CANNIBAL CHEERLEADER BLOOD BATH SET TIMES That’s right folks, the Cannibal Cheerleader Blood Bath, SXSW Day Party is approaching quickly and if you’re not going to be at the Peacock, 515 Pedernales in Austin, Texas this Wednesday March 18th, 12-6pm, you can rest assured you will be torn apart mercilessly. Above you’ll see our sign for the day show and below you’ll find the set times and the top ten reasons to attend the Blood Bath.
PS. It has come to our attention that the Peacock is now allowing everyone 18+ to attend the event, so if you’re over 18 but under 21 you can attend but not drink. Spread the word!
Top ten reasons to go to the Cannibal Cheerleader Blood Bath:
10. Vermillion Lies leaves to go support Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls after SXSW – Don’t you want to tell your friends you got in before they were big??
9. Treasure Mammal is a hip-hop/experimental artist and motivational speaker and in a live setting that’s every bit as cool as it sounds.
8. Agent Ribbons play Victorian punk – they didn’t even have punk back then but it would’ve been as badass as this, no doubt.
7. Prey For Sleep are following an indie punk band, so we hope a few clueless hipsters will get their faces literally ripped off for cool effect.
6. Action Design = former members of Tsunami Bomb, need we say more?
5. Whispertown 2000, the only folk-rock band with enough cajones to play the same stage as metal acts – seriously bloody indie rock.
4. First ever Rolo Tomassi performance in the United States! FIRST EVER!!
3. Issue #3 of the Cannibal Cheerleader zine available at our merch table, along with CC stickers and possible a Marnie-Stern-style kissing booth!
2. Meet your friendly Cannibal Cheerleader staff, who are way cooler than your average Austinites and can show you a better time in the ATX than 90% of these outside blogs/parties.
1. BLOOD, GUTS, AND GORE. LOTS OF IT. SERIOUSLY, FOUNTAINS.
Be there people, or be torn apart mercilessly. Rolo Tomassi – “Fofteen” ******************************************************************** NEW MF DOOM ALBUM All past transgressions are hereby forgiven, all the rumors, the poorly received live performances, it’s all in the past now that Atlanta emcee MF Doom (now apparently called DOOM, all caps son) has released BORN LIKE THIS. Seriously folks, this may just be the most consistently enjoyable Doom record since Madvillainy, and it features many of the same attributes, that is, short songs with atypical song structures and incredibly clever (not to mention extremely ill) wordplay and rhyming skills. MF Doom is back in fine form, rapping about the state of the hip-hop community, politics, and comic book characters, all in his trademark mush-mouthed, stream-of-conciousness flow. This, plus the sickest J-Dilla and MetalFingers beats this side of the Mississippi, combining bizarre instrumentation with fierce bass beats. Seriously, best hip-hop release of the year so far, no doubt at all. Definitely worth picking up and enough to put all the ’sucka emcees’ in their place, as Doom would say. Sometimes, the king of the world is also the biggest villain, check out some tracks below:
(deleted by request) ******************************************************************** BLOC PARTY ANNOUNCE REMIX ALBUM According to this Stereogum post, Bloc Party will be releasing an Intimacy remix album (Intimacy Remixed) in May, mirroring their lauded Silent Alarm Remixed from back in the day. They’ve got some seriously heavy-weight remix artists contributing such as Mogwai and Phones so we’ll be looking forward to this one with great anticipation. Here is the (terrifyingly awesome and fittingly Cannibal Cheerleader) video for first single, the remix of standout track “Signs”. Definitely worth checking out, though to correct the Stereogum album that said there were no ancillary releases to A Weekend in the City – did you never get the b-side compilation album Another Weekend in the City? You’re missing out if you’ve never heard “Once and Future King”! Check it y’all:
The party takes place Wed. March 18th at the Peacock (515 Pedernales) from 12 to 5pm. We’re still working on beer sponsors and drinks, but free beverages will probably be available for some of the first attendees (and hey, $2 Lone Stars all day anyway so can’t go wrong there). More details as they come but get ready folks!
