A pretty slow week, but then again, how do you compete with a new Wilco album? That alone should send you to your local music store, but while you’re there, be sure to pick up Moby’s latest, the Bjork DVD, which we reviewed here, and Levon Helm’s second release in two years — it’s the former drummer/vocalist of The Band’s followup to the Grammy Award winning Dirt Farmer. Check out the rest on Largehearted Boy’s list before rushing out the door.
Bjork - Who Is It?
from Voltaic (DVD/CD) on Nonesuch
The Danks - Die Young (MP3)
from Are You Afraid Of The Dank on Collagen Rock Records
The Ginger Envelope - All Pinned Down (MP3)
from Invitation Air on One Percent Press
The Harvey Girls - Hey, Little Sprout (MP3)
from Nutate on SVC
Levon Helm - The Making of… Electric Dirt on Vanguard Records
Greg Koons and the Misbegotten - LA Looks Prettier on TV (MP3)
from Welcome to the Nowhere Motel on Kealon Records
Melissa McLelland - Seasoned Lovers (with Ron Sexsmith) (MP3)
from Victoria Day on Six Shooter Records
Moby - Shot in the Back of the Head
from Wait For Me on Mute
Amy Speace - The Killer in Me (MP3)
from The Killer in Me on Wildflower Records
Wilco - Wilco (The Song)
from Wilco (The Album) on Nonesuch
Wu-Tang Clan - Kill Too Hard feat. Inspectah Deck, U-God & Masta Ace
from Chamber Music on KOCH Records
New album by Dinosaur Jr.! Not much more needs to be said about that. It should be on top of everyone’s CD stack this week. Never mind the bad band names on the rest — Lord Cut-Glass, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Amazing Baby, Spinnerette, Deer Tick, Sunset Rubdown, Pete Yorn (sorry, Pete!) — there’s actually a lot a great music landing in record stores today. Lord Cut-Glass, for instance, is former Delgados frontman Alun Woodward; God Help the Girl is a bunch of songs penned by Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian and sung by a variety of female vocalists; and you probably already know that Sunset Rubdown is a project of Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug. Deer Tick’s latest fits right in there with The Godfather, Part 2, and The Empire Strikes Back as one of those sophomore efforts that surpasses an already great original. Tom Brosseau, Foreign Born, The Antlers (remastered), Future of the Left, Patterson Hood, Hockey, Tortoise, and Regina Spektor are other artists of high interest this week. Grab Largeheared Boy’s list as you head out to your local record shop, but not until you’ve checked out these fine tunes:
Amazing Baby - Headdress
from Rewild on Shangrila Music
The Antlers - Two (MP3)
from Hospice (remastered) on FrenchKiss Records
The Bats - Castle Light (MP3)
from The Guilty Office on Hidden Agenda Records
Blue Roses - I Am Leaving (MP3)
from Blue Roses on XL
Tom Brosseau - You Don’t Know My Friends (MP3)
from Posthumous Success on Fat Cat Records
Budos Band - The Proposition (MP3)
from Budos Band EP on Daptone Records
Kendel Carson - Lady K (MP3)
from Alright Dynamite on Trainwreck Records
Caitlin Crosby - Imperfect Is the New Perfect (MP3)
from Flawz on Blackledge Music
Deer Tick - Easy (MP3)
from Born on Flag Day on Partisan Records
Dinosaur Jr. - I Want You to Know (MP3)
from Farm on Jagjaguwar
Foreign Born - Early Warnings (MP3)
from Person To Person on Secretly Canadian
Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea (MP3)
from Travels With Myself And Another on 4AD
God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night (MP3)
from God Help the Girl on Matador Records
A Hawk And A Hacksaw - I Am Not A Gambling Man
from Délivrance on the Leaf Label
Hermit Thrushes - Push (MP3)
from Slight Fountain on Joyful Noise Recordings
Patterson Hood - Pollyanna (MP3)
from Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs) on Ruth St. Records
Donny Hue and the Colors - I Speak of the Hayseed Cousins (MP3)
from Letter from New Virginia on The Kora Records
Lord Cut-Glass - Even Jesus Couldn’t Love You (MP3)
from Lord Cut-Glass on Chemikal Underground
Brian Olive - There Is Love (MP3)
from Brian Olive on Alive Records
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20 (MP3)
from The Phenomenal Handclap Band on Friendly Fire Recordings
Reverie Sound Review - Arrows (MP3)
from Reverie Sound Review on Boompa Records
Royal City - A Belly Was Made For Wine (MP3)
