Archive for the ‘Album’ Category
album :: indian wars – walk around the park
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Vancouver’s awesome Indian Wars, who whetted our appetites with their If You Want Me EP, have finally announced the release of their first full-length. Walk Around The Park will be available to be adored on May 2nd via Bachelor Records. According to the guitarist, Dave McMartin, there’s a more polished sound and songs over two minutes long. Scope the tracklist below and grab ‘8 Feet High‘, which happens to be a twangin’ good time, boding extremely well for this record to turn into a 2011 favorite.
Walk Around the Park:
1. “Tuscaloosa Bar”
2. “George Ellis”
3. “20,000 Cans”
4. “Train Song”
5. “Sitting on the Steps”
6. “8 Feet High”
7. “Through the Woods”
8. “Bullfrog”
9. “Old Hotel”
10. “Won’t Do a Thing”
11. “That’s the Way It Goes”
12. “Took a Trip”
13. “Walk Around the Park”
album :: ty segall – ty rex
Monday, April 11th, 2011
I said that I was looking forward to this upcoming release (on my Shit I’m Excited For Spring 2k11 post) without knowing shit about it, other than that it’s put out by Ty Segall and Goner Records. Today we find out that for Record Store Day 2011 (which, is April 16th, if you’re unobservant/not on the internet) SF’s wunderkind Ty Segall will release a 6 song long T-Rex covers EP, Ty Rex. This 12″ can be gotten from your local record store on Saturday or you can wait and sneak a clear vinyl version at Ty’s shows or from Goner. Head over to GvsB to hear Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart. Tracklist & another Segall mp3 below:
1. Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart
2. Buick Mackane
3. The Slider
4. Woodland Rock
5. Salamanda Palaganda
6. Elemental Child
mp3 :: assassins 88 – scanners
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
Canberra’s crazed noisy gutterpunks Assassins 88 have just released what they’re calling The Kaneda EP. The four song EP was written along with their first LP in 2009, and it’s taken two years for these puppies to be released via their label Dream Damage, but it’s definitely worth the wait. ‘Scanners‘ which you can find below is what I love about them – it’s noisy as fuck, some might even describe it as almost abrasive, and it’s got some really great melodies. You can get the full EP up at Dream Damage. Highly recommended.
mp3 :: Assassins 88 – Scanners
nrbw guide to :: upcoming spring releases (as stolen from p4k)
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Every so often Pitchfork does these ‘upcoming release’ posts and I really appreciate them, because it reminds me about what I need to listen to, but unfortunately, they put too much bullshit in with the good stuff. Like Beady Eye’s limited edition thing for Record Store Day. No one needs to know about that. Except I just told you, oh well. But I’ve cut the shit down so you know exactly what you need to listen to coming up. Yr welcome! Bold and italicized will let you know how excited I am for the album
APRIL
04-05
The Raveonettes: Raven in the Grave [Vice]
04-12
Bass Drum of Death: GB City [Fat Possum/Inflated]
Bob Dylan: In Concert: Brandeis University 1963 [Columbia/Legacy]
Mazes: A Thousand Heys [FatCat]
Sonny & the Sunsets: Hit After Hit [Fat Possum]
Ty Segall: Ty Rex [Goner]
04-16 Record Store Day
The Beach Boys: “Good Vibrations” b/w “Heroes & Villains” [Capitol]
The Black Angels: Another Nice Pair and Phosgene Nightmare [Light in the Attic/Blue Horizon]
Deerhunter: “Memory Boy” 7″ [4AD]
The Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar 7″ [UMe]
The Velvet Underground: Foggy Notion [Sundazed]
Wavves: “Thorns” b/w “TV Luv Song” 7″ [Ghost Ramp / Trash Talk Collective]
04-19
tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l [4AD]
04-26
The Fresh & Onlys: Secret Walls EP [Sacred Bones]
MAY
05-10
Tyler, the Creator: Goblin [XL]
05-17
Jay Reatard: Teenage Hate/Fuck Elvis Here’s the Reatards [reissue] [Goner]
Let’s Wrestle: Nursing Home [Merge]
Planningtorock: W [DFA]
Thee Oh Sees: Castlemania [In The Red]
Weekend: End Times 7″ [Slumberland]
05-23
Lady Gaga: Born This Way [Interscope]
JUNE
06-07
Black Lips: Arabia Mountain [Vice]
06-14
Woods: Sun & Shade [Woodsist]
WU LYF – Go Tell Fire to the Mountain [LYF Recordings]
06-21
Ty Segall: Goodbye Bread [Drag City]
06-28
John Maus: We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves [Upset the Rhythm]
album :: ty segall – goodbye bread
Friday, March 4th, 2011
Our favorite SF Wunderkind, Ty Segall, like some of his other great SF peers (John Dwyer anyone?!) is extremely prolific, has announced another LP. The follow up to the fucking incredible Melted, which will be out on Ty’s new label, Drag City, on June 21st, and it’s strangely titled Goodbye Bread .
