Weird Tapes + Memory Cassette = Memory Tapes?!

UPDATE: Memory Tapes “Bicycle” MP3 now available.
I’ve been enjoying Weird Tapes and Memory Cassette since way back in 2008.
I knew that the bands shared a blog/official website & band members… and now it seems like they might be merging.
Amalgamating Weird Tapes and Memory Cassette is an interesting move, seeing as Memory Cassette is about to [...]

Florence & The Machine “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)” (Video)

Thus far, Florence and The Machine have garnered more attention in the UK than elsewhere, via the endless stream of 2008 praise from NME, BBC, and the Brit Awards.  This UK praise is of course due to the band’s UK roots, and vocalist Florence Welch’s awesome voice & highly-marketable art-school-drop-out image (she described herself in [...]

Rainbow Arabia “Haunted Hall”

Rainbow Arabia is due to release a 12″ EP (or mini-LP, if you want to be trendy) titled Kabukimono on July 27th, 2009 through Manimal Vinyl Records.
The Kabukimono EP, is produced by Butchy Fuego of Pit Er Pat — whom are an excellent band & recorded one of my favorite LPs of 2008: High Time.
The [...]

top 15 most visited music websites

Alas, La ¡Cinta! did not make the list.

Comscore.com just released their website figures for April 2009.  Below are the Top 15 most visited music websites.  As a reference point, Gorilla vs Bear – which is one of the busier indie-music blogs – averages about 194,280 visits per month.  I have no idea what kind of [...]

Broken Social Scene is recording…

..& the Book is Broken.

In a recent MySpace post, Kevin Drew reveals a little bit about what’s happening with the Broken Social Scene.  He explains why they’re recording in Chicago with John McEntire instead of perhaps in Toronto with David Newfeld (David is busy recording a new Chikita Violenta album in Mexico, awesome), why they [...]

‘Dark Night of The Soul’ might never be released. (Stream Album)

So buy the “book + CD-R” & burn the leak?!

The entire Dark Night of The Soul album – the other all-star “Dark/Night” collaboration, which was temporarily shrouded in mystery – is currently streaming over at NPR.  You can listen to it track by track, or play the album straight through.
I would recommend listening to it [...]

Bat For Lashes “Wilderness” (stream)

While the bonus song on the compact disc of Bat For Lashes’ fabulous new Two Suns LP is an excellent “lo-fi version” of “Daniel,” the bonus track on the iTunes full digital album is the B-Side “Wilderness.”
It’s a slow emotional ballad that is going to sound fantastic in the middle of [...]

Patten “Version” (Test Mixxx)

is Patten no-wave-electro?!

Is Patten’s “Version” (Test Mixxx) supposed to be no-wave-electro?  Whether it is or not, I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it.  It doesn’t sound bad (it’s certainly interesting), but it also doesn’t sound particularly appealing and/or accessible — basically it sounds exactly like no-wave does to me, with some heavy [...]

fan video: Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks”

This unofficial fan video for Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks” just surfaced.  It’s a sampling of clips from the classic 1956 film La Ballon Rouge.
While the video isn’t flawlessly edited – the ‘black out’ sections and text leave something to be desired – the intended effect is indeed accomplished.  Something about the [...]

Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks” (Fred Falke remix) (Stream)

Approxiamately 14 million years after Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest LP leaked, the band has finally released the first single from the forthcoming album.
That new single is the fabulous “Two Weeks,” and it comes with a crazy reworked version of the song, via Mr. Fred Falke.  I prefer the original version, but the Fred Falke remix is [...]