from Royal City on Asthmatic Kitty
Regina Spektor - Laughing With
from Far on Sire Records
Spinnerette - Rebellious Palpitations (MP3)
from Spinnerette on Anthem Records
Sunset Rubdown - Idiot Heart (MP3)
from Dragonslayer on Jagjaguwar
Luke Top - Friends (MP3)
from Friends on Slow Death Records
Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin (MP3)
from Beacons of Ancestorship on Thrill Jockey
Larry Jon Wilson - Me With No You (MP3)
from Larry Jon Wilson on Drag City
Pete Yorn - Don’t Wanna Cry
from Back and Forth on Columbia
Zonora Point - Huachita Rica (Douster Remix) (MP3)
from ZZK Sound Vol. 2 on Nacional Records
Barely a week before AthFest, Athen’s Georgia Theatre was destroyed by fire last Friday. The iconic venue was one of the music spots in town and hosted everyone from John Mayer to Drive-By Truckers, R.E.M. to Ghostface Killah. A saddened Wilmot Greene, the owner of the theater who was in the midst of renovations, was quoted to say: “Even if the insurance pays for it and we can rebuild, it’ll never be the same. They don’t build them like that anymore.” The festival will continue on without the historic venue.
All Tomorrow’s Parties has just announced the new festival, 10 Years Of ATP, to celebrate the series’ 10th anniversary, on December 11-13, the weekend after the Nightmare Before Christmas ATP event. Scheduled so far for the event: Explosions In The Sky, Shellac, Tortoise, Melvins, Dirty Three, Fuck Buttons, Deerhoof, and many more. Tickets on sale today.
Jarvis Cocker, Fatboy Slim, The Kooks, The View and others are blue for climate change. As part of a new Oxfam campaign, the Glastonbury performing artists are asking fans attending festivals this year to help raise awareness of global climate change by painting themselves blue. Little Boots, one of the participating artists, says, “Go blue, demand that the Prime Minister takes the lead in protecting the people of this beautiful planet and kiss goodbye to climate change.”
There’s no vindication to be had for the mother of two found liable of copyright infringement back in 2007 and fined $222,000. A second jury thought Jammie Thomas-Rasset should actually pay record companies $1.92 million instead, that’s $80,000 for each of the 24 songs she illegally downloaded via peer-to-peer file sharing… that’s $80,000 for Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.”
Here’s something you can download for free! Noah and The Whale are offering the title track to their upcoming album, The First Days of Spring, “with absolutely no restrictions of access.” Enjoy.
Two very DIY labels are putting together two days of terrific bands in Brooklyn on July 3rd and 4th. The lineup for the Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival at Broadway Backyard was just announced and features Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, Blank Dogs, Thee Oh Sees, Woods, caUSE co-MOTION! and Kurt Vile, among others.
New albums are in the works for Kings of Convenience, Islands, and Air. Simian Mobile Disco is due to release their second album, Temporary Pleasure, in August and have just debuted the first video from it: “Audacity of Huge” featuring Chris Keating of Yeasayer:
Jack White continues his quest to usurp James Brown’s title of “hardest working man in show business.” While a White Stripes documentary is in the works, his latest project, The Dead Weather, is about to release their debut album in a few weeks and commence touring (Paramount Theatre on August 20). But that’s not all! He’s also recently opened Third Man Records as a combined store, studio and office space. Third Man will release the new album. The Dead Weather was on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien this weekend and performed “Hang You From the Heavens”:
Speaking of stellar late night talk show performances, there’s a lot to keep you home at night this week: Sonic Youth, Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop with the Brighton Port Authority, aka Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, Dinosaur Jr., Wilco, Grizzly Bear, Pheonix, the list keeps going! Cancel all your plans! … but there’s one you’re going to want to keep coming up, and that’s the KEXP BBQ. One of these bands will be announced soon as the headliner! You’ll never guess which!