At some point in the past, Ty visited Tripwire and recorded this video of ‘Goodbye Bread‘ which will presumably be on this album. Peep it below:
album :: sonny & the sunsets – hit after hit + mp3/dates
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Best news, y’all! Some of my favorite San Fransiscuns, Sonny & The Sunsets, have announced that their releasing their 2nd LP, Hit After Hit, which quite frankly, is probably what we’re going to get. Their new label, Fat Possum (damn! git it!), will release the album on April 12th. ‘I Wanna Do It’ is the first cut off it, and it’s everything that I love about Sonny Smith and his band of Sunsets. Gentle and calming while straying towards that sunny (god, excuse the pun) optimism that I adored in their first LP, there’s a great use of keyboard and of course, their mastery of simplicity and catchy as fuck choruses. Check out the tracklisting of Hit After Hit and then download the amazing ‘I Wanna Do It’ below…
FYI, Los Angeles and San Diego peeps, Sonny & The Sunsets will be playing in San Diego at the Soda Bar (kool place, in my opinion) on the 31st of March with The Sandwitches and Earth Girl Helen Brown!! Then on the 1st of April, they’ll bring the Sandwitches with them to play the Echo. Be there.
Hit After Hit:
01 She Plays Yo-Yo With My Mind
02 I Wanna Do It
03 Home and Exile
04 Reflections on Youth
05 Girls Beware
06 The Bad Energy From LA Is Killing Me
07 Teen Age Thugs
08 Heart of Sadness
09 Don’t Act Dumb
10 Acres of Lust
11 Pretend You Love Me
album :: chain & the gang – music’s not for everyone + mp3
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
Hooray, y’all, everyone’s favorite oddball Ian Svenonius and his gang, Chain & The Gang, have announced the follow-up to their Down With Liberty…Up With Chains! which will see the light of day via the great K Records on February 22nd. Music’s Not For Everyone will most likely daze and confuse you in the best way with their weirdo space organ, ultra-bluesy riff blasts and hilarious/esoteric lyrics. In January they released a 7″ called “Cry Cry Cry (Over You)” which has really got me super stoked to hear this record. Check out the artwork and the tracklist below for the LP and then grab ‘Snakes On A Plane’ which features the incredibly blessed vocalist/K Records dude Calvin Johnson saying some hilarious stuff (‘if there’s a weak link / someone’s gonna hang!‘). It rules.
1 Why Not?
2 Not Good Enough
3 For Practical Purposes (I Love You)
4 Livin’ Rough
5 It’s a Hard, Hard Job (Keeping Everybody High)
6 Detroit Music
7 Detroit Music Pt II
8 Music’s Not For Everyone
9 Can’t Get Away
10 (I’ve Got) Privilege
11 Youth is Wasted On the Young
12 Not Good Enough [Dub] [Version]
13 Bill For the Use of a Body
14 Why Not? Pt III
album :: tyler, the creator – goblin
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Apparently, I’m actually really, really on the OFWGKTA bandwagon, and I was pretty stoked to hear that sort-of-honcho Tyler, The Creator has signed a one album deal with XL Recordings to release his new LP, Goblin. I think he puts it best, via Twitter, “Yes, I Did A One Album Thing With XL. Thats Family. Don’t Trip, Still Have %100 Creative Control Over Raps, Beats, Videos, Covers. Fuck You.” If you haven’t seen the amazing, disturbing, exhilarating video for ‘Yonkers’, the lead single off the LP, do so below. Immediately.
album :: the raveonettes – raven in the grave + mp3 + tourdates
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Longtime NRBW favorites, and participants in the first, worst ever interview we’ve ever done, The Raveonettes will be releasing their new LP, Raven In The Grave, via of course Vice Records on April 4th in the World and April 5th in America. They’re also embarking on a US tour in March & April, so find their tracklist and dates below. After that is ‘Forget That You’re Young‘, the new cut off the album, which is a Sharin-voiced swooning ballad.
Raven in the Grave:
01 Recharge & Revolt
02 War in Heaven
03 Forget That You’re Young
04 Apparitions
05 Summer Moon
06 Let Me on Out
07 Ignite
08 Evil Seeds
09 My Time’s Up
03-30 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of the Living Arts ^
03-31 Boston, MA – Paradise ^
04-01 Montreal, Quebec – La Tulipe ^
04-02 Toronto, Ontario – Phoenix Concert Theatre ^
04-03 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick ^
04-05 Newport, KY – Southgate House ^
04-06 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall ^
04-07 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line ^
04-08 St. Louis, MO – The Firebird ^
04-09 Kansas City, MO – The Record Bar ^
04-11 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater ^
04-12 Austin, TX – Emo’s ^
04-13 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s ^
04-15 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade ^
04-16 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle ^
04-17 Washington, DC – Black Cat ^
04-18 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street ^
04-20-21 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg ^
^ with Tamaryn
mp3 :: shannon & the clams – sleep talk
Monday, February 7th, 2011
The Bay Bridged just premiered a brank new track from SF’s Shannon & The Clams (also known for her work in Hunx & His Punx) forthcoming album that will hit you in April 5th, 2011 called ‘Sleep Talk‘ via 1-2-3-4 Go! Records. I’m burning to share this with you because I’m looking forward to this album so much (Hunx’s, too) but Shannon really owns it. This eponymous jam bodes incredible well for the rest of the album – there’s that Motown/beach sound, and then there’s just little hints of their first LP in the guitar, but Shannon’s voice just does it for me – it’s kind of husky and dark but like, really strong. It’s immediate and catchy as fuck, which I say about everything, but there’s no shame in knowing what you like — and I fucking LIKE this.
