The Dudes Play Victoria

Victoria! Get ready for some high quality Rock n' Roll brought to you courtesy of The Dudes! These fellows from Calgary are back with a new single American Girl and new album on the way, Barbers, Thieves and Bartenders.

   They will be hitting up Club 9ONE9 Thursday, May 10th and they won't be alone. Poor Young Things, another solid rock band from even further out east (Thunder Bay, Ontario) will be opening up and doors are at 8:00pm.
  

Aesop Rock Releases A Video For Zero Dark Thirty

Aesop Rock premiers his brand new video for the single Zero Dark Thirty off his upcoming album Skelethon out on July 10th on Rhymesayers.

Finally! It always feels like forever between solo albums for Aesop and sometimes it is. 5 Years for this one but it is on it's way along with a side project with Kimya Dawson (The Moldy Peaches) but that's worthy of its own entire post.




Another little bonus was that the Rhymesayers released the lyrics in the description on the youtube page. Copy and pasted below for your reading enjoyment.

Unsigned hype, front line aeronauts flurry, zero dark thirty, zero friends, minotaur-fugly stepchild, evoke lunch jumped over plunging necklines, up, beside tongue-tied hungry enzymes, devolved into mothmen munching textiles, punisher, out past go-time, back 10 fried worms chubbier, brown grass both sides, canned food, manmade tools, Lanacane, band-aids, mandrake root, bindle on a broom stick, pancaked shoes and handshake-proof campaign, can't lose, can't gain, smoke out moles like a force of nature, pray fortune return to his favor, swiftly, maybe in the form of a nest egg, maybe in the form of a tesla death ray, or a solid gold scene with something better to celebrate than powder on your face like a flat foot on jelly day, m-m-moral compass all batshit, spinning in the shadows of immoral magnets, are we supporting the artist or enabling the addict, I mean, I guess it matters to me, I wish it mattered to you, how a thousand virtues, kick the same bucket like chinatown turtles

Roving packs of elusive young, become choke-lore writers over boosted drums, in the terrifying face of a future tongue, Down from a huntable surplus to one

(check his own) Breakneck pulse over colors in a drain that emote sugar skulls in the rain, flower-eyes melting, guided by a levy made of bath tiles tilting, quarter up and headed for the kill screen, no corner cut, no build team, only a particularly menacing, angle perpendicular to everything, boys room cherry bomb, boy/goon very much runnin' with the devil in the mellotron, hello, here's where a tale of caution, pounds coffin nails to bootlegs of Hawkwind, saw tooth, nevermind straw to gold, spin hearts on sleeves into heads on poles, arm in the maw, fish out pith like a business card from a jar at the mall, A-alike androids dreaming of carbon applause get stuffed with cartoon cigars, cold pack, neti-pot, home to roost, around folk backed into what they most lampoon, shook to the fevered brow and broke ankles, daisy, declawed pound, no thank you, fade me, failed all basic training but I spent a couple groundhogs days with a changeling, silouhette the god last cigarette, anything less would be re-god-damn-diculous

The Tale Of You & I

Here is a nice little piece of Indie Folk by the group Wild Child from Austin Texas. Really enjoying the back and forth banter of the male and female vocals. A similar style to Of Monsters And Men but Wild Child seem to take the new dark folk sound a bit further. I would highly suggest The Tale of You & I from their album Pillow Talk.
Head over to their website and get the album!
The Tale Of You & Me by WildChildSounds

RJD2 and Aaron Livingston are ICEBIRD

    RJD2 has come along way since his days at Def Jux. Releasing new albums and licensing a huge amount of his music to companies like Blackberry and shows like Madmen and CSI:NY. The last few releases from RJ saw him focusing on his singing and song writing, taking a lot of heat from his Hip Hop fans who would rather have some straight up beats. Well it looks like now he is ready to jump back behind the table and assume the position of production mastermind again. With a steadily growing career and unique sound he is starting to give producers like Danger Mouse a run for their money. After a feature on 'The Colossal" a working relationship with soul singer Aaron Livingston began and together they are 'Icebird'

Readying their debut album 'The Abandoned Lullaby" for Rj's label Electrical Connections to be released Oct 11th.

Atmosphere - The Last To Say (Video)

Slug and the band put out a new video for the track 'The Last To Say' Definitely one of the saddest videos i have ever seen but a very effective one. The video depicts how abuse runs in cycles while slug plays the ghostly observer offering advice.

Slug said words like this...

This is a song that I've wanted to write for a long time, and I guess I've been waiting for the proper music to join it. So when Anthony (Ant) handed me this beat, I felt like this could be the opportunity. Domestic violence is something that everyone has dealt with, directly or indirectly. The best way to prevent it is to get out of that relationship. There are a lot of organizations that help people get safe by removing them from those situations. Making someone aware of the situation you're in is difficult, but reaching out and asking for help and finding a way to protect yourself is the most important thing.

Buy The Family Sign on Itunes

Adult Swim's Summer Singles

 
Adult Swim is offering a new single every week for 10 weeks. The first one is from Swedish folk artist the Tallest Man on Earth, which is the only reason I am talking about this. 'Weather of a Killing Kind' is a rather somber one, tends to linger a little after the first listens.Can't wait for new music from this guy. Check it out below and head over to the Adult Swim website and download the new track.

South Park Nominated for 14 Tony Awards!

   South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are taking their first Broadway musical 'The Book of Mormon' to the Tony's. Nominated for a total of 14 awards including Best Musical, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Andrew Rannells), Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical (Rory O'Malley) and Best Choreography. This isn't their first round of awards either, these two have been nominated for Oscars, won Emmys and even a Peabody award. Sometimes I can't believe the funniness these two come up with. Check out new episodes from their 15th season on Comedy Central.