It’s such a great day to be alive isn’t it?  Can we all agree that this is this year’s real Christmas?  Yes.

As an added  bonus watch the Flaming Lips rock the Peach Pit After Dark below. They just don’t make them like they used to do they?

Flaming Lips: She Don’t Use Jelly on Beverly Hills 90210 from Chris Buly on Vimeo.

Since this exists we figured we’d go ahead and post it.  Actually it’s pretty cool if you like good bands covering other good band’s great songs (which I do).

MP3: The Drums – “We Used To Wait” (Arcade Fire Cover)

Make sue you also check out the video for The Drums’ excellent song “Down By the Water.”

The Drums’ self titled debut is out now digitally. Buy it.

It’s Tuesday and that means new releases.  This week isn’t jam packed like last week, but there is still some good stuff  worth picking up.  I enjoyed the Phil Selway solo album quite a bit.  It helps the time pass while we all wait for a new Radiohead album.  I also rather enjoyed the new Clientele album, Minotaur.  I liked it far more than last year’s Bonfires on the Heath.  This week’s highlight for me was the Jenny and Johnny album.  I like most of what Jenny Lewis does and this is no exception.  The album title says a lot about the album as you get the feeling they are actually having a great time.  Anyways, what did I miss?

New Releases, Album Art, and Streams After the Jump…

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Hey everyone!  There’s this great new band (actually it’s some dude  from Brooklyn (surprise) with awesome hair named George Lewis Jr.) that we should all be listening to, and favorably talking about after we listen.  The name of the band is Twin Shadow.  The name of the album we should all be listening to is Forget.  On a completely related note Forget is on sale digitally for $1.00.  A FUCKING DOLLAR!  Buy it! Love it!

Also, I’m assuming we are all in agreeance on the awesome hair.  Right?

Buy it HERE!

MP3: Twin Shadow – “Slow”

MP3:  Twin Shadow – “Castles In the Snow”

Here is the video for “Slow” and it is NSFW.

Twin Shadow ‘Slow’ (NSFW) from Twin Shadow on Vimeo.

It’s a pretty solid week for new releases.  Actually it’s a really solid week with tons of great stuff to hear.  My pick of the week was pretty tough but I ended up awarding it to the Magic Kid’s album Memphis.  This album is full of awesomely fun pop music that demands a good time.

Anything I missed this week?  Anything I should be looking forward to in the weeks to come.

Enjoy.

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The title of this post pretty sums up most of what I would put in the body, but since I didn’t provide the purchase link in the title I will provide it here. Here is the link to buy.  Also, this is great fucking news!!

I don’t want to post a pic of Bieber so here is a picture of my dog.  She’s tired from helping us paint.

This is a Justin Bieber song. I don’t typically (EVER) listen to the Biebster (I assume that is what the kids call him since kids have always liked adding “ster” to the end of names to make cool nick-names that inevitably prove acceptance) but this time it’s different. This time a dj by the name of Shamantis (@Shamantis on the twitter) took Justin Bieber’s song “U Smile” (yes that is the real spelling) and slowed it down 800%. What does Bieber slowed down 800% sound like you ask? Well the answer is Sigur Rós (duh!).

I applaud Shamantis for taking something that was the worst and making it the best. Well played.

J. BIEBZ – U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis

EVERYONE should attend this event Thursday, (August 19th) and I will tell you why. First and foremost all of the proceeds benefit Edgemere Elementary school. It’s always nice to to something cool and help kids at the same time.

Secondly it is sponsored in part by the Red Rooster which is none other than the greatest bar that has EVER existed. Ever!

Thirdly, If this works out then we could see this become a full-time venue in OKC, and we all know that OKC needs more small/mid-level venues.  This place would be sweet too. Trust me!  I received a tour yesterday and it has so much potential it isn’t even funny.  I won’t go into detail about the inside because you should all come out Thursday and see it for yourself.

Fourthly, there will be bands.  Good local bands too:  Siren (feat. the Rooster’s own Hannah Wolf), East Dallas Shufflers and Little League Hero.  Improv will be provided by Midolls and Twinprov in between sets.  Are you almost convinced, but you don’t think beer, helping children, live music and improv are enough to get you out of the house?  Well there will also be performance artists painting two large walls while the bands perform, and I’m pretty sure there will also be a small art show going on during all of this too.  Okay now you don’t have  reason to not attend.  This event officially has EVERYTHING.  And IT”S ONLY $10!!

Everyone listen up!  We have an opportunity to get out there and do something great for these kids and our city.  They get computers and we get a new music venue.  That sounds like a win win situation to me.  SO BE THERE!

Hear some music from the bands after the jump…

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It’s a pretty slow week for new releases, but there are a few things out there worth listening to.  First of all the Animal Collective visual album Oddsac is out on DVD.  If you’re expecting the MPP Animal Collective we’ve all come to know and love you are in for a bit of a shock.  This album sounds much more like their Here Comes the Indian days (which is pretty awesome).

The  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Sountrack is also available in digital format this week.  I’ve streamed it a few times and it’s a pretty fun listen. It features 19 tracks from the likes of Beck (aka Sex Bob-Omb), Broken Social Scene (aka Crash and the Boys), Metric, Black Lips, Frank Black, T-Rex, and Beachwood Sparks among others.

I was also plesently surprised by the Stornoway album, Beachcomber’s Windowsill. It’s already earned multiple listens and I can see quite a few more in the future.

What albums are you looking forward to this week?

New Releases, Album Art and Streams After the Jump…

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It’s a pretty tough release week to be an album that isn’t an Arcade Fire album entitled The Suburbs.  That’s not to say there aren’t some good releases this week because there are, but they are going to be overshadowed.  Speaking of The Suburbs we should probably discuss it, or at least let me tell you my thoughts on it.

I know it’s early but my personal opinion is that it is a tremendous album that we will be talking about many years from now.  I think that it is truly one of the first great albums from this very young decade and will age with grace.  I’ve thoroughly enjoyed each listen, with each subsequent listen being incrementally better than the last.  It’s not Funeral, but it wasn’t trying to be.  Way to go The Suburbs on accomplishing your goal of not being Funeral.  It’s a big album that doesn’t address big problems.  It is basically an album that  many people from my generation can relate too so maybe that’s why I enjoy it so much.  We can analyze it for hours but at the end of the day it’s an enjoyable listen that makes you think a little bit and that’s really all that matters.

On a completely unrelated note one of my other favorite albums from this year, LCD Soundsystem’s This is Happening, is finally getting a vinyl release.  Thank God, I thought I was going to have to buy my first CD in something like two years.

I can also recommend the Wavves album, King of the Beach, which feels weird typing since I hated his first album so much.  This one is a seriously great summer jam though.   That’s all I’ve heard from this week, but I look forward to giving the rest a listen.

Feel free to post your thoughts on the AF album or any of the other releases in the comments section.

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