Another week, another chapter in our ongoing 2008 Göteborg music spotlight. This week's guest: Martin Lundmark from September Malevolence/A TenderVersion Recording. So what's up with the Gbg postrock scene anyway? Does September Malevolence consider themselves a part of that? Does it even exist?...
So are you one of those people who constantly bitch about how much better Bloc Party was before A Weekend in the City? Well, take pre-Weekend Bloc Party, sprinkle a little bit of the band Battles on top and I might have a tasty treat to ...
Here is the new Richard Swift video for Knee High Boogie Blues from his upcoming double EP, Richard Swift As Onasis. Richard says the twenty bluesy avant garde rock tracks "sound like if Prince sat in on the Plastic Ono band sessions." ...
Tonight! - Rock For Riley presents... Margot & The Nuclear So & Sos + Bon Iver (The Vogue) - Only about 100 tickets remaining! 4/12 - My Old Kentucky Blog & The Monolith Music Fest present... Cloud Cult + The Forms & Sisters (Radio ...
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Hi, my name is Avi and I'm an idiot. Here's the excellent new single from The Kid. It's a Cortex cover. (yes, there was a different post here before, but it has been removed due to my embarrassment)
Anders Göthberg, rest in peace. You will be missed.
Hardcore Dylan-phile nitpicking aside, there is a lot to love about the (official) Basement Tapes. While many of these recordings (from 1967/68) were originally known on the bootleg circuit from the unofficial comp The Great White ...
Studio 105, Maison de Radio - Paris, France, May 24, 2007 Download: MP3: The National :: Start A War MP3: The National :: Slow Show MP3: The National :: Brainy MP3: The National :: Squalor Victoria MP3: The National :: Apartment Story ...
My favorite good timin’ LA booze cruise band, Le Switch, are performing on the Sinking With Sylvia and Todd show today from 11-1:00 PST on Little Radio. Tune in here. Rock & Roll/Soul/Country/Smooth.
If you read regularly, you know we love The Watson Twins. Leigh and I took art classes together in college. Their grandma and my grandma roll together back home in Louisville. Plus, they make some beautiful music and I love beautiful ...
How long does it take to release a proper LP when you debut EP catches fire and propels you immediately to playing Glastonbury Festival and Lollapalooza, among others? Approximately two years, if you are Ontario's Tokyo Police Club. ...
Finders Keepers Records returns to form with this incredible record from Stones Throw's favorite '70s Anatolian psych-funk superstar, Ersen. This is on par with some of the releases that made me fall in love with Finders Keepers in the ...
white denim @ gorilla vs. booze 08 RCRD LBL has a free download of unreleased WHT DNM live favorite "Goldie Locks." Go DWNLD it. Also, if you're in LDN, go see the dudes play tonight at a bowling alley, or tomorrow at this with the ...
On the heels of the announcement that Grizzly Bear will open for Radiohead on the second leg of their North American tour comes the news that both bands will be playing Lollapalooza '08. The lineup is pretty impressive so far: Radiohead ...
Snöleoparden likes the xylophone. It appears on many tracks on his self-titled debut and is even claimed as the title for one of the pieces. Wood, metal, maybe even plastic- all forms are put into play. At first I wasn't into it at all and wrote him off as an amateur Alog wannabe (no pun intended...
Yes, we’ve fawned over Fleet Foxes previously, but for good reason. They’re worth it — both live and on tape. Yeah, their name has been on everyone’s lips the past month, bur do yourself a solid and resist the knee-jerk reaction to blow ...
Released last Fall, Sandro Perri’s LP, Tiny Mirrors, (amongst its other charms) boasts a lo-fi cover of Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin.” No stranger to interpretation, Perri’s rendering inhibits a mournful and folksy, late-night, ...
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Is there an unfair, uphill battle that female artists face in rock and roll? The battle I refer to is the race to find another female artist with which to compare them to. While we certainly pull out the big, comparative guns for ...
