January 2008
Video Premiere: Son Lux: "Break" →
We talked about this excellent song a few weeks ago, and Marc Hogan noted then: “Son Lux is classically trained composer Ryan Lott, the Anticon
label’s latest step away from hip-hop as it is traditionally understood
and toward greater abstraction. ‘Break’, the opening track from
forthcoming Son Lux debut album At War With Walls and Mazes,
applies underground...
Video: Shocking Pinks: "Emily" →
The video for the Shocking Pinks’ “Emily”, from the self-titled 2007 record that made my personal top 10, opens with a shot of New Zealander Nick Harte lying in bed shirtless, and he’s just as pale and thin as you’d imagine. From there we see perfectly angsty posed scenes mixed with shots of Harte strumming his guitar, looking for all the world like one of...
panda bear x new era contest →
That radical Billy Ripken-era Baltimore Orioles color-scheme fitted pictured above is a super-limited Panda Bear New Era cap, designed by Mr. Noah Lennox himself. Only 80 of these things exist, so you can either attempt to buy one for a retarded amount on eBay, or you can win one right here. I’ll make this easy for you: in the comments, tell me what you think are the best-looking team...
Video: The Death Set: "Negative Thinking" →
This is actually the second video for the Death Set’s “Negative Thinking”; like the first, it’s a low-budget affair in line with the song’s raw homemade vibe, here emphasized by framing the action in Polaroids. This clip coincides with the impending release of Worldwide, the Baltimore punkers’ forthcoming full-length debut on Ninja Tune offshoot Counter...
vampire weekend vs. styles p →
Finally a Vampire Weekend song that I can fully endorse: mp3: ABX Vampire Weekend vs. Styles P :: Punk Your Mind [via the Hood Internet]
New Music: George Pringle: "I'm Very Scared... →
The racket coming out kids’ bedrooms changes, but there will probably always be songs about having, as the Beach Boys put it, “a world where I can go and tell my secrets to.” On “I’m Very Scared Buster, Yes At Last”, Oxford, UK-based George Pringle gives a dramatic monologue about everyday youthful lovesickness over digital beats, wordless backing vocals, and a...
New Music: Day for Night: "Badlands" [MP3/Stream] →
Day for Night is named for a French New Wave film, but this
song, from their digital-only EP, shares a title with Terrence Malick’s very
American flick about spree-killer Charlie Starkweather. Such are the subtle
contradictions in this cinema-centric New York
band, which features members of now-defunct Bastion backing the Affair’s Kali
Holloway. From its epic opening chords to its...
The Builders And The Butchers →
The Builders And The Butchers are a band that I’d never checked into previous, but has caught my attention lately. I’ve been delving deeper into the smaller trinkets and treasures that might be available during a couple upcoming trips I’m planning. The Builders And The Butchers will be at both Noise Pop! 2008 and SXSW 2008, and since I hope to be at both, I thought they should...
Icing Sugar →
Since discovering The Airfields way back in Summer of 2005, it’s been a treat watching them evolve. The trip may have been slow and occasionally difficult but each signpost along the way, from the whispery 4-track under the bedcovers charm of their debut City-State through the unexpected confidence of 2006’s Laneways EP and then last year’s limited edition teaser Yr So Wonderful,...
New Music: Malcolm Middleton: "Stay" (Madonna... →
No John Mellencamp, no credibility. But Madonna? Strange as it may seem, we’re still living in a time when there are people who get truly, deeply, flaming-the-listserv- with-bile-dripping-down-their- fingertips upset about the fact that a bona fide superstar like the Material Girl will soon be inducted into the Roll and Roll Hall of Fame. Other inductions, or the by-now old-hat irony of an...
New Music: Talib Kweli (produced by Kanye West):... →
Talib Kweli getting sentimental over a Barry Manilow song? Yeah, that’s exactly what would’ve made the Brooklyn rapper’s 2007 album, Eardrum, just that extra bit better. If it helps any, Kweli’s previously unreleased “Momma Can You Hear Me” features production from Kanye West, who falls back on one of his most recognizable moves by speeding up the sound of the...