Monday, June 22
David Letterman: Iggy Pop & the Brighton Port Authority
Conan O’Brien: Pete Yorn
Jimmy Fallon: Sonic Youth
Last Call: Black Kids (R 5/7/09)
Tuesday, June 23
Conan O’Brien: Elvis Costello
Jimmy Fallon: Iggy Pop & the Brighton Port Authority
Wednesday, June 24
David Letterman: St. Vincent
Conan O’Brien: Wilco
Jimmy Fallon: The Roots
Tavis Smiley: Femi Kuti
Thursday, June 25
Jimmy Fallon: Dinosaur Jr.
Friday, June 26
David Letterman: Regina Spektor
Late Late Show: Chairlift
Jimmy Fallon: Grizzly Bear
Jimmy Kimmel: Phoenix
No blockbusters out this week, but there is a little bit of something for everybody to rock out with: there’s Nickodemus and Major Lazer for a bit of groove; for The Builders and the Butchers, Ha Ha Tonka and Rock Plaza Central for some countrified rock; Cassettes Won’t Listen for electro pop; The Legends and Magic Wands for reverb-laden pop; and then, there’s Spinal Tap for something somewhat like epic! A highlight for sure is the second full-length by Tiny Masters of Today — siblings Ivan and Ada, aged 15 and 13 respectively — who wrote, produced and recorded much of the album themselves! Check out the rest on Largehearted Boy’s list, sample a few tracks below, and rock on over to your favorite record store.
Asva - A Trap for Judges (MP3)
from What You Don’t Know Is Frontier on Southern Records
The Builders and the Butchers - Barcelona (MP3)
from Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well on Gigantic
Cassettes Won’t Listen - Into the Hillside (MP3)
from Into the Hillside (self-released)
Ha Ha Tonka - Walking on the Devil’s Backbone (MP3)
from Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South on Bloodshot Records
The Honey Brothers - Demonstration (MP3)
from Demonstration EP on Velour Music Group
The Legends - Always the Same (MP3)
from Over and Over on Labrador Records
Kim Lenz - Touch Me (MP3)
from It’s All True! on Riley Records
Magic Wands - Black Magic (L’amour la Morgue remix) (MP3)
from Magic Love & Dreams EP on Bright Antenna Records
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (MP3)
from Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do on Downtown Records
Corbin Murdoch - Dessous Les Paves, La Plage (MP3)
from Wartime Lovesong on Jericho Beach Music
Nickodemus - Sun Children (MP3)
from Sun People on Eighteenth Street Lounge
Rock Plaza Central - (Don’t You Believe in the Words of) Handsome Men (MP3)
from At the Moment of Our Most Needing on Paper Bag Records
Sally Shapiro - Miracle (MP3)
from Miracle on Paper Bag Records
Spinal Tap - Rock N Roll Creation
promo for Back from the Dead on The Label Industry Records
Tiny Masters of Today - Skeletons (MP3)
from Skeletons on Mute
The most anticipated album this week for KEXP listeners has to be The Eternal by Sonic Youth, who are headlining the mainstage at the Capitol Hill Block Party. KEXP is proud to sponsor this event especially when the lineup just gets better every year, so get your tickets now! Other notable releases this week come from Dirty Projectors, Deerhunter, Mos Def, Busdriver, Miike Snow (yesterday’s Song of the Day), Kasabian, Placebo, and Rhett Miller (of Old 97’s).We’ve been playing The Features‘ album for a while on KEXP and even had them perform during our broadcast from SXSW, but they’re finally getting a proper release. And Nacional put together a fantastic soundtrack to Rudo y Cursi, a Mexican film about brothers from a small village with big dreams of soccer stardom, featuring Juana Molina, Devendra Banhart, Nortec Collective, The Black Lips, among others, and Gael Garcia Bernal singing a Spanish version of Cheap Trick’s “I Want You to Want Me.” Check it out:
