From the upcoming Codes and Keys 
(May 31)
(May 31)
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Another new Fleet Foxes track - Battery Kinzie
From the upcoming Helplessness Blues
. Add this to the already previewed track, "Helplessness Blues," [download mp3] and the new LP is sounding GREAT!
. Add this to the already previewed track, "Helplessness Blues," [download mp3] and the new LP is sounding GREAT!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
The Get Up Kids play live tracks for Last.fm
View interviews and live renditions of Automatic, Shatter Your Lungs, Pararelevant and Regents Court, at Last.fm Discover.
Friday, March 4, 2011
National Geographic rips off Jonsi
Monday, February 28, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Rumoring Radiohead
So, yesterday I had this idea about the pie in sky possibility that Friday's The King of Limbs might just the first installment in a bigger album. It was fun to put the word out, speculate and start rumors. Apparently, it is an idea a lot of people liked. That post, so far, has attracted over 5,000 6,000 10,000+ visitors to the blog in just a couple days. More interesting, however, is how this rumor I started has now popped up on forums, discussion boards, album reviews, record label sites, youtube, etc...
So, what do we learn? A rumor doesn't have to have much substantiated evidence to get spread around like wildfire - it just has to be something people WANT to believe.
Would a double-album, with more to come today or later be great? Yes. Is it likely to happen? No. But, that is why I started the rumor - because I want to believe.
On a happier note, Radiohead LP sessions have always included a large amount of additional material, released later as EPs, single b-sides, bonus discs or 2nd LPs (in the case of Amnesiac). So, any way you slice it, this surely isn't the last we have heard from the King of Limbs sessions.
So, what do we learn? A rumor doesn't have to have much substantiated evidence to get spread around like wildfire - it just has to be something people WANT to believe.
Would a double-album, with more to come today or later be great? Yes. Is it likely to happen? No. But, that is why I started the rumor - because I want to believe.
On a happier note, Radiohead LP sessions have always included a large amount of additional material, released later as EPs, single b-sides, bonus discs or 2nd LPs (in the case of Amnesiac). So, any way you slice it, this surely isn't the last we have heard from the King of Limbs sessions.
Friday, February 18, 2011
King of Limbs, double album?
I have a theory. What if The King of Limbs is actually a double album....
Consider the following issues...
Consider the following issues...
Length:
This album is only 8 tracks and just under 38 minutes long. Radiohead isn't known for brevity.
Also, consider that the box set comes with TWO 10" discs. That is WAY more space than a simple 38 minutes of music!
Separator:
The last song is called "Separator."
WHAT IF
"Separator" is actually the MIDDLE track in a double-album, the 2nd half of which will be released tomorrow as scheduled.
Also, consider that one of the last lines of Separator is "If you Think this is over, you're wrong"
Also, consider that Separator has been a melody circulating about under the name "Mouse, Bird, Dog" as a live track Yorke played last year. Was the name changed simply to hint at this double album?
Misc:
The album was released 1 day earlier than previously scheduled.
The King of Limbs was announced as a "newspaper album," and that still hasn't been fully explained. Another song that has been floating around from last year has been "The Daily Mail," which is a prominent British newspaper. That track is current NOT on the album. It seems to me that it should be, and maybe could appear on a 2nd installment to the album.
According to DIY Records, orders were marked TKOL1-. Does this imply a TKOL2- on the way?
If this Guardian blogger is to be trusted (@Helienee), sources close to Radiohead say there is something more to come on youtube tomorrow.
Also, consider that one of the last lines of Separator is "If you Think this is over, you're wrong"
Also, consider that Separator has been a melody circulating about under the name "Mouse, Bird, Dog" as a live track Yorke played last year. Was the name changed simply to hint at this double album?
Misc:
The album was released 1 day earlier than previously scheduled.
The King of Limbs was announced as a "newspaper album," and that still hasn't been fully explained. Another song that has been floating around from last year has been "The Daily Mail," which is a prominent British newspaper. That track is current NOT on the album. It seems to me that it should be, and maybe could appear on a 2nd installment to the album.
According to DIY Records, orders were marked TKOL1-. Does this imply a TKOL2- on the way?
If this Guardian blogger is to be trusted (@Helienee), sources close to Radiohead say there is something more to come on youtube tomorrow.
Also, doesn't this sound like a Radiohead type thing to do!
Radiohead's The King of Limbs available NOW (a day early)
The preordered downloads were advertised to be available on Saturday, but thekingoflimbs.com site has the download available now! Go forth! Download!
New Radiohead song/video - Lotus Flower
This is the first track we have heard off of The King of Limbs (out tomorrow if you preordered). Features some of the best Thom Yorke dance move to date!