The Garden District Blues →
It seems, therefore, that the cure for being a paranoid wingnut who sees decay all around him, usually in the form of eager fornication, would be to cultivate a little humility and believe that the world will go on even after you die. -pandagon
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” Been Causing Trouble Ever Since The World Begins ”
01. Faun Fables - I’d Like To Be The Transit Rider (Drag City, 2006)
02. The Pernice Brothers...
New Music: Islands: "The Arm" [Stream] →
Photo by Kathryn Yu
“The Arm”, a new song expected to be on Islands’ forthcoming album Arm’s Way, up today on the band’s MySpace page, is a big and colorful slice of baroque pop, sorta ELO-like, with swooping strings, a rushing swell of sound on the chorus turnaround, and a suite-like structure that hints at Broadway and/or prog. On the first few listens, the thin...
Video: LCD Soundsystem: "Time to Get Away" (Live) →
It’s not labeled as such on YouTube or MySpace, but this new video for “Time to Get Away” looks have to have been filmed at the same Manchester show that brought us performance clips for “All My Friends”, “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House”, and “Tribulations”. Not sure how many of these will find their way online eventually, but they confirm...
The Big Sleep & Moldy Peaches →
The Big Sleep are a Brooklyn-based band three-piece that make some fuzz-heavy, menacing, guitar-driven rock, and they’ve been quietly amassing a load of fans and internet praise. They recently filmed a Take Away Show for La Blogotheque, and there is some serious buzz going into the release of their next album, Sleep Forever - out on Frenchkiss Records on February 19th. The album was...
New Music: Tindersticks: "The Flicker of a Little... →
Paired with the band’s name, the title “The Flicker of a
Little Girl” makes me think the members are setting young children ablaze. Fortunately,
there are no arson elements on this track from Tindersticks’ upcoming album The Lonely Saw— their first in five
years— just a laconic sound like a lonely walk under a threatening sky. The
band plays as if through a...
New Music: No Kids: "The Beaches All Closed" [MP3] →
Even for a chamber-pop group, Vancouver’s P:ano were eccentric. The unusual punctuation habits of e.e. cummings made their way into the band’s name, and their music was all over the map in a way it’s still hard to get my head around. 2005’s widely overlooked Brigadoon jumped around with the ADD of the bands briefly dubbed “hyper-prog” (Fiery Furnaces,...
New Music: No Kids: "The Beaches All Closed"... →
Even for a chamber-pop group, Vancouver’s P:ano were eccentric. The unusual punctuation habits of e.e. cummings made their way into the band’s name, and their music was all over the map in a way it’s still hard to get my head around. 2005’s widely overlooked Brigadoon jumped around with the ADD of the bands briefly dubbed “hyper-prog” (Fiery Furnaces,...
New Music: No Kids: "The Beaches Are Closed"... →
Even for a chamber-pop group, Vancouver’s P:ano were eccentric. The unusual punctuation habits of e.e. cummings made their way into the band’s name, and their music was all over the map in a way it’s still hard to get my head around. 2005’s widely overlooked Brigadoon jumped around with the ADD of the bands briefly dubbed “hyper-prog” (Fiery Furnaces,...
The Return of Yacht Rock →
During the shitty days of winter, you look for anything to get excited about. Luckily, I received a mid-winter present yesterday when I discovered a new episode of the hilarious series, Yacht Rock. For those of you not familiar with this, Yacht Rock takes us through the backstories of our favorite Yacht Rockers of the Eighties, such as Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, and Christopher Cross with...
