It’s the end of the month, so in addition to bills, you can also expect a new EP from Bishop Allen. May was released today and can be purchased for $6 (or $4 for the digital download, or $7 for both the physical and digital). Not only is it surprising that these folks are still [...]

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While everyone’s focused on that other album that took forever to leak, I’d like to shift focus for a second. Headlights wrapped up work on their new album Kill Them With Kindness not too long ago, but we’ve still got that grueling three month wait until it gets released. To entertain you in the mean [...]

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It’s out. I’m not going to post any of the songs (though XL is a non-RIAA label), but I will say that this thread on atease is a good place to go if you’re looking around. I haven’t heard it yet, but I hope to fix that right after my shower. For those of you [...]

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Sometimes I really kick myself for losing track of a band. The Winks are a good example. I’ve loved a couple of their songs (especially “Snakes”) since I got them a while back, but for whatever reason never remembered to check up on them. Boy was this a mistake. Not only did they release an [...]

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Apparently Matt and Kim are dating. I don’t know, I can’t say for sure. What I can say is that they work the keyboard/drums couple almost as well as Mates of State (though this duo has the male on keyboard and the female on drums–how novel!) They’ll be releasing an album this summer, but in [...]

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MP3: Islands – Rough Gem According to a post dated May 28th on Islands’ website, drummer and ex-Unicorn J’aime Tambeur will be leaving Islands. He had this to say about his departure: “The fact is that I don’t need to be in a band anymore. I think Islands is one of the best, if not [...]

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I’m so glad that Owen from Final Fantasy mentioned Grizzly Bear’s new album, Yellow House during our interview. That way I’ve been given enough time to mentally prepare myself for its arrival. As more tracks from it continue to leak, I think that I’m starting to near being ready. It’s not the album of the [...]

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While not music related, per se, I found this incredibly interesting. The BBC reported on a theater that is using an “ultra sonic tone” to keep people under 25 from lingering outside. From their article: “Crime Reduction Officer Bob Walton elaborated further: ‘Effectively, it’s a transmitter which sends out a specialised frequency noise which according [...]

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“Gospel” is the title track of the EP by the Australian band Treetops. If their Myspace page is to be believed, they’re unsigned at the moment, but I don’t think that’s likely to continue too long after people start hearing their EP. It’s good, good stuff. MP3: Treetops – Gospel I’m starting to think that [...]

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