On October 9th The Mommyheads will release the career retrospective, Finest Specimens, spanning from their late eighties debut, Acorn. Enjoy “Needmore, PA” from said release.
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Australia’s Philadelphia Grand Jury spent six months living and recording in London with many a live date, including a few in the states. Now, they have a new single – “Save our Town” on a limited edition seven inch vinyl release, which will also feature as a B side the newly recorded version of live favourite – Jay-Z’s “99 Problems”. Listen to “Save Our Town” at the link below.
http://www.philadelphiagrandjury.com
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A couple weeks back Lissie’s Catching A Tiger came out. Now there’s a live version of album track “In Sleep” with video below. Lissie will be touring the US in October along with a performance at the Austin City Limits Festival.
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With the new album Swansongs coming September 14th, Marc Anthony Thompson, known as Chocolate Genius Inc., recently stopped by WNYC NPR Soundcheck, which you can listen to here.
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I got caught up in this Young The Giant Take Away Show and now I’m posting it up. There’s always a bit of truth to cliches, and yes, I hate Mondays. In addition, you can watch the video of “My Body” at Sunset Sound Studios in LA and download the original audio here. The band will be on tour in September with Marina and The Diamonds.
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As an early escape from your Thursday, production duo Boychick present “I Was Love,” borrowing a few samples from Melanie Safka’s “People in The Front Row.”
Frankie Rose and The Outs present “Little Brown Haired Girls” from their self-titled album out September 21st on Slumberland.
“Not Getting There” from Blonde Redhead’s Penny Sparkle out September 14th on 4AD.
“Heartbreak City” from The Coast who release their second album, Queen Cities, on September 14.
“Run From The Gun” from the new Dead Confederate album Sugar, out tomorrow.
“Sleep Forever” from Crocodiles’ new album of the same name out September 14th on “Fat Possum”.
“Heart Full of Pentagons” from Film School’s new album Fission out next week.
Fever Ray’s take on Peter Gabriel’s “Mercy Street” will be released digitally on September 14th. 24 hour download available from NME.
Simple is another band from Chapel Hill, NC. Check out some tracks from a live EP recorded at local college radio station WKNC. I could write a description but discovery is best served in the first person.
“Signs in the Sky” mp3
“Take My Hand” mp3
http://www.myspace.com/simplenc
http://asimpleband.net/
The much talked about Neon Indian will be doing a live stream tonight at 9 pm from their show as a part of MTV’s ‘Live In NYC’ series. Link will not be live until its time (EST).
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My Gold Mask have been working on a new 4 song 12″ planned for Fall release. In addition, they got together with their friends La Scala for a cover of Mina’s 1960′s Italian pop classic “Tu Farai”. See the video below for their take on Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own.”
Ireland’s Bell X1 have a new acoustic digital EP from which you can download the “Great Defector” taken from Blue Lights on the Runway. Listen to “Boys of Summer” and more here.
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