New Sufjan Stevens EP Streaming and Available for Download

The new EP is "built around two different versions of Sufjan’s long-form epic ballad All Delighted People, a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon’s Sounds of Silence."  Uh, yes, that sounds amazing...

Colour Revolt Streaming New Album In Full

It's epic and dirty.  Just the way we like it.  Stream 'The Cradle' via Spinner.

Pale Sketcher - "Can I Go Now (Gone Version)"

"As the first single released in advance of Jesu: Pale Sketches DeMixed, Justin K. Broadrick’s Ghostly debut as Pale Sketcher, “Can I Go Now (Gone Version)” is more than a fine introduction. The track contains everything Pale Sketcher does best: trash-compactor beats, gently swelling synth pads, and an air of beautiful, post-apocalyptic decay. Broadrick’s vocals float above it all, vocoded and reverbed, lending a touch of humanity to the song’s mechanized melancholy.

Danish duo Syntaks’ remix of “Can I Go Now” employs a double-time rhythm and a cloud of shoegazey guitars to bring the track to ethereal new heights; while Donnacha Costello’s take tosses Broadrick’s vocal into a pool of sky-blue synthesizers, recalling Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works while adding a romantic tilt to the song’s downcast melody." - from Ghostly International

Release date is August 10...check it out HERE.

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs - On NPR's First Listen

If you haven't already illegally downloaded it, NPR's First Listen is offering up a chance to preview the entire record by streaming it right here.  Enjoy!

New Neon Indian Video - 6669 (i don't know if you know)

"6669 (i don't know if you know)"

NEON INDIAN | MySpace Music Videos
Check out the awesomely weird new stop-motion video created by João Machado for Neon Indian.

Pale Sketcher presents Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed

"If Justin K. Broadrick’s Jesu project is the sound of the UK artist exorcising his demons, pummeling them into submission with tsunamis of guitar noise, Pale Sketcher is the sound that echoes through his head in the aftermath—a haunting, lonely sound-world of distressed beats and hazy melancholia. Broadrick’s electronic-music projects have historically taken a bit of a back seat to his more well-known metal excursions (his founding roles in Godflesh and Napalm Death, his long-running shoegaze-metal project Jesu), but with Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed Broadrick brings Pale Sketcher into the spotlight, adding a new layer to the prolific artist’s already-dense body of work." - from Ghostly International

If you want to give it a listen head over to Ghostly and check it out.  This is a great record label with tons of other artists worth listening to like Tycho and School of Seven Bells.

New Sun Kil Moon Streaming

Head to the ol' Myspace to stream the new record, Admiral Fell Promises...

Grinderman 2

Cannot wait for this! Check out Spinner for more details...

New Blue Giant Record

I just won a copy of it from Crappy Indie Music! And it is uh-mazing!

You can stream the whole thing HERE.

Enjoy your weekend!

August Releases - Eels, Colour Revolt, Warpaint

If you're wondering what Eels have been up to lately, they have a new record due out on August 24 called Tomorrow Morning. You can download the first single for free above or catch them on tour this coming fall.

Mississippi's Colour Revolt will be releasing their second full-length, entitled The Cradle on August 10. Meanwhile head over to their myspace and check out the new song 8 Years. You can also pre-order the record here via Dualtone.

And finally, Warpaint's debut record will also be released this August on Rough Trade. Head over to NME for the rundown and a video interview. They officially blew me away opening for Akron/Family at The Granada Theater this past February.

New Stars, Black Mountain, Sun Kil Moon Tracks

I haven't posted in a while so here are a few recent things I found noteworthy...

New Stars song via Pitchfork: 
Stars - 'Wasted Daylight'

New Black Mountain song via Stereogum:
Black Mountain - 'Old Fangs'

New Sun Kil Moon songs via  Caldo Verde Records

Enjoy!

This Will Destroy You - New Song

It's called Communal Blood and it could be the soundtrack to the most epic/apocalyptic battle scene ever. Think Old Testament prophets and plagues, dinosaurs, Lovecraft-esque monstrosities from outer dark, wizards, Hindu deities, vikings, aliens, Aztec warriors...you get the idea. Head over to their myspace for a listen.

New Track from The Acorn!

The Acorn's Glory Hope Mountain may have been the best thing to hit my ears in 2007.  Ready yourself for the June release of No Ghost with this little gem of a song provided by their record label Bella Union...
The Acorn - No Ghost by Bella Union

*UPDATE: Stereogum Premieres Restoration.

Doug Burr

Promotional video for "O Ye Devastator", the new album from Doug Burr from Jon Todd Collins on Vimeo.

Y'all ain't ready for this!

22-20s Re-formed AND Touring

So apparently I had no clue 22-20s were back together AND touring.  How did I not know about this?!  Download their FREE EP HERE.  Tour dates posted ala tbd Records (Radiohead, White Rabbits, Port O'Brien).  Jeeze.  Made my Tuesday...


22-20s - Bitter Pills from tbd records on Vimeo.

Sun Kil Moon Announce New Album

YES!!!!!!!  Head over to Pitchfork for the low-down...

Dubh

Just downloaded the super chilled out Insurrection EP from Jonny McEwen AKA dubh.  This is what I want to wake up and fall asleep hearing. You can grab it here for a donation.  Highly suggest it...

RIYL: Boards of Canada, Hammock, Fur

The Tallest Man On Earth

Ok, new favorite.  Head over to Pitchfork for a review of the Dead Oceans release, The Wild Hunt.

RIYL: Dylan, Deer Tick, A.A. Bondy

PS - Don't miss The Tallest Man play Hailey's in Denton on May 1st!

Merle Haggard

Head over to NPR's First Listen to check out the Okie From Muskogee's new album I Am What I Am...

Deer Tick – “20 Miles”

On June 8, Deer Tick release their third album, entitled The Black Dirt Sessions.  Get a preview courtesy of Stereogum:

Deer Tick – “20 Miles”