Video: Britt Daniel: Interview on "Cooking With... →
Have you ever thought to yourself, “I wonder what kind of food Britt Daniel likes?” Me either, but we’re about to find out anyway. Appearing on the blip.tv show “Cooking With Rockstars”, Daniel talks about his sweet tooth, how he misses good Tex-Mex, and the Austin restaurant scene. He ends by describing his favorite desert: vanilla ice cream with Cinnamon Toast...
New Music: Excepter: "Stream 42" (Live in New... →
Excepter is an improv-based band, so it
makes sense that their “Streams” page— where, for the past year and a
half, they’ve been giving away unshaped heaps of synth abuse, moaning,
and dub tactics ranging from about forty-five minutes to five hours
long— contains some of their best and worst music. Half of the gesture
on the band’s part seems to be a conceptual...
Dover Street Market/Wowow Berlin →
I was contacted randomly by David from Memphis London, who seems to have the “collecting” bug like I do (as he noted when looking at my record collection, it seems that I collect mostly for the hell of it, not for the value of it:)). Memphis do a great business in hard to find amazing books and they have put together an exhibition at the Dover Street Market called...
Dover Street Market/Wowow Berlin →
I was contacted randomly by David from Memphis London, who seems to have the “collecting” bug like I do (as he noted when looking at my record collection, it seems that I collect mostly for the hell of it, not for the value of it:)). Memphis do a great business in hard to find amazing books and they have put together an exhibition at the Dover Street Market called...
Bring The Noise →
Last week, I made a vague, arm-waving attempt to round up the various outdoor festivals taking place around North America this year (and since it went up, a few dates have been updated and one fest has been cancelled) and consciously avoided including their mutli-day, club-hopping, running water-friendly brethren.
That’s because aside from the obvious big ones - SxSW and CMJ - they tend to...
paper float →
We’re longtime fans of J. Drake, aka Cassettes Won’t Listen, so we were psyched when he sent over the new single from his upcoming small-time machine EP (due out March 11). CWL will be in full effect at SXSW; I’ll keep you updated on the particulars. In the meantime, you can pre-order small-time machine here for cheap. mp3: Cassettes Won’t Listen Paper Float previously:...
new Devotchka mp3: "transliterator" →
Thanks to that Stereogum email thing for sending over the new single from Devotchka’s upcoming LP, A Mad & Faithful Telling, due out March 18 on Anti. The band will make a rare TX appearance days before the album’s release date at SXSW. mp3: Devotchka Transliterator ************************************** elsewhere: In other SXSW news, the festival just got a whole lot better: Del...
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It´s been a while since we´ve done a competition here at 24:hours so this week we´re doing a bunch of them. Today we´re giving away an exclusive 10” vinyl, by the very talented Swedish singer Lykke Li, called Little Bit. There´s only 500 copies printed and the artwork is very, very nice. Of course the music is fantastic too but I guess you knew that already. To get your own copy of this...
Baby s’il te plaît... →
Pic: Rémi Ferrante ”Rien n’est moins important que la monnaie… quand elle est bien gérée”, le rap jeu c’est un pour la monnaie, deux pour la monnaie, trois pour Milton Friedman. Ce post c’est pour mes young rappeurs entrepreneurs qui regardent Bloomberg TV dans les appuies têtes des sièges des leur Escalade. C’est pour ceux pour qui l’or n’est pas...
Video: Mission of Burma: "Academy Fight Song"... →
Mission of Burma are on a mission for Burma.
Though it may lack the glamour of a Belushian “mission from god”, the
Boston post-punk legends’ latest calling has the virtue of being for a
righteous cause: calling attention to the military junta-led mass
killings going on in the country officially known as Myanmar. If this
is news to you, consider the plight of those misfortunate...
New Music: Howlermonkey: "Life on the Beat Part 1... →
Howlermonkey has been living on the beat quite a bit lately, remixing rapper Wiz Khalifa and electro-punks Heartsrevolution (on his MySpace) when not compiling a Crystal Castles “omnibus mix”. Dropping the “DJ” from his name and adding vocalist Rebecca Bortman, multi-instrumentalist Andres Ortiz Ferrare, and rotating member Matt McDermat, Pittsburgh’s David Litvin...
