who will lay me down in green pastures?

Patrick Wolf's next single will be "Who Will". It will be accompanied by a couple of remixes and radio edit. You can download one of the remixes below, enjoy!

Who Will (Buffetlibre Remix) [wicked-cool song]

happy bachelor day

Patrick Wolf’s new record, The Bachelor came out today in the UK! Go buy it from you local record stores.

Battle [wicked-cool song]
Hard Times (Alec Empire Remix)



In other news, the NXNE 09 preview video is up, this year's line-up looks promising!




Check out Bat For Lashes' video for "Pearl's Dream":




Lastly, watch Vimby Backyard Session With Great Lake Swimmers below:

pajo: scream with me

I love associating artists/albums with the different seasons; for instance, I have always love to listen to Great Lake Swimmer and Wilco (especially Sky Blue Sky) during the summer. This summer, I am adding Pajo’s highly anticipated new record, Scream With Me to my playlist. The legendary David Pajo once again bring the most dreamy and tranquil songs to my ears. Wait, I forgot to mention, Scream With Me is a Misfits covers album!!!!!!! Here’s the breakdown of the songs: 6 our of the 9 songs are from Static Age, 2 from Walk Among Us and lastly, the amazing "Horror Business". And yes, even with lyrics such as “When do creatures rape your face”; “The omelet of disease awaits your noontime meal/her mouth of germicide seducing all your plans”; “Kennedy's shattered head hits concrete/ride Johnny ride”; and “I'll put a knife right in you/I'm warning you”, I still think that this record is unbelievably dreamy and tranquil! Seriously, Pajo’s lo-fi acoustic guitar and vocal are the most relaxing combination in music today! Scream With Me is definitely an essential record for the summer. Misfits fans should find the covers amusing and if David Pajo is new to you, make sure you check out his self-titled record, it was one of my favourite records of 2005 (and Slint's Spiderland... but that's pretty much a given for any indie rock/math rock fans.)

Horror Business [wicked-cool song]
Attitude [wicked-cool song]

visit Pajo's MySpace here
Scream With Me is only available on vinyl, you can buy it here

show me some revolution

Check out Patrick Wolf's new video for "Hard Times" below.
(video taken from Pitchfork)



This is what Patrick has to say about the video:

"For me this video is my homage to two of my biggest heroes, Elvis Presley and Klaus Nomi. I always wondered what both of those geniuses would be doing if they were both still with us. Elvis and Klaus were some of the greatest radical visionaries the world has ever seen, never forget them. This is my first music video shot outside of the United Kingdom, filmed all on Pier 52, I think, on Manhattan Island, a couple of piers down from the home of Studio 54. The outfit I am wearing was made by my long term collaborator Ada Zanditon out of bin bags from Whitechapel Market in London flown to New York in its own suitcase at great excess baggage cost. It was an absolute mind altering experience working with Ace Norton, This guy is definitely the Michel Gondry of my generation. I cant wait to collaborate with him and his amazing team in the future. Big love to all the dancers, make up artists and performance artists in the video, to Charles Manning for making the costumes for my army and to Marvin for making this all happen for me and my hard times song."

grammatics: grammatics

To be honest, I did not make it through the entire thing the very first time I listened to Grammatics’s self-titled debut. I didn’t think highly of it, but there was this one song in particular that stood out. The brilliant track "Murderer" is the reason why I went back months later and gave Grammatics another go. I am glad that I gave this band/record another chance as it has now become one of my favourite albums of the year. This album is an excellent example of great band chemistry—the multi-textured arrangements work wonderfully with Owen Brinley’s dramatic vocal deliveries—the music and vocal interact so beautifully together! Grammatics’s S/T debut is flawlessly remarkable and it is the best debut record I have heard this year!

Murderer [super-wicked-cool song]
Relentless Fours [wicked-cool song]
Polar Swelling

visit Grammatics' MySpace here
buy Grammatics here

who's the boy you like the most?

Two fine records—Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest—came out today, go buy them!

can you hear the crickets playing

Watch Cocoanut Groove performs one of my favourite songs of last year, "Walking to Madeleine Street" at Telefonplan.

dd/mm/yyyy: black square

It is quite difficult to pinpoint DD/MM/YYYY’s Black Square to a single genre as the 35-minute record features a collection of diverse styles. Black Squares begins with "Bronzage" and "No Life"—two up-tempo noise punk sensations! The album takes a sudden turn by the third track as the mellow pacing of "They" provides a nice break from the two noisy openers. The band experiments with yet another style by song four; "Infinity Skull Cube" is very rhythm driven and almost math rock sounding. The next two tracks are both instrumental; yet, they sound very different from each other—"My Glasses" is a drone noise track while "Birdtown" is progressive/math rock sounding. From "Sirius" onward, Black Square feels more cohesive as the band alternates/experiments between noise punk and math rock. Black Square might be hard to digest at first because of its disjointed style; but do not be afraid, it is one of those albums that gets better with each listen. The disjointedness makes sense after a while and it is also what makes Black Square a fine record.

Bronzage
Sirius
Real Eyes

visit DD/MM/YYYY's MySpace here
buy Black Square here

some people pay for thrills but I get mine for free

Dizzee Rascal's brand new single, "Bonkers" charted at #1 on the UK Singles Chart!


buy the single here

an ending fitting for the start

Amazing—The Libertines (minus John Hassel) reformed and played together last Friday in London for the first time since 2004... NME was there to catch all of it!