Have Your Heard This Version?
Party and Bullshit by Biggie Smalls (Ratatat Remix).
Contest!! The Russian Futurists
I’ve got two brand spanking new copies of Me, Myself and Rye (Upper Class Recordings) by the Russian Futurists. This album, or compilation, hit the shelves this month and is an amalgam of TRF‘s hottest songs assembled from their three previous albums, all digitally remastered.
Paul Simon from Our Thickness
The bio sheet I’m reading here says the band hails from Cornwall… I always thought they were a Hamilton/Dundas band? Maybe I made the assumption because I’ve seen this band tour so much with other bands/artists from that area (Caribou, Junior Boys). This band seems to be really hitting their stride, now UK-label mates with The Go! Team and The Pipettes and touring with Peter, Bjorn and John. Frontman and primary songwriter Matt Hart is also making some waves remixing singles by bands like The Shout Out Louds and Stars.
Your Big Brown Eyes And My Big Broke Heart from The Method Of Modern Love
So listeners, fall into one of three categories. If you’re new to the band and you like what you hear, this might be the perfect record for you. If you’re a fan already, you probably have all these songs anyway. If you are a superfan, then you’ll just go and buy this record regardless.
My favorite track off this LP (originally off Let’s Get Ready To Crumble) is A Telegram From The Future. Head to their myspace page to hear a Lo Fi Fnk remix of Paul Simon)
CONTEST!!! I’ll send you a CD if you are one of the first two people to e-mail me with the correct answer to this question. What are the names of the 3 previous releases that have songs on Me, Myself and Rye?
Bottom Of The Hudson
So I heard this news today. Really sad to hear this. My thoughts go out to the band and their families in this difficult time.
Bottom of The Hudson are a band from Brooklyn who I really wished I had gone and seen last week when they were on tour in Toronto.? Transforming from a one-man recording project, Eli Simon (main writer and singer) recently recruited local Philly and NY brethren to complete a 5 piece line up making sure to include keyboards, air organs, clarinets, or whatever instruments may be lying around at the time. The band is currently supporting the release of Fantastic Hawk (Absolutely Kosher), an LP that Paste Magazine says has “..moments when this album is amazing, and when it soars.”
The more I dig into this band who I hardly knew, the more I want to know about them. Start off here by listening to Bee Hive. Then, go looking for Handwriting. Find more on their myspace.
Saturna
Let’s say you’re at a bar, a DJ is spinning brit-rock and you’re having a good time. You’d normally expect to hear ‘Rocks‘ by Primal Scream. But the DJ can’t find that disc. Instead, he/she puts on Pop Rocks by Saturna. You’re just as satisfied.
They’re a band from Portland, OR, music in the vein of BRMC, Secret Machines, Spiritualized and The Dandy Warhols. The new material (off Some Delicious Enemy) is equal parts ‘fuzzy, driving, melodic guitar‘ and psychedelia. Tons of layers, tip-top production. And apparently getting some love on mtv.
Check out Roll Down off Some Delicious Enemy (2007). More on their myspace.