June 29, 2009
Stereogum reader Rafaël Zeier recently interviewed Wayne Coyne at the Open Air St Gallen Festival in Switzerland, and got the scoop that McCartney-approved, nightmarish pop bros MGMT and Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O will appear on the Flaming Lips' forthcoming double album Embryonic. Also making a spoken word cameo is "a weird mathematician guy from Germany." You can listen to the Q&A here. Says Wayne, "a double record offers more room to be strange." The band are taking their giant bubble on the road this summer. For select shows, if you buy tickets online you get a digital EP with three Embryonic cuts ("Convinced of the Hex," "The Impulse," and "Silver Trembling Hands") and three rarities from the vault. Meanwhile, Wikipedia seems to think this is the album cover:
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Tags: Karen O | MGMT | The Flaming Lips | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
latest by NIck Rock
June 26, 2009
The building blocks of perennial Stereogum favorites Air's followup to Pocket Symphony are slowly coming together. This next set of chilled and gauzy earphone candy is due this fall under the title Love 2. That's Nicolas and JB looking fittingly mellowed and pensive on the cover. Also, the duo's releasing a free MP3 of opening track "Do The Joy" on 7/6. To have receive it on that date, enter your email info at aircheology.com and wait for the confirmation that suggests you "Sit back and relax." Air know thyself.
Love 2 is out 10/6 via 10/6 via Astralwerks. After "Do The Joy," the first proper single will be "Sing Sang Sung," out 8/25. They'll launch a European tour in early 2010 at Casino de Paris then head to North America in the Spring.
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Surprise! The good kind, which I think we all could use. We've heard nothing, but thanks to a tip we've got some basics to relay: Spoon is releasing three songs under the project title Got Nuffin on Tuesday 6/30. Track titles include "Tweakers," "Stroke Their Brains," and of course "Got Nuffin." For now, you can preview all three at Amazon: the title track sounds like a dusky, percussive rocker about darkness and shadows, "Tweakers" sounds like a lo-fi demo of a closet bucket-drum session or something, and "Stroke Their Brains" sounds like it's from the brains of the Strokes. Head over and listen, and we'll update with more info when we get it.
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latest by brian
June 24, 2009
Over the past year or so, Stephen Malkmus and his Jicks, Mark Ibold and his Sonic Youth, and Bob Nastanovich and his IKEA have been getting more column space, but Scott Kannberg, aka Pavement co-founder Spiral Stairs, is back and ready for some of his own. He's released a couple albums as Preston School Of Industry, but takes full credit for The Real Feel, making it something of a solo debut. Of course, "solo" rarely means "solo," so Kannberg was joined by Australian rock band Gersey (Spiral spent a bit of time in Melbourne before returning to Seattle), the Preston folks, the Posies, Austin-based guitarist Ian Moore, and Broken Social Scenester Kevin Drew. The thing was mixed by the Posies' Jon Auer: Listen to his work via lead track/vintage rocker "Maltese Terrier" (oddly, it sorta sounds Australian). As you'll note, there's a different kind of animal featured on the cover.
Continue reading New Spiral Stairs - "Maltese Terrier"...
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Tags: Pavement | Preston School Of Industry | Spiral Stairs
latest by Zing
June 23, 2009
Aside from being pooped on, the Beasties made noise down at Bonnaroo when they invited Nas onstage to debut "Too Many Rappers" from their forthcoming "bizarre" LP. The gray-flecked MCs have revealed some more details concerning the awesomely titled Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 1: It's out 9/15 via Capitol, it's got 17 tracks, and one of them ("Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win") features the burgeoning queen of collabos, Santigold. Also there's a track called "Funky Donkey," for lovers of funky monkeys and funky bosses. Stack this release with the systematic reissuing of their entire discography (Hello Nasty is next) and their tear headlining all the festivals, and dudes are about to get so paid. That's the album art, here's the tracklist:
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Tags: Beastie Boys | Bonnaroo | Nas | Santigold
latest by Black Sunshine
June 18, 2009
Before singing up with Touch & Go and ending things in 1998, Polvo released a couple of their best albums on Merge in the early '90s. Others may disagree, but to my ears it never got better than Cor-Crane Secret, Today's Active Lifestyles, or the Celebrate the New Dark Age EP. It's fitting then that after their ATP resuscitation the group's resigned with Merge for their first record in over a decade. In Prism's out in the fall and at least judging from the lead track "Beggars Bowl," the mathy noise-rockers are still in fine, angular, all-over-the-map form. In fact, it sounds like old Polvo, down to the chanted lyrics and swirly dissonance. There was always something elegant and clean about these guys. That's there, too. Even in the album art.
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latest by Love the polvo
June 17, 2009
Something tells me people are gonna be keyed into Brendan Benson's forthcoming solo LP more than his previous three combined. Which isn't to say One Mississippi, Lapalco, and 2005's The Alternative To Love aren't worth listening to repeatedly (they offer brilliant bits of seasoned power-pop), or that Brendan didn't get his share of media spotlight in the past (his "Cold Hands (Warm Heart)" was in Bones and an Apple ad). Just that all of that happened before this happened. It'd be fair to call Nashville-and-London recorded My Old, Familiar Friend LP "long awaited" since we first started hearing demos for it two years ago. One of those ("Poised And Ready") made the final tracklist, but our first official listen comes via the pulsing, lusty keyboards and harmonized come-ons of "Feel Like Taking You Home."
Continue reading New Brendan Benson - "Feel Like Taking You Home" (Stereogum Premiere)...
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Tags: Brendan Benson | The Raconteurs
latest by Melissa
June 5, 2009
When we last heard from Zero 7, they were collaborating with José González on The Garden's opener "Futures" way back in 2006 (when they were also working with Sia, among others). Speaking of futures, though, the Downtempo UK duo of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker (and, yes, various vocal friends) finally have a new album in the form of fourth full-length Yeah Ghost. The slick, chilly Zidane and Takashi (or, maybe, Haruki) Murakami-referencing "Everything Is Up (Zizou)" features the voice of Binns along with Eska Mtungwazi. It's not the first single from the album, but it is the first song from the album we're posting.
Continue reading New Zero 7 - "Everything Up (Zizou)" (Stereogum Premiere)...
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Tags: Eska Mtungwazi | Zero 7
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