The behavior of
Alice Glass is legendary – from her stage-diving antics at the past month’s
Reading Festival that resulted in her needing to be rescued by security, to the
cancellation of this year’s Crystal Castles performance in Dallas (at least we got to see ‘em here in Austin!). And while we probably won’t be hearing new material from the group anytime soon, their live performances, for all their voracious volatility, are a sight and sound to behold. Which makes all the more sense that Cannibal Cheerleader, your source for Crystal Castles news since 2007, provide you the faithful with a CC bootleg live performance mp3, which you can check out below. And, not to leave you hanging, check out this new remix of “Air War” that’s been bouncing around the Internet called the “Joe and Will Ask? Remix”. No idea if it’s official or not but it’s nonetheless interesting stuff, check it all out below.
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Cannibal Cheerleader has long been the apologist blog for
Scarlett Johansson’s solo career, even though the brilliance that was Anywhere I Lay My Head deserved no such excuses, and her new album
Break Up with Pete Yorn is no exception – here’s a sure to be misunderstood record that features the starlet’s haunting vocals alongside sparse instrumentation, all the while lamenting about love and loss. Not necessarily the most unique or original concept album but a winner nonetheless, considering the nuance and passion Johansson injects into every verse. Definitely worth a spin!
Seems as if our favorite singer-songwriter hasn’t quit the business as he purported after all – in fact it would seem the inimitable
Ryan Adams has only begun, as he’s reemerged from his self-imposed exile with a pair of wonderous new singles. Reviving his PAX-AM music label Adams has released via his website the “PAX-AM Digital Single #1″ featuring “Lost and Found” and “Go Ahead and Rain”. Definitely going to be looking forward to more tunes from this fantastic artist!
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Posted: September 22nd, 2009
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While we’re all still waiting for
Sufjan Stevens ‘50 States Project’ to wrap itself up, the Detroit singer and multi-instrumentalist has kept himself busy with side projects, helping the label
Asthmatic Kitty and recently release
the BQE, which, according to sources is “symphonic and cinematic exploration of New York City’s infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway”. A strange exercise no doubt but it nonetheless captures the child-like wonderment and harmonious beauty so characteristic of Stevens’ work, and while it’s no “Come on Feel the Lone Star State” it’ll tide us over until then.
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Posted: September 21st, 2009
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John Darnielle represents quite possibly the darkest corner of the singer-songwriter mystique – a once drug-addled, abused youth with no direction and nothing to live for who has managed to pen his sharp and painful past into pictures of a shadowy underworld, a poetic realization of an America long forgotten. And while
the Mountain Goats, the moniker under which Darnielle performs, have recently released a pair of albums with more lighthearted instrumentation (
Get Lonely and
Heretic Pride) the song nonetheless remains the same. On his newest record
The Life of the World to Come Darnielle recaptures the expansive loneliness of albums such as
the Sunset Tree and
Tallahassee, depth and horror bleeding from every song named after a different Bible verse. Featuring the bandleader’s best and most evocative vocal work ever paired with a gut-wrenching theme of redemption and damnation,
Life of the World to Come is one of the Mountain Goats best albums to date, closing with the terrifying Ezekiel 7, a Biblical passage which features the line “
The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. 3 The end is now upon you and I will unleash my anger against you”. A terrifying end to a terrific album.The Mountain Goats – “1 Samuel 15:23″
The Mountain Goats – “Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace”
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2009 may just be the year of the
Yeah Yeah Yeah, considering their blazingly original third LP It’s Blitz! and the band’s monumentally successful North American tour thus far. Now, not only have we received news that Karen O and company are
replacing the Beastie Boys at Austin’s own
Austin City Limits Festival, but KO is helming the entirety of the
Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack. Check out the video for “All Is Love” below and be prepared to get your yeah yeahs out Austin.
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Rolo Tomassi, our favorite progressive-hardcore act from across the pond, have been tearing it up at festivals all summer long, as evidenced by this excellent new video featuring the band wrapping up their set at the Lowlands with a snarling take on “Curby” – check it out below. In other RT news plans are in the work for some EPs this year so stay tuned to this space for all your Rolo Tomassi needs and desires – Cannibal Cheerleader, official Rolo Tomassi American sponsors? We do love them and all!
Rolo Tomassi – “Beatrotter”
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Posted: September 16th, 2009
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When
Baroness release the
Red Album in 2007 they earned themselves a considerable amount of metal credibility, their crunching, screaming metal shocks segueing seamlessly into droney stoner anthems. With the
Blue Record the band has taken this formula and injected a great deal of progressiveness, much in the same way Mastodon managed to achieve with
Crack the Skye. Exploring the same dark, naturalistic tops of yesteryear but featuring increasingly bizarre and markedly different instrumentation, complete with searing whip-crack riffs and the utilization of additional vocalists, Baroness’ sophomore LP features a natural expansion of growing artistry. Here’s hoping this rainbow of records continues to grow.
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Posted: September 15th, 2009
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If Swedish songstress
Fever Ray, aka Karin Dreijer Andersson of
the Knife, decided to make a video for every song from her self-titled debut album you wouldn’t hear any argument from this die-hard fan. Capturing the same dark mystique as her previous efforts while injecting new levels of voodoo horror, the video for new single “Seven” features some terrifying farmhouses, bizarre costuming, and an aging woman seemingly representing Andersson reminiscing on her life. One step away from animal sacrifices at this point, check it out.
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Posted: September 15th, 2009
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Stop the presses, throw your phone into the lake, unplug your internet right this very instance because with their sophomore LP Forget the Night Ahead Scotland’s the Twilight Sad have accomplished the impossible and crafted a swirling, haunting, incredible followup to their already seminal debut Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters. Why are you reading this and not listening to this album? Delivering on the promise of the fantastic early singles “I Became a Prostitute” and “Reflection of the Television”, Forget the Night Ahead feels in many ways a tighter, more furiously focused record in contrast to the meandering codas that defined their earlier works, though instrumental tracks like “Scissors” illuminate the fact that the group still has a lot to say in the context of fuzz and feedback. Tracks like “That Room” and “Seven Years of Letters” present a band that has become comfortable with its strengths, relying primarily on a flurry of guitar wails, loud-quiet-loud explosions, and James Graham’s inimitable voice. Truly a work of art and one of the absolute best releases of the year, bar-none.
The Twilight Sad – “That Room”
The Twilight Sad – “Seven Years of Letters”
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