Monday, February 14, 2011
New Radiohead album, The King of Limbs, out Saturday, Feb. 19th!
Preorder now and hold your breath until digitial download arrive on Friday!!! I am so excited, I don't even know what to say. AHHH!!!!!
Thekingoflimbs.com
Thekingoflimbs.com
Monday, January 31, 2011
NEW FLEET FOXES SONG AND ALBUM!!!!!!!!!
This is quite possibly, my most highly anticipated album for 2011. Fleet Foxes
will release Helplessness Blues via Sub Pop on May 3!
will release Helplessness Blues via Sub Pop on May 3!Get a first listen, thanks to Stereogum.com
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The Go Reflex - new video - The Irresponsible Siblings
Anyone who knows me well may be familiar with my longtime obsession with a little known band, The Go Reflex. Brainchild of Flying Blanket Studios producer, Bob Hoag, they put out a great EP a few years back, but then disbanded. Bob, since busy running his super-studio, has recorded some great bands - from Dear in the Headlights, Shark Speed, The Format, The Ataris, Adam Panic, Before Braille, Art for Starters, Kinch, Gospel Claws, Mr. Kline and the Wizards of Time, the Letterpress
....and the list goes on. Needless to say, this has kept bob busy.
At one time, Bob had an entire Go Reflex LP recorded, but never released it (Rumors that I have a copy may or may not be true). A few songs on compilations have popped up here and there. Below is a video for the most recent, from a studio compilation of bands Bob has produced.
Most exciting of all, however, is news that Bob and the boys have been scheduling studio time and recording new tunes. Surely, there will be more news on that when it comes out. Suffice it to say, you should be very excited.
So, head over to the Flying Blanket Studios website, listen to the many mp3 samples of bands recording there, and express your excitement (and intent to purchase) new Go Reflex material.
, Shark Speed, The Format, The Ataris, Adam Panic, Before Braille, Art for Starters, Kinch, Gospel Claws, Mr. Kline and the Wizards of Time, the Letterpress....and the list goes on. Needless to say, this has kept bob busy.At one time, Bob had an entire Go Reflex LP recorded, but never released it (Rumors that I have a copy may or may not be true). A few songs on compilations have popped up here and there. Below is a video for the most recent, from a studio compilation of bands Bob has produced.
Most exciting of all, however, is news that Bob and the boys have been scheduling studio time and recording new tunes. Surely, there will be more news on that when it comes out. Suffice it to say, you should be very excited.
So, head over to the Flying Blanket Studios website, listen to the many mp3 samples of bands recording there, and express your excitement (and intent to purchase) new Go Reflex material.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Album Review: The Get Up Kids - There are Rules
Initial Thoughts Album Review
After a first listen, I am a bit lot for words. If I didn't recognize Pryor and Suptic's voices, I would not in a million years have known this was a Get Up Kids album. Portions sound heavily influenced by some of the grittier keyboard-based sounds of Dewes' Reggie and the Full Effect
. The track "Birmingham" would fit well on a Japandroids release. "Shatter Your Lungs" seems out of place - fitting better with the likes of "Fountain of Youth
" from Pryor's side-project New Amsterdams' album, At the Foot of my Rival. There are Rules is dominated by lots of fuzzy distorted bass, distorted effects on vocals and electronic noise - none of which are elements familiar to longtime TGUK fans. In addition, the timbre and tone of the guitars is strikingly on the treble end - little bass-end distortion on the guitars - little traditional punk palm-muted rhythms.
This is one of their more consistently noisy efforts since Woodson or Four Minute Mile. The more pop-oriented sensibilities of more recent releases make appearances, but they are fleeting and isolated to a few tracks. A lot of noise here. It sounds a bit like a band, now reunited, wanting to reemerge with a new and evolved sound. This would be par for the course, as each of their previous releases signaled significant departures in sound. However, this new effort sounds like that evolution was a bit forced. It sounds like they are trying to NOT sound like their previous albums (and they succeed), but the result lacks a consistency that most of their other big changes (On a Wire, in particular), did maintain. I get that this isn't the same old Get Up Kids - they have made that point loud and clear.
I am left asking myself, however, what then is this? I hear a bunch of fractured sounds, ideas and approaches thrown together. It is not that I don't like it. In fact, I rather enjoy all the noise, angst and gritty vocals. But, I am not sure how well it all holds together... Perhaps after a few more listens things will start to gel and make sense...we'll see...
Out January 25th
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Shatter Your Lungs - Another new Get Up Kids track
From the upcoming Regents Court
. This is perhaps the most UN-Get Up Kids song I have heard! Not bad, but very different.
. This is perhaps the most UN-Get Up Kids song I have heard! Not bad, but very different.
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