Atlas Sound - 4 Albums for the Price of None

If any of y'all listen to Deerhunter and enjoy the music (especially the more recent stuff), it might be wise to check out Bradford Cox's (lead singer, guitarist) solo work.  He calls it Atlas Sound and here's his blog.

But more importantly, he just dropped 4 albums, Bedroom Databank Vol.s 1-4, which all of us can download for free.

Vol. 1

Vol. 2

Vol. 3

Vol. 4


Personally, I recommend making some hot cocoa and listening.  Solid work from an amazing person...

The Ting Tings, "Hands"

This has been "old-news" for a little while now (2 months???) but I still hadn't heard the track yet.  The Ting Tings are getting ready to release their sophomore effort soon, but to hold us over they dropped "Hands".

If you're anxious to hear it, you can find it on their facebook page along with a remix by Passion Pit.

To be honest, I don't think the track is amazing.  A little monotonous and tired sounding.  I'm a little bit worried about the followup to their debut We Started Nothing.  It's hard to repeat such awesome catchy-ness, unless you're Katy Perry or Lady Gaga of course.  But, let's keep our fingers crossed.

Girls

Pitchfork mentioned informed us earlier today that Girls will be releasing a new EP on November 22, Broken Dreams Club.

Given the awesomeness of their debut album, Album, this should be good stuff.  Check them out somehow when you get the chance.  I always recommend a Pandora or last.fm station, but Myspace or their own site works too.

Crystal Castles NA Dates

Crystal Castles just announced more NA dates.  California ones are:

03-02 San Diego, CA - House of Blues
03-03 Pomona, CA - Fox Theatre
03-04 San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre

Their facebook page only mentions the SD and SF nights, but pitchfork says they're doing Pomona as well.  Which makes a lot of sense.

I HIGHLY recommend seeing these guys live.

Just look at how crazy this chick is...

she punches a fan several times starting at the 2:40 mark

Let's do this!

Alright... looks like 2 people is enough for me. 

Go to the Pixies website, surrender your email address, and download a 4-track live EP from their Doolittle touring.

Looks like you get... "Dancing The Manta Ray", "Monkey Gone To Heaven", "Crackity Jones", and "Gouge Away".

Despite my pleading...

I'm not getting enough comments (read: ZERO) about posts to keep me motivated to do this.

I'll probably stop.

But, before I do, go check out Avey Tare's solo album, streaming now at NPR.

It's pretty damn good and comes out Oct. 20.

Reznor Turning "Year Zero" into T.V. Series...

It looks like Trent Reznor has been working on turning his Year Zero album concept into a T.V. mini-series that would be on HBO.  Still a ways off, but moving forward...

Rolling Stone has the story here.

Few things to deal with...

Arrived at work this morning, browsed through my feeds, and it looks like several places have some cool stuff to check out!

Here we go...

• Trent Reznor's and Atticus Ross's score for The Social Network apparently includes this version of "In the Hall of the Mountain King."
• The new Sufjan Stevens album, The Age of Adz, is streaming at NPR.
• Metric wants fans to contribute remixes for their album Fantasies.
• Gang of Four is coming out with a new album, Content, in January.

OK Go do it again...

Here's their new video for "White Knuckles"


AMAZINGLY WELL TRAINED DOGS.

Pavement on Colbert Report

Pavement plays Gold Soundz and Stephen Malkmus gets interviewed.

Linked up by pitchfork.

A Perfect Circle dates...

Here it is!  The plan is three nights at each venue, with night 1 being Mer de Noms, night being Thirteenth Step, and night 3 being Emotive.  Exception: Vegas only has two nights and drops Emotive.

Dates.

Still no word on ticket prices.  Keep y'all updated.

Deerhunter & Tricky Albums Streaming

The new albums are up for streaming now.

For your daily dose of Deerhunter...

And, for your daily dose of Tricky...

The Social Network score sampler...

Here's your homework for the weekend...

Go here, surrender your email address, and download a 5-track EP from the Social Network score.

The Social Network is the Facebook movie that's being scored by Trent Reznor (NIN) and Atticus Ross.

enjoy.

Damien Jurado and Richard Swift

This great indie music blog, the Aquarium Drunkard, posted this about a week ago and I'm finally getting around to it.

In August, Damien Jurado and Richard Swift (both great singer/songwriters) teamed up to record Other People's Songs Vol. 1.  They mention the following on their website...

“Other People’s Songs Vol. 1” is a collection of covers recorded on the weekend of August 21-22, 2010 (with the aid of a four-track cassette recorder and a Coles-4038 ribbon microphone).  It is available to you (the world) via the inter-webs for FREE.  These recordings came about spontaneously, and we wanted to share them in the same manner.  Look for another one around Winter time. “Thanks, Brochacho” - DJ/RS

The whole album is also available for streaming here, so go do that today!  It's really beautiful, chill work and it's great to hear Damien Jurado push his vocals outside of the norm on a few of the tracks.

Mary Anne Hobbs' Last BBC1 Show

I will be back to post my thoughts on the show at some point soon.  But, in the mean time, reserve two hours at your computer or around a computer to listen to Hobbs' final show on BBC Radio1.  You have ~6 days until it's taken offline (at least off of BBC's site).


LISTEN NOW!