FREE STUFF: Radiohead Live in Prague DVD
Everyone loves free stuff, but no more so than the Thominator and band chums Radiohead. I mean look at that punam, you can just feel the overwhelming sense of excitement and giddiness you get from being told ”here’s something you would pay for anyway, FOR NO MONEY AT ALL!”, radiating from his face…sort of. In the interest of making sure their fans don’t share their collective, ”I’ve just been to my parents funerals on the same day as a lobotomy operation” expression, they’re giving away a fan filmed gig, in a number of different formats and whatnot, to you lucky lot for F-R-E-E. No signing up to anything, no paying what you want, zilch. Cool huh?
WOOOOAAAAAAH LINK TO DOWNLOAD!!! CLICK IT FOOL!
JT
Tandem reviews: Salem and Gallops
If you’re anything like me, then a quick venture into the world of ”Witch House” should send you into a seizure of equal parts bafflement and inconsolable rage. Thankfully such a scene fizzled into existence, as without it we wouldn’t have masters of bedroom produced synth fuzz, Salem and this their debut ”King Knight”. ”KK” is everything the trio’s early output promised and more, effortlessy combining their trademark ghostly synth wash and hip hop vocals/drum tracks into something equal parts coherent and disorientating (think of an almighty collaboration between The Big Pink, Crystal Castles and Lil Wayne, yeah seriously…) Despite its 11 tracks beginning to melt into 1 after a continuous listen, there’s still enough originality and innovation here to warrant purchasing (or listening by what other means…)
7/10
Download:”King Night” ”Tair” ”Killer”
Anyone else yearning for more of the furiously paranoid Antidotes era riffage of Foals? Well don’t go pestering the Oxford lot for more, (they’ve moved on to more reverb heavy pastures…), instead delve into this debut EP from Welsh ”Battles”-alikes Gallops. Yannis fanatics should be smitten with the sound ravaged out, particularly on closing track ‘Miami Spider’s halfway turning point, from synth pounding angry riffage, to what could be a top quality Foals track that should have made it to ‘Antidotes’. Sonderhof is, well, a GALLOPing (sorry) tumbling thump of a track, utilising 8-bit (cough Crystal Castles) synths, and grated guitar noodling, culminating in something that references others, but is somehow still their own. Moments such as the pun-tastically named ”Oh, The Manatee” make up for what’s lost in math rock intricacy, with singular unified riffage, confusingly in this instance it sounds a little too much like some sort of robot sea shanty (a good or bad thing depending on your opinion on cyber pirates…). So not entirely original, but when something sounds this aggressively, ear pummelingly dense, does it matter? (Answer: No.)
8/10
Download:”All of it you fer christs sake, its an EP not a double album!”
Joe Thresh
The Raveonettes cover “I Wanna Be Adored”
If you’re of any sane state of mind you don’t need any excuse to listen to either The Stone Roses or The Raveonettes, passers by won’t question your music choice and you can live forever more in the comforting cave of knowledge that you’re listening to a class act. But what’s that I hear you say? You want to hear both? AT THE SAME TIME? Oh lord, well I might have a embedded video of The Stone Roses enduring classic ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ as covered by The Raveonettes directly above. How’s that working out for you?
BONUS ROUND: If you head over here you can download the track for free, courtesy of Dr Martens who have no doubt payed vast amounts of money for all this to happen. Cool, huh?
Alec
Get your interactive on with Arcade Fire’s ‘We Used To Wait’ Video
If you’re one of those people that uses Google’s Chrome web browser (yes, all 21.01% of you) then prepare your body for some Arcade Fire related love, they’ve only gone ahead teamed up with Google in order to promote the virtues of HMTL5 as a viable alternative to Flash on the internet you know and love. Despite the geeky interlude the video is pretty stunning, synchronized pop ups appear at musical cues including your childhood home (seriously) and the ability to write a postcard to your younger self, it’s more than worth a watch.
If you’ve got Chrome, head over here. If not, and you REALLY want to see it, go and download Chrome (I’m talking to the 14.5% of you using Internet Explorer… For shame).
Alec
Sufjan Stevens announces ‘The Age Of Adz’, puts out a new song
Remember that dream you had about Sufjan Stevens ditching his expansive, orchestrated sound and traded it in for that of electronic beats and synthesized soundscapes? Well, get ready for a serious case of Déjà vu because he’s only gone and announced “The Age Of Adz” which features exactly those aforementioned properties. Which makes the “All Delighted People EP” seem somewhat of an epic send off, doesn’t it? I guess when it rains Sufjan news, it pours.
Along with the news of a forthcoming full length LP (his first for 5 years, I’ll have you know) we also have an entirely new song to listen to in preparation for that here-before-you-know-it October 11th release date, it’s called “I Walked” and you can hear it above. With the option of clicking the big blue words below and gaining your very own digitized copy, for free!
THESE BIG BLUE WORDS LEAD TO A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A SONG I WROTE ABOUT ABOVE
Alec
So this is what Yoko Ono is doing these days…
I like the part where she screams.
WELCOME BACK, MISC.MUSIC.
Alec