In 1995 and 1996 I was lucky enough to catch Morphine, live, three times during the Yes tour. Truly a club band if there ever was one, Morphine’s noir musical vision was all blue cigarette smoke, beat poetry and style. ...
photo credit: jonlachance, sxsw 2008 Jim James & M. Ward / St. David’s Church /SXSW 2008- March 15, 2008 Download: Zipped Show: Jim James/M. Ward :: St. David’s Church /SXSW 2008 ——— Show details and set list after the jump… ...
The last time I heard The Kills was 2005’s No Wow which popped up on my radar and grabbed me with its dirty, minimalist swagger. I had apparently missed their first album, but it positioned them squarely with the equally squalling ...
Tuesday, while walking through the hallowed halls of Capitol Records’ studios, in Hollywood, surrounded by decades of recorded musical history, I had a conversation with a friend regarding album art: the power it can wield, ...
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Springfield, MO: both the home of Americanized Cashew Chicken (yes, true) and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin — both, also, very tasty. Pershing, SSLYBY’s sophomore album, is an uncomplicated, yet excellent, pop record - the kind ...
In response to my Badfinger post from last month, Duke sent me this solo version of “Without You” that can be found on the Pete Ham collection Golders Green. Elegant minimalism and simplicity. Download: MP3: Pete Ham :: Without You ...
Last week The B-52’s released Funplex, their first album in sixteen years. After three decades together, they haven’t lost it. We’ll discuss Funplex further at a later date, but right now we’re gonna go back a couple of records (and ...
Has it really been an entire decade since the Olivia Tremor Control released their Black Foliage album? Almost, as the album hit retail shelves in 1999. Sonically both an epic, psychedelic collage, as well as a reverent paean to Sixties ...
Those who saw last year’s gritty Grinderman side trip as a return to form need look no further that The Bad Seeds new full length Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!. Like the Grinderman project, Lazarus does not fuck around in the least, ...
Moby is a curious cat. After breaking techno wide open in the early ’90s, he dabbled in industrial-lite dance music, only to wind up the hero of Pure Moods compilation makers and the people who make in-store soundtracks for stores that ...
In three short years Chris Mills has gone from living the dream to living in its aftermath. I loved Mills last album, The Wall To Wall Sessions, and distinctly remember listening to album’s first track, the tragically beautiful “Chris ...
Previously: Off The Record :: Richard Swift (Eugene, OR) Download: MP3: Richard Swift :: Knee High Boogie Blues MP3: Richard Swift :: Phone Coffins ——– Amazon: Richard Swift - Richard Swift As Onassis www.richardswift.us ++ ...
I don't have a lot to talk about today. I don't know how new this is, but it's fun. Hot Chip decided to cover Snoop Dogg's Sensual Seduction. Its pretty much exactly what you'd expect. Oh, Hot Chip you clever monkeys. ...
We've spoken a few times about Sebastien Tellier's Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo-produced Sexuality LP -- still the frontrunner for best/worst album art of the year -- and although we already suspected it, this video for new single ...
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 41: Phosphorescent - A Picture of Our ...
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Until we stumbled upon this, we'd forgotten that The White Rabbits brought a video crew with them when came to visit us last October for a My Old Kentucky Blog/SIRIUS Satellite Radio session in our classroom studio. ...
Mike Doughty swung through Indianapolis, a little more than a week ago, on his Golden Delicious album tour, every-now-and-then MOKB photographer Todd T. was on hand to get the look and feel of the show. You can also check out more of ...
In the three-plus years of MOKB, I don't think we've ever featured a "Nik". This will be our second in less than a week. Good Niks come in bunches I guess. Nik Freitas is the latest signing to Conner Oberst's Team Love Records, ...
Last night's Standard Recording Company and My Old Kentucky Blog present...OBAMA-RAMA! probably wasn't what some of the political conservatives that showed up were expecting. It wasn't a classy, well-funded event, but it did have lots ...