New Music: The Tough Alliance: "New York City... →
On the 2006 New Waves EP’s idyllic, idealistic banger “25 Years and Runnin’”, the Tough Alliance sing, “Now I know that New York is where a boy can have some fun (whoa, whoa, oh)/ If I only could change where I came from.” The punk-inspired Swedish electro-pop duo have shown some interest in the Big Apple elsewhere in their music, too, putting a...
Video: The Brunettes: "Brunettes Against Bubblegum... →
Slumber parties, trippy floral patterns, super-saturated hues, cheerleaders, giant squirrels— this clip for Structure & Cosmetics’ opening track sets New Zealand’s Brunettes loose in a retro kitsch wonderland that would make even the “Brimful of Asha” girl blush.
Whether you like your Brunettes on a motorbike or on the phone, in striking blacks and whites or...
New Music: Ghetto Cross [Bradford Cox and Cole... →
Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox is set to release his full-length debut as Atlas Sound on Kranky Feb. 19, but his first official release in his solo guise was a limited-edition 10” with Cole Alexander, lead singer for fellow Atlanta band the Black Lips. On Saturday night, according to Cox’s bands’ blog (currently NSFW), the two got together again to record a 7” for a new...
New Music: Snoop Dogg [ft. Robyn]: "Sexual... →
In the name of “continuous eruption,” freaky gentleman Snoop Dogg is taking his time and making sure everybody gets theirs. After a remix featuring the lascivious rhymes of fellow rapper Lil’ Kim, Snoop’s “Sexual Eruption” (known in the clean version as “Sensual Seduction”) is back, this time in a remix with guest vocals by Robyn. The Swedish pop...
The Ting Tings : Great DJ (Video) →
You know we’ve been loving The Ting Tings here at MOKB. We’ve interviewed their drummer Jules De Martino and have been rocking That’s Not My Name for, like, evahhhhh. OK, maybe not forever, but we love ‘em. The Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name Lots of publications are jumping on The Ting Tings will be huge in 2008 bandwagon, and I’m glad to hear it. They’ve...
Upcoming Local Concert Calander →
Upcoming Indianapolis Shows: 1/29 - The Howlies (Sam’s Saloon) 2/1 - Ralph Stanley (Music Mill) 2/2 - B.B. King (Murat) 2/9 - Will Hoge + Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit + Dawn Landes (The Music Mill) 2/10 - Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band & Flogging Molly (Vogue) 2/15 - The Whigs, Tulsa & Wax Fang (Birdys) 2/16 - Mudkids (Spin Nightclub) 2/16 - A Place To Bury Strangers + Beta...
Video: Erykah Badu: "Honey" →
I admit that I was a little unnerved by the opening credit, “A
Story by Erykah Badu,” which suggests this video is going to be plot-heavy and
maybe a little too self-serious. Fortunately, Badu’s story is actually a simple
and imaginative one that follows her through her local record store, flipping
through the extensive vinyl purchase, and making the clerk keep the change...
New Music: Sun Kil Moon: "Moorestown" [Stream] →
The Moorestown Mark Kozelek sings about on this track from
Sun Kil Moon’s third album, April,
due in… April, is presumably the township in Burlington
County, New Jersey, which has a
North Church Street
mentioned in the first line. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing special
about the place except that it could be anywhere in America.
Moorestown, for Kozelek at least, is a...
From Here To Eternity →
I’m not quite old enough to have lived through The Clash - I mean I did, but at the time they didn’t mean anything my 7-year old self - but even discovering them properly as I did some 15 years after their dissolution, it was obvious how powerful their music is and why you could argue the epithet, “the only band that matters”, still applies today. But I was never a Clash...
My blood is clean →
Photos: Monsieur Oiseau
When you pull it up
each blood vessel bursts,
in its version of the bends?
