Category Archives: Indie
Cut Off Your Hands To Relase New Album In August
New Zealand band Cut Off Your Hands have announced that they will be releasing the follow up to their 2008 release later this summer. The album entitled Hollow will be a mixture of new sounds and a rediscovered passion for playing music from band front man Nick Johnston. After 2008’s release of You & I, the band embarked on a three year tour and endured many personnel changes within the band, all of which left Johnston feeling a little disillusioned about music and wondering what his future would be.
“Something clicked in the time off between records,” says Johnston. “As I stopped worrying about what we should be doing, I began listening to records out of pure fun again and they ended up really influencing my writing.”
The result is a masterful sound of melancholic guitar riffs and melodies influenced by bands such as Echo & the Bunnymen, the Byrds, Bob Dylan and fellow countrymen the Bats and Bird Nest Roys.
This Week in NYC Shows!
MONDAY
The Kooks, Smoke Signal @ The Bowery Ballroom
Jump Into The Gospel, Your 33 Black Angels, Hospitality (FREE SHOW)
@ The Rock Shop
Golden Animals, Sky Picnic, Twin Killers @ Cameo Gallery
TUESDAY
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players @ Bowery Electric
The Present, People Get Ready, Man Forever (Guitar Quintet) @ Union Pool
WEDNESDAY
Sloan, Hotkid @ Bowery Ballroom
Seefeel @ Brooklyn Bowl CANCELED
Greg Laswell, Elizabeth Ziman (of Elizabeth and The Catapult) @ City Winery
Hussle Club, Jump Into The Gospel, Fort Lean, The Stationary Set (FREE)
@ Pianos
Matt & Kim, The Thermals, Autobot (from Flosstradomus) @ Terminal 5
THURSDAY
Sloan, Hotkid @ Knitting Factory
Sean Bones, New Moods, Keelay, Popular Music @ Cameo Gallery
ArpLine, Bad Girlfriend, Hard Nips, Huntronik @ Coco66
No Age, HEALTH, Cults, Ceremony @ House of Vans
RSVP HERE
I’m Turning Into, Clouder, Quiet Loudly, EULA, Little Racer @ Silent Barn
Josiah Wolf, First Nature, Prussia, ohnomoon @ The Rock Shop
FRIDAY
Ceremony, Veins, Give, Wet Witch @ Death by Audio
Memory Tapes, New Moods @ Mercury Lounge
Dinowalrus, Total Slacker, Soft Black, Life Size Maps
@ Monster Island Basement
Lower Dens, Dirty Beaches @ South Street Seaport
The Thermals, Big Troubles, EULA @ The Bell House
Jack White and Stephen Colbert Release Single
Jack White has apparently been trying to fill his idle time lately, especially since disbanding The White Stripes. For better or for worse, White teamed up with news funny man, Stephen Colbert to record and release a 7″ single. Called “Charlene II (I’m Over You)”, with backing band the Black Belles, it features the b-side “Charlene (I’m Right Behind You).” You can buy the single at itunes or Third Man Records, which White owns. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Listen below.
Weezer, My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird and More Cover The Muppets
Reunited, and it feels so good...
What does Weezer, My Morning Jacket and Andrew Bird all have in common? Apparently The Muppets. The bands, along with others including OK Go, Sondre Lerche, Rachael Yamagata and more, will be featured on the upcoming Muppets tribute called Muppets: The Green Album. This coincides with the new Muppets movie coming out this fall, but the record will be out on August 23rd. Weezer teams up with Paramore’s Haley Williams to sing “The Rainbow Connection,” as OK Go takes over “The Muppet Show Theme.” Oh God let there be a music video for that. The tracklisting is below, in case you wanted to get all Gonzo about it.
Muppets: The Green Album
01 OK Go: “Muppet Show Theme”
02 Weezer and Paramore’s Hayley Williams: “Rainbow Connection”
03 The Fray: “Mahna Mahna”
04 Alkaline Trio: “Moving Right Along”
05 My Morning Jacket: “Our World”
06 Amy Lee: “Halfway Down the Stairs”
07 Sondre Lerche: “Mr. Bassman”
08 The Airborne Toxic Event: “Wishing Song”
09 Atreyu’s Brandon Saller and Good Charlotte’s Billy Martin: “Night Life”
10 Andrew Bird: “Bein’ Green”
11 Matt Nathanson: “I Hope That Something Better Comes Along”
12 Rachael Yamagata: “I’m Going to Go Back There Someday”
Brendan Benson Re-Releases “Lapalco”
When Brendan Benson released his sophomore album, Lapalco, in 2002, the album was met with a flood of critical praise. NPR called it “terrific,” Rolling Stone proclaimed it “as universal as the late night, semi-drunken answering machine message or the love note you never quite had the guts to send,” and The Onion said it was an “almost overwhelmingly assured sophomore effort.”
Now, nearly a decade later, Benson has decided to re-release the record via his website. Digital and Limited Edition Vinyl versions of the remastered Lapalco paired with bonus tracks are available at brendanbenson.com
In addition to overseeing the re-release of Lapalco, Benson is recording and self-producing his fifth full-length album at Nashville’s Welcome to 1979 studios. More on that as it comes.
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