I’ve been crazy busy with work this week, so I’m gonna take the lazy man’s route and just embed you some video here. This is the new one from Silversun Pickups called Panic Switch, the first single from the forthcoming album Swoon (due out April 14 on Dangerbird Records).
(Thanks to Crumbler for pointing it out.)
You can’t even say that Del the Funky Homosapien is “pulling a Radiohead” with his newest release, Funk Man. He’s simply telling you to take it, guilt-free. Don’t name your price. Your price is free.
The 13-track album is available in 320 kbps mp3 and a host of other formats (including FLAC and Apple lossless). Remember: Del is at Marquee Theatre with Mike Relm on April 11 (that would be this Saturday).
Here’s the video for the first single, Get It Right Now (via Weiss):
I’ve gone on and on and on already about Neko Case’s new one, Middle Cyclone. So why stop now?
Neko took her act to The Interface over at Spinner for an interview and a few songs.
Below is the first single, People Got a Lotta Nerve. And I don’t mean to offend, but does Neko really need a backup singer/harmonizer?
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LAST WEEK, I told you I was doing a guest spot on Arizona State’s The Blaze (1260 AM). I had a blast (thanks, Becky!), but I’m still hesitant to listen to myself on radio. Maybe one day soon.
In any event, here are the songs I played … tracks I hoped would be somewhat representative of the stuff I champion around here regularly.
1. Built to Spill, “The Plan”
2. The Broken West, “On the Bubble”
3. The Gaslight Anthem, “Great Expectations”
4. Elbow, “The Bones of You”
5. The National, “Looking for Astronauts”
6. Source Victoria, “Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948”
7. Frightened Rabbit, “The Twist”
8. Q-Tip, “Gettin’ Up”
9. The Gray Kid, “Lonely Love”
10. The New Pornographers, “Myriad Harbour”
11. Travis, “Selfish Jean”
12. Gloritone, “Flying Kites”
13. Rush, “Tom Sawyer (DJ Z-Trip remix)”
Songs I brought but did not get time to play:
Her Space Holiday, “The Truth Hurts So This Should Be Painless”
Baby Dayliner, “Silent Places”
Band of Horses, “The Great Salt Lake”
Although I’ve always preferred Vs. to Ten – am I alone in that sentiment? – Pearl Jam’s debut played a huge part in shaping my music tastes in high school (though I swear I could never hear Jeremy for as long as I live and be completely happy). I mean, I didn’t grow my hair grungy long like some people I know – *cough* my brother *cough* – Ten is an amazing album and deserving of its recent deluxe reissue.
That’s got people reminiscing about the record and reinventing its songs, thanks to an MTV2 project. Take, for example, Minnesota rapper P.O.S., who does an amazing one-man version of Why Go, showing off some singing chops in the process. Plaid flannel is a nice touch, too.
But, seriously, back to Vs. I still have the cassette with Five Against One printed on the tape when that was the original title. Can I get like five bucks for that on eBay?
Anti- is offering a free sampler at Amazon that includes the first single from the solo album by Jason Lytle, formerly of Grandaddy.
Yours Truly, the Commuter is out May 19, and Brand New Sun certainly has strains of Grandaddy, which is probably to be expected. (Yours Truly’s cover even reminds me a little of The Sophtware Slump artwork.)
Also, NPR filmed Lytle performing a few tracks acoustic style during SXSW festivities.
You have purchased Middle Cyclone, right? It’s not going to be a surprise to see this on best-of lists at the end of the year. And, as always, I must mention the Phoenix connection: Our own Jon Rauhouse again contributes his guitar wizardry as part of Neko’s band, including acoustic guitar on this track.
Rik Cordero, who seemingly directs every hip-hop video these days, is at it again. This time, he works with Kid Cudi and Consequence for Buggin’ Out ’09, the Tribe tribute that is part of J. Period’s ode to Q-Tip.
There’s really little that has to be said about this. Public Enemy and the Roots? Um, yes, please. Bravo to Jimmy Fallon.
Not even a week after Jimmy Eat World’s Clarity x 10 tour ended and YouTube is lighting up with videos, which is great for people who couldn’t get a ticket to the sold-out shows or had to go to a wedding (read: me).
The band sent a link via Twitter to this video of Clarity closer Goodbye Sky Harbor from Club Nokia in Los Angeles.
I was curious how the band would pull off the 16:11 track live, and this gave me my answer. The song is condensed to about nine minutes here, but it rides out on cool looped vocals near the end and … a xylophone?
Judging by the Twitter updates, the band is already hard at work mixing the Clarity Live album, which is due April 7.
Related:
Q&A with Ryan Ferguson (No Knife)
Jimmy Eat World: Clarity Live due out April 7
Review: Jimmy Eat World at Terminal 5 (NYC)
Once again, I’ve got No Knife on the brain after I interviewed singer/guitarist Ryan Ferguson on Friday for a story I wrote previewing the band’s quasi reunion for its opening slot on Jimmy Eat World’s “Clarity x 10” tour this Saturday in Tempe.
I’ll post the interview once the story is published and after I transcribe everything – we talked for about 40 minutes on music, baseball (poor guy, Ferguson’s a big Padres fan), fantasy sports and more, so obviously not everything made the cut for the story. Needless to say, it was one of the more engaging conversations I’ve had with a musician. Super nice guy.
If you’re headed to the show, Ferguson said the band likely will play nine or 10 songs, but the guys have 12 ready to go just in case. Don’t be surprised if JEW frontman Jim Adkins joins the band for his customary guest spot on Charming from 1999’s Fire in the City of Automatons.
In the meantime, below is a video of No Knife performing The Red Bedroom on Fox Rox, which I believe was a televised music show based out of San Diego.
And be sure to get some No Knife mp3s at the group’s site.