YALL WANT GUM?



YALL - GUM & Um - 2011


Check out these two new tracks from Denton/Austin based YALL off of their upcoming 2nd album 'GUM'.

HUGE DAY CAN'T TALK

Too much good music for one day.  Check out some of the albums I've come across today thanks to my favorite blogs:




Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread - 2011
(via Random Shit)

 


Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure - 2011
(via SOMATOSE)



WOODS - Sun and Shade - 2011

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

RIP Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Soundcloud)

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN: THE WOODS, SECRET COLOURS, AND INDEX

This album from Wrugs is all kinds of lo-fi psych awesomeness.  Sitting comfortably between The Woods, Secret Colours, and Index, this is thoroughly delightful.  Do your weekend a favor and start it off right...



Wrugs - Smokey Courts - 2011



WAITING ON AN ISLAND



Destry - Waiting on an Island - 2011

 Music to make you happy.

SHOW ME YOUR BEST NIGHT MOVES

Night Moves - Colored Emotions - 2011

This Minneapolis band was recommended to me by our friends The Fatty Acids.  I'm only a few songs in and this is already quite the treat.  This is what you wanted MGMT's 'Congratulations' to sound like, but they gave you... well nevermind.



Side note: Ian Cohen of Pitchfork just happened to use the phrasing that I used above to describe 'Hooray For Earth' album True Loves on 6/3/11... bastard.

MAGIC IN THE DARK

Here We Go Magic - Live at Club Dada Dallas 5/24 - 2011

I have a fairly decent recording of the 7 song acoustic power-out set that Here We Go Magic performed last night (5/24) at Club Dada in Dallas (this includes two unreleased, unnamed songs.)  You can also hear violin in the background of a couple songs which was something I had never heard before (Casual, Surprise.)  TONS MORE COWBELL is the only place you can get a recording of every song in decent quality because I was sitting right in front of Luke the whole time.  It was epic and unforgettable.   On the last song, Fangela, the power finally comes back on a few minutes in which explains the awkward timing with the crowd cheer.  They went ahead and played another half hour set with electricity after this which was equally amazing.  This was my favorite show of the year and I don't see how anything else could top it.

Track List:
1.  Tunnelvision
2.  Untitled 1 (How Do I Know?)
3.  Surprise
4.  Collector
5.  Untitled 2 (It's Hard Sometimes)
6.  Casual
7.  Fangela

THE ERRANT CHARM



Vetiver - The Errant Charm - 2011

Don't know how long this will be up, but here you go.  This is fkn awesome and picks up right where Tight Knit left off.

D

White Denim - D - 2011

AHHHH FUCKKK!!!!!  THIS IS THE SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT


By the way, I'm going to Clud DADA for Here We Go Magic tonight by myself.  Let me know if you're going.

THIS IS WHAT I'LL BE LISTENING TO ALL DAY...

CULTS S/T LP (NPR STREAM)

"I knew right then that I would be taking her heart..."

GANGLIANS JUNGLE VIDEO

I posted the Jungle single a couple weeks ago, but here is the super-creepy vid from the freaks of Ganglians.

SHE SOUNDS SO SEXY



Seapony - Go With Me - 2011


Like Cults if they spent less time effing and more time getting high at the beach.

YOOTH LAGOUN



Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation - 2011
(link removed by request, get a sample here)


Tracks aren't numbered, but does it really fucking matter?

SON OF SAMBOL



The Strange Boys - Son of Sambol - 2007 (tour only CD)

this is not the real artwork. there is no real artwork.

This is my favorite Strange Boys album and if you don't have it yet, please make sure and pick it up.  Pure garage brilliance.

PLXXCES - MARCH



Places - March - 2011



NEW MEMORY TAPES SINGLE - WAIT IN THE DARK

Memory Tapes - Wait in the Dark (single) - 2011

I really like this new one, but I'm equally disappointed in the artwork.  It looks like shit.

BASTARD

Tyler the Creator - Bastard - 2010

Do you guys already have this?

