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Dawn Golden is the solo project of Houses' Dexter Tortoriello. www.dawngoldenmusic.com
From the debut full-length from Minneapolis native Brad Hale. He's also part of the band Now, Now an has remixed tracks for artists including Tegan & Sara. www.facebook.com
Ben Gibbard of The Postal Service has collaborated with American Analog Set's Andrew Kenny..
From the Atlanta band's 5th album. deerhuntermusic.com
Damon McMahon describes the track: "Miki Dora was arguably the most gifted and innovative surfer of his generation and the foremost opponent of surfing’s commercialization. He was also a lifelong criminal and retrograde: a true embodiment of the distorted male psyche. He was a living contradiction; both a symbol of free-living and inspiration, and of the false heroics American culture has always celebrated. With lyrics of regret and redemption at the end of one’s youth, the song is about Dora, and myself, but ultimately it is a reflection on all manifestations of mythical heroic maleness and its illusions." You can follow the artist on Instagram here: www.instagram.com
playing TIMBRRR! on January 26th! www.spiritaward.band
Thanks for all the the excellent, spookily coordinated New Order requests! You can probably learn a dance move or two from the official music video: maybe just take it easy on the slap-dancing... www.youtube.com
Recorded at Hansa Tonstudio in what was then West Berlin. Co-producer Tony Visconti considered it "one of my last great adventures in making albums. The studio was about 500 yards from the Berlin Wall. Red Guards would look into our control-room window with powerful binoculars."
Twist is the project of Toronto-based songwriter Laura Hermiston and producer Brian Borcherdt. www.twistofficial.com
Frontman Eugene Kelly said that the Ramones inspired this album, and you can really hear it in this song.
Fun fact: Original member Miles Hunt's uncle Bill Hunt was keyboard player with ELO.
From their third album. Fun fact: Of Monsters and Men covered the song in 2013.
Here are 10 things you many not know about Arcade Fire's sophomore album, Neon Bible": www.rollingstone.com
“A Day in the Life"...perfect song? Answer: yes. The Atlantic has a great article about it: www.theatlantic.com
The day before David Bowie's 25th birthday, RCA issued their first ever David Bowie single! This one! (It was originally released on the album Hunky Dory the year a year before in 1971.)
The Call's Michael Been on the inspiration for this song: "There was a great deal happening politically – Grenada, Lebanon, or the government saying the Russians are evil and the Russian government probably saying the same about us. That kind of thinking inspired me to write the last lines of 'Walls Came Down'."
Covering The Call! www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com
Frontman Joe Talbot explains the song: ""Samaritans" came about at a time where I realized through counseling that I spent a lot of my life feeling lonely, even though I had such supportive friends and family around. I learned soon after it was down to a certain performative nature to which I related strength to silence, leading to problems as I ended up confused and angry from bottling up my feelings, which in turn then manifested in violence and self-loathing. I wanted to try and explore that in a song that could illustrate that relationship between masculinity and it’s trail of ugly shame and death."
Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye and Joe Lally seem to have a created a new band, debuting some original tracks at a Washington, DC benefit concert for a food bank this past November! Does it have a name yet? Well ... “Every band name has been taken, and they all have lawyers,” MacKaye was quoted as saying. We'll keep you posted!
"Miss Sarajevo" is the only single from the 1995 album "Original Soundtracks 1" by U2 and Brian Eno, under the pseudonym "Passengers". Luciano Pavarotti makes a guest vocal appearance, singing an opera solo.
The album's title, The Crane Wife is from an old Japanese folktale. While there are many variations of the tale, a common version is that a poor man finds an injured crane on his doorstep (or outside with an arrow in it), takes it in and nurses it back to health. After he releases the crane, a woman appears at his doorstep with whom he falls in love and marries. Because they need money, his wife offers to weave wondrous clothes out of silk that they can sell at the market, but only if he agrees never to watch her making them. They begin to sell them and live a comfortable life, but he soon makes her weave them more and more. Oblivious to his wife's declining health, his greed increases. He eventually peeks in to see what she is doing to make the silk she weaves so desirable. He is shocked to discover that at the loom is a crane plucking feathers from her own body and weaving them into the loom. The crane, seeing him, flies away and never returns.
Broken Bells = Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse) and James Mercer of The Shins. www.brokenbells.com
Written by Folk Implosion's Lou Barlow and Orbit bassist Wally Gagel (who also produced the song).
The band congratulated Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on being the youngest woman ever being elected to Congress after a video of her dancing to the track went viral in a failed attempt to ... uh, I dunno, ruin her political career by pointing out that she's an amazing dancer?
From her new EP that includes two previously unreleased songs that weren't included on last year's "Rest" album.
Love Spit Love was founded in 1992 by Brothers Richard and Tim Butler during a hiatus from the Psychedelic Furs. Tim Butler explained that “We got bored of being constrained by The Furs. I mean, The Furs expect a certain sound out of it. We wanted to broaden our musical palette, if you like.”
Side project by former Echo & the Bunnymen members Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant.
Left At London is Seattle's Nat Puff (she/her), a trans woman "who is not afraid to let herself be known intimately through her music, while still remaining accessible". Open Mike Eagle is an L.A. base hip hop artist and comedian who's also a member of the hip hop collective Project Blowed. leftatlondon.com
The lyrics are supposedly inspired by Nevil Shute's post-apocalyptic novel 'On the Beach,' about a group of people waiting for nuclear devastation in Australia.
This track was featured in such films as "Mr. Bean's Holiday" and "Dumb & Dumber" 👏
"One of the themes of the Cuckoo Spit EP is the difficulty of feeling confident in your decisions when they don’t seem to match up with those of everyone around you. There are plenty of moments where I wonder what the fuck I’m doing with my life, but occasionally there are moments that are exactly the opposite: I’m content with who I am, with the fact that I’ll always be an oddball, and that I’ll probably never be famous or have any money. “I’ll Never Be” is our attempt at crystallizing those moments into a fuzzy psychedelic gospel song." Read more over on the KEXP blog! kexp.org
The band toured around in the US last year for a 30th anniversary tour. trashcansinatras.com
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Listen to this song while you can, because Governor Jerry Brown is leaving office today.
time.com
Black Sabbath's Paranoid released on this day in 1971! (The album's title was originally going to be "War Pigs"...) Also, "People think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time"? Did Ozzy invent Resting Bitch Face? 🤔
Happy birthday to Clint Mansell, born on this day in 1963.
So. Many. Samples. Afrika Bambaataa, James Brown, Eric B. & Rakim, Kool & the Gang, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, and many more.
A collaboration between Afrika Bambaataa, ex-Sex Pistol/Public Image Ltd. leader John Lydon, and producer/bassist Bill Laswell.
The song's lyrics make reference to George Orwell's novel 1984 through use of "The Party" slogan "Who controls the past (now), controls the future. Who controls the present (now), controls the past."