We’re introducing a new feature here at Cannibal Cheerleader called Piece By Piece where we review an upcoming album track by track. This’ll be reserved for the records we’re absolutely floored by and what better album to start off with than the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs LP It’s Blitz!
1. “Zero”
Album opener “Zero” sets the tone for It’s Blitz! early on, featuring the same sexy, bloody, ferocious Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ lyrics we’re familiar with but with the added effects of layered electronics care of Nick Zinner’s vintage synth-work. Karen O’s voice is featured prominently in the mix, simaltaneously sweaty and sultry when she belts out the high notes in the bridge while still hushed and passionate when she dives into the meat of the song. The whole tune builds to a fiery finish, equal parts dancey and rock and roll, a definitively YYY experience but wholly different from anything else the band has done before.
2. “Heads Will Roll”
Beginning with soft, dreamy electronic warbles, “Heads Will Roll” quickly gains steam when Karen O’s vocals begin (”Off with you’re head!”) and Brian Chase’s drumline crackles behind the textured synths. Sounding like a combination of an Italians Do It Better alumni and a new-rave disco act, YYY have managed to take their fiery carnage to an entirely different level, combining churning dance rhythms, 80s electronics, and their signature rip-roaring guitars to massive art-rock effect. When KO shrieks “Dance ’til you’re dead!” under a mountain of swirling synths one can’t help but feel the band is back in rare form with this song. Plus c’mon “glitter on the wet streets” – pure awesomeness.
3. “Soft Shock”
The first of many left-turns on this album, the song begins with the soft-tinging of a toy xylophone and KOs soft, wordless croon. As more drums and a snakey-guitar line are added, the song stays in a low register, a fiery intensity burning underneath the surface, a sound the title of the song encapsulates perfectly. Karen O sounds wounded and pained when she begs “leave me out” and her voice never rises above a murmer, spiking only as she begs the song to soar “louder, lips speak louder”. The track builds to a passionate close of chunky guitar lines cascading over warm synths and Chase’s steady beat. A fantastic and unique track that pulls its listener further into the album’s haunting little world.
4. “Skeletons”
Perhaps one of the most adventurous and inventive tracks the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have ever produced, “Skeletons” features hushed vintage synthesizers dashing back and forth over a sparse piano line and KO’s wounded voice poetically begging “love don’t cry/skeleton me”. The track slowly adds drum-clicks and a distant keyboard line, but never rises to rage and riot, instead containing its feriocity in the lyrics and KO’s pained lyrics. The track truly is a triumph for YYY, breaking them completely out of their comfort zone of up-against-the-wall punk to a dreamy art-rock slow burner, sounding at times almost shoegazey with thin layers wafting and drifting over each other with each passing second. The song stretches past the five-minute mark, but when it ends you’re not ready for it to be over.
5. “Dull Life”
One of our most anticipated tracks from the album (due in no small part to the YouTube video below) “Dull Life” does more than simply meet expectations: it soars, astounding with its bombastic rhythms and wailing vocals. Starting with a patented Zinner guitar-pluck, KO softly murmers the intro for bursting into her own, followed closely by her cohorts who churn up the music accordingly. Shrieking and raging about personal ennui and situationist philosophy (layers upon layers of “oh my sooooooul!”) the YYYs burn down the house with this one, ripping and roaring through line after line of this brilliant tune. Even when the song dips its volume down into the low registers near its final breakdown, the intensity still grabs the listener by the throat, throttling with ferocious undercurrents. A standout track and one of the best YYY tunes ever.
6. “Shame and Fortune”
A return to a dancier format with this track as Karen O’s voice echoes over maracas and a distorted guitar line that powers the song alone with reckless abandon. Featuring a killer guitar riff care of Zinner, save for electronic layerings this song most resembles a classic YYY rocker, with KO wailing about “all fortune on the floor” and interspersing her cavalier growls and cries throughout the last minute of the song, which slowly lilts down to nothingness as the album wraps up.