Holy Fuck is pretty good at this remix thing. First they dropped that rad "Paper Planes" re-work, and now their remix of "Nude" is sitting comfortably in the lead on that Radiohead remix contest: mp3: Radiohead :: Nude (Holy Fuck remix) ...
[flyer by david] We are pleased to present fantasy-baseball-loving, Baron Davis-hating legend Stephen Malkmus on April 21 at Dallas' esteemed Granada Theater. He will have his Jicks in tow, and Portland's Joggers will kick off the ...
Since posting about it last week, I've been (figuratively) wearing the hell out of that Quiet Village record (as in, it's all I really want to listen to). I'm still not sure how you'd classify it, but those dudes utilized a dizzying ...
Tune today for another episode of My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS Satellite Radio, Left of Center, Channel 26. One thing worth checking out, we'll be featuring the new Ladytron track, Black Cat. I just can't stop/won't stop ...
I wasn't able to get a copy of Samtidigt Som's new single "Constant in motion" in time for Saturday's interview/Gbg spotlight piece, but I've got it now and holy shit is it great! Such a perfect amalgamation of everything I love about classic Gbg indierock- loud, snotty, overflowing with exuberan...
Standard Recording Company and My Old Kentucky Blog present...OBAMA-RAMA! Obama-Rama is a private Barack Obama fundraising concert and voter registration drive, and will be at Locals Only TONIGHT! Obama-Rama will feature Grampall ...
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It's no secret that I'm fond of folk-influenced jazz (and other music), as I've touched on the subject many, many times. I love the ways old melodies come alive in new contexts, bridging the gap between old and new. But while I know why I'm drawn to it, I've often wondered where the musicians the...
wale :: noise pop 2008 Tune into Sirius Left of Center today at noon eastern (and again at midnight) for this week's episode of gorilla vs. bear blog radio. Today's show features exceedingly awesome new shit from xxxchange, ...
Directed by the geniuses from Encyclopedia Pictura. Watch a bigger, prettier version here, and get your free 3-D glasses here. In other Bjork news, Stereogum posted up their tribute to Post, featuring some pretty badass contributions ...
Joan of Arc's principal songwriter, Tim Kinsella, decided to take a new approach to this new record, Boo! Human. Tim went into the studio with a stack of songs and a sign-up sheet. He allowed the other album contributors to sign up and ...
While A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise is not my favorite, or really even close, song from Phosphorescent's Pride album, I can enjoy the piercing visuals on display in the song's new video. I'm a little confused by the time period, ...
Bodies Of Water released Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink last year and it quickly became a staple in our cd deck. Their California psych-pop draws comparison to the Arcade Fire and Polyphonic Spree, but on a smaller scale than the Spree ...
I really didn't know a lot about The Dodos until we had them in to record an MOKB/SIRIUS session with me. I caught them at SXSW 2007, but might have been having a little too much fun to have paid as close of attention as they deserved. ...
(Show photos by Dave Evans). I've been watching Lullabyes.net like a hawk lately. I want as many of the Hot Freaks! SXSW 2008 sets as they'll post. One of the guys I was proud to bring to the party was David Bazan. ...
We got all kinds of hyped about the Toronto-based dance-hop duo Candy Coated Killahz when we stumbled upon them earlier this year. Lead "ladygirl", Tosha Dash, got in touch and promised to keep us up-to-date on their upcoming album. ...
Weeping Willows' 2002 album "Into the light" marks the band's transition from retro-pop into modern rock and, as such, signified the downfall of the band for a lot of people, myself included. However, due to patience and hindsight, I've changed my mind about the band progression on this album and...
This week's guests in our ongoing Göteborg spotlight series is Samtidigt Som. How long have you lived in Gbg? What brought you there and what's keeping you from relocating elsewhere? We're all from the GBG area and all of us has always lived in or really close to the city. We really love GBG an...
