Starting today, NPR is streaming Ra Ra Riot’s entire new album for your listening pleasure! The album will be available for purchase August 24th…next week!
Go check out Ra Ra Riot’s The Orchard here.
Oh, and recently I posted about their track “Boy” and how you can download it for free at the band’s website. Now you can check out RAC’s remix of “Boy” by clicking here. Enjoy!
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The band hailing from Portland known as Menomena have finished their LOOOONG awaited new album Mines. Aaaaah, remember the gem “Wet and Rusting” from 2007’s Friend and Foe? (Pssst…there’s also a Wet and Rusting EP with a couple remixes to check out here!) Mines isn’t released until the 27th BUT guess what?! You can listen to the album in its entirety via streaming on NPR!!! Click here to go check it out!
Be SURE to listen to “Tithe,” “Lunchmeat” and my favorite, “Dirty Cartoons.”
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LCD Soundsystem’s new album This Is Happening, was supposed to be released in March, but was pushed back to May. So now, in about a week, we’ll be able to have it (May 18th).
Sadly, James Murphy has informed the music community that this will be his fourth and last album as LCD Soundsystem. I can’t help but to feel sad that ‘this is happening’. 😦
Read an interview with him from Clash Magazine here.
ALSO…click here to preview the whole album! I have a feeling I’m going to wear it out this summer!
Track Listing:
1. Dance Yrself Clean (Starts off slow, then surprises you with a ‘BAM!’ into some loud dance music)
2. Drunk Girls (Has some musical elements very similar to “North American Scum”)
3. One Touch
4. All I Want
5. I Can Change* (Reminiscent to the likes of Erasure, Yaz, The Cure, Love & Rockets, etc.)
6. You Wanted a Hit*
7. Pow Pow (sounds like the Talking Heads)
8. Somebody’s Calling Me
9. Home
* = my favorites
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Free Energy has a stream out of their new song “C’mon Let’s Dance,” which you can listen to here.
Shortly after the digital release of their debut album, Stuck On Nothing, Free Energy took over SXSW and made their television debut on Late Show with David Letterman. Now the band has just announced new dates with Mates of State. Don’t miss your chance to dance and to see one of the year’s most exciting bands live!
Tour with Mates of State
06/15: Northampton, MA @ IronHorse
06/16: Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
06/18: Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls
06/19: Cleveland, OH @ Grop Shop
06/21: Cincinnati, OH @ 20th Century
06/22: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
06/23: Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar
06/24: Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar
06/25: Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
06/26: Denver, CO @ Bluebird
06/28: Salt Lake City @ In the Venue
06/30: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
07/1: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
07/2: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
07/3: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
07/4: Tucscon, AZ @ Club Congress
07/6: Lubbock, TX @ Jake’s
07/7: Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
07/8: Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
07/9: Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
07/10: Birmingham, AL @ Workplay
07/12: Athens, GA @ 40 Watt
07/13: Ashville, NC @ Orange Peel
07/14: Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
"She is one of the most exciting artists around today!!!" - Perez Hilton
Monkey Puzzle/Jive Records will release Sia’s new album, We Are Born, on June 8. It’s the follow-up to her 2007 smash, Some People Have Real Problems (wow, time flies, right?). We Are Born features contributions from The Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi and Inara George from The Bird and the Bee.
The first single “Clap Your Hands,” which will be released May 25, is a deliriously happy burst of good times and a call to the dance floor wherever you are. The album is replete with future dance classics including “The Fight” and “You’ve Changed.” The haunting signature Sia ballads are also present.
Sia’s Grammy nominated inimitable sound and spirit have captured everyone’s imagination, including Christina Aguilera who recently asked her to work on her forthcoming album. We Are Born is Sia’s invitation to her next adventure. Don’t miss the excitement!
Guess what? You can listen to six songs from the album at SiaMusic.net NOW!
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