Yuck is a band of English youngsters that sound like a fuzzier and more grown-up version of the Midwest emo I grew up listening to. Despite this being a fairly new album, it evokes sense memory of driving around the suburbs, drinking a limited-edition orange Mountain Dew. It’s perfect music for an unseasonably warm day like today.
Get Yuck’s self-titled album here.
According to Lifter Puller‘s singer Craig Finn, “In 1991, I went to a Grateful Dead show at Nassau Coliseum. Supposedly, it was the biggest drug bust in Grateful Dead history. The kid I was with threw up on me and started freaking out, so we had to cruise during the second set. I took him to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II so he could calm down. It finally worked, after a lot of heavy breathing and concern for Donotello’s welfare.”
For this song, he fudged the story a little bit to make it about a young lady with whom he would like to bone. Regardless of narrative veracity, this is an emotionally gripping 6 minutes that will make you feel feelings big time.
“Nassau Coliseum” is from Lifter Puller’s 1997 album “Half Dead and Dynamite” which you can get on your local iTunes music store.
If you, the reader, and I were in my dorm room listening to The Creek Drank the Cradle seven years ago and you said “Someday Iron & Wine is going to use a wah-wah pedal and have a horn section,” I’d have called you a gosh-darn liar.
The new Iron and Wine album reminds me of Steve Miller Band and Steely Dan — in a good way. It still has the beautiful hushed Sam Beam vocals, but with some more funky and jammy instrumentation. This track is a great example of some of the more funky elements.
Pre-order Kiss Each Other Clean here. It comes out January 25th.
They make their own instruments, their impact is heavy and hard, they are Buke and Gass. Check out Riposte.
I didn’t like Wavves‘s first two albums because I’m a crabby old man that doesn’t like when music is too fuzzy and peaked-out to understand. Fortunately, Wavves’s newest album was actually recorded in a studio instead of through a MacBook Pro’s internal microphone. As a result it’s now clear to my old-man ears that Wavves can write really fun, tight and catchy songs that are only a little fuzzy and only a little peaked-out. Also, the artwork on the new record is really neat.
Pre-order Wavves’s “King of the Beach” here. It comes out in early August.
This is the first track from The Black Keys‘s new album Brothers. The album came out about a week ago. This song is really catchy and fun – so much so that I really wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up being a giant radio hit, or at least appears in the background of a Cadillac commercial.
You can pick up the album here.
A.Human : Brick Lane Festival 2009 : P.F.C. from A.Human on Vimeo.
Painfully catchy tune from London’s own A.HUMAN set to footage from the Brick Lane Festival they played last year. I’m loving the new wave throwback vibe they bring to the table. Their self-titled EP is full of more ass-shaking goodness so make sure to grab a copy from them.
From their upcoming album “The Brutalist Bricks”, out March 9th, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists made one heck of a fist-pumper. Also, tight use of a flange pedal.
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