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New Beach Fossils 7″ from Captured Tracks off their upcoming second LP. I didn’t post up both songs with that seemed a bit overboard, but if you search a bit you can find ‘Lessons’ around as well (Hype Machine *cough cough*). This is just what I need to get my heart beating back at it’s normal rate after last weekend. Beach Fossils is like my security blanket after I take it too far. Mark told me that his daughter goes to sleep every night to Wild Nothing. How awesome is that? Anyways, it’s like that for me with Beach Fossils. Goodnight.

Beach Fossils – Shallow

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//bruise cruise festival 2012

Remember this? Well I am about to do it again. This time with a slew of new bands, Neil Hamburger, Anna Seregina, Jello Biafra, Kyp Malone and a bunch of others. Here is to hoping that I don’t fall in the ocean and to many many Cuban cigars. See you in a bit.

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Fucked Up – Turn The Season
King Khan & The Shrines – Outta Harms Way
Thee Oh Sees – The Dream
The Soft Pack – Answer To Yourself
The Dirtbombs – Do You See My Love
Quintron and Miss Pussycat – Waterfall
Mikal Cronin – Gone
Vockah Redu – I Beweave It

//live @ kino metropol, sovenia with the sandwitches

I have been waiting so long for a Carletta Sue Kay LP that I can’t even stand it anymore. After releasing the occasional gem and opening for GIRLS during their appearance at GAMH, we all know San Francisco’s own Randy Walker is sitting on something big. We even just heard that he sings on one of the songs for the new Magnetic Fields release. I think the rumor about the album was that there were some label disagreements and what was supposed to be released is now up in the air. But either way, can someone please put this record out? I promise to buy you a drink and maybe we can talk about other stuff too. All kidding aside, the song above is phenomenal and if someone doesn’t put it out, then I guess I have to do it. (Kitten Charmer, we are talking to you *cough cough*.)

Carletta Sue Kay – Get Along (rip from video)

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All hail the new era of my posts, where I don’t even research the bands I talk about and instead make you do the leg work while I continue to give you awesome jams. Here we go.. Trailer Trash Tracys are not anything new and sound like a million other bands, but none the less this record rules and has been on repeat while I work on a thousand other projects. Dark, moody and wet just like I like it. Plus it’s all Twin Peaks up in this motherfucker so.. what? What else do you want? Go get these jams, get real low and walk around the city at night.

Trailer Trash Tracys – Candy Girl
Trailer Trash Tracys – You Wish You Were Red
Trailer Trash Tracys – Los Angered

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During the brutal dark winters in Scandanavia all you can do to keep from losing your mind is to focus on how sweet it is to be hanging out on a beach in the sun. This particularly harsh winter in Finland, French Films wrote the soundtrack to an 80′s summer movie that I wish existed, where Robert Smith goes on a road trip to LA to try and sign his band, but his car gets stolen on the way and he has to hitch hike with a stray dog that he befriended in Idaho. Each time there’s a driving montage, which is like every 10 minutes, a French Films song plays. Then they have a big volleyball tournament and David Byrne is the referee and when Robert Smith spikes the winning point they freeze frame on a high five while “Great Wave Of Light” plays over the credits.

French Films – Great Wave Of Light
French Films – Up The Hill
French Films – Golden Sea

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These days everyone with a computer is “working on an album.”  Most of them never actuallyhappen, and the ones that do are pretty much always terrible.  Every now and then some idiot-savant finishes up his bedroom disaster, and it somehow ends up sounding super raw and bizarre and it’s completely fucking perfect.  I don’t know anything about Local Wizards except that it seems like their changed their name from “Pizza Pizzazz,” and that’s pretty great too, so they really got the whole package here.

Local Wizards – Burn It Down
Local Wizards – I Have Nothing At Stake
Local Wizards – Cold

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Wish it was Summer but it’s not. I was going to try and sit on this one until then, but I get to excited and can’t ever seem to do that. Stephen Gardner and Ben Bailes of Chessie have both been around for a minute, messing around with electronic music all through out the late nineties and finally released Manifest in 2008 on Plug Research. Combined with 2001′s Overnight, you get an amazing combination of style and beauty that makes you reference all your favorite bands from last week. Try not to fall in love too quick.

From Manifest
Chessie – Intercity
Chessie – Long Bridge
Chessie – Poughkeepsie Aflame

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From Overnight
Chessie – Daylight
Chessie – K Tower
Chessie – S to U
Chessie – Eyes and Smiles

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Happy New Year – I can’t believe that we are still doing this. And I love that.
This is one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite people. Stay up in 2012.

N Amesake E – The Ocean Is One Day To Give Up Its Dead

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Crystal Antlers‘ previous record, Tentacles, was pretty bad-ass in itself, but it wasn’t quite up to par with their intense live shows.  The frantic energy wasn’t adequately captured on the first LP.  A couple years later now, the band has tightened up their signature 3/4 grooves and extended psych jams both live and on the record.  The new album perfectly captures the live experience, which is heightened partially due to Ikey Owens (Mars Volta) acting as the touring keyboard player and the producer of the new record.

I miss the drum corp solos from the old incarnation of the band, but Ikey’s killer organ solos instantly conjure up the 60′s and more than make up the missing percussionist.  The new record is undeniably fun, with the right amount of freakiness and pop sensibility to be accessible and bizarre at the same time.  How heavy and intense it sounds completely depends on how loud you play the record; I personally recommend playing it very fucking loud.

Crystal Antlers – Dog Days
Crystal Antlers – Fortune Telling
Crystal Antlers – Jules’ Story

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Have you ever wondered what would happen if Billy Bragg appeared as baby-faced seventeen year old with red hair? Archy Marshall probably doesn’t wonder about it too much though. After making Pitchfork’s dick hard writing songs worthy of someone twice his age, he changed up from his Zoo Kid moniker to King Krule and has been picking out notes and crooning his little heart out. The lyrics are great, don’t get me wrong, but the real gem here is hearing how that sad Croydon accent wraps itself around the song like a big open syllable blanket.

King Krule – Out Getting Ribs
King Krule – Out Getting Ribs (Jack Deezl Remix)
King Krule/Zoo Kid – Ocean Bed

Bonus:
King Krule – The Noose of Jah City (video)