Category Archives for MP3

New partytime hook-filled rock 'n' roll music: NOBUNNY

Download: “Motorhead With Me” — Nobunny

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This here song is on the new, insta-classic Nobunny album First Blood, from the great Goner Records of Memphis, Tennessee. [Note: Looks like Goner is down for Gonerfest, try Midheaven instead.] It’s also the B-side to a new 7-inch from Hozac Records of Chicago, whose hype text from for this is so good/accurate that it’s pointless to write our own. Here it is:

Just as the rest of the modern world is warming up to the fuzzy pop nightmare of Nobunny’s debut LP, we’ve got the follow-up 7″ with two brand new songs that will bring back that virginal feeling “down there” and reinstate your faith in humanity. Sunshine Ramones pop run through a Kim Fowley diarrhea daydream that will have you mesmerized by it’s simplicity, and won over before the end of the chorus on the first side. Two more stone-cold classic Nobunny songs that’ll stick with you through the hard times and with laden with hooks so infectious that you’ll have to have them surgically removed from your brain.

Arthur Radio Transmission #27 w/ AMI DANG

Hailing from Baltimore, MD, a bubbling pot that continues to churn out a rainbow fog swirl of new and exciting bands (Crazy Dreams Band, Lower Dens) as well as experimental music and new media festivals (Whartscape, Transmodern), Ami Dang seems to exude the creative energy that is pouring out of her hometown. Her upcoming full-length album (due out in December on Ehse Records), was crafted from an intersecting background of classical sitar and composition, experimental electronics and visual performance, combined with a deep love for ’90s dance beats and a fuzzy memory of megaphones blaring Indian pop songs into the streets of New Delhi.

If you’re in the area next week, catch Ami performing along with many other artists at Baltimore’s High Zero festival on September 23rd and 24th, 2010.


Photo of Ami Dang by Bad Brilliance/Andrew Strasser

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DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #27 w/ Ami Dang 8-1-2010

Playlist beneath the…

~~~~~Hairy Painter + Ivy Meadows DJ set~~~~~
eight lamas from drepung – invoking the spirit of kindness through sound / masaki batoh and helena espvall – until tomorrow / Arp – High Life / pearls before swine – another time / durutti column – prayer / Lower Dens – Blue & Silver / Pigeons – En Rêve (slooowed downnn arthur radio dub) / Prince Rama Of Ayodhya – Aeolian Divine / philip k dick – the divine invasion (excerpt)

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SWANS

A song from Swans’ new album, My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky, their first in over 13 years, out September 27 via Young God Records.

Download: Swans – “Eden Prison” (mp3)

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New York Times on Swans’ return. Michael Gira, pictured upper left, is interviewed, Thurston Moore provides testimony & insight.

Gira describes the album, track by track, to The Quietus

Arthur Radio Transmission #26 w/ RAMBLE TAMBLE

This week’s episode of Arthur Radio begins with a late summer breeze, wafting between blades of bright green grass under a saturated blue sky, not a cloud in sight. Saturday morning cartoons creep out of an open window, on the other side of which the smell of hot cornbread begins to fill an empty kitchen. Beyond billowing white curtains, a lonesome gray-haired wolf rambles through the rolling meadows, whistling a nostalgic tune… in the distance, a soaring note begins to accompany his song, which soon escalates into a full-on bittersweet dirge of emotion.


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O’er the fence and through the field…
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New music: HIGHLIFE

Download: Highlife – “F Kenya Rip”

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White Magic’s Sleepy Doug Shaw awakes and, with his Highlife mates, gives us this lovely North African dream reverie. From the forthcoming Best Bless EP, via the good folk at The Social Registry of Brooklyn…

America's greatest living, recording rock band?

LOS LOBOS, BABY! Same lineup for the last 26 years (or 37 [!], if you subtract Steve Berlin, who joined in ’84). This is the a live take on the title song off their beautiful new album, Tin Can Trust…

And here’s another tune off the album:
Download: “Jupiter Or The Moon” – Los Lobos

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Bros are touring. Respect your (m)elders. See these dudes.

August 25 Los Angeles, CA – Amoeba Records
August 28 Eagle, ID – Eagle River Pavilion
August 29 Monroe, WA – Evergreen State Fair
August 30 Vancouver, BC – The Fair at the PNE
September 1 Edmonton, AB – Winspear Centre for Music
September 2 Calgary, AB – Jack Singer Auditorium
September 3 Regina, SK – Casino Regina Show Lounge
September 4 Laramie, WY – Snowy Range Music Festival
September 24 Reno, NV – Silver Legacy Casino
September 25 San Antonio, TX – Plaza Guadalupe
September 26 San Jose, CA – Mariachi Festival – HP Pavilion
September 28 Universal City, CA – Mariachi Festival – Gibson Amphitheater
October 3 Gretna, LA – Gretna Heritage Festival
October 8 Kansas City, MO – Folly Theater
October 9 Clear Lake, IA – The Historic Surf Ballroom
October 13 Davis, CA – Mondavi Center For Performing Arts at UC Davis
October 14 Ventura, CA – Habitat For Humanity Benefit – The Majestic Ventura Theatre
October 15 Riverside, CA – University Theatre at Univ. of California Riverside
October 17-24 Rhythm & Blues Cruise
November 4 Cleveland, OH – Cleveland Masonic Auditorium
November 6 Chicago, IL – Vic Theater
December 1 Dallas, TX – Granada Theatre
December 3 Austin, TX – One World Theatre
December 31 New York, NY – City Winery

New musics: MARNIE STERN, ZACH HILL, SONNY & THE SUNSETS

Download: “For Ash” — Marnie Stern (mp3)

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From Marnie Stern’s forthcoming album, Marnie Stern, which features the drumwork of…

Download: “Memo to the Man” — Zach Hill (mp3)

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…Zach Hill (Hella, Bygones, Goon Moon), who has a new album out in October as well, entitled Face Tat. This is a song from that. It features drummer Greg Saunier from Deerhoof. Deerhoof is based outta San Francisco, which is where…

Download: “The Hypnotist” — Sonny and the Sunsets (mp3)

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…Sonny and the Sunsets, led by Arthur !Activista! columnist Sonny Smith, reside. This is an mp3 of a song from a recent four-song 7-inch available through Future Stress.