DOWNLOAD: Real Estate - Beach Comber (MP3)

Real Estate @ Brooklyn Bowl in August (more by Oren Loloi)

Real Estate have only been around short time, but it seems like hardly a week goes by without a show from the band or one of its member's solo projects (Ducktails, Predator Vision, etc.). They'll finally get around to releasing their debut LP, a self-titled record, on November 17th on the Woodsist label. The first track from that is posted above and two other "album versions" are up on their Myspace.

Real Estate play a tour send-off/Showpaper benefit on October 14th at Monster Island Basement with Big Troubles and Honeydos. The tour in question is a short jaunt down South, before they return for a slew of CMJ-related shows. The first of those happen October 21st at Pianos and Santos (the later of which is an Oh My Rockness party with The Drums and others). Their other CMJ gigs include an Underwater Peoples showcase at The Delancey, a Death & Taxes show at Glasslands on October 22nd with Japandroids (one of many CMJ gigs for that band) and a Mexican Summer/Kemado Showcase at Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 24th. Joining them at MHOW will be Farmer Dave Scher (his first in NYC since opening for Jenny Lewis in June), Young Prisms, The Smith Westerns who have other CMJ shows TBA), and The Amazing, a Swedish group with members of the Kemado-signed Dungen, Anna Jarvinen and Sagor & Swing (streaming tracks at their MySpace). Tickets for that Music Hall show are on sale.

One artist who's not playing that show or any CMJ shows at all is Washed Out (Georgia's Ernest Greene). He'll play just one NYC show (his second live show ever) one day before CMJ at Santos Party House on October 19th with Restless People. Tickets are on sale. I tried to get him to open the BrooklynVegan CMJ show at Music Hall on October 20th (one day later), but he said he can't even stay in town that long due to personal commitments back home.

Restless People features members of Professor Murder (and Tanlines). Listen to their first single "Victimless Crime", HERE. The Santos show will be their first show.

Rising, Breaking, Band to Watch vs Bear, Washed Out (the next Neon Indian even), though fairly new to the scene, already appears on a free Outfitters compilation that also includes tracks by Girls, Vivian Girls, A Place to Bury Strangers, No Age, Le Loup, Rain Machine, The xx, The Very Best, Kurt Vile and The Dodos (who have two NYC shows this week). Washed Out's "Life of Leisure" 12" is out on Mexican Summer now.

One day after CMJ (10/25), Real Estate play a 1:00PM NYC show just for kids (Kidrockers) at The Living Room with... Neon Indian. Tickets are on sale ("Adults must be accompanied by a kid and vice versa").

Real Estate will follow up their CMJ with a November tour with Girls. That hits Maxwell's on November 2nd and Bowery Ballroom on November 6th. Real Estate album, tour dates and flyers below...

Continue reading "Washed Out's NYC debut (& 2nd show ever), Real Estate's LP, tour dates & CMJ (Mexican Summer showcase, Kidrockers) "

Yacht @ SXSW 2008 (more by Ryan Muir)

pop experimentalists YACHT (a.k.a. Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans) have just signed with DFA to release their new single, "Summer Song," available now digitally via itunes and on 12" vinyl. The single comes with two other sparkling fresh tracks: "I'm In Love With A Ripper (Party Mix)" and "It's Boring/You Can Live Anywhere You Want."

Keep a lookout for YACHT's forthcoming full-length, See Mystery Lights, out in 2009 on DFA

Continue reading "Yacht signs to DFA (video), free Free Blood show tonight"

DOWNLOAD: Professor Murder - Camron's New Color (Murderbot's Paradise Garage Pill Salesman's Dub) (non-EP MP3)

“Flex-It Formula” is the debut single from the band's new, completely free, EP Professor Murder on a Desert Island, the four-piece’s first release for the online-only RCRD LBL imprint. Produced by the Brothers (!!!, Telepathe, Free Blood), "Flex-It Formula" is available for free and legal download only at RCRD LBL.com.....................Over the upcoming weeks, more free tracks from the EP will be unveiled, as well as other cool bits including podcast interviews with the band and more surprises tba......

DOWNLOAD: Professor Murder - That's How They Getcha (Chinkuzi Riddim version) (MP3)

King Oppression @ The Hideout, Chicago - July 15, 2007 (CRED)

me: (to Jesse from Professor Murder) Would you like to play my late night "DANCE" party at 205 on Saturday October 20th?

