Dan Auerbach, better known as one half of The Black Keys, is releasing his solo debut, Keep it Hid, on February 10 through Nonesuch Records and I can’t wait. I love his soulful, bluesy groove. Sexy, sexy. Hot damn. Fellow Ohioan Jessica Lea Mayfield also makes an appearance on the album. He’ll be playing at San Francisco’s Bimbo’s 365 Club on March 13 with Hacienda. Doesn’t get any better than that. Who’s with me?
Listen to ‘I Want Some More’:
Listen to ‘Prowl‘:
I see dead people. This video for Sweden’s Fever Ray ‘If I Had a Heart’ is creepy in a cool, artsy way. Their debut album will be released on March 18. Artist and director Andreas Nilsson created this video. Be sure to check out his other body of work if you like this one.
Let’s see if I get this right. Sweden is to indie pop what Norway is to shoegaze rock. Or so it seems. Check out this Oslo-based shoegaze group calling themselves Simon Says No! and tell me if I’m wrong. Their sound is right up there with fellow shoegaze act Serena Maneesh. Their debut EP Ahoi de Angst will be released on February 2 through Spoon Train Audio in Norway. It’s only 4 tracks long but it leaves me wanting more.
They’ll be in San Francisco performing at Harlot on April 1. No joke!
Tracklist:
1. Ahoi de Angst
2. Shiver
3. Sleeping Heart
4. Peak
Listen to ‘Shiver’:
I truly enjoyed this video I received in my inbox by acclaimed Irish singer/songwriter, Lisa Hannigan. It’s so beautiful, sweet and charming, like a lullaby. Her solo debut Sea Sew will be released February 3 on ATO Records with a West coast tour starting February 11. Look for her in San Francisco February 17 at The Independent.
Listen to ‘Lille‘:
Today was a good day. Not only did we get a new president but today launched a landslide of hot, fresh, highly anticipated albums from the likes of:
A.C. Newman – Get Guilty
Featured Track: ‘Submarines of Stockholm’
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast (& Useless Creatures)
Featured Track: Oh No
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Featured Track: My Girls
Bon Iver – Blood Bank EP
Featured Track: ‘Blood Bank’
J. Tillman – Vacilando Territory Blue
Featured Track: ‘James Blue’
Robert Pollard – The Crawling Distance
Featured Track: ‘Imaginary Queen Anne’
Get this album free via eMusic’s 50 Free MP3 Promo
Yes…yes…YES! My favorite Swedish psyche rockers, The Soundtrack of Our Lives (T.S.O.O.L), are coming to the US and are scheduled to play The Independent March 15. Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 10AM. Led by singer Ebbot Lundberg, they are a combination of sixties rock giants like The Who and The Kinks, and psychedelic bands like Pink Floyd.
They are touring in support of their new double album, Communion, released last week. Clocking in at 24 songs, I’m still wading through it all. But don’t miss this opportunity to see Sweden’s most prolific rock band, worshiped by rock legend Robert Plant himself.
Listen to ‘Babel On‘:
Montreal’s Handsome Furs have a new album on the horizon! Their second effort, Face Control, is due out on Sub Pop Records 3/10.
The side project of Wolf Parade‘s guitarist and vocalist Dan Boeckner and his wife Alexei Perry, Handsome Fur’s Face Control ‘draws inspiration from Eastern Europe and re-maps Eastern Bloc surveillance state themes to contemporary life and the irony of our acceptance and embrace of self-monitoring, through blogs and facebooks and myspaces and credit/debit accounts and surveillance cameras and GPS devices.’ Confused? Just listen to this new track, ‘I’m Confused’. And if you haven’t already heard their debut album, Plague Park, do so now. It was one of my favorites for 2007.
Face Control Track Listing:
Listen to ‘I’m Confused’:
Listen to ‘Radio Kaliningrad‘:
Neko Case has a new album on the horizon, Middle Cyclone, due out March 3 on ANTI-. Now through February 3 you can download the first single “People Got A Lotta Nerve,” and help a great cause! Because for every blog that reposts the song and/or iLike user who adds it to their profile, Neko Case andANTI– will make a cash donation to Best Friends Animal Society. Five dollars will be donated for every blog post and one dollar for every user of iLike that adds the song to his/her profile.
I’ve done my job, now go do yours. After you’ve properly ogled that hot album cover, of course. She does look like a man eater in that photo.
Neko Case, “People Got a Lotta Nerve”
The New Pornographer’s frontman, A.C. Newman, is releasing his second solo album January 20th on Matador Records, where you can pre-order the CD and save $3 . The band recorded several tracks from his upcoming album Get Guilty at a studio in Brooklyn last Monday for Pitchfork.tv. Here’s the video for “Like A Hitman, Like A Dancer.”
Catch A.C. Newman performing at San Francisco’s NoisePop Festival February 28th at The Independent.
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Starting tonight, you can stream M. Ward’s Hold Time on NPR’s First Listen.
Scheduled for release on February 17, the new album features guest appearances by Lucinda Williams,Zooey Deschanel (She & Him), Rachel Blumberg (The Decemberists) and others. Though it mostly features all-new songs, Hold Time includes a handful of cover tunes, including Don Gibson’s “Oh Lonesome Me” and “Rave On,” made popular by Buddy Holly.
To pre-order the CD, visit Merge Records.
Enjoy!
the OCMD 