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New Music | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Let The Day Begin

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Let The Day Begin

[L]os Angeles’ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is right around the corner from releasing a new album, their 6th studio album, out in March, titled Specter at the Feast, and releasing “Let the Day Begin,” the first single off the record. “Let the Day Begin,” is a driving pulsing rock tune that stays true to BRMC’s trademark sound, fuzzy guitars, pounding drums, and atmospherics that have created a mysterious and super sexy sound and this single only further cements that sound.

Look for Specter at the Feast March 19th on Vagrant.

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New Music | Menomena – Toomer

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[P]ortland’s Menomena is about to embark on another tour, but for s’s and g’s they dropped this double a-side single on us including the song “Toomer,” (above) which feels as though could have spent some time on their most recent release Moms. “Toomer,” explores more of their experimental sonic-scape that features their trademark polyrhythms from drums to synths to a totally funky bassline.

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Review | Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition – White Buffalo

[J]imbo Mathus is the sound of the South. The Mississippi native creates music that makes even us Northerners feel as though we were born with Bayou blood coursing through our veins. White Buffalo, his second album with his band The Tri-State Coalition, is a masterful collection of stories deeply rooted in the mythology of the area, and connects us outsiders to his generational landscape. The album’s first track, “In the Garden,” sets the tone for the musical exploration of the Mississippi Delta and leans heavily on biblical references of good and evil, set to a wickedly played mandolin. It is…

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New Music | Bleeding Rainbow – Waking Dream

[B]leeding Rainbow (formerly Reading Rainbow) are one of those bands you can’t really write about without namedropping a bunch of other bands, so I’m just going to go ahead & get it all out of the way. Sonic Youth, Nirvana, My Bloody Valentine, Yo La Tengo, etc, & then the ’60s bands that influenced the psychedelia of the early/mid ’90s. Alright, now we’re on the same page. Their bio says it’s like the Mamas & the Papas backed by early Smashing Pumpkins, &, while I don’t love to just regurgitate that type of stuff, it’s a really good descriptor. But…

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New Music | Tim Noyes – Saturday

[T]im Noyes of Aunt Martha is about to step into the spotlight, no longer under the guise of the aforementioned band, but as a songwriter and leader of a fresh new sound for him. Less of the bedroom recordings and acoustic twang of earlier recordings, but now in immersed in a totally different sound, one that is more densely packed with mood and layers. It complements his songwriting surprisingly well, and it shows on his first single, Saturday, a song written before an Aunt Martha show at a dive bar in New York. The sonic shift is evident from the…

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New Music | Bobby Long – Devil Moon

[B]ritish born musician Bobby Long sure doesn’t sound like he comes from jolly ol England, though writing a thesis on American Folk music might just make him more knowledgeable than most of us when it comes to American music. Regardless, he’s releasing a new record, his sophomore album, Wishbone, next month and a new single today. The new single “Devil Moon,” bears the mark of American rock music with a bit of  gravel and whiskey slathered on it. It’s jumping out to me as very alt-country, california soul-ish ala The Mother Hips.

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New Music | Frontier Ruckus – Dealerships

Frontier Ruckus – Dealerships [G]etting closer to January 29th is getting us closer to the release of Frontier Ruckus’ next album, Eternity Dimming, the next album in the mythology of Matthew Milia and his rolling narrative and heavy lyrical songs. The single “Dealerships,” which refers to all sorts of physical and internal stations within the night landscape of Michigan winter. They deal out that chalky feeling of sterile frigidness, memory, and human pathos,” Milia explained. “The used car dealerships around the Silverdome, the Salvation Armies, the Catholic schools, the carports smoking with warming-up cars — they’re all the places that dole…

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Brendan Benson – Metarie (Wellfed version)

Brendan Benson – Metarie (Wellfed Version) [I]f you’re not familiar with the names Brendan Benson & Jason Falkner, you’ve undoubtedly heard their playing, arranging, engineering, or producing on critically acclaimed records by everyone from Paul McCartney to Adele, Beck, the White Stripes, Gnarls Barkley, or even Loretta Lynn. Benson co-fronted the Raconteurs with Jack White, & Jason Falkner briefly shared a band with Jon Brion. When the pair got together in 1995 to begin work on the Wellfed sessions, Benson was being lauded by critics & college radio djs as the savior of power pop, & Falkner had just released…

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New Music | Cory Chisel & the Wandering Sons – Never Meant To Love You

Cory Chisel & the Wandering Sons – Never Meant to Love You [O]ld Believers marks Cory Chisel’s second collaboration with producer/performer Brendan Benson, & was recorded on the analog equipment at Nashville’s Welcome To 1979 studio. Unsurprisingly, it sounds like a 70’s record; between Benson, David Vandervelde, & Dawes, Nashville is beginning to gain a reputation as the place to recapture the west coast songwriter vibes of the ’70s. And while Chisel’s new record mostly fits pretty snugly into that scene, Never Meant To Love You more overtly recalls fellow Minnesota son Bob Dylan, who made his own sojourn to…

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