New Album Releases - Tuesday September 29th ♪

Bebel Gilberto - All In One - Acoustic/Electronic/Nu-Jazz/Sexy
MySpace/Website

Kris Kristofferson - Closer To The Bone - Country/Rock/Folk/Acoustic/Legendary
Website

Swell Season - Strict Joy - Acoustic/Alternative/Indie Darlings
MySpace/Website

La Roux - La Roux - Electronic/Rock/Clubby
MySpace/Website

Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost - Electronic/Beats/Female Vocal/Sexy
MySpace/Website

Strung Out - Agents Of The Underground - Punk/Rock/So Cal Bro Rock
MySpace/Website

New Album Release - The Fresh & Onlys ♪

Photo by The Fresh & Onlys Myspace

The Fresh & Onlys are Tim Cohen, Shayde Sartin, Kyle Gibson, Wymond Miles, and Heidi Alexander - a San Francisco psychedlic-beat-garage-rock-based band that's one heaping part Joy Division, another part Iggy Pop & The Stooges, a smidgen of Sonic Youth and a dash of The Pixies! This is frickin' exciting. Because this post-punk sound actually has legitimate musical street cred, they make The Killers look like a purple poodle in a crocodile cage. What's up with Brandon Flowers trying to be the next Morrissey and Ian Curtis anyways? Not with that voice he isn't. To spit the truth, the Fresh & Onlys might possibly be one of the few bands out right now that can pull off attempting to walk in Morrissey-Curtis shoes with the kind of experimental post-punk dress suit they're wearing....just saying...

I was listening to their song "Invisible Forces" on their Myspace page and swore that I heard Ian Curtis' chasm of a voice echoing through the microphone. It's creepy how he sings, "Invisible forces, invisible forces" with a shake of power and instability in his voice. The female singer in the background makes for good ghostly effect too - almost like that creepy child singing that every horror movie has in it. "Hated Or Loved" reminded me of Paul Simon's "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard". It has the same kind of upbeat sound to it. "On The Verge" has an old school Belle and Sebastian feel to it, which I appreciated, mixed with a slight battle hymn to the drums.

The Fresh & Onlys have the following music out now: "I'll Tell You Everything" 7", "Castle Face" Self-titled LP, "Imaginary Friends" EP 7", and now "Grey-Eyed Girls" their second full-length album out today!!!

Photo by The Fresh & Onlys Myspace

Visit their Myspace here!
View their Official Website!
& Their WordPress Blog!

Groove on it!
xo

♥ Mayer Hawthorne - Soul Brother

Photo by Mayer Hawthorne Myspace

Mayer Hawthorne is the pseudonym, stage name, of Andrew Mayer Cohen, a handsome and dapper young soul singer based in LA. Listening to his music on Myspace threw me back to the golden ages of crisp suits and Motown. He is an obvious Smoky Robinson lover - their voices are so similar it's freaky and a relief both at the same time. His backing band The County uses piano, and a string and a horn section! Pure awesomeness. Listening to his jams made me reminisce about the first time I ever heard the likes of The Four Tops, The Supremes, Smoky Robinson and The Miracles (Youtube: Cruisin'), and the Temptations (Youtube: Ain't Too Proud To Beg). I'm going to make a wild assumption and call Hawthorne the next big thing, and do I dare say that he's the Male Winehouse?! 


All I can say is that it takes a brilliant singer and intelligent musical ability to be able to help resurrect classic throwback soul jams with just one man, a voice, and his band.


Check out "Maybe So, Maybe No", "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out", and "Love Is Alright" on his Myspace to get your feet moving, hips swaying, and swagger on. 

Photo by Mayer Hawthorne Myspace

Or listen to his album "A Strange Arrangement"! I haven't yet, but I think I'll buy it first! (That doesn't happen often - buy first.)


Track Listing: 

1. Prelude
2. A Strange Arrangement
3. Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
4. Maybe So, Maybe No
5. Your Easy Lovin' Ain't Pleasin' Nothin'
6. I Wish It Would Rain
7. Make Her Mine
8. One Track Mind
9. The Ills
10. Shiny & New
11. Let Me Know
12. Green Eyed Love

Listen to this if you wanna get busy - 8 times out of 10 you're most likely getting it on, either that or you're just not doing it right! 


Go to Mayer Hawthorne's Website
Go his Myspace and listen!
Follow him on Twitta! @MayerHawthorne


Listen to this!

New Album Releases - Tuesday September 8th ♪

Phish - Joy - Rock/Jam Band/Uniquely Phish - Myspace & Website

Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11 - Acoustic/Folk Rock/Metal - Myspace & Website

Vivian Girls – Everything Goes Wrong - Punk/Shoegaze/Surf -Myspace & Website

Wild Beasts – Two Dancers - Pop/Electro - Myspace & Website

Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs -Rock/Alternative/Experimental - Myspace & Website

Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn – Break Up - Alternative/Indie - Myspace & Website

Listen to a Full CD Listening Party of Phish, Wild Beasts, Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Yo La Tengo, and MORE on Spinner.com!!!

