Oppressions Each By Brightblack Morning Light

Yes, yes... Sonic Youth is now a Matador recording artist. We are all very excited. But today, I have a couple tracks from a different Matador artist -- Brightblack Morning Light. This is not "get up and go" music. This is "I am sick of Mazzy Star and need something to play late and night when I am slightly drunk and overtired" music. It's not something I play all that often, but it fills a niche.

Motion To Rejoin comes out Sepember 23.

Downloadables:
"Oppressions Each" (box.net mp3)
"Hologram Buffalo" (box.net mp3)

Myspace page is here.
Matador page is here.
eMusic page is here.
Preorder Motion To Rejoin here.

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- When You Awake has a mix put together by BJ of Parts & Labor. It is entitled "Top 10 Countryish/Folkish Songs By Artists That People Don't Consider To Be Country/Folk" or "Top 10 Weird/Punk Songs For People Who Only Listen To Country/Folk Music". Get it here.

- The Shaky Hands new album Lunglight is out. Get it here or here or maybe here. Listen: "Loosen Up" (mp3)

- Sebastien Grainger was one half of DFA1979. If you take out dance and you take out the punk from DFA1979 apparently what you are left with is North American 'rawk'. His album Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains comes out Oct 21. Listen: "American Names" (saddle creek mp3)

- I'd like to pass on a recommendation that Palin use "Roses" (youtube vid) instead of "Barracuda" (youtube vid) as her intro music now that Heart has sent the McCain campaign a C&D. Huffington Post has some deets... here.

One Less Blues By Karate

Geoff Farina, Jeff Goddard and Gavin McCarthy are no longer Karate. I think it was Mike Conklin who said the guitar tone they achieve is straight out the best you have ever heard (or something to that effect). Perhaps, "So Fresh, So Clean" is secretly about guitar tone. Prolly not.

So, chill out with the jazzy indieness of Karate.

Downloadables:
"One Less Blues" (box.net mp3) from unsolved
"Ice Or Ground" (box.net mp3) from Some Boots
"The Roots And The Ruins" (box.net mp3) from 595

Southern page is here.

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- "In Ear Park" is the new track by Department Of Eagles. Get it at P'fork... here.

- WTF??

- At PTST, check out the Leaky Faucet (here) and today's recommended release (here).

- Listen to twee-dubbers High Places playing in Stuy Town as taped from the soundboard by nyctaper... here.

- Listen to "River Card" by Atlas Sound @ Audible Vitamins... here. Listen to a different Atlas Sound track: "Activation" (box.net mp3). Are you excited for Microcastle yet?

- Fair AND Balanced. Totally.

- Kaki King trots over to daytrotter... here.

- Finally, there is a new single from the re-broken-up-still-going-ahead Gang Of Four over at eMusic (here) AND get the free two disc Pitchfork Festival 2008 Sampler (here).

Change By Cassettes Won't Listen

Q: Oh, 1990's nostalgia when will you really catch on?
A: Maybe when Kanye starts sampling No Pocky For Kitty by Superchunk?? A step in the right direction is Cassettes Won't Listen a/k/a Jason Drake's latest offering, One Alternative (ha!).



Here is a Blind Melon cover: "Change" (mp3)

Myspace page is here.
Dope Lotus is here.
Emusic page is here.
Get the whole One Alternative EP on Dec 11th... here.

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- new new new Outkast is over at All Things Go... here.
- Check out Captain's Dead best records of the 07... here.
- Listen to some "Miami Beach" baile funk from Bonde Do Role over at Versus... here.
- Are Hot Chip "Ready For The Floor"??? Find out at Red Threat (here) and Earwigs And Wax (here).