7. “Runaway”
Another hard-left turn as “Runaway” begins with a strikingly stark and simplistic piano line which expands only slightly as Karen O begins panting lovelorn lyrics of loss and escape over the tender notes. A smooth electronic whoosh slowly rises from the background in the second verse, and chimes dance in the background as faraway synths swirl and explode behind KO. The track builds slowly in intensity, feeling like a night-drive on a dusty road carrying one into the distance and the sun is slowly beginning to rise as the song comes to a close. As the longest song on the album “Runaway” nonetheless doesn’t overstay its welcome, remaining haunting and passionate until the end.
8. “Dragon Queen”
Without a doubt the danciest song on the album, featuring a synth-line seemingly snatched straight from late-70s NY loft, “Dragon Queen” boasts a Glass Candy feel but with the same YYY sexuality we’ve come to expect from the band. With lyrics like “my mouth/is touching/your mouth/is running”, the song bleeds heat and drips with passion, a miniature disco hidden discreetly near the end of the album. Karen O sings in tandem with Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio on this track, their vocal interplay reflecting the Yeah Yeah Yeahs flirtations with experimentation on this record. This album is working wonders.
9. “Hysteric”
Speaking of flirtations, Zinner briefly tries on his dub-shoes on “Hysteric”, as his light but echo-laden guitar effects bathe Karen O in a downpour of fuzzy riffs and shoegaze pedals. Featuring a killer drum line care of Chase and whispered vocals with a hopeful push and pull about love and madness. KO simply soars on this song which features her singing range prominently, darting between her carefree shouts and her murmured croons. A wonderful song that seems to summarize a lot of the themes of the whole album.
10. “Little Shadow”
With Imaad Wasif manning the acoustic guitar duties on this incredible closing track, Karen O whispers over his tender plucking a sad but somehow hopeful track about uncertainty and bravery, following her shadow into the night (”will you follow me”). With a drum blast the electronics sweep under KO and slowly envelope her, washing over her like a wave of the blood, sweat, and tears this album is made out of. A perfect closer.
Reflecting on the whole album, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have truly been building up to this one album since their beginnings. A brutally honest and fiercely independent vision, It’s Blitz! is an art-rock triumph, showcasing a band’s willingness to step outside of their own comfort zone and go from a riotous punk act to a dream-pop band in the span of a single album. And truly, It’s Blitz is a dreamscape worth experiencing and well worth the wait. Five out of five.
Lastly, check out this YouTube the band posted to their Myspace called “The Scientist”. I think the thing that Nick Zinner has in his briefcase is a badass synth myself. Check it:
MF Doom (now apparently called just DOOM in all caps) has leaked a Promo sampler featuring several new tracks from his upcoming LP BORN LIKE THIS (also in all caps apparently). Barring confusing capitalization preferences, Doom is bringing his illest rhymes back in force, with the same mush-mouthed delivery and fiercely creative lyrics we’ve come to expect from the masked menace. These tracks also feature some killer J Dilla tracks from his Donuts LP, so check them out below!
Comments? Anyone a fan of the new ‘Piece by Piece’ feature? This may be my only update of the week until Friday, as I am in New York interviewing for grad school (wish me luck!). Have a great week everyone!
Our favorite underground rapper, the infamous MF Doom has been silent as of late. No more my friends, as the masked maurader has just released a teaser track from his upcoming LP Born Like This due out this March. The track is called “Ballskin” and it’s a true return to form for the emcee, featuring machine gun lyrical delivery with his much imitated mush-mouthed innotation. The beats are sweet too, only problem is the track is so short (but oh so sweet!). Check it out for yourself below you backpackers.
MF Doom – “Ballskin” ******************************************************************** DETAILS ON DOHERTY SOLO RECORD
Just because he’s drugged out doesn’t mean he’s a deadweight, as the ex-Libertine and current BabyshamblerPete Doherty has just revealed his upcoming tracklist for his solo record. NME has all the details (including some killer videos) so be sure and rush over and check it out. Here’s a vid for one of our favorites, so far called “Salome”. Check out the rest when his album drops March 9th. Tracklist below:
01 Arcadie 02 Last of the English Roses 03 1939 Returning 04 A Little Death Around the Eyes 05 Salome 06 Through the Looking Glass 07 Sweet By and By 08 Palace of Bone 09 Sheepskin Tearaway 10 Broken Love Song 11 New Love Grows on Trees 12 Lady, Don’t Fall Backwards
Here at Cannibal Cheerleader we recently had an interview with one of our favorite local acts Southern Drama. Here’s an exercpt:
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Read the rest of the interview when it gets published over at Soundcheck Magazine. Here are some more awesome pics by Meg Seidel from their show at Beauty Bar – enjoy!