Last night was an early show at The Vogue, so when I arrived at 9pm, I had already missed both openers. So we got right into it. Stars put on a wonderful show and have definitely upped their presence in Indianapolis. ...
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panda bear :: dallas, TX XXXChange (dude is on a roll lately, by the way) becomes the second member of the Spank Rock crew to remix Panda Bear's "Comfy in Nautica" (sort of). This one is a more dramatic, dancefloor-ready, ...
I guess these two jams have been floating around for a bit, but I just got word today that you can download the whole things for free, courtesy of Scion's A/V thing. Both are pretty nice and dancefloor-ready, both have tight cover art, ...
the muslims One band I already regret missing at SXSW this year is San Diego's the Muslims. After listening to the ridiculously infectious set of Modern Lovers-esque jams on their myspace page, I immediately purchased their seven-song ...
I was going to attempt to write about Quiet Village's mesmerizing new LP, Silent Movie, but I decided that the above image from the duo's myspace page sums up their exotic collage aesthetic better than words. I will say that the LP, ...
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I spent something like 10 hours yesterday banging my head against the wall, trying to get some code to work. Every time I'd fix one problem, it would cause something else to break. Just another day at the office, eh? To top it off, it started snowing in the late afternoon. I mean, c'mon- wtf is g...
I hope White Denim are poised to bust out of Austin and take over the world. It would make me pretty happy. This band's live show is a can't-miss event. Their Hot Freaks! set was solid - check the video below - but I also made sure to ...
First off, you may have noticed the new "Join MOKB's Mailing List" sign up form in the left navigational bar. If not, look now to your left. By siging up for our mailing list, you'll be eligible to win free Black Keys vinyl! ...
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Songs I Wish I Had Written is doing a great job of leading the 80s pop revival. I don't say that to disparage them either, I'm all for it. I barely even care that Gentle Touch's "The view" cribs a melody from "Policy of truth" by Depeche Mode. It takes serious panache and, despite the odds, I thi...
It's setting up to be a great April in Indianapolis... Rock For Riley's Fourth Annual benefit concert is less than ten days away. Its the homecoming for locals Margot & The Nuclear So & Sos and it features MOKB's newest, ...
The last time MOKB gave mention to Mixel Pixel, they, and their live show, were met with generally rave reviews from our readers. I guess I expected the band to break out a little in the aftermath. Not because we wrote about them, ...
I've been bumpin' Dude, You Feel Electrical from Shout Out Out Out Out a few times a week for over a year now. I saw the Canadian six-piece play our Hot Freaks! party at SXSW 2007. They were dancey-dance hotness. ...
Lapko is a band I stumbled across recently, somewhat randomly (thanks for the totebag Daniel!). I had seen their name before, but had never fully investigated due to their affiliation with Fullsteam Records, one of Finland's biggest indie labels. I know that it's unfounded (and unfair), but I can...
I woke up this morning expecting to find the new Madonna single and video ready and waiting for me to digest. However, it seems I was misled as they are nowhere to be found. While I twiddle my thumbs impatiently, waiting for the ...
On the local beat, good news... The Cool Kids will be playing The Vogue on 4/20. Speaking of The Vogue Stars will be at The Vogue this Thursday. Martin Royle will open. Doors at 7pm and show is at 8pm. $20. ...
girls Christopher Owens + Chet JR White are new San Francisco duo Girls. The boys would like to "to conjure up auditory memories of listening to a Beach Boys song out of an old car speaker," and their beautiful lo-fi pop actually comes ...
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Bands like Hellsingland Underground frustrate me. On one hand, I can totally understand why a bunch of Swedes would want to start a Southern boogie-rock band ala Lynyrd Skynyrd or the Allman Bros. I bet they have a great time doing it and I imagine that local audiences lap it up. But why record a...
Not surprisingly, Cat Power’s smoky Black Session (recorded for the French Inter radio) has me reaching for my old copy of Dusty In Memphis; an album that continues to remain fresh, no matter the context, years after its introduction to ...
