Wednesday, March 18, 2009

FREE GRIZZLY BEAR DOWNLOAD

To celebrate the release of their new album Veckatimest, out May 25th on
 Warp Records, Grizzly Bear are proud to give away a free to use MP3 of album

 track Cheerleader.

go HEEEREREEE   

use the password v3ckatimest and she's all yours.

the end of that...

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sigh. now is the crucial point - do i purchase warhammer and enslave myself or continue to be a real person in the real world....i do know sam can only remember starcraft for two months of his life.

Friday, March 13, 2009

NEWFANGLED PLAYLIST - 14/03/09

Undertow - Mirage (dn)
Buraka Som Sistema - IC19
Mount Kimbie - Taps
Kode 9 - Black Sun
Jose James - Velvet (Emanative Remix)
Camp Lo - Regulate
Pacific Division - F.A.T. Boys
Dr Dre - Topless ft. Nas
Powell - Private Cassie
The Scientists of Modern Music - Technology Illiterate
Dirty Projectors/David Byrne - Knotty Pine
Quintron - Dirt Bag Fever
Arcade Fire - Lenin
Morissey - Something Is Squeezing My Skull
Pete Doherty - Last Of The English Roses
Dan Auerbach - Heartbroken, In Disrepair
Bat For Lashes - Glass
Cassette - Close To Me (nz)
The Blueness - Gblurry (nz)
The Wicks - Moon In A Jar (nz)
Savath Y Savalas - La Llama
Mel Parsons - It's Been Good (nz)
NOT NEW - The Black Keys - Meet Me In The City

congratulations to Nikki who won Cassette's new album, The Jingle King. Keep listening for more free shit in the next few weeks. call up and win, or i'll hulk out and smash your face off like that crazy monkey from the news.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Neko Case: Middle Cyclone


Neko Case is my perfect woman, honest to god. She started out drumming in punk bands in Vancouver in the early nineties and by 1997, had realised she can write and sing okay, and recorded “The Virginian” with a backing band known as “Her Boyfriends”. Skip ahead to 2009, and you'll find Case has come a long way, with six full-length albums, one EP, one live disc and vocal contributions on four albums by Canadian band the New Pornographers under her large-buckled and stylish belt.

Not to mention the fact that she once got banned from the Grand Ole Opry for taking her shirt off, or that she appears on the front cover of her latest offering, “Middle Cyclone” crouched on the bonnet of a 1968 Ford Mercury Cougar, barefoot, brandishing a large sword and looking like a totally righteous babe.

Lyrically, this album is the most refreshing thing I've heard in ages. Lines like “can't scrape together quite enough/to ride the bus to the ouskirts of the fact that I need love”, on the title track provide a glimmer of hope in a world where Kelly Clarkson can release a hit single with a title like “My Life Would Suck Without You”.

Interesting fact: Neko Case featured on an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force last year and is expected to participate in a new series with ATHF co-creator Dave Willis entitled “Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge”. Awesome.


On a just as fantabulous, but not quite as sugar-encrusted note, someone once referred to her as “the ghost of Patsy Cline”, and on “Prison Girls” things get noir and desolate much like, but unfortunately not quite as much as most of her 2002 release, “Blacklisted”. Once again though, she gets the words just right with “I love your long shadows/And your gunpowder eyes”. Cue swooning.

My personal favourite though, would have to be the opener, “This Tornado Loves You”, where the band gets down with a slightly faster pace, a little bit of delay on the guitars and Case delivers this piece of genius – “I have waited with a glacier's patience/Smashed every transformer with every trailer/'Til nothing was standing”. Now that's what I call a passionate natural disaster.

Like on her last album, “Fox Confessor Brings The Flood”, Case's well worn-in touring band lay down the bones of the songs. Unlike last time though, Middle Cyclone features guests like M. Ward, members of the New Pornographers, Los Lobos, Calexico, Giant Sand, and includes two covers: Sparks' "Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth" and Harry Nilsson's “Don't Forget Me”. The recording of M.C. happened in Brooklyn, Vermont, Toronto and Case's own barn in Tuscon, which led to some tracks featuring guests such as Frogs, Robins and Wind Gusts.

Neko Case has also recently featured on a New Pornographers song, “Hey, Snow White”, which can be found on a compilation put out by 4AD and AIDS organisation 'Red Hot', called “Dark Was The Night”. I highly recommend you check that out if this is your cup of tea.

She's been touring Middle Cyclone in Europe before returning to the US, but sadly, Case shows no signs of intending to drop in on New Zealand. Buy this album, then report to me to sign the petition.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

a few things...

gidday.

the vivian girls got to make a playlist for the red bull music academy radio station...lucky dogs. you can check it out hhheeerrreee

also, i chortled to myself at sam grover's blog entry about that time he was on the way to jen's with the d and bumped into those damn slags...check that out HURR

what else....i'm playing Warhammer Online with seth. it's fucking awesome and i must get back to it. high elves rule.

Hopo

p.s. bad sav fuckin rocked the cook the other night. you should have been there. ep on way i reckon.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Newfangled Show 07/03/2009

Feist/Ben Gibbard - Train Song

Arcade Fire - Lenin

Iron & Wine - Die

The New Pornographers - Hey, Snow White

Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You

Blonde Redhead & The Devastations - When The Road Runs Out

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries

Morissey - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero

Bat For Lashes - Daniel

Nat King Cole - Nature Boy ft. TV On The Radio

The Rakes - 1989

Does It Offend You Yeah - Being Bad Feels Really Good

The Aesthetics - Friday

Rockshop - Lizards Walking

Wilberforces - Tidalwaves

Black Dice - Glazin

DOOM - That's It

Untold - Yukon (Fantastic Mr Fox Remix)

Sufjan Stevens - You Are The Blood

Boss Christ - Off The Chaingang Now

Get Well Soon - Busy Hope

Quintron - Waterfall

Brigitte Bardot - Contact

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Newfangled Playlist 21/02/2009

Hullo

Simian Mobile Disco - 10000 Horses Can't Be Wrong
N.A.S.A. - Whatchadoin? (ft. Santogold, M.I.A., Spankrock & Nick Zinner)
Moron Says What?!? - Nathalie, Touch Me There Again (NZ)
Hannah Curwood - Blind Love (ft. Haunted Love) (NZ)
Raggamuffin Children - Better Than Some (NZ)
Beirut - The Shrew
Realpeople Holland - My Night With The Prostitute From Marseilles
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
Dan Auerbach - Real Desire
Buraka Som Sistema - Sound Of Kuduro (Drop The Line Remix)
Cosmo Vitelli - Converted
MSTRKRFT - Fist Of God
Flairs - Trucker's Delight
Jose Gonzales - How Low (Pecheinga Nord-Norska Remix)
Samwell - What What (In The Butt)
A.R. Rahman/M.I.A. - O Saya
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
Little Boots - Stuck On Repeat
Red Snapper - Brickred
The Wicks - Tertius (NZ)
Tenniscoats - Balibaba Bimba
Soulseller - Talking In Tongues (Dn)