Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Demon Fuzz/Wavves/Lee Fields


Demon Fuzz was a late 60's/early 70's funk, breakbeat, latin-afro, psychedelic and  jazz fusion band from the UK, who unlucky for us, only put out one record, Afreka!
The record is great with little to complain about if you're fans of all the genres mentioned above. 

What's also great is if you scroll down to only the guys chest from the album cover, it looks like 2 eyes females kissing. I only hope thats' supposed to be there. Maybe that should have been the album cover. 


"Mickey Mouse", the new Wavves track sounds like if No Age played drums and guitar with Avery Tare of Animal Collective on vocals, with about the budget and sound quality that Slanted and Enchanted was made on. I like the track but I wish Mr. Wavves would go more in his own direction and not a direction already made by better bands. It's still a catchy track though. Way to go playing with a cast on. That was a surprise.  


Lee Fields has been making records since before I was born. Soul records are hard to get right. I think I've only heard maybe 30 that are almost flawless in my life. I play this record every morning when I wake up and it hasn't gotten old yet. GET IT!

Monday, July 20, 2009

Mayer Hawthorne: A Strange Arrangement

Mayer Hawthorne's record is finally coming out after 2 solid singles and with 2 equally great b-sides. The Release date is Sept. 8th and if you order the cd, it comes with a free 45 with 2 tracks. The new album has 12 tracks including all the singles. Here's the track listing...
1. Prelude
2. A Strange Arrangement
3. Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
4. Maybe So, Maybe No
5. Your Easy Lovin' Ain't Pleasin' Nothin'
6. I Wish It Would Rain
7. Make Her Mine
8. One Track Mind
9. The ills
10. Shiny & New
11. Let Me Know
12. Green Eyed Love

The 45 includes "Love is Alright" and "When I Said Goodbye" (demo version). So far I believe this to be one of the best modern soul records I've heard in a while. Here's a track from the newest single.

Mayer Hawthorne: " Maybe So, Maybe No" 

Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out from Stones Throw on Vimeo.






Sunday, July 19, 2009

Moon

The new movie Moon looks killer. In the tradition of sounds like, I choose a song by the artist Boxcutter, whose new album I can't stop listening to. The album is entitled Arecibo Message and hits several different genres. The album starts off in the Dubstep electronic range, coming off a lot like Burial (at least the first track). Barry Lynn (Boxcutter) then takes back into what he's known for, dubstep, jazz, drum 'n' bass, hip-hop, electronica and house. He adds a few new elements to the table so we don't get stuck with the some old thing. This time we get more analog beats and some space funk added in as well. My favorite moments on the record are the funkier tracks. The song "Spacebass" especially wins with some electronic spaced out P-funk.  The track "A Cosmic Parent" also hits hard on the funk side. I don't know if there other northern Irelanders that are this spaced out, but I'd like to hear more of it. 

Walkabout

The new Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox) drops in October on Kranky Records. The first track I heard was a bright and sample happy song featuring Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) of Animal Collective. The song came about by Bradford Cox touring with Animal Collective and Noah teaching Bradford a thing or 2 about sampling and adding drums to a sample. The song's great. I can't wait for the whole album.  



Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Winner!



Prince Fielder wins all.  23 balls of string knocked out of the park. Along with that comes one more add on to the Rock and Roll bands to check out, the Almighty Defenders. They're King Khan + Black Lips + Mark Sultan= The Almighty Defenders (Super Group). 

Their album drops in September and they're bound to throw up on you when you see them (or a least Cole from the Black Lips). The record will be put out on Vice Records and is probably going to kill the virgin ears that hear it. The music is still rock and roll but with more gospel influence.  



Monday, July 13, 2009

Home Run Derby


Since the home run derby is tonight, I decided to do an all rock and roll post. Some of this shit is new, some of it might be a little old. All and all, it's somewhat new. 
Anyway, my friend Andre' s brother plays in the Jacuzzi Boys. They're a lo-fi, rock and roll band, drenched in bar-b-q sauce, riding around a swamp in an air boat in Florida, while blasting the Stooges at full volume, shoot gunning your favorite shit beer. A Miami Favorite of mine.


Ty Segall is similar to Jacuzzi Boys but with more reverb and heavier on the psychedelics and from San Fran. This song's entitled "Pretty Baby" and it kills. These dudes better get to Florida sometime soon. 


King Khan is another group who the world should of 
heard of by now. They hail form Atlanta and from what
I heard put on a killer show. They haven't came to 
Gainesville yet, but hopefully soon. This is the video for
"Fish Fight".



The Black Lips...need I say more. This is from there new
record, buy it now! This song is called "I'll be with you". If
you ever get a chance to see them, do it, they put on a
killer show.



Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Nu Noise


These are some current noise makers that kick more ass than most of those pussy indie pop assholes that are polluting the airwaves. We need less Decemberist and more of this...