Saturday, December 27, 2014

Pink Mountaintops


Pink-Mountaintops-Asleep-With-An-Angel

Black Mountain side project Pink Mountaintops have dropped a new single, Asleep With An Angel.    

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

New Videos from Animal Collective's Panda Bear



Two trippy videos and two great new songs from the forthcoming and eagerly anticipated Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper.   



The music in both of these songs are like puzzles where it's not completely obvious at first how all the parts are supposed to fit together or if they even do, and it's not until the time the songs end that you realize that you had it figured out.

Monday, December 22, 2014

Alvvays & The Decemberists


Good stuff just keeps getting better: The Decemberists drop another song from their new album and meanwhile it's been announced that the Toronto band Alvvays will be opening on both nights of The Decemberists' two-night stand at The Tabernacle in Atlanta.

Alvvays opening for Yuck at The Earl, February 2014
The Decemberists' new What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World came out a little late this year to make most critics Best Of lists, but Alvvays' Archie, Marry Me is on a lot of Top 20 lists for 2014.

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Musicians Are Cowards


"Sisters and brothers, we have surely lost our way
In strip malls full of cancer and a pathetic rain."

 - The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes from Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upwards (2001)