We’ve been obsessing over Ariel Pink and his lo-fi hypnagogic nostalgipop round these parts lately so it is great news that Los Angeles’ Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti have confirmed that their debut album for 4AD – Before Today will be released worldwide on June 8th 2010 on CD, LP and digital formats. Before Today was recorded in Encino with Sunny Levine (Quincy Jones’ grandson) and … Continue reading NEWS: ARIEL PINK album due 8th June…
At DS we love CocoRosie, their angelic, mystical music and crazy appropriation of fashion, art and romance. The good news is their new album Grey Oceans is released via Sub Pop on May 11th. In the meantime you can download the first single Lemonade below… DOWNLOAD Continue reading MP3: COCOROSIE – Lemonade
The Soft Pack are gearing up for the release of their self-titled debut album in March and to celebrate and whet your appetite they are offering up a free download of the brilliant Answer To Yourself which sounds like a glorious cross between The Saints and The Strokes. It rolls like a lazy summer afternoon with plenty of snarl and bite to get your head … Continue reading NEWS: THE SOFT PACK new album out soon…
Here it is, our inaugural monthly mixtape. Mixtapes in the cassette format were a pretty important part of many people’s immersion in music and their desire to share it with others. Whether it was a desperate attempt to reel in that boy/girl you fancied, easing the pain of a long distance drive or just the joy of sharing music you discovered – the mixtape was … Continue reading MIXTAPE: MIXED FEELINGS 01
Eeach week we get a bunch of tracks thrust toward us here at DS – some of which are merely generic facsimiles of great music. Others, like this week’s offering from The Baddies, are the product of their own minds. Sure you can pick out the Franz Ferdinand and Maximo Park influence but they add a nice, dirty bass to their indie disco pout… Like … Continue reading THE WEEKLY MP3: THE BADDIES – Open One Eye
If indie pop with an 80s electronic pop twist is your thing then you’d be onto a good thing if you checked out the new single from Melbourne’s Young Heretics. Their debut EP The Dreamers is out in December and the duo are touring with a full band i support of its release, including the Purple Sneakers NYE event in Sydney. UPCOMING SHOWS: THURS 12 … Continue reading MP3: YOUNG HERETICS – Bones Of A Rabbit
Jason Molina (Magnolia Electric Co, Songs:Ohia) has teamed up with Will Johnson (Centro-matic, Monsters Of Folk) to record a self-titled album which will be out Nov 3rd on Secretly Canadian. In the words of Johnson: “For ten days we wrote, co-wrote, workshopped, complimented, scrutinized, drank, invited friends to come play music, smoked, made lots of notes and drawings, drank a little more and shot the … Continue reading MP3: Molina & Johnson – Twenty Cycles To The Ground
Want some sweet summer pop to blast away the hay fever and replace those extra coffees you’ve been drinking? Das Pop’s new single Never Get Enough is like Phoenix on uppers and is about to be everywhere and you can get it here first… DAS POP – NEVER GET ENOUGH Continue reading MP3: DAS POP – Never Get Enough
GIRLS… San Francisco’s Girls are gonna be big on the indie scene… I can feel it. They have the hazy lo-fi sound of Japandroids, Wavves etc but they also carry a great pop sensibility that ranges from Elvis Costello to Brian Wilson surf tunes. This is psychedelic music on the right side of the tracks! Grab a free MP3 of the opening track from their … Continue reading MP3: GIRLS – Lust For Life
New Order’s Bernard Sumner has sorted himself out with a new band featuring fellow New Order/Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris, Phil Cunningham (guitar) and Jake Evans (guitar and vocals). Their debut album Never Cry Another Tear is set for release on 12th October 2009 on Triple Echo Records and features the breezy pop sensibilities that Sumner has been creating over the last 30 years. Together, … Continue reading NEWS: BAD LIEUTENANT debut first song…
Great to come across the news that Vic Chesnutt has a new album due for release on Sept 21. At The Cut is the follow up to North Star Deserter from a few years ago and it is again a collaboration with Silver Mt Zion and Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto. That last record was a dark and intense set of songs so expect more of the … Continue reading NEWS: VIC CHESNUTT new album…
Country folk troubadour Justin Townes Earle is truly an amazing live experience. Coming to Australia shortly, you can check out his live performance on the fabulous Internet Archive site from his spot at the Bloodshot Records BBQ. Check out the show HERE and make sure you have a look around the site, there are some grat live gigs posted up there. Continue reading NEWS: Download JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE live show…
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