Jesse: We actually have a side project called "King Oppression" that might be great. Basically we sing p murder songs over other people's beats. setup is a laptop, sampler, and two mics.

me: hmmm...

someone who works with P Murder: They did that at an afterparty I had during Pitchfork Festival and it was pretty awesome. Musically it's them doing all PMurder songs over rap and dancehall beats... instead of the full live instrument set it'd be drum machine, laptop and some live percussion. I'm sure you've heard their "Chinkuzi Riddim" version of "That's How They Getcha" (MP3 above). They played that and it is perhaps the best aural description of King Oppression. The crowd at the party here wouldn't let them leave without an encore so they played "That's How They Getcha" twice.

me: ok let's do it

The song....

DOWNLOAD: Girl Talk mashes Grizzly Bear & Clipse (MP3)

And now the picture...

Clipse, Grizzly Bear, & Girl Talk backstage @ Pitchfork 2007

* Pitchfork Music Festival 2007: Friday
* Pitchfork Music Festival 2007: Saturday
* Pitchfork Music Festival 2007: Sunday

Continue reading "Dan Deacon w/ Girl Talk w/ Clipse w/ Grizzly Bear w/ Professor Murder, etc"

DOWNLOAD: Caps & Jones + Professor Murder - Mixed Tape (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Professor Murder - Free Stress Test (streetlab remix) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Lady Sovereign - Love me or Hate Me (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Lady Sovereign - Hoodie (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Lady Sovereign - Hoodie (Spank Rock remix) (MP3)

Professor Murder & Lady Sovereign played a show at Studio B in Brooklyn this weekend, and shortly afterwards the e-mails started pouring in - I mean the Lady Sov part of the show WAS advertised as a mini-set, but this is ridiculous....

Went to go see Lady Sovereign perform at Studio B in Greenpoint. I am not sure what happened, the show started off quite well. She performed two songs and then she got on the Mic and started complaining about how poor she was, and how she had no money and then BAM! she walked off stage, much to the dismay of Studio B.????? and the entire crowd who showed up to see her.

Yo that was pathetic. I can't believe you'd diss youself so hard in Williamsburg. Don't you know that you had a crowd of about 500 tastemakers there just for you? I thought you were someone who mattered. How wrong I was. Go fuck yourself.

Lady, your days are numbered. You just flipped the bird to Williamsburg, the center of the universe. You're over sweety. [Rock Star Diary]

Last night at Studio B in Brooklyn rapper Lady Sovereign completely broke down on stage. As she was waiting to go on stage she started setting this flier on the wall on fire. She got up on stage and the first thing she said was that this was the smallest crowd she had played to in "a long time". This probably had something to do with the fact that people waited two hours for her to go on. She then played Love Me or Hate Me but she didn't sing the choruses. Then she proceeded to say she was just here for the money. She said she was broke and didn't want to go on. She was like "I don't know what I am doing, what song is next?" Then she did another song and just sort of broke down. She said that she had been playing the same songs for two years and that she was sick of it. She told the audience that we couldn't possibly understand. She then was like "fuck this, I don't care if I don't get paid" and walked off the stage after a quick talk with her DJ. It was totally surreal.

Is she for real, or is it all one big continuing psycho act. Did anyone see her show earlier in the night with Gwen Stefani?

Professor Murder also played the Studio B show. I hope their set was longer. Check out the top of this post for a brand new Professor Morder mixtape that they described to me like this:

we went to the Brothers Studio in Greenpoint and recorded lots and lots of live instrumental jams which we cut up into dozens of loops, which we sent to Caps & Jones, who used them along with other tracks and vocals and everything else to make this mix. The mix also have a preview of our single "Dutch Hex", which will be coming out sometime soon on the new Brothers Label, run out of the Brothers Studio.

As previously reported, Lady Sovereign is touring with Gwen Stefani. They play the PNC Bank Arts Center in New Jersey on May 18th. Later that night Lady Sov will make an appearance at Studio B in Brooklyn with Professor Murder and The Glass. Tickets are on sale.

Tour dates below...

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DOWNLOAD: Champion (Stars as Eyes' Is this really Peppermint?? Mix) (MP3)

DOWNLOAD: Camron's New Color (Murderbot's Paradise Garage Pill Salesman's Dub) (MP3)

It wasn't that long ago that I rounded up all known Professor Murder remixes. Now there's some more -- they're linked above for your downloading pleasure. You'll also find remixes by Caps & Jones and Mixel Pixel on the brand new vinyl release of their EP "Professor Murder Rides the Subway". There's new art too - that's it pictured above. Compare that to the old art.

And as if that wasn't all exciting enough, Professor Murder is also playing a FREE SHOW @ Hiro Ballroom in NYC on January 18th. Juan Maclean is DJing. RSVP info here.