Cockles By These Are Powers

The facts:
1. These Are Powers are made up of ex-members of Knife Skills and Liars.
2. They refer to their music as "ghost punk".
3. These Are Powers just signed to Dead Oceans.
4. Dead Oceans will re-release Taro Tarot and Terrific Seasons this Fall.
5. These Are Powers will tour in support of these re-releases.
6. There should be a new These Are Powers album early(ish) next year!

Listen to the promotional mp3: "Cockles" (scjag mp3)

Watch the promotional mov: "Cockles" (scjag mov)

Myspace page is here.
Dead Oceans page is here.
HOSS records is here.
Emusic page is here.

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- New New New Grizzly Bear @ You Ain't No Picasso... here.

- Brooklyn Vegan has a post with 3 Strokes side projects, 2 Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 4 bands, 7 MP3s... here. The bands featured are Nickel Eye, Native Korean Rock, Converse Ad (N.E.R.D. + Santogold + Julian Casablancas), and Albert Hammond Jr..

- More Brooklyn Vegan, read Thurston's comments about the Sonic Youth Starbucks compilation... here. I like the "fuck you" of it all, too.

Nova By NOMO

Lazy. Hot. Summer Saturday.

What to listen to? How's about some postafrobeat?

Yeah. Gonna listen to NOMO.

Downloadables:
"Nova" (box.net mp3)
"Three Shades" (box.net mp3) (Did you get this track already?)

Myspace page is here.
Ubiquity Records page is here.
eMusic page is here.

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- How's about some "hazy, hip-hop-based downbeat shit"? Stones Throw artist Koushik has a couple of free mp3s available in advance of Out My Window. One is a song... "Lying In The Sun" (stones throw mp3) and the other is a mixtape... "Koushik - Mixoremixes" (stones throw mp3) (tracklisting)

- Instrumental Analysis talks up B'more music fest, WHARTSCAPE 2008 (featuring Celebration, The Mae Shi, Double Dagger, Parts & Labor, and much much more) and a number of other Mid-Atlanic happenings this weekend... here.

- Speaking of Baltimore... check out this more-than-a-year-old compilation of local Baltimore music at The City Paper. Download The End, Part Two: The Beginning (The Wham City Compilation)... here.

- Do I even need to mention this?

Under The Pines By Bodies Of Water

Bodies Of Water have a new album coming out this summer. This is a picture from the recording process.



PTST calls them "a nice reprieve from all the noise rock and dance punk that has been coming out [last] year." (edits mine). We here at GT definitely agree. Hows about you?

Listen to the latest: "Under The Pines" (scjag mp3)

Listen to something that came out last year: "These Are The Eyes" (scjag mp3)

Myspace page is here.
Secretly Canadian is here.
1000 Tongues is here.
Take The 2003 Picture Test here.

Special thanks to Muzzle Of Bees.

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- There is a new Sigur Ros track with a dumb name floating around the internets. Get it from the source by submitting an email address... here or not... here.

- Big Stereo has some nice things to say about the album, DISCO by Health... here. Badical Beats too + more mp3s... here.

- Two free mp3... "Roboxulla" (gang assets mp3) by The Jealous Girlfriends and "California Soul (Diplo Remix)" (edgeboss mp3) from the new Verve Remix album.

- Speaking of The Jealous Girlfriends... did you know they have a new Daytrotter session?? It's... here.

- Check out the new Albert Hammond Jr. song with the chord progression/title "G-F-C" @ the trip wire... here.

- Free McCarren show deets @ BVegan... here.

- Pukekos posts some Alphabet Of Daggers... here. Googling them finds this:


- SUCKAPANTS says "Punk Ain't Dead, It Just Rides A Bicycle"... here.

- Hear two different versions of "Hologram" by The Urinals @ Said The Gramophone... here.

- There's four different takes on Santogold @ Culture Bully... here.

- Two killer posts @ Raven Sings The Blues... here (re: "The 60's scene south of the border was...") and here (re: "melted plastic synth-psych" of The Pink Noise).

- Explore "His Indie World" (with reference mp3s) @ Increase Your Weirdness... here.

- Uggh... poor me, feeling to lazy to go to free Matt & Kim show.

Record Store Day

So yesterday was Record Store Day. I wanted to participate, but I was also feeling lazy. After a little clicking I found the closest "participating" store to my abode. This turned out to be Record Express.



It was open (barely). They happen to be liquidating their stock. No freebies here. No Merge 7"s. Boo. They did have just-about-free-bies. I walked up to a bin and started digging.



There was a lot of CRAP (plus CRAPS by Big Dipper anyway).



I did find me some... I don't want to say gold. I'll go with silver. I found me some silver. What did I find at Record Express? One recording I had had on cassette and never replaced, Gobblehoof, which features ex-Deep Wound-ers J Mascis on drums and singer Charlie Nakajima. Listen to some Amherst post-hardcore circa 1989:

"Torch" (box.net mp3)
"Upside Down" (box.net mp3)

I also picked up a totally out of print Rhino compilation DIY: Starry Eyes - UK Pop II (1978-79). For a limited time, you can download The Records track that inspired the title of the comp:

"Starry Eyes" (ysi mp3)

Would I have made these purchases for a total of $1.08 at Sound Fix or Other Music?? I am thinking, no, prolly not.

Read more Record Store Day posts here and here and here and here and here.

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- Street date for HEALTH//DISCO is May 13th, 2008. The one track I have been listening to over and over on this one is "Lost Time (Pictureplane Remix)" (box.net mp3). Percussive!

- Spinner vid of the other day: "LES Artistes" by Santogold... here.

- The Turn Ons are giving away their new album, Curse (zip). Of course if you likey, you can pay what you want Radiohead-style.

- New Hanway Troof remix of High Places @ GvsB... here.

- Motel De Moka posted a mix entitled La Radiolina featuring some kickass African artists... here.

- Brooklyn powerpop-ers Bridges And Powerlines have a new one. Listen: "Uncalibrated" (mp3)

- Bluegrass + Beats = Rench @ 3hive... here. Download "Gangstagrass" (zip)

- Funeral Pudding has posted a boot of Polvo playing Merge Records Fifth Anniversary Party, and they do a Hüsker Dü cover and a Steve Miller cover, plus more!... here.

Red Gun By The Forms

One of the best albums of last year, The Forms by this band named The Forms has been on repeat here GT World Headquarters for a while.

Listen to two tracks from The Forms:
"Red Gun" (mp3)
"Bones" (mp3)

The Forms are presently are doing a minitour with Cloud Cult. The deets are up at Ye Olde Myspace. Of course, I am going to miss them this time around, but hey that's my problem not yours.

Oh, and if you don't know "Knowledge In Hand" (mp3), well then... you have some listening to do.

Three Spheres are here.
Emusic page is here.

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- New New New SP00N BONUS, a demo of "Cherry Bomb", no no no, it's "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb". Listen: "Cherry Bomb Country" (mp3). Also seen... here.

- Awesomeness! "Shove Your Hope Where It Don't Shine" @ NEVVER... here.

- Motico have posted a new song... "Electronic Detective" on the myspace. It makes me think of Grant Hart for some reason. Listen... here.

- KEXP posts an interview with Le Loup band leader Sam (Simkoff)... here.

- More Neo-Psych fun with The Young Sinclairs! Dig it! "Engineer Man" (mp3)

- PTST's Band of The Week? It's The Jealous Girlfriends. More about that... here.

- Dude, I could listen to Mike Daisey read the fucking phonebook. You think I am joking. I am not... ok, I am. Anyway listen: "How Theater Failed America (Opening)" (mp3)