New Music from Best Coast, Andrew Cedermark, and Yellow Fever

Bethany Cosentino is one busy lady. Besides blowing up at CMJ, she has released two steller singles which have already sold out. Now, here third and digital only single for Black Iris has come out. Cosentino has yet to write a bad tune and these two are no exception. Plus, it’s dirt cheap so there are no excuses this time for not getting it. Expect another physical single out on PPM very soon.

(mp3) Best Coast-When I'm With You (via Stereogum)

Links:

Best Coast Myspace
Buy the digital single here at Black Iris Music

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Ex-Titus Andronicus member Andrew Cedermarke’s solo career is turning out very nicely. After self releasing his two EP box set, filled with his weird, distorted, shoegaze influenced, yet catchy pop songs, his first official and single is being released on Underwater People records. It even got a shout out on Stereogum. The split with Family Portrait can be pre-ordered now and it comes with a handy CD-R for all your downloading needs. Listen to one of the tracks here:

(mp3) Andrew Cedermark- Hard Livin’ (via Stereogum)

Here is a mp3 for the other band, Family Portrait, as well.

(mp3) Family Portrait- Super Cool (via Stereogum)

Links:

Andrew Cedermark Mysapce
Family Portrait Myspace
Pre-Order the single here at Underwater Peoples Records

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One of the best discoveries of this year was seeing Yellow Fever open for Ponytail. I loved their surf with a little twee and art rock influenced post-punk so much I bought both of their EPs the moment the set ended and asked if they had full album I could get. They responded by saying they were going to recorded it this summer. Well the recording has paid off because their debut self titled LP is coming out December 1st on the Vivian Girl’s own Wild World imprint. It has a few tracks from their two EPs, along with brand new ones that the band has been playing live for a while Expect a lot of Vivian Girls meets Beat Happening comparisons.

Cover Art:

Track List:

1. Ratcatcher
2. Cutest
3. Donovan
4. Psychedelic
5. Donald
6. Alice
7. Cats and Rats
8. Metarie
9. Hellfire
10. Joe Brown
11. Culver City

(mp3) Yellow Fever-Hellfire

Links:

Yellow Fever Myspace
Pre-Order the LP at here at Wild World

Nana Grizol News/Song/Tour!

Nana Grizol are the latest Elephant 6 members and a growing every day. After getting their debut Love It, Love It (and loving it) and seeing them open for the Music Tapes, I've patiently waited for new on their new album. Now news has been announced about it, albeit a bit unofficially. According to Impose, the band will release their second album titled Ruth in January 2010. In the mean time, they have posted a brand new song by Nana Grizol called "For Things That Haven't Come Yet", but a majority of Nana fans will know it as "Ginsburg". Still it is nice to have a studio version of this very horn-based and "Everything You Ever Hoped Or Worked for" style song. The band has also announced a November tour where I get they will play quite a few brand new songs.

(mp3) Nana Grizol-For Things that Haven't Come Yet (via the Great Pumpkin)

UDATE: Orange Twin has posted the all the details for the album, which is titled Ruth. It will be release January 12, 2010 and there are two more tour dates added. Here is the cover art and track list. Go to Orange Twin for all the info.

1. Cynicism
2. Galaxies
3. Blackbox
4. Atoms
5. Gave On
6. Grady and Dubose
7. From Here
8. Alice and Gertrude
9. Arthur Hall
10. For Things that Haven't Come Yet
11. Sands

Nana Grizol Tour Dates:
10/23/09 – Go Bar – Athens, GA
11/04/09 – NightLight – Chapel Hill, NC
11/05/09 – Saint Mary’s College – Saint Mary’s City, MD
11/06/09 – TBA – Washington, DC
11/07/09 – SUNY Purchase – Purchase, NY
11/08/09 – Cakeshop – New York, NY
11/09/09 – The Space – Hamden, CT
11/10/09 – Apohedion – Portland, ME
11/11/09 – TBA – Brattleboro, VT
11/13/09 – The Dakota – Toronto, ONTARIO
11/14/09 – Barn Show – Geneseo, NY – More Details Soon!
11/15/09 – Garfield Art Works – Pittsburgh, PA
11/17/09 – Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL

