Frankie Rose - Gospel/Grace Video

The Vivian Girls were a force to be reckoned with as a group. Individually, they seem intent on conquering the world. Each has their own amazing projects, but none more lovely and graceful than Frankie Rose's Interstellar which is officially being released tomorrow, Feb 21st on Slumberland Records. Check out the great video Gospel/Grace and be sure to check out the title track on Soundcloud. This record is a must have for even the most casual fans of indie pop.





Frankie Rose on Tour:
Tue-Feb-21 Brooklyn, NY Knitting Factory *
Thu-Apr-05 Philadelphia, PA Northstar Bar *
Fri-Apr-06 Arlington, VA Artisphere / Chickfactor 2012: For The Love of Pop!
Sat-Apr-07 Baltimore, MD Golden West *
Sun-Apr-08 Richmond, VA Strange Matter *
Mon-Apr-09 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506 *
Tue-Apr-10 Atlanta, GA 529 *
Fri-Apr-13 Dallas, TX Club Dada *
Sat-Apr-14 Austin, TX Red 7 *
Mon-Apr-16 Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room *
Wed-Apr-18 San Diego, CA Soda Bar *
Thu-Apr-19 Los Angeles, CA The Satellite *
Fri-Apr-20 Santa Cruz, CA Crepe Place *
Sat-Apr-21 San Francisco, CA Brick and Mortar Music Hall *
Mon-Apr-23 Portland, OR East End *
Tue-Apr-24 Vancouver, BC The Biltmore *
Wed-Apr-25 Seattle, WA Barboza *
Thu-Apr-26 Missoula, MT The Badlander *
Sat-Apr-28 Fargo, ND The Aquarium *
Sun-Apr-29 Minneapolis, MN 7th St Entry *
Mon-Apr-30 Chicago, IL Township *
Tue-May-01 Detroit, MI Magic Stick *
Wed-May-02 Toronto, ON The Shop under Parts and Labor *
Thu-May-03 Albany, NY Valentine's *
* = w/ DIVE

Capybara - Neighbor Crime Video & Free MP3

To celebrate the release of their new album Dave Drusky (The Record Machine), Kansas City's Capybara has shared a gorgeous live version of "Neighbor Crimes," shot at the For The Love of Brooklyn house in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The gents of Capybara Mark Harrison, Jared Horne, Darin Seal, and Joel Wrolstad craft their art with wit and sunshine, illuminating a sound thats both simple and catchy, yet conceptualized and personal.

Capybara will be performing at SXSW in March as well as April's Middle of the Map Festival in Kansas City.

Download Neighbor Crimes MP3!

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #5

Podcast # 5 is available for streaming online or downloading and listening at your leisure! Live broadcast radio shows are 9pm Thursdays (EST) on PMCRadio.org.



Tracklist:
1)Eux Autres Sun is Sunk Right Again
2)Tullycraft City of Subarus 8 Great Ways
3)Moonface With Sinai: Heartbreaking Bravery Teary Eyes & Bloody Lips CANADA
4)Dana Buoy Summer Bodies Call to Be
5)The Eversons The Eversons EP I'm a Conservative NEW ZEALAND
6)Tapes n' Tapes Walk It Off Le Ruse
7)Motel Beds Sunfried Dreams/Tango Boys Tropics of the Sand (w/ Kelley Deal)
8)The Temper Trap Conditions Down River AUSTRALIA
9)Tanlines Mixed Emotions Brothers
10)Bobby Conn Macaroni Underground Vktm
11)Holograms ABC City SWEDEN
12)The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? I Was Born (A Unicorn) CANADA
13)The Wedding Present Bizarro Kennedy UK
14)Heart-Sick Groans If the Canary Stops Singing SWEDEN
15)Clap Your Hands Say Yeah CYHSY Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood

La Sera - Sees The Light - Break My Heart MP3

Vivian Girls' Katy Goodman is back with a second release from her phenomenal solo project La Sera. The album Sees the Light is due out March 27th on Hardly Art Records. Download the great track Break My Heart for free! You would be a complete fool if you didn't!


DOWNLOAD BREAK MY HEART MP3!
Download link courtesy of Stereogum

Lambchop - Gone Tomorrow Video

Mr. M, Lambchop's new record on Merge Records, is due out Feb 21st.

I can't describe this better than they do on the Lambchop website:
"As on past Lambchop records, many of the songs on Mr. M are framed with lush strings, and there’s a restrained undercurrent of distortion and discord. The core of the music remains the cyclical picking of Wagner’s guitar and the soft, warm croaking of his voice. The songs are spacious, even dreamy, as on the Countrypolitan instrumental “Gar,” while the lyrics and titles are rich with allusions, some of them obvious, others seemingly unknowable.