Hombre Lobo, the seventh studio album from Eels, hits stores this week. While each album seems, to fans at least, a momentous event, the album subtitled “12 Songs of Desire,” is part of a prolific body of work from Mark Oliver Everett, including soundtracks, live albums, discs of rarities, live DVDs, an autobiography, and even a documentary about his own life. Other highlights include the latest from old time punkers New York Dolls and Iggy Pop, not quite as old but still pretty well established punkers Rancid, and veteran songwriter Elvis Costello, who’s countrified new album of mostly new songs is produced by T Bone Burnett, an man known to reinvigorate lots of other old timers. Perhaps the most exciting release for the grayhaired rockers and newer fans alike, though, is the first volume of the Neil Young Archives available in a variety of forms: 8 audio discs, 10 DVDs, or 10 Blu Ray discs, ranging from $100-$300. Notable posthumous releases are available from J Dilla and Jeff Buckley, whose masterwork Grace is reconstructed through live recordings from around the world. Also, out this week is Lee Fields‘ My World, from Stones Throw imprint Truthe & Soul. Fields, who has been “rediscovered” several times since he started recording funk records in the 70’s, is due for another fresh look from funk, blues, soul, and hip hop fans alike. Newer to the scene but well worth checking out are the new albums from Brasstronaut, Deastro and So Many Dynamos. Check out the rest on Largehearted Boy’s list and sample the songs below before heading out to your favorite music purveyor.
Diane Birch - Nothing But A Miracle
from Bible Belt on S-Curve Records
Brasstronaut - Requiem for a Scene
from Old World Lies EP on Unfamiliar Records
Jeff Buckley - DVD trailer
from Grace: Around the World on Sony
Caledonia - We Are America (MP3)
from We Are America (self-released)
Deastro - Parallelogram (MP3)
from Moondagger on Ghostly International
Eels - Fresh Blood
from Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire on Vagrant Records
Lee Fields & The Expressions - Ladies (MP3)
from My World on Truth & Soul Records
Gorillaz - The Sneeze
from Bananaz (DVD) on EMI
Hoots & Hellmouth - Known for Possession (MP3)
from The Holy Open Secret on Mad Dragon Records
Melissa McClelland - Glen Rio (MP3)
from Victoria Day on Six Shooter Records
Morakestra - Tell You Something (MP3)
from Witness To Connection! on Stratking Records
Iggy Pop - King of the Dogs
from Preliminaires on Astralwerks
Rancid - Last One To Die
from Let the Dominoes Fall on Epitaph Records
Boris Skalsky - Bright Eyes Gone (MP3)
from First Songs EP (self-released)
So Many Dynamos - New Bones (MP3)
from The Loud Wars on Vagrant Records
The Sounds - Dorchester Hotel (MP3)
from Crossing The Rubicon on Original Signal
Neil Young - Dance Dance Dance (stream)
from Neil Young Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 on Reprise Records
Zeus - Marching Through Your Head (MP3)
from Sounds Like Zeus EP on Arts & Crafts
James Blackshaw, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Wand (aka James Toth of Wooden Wand), Sir Richard Bishop, Bachelorette, Sharon Van Etten… what’s everybody smoking these days? This week’s list of new releases contains a kind stash of of avant folk and psychedelia. Even perhaps the most anticipated album this week, Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest, fits in nicely with this hazy bunch. Other great releases this week come from Phoenix, Viva Voce, The Intelligence, Naomi Shelton, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Dave Alvin, Joyo Velarde (debuting solo from her usually work with Lyrics Born), and James Yuill, who will be live today on KEXP at 3PM! Crib a sheet from Largehearted Boy and head out to your favorite record dealer:
