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.