Song:Illinois originally turned us on to this Virginia based post-folk/kitchen sink outfit two years ago. They also just made us aware of the groups new EP, entitled Mussel Souls. Check The Great White Jenkins myspace page for upcoming ...
The enmity between Lou Reed and John Cale is no secret. After Cale’s departure from the Velvet Underground in 1968 (following the release of White Light/White Heat), there was really only one thing that still connected them: Andy Warhol ...
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 40: Megafaun - Lazy Suicide ++ Fleet ...
Despite this nagging cold (aka, post-sxsw hangover), last nights sold-out AD Presents show, at the Echo, was the kind of kick in the ass I needed to get me through to the weekend. Casey Dienel (performing solo as White Hinterland) ...
Heads up, LA - We have three pairs of tickets to give to AD readers for Daniel Lanois’ upcoming performance at the Vista Theatre, March 27th. Following the show, with special guest Brian Blade, there will be an exclusive Los Angeles ...
Public service announcement: You can presently stream tracks off of both Centro-matic and South San Gabriel’s upcoming LPs, entitled Dual Hawks, on their myspace pages. Both albums will be released on the same day — Europe, ...
Retro TV Themes Revisited is an on-going AD feature that aims to mine our long-running collection of past television (aural) glories, cuz they just aren’t making them like they used to. Have at it in the comments. ...
Our last ‘eMusic reccs’ update was last August. So much for doing one of these every quarter. Lots of new albums and EPs have been added, but, per usual, I’m finding plenty of obscure, older stuff as well. It’s no mystery eMusic is ...
One more Black Session. Since acquiring this set, recorded for French radio inter a few years back, I’ve often found myself revisiting it as much, or more, than Feist’s official output. And that is not to be read as a knock against the ...
Have you heard it yet? Thoughts? The album appeared (unintentionally?) briefly on iTunes last week. Officially drops tomorrow.
Just about this time last year we were introduced to English pop-rocker Pop Levi. The hook-heavy, Led Zeppelin-infused songs of his album The Return to Form Black Magick Party were enough to earn him a slot at the last Coachella even. ...
Beach House, still fresh off the release of their brilliant sophomore album, Devotion, are just waking up in Houston, Texas when I reach them on the phone. Guitarist Alex Scally answers and tells me that the band’s second half, ...
Standard Recording Company and My Old Kentucky Blog present...OBAMA-RAMA! Obama-Rama is a private Barack Obama fundraising concert and voter registration drive, and will be at Locals Only on Monday, March 31st. Obama-Rama will feature ...
MOKB and friends were treated to a fantastic show this weekend at The Vogue Theater... Steven Malkmus made his first trip to Indianapolis since 1994, so their was quite a bit of anticipation. MOKB fav, John Vanderslice opened the ...
All you kids into the industry-created Paramore...let me give you a much better alternative. I've had a soft spot in my heart for Jemina Pearl and Be Your Own Pet for a quite a while now. I don't even remember when and where I saw them ...
Awesome Color has a record coming out April 28th on Ecstatic Peace!. It is the followup to their 2006 self-titled release, and it is called Electric Aborigines. Beyond that, the details are a bit hazy. Typically, when a new(ish) band ...
You might have caught my brief mention of Golden Moses, but I wanted to flesh that out a little more. Golden Moses, besides being one of my new favorite side project names, is the latest alias and solo endeavour for John "Crafty" Rogers ...
paper route gangstaz Last week I mentioned Paper Route Gangstaz' upcoming Fear & Loathing in Hunts Vegas mixtape that's due out next month on Mad Decent. What I forgot to mention is that the the PRGz are so hood that they can make a ...
My weekend listening consisted mainly of songs from this new super-limited reissue of early '70s Zambian hard-psych from Amanaz, a band described in the press materials as "an African version of early Cream." If you like your obscure, ...