The demand for a new Madvillain album has clearly reached a fever-pitch as Stones Throw Records is releasing a remix album of the original Madvillainy entitled Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix by none other than the original producer Madlib. While the sick rhymes from MF Doom might be the same, the new production from Madlib makes this album more than worth listening to, as his inspired new flavoring of all your favorite MV tracks (supposedly crafted while on a ten-hour plane ride to Tokyo) reignite the passion that came with the first spin of the original’s rapid-fire raps. Check out a few tracks below and order this album from Stones Throw (specifically the completely awesome sounding deluxe package complete with comic book) immediately.
Madvillain – “Pearls” ******************************************************************** NEW BAND CHEER: FIGHT BITE
After hearing about these guys from both Gorilla vs. Bear and Stereogum, and noticing that they live just up the road in Denton, Texas, we here at Cannibal Cheerleader decided to check out Fight Bite, and we’re definitely glad we did. Like stumbling upon the latest shoegazey-wunderkind before they’ve reached their full potential, the duo of Leanne Macomber and Jeff Louis produce such star-filled, dreamy, escapist pop masterworks to suggest they’ve been around for decades rather than just for a few months. Check out “Swissex Lover” below, the anthem to every teenage late-night firework fight captured in slow motion on super-8 film ever. They don’t have any shows planned for south of the DFW area right now, but hopefully they’ll take the roadtrip down to Austin and delight us with their syrupy goodness before too long!
Also, be on the lookout for their debut LP Emerald Eyes (that’s the cover up above) which they’ll be releasing tonight at a specialshow in Denton.If anyone obtains a copy shoot it our way, we’d love to get a copy! ******************************************************************** NEW GASLIGHT ANTHEM VIDEO
New Jersey punksters the Gaslight Anthem have just released a video on their Myspace for their newest single “The ‘59 Sound” from their forthcoming LP of the same name. Take a gander below and if you can spot these guys on their never-ending tour around the country, and you have an attraction to Springsteen and townies, check these guys out immediately!
KAREN O REVEALS NEW SIDE-PROJECTOver the weekend our favorite art-punk frontwoman Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs revealed her involvement in a new side project called Native Korean Rock. Here’s the announcement from KO from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ blog:
“Native Korean Rock is a side project of mine comprised of a body of love songs written over the last two years, to be performed with a motley crew of NYC natives. Expect high drama, high stakes in two intimate performances.
Does Native Korean Rock have anything to do with Yeah Yeah Yeahs? NO
Are these the leaked demos of years ago? NO“
Check out the band’s Myspace and check the flyer below for the NYC shows. Anyone attending this one want to take some pictures for us? Here’s a few Native Korean Rock tracks to download – fair warning, they’re appropriately lo-fi. Enjoy!
Karen O – “OOO” Karen O – “visits” Karen O – “rapt” ******************************************************************** CONOR OBERST LEAKSHere at Cannibal Cheerleader all the news of Conor Oberst ‘returning to form’ on his new solo, self-titled LP had us a little worried. We loved Cassadaga and we’ve been digging on his overtly political diatribes on the last few records, we’d prefer if our Bright Eyed troubadour stayed on this winding path. Suffice to say, during an initial run-through of Conor Oberst we’re pleasantly surprised that while this singer-songwriter has pared back the lush instrumentation, his penchant for wordy, poetic lyrics and impressive metaphor have been left well-intact. Check out a few tracks and let us know what you think folks!
