To The Stars! To The Night! By Le Loup

I saw Le Loup open last night for Stereolab. Even though they are down two band members (or was it three?) AND there were some issues with Sam's electronics, they pulled off a great show. It was much more rockin' than the recorded Le Loup, but hey that's fine with me.

Downloadable: "To The Stars! To The Night!" (box.net mp3)

Streamable New Songs @ NPR: "Beach Town" and "A Celebration"... here.

Purchase the CD The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium Assembly from Sub Pop here or Hardly Art here.

Myspace page is here.
Hardly Art page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
(Non-US) eMusic page is here.

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- Pics of These Are Powers and Dark Meat and an mp3 by crazy Israelis Monotonix @ SUCKAPANTS... here.

- Check Groove Cookie's weekly mix... here.

- And hey, why not? an mp3 from Clinic... "The Witch" (domino mp3)

Never Stops By Deerhunter

Jeez... you go away for a few days and there's a new Virtual 7" from Atlas Sound (here) and then Microcastle and Weird Era Cont. and the Logos demos are LEAKED by Branford Cox by accident. Branford's apology is here.

You may have noticed the aura of hype around Microcastle which was due for release this Fall. I am going to restrain myself. I just going to post one song from Microcastle. Maybe you heard it already? It's a goodie.

Downloadable: "Never Stops" (box.net mp3)

The album looks like this:


My favorite song from Microcastle is probably "Nothing Ever Happened". If you want to know what that song sounds like, buy the album right now via iTunes or wait for the physical release or non-DRM digital release.

And now some Atlas Sound downloadable action: "S.S.C." (box.net mp3)

Get the whole thing (ok, one more song): Virtual 7" No. 4 (mediafire zip)

Oh yeah, more Deerhunter... the blog Southern Shelter has a live recording of Deerhunter from just last week... here.

Myspace page is here
Kranky page is here.
Brandford's blog is here.
SXSW page is here.
eMusic page is here.

Consider CLICKing: Vacation Edition
- I'm pretty psyched for A Bad Situationist. It features Sarah Silverman, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, H. Jon Benjamin, Ross Brockley, Robert Schimmel, Marc Maron, and Sam Seder

- Holy Crap! the diagrams in this post are friggin' hilarious. Covert Curiosity rules.

- XXJFG gets noisy with Fucked Up and Growing... here. You can listen to some Growing right now: "Swell" (social registry mp3)

- Hey, speaking of Fucked Up, it's guitarist name of 10,000 Marbles recommends that you listen to some Blank Dogs (a band that may or may not exist) over @ ptw... here.

- The Yellow Stereo reports that two members of Le Loup have left the band. One for social justice and the other for her own project Pree. More info... here. Oh and they are playing Irving with Stereolab in October... here. Listen: "We Are Gods! We Are Wolves!" (hardly art mp3)

- The Score: Who The Bloody Hell Are They 1, RIAA 0... KICKASS!

- PTST got to talking with BOAT... here. They had two NYC shows while I was gone, talk about Oh No Disaster. Guess I am just going to have to move to Seattle.

- Off The Record has Liars in their 5 Songs with feature... here.

- G vs B reports that El Guincho's Alegranza LP will (finally) be put out via XL/Young Turks on October 7. They have "Palmitos Park" ("all remastered and possibly somewhat de-sampled")... here. The original "Palmitos Park" mp3 is still available... here.

- Four classic songs from The Wipers have found their way to captain's dead... here.

- The blog A Million Miles Away has a kickass little post about (J.D. King &) The Coachmen... here.

- The Score (con't): RIAA 1, Muxtape 0... Fuck!

- Have you checked out Sunil Sawani's semi-fake record label, Part Time Songs? Here is a song by King Filament... "Killer" (part time mp3)

- You should probably watch YACHT's new vid for "Summer Song"... here.

Antoine And Birdskull By Jaguar Love

Blood Brothers Make Grave? Pretty Girls Make Blood Brothers?

Nah.

Jaguar Love. Their full length album hits the shelves/servers in less than one month (August 19th). It is entitled Take Me To The Sea. And if you have not heard "Bats Over The Pacific Ocean" yet, I implore you to click here.

The album art looks like this:


Listen to one of my favorite tracks from Take Me To The Sea: "Antoine And Birdskull" (box.net mp3)

For comparison purposes, listen to the demo: "Welcome To The Bird Skull Palace" (box.net mp3)

Matador page is here.
Crystal City is here.
eMusic page is here.
CMJ's Siren coverage and tour dates are here.



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- Gorilla Vs. Bear points out that Discos Compulsivos/LUV LUV wants you to have a free El Guincho album. While not as trippy as Alegranza, it's totally worth checking out... Folías CD-R (zshare link). Listen: "Color de Galleta" (box.net mp3)

- The Go! Team have a new "free" stuff section on their website, but to enter it you need to give up an email address. You'll get "a new recording of milk crisis, the 4 track EP of get it together, their first release, some remixes they've done of others and others have done of them and some song parts for you to monkey around with - ladyflash and the chuck d featuring flashlight fight"... here. Listen: "Milk Crisis (Anglo Japanese Version)" (box.net mp3)

- Last.fm and Pandora lovers have you surfed over to favtape for personalized mixes?

- Deerhoof is now part of cashmusic. They posted the sheet music for their new single "Fresh Born" and they want to hear your version of it... here. Speaking of cashmusic, here is the latest Kristin Hersh freebie: "Moan" (cashmusic mp3). More Krisitn Hersh cashmusic is here.

- A boot of Health at ATJfest has been posted by nyctaper... here.

- IA sets Bound Stems against Imperial China (can't they all just get along?? yes apparently)... here.

- The Blakes get out of their garage and get over to Daytrotter... here.

- The Top 10 Nonsense Words In Pop Music @ Berkeley Place... here.

- "That's No Melon"

- Finally, The Sound Of Indie has a boot of a Stereolab show from 1994... here. Flashforward 14 years... Stereolab develop a "Neon Beanbag" (box.net mp3). FYI: Chemical Chords comes out on August 19th, the same day as Take Me To The Sea, freaky.