I ate it, twice.
I’ll eat it again.
- Thomas Lux, Slimehead (Hoplastethus atlanticus).
Alejandro Franov - Micerino tema* (Khali / 2007) Phelan Sheppard - Lady Never City (Harps Old Master / 2006) MV & EE with the Golden Road - The Burden (Gettin Gone / 2007) Starbird - lullaby on...
new remixes from the Tough Alliance + Ghosthustler →
I leave you tonight with two brand new, absolutely huge official remixes that I’ve had on blast for much of the evening: one from Denton, TX’s own Ghosthustler that is slated to appear on an upcoming 12”, and another from Swedish pop geniuses the Tough Alliance that reminds me of that one Baltimora song, and, as far as I know, is slated to appear nowhere: mp3: Ghosthustler Busy...
Pop Dee-Lite : Vampire Weekend →
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Vampire Weekend’s self-titled, debut album is out today on XL Recordings. They have or will be featured on pretty much every music magazine and blog on the planet now and in coming months. (Dodge already gave them his seal of approval on his 50 Favorite Albums of 2007 list). I also realize that as a result of all of this coverage, there is...
Video Premiere: Team Robespierre: "88th Precinct" →
Team Robespierre have a rep for insane live shows, and that carries over not just to their video but also the story of its making. Directed by Allen Cordell (Dan Deacon, Future Islands, Jimmy Joe Roche), the clip for these synth-toting Brooklyn punks’ “88th Precinct”, from Everything’s Perfect, uses crowd shots taken during a party at the Chicken Hut, a loft space in...
New Old Music: Deerhunter: Cryptograms mixtape... →
So that’s what “Loveless on mushrooms” might sound like. Bradford Cox, the Atlanta-based Deerhunter frontman and solo artist behind Atlas Sound, just keeps emptying out his vaults on his bands’ blog. After recently sharing various demos and outtakes from Deerhunter’s Cryptograms and Fluorescent Grey EP, Cox has now posted a “sort of tape collage” from...
Video: Jay-Z: "Pray" (Live) →
“Pray” isn’t the best track on a resurgent Jay-Z’s most recent album, last year’s American Gangster, but it introduces some of the album’s many knotty internal contradictions: the romance of the criminal’s tale vs. the dastardliness of his crime, the triumphant glory of great gangsta rap vs. the uncomfortable implications of its content, pusher vs. pushed...
Video: The Mountain Goats: "Sax Rohmer #1" →
Lyrics are more important to the Mountain Goats’ music than that of many other artists, even though the latest album by John Darnielle & co., the forthcoming Heretic Pride, has some of the group’s most active, forceful arrangements yet. Director Ace Norton’s (Simian Mobile Disco, Death Cab for Cutie, Aesop Rock) impressive video for Heretic Pride opener “Sax Rohmer...
Winter Sky →
” Mid West Winter Sky ”
01. Espers - Hearts & Daggers (Myspace) Espers (Locust, 2004)
02. Holly Golightly - Your Love is mine (MySpace) My first Holly Golightly Album (Damaged Goods, 2005)
03. Heavy Trash - Crying Tramp (wiki) Going Way Out With Heavy Trash (Yep Roc Records, 2007)
04. Holly Golightly - Black Night My first Holly Golightly Album (Damaged Goods, 2005)
05. Ray LaMontagne -...
snoop dogg vs. robyn: "sexual eruption" →
Robyn + Snoop team up with something named Fyre Department to turn a ridiculous song into sort of a jam: Snag the mp3 over at Discobelle.
Frightened Rabbit →
MP3: Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
A couple of months months ago I wrote about Frightened Rabbit and said they have “a folky wisdom and an air of confidence that streams in through the windows, freshly blown out by tornadoes and hurricanes… Frightened Rabbits feel like renewal… pop songs that quickly turn melancholy into bright sunshine“.
Now: so much is so much bigger, but big enough...