Always leave ’em wanting more, right? Minor Victories’ “Film One” does just that, featuring two all-too-brief excerpts from the band’s upcoming debut. Let’s pretend for a second that a project featuring members of Slowdive, Mogwai, and Editors had any chance of being anything less than stellar… These three minutes should set your mind at ease if you had any reservations about the quality of work emerging from the supergroup.
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Dum Dum Girls’ re-imagining of Lee Hazlewood’s “Think I’m Coming Down” was always the moody, epic outlier on Only in Dreams, an album of otherwise shambolic 60’s girl-group pop. That moodiness lends itself quite well to a live setting, as you’ll see when the band knocks it out of the park in the video above.
It’s Sunday. The radio show is tonight. Here is some live music from magik markers.
For years, I’ve preached that Yo La Tengo will usher in the apocalypse and bring our time on Earth to a violent, fiery end, and you’ve all (repeatedly) laughed at me. Well who’s laughing now, jerks?
I’m about two weeks too late on this one, but the message remains the same whether it’s the Fourth of July or not.
Shipping news brings the long and slow and makes it awesome.
A short but charming one for you this week: Dave Davison does a solo take on his band’s “The Ongoing Horrible” and crams a lot of interesting guitar work into a two minute video.
Here it is. This should get you pumped for the week. The Interstellar Radio Shower happens in 11 hours (or less by now). And the Hysterics are awesome.
Big Noble, which counts Interpol’s Daniel Kessler among its members, make music that sounds like the intro to an epic song, but then somebody keeps hitting the back button on your CD player right before the first verse kicks in. It’s a sound that lends itself especially well to the videos that the band has been steadily releasing since First Light came out earlier this year.
This is a bit of a departure for me style-wise, but damn, this is very good. It takes a more traditional blues rock sound and adds this strong Mali influence. And it’s awesome.