I keep meaning to tell you how good the new Nicolai Dunger album "Nicollide and the Carmic Retribution" is, but it keeps getting pushed aside. It's a difficult album to distill to a single track, not to mention that I'm still struggling to wrap my head around it (in a good way). So for now you'll...
The Göteborg spotlight series continues! This week's guests: Pistol Disco. How long have you lived in Gbg and what keeps you there? Alex: All my life, and what's keeping me here is Mikael. But I will probably move to Stockholm soon since my girlfriend is getting homesick. Mikael: Lived here al...
Thanks to the always great Pinglewood for turning us on to London's Stricken City. The band's lo-fi demos vaguely recall the new-wave pop of Love Is All and Holy Hail, and their allegedly irresistible live show has already earned ...
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Has enough time passed to make it okay to embrace grunge again? Personally, I never got entirely sick of Nirvana and actually find Pearl Jam's later-era material to be quite good (thanks to my freshman college roommate for insisting), but all the also-rans? Dead and buried in my mind, for the mos...
With Love and Squaler came out a little over two years ago and the Brooklyn-base We Are Scientists found themselves as the new darlings of both NME and bloggers alike, opening for the Arctic Monkeys, and selling hunreds of thousands of ...
Indianapolis! So many good shows this week. NERD and X were both just at The Vogue, and tonight you can go see Cameron McGill at Radio Radio. Joining Cameron will be Great Lakes Myth Society and The Benders all for just $5! ...
Ohhhhh, my favorite non-musical day of the year is finally here! I've been on a cold streak the last few years with my brackets. I was red-hot a few years back winning back-to-back basketball nerd bracket championships - I was makin' it ...
holy fuck: climbing walls @ gorilla vs. booze '08 One of the bands that literally everyone seemed to love at SXSW was Toronto's Holy Fuck. My ears are still buzzing from their face-meltingly awesome set inside the sweaty shoebox that ...
Matador Records has just released their annual Intended Play spring compilation, highlighting the label's recent and upcoming releases. This is the first time they've put it out digitally, though, and it's available for free download ...
Here's the brand new video for White Denim's "IEIEI." The footage was shot by the band with a few of those disposable CVS camcorders while out on their first North American tour, then edited/animated by our kind of weird friends over at ...
As if it wasn't totally obvious from the cover, Astrid Swan's new album "Spartan picnic" is far quirkier than her debut "Poverina". It looks like something I might expect from Stina Nordenstam, though the "Spartan" of the title is entirely misleading as Ms. Swan readily embraces a full, big-band...
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 39: Strokes - Hard To Explain ++ ...
We’re really excited about this one - in the world of Aquarium Drunkard, this is what we call a dream team. Thursday, March 20th, AD Presents: Bon Iver, Phosphorescent and White Hinterland, live at The Echo - and for this lineup, ...
Seems lately I’ve had to be up early on Saturday after Saturday after Saturday. Tomorrow being no different, I, of course, gravitated toward “Friday Night Is Killing Me” by Bash and Pop. Tommy Stinson’s first post-Replacements project, ...
Each month eMusic releases two albums by either unsigned or overlooked bands to give them wider exposure and in this case it paid off. Caught my attention at least. Susu is a band from Brooklyn, New York, who are channeling some of the ...
Alright - back home in LA after five days in Austin - gonna do our best to provide some highlights the next few posts. First off, thanks to all the AD readers who made it out for our two-day Hot Freaks! party, Friday and Saturday, ...
I’m not Irish, but who can’t get behind a celebration like St. Patrick’s Day? Any day that celebrates a man like Patricius - kidnapped by pirates, banisher of snakes, bringer of drunken holidays - sounds alright to me. ...
Wednesday, after Gorilla vs. Booze, like every night during SXSW, there were choices to be made on where to go and who to see. Actually, I should say there were choices to be made by other folks, because, honestly, as a longtime REM fan ...