New Dom, "Damn".

I've always been a big fan of Dom.  The Worcester dudes hit a sunny-electro-pop vibe that borders on obnoxious but never crosses the line for me.  Here's a new one from them:

http://www.facebook.com/Domband?sk=app_178091127385

Dum Dum Girls annouce new album, tour.

Last year's I Will Be was one of my favorite albums of 2010, this year's EP He Gets Me High was solid as well, and now the Dum Dum Girls have announced today that they will be releasing their sophomore LP Only In Dreams on September 27th.  To go along with the new album the girls have also announced a tour.  They'll be making a stop in Philly with Crocodiles at a future R5 Productions lisenced venue called Union Transfer, a former old warehouse on Spring Garden.  Here's the tracklist and tour:

Only in Dreams:




01 Always Looking

02 Bedroom Eyes

03 Just a Creep

04 In My Head

05 Heartbeat

06 Caught in One

07 Coming Down

08 Wasted Away

09 Teardrops on My Pillow

10 Hold Your Hand




08/08 – Los Angeles, CA @ Sunset Junction Street Fair


10/01 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah $*

10/02 – Costa Mesa, CA @ Detroit Bar $*

10/03 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour $*

10/04 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall $*

10/07 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir $*

10/08 – Vancouver, BC @ Electric Owl $*

10/09 – Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s $*

10/12 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club $*

10/13 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon $*

10/14 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle $*

10/15 – Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick $*

10/16 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace $*

10/17 – Montreal, QC @ Il Motore $*

10/19 – Boston, MA @ Paradise $@

10/21 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom $@

10/22 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat $@

10/23 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer $@

10/24 – Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s $@

11/03 – Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg

11/04 – Cologne, DE @ MTC

11/05 – Lyon, FR @ Tinnitus Festival at Clacson

11/08 – Nantes, FR @ Stereolux

11/09 – Roubaix, FR @ Le Cave aux Poetes

11/10 – Brussels, BE @ Rotande Botanique

11/11 – Amsterdam, NL @ London Calling

11/13 – Manchester, UK @ FAC 251

11/14 – Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny

11/15 – Leeds, UK @ Brundenell Social Club

11/16 – Wrexham, UK @ Central Station

11/17 – London, UK @ ULU



$ = w/ Crocodiles

* = w/ Colleen Green

@ = w/ Royal Baths

New Woods single, updated tour.

Although personal favorite Sun and Shade recently dropped, Woods have already come out with a new single, Find Them Empty.  Here's what the guys at Woodsist had to say via their blog:

As a companion piece to their new full length, Sun and Shade, this single was recorded in the winter of 2011 at Buttermilk Falls in Warwick, NY. Woods have gracefully risen to the top of their class by crafting intricate nostalgic, experimental pop songs that are unforgettable. The A-side, “Find Them Empty” is far less falsetto and way more Bob Trimble than any of their previous work. The B-side, “Be There” is a more jam-friendly number reminiscent of their legendary live shows. The cover of this single features a young Caleb Braaten (Sacred Bones), his father, and a gigantic marijuana plant. Enjoy!

Here's the stream:
"Find Them Empty" by Woods by forcefieldpr

Here's the updated tour dates:

07-11 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall *


07-12 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa *

07-13 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *

07-14 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop *

07-15 Bloomington, IN - Russian Recording *

07-16 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival

07-16 Chicago, IL - Subterranean *

07-18 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry ^

07-19 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium ^

07-22 Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party

07-23 Vancouver, British Columbia - Electric Owl ^

07-24 Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown ^

07-25 Portland, OR - Doug Fir ^

07-27 Sacramento, CA - Sol Collective ^

07-28 Felton, CA - Don Quixote's Music Hall ^

07-29 San Francisco, CA - The Independent ^

07-30-31 Big Sur, CA - Woodsist Festival

08-02 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex ^#

08-03 Phoenix, AZ - Trunkspace #

08-04 El Paso, TX - Black Market #

08-05 Austin, TX - The Mohawk #

08-06 New Orleans, LA - Circle Bar #

08-07 Oxford, MS - Cats Purring Dude Ranch #

08-08 Atlanta, GA - The Earl #

08-09 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle #

08-10 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel *#

08-12 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's #

08-13 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom #%

09-04 Dorset, England - End of the Road Festival

09-05 Manchester, England - Manchester Sound Control *

09-06 Glasgow, Scotland - Stereo *

09-07 Bristol, England - The Fleece *

09-08 London, England - The Scala *

* with Kurt Vile and the Violators

^ with the Fresh & Onlys

# with White Fence

% with Ducktails

New Purling Hiss, "Voices".

