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WOODS – ” Hollow Home “

Posted: April 3, 2016 in MUSIC
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In the hair over a decade they’ve been together, Brooklyn’s Woods have been wildly prolific, releasing nearly an album a year in that time. Next Friday, The band will release its ninth record, City Sun Eater In The River Of Light, which sees the band continuing on its psych-folk trajectory.  City Sun Eater In The River Of Light ahead of its April 8th release on the band’s very own Woodsist label. Throughout City Sun Eater, Woods shows its ability to offer subtle variations on its standard sounds, making for a record that takes some big steps while retaining the warmth and familiarity of a ’70s classic-rock record at every turn.

WOODS – CITY SUN EATER IN THE RIVER OF LIGHT
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SLONK DONKERSON – ” Build Something, Break Even “

Posted: April 2, 2016 in MUSIC
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From Brooklyn, NYC comes a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but if they called those things “shitweeds,” the floral industry would look a whole lot different than it does today. So you gotta get over the fact that this Brooklyn trio has chosen the moniker Slonk Donkerson. I’m not issuing a command, mind you, just stating a fact of life. It’s an obstacle! But once you’ve cleared it, there’s a wealth of musical riches to be experienced. Slonk Donkerson play aggressive, guitar-heavy power pop that feels like part of a lineage including bands like the Replacements, Guided By Voices, and the Strokes, although it shares DNA with a whole world of other stuff, too, like ELO, Rush, Thin Lizzy … Ultimately, though, it’s all about the hooks, and on Slonk’s new LP, The Lunar Martini Motorbike Club And Their Respective Destinies, the hooks are everywhere. Like thorns, really, in a veritable rose garden of songs

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MAIL the HORSE – ” Holy Motel Magic “

Posted: March 24, 2016 in MUSIC
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Self-described on their website as a “shimmering booze-soaked grunge gospel/country blues rock band,” Brooklyn’s Mail the Horse truly delivered the goods in today’s studio session. Listen to them play “Best I Can / Shallow Water” off of their latest album “Planet Gates”.

At the band’s core lies true DIY sensibility. They’ve performed tons of eclectic shows nationally, ranging from a NYE bash with The Felice Brothers to a backyard kegger alongside Nashville’s finest local groups.

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Their 2015 album Planet Gates, Brooklyn band Mail the Horse in the live setting the songs sound like a happy marriage between The Band, the Rolling Stones circa Exile On Main Street, Gram Parsons, and the Jayhawks. The pedal steel guitar danced around the piano and powerhouse drumming that would make Levon Helm smile, creating a blissfully intoxicated country sound. Each member of the band are so in tune with the others and more than willing to step in to help make the harmonies of every song soar high and pretty.  Mail The Horse are that downhome, twangified rock and roll can still be rousing and original.

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BEVERLY – ” Contact “

Posted: March 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Brooklyn based Beverly returns with new single “Contact,” a dreamy allegory about deceit and confusion.

In the summer of 2014, Beverly released “Careers,” a breakout debut album that combined raw pop, post-punk and dreamy melodies. Led by vocalist and guitarist Drew Citron, the band toured across the US and Europe supporting the Drums, as well as playing sold out headlines dates in their hometown of New York. The new album takes a bolder turn, with Citron enlisting new collaborators including noise pop producer Scott Rosenthal (The Beets, Crystal Stilts) and Kip Berman (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart). Crooked Cop was the first taste from the upcoming sophomore album out in spring 2016. now a second track Contact is from The Blue Swell out May 6th, 2016.

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BIG THIEF – ” Real Love “

Posted: March 4, 2016 in MUSIC
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Only a few weeks after the announcement of their deal with Saddle Creek, Big Thief have revealed a release date for their debut album Masterpiece – the eagerly awaited LP drops May 27th.

Big Thief is the product of Brooklyn-based musicians Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik and James Krivchenia. Lenker, who began her career as a solo artist, met Meek in New York a few years ago, where the two quickly formed a musical partnership. While performing in dive bars and in basements, they recorded new music, including Lenker’s solo album, Hours Were The Birds. Lenker and Meek then joined forces with the other half of Big Thief and spent last July recording Masterpiece in a Lake Champlain, New York, studio with producer Andrew Sarlo.

“Struggle is inherent in love. Without consciousness, human or animal, would love exist?,” Lenker said of their new track, “Real Love.” “We make love, and love makes us. Maybe that’s why it is so hard for us when we feel that we’ve lost it, as if we’ve disappeared.”

Big Thief is set to perform several showcases at SXSW this month and will hit the road with Yuck for an extensive tour this spring.

ESKIMEAUX – ” Power “

Posted: March 1, 2016 in MUSIC
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We’re living in the Year of the Monkey, but Brooklyn-based, D.I.Y.-minded rocker Gabrielle Smith (who records as Eskimeaux) has her mind on 2011, a.k.a. the Year of the Rabbit. That’s when she entered a highly fulfilling relationship (she describes it as “dope”) with her current partner Oliver Kalb, who plays in Eskimeaux and with Smith in Bellows. It’s also the title of her forthcoming mini-album, due April 15 on Double Double Whammy.