Mr. M is dedicated to the late musician Vic Chesnutt, a friend, fan and collaborator, and a prodigiously gifted musician in his own right. Chesnutt’s influence looms large in Lambchop’s music: in particular, his way with words, and his uncanny ability to wrap them in music that says even more than the lyrics alone can. It makes sense, then, that a mood of loss would hang heavily over these songs."

The fourth side of the Mr. M double LP contains 4 exclusive, vinyl-only tracks, including "Guess I'm Dumb" (Brian Wilson/Glen Campbell) and 3 remixes.

Check out the great video for Gone Tomorrow.

Dana Buoy of Akron/Family to Debut Solo LP

Dana Buoy has spent the better part of the last decade as the percussionist for Akron/Family. Summer Bodies is due out via Lefse Records in May 2012. Buoy is also going out on tour this March w/ Youth Lagoon. See below for tour dates. In the meantime, take a second to download and listen to the terrific free MP3 Call to Be!

DOWNLOAD CALL TO BE MP3!

Tour Dates:
3/10: Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City *
3/11: Larimer Lounge, Denver *
3/12: Jackpot Music Hall, Lawrence *
3/14-3/17: SXSW
3/18: Fitzgerald's, Houston *
3/19: One Eyed Jacks, New Orleans *
3/20: Club Downunder, Tallahassee *
3/21: The Social, Orlando *
3/22: Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta *
3/23: Cat's Cradle, Carrboro *
3/24: Rock N Roll Hotel, Washington DC *
3/26: Union Transfer, Philadelphia *
3/27: Bowery Ballroom, New York *
* = w/ Youth Lagoon

Eux Autres - New Album & Free MP3!

Terrific San Francisco indie pop band Eux Autres is back with a brand new record Sun is Sunk due out February 28th, 2012 on Bon Mots Records. Eux Autres originally consisted of brother and sister Heather and Nicholas Larimer. Heather played drums, Nicholas played guitar, and they both sang. In 2008, Eux Autres added drummer Yoshi Nakamoto (The Aislers Set, Still Flyin’) in order to expand their sound and referee their fights. Check out their free MP3 "Right Again." If you like beautiful, catchy pop tunes, you can't go wrong with Eux Autres.

DOWNLOAD RIGHT AGAIN MP3

7 Silly Questions w/ Allo Darlin'

Very few bands make me go squee anymore. The UK’s Allo Darlin’ is one. Since the first time I heard “My Heart is a Drummer” back in 2010, I was smitten. The great news is Allo Darlin’s new album Europe is due out in April on Slumberland Records in the US and Fortuna POP! in the UK. Even more exciting, Allo Darlin’ will embark on a three and a half week US tour staring on April 24th!



Allo Darlin’ is comprised of Elizabeth Morris (uke, vox), Michael Collins (drums, vox), Paul Rains (guitar, vox), & Bill Botting (bass, vox). Their website says, “They are close friends who found each other and the music they make in London.” And it’s lucky for us they did. I caught up to drummer Mike Collins in a seedy men’s restroom and forced him to answer some seriously dubious questions:

Viva: What is the most embarrassing band you loved as a kid?
MC: I guess the first band I loved, when I was about 2, was the Velvet Underground. Luckily I soon realised how embarrassing that was and quickly bought all the Meatloaf records I could find.

Viva: What was the first album you bought?
MC: The soundtrack to the Jungle Book.

Viva: Unicorns vs. Narwhals? Who would win?
MC: I guess it would be a bit weird if they met because if a Narwhal was on land it'd have some pretty serious asthma issues and vice versa for the Unicorn. My money is on the Narwhal. I love marine wildlife.

Viva: Who smells the worst in the van on tour?
MC: Mike.

Viva: What is the funniest thing that has happened to you on the road?
MC: Paul Ashley Rains having a rant on camera about tall people and how 'boring' we all were in the depths of Italy.

Viva: A wise man told me never to print anything a drummer says. Is this true?
MC: What sort of wise man? Was he a guitarist? No. Drummers are a rare, beautiful breed; modest, witty, charming and yet aloof. Oh wait, I'm the drummer. Yeah print 'SNOTTY COCK' as my answer.

Viva: Who is in heavy rotation on your iPod?
MC: Jim O Rourke 'Eureka' rarely leaves mine, it's one of my favourite records. I think we all actually end up listening to bands that we meet on tour. Now that I've got my record player fixed I've been listening a lot to Eux Autres - our San Franciscan tour buddies.