Local Philly rockers Purling Hiss recently came out with an EP called Lounge Lizards.  Here's a few tracks:

"Voices"
"The Hoodoo"

[via Altered Zones]

New Zola Jesus track, "Vessel", and new album details, tour.

Young and wildly impressive Zola Jesus (Nika Rosa Danilova) has been coming out with pretty solid EPs for the past few years and has announced yet another new one, Conatus, through label Sacred Bones due out on... my birthday!  October 4th!  Here's a stream/download of a song off Conatus called "Vessel".  On top of that, she's announced a few tour dates which I'll list below.  If you get the chance to catch her, don't miss it.  Her spooky yet powerful vocals are really something to hear live.

Zola Jesus - Vessel by souterraintransmissions

Zola Jesus 2011 Tour Dates:


07/16 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival

08/03-07 – Zambujeira Do Mar, PT @ Sudoeste

08/06 – London, UK @ Field Day

08/12-14 – Wilhelmsburg, DE @ Dockville

09/01-04 – Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival

09/02-04 – Stradbally, IE @ Electric Picnic

09/08-11 – Isle of Wight, UK @ Bestival



New Tennis, "Is It True?"

(via heyreverb.com)

The irresistable nautical pop duo Tennis just released this cover of Brenda Lee's 1964 song "Is It True?".  Apparently Jimmy Page played guitar on the original so there's your fun fact for the day.  Here's a stream/free download of it:

Is It True? by tennisinc

Edit:
I noticed that sometimes the embed above doesn't work.  If you can't get it here, click here for it.

New jj, "CELEBRIS".

Not sure what to make of jj's blog but there's new music on there anyway.  I've been spinning jj nº2 lately so this comes at a perfect time.  Here's a free download of the new track.

New Washed Out, "Amor Fati".

Here's a new song off the upcoming Washed Out debut LP, Within and Without (out July 12th via Subpop).

Download/listen to "Amor Fati" here.

And, in case you missed it, here's another track off the new album that was previously released called, "Eyes Be Closed".

Get that one here.

In other news, I just did an interview with Justin of the Philly group Kite Party about their upcoming debut album Baseball Season and the subsequent tour to follow.  Chances are we'll try to sit down again so I can ask more questions, but keep your eyes peeled for the interview soon.

Library of Congress releases free 10,000 song database.

The Library of Congress launched a sort of "jukebox" which is actually a free database of over 10,000 songs recorded before 1925.  While I haven't had a chance to scour any of it myself, the dudes over at Altered Zones have and have made a little playlist of choice tracks.  Pretty cool idea if you ask me!  I'll be searching it myself...

Woods and White Fence tour dates/poster.

Click the poster for full size so you can see the dates.  On 8/12 you can catch em at Johnny Brenda's.

Watch Real Estate play new songs.

Told you.  Real Estate (via their blog) released two videos of them playing live at Bell House.  The first one is a new one that will be on the upcoming LP (release date is October, I think?) and the next one is an even NEWER one that is so freaking new that it won't be on ANYTHING...yet.  So there you go!  Four videos of new stuff today.


Real Estate - "Careless" live from moogie on Vimeo.



Real Estate - Soup or New Song (Live) from Free Spirit on Vimeo.

New Bon Iver video, "Calgary".

Video day today, I guess.  One more post to come about cool videos and things.  Here ya go!

New Panda Bear video, "Surfer's Hymn".

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I've been slacking a little.  I feel good breaking my posting silence with a video for one of the best songs off Panda Bear's Tomboy, "Surfer's Hymn".  Enjoy!