“MP3s removed by request” ******************************************************************** ONE DAY AS A LION LEAKSDelivering on the promise of last week’s preview on the band’s Myspace, One Day As A Lion self-titled EP not only captures the fire and fury one has come to expect from the Rage Against the Machine MC, but also illuminates an evolution in his sonic palette, as drummer Jon Theodore helps push Zach de la Rocha towards a more dub-oriented reggae sound. Equal parts grime, rap, rock, and drum-n-bass, One Day As A Lion scorches through 5 economical tracks that promise great things in the band’s future. Here’s hoping for a full-length!
One Day As A Lion – “Last Letter” One Day As A Lion – “If You Fear Dying” ******************************************************************** MF DOOM/J DILLA/GHOSTFACE COLLAB SURFACESYes, it’s a day of leaks here at Cannibal Cheerleader but few seem so rare as this posthumous number from the great J Dilla. It’s a collaborative effort, two tracks from Jay Dee’s Donuts (”Anti-American Grafitti” and “Geek Down”) renamed, revamped (to become “Sniperelite” and “Murder Goons”), and flowed over by two master MCs (MF Doom and Ghostface Killah respectively). The end result is Sniperlite and you can hear the mashup of both songs below, in all their glory. Check it and be awed at the production mastery that was J Dilla.
Dilla/Doom/Ghostface – “Sniper Elite & Murder Goons” ******************************************************************** UZI AND ARI GET EQUIPMENT STOLEN The scourge of the indie-rock world has struck again, this time it’s our shoegazey-cum-indie pop favorites Uzi and Ari who have been left ‘out in the cold’ so to speak after their equipment was stolen from their own house! Here’s their Myspace bulletin with the details:
“Hi droogs.
This is really getting old, isn’t it? Reading about the misfortunes of Uzi & Ari. Must be a curse upon us. But, as Christian Bale said last night in ‘The Dark Knight,’ the night is darkest just before the dawn. We hope.
Last night at about 4am, some hoodlums broke into our house, while we were sleeping and made off with the following items:
Roland Juno 106 Synthesizer (black in color) Nord Electro-2 keyboard (red in color) Fender Twin Reverb amplifier Fender Mustang bass guitar (white in color) Boss DD-5 Digital Delay Boss DD-6 Digital Delay Dell Inspiron Notebook Laptop (black in color) Behringer 1204 FX mixer (dark gray in color) Tascam 4 Track (light gray) Korg Electribe ESX1 drum machine (red in color) Ludwig Acrolyte snare drum (matte silver in color)
and various power cords, guitar cables, etc., totalling about 4500 dollars worth of equipment. i’ll post pictures soon.
If you know anyone who might have acquired new equipment like this, please be a good samaritan and let us know. This is just happening too often to bands, it’s crippling. We already make such a meager earning, we don’t even break even. It’s getting harder and harder to justify doing this anymore, it’s just an uphill battle constantly. This is the third time we have been robbed, but this is just ugly, to be robbed in your own home while you are sleeping.
Anyway, I would feel awful to ask for donations again. So many of you were so generous in donating for the vinyl, I know our fan base isn’t huge and you must be exhausted with your own struggle and strife.
We will, however be throwing a sort of benefit show/party in downtown Salt Lake in late August. We’re trying to do it on a rooftop or something cool that a lot of people will want to come to. I’ll post more information as I get it.
Sorry to be such a downer. I posted a new song, ‘Wolf Eggs,’ from the new record, a little earlier than I had planned, to lighten the mood. I don’t want you coming to our page and just feeling bad all the time.
We’ll get through this!
xo ben“
So there you have it folks, if you see any of that equipment out there get it back to the band! Instrument thieves should be shot on sight! Stop destroying our indie-rock idealism! Here’s a video from the band and be sure to check out the band’s new album Headworms which drops Oct. 15th.
Sometimes when you go and see one of your favorite bands play, however good the show may be, you find yourself strangely disappointed, either because the set sounded too stagey and planned, the group didn’t play any of your favorite songs, or the crowd was just not feeling it. That was definitely NOT the case with Rilo Kiley’s set last night at Stubb’s here in Austin. Blasting through a set of stone cold classics (”Pictures of Success” AND “Better Son/Daughter”?? No way!) and amazing newer tracks (”Dreamworld”, “Breakin’ Up”, “Close Call”? Awesome!) on this one of the band’s last stops on their “Under the Blacklight Tour”, Blake Sennet, Jenny Lewis, and the rest of the gang mounted an indie assault with loose flair in front of an incredibly receptive Austin audience that would soon forget! More pictures and the setlist (as best as I can remember it and a little bit out of order) and more pictures below!
