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Beck's Modern Guilt Due July 8th

As promised, the lead up to Beck's forthcoming Modern Guilt has been quick. With less than a month to go, the Danger Mouse produced, Chan Marshall enhanced album will be available on July 8th via DGC. Soak up the album art above, peruse the tracklist below, and stream the trippy first single "Chemtrails" here.

Beck - Modern Guilt Tracklist:

1. Orphans
2. Gamma Ray
3. Chemtrails
4. Modern Guilt
5. Youthless
6. Walls
7. Replica
8. Soul of a Man
9. Profanity Prayers
10. Volcano

Posted on 06/12/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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Calexico to Play in Outer Space

Calexico won't physically be orbiting in space, but their music will! Friends and family of space shuttle Discovery astronauts get to play DJ by choosing songs to wake the astronauts each morning and one such family member is a fan.

Shuttle commander Mark Kelly's wife, Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords, has chosen two songs: the bugle call from her husband's days at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (that song is so 19th century) and Calexico's "Crystal Frontier" from the Tuscon band's 2001 odds and ends collection, Aerocalexico.

This momentous event will occur on June 13th but you can make it happen now, here on lame ol' Earth, buy checking out the tune below. This is pretty sweet intergalactic publicity considering Calexico have a brand new record, Carried To Dust, coming out on September 9th via Touch & Go.

MP3: Calexico - "Crystal Frontier"

Posted on 06/11/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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New Release Roundup for June 10

Featured new releases for the week of June 10, 2008:

My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Jim James continues to explore assorted musical genres even as newer bands are having success emulating MMJ's earlier works.
Full Album Stream
Buy from Amazon.com

Posted on 06/10/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping Due in October

Kevin Barnes dropped news sure to excite indie music fans and ad execs the world over today on Of Montreal's MySpace blog. His follow-up to last year's wildly successful Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? should hit record store shelves sometime in October—which means it'll materialize on some dudes blog in late summer. It's called Skeletal Lamping and it's all about "capturing the labyrinthine complexity of this human consciousness." So says Mr. Barnes:

i've finished the new album. i've been working on it for over a year. it's mastered and ready to go.

it won't come out till october though. i am very happy with it. i worry that some people are going to misunderstand it. there's nothing i can do about that though, now, it is done. anyways,i didn't create it to give people something to like. i created it because i was compelled to.

Read the entire ~~disclaimer~~ post here.

Posted on 06/10/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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MP3: Semi-Unreleased Destroyer and Wye Oak Songs

In honor of April 19th's Record Store Day, Merge Records issued a free, limited- edition 7" featuring unreleased songs from Destroyer and Wye Oak. If you didn't make it to your local independent purveyor of records on that fine day, you're still in luck. Merge is making each track available as an MP3 file—a format popular among today's youth. Simply register on the Merge website to get the goods. Both tracks are streaming for a limited time if you're not into that whole "downloading" thing.

MP3: Destroyer - "Madame Butterflies"
Stream: Destroyer - "Madame Butterflies"

MP3: Wye Oak - "Prodigy"
Stream: Wye Oak - "Prodigy"

Posted on 06/10/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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Full Album Stream: The Hold Steady - Stay Positive

The zeitgeist that surrounded the Hold Steady's third LP, Boys and Girls in America, was surprising considering the dominant trends in music in 2006. Obviously, that was what made it stick out like a sore thumb: bar band rock, hyper-literate lyrics, and a tip of the hat to the Boss.

Now, fully cemented and no longer under the radar, the band will release their highly anticipated follow-up on July 15th. Preview Stay Positive on the band's MySpace page.

Full Album Stream: The Hold Steady - Stay Positive

Posted on 06/10/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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MP3: Sebadoh - "Soul and Fire (Acoustic Demo)"

As the 10 and 15 year anniversaries for '90s indie classics keep coming, more and more are getting the deluxe reissue treatment. Coming hot on the heels of Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville is Sebadoh's 1993 LP Bubble and Scrape.

The band's chaotic fifth album marked the end of Eric Gaffney's tenure and the emergence of Lou Barlow as tortured love balladeer. The 32-track two-disc reissue lands on July 8th via Sub Pop. Of the 15 bonus tracks, one can be sampled below in Barlow's demo for lead-off track "Soul and Fire."

MP3: Sebadoh - "Soul and Fire (Acoustic Demo)"

Posted on 06/09/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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Full Album Stream: The New Sigur Ros Album

Last week we espoused our love of Sigur Ros' first single and video, "Gobbledigook," from the forthcoming Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust. Since we won't ever be able to comfortably pronounce that title, we've taken to calling it "The Naked Dudes Hurdling a Highway Guard Rail Album." It just rolls off the tongue easier. Stream the entire album on the previously posted widget.

Full Album Stream: Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

Posted on 06/09/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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AC/DC <3's WAL/MART

Sure, you could probably give a damn. But, next fall Wal-Mart will be the exclusive one-stop shop to purchase the, no doubt groundbreaking, next AC/DC album... and say, a gun if you're in the mood.

This is the same company that has censored countless album covers due to "objectionable content" and the same band that crazy religious groups accused of having a name that really meant "Anti-Christ/Devil's Children." A match made in low-cost hell. (via Wall Street Journal)

Posted on 06/09/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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Pay What You Want for Next Girl Talk LP

The tide continues to turn on the music industry. Girl Talk's Greg Gillis plans to release his fourth full-length, Feed the Animals, "on the Internet over the next few weeks." (via Billboard)

Girl Talk mainman Greg Gillis tells Billboard.com he will release "Feed the Animals," a 55-minute album featuring more than 300 samples, in a pay-what-you want format a la Radiohead's "In Rainbows" via his label Illegal Art's Web site. A physical CD will available sometime in the next few months.

"This project has always been about embracing pop," Gillis says. "I feel like the source material on this record has more in-your-face classics. Because of that, it's more over the top."

Posted on 06/06/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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