SPRING TOUR SCHEDULE:
04/24 New York, NY Mercury Lounge
04/25 Philadelphia, PA Kung Fu Necktie
04/26 Washington, DC Black Cat Backstage
04/27 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
04/28 Atlanta, GA 529
04/30 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon
05/01 Austin, TX Mohawk
05/03 Santa Fe, NM VFW
05/04 Tucson, AZ Club Congress
05/05 Los Angeles, CA Echo
05/06 San Diego, CA Casbah
05/08 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop
05/10 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
05/11 Seattle, WA Vera Project
05/14 Minneapolis, MN 7th St. Entry
05/15 Chicago, IL Schubas
05/16 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
05/18 New Haven, CT Cafe Nine




*Photos by Niklas Vestberg.

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #4

Podcast # 4 is available for streaming online or downloading and listening at your leisure! Live broadcast radio shows are 9pm Thursdays (EST) on PMCRadio.org.



Tracklist:
1) KIDS KIDS My Sincerest Apologies SWEDEN
2) Toro Y Moi June 2009 Dead Pontoon
3) Concrete Knives You Cant Blame the Youth Brand New Start FRANCE
4) Love & Hates Love & Hates Party Trash Japan
5) Fevers Passion is Dead Passion is Dead (Long Live Fashion) CANADA
6) Nelson Can Apple Pie Denmark
7) HonheeHonhee Shouts We Only Go CANADA
8) Beach Fossils Shallow 7” Shallow
9) The Bland Band Palsboda Jam SWEDEN
10) Miracles of Modern Science Dog Year Friends of the Animals
11) Prinzhorn Dance School Clay Class Happy in Bits UK
12) The Big Pink Future This Give it Up
13) The Hairs I’ve Been Working Out 7” I’ve Been Working Out
14) Pop Terror Dom släpper nog in dig SWEDEN

KIDS - My Sincerest Apologies Video & Free EP!

Kontroll Recordings is giving away a fantastic EP from Swedish duo KIDS. The band consists of Jonas Linngård and Maria Pettersson. The songs were recorded in living room studios in Stockholm, Alfta and Hiboviken. To be honest, I have not been able to get My Sincerest Apologies out of my head since I first heard it. The guitar tone on the riff is so wet and nasty and fantastic that I fell in love immediately.

Download the enitre EP here: Kontroll Recordings

Bonnie Prince Billy - Black Cab Sessions - Black Captain

Black Cab Sessions is a great tv show in the UK that features musicians performing in the back seat of a moving taxi. It's coming to the US soon, too!

Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag Video & Tour Dates!

Catch Magnetic Fields on Tour!

Mar 6 Hudson, NY Helsinki Hudson
Mar 7 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
Mar 11 Minehead, UK All Tomorrow’s Parties
Mar 14, 15, 16 Austin, TX SXSW
Mar 18 Vancouver, BC The Vogue
Mar 19 Seattle, WA Neptune Theater
Mar 20 Seattle, WA Neptune Theater
Mar 21 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
Mar 23 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theater
Mar 24 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
Mar 26 Chicago, IL Vic Theater
Mar 27 Chicago, IL Vic Theater
Mar 28 Iowa City, IA Englert Theater
Mar 30 Toronto, ON Sound Academy
Mar 31 Montreal, QC Le National
Apr 3 New York, NY Beacon Theater
Apr 6 Boston, MA Berklee Performance Center
Apr 7 Boston, MA Berklee Performance Center
Apr 9 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Apr 11 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
Apr 12 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
Apr 14 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse

You can pre-order Love At the Bottom of the Sea on CD or LP here: Merge Store

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Live Concert Footage!

I came back from vacation to find our pals at Grandcrew.com have posted another amazing concert - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart live at Eurockeennes in Belfort France. You can see the entire concert here: Pains of Being Pure at Heart!

Lou Barlow Online Documentary "Making Of Goodnight Unknown"

A new 30-minute video documenting the process of making Goodnight Unknown, the upcoming Lou Barlow album premiered on The Onion AV Club and is now available on LooTube. This behind-the-scenes vignette is the first in a series of videos from Goodnight Unknown that will be unveiled weekly until its October 6 release date.

First MP3 From New Daniel Johnston Album!

