Pissed Jeans Track!

As promised on my very FIRST post on this blog, here is an mp3 of the first taste of Pissed Jeans new album King Of Jeans (Scroll down for more info on that).

It is called 'False Jesii Part II' and it's explosive as ever, exciting times.

Thurston talks Black Metal

Recently, the encylopedia of almost any great genre of music that is Thurston Moore did an interview with did an interview expressing his love for Black Metal with Decibel Magazine.

Not only does he show knowledge of Black Metal that a good majority of die hard Metal fans could only dream of, he mentions how he was told that Sonic Youth were influental to certain Black Metal acts with ' 'Cross The Breeze' serving as somewhat of a blueprint!

Also the talk of the Venom/Black Flag show that happened (What I would give to have been there).

This is easily one of the best interviews I have read this year, check it out here.

Also when you are done, check out the hilarious comments section, like this idiot who you could smell coming from a mile away:

Posted 6/3/2009 12:36 PM by Troo Metalhead

It's disgusting that Black Metal is now being listened to by people who are not meant to hear it. Metal should ONLY be listened to by true metalheads who only listen to metal,certainly not hipsters from indie bands. Metal 4 Metalheads Only!

New Dino Jr!

Firstly let's start with this:

Ok, how awesome was that? Everybody's happy, Mascis has previously unseen skills on the skateboard and it's a FUCKING GREAT song - classic Dinosaur Jr.

Cut a long story short Dinosaur Jr have a new album out titled Farm this month on Jagagauwar (June 23 to be exact).

Here is an mp3 of the above song 'Over It'.

and here is another track 'I Want You To Know'

and here is the glorious cover art!

Crystal Stilts

OK So since this blog is new I'm sort of catching up and adding things that may not seem like such breaking news, so bear with me.

A group i've been pretty excited about this year are New York's Crystal Stilts. 

They are a four piece who have a nice little mixture of 60's influenced psychedelica scattered with touches of The Jesus and Mary Chain making a very jangly, distant sound. They compress all of that into brilliant pop songs that may not seem so at first, but they will literally stick to your brain the more you listen. 

Following a string of singles and a couple of EP's they just got local release for their devut album Alight Of The Night on Spunk Records and it's already shaping up to be one of the best releases of the year thus far. It's seriously addictive. 

I could imagine their brand of psych pop would work really well on the live front also, since the Spunk release happened we can only hope they decide to eventually do an Australian tour. 

But yes, again I urge you to check them out, start with these brilliant videos:

'Prismatic Room'

'Departure'

And to top that off here is an mp3 of the track 'Crystal Stilts' from the album. 

Enjoy.

Omar S

Quote of the day if not the year from Detroit Techno legend Omar S.

"You get ear-drunk, and it’s start sounding like some bullshit...You get someone else there and they’re like, ‘Man, that shit sounds shit as hell...’ Then you’re like this shit is like some bullshit, I don’t even like it. I guess I don’t release that much music because none of that shit to me sounds good anymore, nothing, not even my music. None of it"

(Big ups to the person who shared this with me)

Happy new Sonic Youth Year / New Love Of Diagrams

                     SONIC YOUTH The Eternal

OK So a few weeks ago I attended the listening party Remote Control Records threw to launch the new Sonic Youth album The Eternal.

Being a SY fanboy of almost unhealthy proportions, I had already pre-ordered the vinyl (if you are quick you can do the same here or here, they have a fantastic deal where you get a bonus double live LP, exclusive MP3's, a poster etc) which meant I had heard an exclusive stream of it more than once, however once I had settled into a few free beers and listened to the album blasting through the massive speaker system I was convinced. This will be the album of the year (possibly, don't want to shoot myself in the foot just in case something else rolls along!). 

With that and further listens (thanks to an advance copy), I have been hooked right in. It is easily one of the best things they have released in years.

It has the focus and crisper sounds of Rather Ripped with the rough around the edges bounce and breakdowns of their 90's sound with albums like Goo and Dirty.

Every track is placed perfectly with everything ebbing and flowing off each other impeccably. It's classic Sonic Youth and goes to show that they really cannot be stopped (Name me a dull SY moment, I dare you).

Anyways, The Eternal is out this weekend so I suggest jumping on it, or as I mentioned above pre order here if you read this in time for a fanastic package. 

Download the first single 'Sacred Trickster' here. 

           LOVE OF DIAGRAMS Nowhere Forever

Melbourne's own Love Of Diagrams announced last year that they would be joining Matador Records' already exciting and legendary roster. 

Well apart from the odd live appearance, not a lot had been heard of LoD.. Until today when I discovered they had released an mp3 of their new single 'Forever' as a taster for their upcoming third album 'Nowhere Forever' which will be released in the US by Matador and in Australia by Unstable Ape (Later in the Winter apparently). The single itself will appear on a 7" available on the bands own Free Field records (from July 1st). 

The track has already had quite a beating on this end, it proves the album is well worth the wait and will definitley be one to anticipate. 

Download 'Forever' Here. 

also single launch dates! (Will definitley be at the Sydney Show)

Melb - 3rd July - Tote w/ The Twerps and Chris Smith

Syd - 10th July - Spectrum w/ Songs

Also check out their song 'The Pyramid' from their last album Mosaic. It's Glorious: