Some of you may already be familiar with the band Retribution Gospel Choir. Aside from a couple solo records, lead man Alan Sparhawk is also the head of the Minnesota band Low. The Choir, unlike his minimalist-pop day job, require the amps to go a little louder and the songs to be a little crunchier. The trio recently collected a group of new songs for their 2nd album, out on Sub Pop, drops next Tuesday. You can check out an accompanying video over at theweeklyfeed.org and check out the song now, it's Retribution Gospel Choir with Hide It Away on the Daily Feed.
[podcast]http://stereogum.com/mp3/Retribution%20Gospel%20Choir%20-%20Hide%20It%20Away.mp3[/podcast]
-------------------------------------------------------
On the Phone with... Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes
This round, we take a call from Alex Ebert, frontman of the traveling menagerie known as Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes. Topics covered: Caddyshack, post-coital madness, arguments in front of the Cliffs of Dover, and the process of putting together a 10 piece band.
[podcast]http://files.me.com/kylemeredithpromo/orzr1g.mp3[/podcast]