PANDA BEAR "Surfer's Hymn" from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo.

Stream new Bon Iver's new album.

Image from NPR.org

As part of NPR's website's awesome "First Listen" feature, NPR posted a full stream of Bon Iver's new self titled album for free.  Bon Iver joins a great collection of "First Listen" artists such as Panda Bear, Cults, Fucked Up, Peter Bjorn and John, and The Vivian Girls  You can listen to Bon Iver's Bon Iver front to back here.

Black Lips record Daytrotter session

Fresh off the release of Arabia Mountain, Georgia flower-punks Black Lips recorded a session over at Daytrotter featruing songs from the new album.  Check it out here.

Real Estate release summer tour dates, sign with Domino.

One of my favorite bands of the last few years, Real Estate, announced that they have signed to Domino who will put out there 2nd album this October.  Along with that, the Jersey dudes announced a summer tour kicking off at Johnny Brenda's in early July.  Having seen Real Estate live a few times now (in Philly, London, and Barcelona) I can safely say that they are a solid band to see live.  Going to pitch it over to City Paper and see if I can get a press pass to write a review. 

Here's the full list of dates:

07-09 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's


07-10 Washington, DC - Red Palace *

07-11 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *

07-12 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *

07-13 Oxford, MS - Proud Larry's*

07-14 Nashville, TN - Hard Rock Cafe / Sounds Like Summer *

07-17 Chicago, IL - Subterranean *

07-18 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick *

07-19 Toronto, Ontario - The Garrison *

07-20 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore *

07-23 Brooklyn, NY - Prospect Park Bandshell #

07-24 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's *

07-31 Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library / Woodsist Festival

08-02 San Francisco, CA - The Independent %



* with Dent May

# with the Feelies, Times New Viking

% with Dominant Legs, Melted Toys

New Panda Bear video: "Slow Motion"

Here's a new video for the Tomboy track "Slow Motion". The video also features an interview with Panda Bear and some live footage as well. Enjoy!

New Jamie xx, "Far Nearer", "Beat For".

Incredible.  Love every second of it.

Jamie xx - Far Nearer (limited vinyl & download out now - http://farnearer.com) by Numbers

Jamie xx - Beat For (limited vinyl & download out now - http://farnearer.com) by Numbers

Slow day... so here's a few videos.

Hey everyone.  Slow day with news or new music or anything like that.  There's stuff out there, but just not stuff I really feel like committing a full post to.  I'll let you know some plans anyway.  I'm trying to compile a May-June playlist at the moment for you all to enjoy (probably be posted on SoundCloud then embedded here).  Right now I'm finding myself with 3-4 songs per artist which kinda makes for a boring playlist, but I'm working on cutting out the fat and finding a few more things.  So there's that.  Weekends are always slow for news and new stuff so I'll probably not be around in a serious way 'til Sunday or Monday.

In the meantime here's a funny video of baby sloths doing cute things and 2 really awesome videos of The Ramones performing live.  Enjoy!  Have a nice weekend, y'all.


Meet the sloths from Lucy Cooke on Vimeo.

WU LYF announce US tour dates.

Manchester dudes WU LYF have recently announced their first forray into the US of A.  Their debut album Go Tell Fire to the Mountain drops on the band's L Y F Recordings in the UK on June 13th, but won't be out 'til August 22nd here in the US.  There's only 3 dates here, so if you're in the NYC or LA area I highly suggest you check it out.


WU LYF dates (all in July):


Friday 22nd – New York City, NY @ Mercury Lounge

Saturday 23rd – Brooklyn, NY @ The Knitting Factory

Tuesday 26th – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo

New Seasick Steve, other notes.

Hello all,

so wait... June already?  Sheesh.  Well pretty soon I'm going to try to put out a May playlist of stuff that's been at least relevent to me lately.  I'll put it up on SoundCloud then embed it here.  Hope you like it!

In actual news, Mississippi hobo-bluesman Seasick Steve came out with a new song that'll be on his upcoming album.  Perfect timing for this heat we've been having in PA.  It's 94 degrees today.  Sit on your front porch and play blues music.