If you’re into that Tribal Caribbean feel, this vid is for you.
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Music News Highlights
Pitchfork: Deerhunter keep poop log. (Pun intended)
Touch and Go Records: Stream and pre-order brand new Pinback track, “From Nothing To Nowhere”. New album Autumn of the Seraphs to be released September 11th.
Rob and Zack are exhausted after burying a few dead bodies under a mossy hilltop
VBS Vid: Everyone loves Battles! (Except for one person I know.) Check out this boozy interview and practice session.
Aversion: Tom from Snow Patrol was arrested. The article doesn’t say why, so it’s pretty much useless, but we at usounds want to say- Stay strong Tom! You are one of the few who honestly answered our weird and borderline inappropriate interview questions. I love you man.
Rasputina Interview
New York’s gothic chamber pop band, Rasputina, is led by classically-trained cellist Melora Creager. Creager spent the last two years scouring over daily world events and adapting them into new songs that may be found on Rasputina’s sixth full-length album Oh Perilous World! recently released on June 26th. Melora was kind enough to answer a few questions for usounds about the new album and tour.
usounds: Can you describe what the two years of your life was like? Will your next album feature current events, or was that too depressing?
Melora: I lived in NYC. I read a lot about climate change, then Hurricane Katrina happened, and I did not want to live in a city anymore. So I moved to the country, got used to that extreme switch and worked on the album all the while. I didn’t find it depressing. Opening my eyes to the world today called me to action in lots of ways. I won’t limit or predict what I’ll write about.
usounds: You wrote a song based on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 in New York. Since you are originally from Kansas, a state that has some fairly notable past events, do you ever see yourself writing a “shout out to your homies” song about William Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kansas or something like that? Or do you not get back to Kansas all that often?
Music News Highlights
Art Brut added to Bumbershoot festival; poses nude for NME.
Pitchfork: Calexico tour and release new album Tool Box.
New Mando Diao streams for “Wildfire” on Real Audio or WMV.
Rolling Stone: The Beatles will soon be featured in a diaper commercial.
“All You Need is Luvs”
NME: The White Stipes play wacky gig venues on bus, in bowling alley and from inside a Honey Bucket.
Live vid of Destroyer playing brand new song, “Foam Hands” at Calgary’s Sled Island Fest:
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga [Merge]
Rating: 7.0
Six LPs into their career, Austin’s Spoon has become pretty ubiquitous for an indie rock band. Their singles, including “I Turn My Camera On” and “The Way We Get By” turn up all over the place, including an enlightening video of a dancing robot on YouTube. Spoon has also provided the soundtrack for a movie (Stranger than Fiction) and has done commercials for Jaguar. While the awful truth may be that the majority of fans at a Spoon show would list the O.C. as their point of entrance, Spoon’s songwriting has been consistently good for a decade: look no further than Girls Can Tell (2001) or Kill the Moonlight (2002) for proof.
The Underdog [mp3]
Music News Highlights
NME: UNKLE to play first ever live show. Stream: “Burn My Shadow” from upcoming album War Stories.
See you later DJ Shadow
Seattle Powerpop is celebrating their one year anniversary tonight at the Sunset Tavern! Featured bands include: Sgt. Major, Dept. of Energy, Shake Some Action!, The Small Change, Andy Werth and The Knast.
NME: Peter Hook on the new Joy Division biopic: “The way I always like to look at it is that you can judge how good a film is by how many people go to take a piss during it, and only two people went for a piss – Bernard and a 70-year-old woman.”
Aversion: Peace out Sub Pop. Rogue Wave signs to Jack Johnson’s label?
Weird new Art Brut vid for “Direct Hit” featuring pears and togas: