As you all hopefully already know, today is Record Store Day, a celebration of independent music stores and the love of music. For the vinyl-addicted among you, today is like your Christmas and for the live music-addicted, today is like your birthday. Stores all across the world are hosting free instore performances by some of [...]

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I’m pretty sure that These United States just finished up their second national tour of the year on Saturday in Lexington. However, I must be wrong, because they’ve just announced another round of tour dates. Nobody has three national tours before May, right? MP3: These United States – Honor Amongst Thieves And if you can’t [...]

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Blitzen Trapper: a band so good they needed two photo Continuing on the tradition of Pitchfork being the best bang for your buck, a ton of great bands were just added to this year’s festival lineup. Yeasayer, Plants and Animals, Disappears, Blitzen Trapper, Mew, Japandroids, and Women were just added to a bill that already [...]

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Jarvis Cocker shared the first single off his upcoming Further Compliactions album with us today. It’s not his best, but I’ve heard good things about the full length. As is, “Angela” sounds like a generic garage rock band would sound if they were really, really polished. Not bad, but not groundbreaking. MP3: Jarvis Cocker – [...]

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A couple years ago Kentuckians used to complain that Will Oldham hardly ever played any shows. Then he started playing impromptu gigs in weird Louisville locations (like a post office), throwing field parties outside of Lville and eventually even coming to Lexington. Now it seems that he’s touring semi-regularly in support of his new album [...]

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Dodge was nice enough to let me premiere the first video of De Novo Dahl’s Laundromatinee session. The full session of three videos + MP3s will be online tomorrow at LaundroMatinee’s site.

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Sunset Rubdown are releasing Dragonslayer June 23, but now we’ve got a sneak preview of the album. “Idiot Heart” is a 6+ minute epic rocker that undulates around Spencer’s vocals for its entirety. Fans of Sunset Rubdown’s first record might be a little confused/let down, but what with the last Wolf Parade album, you kind [...]

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After hopping aboard the Gliss train, I was rewarded with this video for “Morning Light.” Like I said last time, Gliss is for fans of the Jesus and Mary Chain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and the last Raveonettes album (you know, the one that sounded like the JAMC!)

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Thanks again to Brad for pointing me to this band. I said I was working on stuff to post for today and he told me he had just the band for me to listen to… That kid never lets me down. MP3: Netherfriends – TAC TAC “TAC TAC” is some wicked smart pop music that’s [...]

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