
Results tagged “MP3's” from Fade Away Never


Fiery Furnaces The End is Near animated Music Video by Dax from dax norman on Vimeo.
The Fiery Furnaces primary band members are brother (Matthew) and sister (Eleanor) Friedberger's from Brooklyn, NY. "The End Is Near" is off their 7th studio album I'm Going Away (July 21, 2009). The video is Dax Norman's animation for "The End Is Near" video competition. Dax's video blows the rest out of the water. The winner will be determined by September.


Florence + The Machine just released their debut album Lungs (July 9, 2009). They released an EP in April, A Lot of Love: A Lot of Blood that includes their cover of Cold War Kids' "Hospital Beds." Florence Welch sounds like a spawned baby of a lesbian love affair between Sia (Zero 7) and Bat for Lashes singer, Natasha Khan. This Mercury Prize nominee's video for "Drumming Song" would be perfect at 2-4 am on MTV when they actually play music videos.
Florence + The Machine - Drumming Song
MP3: Florence + The Machine - Kiss With A Fist.mp3 (Lungs 2009)
MP3: Florence + The Machine - Flakes.mp3 (Mystery Jets Cover)
MP3: Florence + The Machine - Hospital Beds.mp3 (Cold War Kids Cover)

The most remarkably talented modern day Mexican musicians are Rodrigo y Gabriela. If you don't have goose bumps after listening to their rhythmic hand-made classical guitars, then you have no soul. They embelish musicianship to the core and make the indie guitarists sound like kindergardeners. The video is of a song with an unknown name off their new album 11:11 (September 8, 2009) following their self-titled debut (2006). "Diablo Rojo" was on their debut album.
MP3: The Dodos - Walking.mp3 (Visiter)
MP3: The Dodos - Red and Purple.mp3 (Visiter)

08-03 Café Du Nord - San Francisco, CA
08-04 The Echo - Los Angeles, CA
08-05 San Diego, CA
08-12 Haily's - Denton, TX
08-13 The Mohawk - Austin, TX
08-14 Walters on Washington - Houston, TX
There a lot more tour dates listed here.
MP3: Bowerbirds - Northern Lights.mp3 (Upper Air)
MP3: Bowerbirds - Dark Horse.mp3 (Hymns for a Dark Horse)
Update: Chad VanGaalen's first single "Metal Spider Webs" from his side project Black Mold is now on Stereogum. I should prepare you, it is not as "electronic" as you would think. It sounds a little primitive. Just a clarinet, violin, bass, cello, xylophone, maybe a guitar, and a few other weird electronic sounds. Here is the link.
Updated Update: Ok, I just found another released song that is actually more electronic by Black Mold called "Tetra Pack Heads." Both songs are on his upcoming album Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz.
MP3: Black Mold - Tetra Pack Heads.mp3
Nothing seemed more appropriate than this little ditty for Independence Day. Björk has just released Voltaic (June 23, 2009). It is a box set of 2 CDs and 2 DVDs supporting her last tour for her overly-produced album Volta (2007). Thanks to Timbaland (OneRepublic, JoJo, Missy Elliott), Volta has been the only disappointing Björk album. Lets put it this way: following a water boarding session with a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, play Volta on repeat for a few hours and after the atrocious headache they will be begging for more water boarding. Fortunately, the live performances of Volta are much more appealing and exciting without being overboard.
One of the CDs is a live performance from olympic studios. Half of the live CD are songs from Volta and the other half dozen are fresh reworkings of her classics. She varies up her oldie but goodies and seemingly misses a tune from her Debut album. Björk even throws in "The Pleasure Is All Mine" from her underrated album Medulla (2004). The magnificently composed album, Medulla, consists of only one instrument, the mouth. She gathered up beat boxer Rahzel (The Roots), Mike Patton (Faith No More), and others to virtually create the entire album by human sounds and a cappella voices. Here are the track listings for the live Voltaic CD:
- Wanderlust
(Volta)
- Hunter
(Homogenic)
- The
Pleasure Is All Mine (Medulla)
- Innocence
(Volta)
- Army
of Me (Post)
- I Miss
You (Post)
- Earth
Intruders (Volta)
- All Is
Full of Love (Homogenic)
- Pagen
Poetry (Vespertine)
- Vertebrae
By Vertebrae (Volta)
- Declare
Independence (Volta)
- My
Juvenille - Live (Volta)
The other CD is all remixes. There is even a remix of "Wanderlust" by Ratatat. One of the DVDs is 21 different songs live in Paris and Reykjavik. The other DVD is videos. In the video for "Declare Independence," the eye catching luminous blue circle the guy is moving the blocks around on is called a Reactable. The musician controls the system by manipulating tangible objects. By rotating and connecting the blocks/circles one can create sample loops, synthesizers, or any imaginable composition.
"Nattura" is a song that Björk released last October to support the environmental Nattura organization that is concerned with the preservation of Icelandic resources. It has the equivalent blood pumping intensity as the live "Declare Independence." And those little moans and groans in the background are of previous "I've Seen It All" (Dancer In the Dark Soundtrack- Selmasongs) duet-er Thom Yorke.
MP3: Bjork - Nattura.mp3