And thanks to MetaCritic for the reliable info.

There will be more of a review on some or one...of these artists coming soon...after I listen to them.

xo

New Album Release - Zero 7 ♪

So here's the craziest scoop ever. I just found out Zero 7's fourth album "Yeah Ghost" is coming out September 7 in the UK, September 8 in the US, and September 11 in AUS (Australia, just in case you needed to know).

There are so many good and long-awaited albums coming out in the fall and winter. There is so much going on in the world that there needs to be an outpouring of soulful jams to get us through the shitty times. When there's a loss or a need to be filled musicians seem to become the givers of what's missing. They fill in the void where notes and significance need to be. In a time of deconstruction and progressive adaptation, people need good music. Not overprocessed music. They need the homegrown, don't forget where you came from music. They need something with inspiration behind it. And it is my guess that Zero 7 will inspire.

Track listing:

1. "Count Me Out"
2. "Mr. McGee"
3. "Swing"
4. "Everything Up (Zizou)"
5. "Pop Art Blue"
6. "Medicine Man"
7. "Ghost sYMbOL"
8. "Sleeper"
9. "Solastalgia"
10. "The Road"
11. "All Of Us"

Album art by Zero 7 and their Wikipage.

Follow them on Twitta! @zero7official

peace out & gnite

New Album Release - Flight of The Conchords ♪

The Rhymenocerous (Bret McKenzie) and the Hiphopopotamus (Jemaine Clement) have done it again! The HBO comedy duo Flight of the Conchords have unleashed another masterpiece "I Told You I Was Freaky". It's release date is October 20th in the US and October 26th in the UK. Fortunately till then the fans will be satiated (hint for those who aren't privvy) because FOC and HBO posted most of their tunes from Season 2 on iTunes after each new episode!

The super-nerd-core heroes slash Grammy winners just got off of tour and I didn't get to see them when they were in LA so this is a real nerd fix for me. I can't help but wonder what will happen to the guys, the show, and the music next? I guess only Bret and Jemaine know the answer to that one and the fans will just have to sit patient. Hell, if Mel can wait like a patient jaguar I can do it too. Now is the time to rent Season 1 and 2 on Netflix. How convenient - to have a 2 DVD out at a time plan and each season of FOC is 2 DVDs. Yes. Nerd common sense.

Track listing:

1. "Hurt Feelings" - 2:38
2. "Sugalumps" - 2:11
3. "We're Both in Love with a Sexy Lady" - 2:49
4. "I Told You I Was Freaky" - 3:14
5. "Demon Woman" - 1:59
6. "Rambling Through the Avenues of Time" - 2:43
7. "Fashion Is Danger" - 2:20
8. "Petrov, Yelyena and Me" - 2:28
9. "Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor)" - 2:28
10. "You Don't Have to Be a Prostitute" - 2:49
11. "Friends" - 2:03
12. "Carol Brown" - 3:26
13. "Angels" - 2:36

Cover art by the Flight of the Conchords and their Wikipedia!

Follow some crazy stalker fans on Twitta @conchordsnet!

New Album Release - Monsters of Folk ♪

Monsters of Folk are Conor Oberst, Jim James/Yim Yames, M.Ward, & Mike Mogis.

The self-titled album is being released September 22nd!

More will be said after I listen to the CD. So keep posted...

MOF album art by Monsters of Folk.

Follow them on Twitta!!! @MonstersOfFolk

Track Listing:

Dear God (sincerely M.O.F.)

Say Please

Whole Lotta Losin’

Temazcal

The Right Place

Baby Boomer

Man Named Truth

Goodway

Ahead of the Curve

Slow Down Jo

Losin Yo Head

Magic Marker

Map Of The World

The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me

His Master’s Voice

Tour Dates Near LA:

October 18th @ Greek Theatre in LA

October 20th @ Spreckels Theatre in San Diego

October 22nd @ Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara

New Album Release - MUSE ♪

On MUSE's website, the following information was posted.

THE RESISTANCE

UPRISING
RESISTANCE
UNDISCLOSED DESIRES
UNITED STATES OF EURASIA (+Collateral Damage)
GUIDING LIGHT
UNNATURAL SELECTION
MK ULTRA
I BELONG TO YOU (+Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix)
EXOGENESIS : SYMPHONY PART I (Overture)
EXOGENESIS : SYMPHONY PART II (Cross Pollination)
EXOGENESIS : SYMPHONY PART III (Redemption)

The Resistance will be released on 14th September 2009.

So, please go out Monday the 14th and purchase, or legally download their album THE RESISTANCE!

Also, if you sign up with their website you can hear a sneak preview of the new tracks, and listen to their full discography, awesome mind-blowing rarities and catastrophic remixes here!!!

Do it!

xo

Thank you to MUSE and MuseAdmin at Muse.mu for the borrowing of the photo and information.

Gallery: Press Shots 2009

Location: London, United Kingdom