Coconut Records aka Jason Schwartzman has a new video uploaded on the YouTube. Jason has his brother Robert (aka that dude from Rooney) sit in front of the webcam and sing along. Pretty tame, but if you think about it, some of the most popular videos ever put up on the Internet were comprised of one or two dudes singing along to pop songs. A tried and true formula.
(mp3) Coconut Records - West Coast
Godspeed!
Fuse TV is giving away VIP tickets to The Verve’s upcoming New York City concert at The Wamu Theater at Madison Square Garden on April 28th. The winner will win 2 tickets to the show, round trip airfare from the closest major airport to New York City, hotel accommodations for 3 days/2 nights, $500 cash, and ground transportation to/from New York airports.
All you have to do is watch the Sauce Monday, March 31 through Thursday, April 3. Each day, hosts Steven and Jared will give you a secret word. Head to the site when you hear it and pick the right word for a chance to win. You can enter once each day.
The contest runs today through this Thursday, April
3. All additional information about the contest can be found
right here: http://fuse.tv/contests
PS: watch Fuse tomorrow night at 10pm EST and see the culture of me's take on what it means to be in a rock feud. We're marginally funny.
(mp3) The Verve - Lucky Man
Godspeed!
(photo by Todd Fisher)
The band has also recently been featured in a documentary style DVD zine on the art and music culture of Montreal and two of the members of the band are also the design team Seripop. If you know nothing of AIDS Wolf, maybe try reading their manifesto.
Dates:
Mar 26 Buffalo, NY Soundlab
Mar 27 Columbus, OH Bourbon St
Mar 28 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle w/ MONOTONIX
Mar 29 Detroit, Michigan Scrummage University w/ MONOTONIX
Apr 11 New York, NY Knitting Factory w/ PISSED JEANS
Apr 12 Providence, RI As220 w/ JAPANTHER
Apr 13 Jamaica Plains, MA The Milky Way w/ NEPTUNE
(mp3) AIDS Wolf - Letter To Al Johnson
(mp3) AIDS Wolf vs Athletic Automaton - Collecting Past Debts
Godspeed!
The plaintive Irish singer-songwriter's second studio album, Living, was certified 11-times platinum in Ireland, and confirmed as the highest selling Irish album of the year. His third studio album, Addicted to Company (Part One), is slated for release in the U.S. on April 1, 2008. The whole album is full of anthem-worthy songs and you should check in on Casey whenever you can.
(mp3) Paddy Casey - Fear
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The guy in the picture above is called Ed Westwick. You may know him as the character Chuck Bass from this little show on the CW, "Gossip Girl". He is also the lead singer and songwriter for the London, UK-based band The Filthy Youth (yes, he's British, get over it already). The band is really really actually pretty good. Like, not a vanity project kind of good.
We had the pleasure of booking and promoting the band's first ever United States show at Tiswas, the weekly party at The Annex here in New York City. We took a few pics, but we swear, if you just Google the band and March 29, you'll probably find better ones. We were too busy on the balcony trying to figure out who the real people who we put on the guest list were. Oh yeah, and celebrating our efforts in making the showcase come off so well and sold out and packed to the gills. And celebrities? Some showed, some didn't. Etc.
(mp3) The Filthy Youth - Orange
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The fact that a band like The Long Blondes continue to write charming, catchy, near-riot-inducing infectious pop songs should serve as fair warning that their new record, Couples, out April 8, could potentially be a shoo-in on dozens of Top 10 lists come the end of the year (including ours, maybe).
And while the three tracks we've heard from the new record seem to be making a slight departure from the Someone To Drive You Home aural compositions, that doesn't mean the tracks aren't really really good. See for yourself by listening to "Round The Hairpin", "I Liked The Boys" and "Clever By Half" on The Long Blondes' MySpace page.
(mp3) The Long Blondes - Here Comes The Serious Bit
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Lilting and morose, the new video for Matthew Houck's Pride track "A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise" is full of wintry landscapes in rural Iowa, a cast of 20 individuals aged 5 to 65 years old, a horse named Elaborate Affair and the work of a champion local taxidermist, all perfectly matching the song's original tone. The Brooklyn native plays a solo show at Bowery Ballroom April 7.
(mp3) A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise
Godspeed!
Thinking of staying in tonight, New York City? Screw that! Instead, why not head over to the Annex in the LES and rock your shit out till it doesn't rock anymore.
Deets:
TISWAS 2.0
Saturday 29 March
hosted by the culture of me
THE FILTHY YOUTH (London) -- 11:30
Fronted by Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick the London based THE FILTHY
YOUTH are an indie rock and roll band in the tradition of The
Ramones, The Strokes and The Libertines.
with resident DJs NICK MARC & SPIKY PHIL
& special guest DJ JESS (Trash!, NC-17, etc.)
PLUS!!!: "21" soundtrack (w/The Rolling Stones remixed by Soulwax, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT + more) record release + giveaways (courtesy FILTER MAG).
For $5 admission to TISWAS 2.0 email your name to tiswas2000@aol.com!
(mp3) The Filthy Youth - Pirate
Godspeed!
In a ridiculously cryptic MySpace bulletin, the dudes from Brooklyn's hardest, core-iest(?), most intense band pretty much ever, Goes Cube, have led all of us to believe that maybe this band called Dagger God is better than they appear. From the post:
Tonight (Saturday) is Magnetic Field's second to last night. DAGGER GOD is playing along with the Brought Low.
We think it's really awesome that there's a band called DAGGER GOD.
We have a record called Beckon the Dagger God.
We will be at Magnetic Field tonight.
It is my (David) birthday officially at midnight.DAGGER GOD. What an amazing band name. And, really, they are an amazing band. I hear they number their songs.
DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!
Weird. They played last night at Union Pool in Greenpoint, so we're going to go ahead and declare that the trio will be appearing tonight at Magnetic Field (on stage dudes, on stage) under the Dagger God moniker. Right?
(mp3) Goes Cube - Goes Cube Song 30
Godspeed!
Independent artists usually make videos that are either too bizarre or too focused on identification of the artists. In the case of French DJs-are-rock-stars Justice, the video for "Phantom Pt. II" (which may or may not be officially sanctioned as the YouTube site makes note) is both. It's borderline annoyingly bizarre and so identifiably something the boys would do. Coming from the same guys who "performed" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" as a five-piece band of pop music icons instead of just as themselves, someone should have seen this coming.
(mp3) Justice - Phantom Pt. II (Soulwax Nite Version remix)
Godspeed!
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