We Have a Holiday Coming

Well at least for those of us in the U.S. BUT for everybody else, Metronomy is releasing a new track titled Holiday next week. They just sent over to us the b-side to the single. If The Raid, is a b-side I cannot wait to hear the other side!!

MP3: The Raid zshare / ysi
Well, actually we do get to hear it, via YouTube and this promotional clip for the track. The single is out on July 7th (probably not here in the US what else is new?). They also are running a contest via their MySpace profile, Facedook, etc... and will be giving out holiday "kits" for the funniest holiday photos which include special Metronomy sunglasses.

I'm sure you guys have a few photos floating around. Upload the photos and tell them who sent ya.

Monkey Business

Since I pretty much post anyting Gorillaz related, here is the video for a song off of their upcoming Gorillaz D-Sides album. I thought I had all the tracks already but now I see they have a bunch of things I don't have (I'll add this to my Christmas list...):

CD1:
'68 State' ('Feel Good Inc' B-Side)
'People' ('DARE' demo)
'Hongkongaton' ('Dirty Harry' B-Side)
'We Are Happy Landfill' (Website-only download)
'Hong Kong' ('Warchild' track)
'Highway (Under Construction)' ('DARE' B-Side)
'Rockit ('Demon Days' session demo)
'Bill Murray' ('Feel Good Inc' B-Side)
'The Swagga' ('Demon Days' limited edition track)
'Murdoc Is God' ('Dirty Harry' B-Side)
'Spitting Out The Demons' ('Feel Good Inc' B-Side)
'Don't Get Lost In Heaven' (demo version)
'Stop The Dams' ('Kids With Guns'/'El Manana' B-Side)

Bonus Disc:
'DARE '(DFA Remix)
'Feel Good Inc' (Stanton Warriors Remix)
'Kids With Guns' (Jamie T's Turns To Monsters Mix)
'DARE' (Soulwax Remix)
'Kids With Guns' (Hot Chip Remix)
'El Manana' (Metronomy Remix)
'DARE' (Junior Sanchez Remix)
'Dirty Harry' (Schtung Chinese New Years Remix)
'Kids With Guns' (Quiet Village Remix)

Video: Gorillaz - Rock It.

On A Friday

So everybody cannot get In Rainbows out of their CD decks (I felt like I just typed 8 track) and rightfully so. The album is amazing and I have not heard any negative comments about it.

Anyways, how about some vintage Radiohead? Circa 1991, Courtyard Studios, Oxford. Recorded on cassette (now it seems I am trying to use every music medium out there...).

Technically this is not Radiohead's music but the group On a Friday, whose members included: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway. Okay fine, that is the current Radiohead line up. On a Friday was their college band before the name change and subsequent world wide blog domination and DRM free mp3 tracks. They took the name because they met for band practice... you guessed it... on a Friday.

Interesting to see bands of this size and how they started. Thom's voice sounds so young. The music sounds out of control. On the verge of something big. The other tracks hint of future albums. I hear Kid A voice samples and Creeps guitar licks that was released a few short years later.

Can you believe this is the same band the recorded Paranoid Android?

Here is an excerpt from the magazine above that nabbed the first interview with this new band:

At the end of October Oxford’s thinnest band (The Wild Poppies split up ages ago), On A Friday, played at the Jericho Tavern to a good sized crowd and there was a man from EMI there. A mere two weeks later they play the Tavern again and the place is heaving. There are twenty-five record company A&R men there and they all paid to get in. To put it bluntly, On A Friday are HAPPENING. Good job we chose this month to put them on the cover.

Read the rest here.

(Dang, after hearing the album again, I guess EVERYBODY loved their 808 in the early 90's.)

MP3: Everybody Lies Through Their Teeth (YSI)
MP3: Give It Up (YSI)
MP3: How Can You Be Sure? (YSI)

Our B-Sides to Admire

The album is barely out on the streets and we have a b-side from Interpol from their latest release Our Love to Admire. The track seems to bring out the old atmospheric Interpol of Bright Lights (think a newer Leif Erikson). Perhaps it was their move to a major label that caused this track to be nixed from the current domestic release. But thankfully, there are imports and this track is found on the Japanese version. As well as the upbeat instrumental track Mammoth (Also on The Heinrich Maneuver single).

Oh and Carlos D has an Italian Greyhound. I know I have said this before but my dog is better looking.

Either way, the tracks are pretty good. As well as The Scientist Remix of The Heinrich Maneuver. Maybe if you guys are nice, I put that out there for you guys. In the meantime, enjoy...

MP3: Mind Over Time
MP3: Mammoth

Rapid fire posts...

Taken from the bonus disc of the last album from alt-dance wunderkids !!! (for the last time, pronounced chk chk chk). They channel the Violent Femmes in this alternate cut of the title track.

Picture? Verner Panton's amazing interiors.

MP3: Myth Takes (Acouth Take)

Nous Sommes Loup

Hailing from Montreal, We Are Wolves has a new track out that takes off from the first beat and does not let you catch your breath until 3 minutes and 4 seconds later. I think anything longer and there would be mass heart attacks on the dance floor.

Too messy. So they kept it short.

Their last album came out a couple of years ago. And their new one drops sometime later this year.

Here is a teaser from the new album.

MP3: We Are Wolves - Fight & Kiss

Okay fine, here's the B-Side. It's some good ol' rock 'n' roll.

MP3: We Are Wolves - Coconut Night

Sometimes It Is Worth Buying the Single

B sides, alternate versions, covers that's why! I know sometimes they are hard to find. Imports, limited printing, perhaps vinyl only. But check out the track listing to LCD Soundsystems new EP for All My Friends

Album Version
Franz Ferdinand Version
John Cale Version
No Love Lost (Joy Division Cover)
Harvey Mix
Freak Out/Starry Eyes (amazing 12+ minute jam session...)

So you get the original, covers done by two completely different artists (they are not remixes each just gives the original a different flavor), a bonified remix, a bonus track and a cover of a great tune. Go buy it.

Here is the Harry Nilsson version of Jump Into the Fire. LCD covered it as their B-Side to Daft Punk is Playing at My House (... my house!) 7" . Nilsson was an influential singer/song writer in the 60's/70's penning songs for The Monkeys, The Turtles, Three Dog Night, Ronettes, Blood, Sweat and Tears, you get the picture.

MP3: Jump Into the Fire

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Oh did I mention that we may/may not have the new Spoon album Ga ga ga ga ga in house?