2013 Albums

[killsaly]

I am probably more excited for this release than any other at the moment.


http://www.friendsrecordsbaltimore.com/releases/fr020/

Locke Ernstfrost & his Self-Portraits are coming out of retirement? for one night. Art Lord & the Self-Portraits played their first show on Valentine?s Day 2003, and exactly 10 years later they will play their only reunion show at Kings in Raleigh, NC on February 14, 2013.

In 2003, Locke Ernstfrost, the self-proclaimed ?Art Lord,? created four self-portraits which magically came to life to perform his songs for him (because no one else was good enough). The myth of Locke is quite the tale, but for now here?s some news on his band?s recordings.

On February 14, 2013, Friends Records will release a double LP retrospective compiling material from Art Lord & the Self-Portraits? four original albums, ?Searching for a Complement,? ?In Your Boombox,? ?Ideas For Housecrafts,? and ?Snail,? plus some live recordings from the band?s formative years. Each LP will come with a download code for all 4 original albums, 2 live shows, plus rare demo recordings.

While Friends Records has always focused on happenings within Baltimore?s city limits, it?s also important to understand how we got here. Two years before Future Islands made the move north at Dan Deacon?s invitation, Sam Herring, William Cashion, Gerrit Welmers, and Adam Beeby were Art Lord & the Self-Portraits. The band used to play frequently with Dan Deacon, including a two and a half week tour together not long before the band broke up and formed Future Islands.

[Yada]

Gotta say this new Yo La Tengo album is pretty boring...

[kosmo vinyl]

Suede - Bloodsports 3/18  (wonder if it will come in the US)

[stevewizzle]

the new yeah yeah yeahs album out this spring being self-described as "extremely lo-fi" is a huge disappointment.

also that new mosquito song sucks.

[Relaxer]

I don't usually go for 'quirky' but this is really appealing right now. Kind of a halfway point between the first records by Futureheads and Battles with an early Peter Gabriel vibe.

[sweetcell]

everything everything... i'm invisible, i'm invisible... an eraser of love...  why dont you call me, i feel like flying in two...

[Relaxer]

Are you coming onto me?

[sweetcell]

it was an offer to drop acid.

[hutch]

everything everything... i'm invisible, i'm invisible... an eraser of love...  why dont you call me, i feel like flying in two...

oh gosh.. underworld.. one of my all time favorite "bands"


i do think they've disintegrated in an ugly way since darren emerson left... its been very sad to see..


is there a new album on the way?

[Cock Van Der Palm]

GO RAVENS!!!!!!

[serpent boy]

New BRMC track (cover of "Let the Day Begin") available for free through their Web site:
http://blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/

[Stillwater]

Local Natives album streaming anywhere yet?

Edit: Nevermind. Streaming on iTunes if anyone is interested.

[killsaly]

http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/22143/h_skerd_early-sessions-released-by-numero-group

Early recordings by Hüsker Dü are being released by Chicago based crate digging label Numero Group. The three session tracks were made in 1980, at Minneapolis's Blackberry Way Studio, pressed with a fourth track recorded live at Duffy's. This is an early heads up: Numero are releasing double 7" for Record Store day later this year (penned in for 20 April).

Three of the recordings ("Statues", "Writer's Cramp" and "Let's Go Die") were from the Blackberry Way sessions for Hüsker Dü's debut single on Twin/Tone, a deal which fell through. Grant Hart, Bob Mould and Greg Norton then decided to put out a 10" on their own, and recorded a live version of "Amusement" before finances meant that only two of the tracks made it out, on a 7" for Reflex Records in 1981.

Numero have remastered the Hüsker Dü recordings and are pressing up the 2x7" in a run of 4000, with a gatefold sleeve. More details here, and listen to "Statues" below.

https://soundcloud.com/biz-3-publicity/h-sker-d-statues

[Got Haggis?]

video for the first song from The Knife's new album

http://pitchfork.com/news/49304-watch-the-knifes-epic-video-for-full-of-fire/

[Relaxer]

Knife tracklist (allegedly)

01 A Tooth for an Eye 6:04
02 Full of Fire 9:17
03 A Cherry on Top 8:43
04 Without You My Life Would Be Boring 5:14
05 Wrap Your Arms Around Me 4:36
06 Crake 0:55
07 Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized 19:22
08 Raging Lung 9:58
09 Networking 6:42
10 Oryx 0:37
11 Stay Out Here 10:42
12 Fracking Fluid Injection 9:54
13 Ready to Lose 4:36

If this is legit, I'm a little wary of all these long lengths. I'm not against that per se but I'm hoping it's not another 'Tomorrow In a Year' that's all texture and atmospherics and very few hooks.