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Major props to the City Paper’s noise blog for pointing out this amazing cover Wye Oak did of Danzig’s “Mother” for the A.V. Club cover project. It was so good i couldn’t not repost it. While she’s no Glenn Danzig, her guitar work is certainly worthy of the same levels of bad-assery (yet still pretty).

Wye Oak covers Danzig

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Wye Oak are coming out with a new album next year. The baltimore band just announced they will release their third album on Merge records on March 7th, titled Civilian. Below is the title track.

also – i love pressers:

Civilian is a kind of 21st-century folk music, imbued with dense shoegaze guitars, nearly melodic rhythms, and impeccable splashes of electronic color. Without leaning on conventional structure, the songs beguile with fascinating chords and melodies, Jenn’s voice and riveting lyrics, mesmerizing rhythms, and an intoxicating aural landscape. Just as good writing has meaning between the lines, Civilian has meaning between the sounds: the combinations of harmonies, timbres, and words summon vivid and ineffable associations just beyond reach.

Ooooh…i LOVE getting intoxicated on oral landscapes. oh wait. nevermind.

Wye Oak – Civilian (MP3)

tour after the jump

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Whartscapes 5th year looks to be pretty epic:

WHAM CITY is proud to present WHARTSCAPE 2010! JULY 22-25, 2010. the events will he held at various to be announced locaitons through out BALTIMORE, MD

THIS IS THE 5TH ANNUAL WHARTSCAPE! OVER THE 4 DAYS THERE WILL BE OVER 120 MUSIC, THEATER AND VIDEO PERFORMANCES.
THE FESTIVAL IS 100% VOLUNTEER ORGANIZED AND RUN, 100 % CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP FREE

this is not the final list of performers, we will announce more acts soon. tickets will be on sale june 15th at whamcity.com and the TRUEVINE record store

Massive :Lineup after the jump

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Wye Oak bring a few songs off their recently released EP NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert. This medium works perfectly for them since they are just a duo anyway. They close with the very pretty “I Hope You Die” in acoustic form, and one of my favorite songs that they rarely play at shows, the song Andy sings on , “Regret”, from If Children

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