Jul 28, 2009

According to a news post from leader John Darnielle, the new Mountain Goats LP is titled The Life of the World to Come and it’s dropping on our doorsteps October 6th on the oh-so-dreamy 4AD. For more information on the group’s seventeenth release(!) check out our news article on the Biblical album. Here you can find “Genesis 3:23.” It’s just one of many tracks named after Bible verses. It seems The Goats have forever ditched their lo-fi sound for the type of full-band studio sheen heard on Get Lonely and Heretic Pride. Darnielle’s witty turns of phrase are still working overtime though. The main melody also harkens back to live staple “This Year.” The head Goat clicks off phrases about picking a lock at his old stomping grounds in Clear Lake, California and sitting up late looking at stars that resemble “teeth in the mouth of a shark.” Casual B&E has never sounded so pleasant.

Jul 28, 2009

Philadelphia’s A Sunny Day in Glasgow is dropping a new LP titled Ashes Grammar on September 15th, through Mis Ojos Discos. Here, we’ve got a “twofer” track preview. “Ashes Grammar / Ashes Maths” are two dream pop cuts with tranquil vocals that flow right into each other.

Jul 27, 2009

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Last week, Weezer performed at South Korea’s Jisan Valley Rock Festival, where they debuted three new tracks, “Can’t Stop Partying,” “I’m Your Daddy” and the live clip to the right entitled, “The Girl Got Hot.” Each song is pretty much played the way you think songs titled like that would be played. It is unknown if any of these will be on the new album. Cuomo’s demo of “Can’t Stop Partying” was released on Alone II in 2008. In Japan recently, Cuomo revealed that Weezer’s to-be-titled seventh studio album will be released in October. Oh boy…

Jul 27, 2009

Here’s another cut from Clipse‘s forthcoming third LP, Til the Casket Drops. “Warning” features Rock City. Oh, and those synths are definitely extraterrestrial. Best line: “Married to the game. Y’all just common law.”

Jul 26, 2009

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Arctic Monkeys asked Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Josh Homme to produce their third LP, and you can hear the influence on this sludgy initial single. (The boys still have that distinguishing bass riff though.) The “Crying Lightning” clip mirrors the Monkeys’ murky aesthetic, with the newly shaggy quartet rocking out on a small, computer-generated ghost vessel. The clip debuted on UK Channel 4 and on YouTube immediately after. Humbug comes out August 25th via Domino. The band’s first U.S. show in almost two years is at All Points West next weekend. The rest of the Monkeys’ fall gigs can be found here.

Jul 26, 2009

British power-pop artist/composer Devonté Hynes (aka Lightspeed Champion) recently wrapped up the follow-up to 2008’s Falling Off The Lavender Bridge. It was produced by Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley). In the interim, here’s “Heavy Purple,” a duet with Chairlift vocalist Caroline Polachek. The jazzy/moody track is from the new highly interactive Lightspeed Champion website. The free download was recently recorded in New York. Hynes had this to say:

“I started writing and recording the track at my friend Scott’s studio in Williamsburg and finished the song at Patrick from Chairlift’s home studio in Bushwick. I played all the instruments, and my vocal was done in one take. The intro features Aaron [Pfenning] from Chairlift (extracted from an old song of his), which has Caroline from the band doing weird vocal things, and Aaron also does a monologue at the end. The song was basically written as it was recorded.”

Jul 25, 2009

Here’s the thrash-tacular first single, “I Hate People” from ex-Be Your Own Pet singer, Jemina Pearl. It features her punk godfather, Iggy Pop. As we reported earlier, Break It Up is out October 6th on Universal/Ecstatic Peace. Pop sure knows how to choose his badass female duets. Pearl is touring with Islands this fall.