Menomena - WNYC In-Studio Performance 10-4-2010

Also, stream or download an extra song performed off-air, at WNYC.

Menomena - WNYC In-Studio Performance 10-4-2010 (mp3)

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Free Dylan Demo

From the forthcoming Witmark Demos, today only, on Amazon.com. Download it here.

The Witmark Demos will be released on CD and in a vinyl box set, along with The Original Mono Recordings, on October 19th. Also, if you preorder from the
Dylan store on Amazon, you get a bonus live CD.

Heretics - Echoes (Klaxons cover)

The UK's Heretics are unsigned, but my spidey-sense tells me they won't be for long.

Klaxons - 9-20-2010 at Bowery Electric, Live Acoustic

I haven't considered how pretty Klaxons' 'Echoes' would sound sonically stripped. Here it is, live, with a few other tunes and interview.

'Surfing the Void,' by the way, holds up all the way through.

Male Bonding Live Brooklyn

Male Bonding explodes, as Male Bonding tends to do.

PREMIERE: White Sea - Mountaineer

Morgan Kibby of M83 is White Sea, and she reassures you in this musical dreamscape that it's all just a teen dream. Too bad we're not teens anymore.



PREMIERE: White Sea - Mountaineer

Cara Salimando - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead (Stars cover)

Cara is really young, but she's still convincing. I believe her.

The English Beat, Live from Bumbershoot on KEXP, 9-6-2010

I'll Take You There, I Confess, Save It For Later, Never You Done That, Tenderness, Mirror In the Bathroom. 40 minutes that you need, trust me. via KEXP.

The English Beat, Live from Bumbershoot on KEXP, 9-6-2010 (mp3)

Sonic Youth 930 Club 1988. Seriously.

Ridiculous.

Cat Power, Nude As The News (Live Vid with Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley on drums)

As posted a few moments ago on Sonic Youth's Faceboook Wall.



"Nude as the News" is from What Would the Community Think(1996)

Joanna Newsom, Live at Sixth and I Synagogue, 23 March

Joanna Newsom recently played at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, and you can listen to and download the entire performance from NPR's Live Concerts.

Her new album is Have One on Me.

Jonsi - Live on MPR's The Current.

DEFINITELY check out this live in-studio by Jonsi for 89.3's The Current. Wherever you are, or whatever you are doing, it is just the thing.

He performed "Stars in Stillwater," "Go Do," and "Around Us." Headphones absolutely required.

Order Go.

Arcade Fire: Suburbs/Month of May single (vinyl) out June 1, available for pre-order

I just pre-ordered my copy of Suburbs/Month of May
on Amazon.com.

Arcade Fire Status Update: "Finishing up pressing our new 12""

Arcade Fire Howdy y'all - Just finishing up pressing our new 12". Should be in stores in the next couple of weeks. God willing.
Good luck with finals.


See you this summer!

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Ramona Falls - Too Little Too Late (video)

"Russia," the second video from Ramona Falls' debut album, Intuit.

You just have to know when to let go.

Owen Pallett In Concert From Webster Hall

Full stream up on NPR.org. The encore closes with Mariah Carey's "Fantasy."

Beach House, Live on The Current, 4-6-2010

The duo performs Norway, Real Love, and Ten Mile Stereo. In the interview, they discuss the songwriting process, album people versus singles people, the virtues of the "slow burn," and song sequencing.

Teen Dream [CD + DVD] is still among the best albums of the year so far.

Electric Owls - A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off (Magnetic Fields)

Here's a rare look at Electric Owls, who covered a Magnetic Fields classic recently. Electric Owls, The Comas' Andy Herod's current project, have been showing up here and there, but there is no tour schedule, and their page on the Vagrant site is gone. Let's hope they stick around for a while. Ain't Too Bright was great stuff, and Andy is captivating live.

Electric Owls - A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off (Magnetic Fields)(mp3)

Senryu - Inklings

Knoxville's Senryu are releasing Inkling on April 13th. Ariel Saldivar, who performed with Polyphonic Spree and Broken Social Scene, sings on this one. Spare-lush-spare is the new loud-quiet-loud, and this title track holds out until about the three minute mark. I'm perfectly happy with the charm and simplicity of its beginning, and the song would be just fine without blooming into sonic multilayers, but I'm not complaining. That minute colors the song jubilant.

Senryu - Inklings (mp3)

Listen to more Senryu here.

Sebastian Blanck feat. Carolyn Polachek - Thunder

This is from Sebastian Blanck's forthcoming Alibi Coast, out June 22nd. The warm fingerpicking signals spring. I has a melancholic brightness, like a firefly in a jar, or the afterimage of a candle. It's one of those songs that begs for similes, and campfires. Sign me up.

Sebastian Blanck "Thunder" feat. Caroline Polachek by rare book room records