MIRROR CULT / JANGLE THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM

Two new songs from our friend Ryan Scally of Orange Blossom Flyover.  (previous post here.)   Look for a new split with Gospels on Hand Rolled Gold



Orange Blossom Flyover - Mirror Cult - 2011



Orange Blossom Flyover - Jangle the Keys of the Kingdom - 2011



TAPE DECK MOUNTAIN IS AT IT AGAIN

Tape Deck Mountain - Kellies (single) - 2011

JIM JONES FREESTYLE

Although I sometimes feel more hood than the cat on Pitchfork's 'Selector', I will say that it has provided me with many enjoyable moments.  None better than this ridiculously witty flow from Jim Jones over one of Gregg Gillis' new beats.

EARTH IS FOR LOVERS



Hooray for Earth - True Loves - 2011


Saw these guys without knowing anything about them and left more impressed by them than the band I went to see (Reading Rainbow.)  RIYL: the first Yeasayer album.

SAT. NITE DUETS IS THE BEST BAND YOU'VE NEVER HEARD*

*Unless you've already heard them.  But if that's the case, then you already know that this band is the fucking future.  After listening to the discography below I'm not any closer to defining this band's sound and style than I was from the first song that I heard (Throwback Man *VIDEO*).   I can, however, tell you one thing that is glaringly obvious; Sat. Nite Duets doesn't give a shit if you think they're gay just because they hang out naked together and kiss and stuff.  #friendship



Sat. Nite Duets - HOMEMADE HALO / THROWBACK MAN - 2011



Sat. Nite Duets - One Night Only EP - 2010















Sat Nite Duets - S/T - 2009



UP!

New Animal - Up! EP - 2011

Described as 'just two dudes from Atlanta,' New Animal has a new EP out entitled 'Up!'  I'm sweating this pretty hard right now and I would like it if you did too.

DAY OF THE GREAT LEAP

Fang Island - Day of the Great Leap - 2007

If you didn't already know, I fkn love Fang Island.  Just found this link to their debut.  Every bit as awesome as their self-titled 2010 release.

HAUNTED



Coyotes In The Room - Haunted - 2011



This was sent to me by a reader of the blog.  I can't thank him enough, as this is exactly what TONS MORE COWBELL is all about.

SOFT HEALER AT BRYAN ST TAVERN 5/11

The guys n gals of Soft Healer are coming to Bryan Street Tavern this Wednesday.  Make sure and check them out at this super-cheap $3 show thanks to our friends at Parade of Flesh.  I'm absolutely in love with all four of the songs linked below.

Soft Healer - Various Tracks from soundcloud

DYE PER EYE LAND

Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island - 2011

INFINITE VALUE

Ra Cailum - Infinite Value - 2011

BOOO!

LOOKIE WHAT I FOUND...

Tyler the Creator - Goblin (Deluxe) - 2011

OLD AND CLAMMY

I Wanna Go Home - Shannon and the Clams - 2009

buy it here

First LP from the band all the way back in 2009.  I wasn't even sure if music had been invented yet, but here is the proof.

MICACHU, I CHOOSE YOU!



Micachu and the Shapes - Chopped & Screwed - 2011

This is going to haunt me for days.

FREAKS & GEEKS

 




Childish Gambino - Freaks & Geeks EP - 2011





Childish Gambino - Freaks & Geeks (Star Slinger Remix) - 2011



I AM THE SUN



Field Trips - I Am The Sun (single) - 2011



CALL AND RESPONSE

Ra Cailum & Guerre - Call and Response (split) - 2011

THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!

INFER WHAT YOU WILL

MAY 1 (May Day) is a day closely associated with the struggle of workers against the elite class.  Check it out from the Marxists themselves.  Since May 1, 1884, the declaration of the 8 hour work day, strange things happen on May 1st.


-1886-  Rallies in U.S. culminate in Haymarket Affair (police officers killed by 'mostly friendly fire'?)

-1898-  U.S. defeats Spanish-Pacific fleet in first battle of Spanish-American War.

-1900-  Scofield mining disaster in Utah kills between 200-246 men.

-1945-  Hitler, killed on April 30th, is discovered and announced dead.

-1966-  Beatles perform final British concert.  (This one may not be related but it just strikes me as odd that they chose 5/1/66, or 666.)

-2003-  The famous Mission Accomplished speech.

-2011-  U.S. President Obama announces the death of Osama bin Ladin.  The most recent in a long line of bin Ladin death declarations.

NEW SINGLE FROM AWESOME BAND GANGLIANS

Ganglians - Jungle (single) - 2011

3rd full length album 'Still Living' to be released 8/23 in the U.S.  I already know I'll be buying.