Having just unleashed a retrospective mixtape on the world (grab it here), Big Boi (best known as one-half of Outkast) continued to fuel the hype machine this week, finally dropping his hugely anticipated solo album Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. This track is set for epic-party-anthem status, the end includes a bonus how-to on a new sexual position called The David Blaine. Get involved.
You’ll either love this or hate it. I admire Cee-Lo’s ambition in covering such an incredible song and it does get better with each listen. The video is an overproduced, American-cheeseball piece of work, although it does make you want to get naked, light things on fire and set off on a roadtrip. New album scheduled for release later this year, if the first single ‘Georgia’ is any indication, it’s going to be great.
Veterans of the Austin surf rock scene in the late 60′s, The Elevators are largely credited as the most influential band of the rock psychedelia movement. Fourteen years after his last album of original material, frontman Roky Erickson has recently released True Love Cast Out All Evil, produced and backed by fellow Austinites Okkervil River, whom Erickson has also toured with.
Although it’s difficult to top the outstanding Horrors Cosmic Dub remix of Memory Tapes’ (aka Dayve Hawk aka Memory Cassette aka Weird Tapes) ‘Bicycle’ from 2009, Brooklyn “witch-house” producer Creep, offers up a beautiful rework of ‘Green Knight’ from the debut album Seek Magic. I can’t get enough of this track.
Terrible name, beautiful song. ‘I Was Thinking’ is the latest offering from Forest Family Records (brainchild of the heads behind Gorilla vs Bear) who’s penchant for timely pop music is well known. With it’s hazy electronica and muted guitars, this track is everything you’d expect and more. Only 500 copies of the 7″ went to print, get yours here before they sell out.
Forget Gauntlet Hair, this Colorado duo have been running rapidly down the Blog Gauntlet for the past few months. After Delicious Scopitone and Pitchfork covered the band in April with the drum drunk “I Was Thinking” [posted below] their trembling chords have found their way into our mushy hearts and those of the internet’s noisiest alt music fans. All this from two cuties who’ve been writing songs together since they were at school. Bless.
But this shouldn’t just be mixtape filler, used to impress boys and girls that will probably still want to kiss you anyway. Check out their debut 7″ – released with Forest Family Records aka the brainchild of Gorilla Vs Bear and Weekly Tape Deck – and stay tuned for more songs. Hyped blog bands are only that if you don’t carry on listening, suckers, and with a little bit of your love Andy R. and Craig Nice might not get crushed on their way through the wilderness.
No Age will have a new album out in September. The record will feature more sampling and pedals (according to Pitchfork) and has a track called “Valley Hump Crash” which is perhaps about countryside dogging gone wrong (disclaimer: probably not)
They haven’t got parties to promote so London DJ and music pickers Feeding Time have made this laid back summer mix. Tribal drums weave together with 80s riviera, hypnagogic shadows and funky disco bleeps. Mix yourself a pina colada, chuck on your brightest fedora and relax.
Hackney Wick is renowned for its Illegal raves and squat parties, but not for its live music scene. Jerrom Perce of Plain Song explains why they are trying to change that.
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