Brooklyn quartet Suckers will be releasing their debut album, Wild Smile, on June 8th via NYC imprint Frenchkiss. The LP was recorded, produced, and mixed in New York by Chris Zane (Passion Pit, The Walkmen), save for the 2009 single "It Gets Your Body Movin'" (Chris Moore, Yeasayer's Anand Wilder) and "Save Your Love For Me" (Moore).
In May, Suckers will be supporting labelmates Local Natives for a U.S. tour. Go here for tour dates. The first single off the full-length hits our ears in April, but while you wait, check out the Suckers' doo-wop cover of The Raveonettes' "Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)," from their 2009 LP, In and Out of Control (out now on Vice). Suckers took a cleaner approach to the cut, as opposed to the Danish duo's "fuzzy" original.
Suckers mysterious multi-instrumentalist Pan, explains the decision further in a press release: "The original version is super fuzzy, so our first instinct was NO FUZZ. We wanted to keep the poppy aspects of the original, but make as much of our own as we could... after messing around with it for a while, it turned into this weird 50's, kinda dark Doo-Wop thing that reminds me of Twin Peaks for some reason (which actually ended up working well with the subject matter on a completely different level)."
Wild Smile:
01 Save Your Love For Me 02 Black Sheep 03 Before Your Birthday Ends 04 You Can Keep Me Runnin' Around 05 A Mind I Knew 06 Roman Candles 07 It Get Your Body Movin' 08 Martha 09 King of Snakes 10 2 Eyes 2 C 11 Loose Change
Here's Toro Y Moi's second music video with Carpark. "Talamak" is off his debut LP, Causers of This and the clip was directed by Jon Casey and shot in Columbia, South Carolina. Ooooh, look at all the colorful fireworks and road flares!
Matias Aguayo's 2009 earworm "Rollerskate" is a powerhouse vocal performance, with rubbery basslines and plenty of pizzicato strings. The new clip spends most of its time following Aguayo's face around a strangely lit roller rink. Ay Ay Ay is out now via Kompakt.
Fans of MGMT's breakout singles "Kids" and "Electric Feel" may not flip as many cartwheels for "Flash Delirium," but here goes nothing... The Congratulations single is a head-scratching piece of psychedelia. During its 4:16 runtime we get snippets of Bowie, T. Rex, Ween, '60s California surf, Middle Eastern music, straight-up acid rock, and even a flute solo. (Overall, it seems like they're suffering from a bad case of self-sabotage.)
Ex-Spacemen 3 sound-scaper Pete Kember (aka Sonic Boom) produced and by Flaming Lips collaborator David Fridmann handled mixing duties. Congratulations drops April 13th on Sony/Columbia. Apparently the title track leaked today too. Download the less manic, but still drug-addled ballad over at Hype Machine.
When I tell friends that I watch Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on a pretty regular basis they usually laugh in my face. Well, scoff all you want about the upstart late-night host's comedic timing and puppy dog interviewing style, but he's got the indie music community on his side. Recently, he's booked UTR-friendly musical acts such as Erykah Badu, Beach House, Hot Chip, Neon Indian, Joanna Newsom, and Yeasayer to play for his college-oriented audience.
Monday night's show also featured the debut live iteration of Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell's YouTube legend "Lazy Sunday,"The Roots backed them up. Check that out below:
Washed Out has a new, spring-ready tune to share today. The hazy "Track #7" is off Ernest Greene's untitled tour-only CD-R that's primarily a bunch of outtakes and sundry instrumentals. The synth-heavy soundscape harkens back to the aesthetic we heard on 2009's Life of Leisure EP.
Brighton's Esben and the Witch just put out a vid for "Lucia, at the Precipice," directed by Lydia C-S. The clip was filmed in creepy black and white and it features dark-haired ladies dancing around in a creaky attic. Check out our interview with Esben in Issue #30.
We have no idea when Raaaaaaaandy (aka comedian Aziz Ansari) and TV on the Radio producer-guitarist Dave Sitek's hip-hop & comedy mixtape will drop. Despite this, the pair have a new clip on Funny or Die that purports Canadian teenie-bopper Justin Bieber popped a cap in Raaaaaaaandy's knee, stole a song entitled "Baby Baby," and turned it into his radio hit "Baby." Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner makes a cameo in the skit.
If you haven't already, please check out the first cut off the mixtape, "AAAAAAAANGRY." Download Raaaaaaaandy's "Baby Baby" [ft. DJ Ol' Youngin] above and watch the Bieber vs. Raaaaaaaandy feud unfold below.
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