11/18/09 - House Show TBA - Madison, WI
11/19/09 - Hexagon Bar- Minneapolis, MN

12/03/09 – Caledonia Lounge – Athens, GA w/Madeline, HAM1

New Los Campesinos!-The Sea is a Good Place to Think About the Future (Video Too)

I know I have been on a Los Campesinos! binge for the past few days (with yet another post related to them coming soon). But this deserves to be talked about. The band's still untitled album is due early 2010, but in the mean time they have given us a brand new song from that album along with a simple yet great video to go along with it. It is much slower than their previous material, but still manages to be just as catchy and devastating as anything else they have written.

(mp3)Los Campesinos!-The Future is a Good Place to Think About the Future

New Videos and Music: Titus Andronicus, Justice of Unicorns, More Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, and Meat Puppets

Titus Andronicus have released the second video to their where-were-we-when-this-great-album-came-out album The Airing of Grievances. While this video doesn’t redefine music videos, the black and white filming add more attraction of it while the band simply trying not to do nothing but rock out and subtle things the going-nuts crowd and Ian Graetzer smashing his bass into the lights add more attraction of it.

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This video by Justice of the Unicorns defies so many musical rules its not funny. How one video (for a great song) can suddenly make you want to buy everything by this band, even though you’ve never heard them in your life. How a video this cute, adorable, and sad in no way is from a twee band. And how it can make you want to destroy and at the same time hug your Ipod.

"The Dragon's Claw" by Justice of the Unicorns from Robert Bruce on Vimeo.

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Sonic Youth previewed a new Lee Ranaldo sung song on Later... with Jools Holland. Proving once again that The Eternal will blow our minds.
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Dinosaur Jr have released the first single to from their June 23rd (and super trippy cover art) album Farm titled I Want you To Know . The standards of any great Dinosaur Jr track are on here; super speed bass along with Mascis’ constantly great guitar riffs, with an added touch of blues thrown in this time. If this song, along with the one they did for Pitchfork, is any indication of who Farm will sound, then Dinosaur Jr will pass all expectations set by Beyond three songs into their new album. Also the underappreciated Meat Puppets have also released the first mp3 to their May 12th album Sewn Together.

Dinosuar Jr-I Want You To Know

Meat Puppets-Rotten Shame

New Music: Sonic Youth, Nesey Gallons, Music Tapes

To say Sonic Youth's new album, The Eternal, is anticipated is an understatement. Things it has going for it: they dropped their major label and signed to Matador, they have added Mark Ibold of Pavement as a member, and he has helped write the songs for the new album. Now added to that list is one hell of a single. Sacred Trickster is the first song of The Eternal and boy is it a dozy. A quick 2 minutes combining hardcore, black metal, Kim Gordon’s perfect mouning/yelling singing, and those "wierdo-ass hooks" Moore was talking about. Not bad for a song about a French painter named Yves Klien.
Sonic Youth-Sacred Trickster
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Nesey Gallons has finally gotten around to releasing his CD (three at that). If the name sounds unfamiliar, I won’t be surprised. Gallons has been the man behind the scenes. He has helped make the last Music Tapes album, along with making both the videos from the album and touring with them. Plus he is currently helping to make the next Nana Grizol album. His music is very tender and haunting (in a good way) and the singing saws (courtesy of Mr. Julian Koster himself) simply adds to the beauty of it all. You can get the CDs here.

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Finally, the Music Tapes has released a cover. Of course this being the Music Tapes, it isn’t a cover of a song you would think of. It’s a cover of "Night and Day" by 30's composer Cole Porter, and yes, it is exactly as kooky and wonderful as you think it is.

Download link to the Music Tapes "Night and Day"