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The News
All in all, it was a relatively quiet week for the underground. Wilco dropped the news of their new album, named Wilco – The Album. The ACL Fest released the lineup for this years Austin based fest with a group of headliners all hearkening back to the 90’s heydays. And something got weird with the American Idols kids when they all started covering Lykke Lee and Apples in Stereo songs.
The Music
The Sounds – Dorchester Hotel
So lets go ahead and get this started with the newest from The Sounds. Their new disc, Crossing The Rubicon drops on June 2nd and Tsuru Radio gets my favorite comment on the song saying that it’s “…quite infectious. Not like the swine flu, more like a rockin' dance-pop song that anyone can pop on in a car and everyone would be dancing around like idiots!” So get out your idiot flag and start waving.
Passion Pit – Moth’s Wings
Dinosaur Jr. – I Want You To Know
If you’re a Dinosaur Jr. fan, a day you may have never thought coming has finally arrived. The band is reunited with its original lineup for the first time in forever and have just posted a new single, free for download on their website. Reviews so far keep it pretty consistent with the bands back catalog, which makes this a great return for fuzz pedal fans. From the forthcoming album, Farm.
Sufjan Stevens – Sofia’s Song
This is actually new old music. Sufjan posted the track on his web site and explained it origins from back in his college days during a time when he was writing a lot of songs based on names. This one shares the name of its muse, Sophia Coppola and is called Sophia’s Song. You can grab it for free online now.
Peaches – Talk To Me
Brand new from Peaches, surprisingly a track not about sex or laced with curse words. But it does show off her new flirtation with dance music and it doesn’t sound like anyone in Blog Land is complaining. That’s not to say her earlier music wasn’t backed by beats, but this one definitely dives deeper onto the dance floor. The new Peaches disc, I Feel Cream, arrives in stores on May 5.
Electric Owl – Magic Show
Electric Owls is the brainchild of Andy Herod who spends most of his time in The Comas, who you may have seen on tour this year with Bishop Allen. Herod started making some demo’s at home that developed into this project and he goes on to say that the lead track, Magic Show, was an exercise in trying to write a simple pop song, based on three chords and a simple message. Success? Your call.
Beast – Mr. Hurricane
The self titled new disc from the Canadian duo runs the gamut of sounds, trekking across electronica, rock, rap, gospel, funk & r&b and as Guilt Free Pleasures puts it, “I can totally see it as the soundtrack for a sexy action movie.”
The Intelligence – Thank You God For Fixing The Tape Machine
Not sure what that titles about, but I’m thankful too if that’s the reason for this awesome little number, which You Ain’t No Picasso points out “is a step back on the right path after that ill-advised Magnetic Fields cover.” The new LP is out this month.
The Hard Lessons – Sound The Silent Alarm
The Michigan duo are having a nice streak of mainstream attention after they spent the last few months touring on the fantastically titled “Michigan Bailout Tour” and they’re newest tracks are starting to find their way onto several television programs. From their disc Army Forest.
Wolfmother – Back Round
The group has a newly formed lineup but it’s the same sound that we all got use to with their breakout hit Mother in 2005. And if the model ain’t broke, why fix it? The new album is called Cosmic Egg but no release date has been set other than Summer 2009, but you can grab that track for free on their website now.
Sugar & Gold – Do It Well
White Denim – Mirrored and Reverse
Cut Off Your Hands – Happy As Can Be
The New Zealand quartet has a new disc called You & I that is in stores now. Lots of labels like dance hall punk mixed with 80’s soundtrack-style music follows the band on this outing. You can catch them on tour in the States through summer.
Acrylics – Molly’s Vertigo
Little Big Adventure – Happiest Times
Pezzetinno – Movin’ On
From the new disc Lion. The band is really the brainchild and one- woman-band of Margaret Stutt who specializes in the accordion and is getting rave reviews on her genre bending style of playing. The new album is out now on Owl Records.
And that’s it! Thanks for joining us for another week-in-blog. If you like the program, please do tell a friend. The Weekly Feed is produced by myself and Todd Smith at MixWorks Studio in Louisville, KY. And we’ll see ya next Monday night at 8 for The Weekly Feed on 91.9 WFPK Radio Louisville.