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women - Nana and Jimi (MP3)
from Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women on Yep Roc Records
Dave Alvin & Various Artists - Frank’s Tavern (feat. Calexico) (MP3)
from Man of Somebody’s Dreams: A Tribute To Chris Gaffney on Yep Roc Records
Bachelorette - Mindwarp (MP3)
from My Electric Family on Drag City
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise (MP3)
from Eating Us on Graveface
James Blackshaw - Cross (MP3)
from The Glass Bead Game on Young God Records
Correatown - Green Cotton Dress (MP3)
from Spark. Burn. Fade on Another Room Music
The Decks - Skeleton (MP3)
from Breath and Bone on Cass Records
Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader (MP3)
from Veckatimist on Warp
The Intelligence - Thank You God for Fixing the Tape Machine (MP3)
from Fake Surfers on In The Red
Loxsly - Battalions (MP3)
from Tomorrow’s Fossils on Little Mafia Records
Opsvik & Jennings - September and Starry Eyed (MP3)
from A Dream I Used to Remember on Loyal Label
The pAper chAse - What Should We Do With Your Body (The Lightning) (MP3)
from Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 on Kill Rock Stars
Phoenix - Lisztomania (MP3)
from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix on Glassnote
Naomi Shelton - What Have You Done (MP3)
from What Have You Done, My Brother? on Daptone Records
Sir Richard Bishop - Kaddak el Mayass (MP3)
from The Freak of Araby on Drag City
Paul “Snowflake” Taylor - Share It (MP3)
from Share It! on Makeshift Records
Tiga - Mind Dimension (MP3)
from Ciao! on Last Gang Records
Sharon Van Etten - For You (MP3)
from Because I Was in Love on Drag City
Joyo Velarde - Take You Home (MP3)
from Joyo Velarde EP on Quannum Projects
Viva Voce - Devotion (MP3)
from Rose City on Barsuk
Wand - Arriving (MP3)
from Hard Knox or, “Are You Sure Hank Jr. Done it This Way?” on Ecstatic Peace
War Tapes - Dreaming of You (MP3)
from Continental Divide on Sarathan Records
James Yuill - No Pins Allowed
from Turning Down Water For Air on Netwerk Music
Zap Mama - Hello To Mama
from ReCreation on Heads Up Records
This week, John Vanderslice finally releases his latest, Romanian Names, which he previewed live on KEXP in Berkeley a few months ago. He’ll be back live on KEXP this Friday, May 22, at 2PM to perform more songs from the album.
Among the most anticipated releases, around this station at least, are Apostle of Hustle, Passion Pit, Jason Lytle (formerly of Grandaddy), Jarvis Cocker, Tori Amos, and White Rabbits. Other strong contenders for your weekly wages, whose previous albums you’re likely to have heard on KEXP, include Au Revoir Simone, The Field, Federico Aubele, Jeffrey Lewis, and a 2-disc collection of rarities from Iron & Wine. If you’re looking for something new, try the self-titled debut from Malaysian-born singer Zee Avi, whose sweet voice recalls Nora Jones and Regina Spektor at times. For other outstanding female voices, try Headless Heroes, which features Alela Diane on vocals, and British songwriter Polly Scattergood, who also debuts with a self-titled release. Check out the rest on Largehearted Boy’s list and preview these fine tracks:
Tori Amos - Welcome To England
from Abnormally Attracted to Sin on Universal Republic Records
Apostle of Hustle - Perfect Fit (MP3)
from Eats Darkness on Arts & Crafts
Au Revoir Simone - All or Nothing (MP3)
from Still Night, Still Light on Our Secret Record Co.
