New Music: Santogold - "Big Mouth"

Now this is something totally new for 2012. Eagerly awaited for, literally, years, the first single from Santigold's forthcoming Master of My Make-Believe is called "Big Mouth." 

It sounds nothing like her first album, rules just as hard, and hopefully will find its way into the clubs so Santi can be a huge pop star. It's not gonna happen but a man can dream, right? At least we're finally gonna get a follow-up to the still perfect Santogold.

Download "Big Mouth" for free by singing up for Santi's mailing list at her website. (Worth it!)

Buy Santogold at Amazon and welcome yourself into the year 2008. 

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New Music: Orbital - "Never"

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Almost two years ago to the day, I posted a live version of Orbital’s “Halcyon,” which has one of the greatest pay-offs in live electronic music EVER. Today comes the announcement that the Hartnoll brothers, Paul and Phil, are back together and have a new album on the horizon.

“Never” is the first single from Wonky, due out in April, the duo’s first new album in eight years. That alone is exciting news. Even if the track feels a bit run of the mill.

I can vaguely remember seeing a video for the track pop up early fall last year but there wasn’t an announcement or news, just the track. The tapping beat and revolving melodies are what Orbital does best and, as the video suggests, sounds like a very late night drive home from a very late night.

Nothing monumental from Orbital, other than the standard, high level of quality the Hartnolls have always maintained. But we’ve only heard one track, so there’s no telling what else they’ve pumped out of those brilliant bald heads.

Orbital’s official website.
Buy Orbital’s music at Amazon.

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Heems of Das Racist drops new album

It seems that Heems, of Brooklyn hip hop visionaries* Das Racist, wants everybody to have a new album today, so he’s giving away a new one, called Nehru Jackets, for free.

According to the email I just got, the album/mixtape includes members of the Queens, NY, community organization SEVA which is working to raise awareness of redistricting efforts in the borough. Also included on the tape are Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Action Bronson, and Childish Gambino, all of whom were branded underground hip hop heroes via 2011 year-end lists.

Grab the mixtape here. I haven’t listened to it yet, or even downloaded it, but I’m sure it’s no waste of time...

But wait, here's a track from the tape: "You Have to Ride The Wave” (ft. Danny Brown and Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire)"

*I’m calling them visionaries because Relax got a lot of spins in my world. There’s a pretty good chance it’ll be on that slow-to-appear Top 11 of ‘11 I’ve been posting, but you never know...

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Sleigh Bells - "Comeback Kid"

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New track from Sleigh Bells? I may have the day off work but this would make any day better. You can't beat Alexis Krauss over some new overmodulated guitar stabs and pounding beats. It sounds like they're going a little pop. Not that Sleigh Bells weren't a little pop before. Or maybe it's just that I'd like to see an Adele-like rise to superstardom for noise pop. Yeah, I know it's not gonna happen. This is one of those albums that has expectations high for 2012, and now the second single is as good as the first one.

I'm not sure what I'm more excited for, the mini-tour of Florida with Diplo (wooooooo Fort Lauderdale stop on February 11) or the new album, Reign of Terror, which is out February 21, and thus far is living up to the promise of the 2010 debut, Treats.

Buy Treats from Amazon. And, maybe go see them in concert.

(via A/V Club)

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Sleigh Bells - "Comeback Kid"

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Weezer - 'Say It Ain't So' (Live on Letterman circa 1995)

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The reason there are so many people in their mid-20s to mid-30s who hate Weezer isn't because the band sucks, because they don't. The reason is because they were so good, putting out the blatantly perfect Blue Album and Pinkerton and never recovering - either from Rivers Cuomo's crushing depression that the latter didn't arrive with the same massive gigantic splash as the former, or because Matt Sharp just got sick of Cuomo's bull shit.

This, to be honest, is an argument I've made before, and will make until the end of time. Even now, there is no song on either album that fails to wake me up and lock me into whatever speaker it pours out of. Each of the 20 songs on the official, original releases of the album, and most of the b-sides from the era, are great songs with no explanation needed. The crunching, fuzzed guitar sound. Half-emo cynicism in the lyrics. For three glorious years, Weezer was a band apart.

"Say It Ain't So" was one of those early hits, and one of ten tracks on the Blue Album, that converted pretty much everybody to a fan. The hate is all about knowing that Weezer will never write songs as good as they did on those two albums. Well, unless Matt Sharp rejoins the band and shocks the world.............

Weezer put out deluxe editions of the Blue Album and Pinkerton in 2010.

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Ted Leo on new music, Obama and OWS

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There's no questioning that Ted Leo is true to his punk ideals. There's also no questioning that he's a great damn songwriter. This piece from ABC News, while not too deep, covers his thoughts on OWS, starting out in a new band, and writing new songs. If it wasn't on his Facebook page, I'd have never seen it, so thank The Zuck for that great social timewaster.

Check out some of Ted Leo's albums at Amazon.

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