neverhappened

Dirty Three & Chan Marshall

Ethereal performance video, nice song.  Warning: Extreme Violins.

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Secretly Canadian

Secretly Canadian is a record company.  They have a website.  There you can download lots of mp3s.

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The Twin Atlas

The Twin Atlas sound a lot like The Stereobus (NZ band, ex Jean Paul Sartre Experience, nice chaps).  Here's a mother load of free mp3s from their site...

"roll on"
"current below"
"plains of saviors"
"shot out"
"signals & plays"
"beautiful surprise"
"calling for you"
"inside the rhymes"
"energy's weight"
"tell the stories"
"vacuum of the day"
"state lines"
"inverted torches"
"nineteen lives back"

Link to where you can buy some of their CDs

Rogue Nation - Descended Like Vultures

Download rogue_wave_publish_my_love.mp3

Download 10_1334.mp3

Download you.mp3

Download endless_shovel.mp3

Download every_moment.mp3

Link to buy the new album Descended Like Vultures from Amazon.  Released today, so it's fresh as it gets...

New Deerhoof - The Runners Four

There's a new Deerhoof album...  Read the Pitchfork review here.

Download deerhoof_you_can_see.mp3

What the?

There's a band in Holland called Neverhappened.  From their site:

We are Never Happened, a rock band from Schiedam, Holland. We like to think we just make straight-up Rock music. Nowadays you see too much of rock's spin-offs like Punk, or the current "brit-pop" rage here in Europe, and we thought it was time to show our stuff and bring the people some real Rock and Roll!

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David Byrne's Playing The Building

Playing the building is a sound installation by David Byrne in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations will be of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Here is a band without a record label in the U.S.  This is the way it should be done - make great fucking music and distribute it yourself.  No contracts, all creative control to the artists. Oh yeah, and fair money to the artists.  This is what the future will be like after filesharing kills corrupt record companies... 

"9.0 on Pitchfork! Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has stockpiled a mass of oft-trampled influences, including what amounts to a 12-course meal of in-vogue '80s acts. What's interesting is the manner in which the players assemble this source material. The Cure and The Smiths, for instance, are probed for neither nostalgic angst nor fashion cues. The Reagan-era creepiness that often surfaces when contemporary acts dabble in such sounds in curtailed by Clap Your Hands' apparent affinity for the Clean and other indie slouchers, to say nothing of the harmonica strapped in front of singer Alec Ounsworth's mouth. (Republicans play keyboards, but it takes a socialist to pull of the consecrated harmonica holder.) - Jay Ruttenberg Timeout NY"

The bold is mine... as are the inflammatory comments about record companies...

Download 02_let_the_cool_goddess_rust_away.mp3

BUY the record HERE

The Weight Is A Gift

Nada Surf have a new album out.  Buy it here.

Here's my favourite track so far...

In_the_mirror.mp3

Woody Allen, the man himself on the Clarinet

A must go if you are a Jazz Lover and in New York. Unless Woody shoots he is at this classy Midtown Hotel (Jacky and JFK hung here) with his New Orleans Jazz band every monday evening. Word is that he has missed his own Oscar nominations before to play the clarinet on monday's in New York. It's an evening which is so New York that you won't forget it  soon. The small hotel bar can house about 120 guests at their tables, no mics or amps are used - all live and if you are lucky you might get a Woody autograph too. (Once he leaves the bar give your waiter a big tip and ask him to get woody to sign your empty wine bottle. He might run off to the back stage entrance to get you the autograph - actually just go there yourself by walking further into the hotel and turn right after the glass door, this way leads you to the exit Brooklyn born Allen takes.

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