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SF Weekly Reviews Liv Phair's Guyville Concert

Liz Phair After ostracizing her fan base with a couple of awful major label releases, Liz Phair appears to be back in the good graces of the indie nation with the reissue of her debut album, Exile in Guyville, and a string of live performances promoting it. SF Weekly reviews last night's performance at the Fillmore in San Francisco:
Fifteen years after the fact, Phair knows how to play those Exile songs perfectly. She might be kinda rusty on the material outside of that, but last night at the Fillmore she nailed those singular songs better than she nails the blowjob in “Flower.” She gave the sold out house of 30 and 40-somethings the show they’d all dreamed about when they first got their meaty paws on Guyville’s songs for the sexually-aggressive romantic. And hey, if it came a decade and change late, that’s cool with me. I never saw her the first round, and her voice now has a strength and confidence that the recording couldn’t touch. [Read More]
Posted on 06/24/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink
TAGS:  Liz Phair 

Stream: New Beck Songs From Modern Guilt

Beck The Modern Guilt hype machine continues to pick up steam and so far it's more than welcome. Our first preview came a month ago with the Caribou-esque "Chemtrails," and now Beck has dropped a couple more over at iLike. "Orphans" and "Gamma Ray" confirm the '60s pysch direction that "Chemtrails" hinted at.

Stream: Beck - "Orphans" and "Gamma Ray"

Posted on 06/24/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink
TAGS:  Beck 

Video: Beck Modern Guilt Trailer

Beck sounds as psychedelic as ever in this two-minute Amazon.com exclusive trailer for Modern Guilt. Short snippets provide insight into the Danger Mouse produced tracks, accompanied by what looks like behind-the-scenes footage from a video shoot. Modern Guilt is due July 8th via Interscope.

Beck

Posted on 06/23/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink
TAGS:  Beck 

Mercury Rev to Release Two Albums in September

Mercury Rev After more than a three year absence, Mercury Rev will return on September 29th with not one, but two albums. According the band's website, Snowflake Midnight is "a set of nine self-luminous and astonishing new songs."

If that hard sell isn't enough for you, consider Snowflake's companion piece, Strange Attractor—said to be "even subtler" and available for free download by joining the band's mailing list. Sounds like a pretty good deal.

Posted on 06/19/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink
TAGS:  Mercury Rev 

Girl Talk's Feed The Animals Out... Now

Girl Talk's Feed The Animals Girl Talk's Feed The Animals is now available via the pay what you wish download model here! What's it worth to you? All downloads consist of 320 kbps MP3s, but for $5 you get FLAC files and a seamless one-file mix of the album. Pony up $10 and you'll get all that and the physical CD when it becomes available on September 23rd. You can choose to pay nothing, but you'll have some 'splaining to do...

Download: Girl Talk - Feed The Animals

Tracklist:

1. Play Your Part (Pt. 1)
2. Shut the Club Down
3. Still Here
4. What It's All About
5. Set It Off
6. No Pause
7. Like This
8. Give Me a Beat
9. Hands in the Air
10. In Step
11. Let Me See You
12. Here's the Thing
13. Don't Stop
14. Play Your Part (Pt. 2)
Posted on 06/19/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink
TAGS:  Girl Talk 

New Release Roundup for June 17

Featured new releases for the week of June 17, 2008:

Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
The long wait is over for the follow-up to 2005's Apologies to the Queen Mary and the results live up to expectations.
MP3: Call It a Ritual
MP3: Language City
Full Album Stream
Buy from Amazon.com
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
After a world-wide tour supporting Tanglewood Numbers, David Berman returns as optimistic as ever on the Joos latest.
MP3: Strange Victory, Strange Defeat
Buy from Amazon.com
Tilly and the Wall - O
Tilly and the Wall's indie rock meets STOMP act continues on the Omaha band's third full-length album.
MP3: Pot Kettle Black
MP3: Cacophony
Full Album Stream
Buy from Amazon.com
War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues
Take a little Dylan and add a few more decades of musical influence and you get yourself an all out War On Drugs.
MP3: Taking The Farm
Buy from Amazon.com
The Impossible Shapes - The Impossible Shapes
Sons of the Elephant 6 sound, The Impossible Shapes' latest is simply titled with a symbol-- a sigil-- but is being referred to as self-titled.
MP3: Hey!
Buy from Amazon.com

Posted on 06/17/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink
TAGS:  Impossible Shapes  Silver Jews  Tilly and the Wall  War On Drugs  Wolf Parade 

Stream: Conor Oberst Solo Songs

Conor Oberst Conor Oberst steps out from behind the Bright Eyes mask for the first time with his forthcoming self-titled solo album—due August 5th via Merge. According to his website, he's backed by the Mystic Valley Band and, other than feeling a little looser, their fruit doesn't fall far from the Bright Eyes tree.

Stream: Conor Oberst - "Danny Callahan" & "Souled Out!!!"

Posted on 06/17/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink
TAGS:  Bright Eyes  Conor Oberst 

MP3: Boston Spaceships - "Go For The Exit" (Robert Pollard)

Boston Spaceships Robert Pollard may have claimed that Robert Pollard Is Off To Business was to be the only "proper" "Robert Pollard" release this year, but that's not stopping the Guided By Voices frontman from releasing albums under ever more monikers.

Pollard follows other '08 releases (...Off To Business, Superman Was a Rocker (a "mini-album"), We've Moved as Psycho & the Birds) with Brown Submarine as Boston Spaceships. Brown Submarine? Gross...

This from his website:
Mr. Pollard was so enthusiastic about this album that he's decided to play his first proper club tour in two years. This from a guy who hates flying, goes bananas sitting in the van, and who has turned down tours with Radiohead and the Strokes. Give Brown Submarine a spin or two - it'll make you feel like a kid again, too.

Or go ahead, ignore Boston Spaceships and keep yourself busy finding the next Vampire Weekend, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or Ned's Atomic Dustbin. But if you save this album on your shelf and pull it out a few years from now, we guarantee it will make you very very happy...
Oh, SNAP!

MP3: Boston Spaceships - "Go For The Exit"

Brown Submarine is due September 9th on Guided By Voices Inc.

Posted on 06/17/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink
TAGS:  Boston Spaceships  Guided By Voices  Robert Pollard 

Video: The Week That Was - "Scratch the Surface" (Ex Field Music)

After disbanding as a single entity last year, the Field Music cup continue to floweth over. Following his brother David Brewis' lead—who released his first post Field Music album, Sea From Shore, as School of Language earlier this year—Peter Brewis will deliver the eponymously titled The Week That Was on September 23rd through Memphis Industries. Both brothers appear in the dead-end office job themed video for "Scratch the Surface."


Posted on 06/17/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink
TAGS:  Field Music  School of Language  The Week That Was 

Did Coldplay Rip Off Some Brooklyn Band?

Coincidence or thievery? Creaky Boards frontman Andrew Hoepfner claims the latter, alleging that Chris Martin attended the band's October 2007 CMJ performance where they played "The Songs I Didn't Write," which unquestionably sounds an awful lot like Coldpaly's iTunes smash hit "Viva La Vida." Of course, Coldplay denies the claim. Ok, so it's probably not true. Shit happens when you only have 12 notes to work with. (via NME)


Posted on 06/16/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink
TAGS:  Coldplay  Creaky Boards 
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