Daniel Johnston is back with his first album in 6 years Is And Always Was (due out Oct 6th)! If the track "Freedom" is any indication, this could well be Johnston's best album ever. On this album, Daniel allied with the musician and producer Jason Falkner, who is known for his own stellar solo career as well as his work with Beck, Air, and Paul McCartney. We will do a full review of the album as the release date draws closer. For now, enjoy "Freedom."


Download Freedom MP3!

The Music Tapes - For the Planet Pluto Video

On its way to you in a triumphant spiral of zeros and ones through that strange nether universe from which all things computery come is the new Music Tapes video, “For the Planet Pluto.”

Featuring the tasteful backup vocals of the 4th graders of Barrow Elementary School in Athens, GA, "For the Planet Pluto" stars Kiran Fernandes and Sophie Fernandes, reunited for the first time since starring in the movie Major Organ and the Adding Machine, except that they are brother and sister and live together. It also features a comic turn from Kevin Barnes as "The Slightly Sinister Father," a departure from the more serious roles he has become famous for in the videos of the modern rock band Of Montreal.



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The Woods - The Final Breaths of a Main Character Video + Free EP!

The Woods began in 2006 as the bedroom recording project of songwriter and visual artist, Ian Dudley. The musical project, named after Ian's imaginative perspective on Tallahassee, Florida, grew to include over 30 friends and family members who all contributed to the band's self-titled debut, released in May 2008 by Plug Research Records. The album musically narrates a story of a boy whose faulty air conditioning sends him on a high seas adventure. With true artistic craftsmanship, the album was released packaged in actual books, as well as sold on iTunes. The tale the album told was brought to life in 2009 with a music video for the song "The Final Breaths of a Main Character," featuring illustrations by Ian Dudley and directed by Raul B. Fernandez.



After a short tour in the summer of 2008, the paths of The Woods' residents diverged. Feeling a sense that the debut album was merely the first chapter in a very long book, The Woods, with the help of modern technology, compiled foggy memories and scattered instrumentation from six cities across these United States to create The EP Logue, released for free online on June 22nd, 2009. Inspired by possessions, locations, youth, distance and pack-rats, The EP Logue completes the story that began in Tallahassee with Ian Dudley and friends. Although the core group of musicians that contributed to both albums plan to continue to write and play together, The Woods will be left behind for new landscapes and stories.

Download The EP Logue Free

Side Note: The Woods realize that the band WOODS has gotten so big and so popular that they will be changing their name for all future projects!

Vic Chesnutt/Elf Power European Tour Video Episode 1

I got this great email in my box today. The video is really great, so I thought I'd just share the email with you as is:

Hello. This is Jimmy from the band Elf Power. We got to tour Europe this past Spring with Vic Chesnutt in support of our collabaorate album together called Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power and The Amorphous Strums "Dark Developments" Orange Twin Records, 2009). We were in Europe for 3 weeks coming straight off of a REM Tribute show that we played in NYC at Carnegie Hall. Vic had his personal camera with him on the trip and filmed 11 tapes worth of footage while we were on tour (with Laura Carter and myself also filming from time to time, but the footage is 90% shot by Vic himself). After tour, I brought the tapes home and sifted through them. Realizing that whatever I did with them would be way too long to hold the attention span of today's YouTube generation, with the task of editing these tapes into a tour video I decided to break them down into episodes, the first of which can be viewed here:



Episode 1 takes us from NYC to Den Haag, Netherlands with a travel day inbetween. I already have 2 more episodes complete and plan on posting them in intervals, maybe one per month, until the series is complete (i am guessing by the end there will probably be about 8 episodes). It was a fun trip and we're all excited to share the videos with friends and fans.

So why am I telling you all of this? Well, I am just trying to let some people know that this video (and forthcoming series) exists and I am trying to get the word out to whoever is interested. So if anyone would like to post about this anywhere on the world-wide-web then we would apprciate it.

Hope you like the video.

Jimmy - Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power, and The Amorphous Sturms

Princeton - Cocoon of Love

Los Angeles-based Princeton is releasing their debut record, Cocoon of Love, September 29th on Kanine Records. Growing up on Princeton Street in Santa Monica, the group now lives in an aging green house on a hillside in the Eagle Rock district of LA where their album was recorded. Take a second to listen to or download the beautiful song "Calypso Gold." The entire album is full of wonderful pop gems.

Download Calypso Gold MP3!

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Why? Live in Paris Concert Footage!

Thanks to our pals at Grandcrew, we gladly present you Why? playing live in Paris at the Colors Music Festival! It's really frigging awesome. The clip below is the song "The Hollows." The full concert is 16 amazing songs. Check out the whole thing here: WHY? LIVE!