Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye is back, and “Flick Of the Finger” is our first taste. It’s got that Liam intensity, augmented with a consistently present and bold horn section along with some spoken word parts. It’s a winner for me, and hopefully for you as well. We’ll hopefully hear the entire album in June. Liam is saying it will be “pretty druggy”.
Join us in Santa Monica this Tuesday night as B3SCI Presents team up with the Central S.A.P.C. for a not-to-be-missed night of local music with this month’s artist in residence, L.A. based synth-pop-rockers DWNTWN.
Fresh off their noise making trek through SXSW and new single “Stood Me Up,” the Jamie Leffler fronted collective has topped music radars as of late. To add to the excitement, French label Kitsuné has just announced that their new Kitsuné America 2 compilation, due April 29th, will feature the track “Move Me,” a collaboration between DWNTWN, Jhameel, and Giraffage. And speaking of DWNTWN and Kitsuné, check out an exclusive video (below) of the band, Giraffage, and HEARTSREVOLUTION performing during the debut Kitsuné America compilation release show in Los Angeles last year.
This Tuesday night DWNTWN will be joined by a stellar bill of buzzing talent that includes Watch The Duck, The Mercy Beat, TEMP3ST and DJ sets by Hi Deaf! Entry for the residency night is FREE (21+) and you can get additional details on the show here. We’ll see y’all there!
Here’s the title track from what just might turn out to be one of 2013’s landmark albums, which Karen O. calls YYYs most lighthearted yet. “Mosquito” is an intense, straight ahead rock song with a huge sound; a hooky, driving rhythm section that showcases guitarist Nick Zinner in fine form. The dark and dirty bassline of this track will get under your skin and who better to sing the line “He’ll suck your blood” than Karen O? The album drops April 16 and you can peep the band’s recent performance of “Sacrilege” on Letterman below. By Bruce Rave
Check out the skilled dark pop of Louisville, KY outfit Whistle Peak and their track for “Longrun”. And if the song sounds at all anachronistic (and we mean that in a very good way), it’s because it’s possible the track was recorded as far back as ten years ago. As Whistle Peak’s upcoming release Put To Flight, from which “Longrun” is excerpted, is a collection of tracks from their last decade of output.
London band Still Corners announced second LP Strange Pleasures last month. First single “Berlin Lovers” indicated perhaps a more synth-laden, compact direction for LP #2. New track “All I Know”, while in structure follows on from that first indication, takes a even darker and decidedly more nocturnal direction. Built on the simple mechanic of a spare drum figure & hushed percussive guitar; “All I Know” is primed for car stereo listening; late night, streets of the empty city cruising. That we can definitely dig and we can definitely get into Still Corners new sound. Strange Pleasures is due May 7th on Sub Pop.
Django Django successfully ended their American tour at the Fonda on Saturday night, March 23. It’s been a quick rise for this refreshingly unique band, who was a Mercury Prize finalist and who made many year-end lists for 2012. A year ago, they were earnestly playing smaller SXSW venues as relative unknowns the the US. They sold out The Echo last fall, with several hundred onlookers and fans packed in and vibing to a show that was relentlessly electric. Saturday night, the guys expressed several times, their delight in playing on the Fonda stage. The venue holds about 1200, and an estimated 900 were on hand. Django Django attracted a good-natured crowd, as evidenced by the number of smiles on people during the intermission. The set sounded virtually note perfect, with all twelve songs coming from their debut album. The band has quickly moved to expand their show, with compelling lighting and some extended song versions. The tribal “Introduction” appropriately opened the festivities, leading into the popular “Hail Bop” just as on the CD. “Waveforms” has one of the band’s hottest grooves. The guys played an extended version with a nice little acapella section mid-song, followed by a jam that eased them back into the familiar tempo. Virtually every song has a dance feel and when they got to the acoustically based “Hand the Man”, it was a beautiful change of pace. The crowd was with them from the start but it was toward the end of the set when the house really got moving. As Django Django grows, it might behoove them to deliver their set with just a bit more punch to equal the impact they had at The Echo. As the show progressed, their hit “Default” and the garagy “Wor” ended things on an intense note. They returned to play “Silver Rays” for a hotly demanded encore. By Bruce Rave
The hour is drawing ever closer to Fossil Collective’s debut album; so here is one final cut before it’s officially time to pour yourself a warming beverage and sink into your life long companion of a listening chair, eyes closed while you carefully breath in every soothing moment of David Fendick and Jonny Hooker’s wonderfully crafted collection of songs. “Tell where I lie” will be released April 8th and can be pre-ordered from Dirty Hit here and in the meantime stream the next single “Wolves” to your hearts content. By Nathan Hetherington
Check out the wonderfully acoustic strum-driven (there’s definitely been a dearth of these sorts of tracks recently) and melodic “For Now”, excerpted from Calgary band Lab Coast’s upcoming Walking On Ayr LP, which is due in May on Mammoth Cave Records.
New Merge-signee and Ty Segall broham Mikal Cronin releases possibly his strongest track to day with the shimmering West Coast pop of “Weight”. A sharply focused mix of disto guitar, Wilsonesque harmonies, and one world beater melody after another, “Weight” is a major step forward in class for the Laguna Beach, CA native. Cronin’s MCII LP is due May 7th.
We’ve been into “Seal” from Italian artists Niagara since the vid for the track dropped back in January. Today marks the release of the band’s Otto LP, from which the aforementioned “Seal” is lead track. Reminding a bit of Foals & Junip on the clattering soulful indie pop of “Seal”, the balance of the record veers quite a bit from this sound; covering varying genres from synth pop to bossa to stomper indie rock. Stream Otto on Soundcloud here.
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