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Band of Blogs: Beach House, Le Galaxie, Blakroc & vintage rock ‘n’ roll

Niall Byrne — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:41:15 +0000

New Beach House – Norway
The online hype is building for this Baltimore duo’s new album Teen Dream which comes out in 2010, thanks to this new dreamy track.
Listen at Nialler9

Vintage-style rock and roll is back
A slew of vintage-style rock and roll bands have popped up recently including last week’s pick The Sandwitches. New Orleans’ The Generationals and their track When They Fight, They Fight is the pick of the bunch thanks to its catchy chorus, Motown horns and girl-group harmonies.
http://www.myspace.com/generationals

Le Galaxie – Victory
Dublin cosmic synth purveyors launched their new single Victory on the same night as Thierry Henry handled the ball but don’t hold that against them. Le Galaxie are reaching for the stars.
Listen at State.ie

Blakroc album out today
The Black Keys team up with rappers Mos Def, Jimmy Jones, Raekwon, RZA, Q-Tip and Pharoahe Monch for a modern “blues” album which is released on iTunes today.

Linkage: RIAA awarded $1.92M in P2P case and more

Niall Byrne — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:08:19 +0000

RIAA awarded $1.92M in P2P case
A jury in Minnesota awarded the damages to the music industry representative body after 32 year old mother of four Jammie Thomas-Rasset was found to have infringed copyright by downloading and sharing 24 songs on the Kazaa. That’s a whopping $80,000 per track.
http://tinyurl.com/rassetcase

Buy the t-shirt, get the album
Rapper Mos Def is offering a novel t-shirt package for his excellent new album The Ecstatic which comes with the album cover on the front, tracklisting on the back and a download code on the tag.
http://tinyurl.com/mostee

The Manga Messiah
Culch.ie has unearthed a Manga comic about Jesus which has the by-line: “HAS HE COME to SAVE the WORLD… or DESTROY IT? ”
http://tinyurl.com/jesusmanga

Band of Blogs best of the week

Niall Byrne — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:30:23 +0000

Dark Was The Night live
Listen to the entire charity concert from New York’s Radio City Music Hall which featured David Byrne, Dirty Projectors, Bon Iver, Sharon Jones, The National and Feist.
Listen to the show @ NPR

Mos Def – Auditorium
Whether The Ecstatic, the forthcoming album from Mos Def will re-establish the rapper as a great MC remains to be seen but this tune featuring production from Madlib and a verse from Slick Rock makes me hopeful.
Listen at Rappcats

Frankmusik – Confusion Girl (Don Diablo remix)
The original is an OK pop tune but this more euphoric remix by Dutch producer Don Diablo is infinitely more listenable.
Listen at the Hype Machine

The Radio Dept.
The Swedish band return with a third album on Labrador Records after a three year hiatus. The much-blogged taster from Clinging To A Scheme, ‘David’ is a twinkling, laid-back dreamy indie-pop tune.
Listen at Rock Sellout