studio you will never afford (Electric Lady) with friends more privileged than you will ever have (Sean Lennon) and if it's anywhere near as good as his surprisingly sturdy debut, we'll welcome it with open ears. All of that said, when it's come to the album art, he's surprisingly camera shy.
CONTINUE READING ALBERT HAMMOND JR.'S ¿CÓMO TE LLAMA? ALBUM ART...
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latest by historyman68
May 12, 2008
Ratatat, the 12-stringed New York electro duo of Evan Mast and Mike Stroud, are releasing their third album and Classics follow up LP3 at the beginning of July. To sate appetites, though, there's a vinyl-only 7" single out now with album track "Shiller" and future album track "Mahalo." As they write on the 7" sleeve, "Yes, it's a B-side from the follow-up to a record that hasn't even come out yet. It's totally from the future, man!" Impressive guys. As far as "Shiller," it's a plaintive, purring down-tempo bit of noh drama that opens into a proggy wonderland, only to burrow further into the well.
CONTINUE READING NEW RATATAT - "SHILLER" & LP3 ALBUM ART...
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latest by jay anderson
May 5, 2008
Now that Broken Social Scene is through Presenting Kevin Drew, the collective can move on to Presenting other people who make music. But first, what exactly constitutes a Broken Social Scene Presents billing? From what we can tell, the artist in question must:
- be a member of Broken Social Scene
- have lots of people from Broken Social Scene and/or Canada do cameos on the solo record in question
- have a beard
So with KD out of the way, BSS take the logical next step of pimping the wares of one Brendan Canning, Broken Social bassist and Kevin's tour mate throughout his Spirit If...ing. In fact, we first heard a Brendan tune at McCarren Pool, in the midst of Drew's set opening for Feist. That day we were worried about Brendan's vocal presence, but this track from the forthcoming Broken Social Scene Presents Brendan Canning: Something For All Of Us... has us thinking the studio, mutlple takes and multiple tracking's been very kind to him.
CONTINUE READING NEW BRENDAN CANNING - "HIT THE WALL"...
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latest by Mike
May 1, 2008
Call it a ritual, call it whatever you will: when an album we're frothy for first yields cover art, we like to call in the graphic designers. But first to clarify the album title: Meet At Mount Zoomer (yes At Mount Zoomer -- Kissing The Beehive will just have to settle for being a track title), so named because it was recorded at Mount Zoomer, the studio owned and operated by drummer Arlen Thompson. (It's also a reference to the B.C. nickname for magic mushrooms and "a nod to Thee Silver Mt. Zion" and maybe even more things Wiki hasn't sussed out yet.)
OK so about that album art ... feeling devilish?
CONTINUE READING WOLF PARADE UNVEIL AT MOUNT ZOOMER ALBUM ART...
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latest by artist
April 30, 2008
Veteran Canadian outfit Sloan are set to release their tenth studio full-length (discounting the Peppermint EP, including Recorded Live At A Sloan Party which was not recorded at a party, etc.) in 16 years. Prolific. That's what happens when you have four songwriters, though, and that's how they came upon the name for the new record: Parallel Play, as in that developmental psych term you learned while misdiagnosing yourself with every affliction in your Psych 101 book in high school. "I'm Not A Kid Anymore" comes from bassist/singer Chris Murphy, who explains the track's title like so:
I wanted to write a song about how we're old now and we think we have this pain in the ass job but in the scheme of things it's pretty awesome. We work 9 to 5 but it's the other 9 to 5 as in 9 pm to 5 am. It's really not that bad.
Yeah that's not a complaint to utter too loudly, Chris. (We know a good fifty some bands that would love trade places with you.) This song, on the other hand ... well, turn this shit up as loudly as possible. It's a gritty power popper with just the right the bit of Revolver-era harmonies to the bridge.
CONTINUE READING NEW SLOAN - "I'M NOT A KID ANYMORE"...
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latest by Karen
April 29, 2008
Stereolab's forthcoming Chemical Chords is their first proper album in four years. Wow and flutter. (We've decided not to count 2006's Fab Four Suture compilation, because four years sounds more dramatic, and that way we got to make a bad pun, too.) Have to say, the fact that they've been around for almost 20 years at this point makes some of us feel really old. Like, those of us who remember buying Peng! the week it was released in 1992 or driving around in a beat-up Impala and obsessing a cassette copy of Mars Audiac Quintet. Sheesh. All these years later and "Three Women" sounds like Stereolab, though in a sunny, horn-y, strutting late-period way. It's a decent track, but like much of Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane and Co's back catalog, it'll likely work best nestled into the whole.
CONTINUE READING NEW STEREOLAB - "THREE WOMEN"...
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latest by CheapAdviceGuy
April 22, 2008
The wait's over. We spent quite a bit of time this past last week nibbling "Pork And Beans" and wondering where the single's minimalist cover scheme (look to the right to partially jog your memory) would fit into the overall album design. For starters, turns out they both have red on them. Also, as you might have noticed from our headline, they have, in fact, gone the Weezer route, which means pretty soon we'll all be calling this puppy The Red Album. And, speaking of the color albums: Keep those in mind for Red's overall look. Albeit, with a Western flair.
CONTINUE READING WEEZER'S RED ALBUM ART & TRACKLIST...
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latest by Qochap Boys
April 17, 2008
There's the "L.E.S. Artistes" video, and there's been plenty of chances to catch her live, but for the Santogold fan with that deep down and unquenchable thirst, this "Creator"'s for you. MTV can't seem to wrap their mind around why she'd do it. We're thinking it might have to do with the fact that despite the year of leaks and love, her album still isn't out for another few weeks ... and to paraphrase David Cross, even Santogold can't pay rent with indie hipster cred.
CONTINUE READING SANTI WHITE FOR BUD LIGHT, SANTOGOLD ALBUM ART...
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latest by KT
