Misc. Music Archives

Wait. I can have that?** Really?

Fuck yes!

You can listen to two new songs over at their MySpace.
So much awesome!

* My birthday is next month. I am old.
* Please note refusal to use LOLcats language.

First go read this:

When the legendary rock band Journey needed to replace their lead singer, they turned to the Internet, where they found clips of an unknown 40-year-old singer from the Philippines. Arnel Pineda was just a small-town boy, living in a lonely world, covering Journey songs in no-name bar bands, but he had the voice—and the hair—of a natural-born rock star. Now he’s living a dream that goes on, and on, and on, and on…

Then watch this:

Bonus reading: Andrew Hetherington's blog post about the photos that accompany the article in GQ.

Video via these guys.

Final Product // ATTIGO TT from Scott Hobbs on Vimeo.

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Pretty nice, but I'll stick with vinyl, thanks.

I've been pumping this Future Islands track off of their MySpace page for the last week or so. I can't get enough of the ramshackle exuberance. And that keyboard melody! It's like Jack Black making The D into a Rentals cover band.

[mp3] Future Islands | Nu Autobahn

Since it's listed on their MySpace, I am pretty sure Future Islands will be playing Whartscape again this year, even though they were not in the first round of artists announced yesterday. I covered the event last year for Pitchfork and even though I was dreading having to drive back and forth to Baltimore that entire weekend, I really enjoyed it. The lineup was made up entirely of bands that I had never heard of (aside from Dan Deacon) and they were all pretty incredible. Dirty Projectors were there, as were High Places and Double Dagger. I don't think they were on many people's radar back then. So yeah, I'm looking forward to the whole thing again this year.

Syracuse, NY based quintet Ra Ra Riot has signed to Seattle’s Barsuk Records. The group’s debut full length, The Rhumb Line, will be released in North America on August 19th, 2008, and in Europe (on V2) later this fall.

Hopefully they will get back out and tour after the release of the new record. I listen to their WOXY Lounge Act session all the time.