Norwegian Arms - Tired of Being Cold
Wolf Like a Stray Dog
Big School
**You can currently “name your price” via
http://norwegianarms.bandcamp.com/
Ra Ra Riot - Dance with Me
Beta Love
Barsuk BARK 134CD
**6/10 at the Fillmore in Detroit w/ The Postal Service.
http://www.rarariot.com/
Foxygen / San Francisco
We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Jagjaguwar JAG 227CD
**Playing the Pitchfork Music fest in Chicago 7/21.
https://www.facebook.com/foxygentheband
Nightlands - So Far So Long
Oak Island
Secretly Canadian SC 241CD
**Free track download available at
https://www.facebook.com/Nightlands
Jamaican Queens - Kids Get Away
Wormfood
Notown Records
**Featuring members of Prussia. Taking the album
out into the world, including a West Coast tour in
May with Javelin.
https://www.facebook.com/jamaicanqueens
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside - Party Kids
Untamed Beast
Partisan
**European tour in May and June.
https://www.facebook.com/salliefordmusic
The Blue Van - Would You Change Your Life?
Would You Change Your Life?
Iceberg Records
**Friends since kindergarten, forming the band at 12,
believe it, or not. http://www.wouldyouchangeyourlife.com/
Here’s to reviving the page. With the first 1/4 of the year in the rear view, I figure I can look back on past shows and share some of the past tracks that have filtered through. What are your standout tracks, artists, albums of the young 2013?
Hooka Hey - Little Things
Little Things EP
Splitting their time between Paris and Austin, TX.
http://www.hookaheymusic.com/
Oh, Tumblr, how I have taken you for granted. Forgive me?
Hello. Its louis here. I’m clacking this to you on my phone in my dressing room here at studio 8H, right in 30 rockefeller center, in Manhattan, new york city, new york, america, world, current snapshot of all existence everywhere.
Tonight I’m hosting Saturday Night Live, something I zero…
Want to see @itsmorrissey at The Whiting in Flint on 10/26? Favorite this tweet for a chance to win a pair of tix! http://t.co/nsTWAJ7h — thesetlist (@thesetlist)
FAWN - “Pennies”
Coastlines
Quite Scientific Records QSR-032
**8/3 at Woodruff’s in Ypsi.
#20 on the CMJ Top 200 this week.
DNA from Child Bite, Javelins,
Von Bondies & Those Transatlantics.
http://wearefawn.com/
Opossom - “Why Why”
Electric Hawaii
Fire Records 271
**Album due 8/7. Namesake of Kody Nielson
of the Mint Chicks and Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
http://www.opossommusic.com/
(Red) Hot + Fela
**Surprise of the day!
Taking on the one and only Fela Kuti.
Chet Faker - “Terms and Conditions”
Thinking in Textures
Downtown Records
**Hailing from Melbourne, Australia
with a knack for making a track his own.
http://www.chetfaker.com/
Tumblin’ and Tweetin’ has been hit or miss! We’ll see if we can jolt it back to life. #RootingForTheEndOfApathy!!!
Baby Monster - “City of Lovers”
City of Lovers EP
Baby Monster
**Portland, OR duo Danny Sternbaum & Marty Larson.
http://babymonstermusic.tumblr.com/
I hope all is well in the Tumblr-verse.
Silversun Pickups - “Bloody Marry (Nerve Endings)”
Neck Of The Woods
Dangerbird Records
**Album due 5/8.
http://silversunpickups.com
Xray Eyeballs - “X”
Splendor Squalor
Kanine Records 50076
**3/24 at the Lager House in Detroit.
http://xrayeyeballs.tumblr.com/
This Frontier Needs Heroes - “2012”
2012 (single)
Heroic Endeavours
**Brooklyn duo Brad and Jessica Lauretti.
http://thisfrontierneedsheroes.com/
s / s / s - “Museum Day”
Beak & Claw EP
anticon abr0119
**Fascinating new project
featuring Sufjan Stevens,
Serengeti & Son Lux due 3/20.
Perfection! Listening on repeat.
I want you to move to California for yourself,
I want you to find whatever your heart needs,
I want you to move to California for yourself, but not for me.
I want you to go out there and find somebody else,
I want him to treat you like I know he should,
I want you to find somebody new for…
Gemma Ray; feat. Sparks - “How Do I Get to Carnegie Hall”
Gemma Ray Sings Sparks with Sparks
Bronze Rat
**This is over the top in the best possible way.
Preview of the forthcoming album Island Fire.
http://gemmaray.tv/
Shigeto - “Huron River Drive”
Lineage
Ghostly International GI 148
**AKA Zach Saginaw, with ties to Detroit.
http://ghostly.com/artists/shigeto
Elliot Street Lunatic - “This Modern World”
Ghost Town Lullabies
The Great Lakes Collective
**2/29 at the Mac’s Bar in Lansing.
http://www.facebook.com/ElliotStreetLunatic
The Left - “Love Don’t Work”
Cycles
Divine Industries
**You can sample the album at
http://www.theleft.ca/
Neverever - “Mexicoco”
Shake-A-Baby EP
Slumberland SLR 151
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Neverever/440668020500
