New Phantogram video: “Mouthful of Diamonds”
Absolutely love this song from non-nyc-ny darlings Phantogram.(via MOKB)
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Snowden “No One In Control”
Snowden released an EP today for the price of an email and there is amazing first song on it called “No One In Control”. They have a full length coming out later this year, a long awaited followup to Anti-Anti.
Snowden “No One In Control” (EP Version)
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Blues Explosion
I saw this morning that a Greatest Hits of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (full stream) is being released to celebrate the band’s anniversary. This brought back many memories for me, being one of my favorite, albeit forgotten, bands in my later college years. Although I got into this band very late in the game, they provided hours of inspired music listening.
This is everything you want in a modern blues band, fusing together all kinds of music, very noisy, and just a lot of fun to listen to. This is a band that can easily pull off a traditional blues song with a little rust on it and then on the next song pull off something completely off-the-wall. I imagine The White Stripes are heavily influenced by Jon Spencer.
As far as I know they are still around, but the last album released was in 2004, so hopefully this means that there might possibly be a new album coming out. You can also hear Jon Spencer’s other project Heavy Trash which he has more recent recordings with and has a similar style.
Fun Fact: The band made the theme song to the Travel Channel’s No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain.
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “I Wanna Make It All Right”
Wax “Field Trip To The Zoo”
A friend at work has been playing this every morning. There is something about it that keeps it running through my head all day.
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Galactic Empire State Of Mind
The Sound of The Universe: SolarBeat
Cool little music thingamajig that takes the solar system and makes music from it. Every time a planet crosses the line, it plays a note. I hope this somehow opens up some magic door in the universe where we discover an unknown blue species of people with ponytails that hook into dragons.
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Wired: Earth’s Cool Concept Albums Decided By You
Good list of concept albums from the readers of Wired. I’m really happy Deltron 3030 made this list and I never really knew that Electric Ladyland was a concept album.
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Wilco Take Away Show
Jeff Tweedy sounds so weary and tired, but sooo good at the same time, this tugs a little at the heartstrings.
Wilco – Country Disappeared – A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
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Foals “Spanish Sahara” (Mount Kimbie Remix)
The new Foals song is great and has been on repeat for me since I posted about it a couple weeks ago. Now we got a nice new remix to listen to. It’s slow and atmospheric, but does some good things to the song.
Foals “Spanish Sahara” (Mount Kimbie Remix)(via POS)
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