Setlist: “Close Call”, “Moneymaker”, “Capturing Moods”, “Dreamworld”, “Breakin’ Up”, “Ripcord”, “The Absence of God”, “It’s a Hit”, “With Arms Outstretched”, “Does He Love You?”, “Better Son/Daughter”, “Silver Lining”, “I Never”
Encore: “Pictures of Success”, “15″, “Portions for Foxes/Spectacular Views”
According to the Stones Throw website, before J Dilla’s untimely passing he collaborated with none other than our favorite emcee MF Doom as well as the infamouse Ghostface Killah on a variety of tracks using samples from his swan song Donuts (some of these tracks ended up on Fishscale, while the Doom tracks have never surfaced).
Now, Stones Throw will be releasing two of these Dilla/Doom/Ghostface tunes exclusively through their website (they’re called “Sniperlite” and “Murder Goons”). You know as soon as we get wind of these tracks we’ll let you readers in on a listen, but let’s just all salivate at the possibility of Doom’s awesome flow over a J Dilla beat. Sweetness!
According to this interview with Pitchfork, Gregg Gillis AKA Girl Talk will be releasing his newest album via ‘the Radiohead/NIN/pay-what-you-want model’ before the end of the week! That’s good news to us as this mashup-artist’s Night Ripper was one of our favorite pop wonderworks of yesteryear so we’ll be waiting with bated breath for Feed the Animals (not Food for Animals mind you, haha). Also check out the Girl Talk Myspace for the dronetastic prep-track for the album. Weird stuff man!
Comments anyone? Anyone at this Rilo Kiley show get any better pictures?
Our favorite punk rock frontwoman Jemina Pearl of Be Your Own Pet has said what we’ve all been thinking about bands on the Warped Tour for quite some time in a new interview on Pitchfork. She says:
“I just associate it with a certain look and a certain style and the kind of kids at school that I thought were– this is really bad, I’m sure– the kind of kids that were dumbasses wearing Rancid t-shirts who thought they knew what punk rock was and threw things at people in the cafeteria. So it’s like, okay, now we’re going to be performing for these people…..Yeah, maybe I’ll be eating my words later, but all those bands have this very specific look and sound and style. It’s like the new hair metal or something. There are like 10 different rules about how you write a song and what everything sounds like and looks like. I’d like to imagine that we’re very much the opposite of that.”
So there you have it AP Magazine crowd – scenester music is a cookie-cutter, shallow musical form devoid of creativity and only popular because record labels push it down young kids’ throats. Good to know that real punk-rockers like Miss Pearl agree with us here at CC. You can read the rest of this excellent BYOP interview here. Also here’s a missing cut from Get Awkward that Pearl describes as “especially important”. We think so too!
Be Your Own Pet – “Becky” ******************************************************************** SF PERKELE SPEAKS OUT In other news, SF Perkele has spoken out about his supposed MF Doom/Madvillainy tape. From his Myspace:
“MF/SF BOOTLEG IS MOS DEF NOT OFFICIAL! Only made a few cdr copies for friends about a year ago, no track/album titles whatsoever. Shit was untitled as fuck, a ruff draft. We don’t know who the fuck made it available to the internet and named the tracks etc. Please delete it from all the sites and don’t distribute it anymore to these ignorant motherfuckers, whom it wasn’t meant for in the first place. Real talk!”
So there you have it, no Madvillainy 2, sad to say, and we won’t be posting any more mp3s of this bootleg per Mr. SF’s request. Still, looking forward to more MF Doom in the future!
MADVILLAINY 2 ON ITS WAY?Our favorite underground rapper MF Doom has a new album/torrent circling the Internet music drain entitled MF Doom meets SF Perkele: I Still Hear Voices (Prelude to Madvillainy 2). Exciting news to be sure, but it begs the question, as no official news has been released from the Doom camp, is this a real release?
