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THE MARS VOLTA RELEASE COTOPAXI
Here’s the first single from the upcoming Mars Volta LP Octahedron. Sounds like some classic MV, a little less in-your-face that the Bedlam in Goliath but featuring the same energetic instrumentation with a flecks of Deloused in the psychedelic chorus. Definitely worth a listen, grab it below.
The Mars Volta – “Cotopaxi”
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BILL CALLAHAN IN AUSTIN
Last Friday at Waterloo Records here in Downtown Austin local freak-folk hero Bill Callahan (aka Smog) performed some tracks from his new, hypnotic LP Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle to a hushed and reverent Texas audience. Marking a return to the darker days of his lo-fi cassette recordings, Callahan kept a crowded record store absolutely rapt with attention as he lightly strummed and picked through literary and intricate tracks. If you haven’t heard the new LP, definitely grab it from this Austin legend.
Bill Callahan – “Jim Cain”
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NEW CELEBRATION SONGS
Check out the new website from Cannibal Cheerleader favorites Celebration – it’s called Electric Tarot and it’s based on the idea that the 22 tracks from their latest LP of the same name are related to the 22 major archana of the Tarot deck. Their site will feature a full deck with cards being added over time. Studio recordings will be the major archana, home recordings the minor, and the Court cards will be Celebration videos. Sounds like a really cool idea to us, check out the mp3s and videos below for the first two songs, “What’s This Magical” (The Shaman/Magician Card) and “I Will Not Fall” (The Fool Card). Awesome stuff.
Celebration – “What’s This Magical”
Celebration – “I Will Not Fall”
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NEW BLOC PARTY VIDEO
Here’s the video for the Villains’ remix of “Ares” as featured on Bloc Party’s Intimacy: Remixed LP. It’s an all cell-phone-camera production recorded from two nights at London’s Olympia Theater. Very cool idea and even better realization. Take a look below.
Bloc Party – “Halo (We Have Band Dub)”
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Where is all this Metal and horror you have been promising? All I see is Alt bags and shoegaze as far as the eye can see.. and why have you not yet posted about the greatest music video of the past few years in Steel Panther’s “death to all but metal?”
Change of my torn-up, grotesquely black heart I’m afraid. We’re going with good music only and not comedy metal I’m afraid.
I hear that!
OK well long time follower signing out, the blog was good while it lasted. I mean you didnt even post any new Gallows songs even tho they are all over the internet and Grey Britain is stellar. Or what about the fact that Mastodon are making “Crack the Skye” into a movie? Or are those bands not shoegaze enough?
This crappy alt phaze (alts are the new emos) will die out, hopefully sooner than later, then you will return to Metal’s warm bosom like a babe in the woods. Changing my favourites from Cannibal Cheerleader to Blistering.com, punk til you puke and Finalgirl.
Not enough cannibals, not enough cheer..
Here are the Gallows mp3s from a few days ago that I guess you missed…
http://www.cannibalcheerleader.com/2009/04/reason.html
Still to each their own. The Exorcist isn’t good because of pea soup vomit alone.