Rivers and Roads - The Head and the Heart from The Head and the Heart
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The Head and the Heart - Rivers and Roads
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Otto Rollo - Chattanooga Sugarbabe
On the corner of casper-town and dread, some crusty rust of autumns ago and a cocaine sand storm blew through. Not one noticed and not one would. Except some anonymous so and so from Chicago, named Otto Rollo. This is the casper-after of “Chattanooga Sugarbabe”, originally by Johnny Cash, and afterwards by Otto Rollo.
The unmatched stature of blown youth and blued older than. The dread of the after the casper-town, and the dread of the still in it. The birds wouldn’t even fly by. And if they did, they wouldn’t see them. In the cocaine bleached sand storm, like parade confetti, the birds would blend. With turbulent and dangerous only to themselves lunacy, they wouldn’t notice nevertheless blink.The dread of something after death.
Bulldog Skin - Guided By Voices from Bulldog Skin
Here is a Guided by Voices song. It is off Mag Earwhig! It is very good. It kinda sounds like Pavement. OR MAYBE PAVEMENT KINDA SOUNDS LIKE THIS?????
Veronica Falls - My Heart Beats
Roy Lichtenstein + Andy Warhol make good visual inspiration for such a tight pop tune.
Directed by Daniel Fetherston and Alex Curtin of Army of Kids. New single out on April 3rd from Slumberland Records.
M. Ward
Singer-songwriter M. Ward opened the house with an incredible, stripped down set. Get a behind-the-scenes look of M. Ward’s Spotify Session with this video from our friends at Rolling Stone.Stay tuned to Rolling Stone each day for video recaps of all the incredible performances at the Spotify House presented by MSN. If you’re in Austin, be sure to swing by for a daily dose of exclusive music, giveaways and more! We’ve set up shop at 1010 E. Cesar Chavez. Click here for a map.
perth - Original Food
Got completely sucked into this new Western Australian band’s sound - vocal harmonies, dreamy guitar swirls, layers of sunshine synths. The build-up and break-down at 2:30 on this track tears me up - simply stunning.
Get their debut Babes, Water, Waves LP over on Bndcmp - the whole thing is a beaut.
Single Lash - Curses
Austin’s no-fi cloudgazers asked filmmaker Melissa Cha to create a visual for them that would match their muted, k-hole sounds. I think she nails it. Here, her face melts to the sanguine movement of this viscous new track from the forthcoming record. Fitting that band leader Nicolas Nadeau is also a painter, as his painting practice “provides a synesthetic framework within which he approaches music- thinking of each song in terms of its textures, weight and other material properties.”
Look for the forthcoming Almost Breathing LP out soon. Don’t miss these soundz rendered live at SXSW this week - they’ll be set up at the Not Not Fun house show on Friday the 16th. Be there.
Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez from Diamonds & Rust
Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
I had the privilege of seeing Joan Baez play in my home city, Bristol, this week. She is my greatest musical influence and heroine and I was in awe of her voice and her presence all evening and for days afterwards, as I’ve always been.
Although I’ve always preferred her music from her early days, the 1960s, I think Diamonds & Rust is the best song she’s ever written. Famously, she had a relationship with Bob Dylan which ended when he started gaining international attention; this song was written a decade later after she received an unexpected phone-call from him.
I think the reason this song touches me so much is Joan Baez has always been perceived as this unstoppable force who has taken part in hundreds of civil rights protests, marched alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., campaigned against wars and unashamedly put herself in harm’s way to protest for peace over the years, let alone maintaining a steady career as a very respected musician and songwriter… yet here she bares her feelings surrounding this man, the one person who broke her and the profound, nostalgic affect a single phone-call had.
As I remember your eyes
Were bluer than robin’s eggs
My poetry was lousy you said
Where are you calling from?
A booth in the midwest- Rosie
fault lines
is it you who calls the shots
of what you want
does it hurt when he sees you
like his eyes are made of fire
he’s not allowed to be near you
so why are you the one who hides?
i don’t have to pretend that these are your friends
how could you live on a fault line
when you’re so scared to be touched
if i’m so sure that i’m drowning
why’s my mouth feel like a sponge
i know
and you can pretend that these are your friends
but how could you live on a fault line
when you’re so scared to be touched
if i’m so sure that i’m drowning
why’s my mouth feel like a sponge
i know
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THOUGHTS FROM DETENTION Feat Shep
Terrace Martin - THOUGHTS FROM DETENTION Feat Shep - Thoughts From Detention
saxophonist, producer extraordinaire on his rap game
Of The Soul (Remix) ft. Posdnous & Raekwon - Mac Miller
Mac Miller - Of The Soul (Remix) ft. Posdnous & Raekwon
Stone Communication - Brusque Twins
Brusque Twins - Stone Communication
Minimal synth duo from Montreal. Their EP is out on Visage Musique.
Mack the Knife - Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington from Ella And Duke At The Cote d'Azur
Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington - Mack the Knife (live)
Sufjan Stevens, Son Lux, and Serengeti have teamed up to form, well, s / s / s. Please don’t ask me how to pronounce that. Anyway, this bizarre track is straight off of their upcoming EP. I’m thoroughly intrigued, for the these three musicians with very different sensibilities seem to have forged beauty from utter chaos. Beak & Claw drops March 20th. Keep your ears and your mind wide open.
