Lhasa - Fool's Gold

There's only one Margo Timmins, I know that, and thank heaven for her. If there could be two, though, Lhasa De Sela would be the other one. This atmospheric country strum would have fit nicely on The Trinity Sessions.

Lhasa de Sela - Fool's Gold (mp3)

From Lhasa De Sela's Lhasa, just released last week.

Screaming Females - Bell

Screaming Females are some touring maniacs. Brutal for them, and brutally brilliant for us. Catch them if you can...they might be playing your street.

Screaming Females - Bell (mp3)

From Power Move, released this April.

Screamale insanity:

Bebel Gilberto - Chica Chica Boom Chic

Bebel Gilberto - Chica Chica Boom Chic (mp3)

Bebel Gilberto's new album, All in One, will be released September 29 via Verve Forecast.

On this album, Bebel has collaborated with Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse), Didi Gutman (Brazilian Girls), Carlinhos Brown (Caetano Veloso), Daniel Jobim (grandson of Antonio Carlos Jobim), and John King (the Dust Brothers).

This song, which and feels like something from one of the Verve Remixed series, is percussion-heavy, playful, and sexy. But isn't anything sung by a Brazilian in Portuguese the latter two?

M. Ward - Live at the 9:30 Club, D.C., 7-30-2009

M. Ward's 9:30 Club show is available for download (mp3) and streaming, courtesy NPR Live Concerts.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars (Saint Etienne Visits Lord Spank remix)(mp3)

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart will be releasing a full, five track EP of all-new material on 9 November 2009 on Fortuna POP!

Voices

Voices, loved and idealized
of those who have died, or of those
lost for us like the dead.

Sometimes they speak to us in dreams;
sometimes deep in thought the mind hears them.

And with their sound for a moment return
sounds from our life's first poetry--
like music at night, distant, fading away.

- C.P. Cavafy

Haroula Rose - The Leaving Song

Haroula Rose, a world traveler originally from Chicago, demonstrates in The Leaving Song that vocal twang in country songs is optional, even desirable. Infused with warmth and longing, the song pulls at the heart without a speck of sentimentality.

Haroula Rose - The Leaving Song (mp3)


Haroula Rose

From the Someday EP. Haroula Rose is recording her debut full-length, in Athens, Georgia, this fall.

Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) - Dreadful Day

May I have your attention for a minute. And 4 seconds.



Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) - Dreadful Day (mp3)

From Vol. 6-Broadside Ballads: Broadside Reunion

The Strokes - NYC Cops (Live, 12-21-2000); NYC Cops (Live with Jack White, video)

The Strokes - NYC Cops (Live on WFMU's The Cherry Blossom Clinic, 12-21-2000)(mp3)

setlist:
Alone Together
NYC Cops
Soma
Barely Legal
Modern Age
Last Night
Take it or Leave it
New Song



If you're reading this, you have access to the internet, and therefore know that Julian Casablancas will be releasing a solo album, Phrazes For The Young, soon.

GusGus - Add This Song (video)

This is from GusGus' "24/7" out on 9-14, and it features all the obligatory elements of modern video: a sexy nurse, a sinister doctor, blurred frontal nudity, necrophilia, and face licking. Somehow, it all seems okay here.

Add This Song

Sesame Street Martians Find A Raaaay-deeeoooh

Here's me listening to advance promos.

Tarantino on soundtracks and strangling.

Quentin Tarantino, from a recent interview on NPR.

...oddly enough, I've always - I've never actually seen "The Alamo" itself, actually. So I don't really have the association of "Green Leaves of Summer" as being "The Alamo" theme. Oddly enough, I grew up watching kung fu movies. They would use the theme "Green Leaves of Summer" in a lot of needle drops in kung fu movies a lot. So I was actually more familiar with it in a Bruce Lai(ph) movie than I was actually from the John Wayne film...

But what happened was I came across, I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven.

...

So it's like a combination of the opposable thumbs, it's the combination of the brain and the thought process and the will to do it. I mean, boa constrictors suffocate people, but they don't strangle them. And you know, you can kill somebody with a knife. You can do all these kinds of things that are up close and personal, but you really have to bring your strength, and really - you have to really be committed to actually strangle the life out of somebody, to crush their larynx and just squeeze every drop of life out of them.

Nick Perito - Green Leaves of Summer (mp3)

From the Inglourious Basterds soundtrack.

The Red Channels - Afshin Waltz

Yes, "waltz," but this dance is far from the ballroom, in a post-apocalyptic circus, a dance among the detritus, in rags for a dress, with a dead dog for a judge. The song resonates beautifully over the fallout. But maybe that's just me.

The Red Channels - Afshin Waltz (mp3)

From The Red Channels' Ghetto Cooking, released this Tuesday.

Sean Bones & Merida Rose (video), Norah Jones (mp3) - Turn Them

It's like they say: location, location, location.

SEAN BONES turn them from sam fleischner on Vimeo.

Of course now I can't listen to this song without accompanying imagery, but that's not such a bad thing.

Sean Bones & Norah Jones - Turn Them (mp3)


From Rings

The Polyphonic Spree - Damage Control & other new demos

I met The Spree's Tim DeLaughter and Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, at Reagan National Airport in Alexandria, VA, a few years ago, and they seemed like incredibly nice people after a long trip from San Antonio. Tim signed a Harp magazine on the cover photo of PJ Harvey for me. Since then I've been fond of them, so I was delighted to see that Tim is blogging. Mp3 blogging, no less.

Here's yesterday's demo of Damage Control (mp3). This, and several other mp3 goodies, are posted on The Fragile Army blog, along with Delaughter's insight, artwork, and photographs.

Beck - Modern Guilt Acoustic - Replica

Jessica Dobson, a.k.a. Deep Sea Diver, is on guitar and backing vocals on the left screen. Fact: The original Modern Guilt album would have been even better with her it on it.

Modern Guilt Acoustic "Replica" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Beck with Record Club - Black Angel's Death Song (Velvet Underground & Nico)

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "Black Angel's Death Song" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Cracker performs on The Current, 8-20-2009

The Octopus Project - Wet Gold (Live Video, Ft Worth, TX 2-28-2008)

Stay with it until the end for hot theremin action.



Wet Gold is on The Octopus Project's Golden Beds EP, which was released a few weeks ago.

Ramona Falls' Intuit is out today.

Don't get it? The study cover art for a while:



Still not getting it? Maybe it's not meant to be got. But you should get the new Ramona Falls album. It's a contender for my favorite of the year. Get Intuit Stream the album here.