Kria Brekkan whose real name is Kristin Anna Valtysdottir is more notably known as the previous lead singer of the Icelandic band, Mùm. She left Mùm a few years ago to move to New York with her husband Dave Portner (Avey Tare) from the band Animal Collective. Brekkan even sang on Animal Collective's Feels (October 18, 2005). Since her abandonment of Mùm, Brekkan and her hubby released a collaborative album Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan Pullhair Rubeye (April 24, 2007). They wrote the album in the summer of 2005 and to support their album they performed an acoustic live Planet Claire session. The song "Bee Xlaura" was recorded in 2007 and is one of a series of double A-side 7" singles that Brekkan plans to release later this year. She performed "Bee Xlaura" for La Blogotheque in Paris a few years ago.
MP3: Kria Brekkan - Bee Xlaura.mp3



The demise of the bulk of albums is that the one song that inclined you to purchase the album is so outstanding it makes the rest of the songs sound blandly mediocre. At first listen you might be deceived into thinking this exuberant CD is a blend of newest favs created by one of your friends then planted into your CD/MP3 player. The beauty of this faux mix CD, Bitte Orca (June 9,2009) by the Dirty Projectors, is the anticipation for the next unattached song.
Each song is its own individual conception. The vast array of compelling melodies doesn't undermine its predecessor. Blending textures and sounds is a recipe for an intriguingly refreshing album. It is sort of like a cereal variety pack. At first you go for the Fruity Pebbles, but then grow to love all the others along the way. All the songs have different vibes that it be an acoustic guitar, heavy electric riff, guitar solo, male singer, female singer, or a beat machine. At times it's a clap your hands sing-a-long ("Stillness Is the Move"), others a tender arpeggio sentiment with a supporting ensemble of strings ("Two Doves"), or guitar jamming good old rock-n-roll ("Cannibal Resource"). Some are humorous when Longstreth romantically compares his lady in waiting to a bottle of Gatorade for she "hits the spot" in "Temecula Sunrise". The founder of Dirty P, Dave Longstreth is a former Yale graduate in musical studies. The song "Knotty Pine" by Dirty Projectors and David Byrne (Talking Heads) is on the compilation AIDS awareness CD, Dark was the Night (February 16, 2009) created by The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner. "Ambulance Man" is another song performed live with David Byrne. By far one of the most unique albums of the year.
TOUR DATES:
06-21 Wexner Center - Columbus, OH
06-22 Jay Pritzker Pavilion - Chicago, IL
07-03 Chop Suey - Seattle, WA
07-04 Holocene - Portland, OR
07-07 The Independent - San Francisco, CA
07-08 Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA
07-09 Casbah - San Diego, CA
07-19 Williamsburg Waterfront - Brooklyn, NY
MP3: Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - Ambulance Man.mp3
MP3: Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - Knotty Pine.mp3