Federico Aubele - album preview
of Amatoria on Eighteenth Street Lounge
Zee Avi - Bitter Heart (MP3)
from Zee Avi on Brushfire Records
Scott H. Biram - Judgment Day (MP3)
from Something Wrong/Lost Forever on Bloodshot Records
Clues - Remember Severed Head (MP3)
from Clues on Constellation
Jarvis Cocker - Angela (MP3)
from Further Complications on Rough Trade
The Daredevil Christopher Wright - The East Coast (MP3)
from In Deference To A Broken Back on Amble Down Records
Divisadero - The Boxer’s Daughter (MP3)
from Lefty on JAXART
Ear Pwr - Future Eyes (MP3)
from Super Animal Brothers III on Carpark Records
Faux Haux - Foxworthy (digital bonus track) (MP3)
from Your Friends Will Carry You Home on Polyvinyl Records
The Flying Change - The Broken Bow (MP3)
from Pain Is a Reliable Signal on Scarlet Shame Records
Headless Heroes (feat. Alela Diane) - True Love Will Find You in the End (MP3)
from Silence of Love on Headless Heroes/World’s Fair
Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger (MP3)
from Around the Well on Sub Pop
Jeffrey Lewis - Slogans (MP3)
from Em Are I on Rough Trade
Like Bells - Atlas (MP3)
from Like Bells on Exit Stencil
Jason Lytle - I Am Lost
from Yours Truly, The Commuter on Anti-
Monahans - It’s Enough To Leave You… (MP3)
from Dim the Aurora on Misra
Pale Air Singers - Convict Escapes (MP3)
from Pale Air Singers on Flemish Eye
Passion Pit - Moth’s Wings (MP3)
from Manners on French Kiss
Polly Scattergood - Please Don’t Touch
from Polly Scattergood on Mute
John Vanderslice - Fetal Horses (MP3)
from Romanian Names on Dead Oceans
The Warlocks - Red Camera (MP3)
from The Mirror Explodes on Tee Pee Records
White Rabbits - Percussion Gun (MP3)
from It’s Frightening on TBD Records
Jeremy Enigk, formerly/currently(?) of Sunny Day Real Estate and The Fire Theft, and a long time supporter of KEXP, is releasing his third, and quite excellent, full-length solo album today. You can check out Jeremy’s performance exclusively for KEXP on the Morning Show, Thursday at 8AM, and then later that night at Neumos. For both performances, he’ll be joined by the 15-piece Seattle Rock Orchestra.
Jim Bennett
Another must-have this week is Steve Earle’s new album, Townes, which collects 15 songs written by his mentor and friend, the late Townes Van Zandt. Fortunately for us, Earle was kind enough to preview the songs live on KEXP this past Sunday.
Other releases you should drop in your shopping basket this week include Maximo Park, The Church, The Crystal Method, Meat Puppets, and The Wooden Birds, a project featuring American Analog Set frontman Andrew Kenny. Grab the list from Largehearted Boy and take a quick listen to these sample tracks before you head out to your favorite record store!
Bricolage - Turn U Over (MP3)
from Bricolage on Slumberland Records
Casper & The Cookies - Little King (MP3)
from Modern Silence on Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records
Children - Power Spirit (MP3)
from Hard Times Hanging at the End of the World on Kemado Records
The Crystal Method - Drown In The Now (feat Matisyahu)
from Divided by Night on INgrooves
The Datsuns - Human Error
from Head Stunts on Hellsquad Records
Steve Earle - To Live Is to Fly (Townes Van Zandt cover) (MP3)
from Townes on New West
Jeremy Enigk - Life’s Too Short (MP3)
from OK Bear on Lewis Hollow Recordings
The Faraway Places - The Sun Goes West (MP3)
from Out of the Rain, the Thunder & the Lightning on Save It Records
Hill Country Revue - Alice Mae (MP3)
from Make a Move on Razor & Tie
The Late Call - Linnea (MP3)
from Leaving Notes on Tapete Records
Lewis & Clarke - Petrified Forest (MP3)
from Light Time on La Société Expéditionnaire
Maximo Park - The Kids Are Sick Again
from Quicken the Heat on Warp Records
Meat Puppets - Rotten Shame (MP3)
from Sewn Together on Megaforce Records
Photons - Where Were You last Night? (MP3)
from Glory! EP (self-released)
Trainwreck Riders - Chug Along (MP3)
from The Perch on Alive Records
The Wooden Birds - False Alarm (MP3)
from Magnolia on Barsuk
The new Conor Oberst album, billed with his “Mystic Valley Band,” hits stores today. If you didn’t get a chance to hear the album streaming on NPR Music last week, you can sample it below — and it will be featured as our Song of the Day podcast tomorrow, so stay tuned. And while you’re picking that up, be sure to grab the latest from the excellent Portland electro-pop group Starfucker, plus other worthwhile releases from a wildly diverse group this week: Akron/Family, NOMO, Fischerspooner, The Horrors, St. Vincent, Magik Markers, Pink Mountaintops, New York Dolls, Ben Harper, Peaches, and a soundtrack by British Sea Power. Sub Pop is reissuing Enter the Vaselines just in time for The Vaselines‘ Seattle appearance next week at Neumos! Take a copy of Largehearted Boy’s list along with and visit your friendly neighborhood record shop.