In short, the answer is N-O. Sadly, it seems this creation is the work of SF Perkele alone, a Finlandish electronic artist with a clear taste for Doom’s mush-mouthed flow. The rhymes over the admittedly Madlib-esque beats are old Doom tracks purloined from the Metal Faced One’s extensive back catalog and laid over new instrumentation and beats. With some clever labeling and placing the album on all the right torrent sits, SF Perkele almost pulled this one off. More details here.
Sadly, it seems that Madvillainy 2 is to remain imprisoned in the land where all Chinese Democracies go and will probably never see the light of day. Still, we always have the next Doom release to look forward to, whenever that will be (you’ll hear it here first!). MF Doom meets SF Perkele – “Fishscale” ******************************************************************** NEW BAND CHEER: MUSCLES Not so much new again as new to us at Cannibal Cheerleader, Muscles is an Australian electronic artist with a penchant for referencing early 90’s house music with just a whiff of irony and playfulness to make the listener unembarrassed to jam out. Tracks like “Ice Cream” cut like a knife with their unhinged beats but provide enough experimentalism and lyrical wordplay to keep even the most jaded vinyl collector satisfied. Stereogum recently posted the new video for single “The Lake” and it’s as kickass as the song, check it out below.
Muscles – “One Inch Badge Pin” ******************************************************************** BECK’S MODERN GUILT TRACKLIST/COVER ART Finally, a release date for what’s sure to be one of the top albums of 2008! Beck’s Modern Guilt is coming out July 7th (though we can trust we’ll be receiving it a little earlier than that wink wink) and check out that sweet minimalist cover art up above. Seems to match perfectly with the wispy, 60’s dreaminess that new track “Chemtrails” seems to be sporting (you can hear that one over at Beck’s website). Tracklist below:
“Orphans” “Gamma Ray” “Chemtrails” “Modern Guilt” “Youthless” “Walls” “Replica” “Soul of a Man” “Profanity Prayers” “Volcano”
That’s right folks, the Cannibal Cheerleader Blood Bath, SXSW Day Party is approaching quickly and if you’re not going to be at the Peacock, 515 Pedernales in Austin, Texas this Wednesday March 18th, 12-6pm, you can rest assured you will be torn apart mercilessly. Above you’ll see our sign for the day show and below you’ll find the set times and the top ten reasons to attend the Blood Bath.
Rolo Tomassi – “Fofteen”
All past transgressions are hereby forgiven, all the rumors, the poorly received live performances, it’s all in the past now that Atlanta emcee MF Doom (now apparently called DOOM, all caps son) has released BORN LIKE THIS. Seriously folks, this may just be the most consistently enjoyable Doom record since Madvillainy, and it features many of the same attributes, that is, short songs with atypical song structures and incredibly clever (not to mention extremely ill) wordplay and rhyming skills. MF Doom is back in fine form, rapping about the state of the hip-hop community, politics, and comic book characters, all in his trademark mush-mouthed, stream-of-conciousness flow. This, plus the sickest J-Dilla and MetalFingers beats this side of the Mississippi, combining bizarre instrumentation with fierce bass beats. Seriously, best hip-hop release of the year so far, no doubt at all. Definitely worth picking up and enough to put all the ’sucka emcees’ in their place, as Doom would say. Sometimes, the king of the world is also the biggest villain, check out some tracks below:
According to this Stereogum post, Bloc Party will be releasing an Intimacy remix album (Intimacy Remixed) in May, mirroring their lauded Silent Alarm Remixed from back in the day. They’ve got some seriously heavy-weight remix artists contributing such as Mogwai and Phones so we’ll be looking forward to this one with great anticipation. Here is the (terrifyingly awesome and fittingly Cannibal Cheerleader) video for first single, the remix of standout track “Signs”. Definitely worth checking out, though to correct the Stereogum album that said there were no ancillary releases to A Weekend in the City – did you never get the b-side compilation album Another Weekend in the City? You’re missing out if you’ve never heard “Once and Future King”! Check it y’all:
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