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July 14, 2009
Dodos respond (on video) to album leak, stream new album
DOWNLOAD: The Dodos - Fables (MP3)
The Dodos @ Studio B (more by Ryan Muir)
"So the Dodos record leaked last week. After the band found out, they wanted to allow fans a legal, easy way to hear the album. So we've launched a website where the full album is streaming (@ 320kbps), and fans can pre-order their copy, get free downloads, etc. Physical release dates are staying the same, but the digital dates are moving up considerably. The album will be available digitally on July 28th in the US (exclusively at Amazon MP3 for one week, then everywhere else the week after), and July 27th in the UK. The price of the record at Amazon MP3 during its first day of availability will be insanely low."All tour dates HERE. Now crack open a cold Miller Chill and check out the new album and/or their video message below...
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May 13, 2009
Stream the new Wilco album ("Wilco")
Wilco is streaming their new album "Wilco".
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Yo La Tengo and Wilco are playing Coney Island. Wilco is also playing many other places. Wilco recently played New Orleans Jazz Fest.
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January 5, 2009
Andrew Bird - new album stream, in the NY Times, Carnegie Hall instead of Radio City & hype
At 35, Bird has spent almost 15 years working relentlessly for the sort of exposure he now seems poised to enjoy. "Six years ago, when I was still struggling, I just wanted to go anywhere in the world and play for 300 people," he says.Andrew's new album Noble Beast is now streaming at NPR.And yet when I first met Bird a couple of weeks before the Hideout show, he didn't have the air of an underappreciated artist finally about to be given his due. On the contrary, he seemed worried about losing control over a career that he is accustomed to micromanaging. He wondered, for instance, if "Noble Beast" was perhaps being promoted too aggressively. Bird's publicist had wanted him to play one of the first shows on his coming tour at Radio City Music Hall (capacity: 6,000). Bird was concerned that it was too big a venue, that he might fail to make a connection with the audience and that things could easily spiral downward from there. They compromised on Carnegie Hall, which seats about 3,000.
"A lot of bands get hyped and go from playing for no one to playing for thousands of people, most of whom are standing there with their arms folded saying, 'O.K., are you really as good as everyone says you are?' " Bird told me. "I've never had to deal with that. I've gotten here by winning one person at a time."
[Sunday's NY Times Magazine]
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August 18, 2008
Purely Decadent coconut milk mint chip 'frozen dessert'!
Every once in a whle I post about food. This is the best thing to happen in the vegan dessert industry since the peanut butter bomb. You can eat it while streaming new albums by Laura Marling, Lykke Li, The Walkmen and Death Vessel (that last sentence was an attempt at bringin' it back to music in the end).
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July 30, 2008
the Walkmen - new album stream, a good cause, tour dates
by Black Bubblegum
DOWNLOAD: The Walkmen - In the New Year (new MP3)
Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen @ Langerado 2008 (stevemoyles)
The swooning sounds of Ham & The Walkmen return with You & Me, due August 19th - the same day as the last of their two-night stay at the Bowery Ballroom (tickets are still available for the 8/18 and 8/19 shows). You & Me marks their return to the old school, the reemergence of The Walkmen of Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone and Bows + Arrows, and me definitely likey.
Judge yourself though..... one of two ways! You & Me is currently streaming at AOL (along with the new Dr. Dog, Takka Takka, and others) and/or you can pick it up NOW at Amiestreet for a paltry $5 and ALL of the proceeds go toward the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center! Great album, great cause... no brainer to me.
Both Bowery Ballrom shows are with The Muslims. All, updated, tour dates below...
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July 15, 2008
Cut Copy & The Presets - some 2008 Tour Dates & stuff
Cut Copy @ Bowery Ballroom (more by Bao Nguyen)
The official release of the Cut Copy single 'Hearts on Fire', taken from their sophomore record, In Ghost Colours, is out this week in the USA. As for remixes, we [Modular] asked The Midnight Juggernauts, Knightlife, Calvin Harris, Holy Ghost! and former touring bassist, JP Shilo to rework the track, and they all came back with thumping throwdowns.Tickets go on sale Wednesday for two Cut Copy / Presets shows at Webster Hall in September. (update: not on sale yet. dates removed for now) The dates are part of a TBA tour thatThe latest eye-widening and mind-altering single from The Presets, "This Boy's In Love" will be release digitally Stateside this Summer with remixes from the workshops of Jori Hulkkonen, Zombie Nation, Lifelike, Kevin Saunderson and a rerub by The Presets' K.I.M himself.
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June 21, 2008
The Baseball Project = Steve Wynn & Scott McCaughey - album stream & Letterman video (starring Peter Buck)
DOWNLOAD: The Baseball Project - Past Time (MP3)
The Baseball Project (photo by Vivian Johnson)
What happens when two great songwriters decide to focus their talents upon their favorite sport? You get the highly entertaining debut disc from The Baseball Project, Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails. The album is the brainchild of Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3) and Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, Minus 5, and R.E.M). The two musicians were longtime fans of each other's work throughout the 80s but never met until the early 90s. Wynn recalls, "I honestly think the first time we met was side-by-side at the urinals at the Offramp in Seattle when I played there in 1992." He adds, "Scott didn't try to shake my hand."Stream the entire album now courtesy of Yep Roc. It will be in stores on July 8th. They performed on Letterman last night with drummer Linda Pitmon and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck as the rest of their band. Peter performed at Madison Square Garden a day earlier. Watch the Letterman video below....
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June 10, 2008
stream the new Hold Steady ("Stay Positive")
The Hold Steady's new album isn't out until July 15th, but they posted the whole thing to MySpace. They play McCarren Pool on June 29th (thx Ray).
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June 9, 2008
Steinski Retrospective - full illegal album stream & MP3s
Speaking of Illegal Art, I think it's about time for some Steinski love....
DOWNLOAD: Steinski - The Payoff Mix (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Steinski - Lesson Two (James Brown Mix) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Steinski - Lesson Three (History of Hip Hop) (MP3)
For decades, cult hero Steinski has reigned as an underground legend of the truest sort. Thanks to the nasty killjoy known as copyright law, Steinski's wildly influential old-school sound collages (known as "Lessons") have been furtively passed from DJ to DJ and hip-hop head to hip-hop head without receiving a legal release. Hell must have frozen over, because Steinski has finally gone semi-legit with Illegal Arts' awesomely essential two-disc career retrospective, What Does It All Mean? [Onion AV Club]"From DJ Shadow to Girl Talk to Cut Chemist and beyond, artists large and small have tipped their sonic hats in his direction." [WIRED]
Check it out. Stream the whole album for free.
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June 8, 2008
stream the new Sigur Ros album
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Tickets to see Sigur Ros at MoMA go on sale Tuesday - the same day that M.I.A. is playing there. (thx Dayna)
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