Cinco de Mayo bonus: write in before 2PM tomorrow (5/6) for your chance to win a free vinyl copy of Coming From Reality, the latest reissue of Rodriguez from Seattle’s own Light in the Attic. (Fun fact: Rodriquez was born and bred in Detroit, but his parents immigrated from Mexico in the 1920’s.)
And The Moneynotes - On the Vine (MP3)
from On The Town, On The Vine EP on Prairie Queen Records
British Sea Power - Come Wander With Me (MP3)
from Man of Aran (soundtrack) on Rough Trade
Buckwheat Zydeco - Ninth Place (MP3)
from Lay Your Burden Down on Alligator Records
The Coast - Tightrope (MP3)
from Expatriate on Afternoon Records
Double Dagger - The Lie, The Truth (MP3)
from More on Thrill Jockey
Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas (MP3)
from Elephant Stone on Elephants On Parade
Foma - Seraphim Succubi (MP3)
from Inverness (self-relesed)
Naomi Greenwald - Lonesome (MP3)
from Naomi Greenwald (self-released)
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Shimmer & Shine
from White Lies For Dark Times on Virgin Records
Jon Hopkins - Light Through The Veins
from Insides on Domino
The Horrors - Sea Within a Sea
from Primary Colours on XL
Ice Palace - Thoughts/Facts (MP3)
from Wonder Subtly Crushing Us on Earthology
Isis - 20 Minutes/40 Years (MP3)
from Wavering Radiant on Ipecac Recordings
Lot 49 - Exponents (MP3)
from Lonely Planet (self-released)
Magik Markers - Don’t Talk in Your Sleep (MP3)
from Balf Quarry on Drag City
Middle Class Rut - Busy Bein’ Born (MP3)
from 25 Years on Bright Antenna
Mika Miko - I Got A Lot (New New New) (MP3)
from We Be Xuxa on Post Present Medium
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Nikorette (MP3)
from Outer South on Merge
Tara Jane O’Neil - Drowning (MP3)
from A Ways Away on K Records
Other Girls - Hey Fella! You Fell (MP3)
from Perfect Cities on Audio Eagle Records
Our Brother the Native - All Grown (MP3)
from Sacred Psalms on Fat Cat Records
Peaches - Talk to Me (MP3)
from I Feel Cream on XL
Alasdair Roberts - Hazel Forks (MP3)
from Spoils on Drag City
Shout Out Out Out Out - How Do I Maintain Pt. 2 (MP3)
from Reintegration Time on Normals Welcome Records
St. Vincent - The Strangers (MP3)
from Actor on 4AD
Starfucker - Medicine (MP3)
from Jupiter on Badman Recording Co
Christopher Tignor - Cathedral, Pt. 2 (MP3)
from Core Memory Unwound on Western Vinyl
The Vaselines - Son of a Gun (MP3)
from Enter the Vaselines (remastered) on Sub Pop
Patrick Watson & the Wooden Arms - Man Like You (MP3)
from Wooden Arms on Secret City Records
The Western States - Time to Lose (MP3)
from Bye and Bye on Dollartone Records
Yoshida Brothers - Seven (MP3)
from Prism on Domo Records