“We have a pretty unique relationship because we’re in a bunch of bands together,” Smith tells Billboard. “But we tour sometimes separately, because I’m in Frankie Cosmos… We’ll sometimes have long times apart and it’s very therapeutic because it gives me perspective on how dope our relationship is.”

Indeed, it’s the sort of perspective that comes when you’re able to look back on a young relationship several years onward. Smith delved into that soothing time apart on her latest track,

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“Oliver and I have a lot of each other’s lyrics in each other’s songs and kind of write back and forth,” Smith says. “Sometimes Greta [Kline] will say something that’s really poignant to me in a Frankie Cosmos song and I’ll use that line to respond to it with my feelings attached… It happens with LVL UP, too. They have a bunch of Frankie Cosmos lyrics in their songs.”

PARQUET COURTS – ” Dust “

Posted: February 22, 2016 in MUSIC
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Brooklyn quartet Parquet Courts depict the aforementioned “foggy drudgery” of desk life in their video for krautrock chugger “Dust.” Directed by Johann Rashid, the sepia-hued clip is nothing short of Kafkaesque, featuring an office drone being haunted by an anthropomorphic dust mite.

Their Album Human Performance was released in April and the fifth album from American Punk-Rock band Parquet Courts. Dust arrived in February and was the lead single from the L.P. A perfect way to kick the album off: Dust is drone-like but has plenty of determination and spirit; its chorus is instantly catchy and memorable and the band performance is completely tight and compelling throughout. Backed by rich and clear production values and you cannot fault the multiple layers and nuances of Dust. The rest of Human Performance switches between goofy Pop and addressing gun violence in the U.S.  and proves what a nimble and far-reaching band Parquet Courts are.

“Dust” is taken from Parquet Courts’ new album ‘Human Performance’, out 8th April 2016 on Rough Trade Records.
It’s been a quiet year in terms of release for the Brooklyn quartet, who released two records in 2014 (one under the pseudonym Parkay Quarts). To make up for that, they’ll release a tidbit of new music with their last EP only a few months old, in the form of a EP called ‘Monastic Living’.

CAVEMAN – ” Never Going Back Again “

Posted: February 14, 2016 in MUSIC
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Brooklyn indie rockers Caveman have been relatively quiet since their excellent debut album three years ago. That album showed incredible growth, and it seems their sound has stretched even more on their newest offering “Never Going Back,” the lead single from their third LP, Otero War, due this summer. On “Never Going Back,” bright synths and rhythmic guitar strums elevate a melodic vocal and hook that will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day. It seems Caveman are coming into their own; I think we are in for a treat with Otero War. Check out “Never Going Back”

PARQUET COURTS – ” Dust ” And “ Outside ” New LP Human Performance At WFUV

Posted: February 4, 2016 in MUSIC
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Parquet Courts performs “Dust” live in Studio A. Recorded 13/01/2016. Yesterday we speculated over whether or not Parquet Courts would be releasing a full-length in the coming months after a mural featuring what looked like new album artwork surfaced in Brooklyn, and today that suspicion has been confirmed. The Brooklyn-based band performed new songs on WFUV, and their host Carmel Holt announced that the new LP, Human Performance will be out this spring. Watch the band perform “Dust” and “Outside” below, and listen to their full WFUV session

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In other news: A mural recently went up in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood teasing what appears to be a new Parquet Courts release called Human Performance. Below, watch a making-of the mural posted to Instagram by Rough Trade, the band’s label.

Parquet Courts’ last studio album was 2014’s Sunbathing Animal. In November, they released the Monastic Living EP.

 

LUCIUS – ” Something About You “

Posted: February 4, 2016 in MUSIC
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“Something About You” is the newest track off the Lucius’ new album ‘Good Grief’ due out on the 11th March , Lucius have shared a fairly ‘out there’ new video for their latest single . It’s the third song they’ve revealed from their upcoming album ‘Good Grief,’ after previously releasing ‘Born Again Teen’ at the end of last year. ‘Good Grief’ comes out on 11th March via Play It Again Sam Records.

Lucius’ bonkers new video for ‘Something About You’ was directed by Los Angeles’ Mimi Cave, who has also directed several video bits and bobs for tUnE-yArDs in the past. Band vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig skip around a plastic world of pyramids and mysteriously opened doors, growing extremely long limbs, and dancing in blank white rooms (serious ‘Hotline Bling’ vibes, there) throughout.

Wobbling bass plucks, wafting synths sent straight from Saturn, and hypnotic kaleidoscopes; this is surreal, barmy pop music of the best kind. We’re dead chuffed to have the first play of Lucius’ ‘Something About You’ video. Have a watch , and scroll down to check out the Brooklyn band’s upcoming European tour dates.

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