Right now you could go to the movie theater and see New Moon if you wanted to. Well, it’s probably sold out – but in theory you could. You don’t care about seeing New Moon but something tells me you will, just to keep your head up high as an American. Last week we gave some love to the Wolves for Team Jacob. This week we’ll give Team Edward a shot – Vampire Mixery away!
Vampires Mixery [zip] MP3: Antsy Pants – Vampire MP3: Vampire Weekend – M79 MP3: Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s – Vampires In Blue Dresses MP3: The Builders and the Butchers – Vampire Lake MP3: Noah and the Whale – Devil Town (Daniel Johnston Cover) [For "Vampire" Lyrics]
Pre-Order Allison Weiss’s New Album + MP3’s + Tour We here at DustSleeve happen to think Athens, GA’s Allison Weiss is pretty fantastic. Not only is she cute, a master of social media, as D.I.Y as they come, and a pretty serious pancake fan, she also happens to be really, really talented. November 24th marks the release of her first full-length LP (though sixth release), and you can expect nothing less than her signature quirk-pop appeal in a clean, catchy, hope-filled collection worth keeping on repeat over this holiday season. If you can’t wait to get your hands on the disk, you have TWO DAYS to pre-order …Was Right All Along and get a ton of goodies as your reward! For now you can hear two MP3’s from the album, and check the tour section at the bottom of the post for the first string of upcoming dates.
Daytrotter For Your iPhone Your favorite site for a daily fix of in-studio magic is now at your fingertips…literally. For all of you hip enough to carry an iPhone you can now access the entire Daytrotter library for free if you download the Daytrotter App. Impress your relatives this Thanksgiving when you seamlessly switch from b-sides, covers, and alternate versions of your favorite rockers care of one horse loving band of studio engineers. Rad!
King Khan & BBQ Arrested + Blame Manager + Enjoy Shroomin’
If there’s one thing you don’t want to do in Oak Grove, Kentucky, it’s get caught with some far out shroomage. Our friends King Khan & BBQ had to learn it the hard way last week when Arish and Kristin got held up in the slammer for possession of illegal mushrooms. Although the blame was tried to put off on their manager/chaperone, the Christian County (yikes) Jail set the record straight. A few shows were cancelled and fans are left mostly un-surprised.
Sub Pop Releases New Beach House MP3
While the alternative music world sits in waiting for the release of Beach House’s new one Teen Dream, their Seattle-based label Sub Pop let us at an early-download MP3 for track “Norway”. Enjoy. MP3: Beach House – Norway
This week we’re video watching a pair of excellent pairings. The first comes from a recent White Rabbits show in San Francisco where the Brooklyn-based six-piece was joined on stage by Spoon’s Britt Daniel for a fairly excellent cover of John Lennon’s “Instant Karma”. Enjoy it, below!
I first fell in love with Charlotte Gainsbourg when she starred in the Michel Gondry French-flick, The Science of Sleep. After netflixing everything of hers I could get my hands on, I then moved on to her music catalog, namely 2006’s 5:55. Last month she started releasing tracks from her third and Beck-produced album IRM, and now it looks like we’ve got ourselves a video. Check out the Beck duet, “Heaven Can Wait”, available for your swooning pleasure below.
Concerts and Alternative Cultural Events Hitting the Cleveland Lakeshore… and beyond!
Tue, Nov. 17:
Big D and the Kids Table – Grog Shop Open Mic Night – Phoenix Coffeehouse (Lakewood)
Wed, Nov. 18:
FUN + Album + Exploding Lies -Now Thats Class The Meat Puppets – Grog Shop The Reigning Sound – Beachland Ballroom Pat McGee Band – House of Blues (Cambridge Room) Slightly Stoopid - House of Blues Yuyutsu RD Sharma Poetry Reading - Visible Voice Books I Will Stay If..Campaign - Speakeasy (Under Bier Markt)
Thu, Nov. 19:
Aaron Zimmer + Brad Walk – Cleveland’s Breakfast Club Chinese Stars + Casual Encounters + Filmstrip + Johnny Utah – Now That’s Class! The Dangerous Summer + Hey Mercedes - Grog Shop Rob Duskey and the Rounders (CD Release) – Brother’s Lounge Stephen Kellog and the Sixers - House of Blues Ian McLagan - Beachland Ballroom Open Mic Night – The Winchester Design, Sustainability and Consumer Culture - Cleveland Institute of Art
Fri, Nov. 20:
Dinosaur, Jr - Grog Shop GreenLight Issue 6 Release Show: Letters To The Moon + American War + Random Stereo + Wisdom Tooth + Ancestors + Unwelcome Guests – Bela Dubby (13321 Madison Ave, Lakewood)
Will Hoge – TheKent Stage Negative Approach + Chronic Seizure + The Plain Dealers + Rid The World – Now That’s Class! Arzu Ozkal film Screening – Visible Voice Books
Sat, Nov. 21:
Ohio Sky + This is a Shakedown + Letter Camp - Grog Shop Artful Dodger - Agora Cleveland Grindhouse Film Festival – Grog Shop Hot Sauce Gravy - Screaming Rooster Snuggiefest – West 6th Street
The Natural Hisotry of Onions – Cleveland Museum of Natural History Lantern Hike – Cuyahoga Valley National Park Pine Leaf Boys - Cuyahoga Valley National Park Countryside Holiday Farmer’s Market - Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Sun, Nov. 22 Random Stereo on Inner Sanctum – Radio 92.3
Next week the second installment in the Twilight-goes-film series “New Moon” is released and teens everywhere are already standing in line. We thought we’d poke fun at this moment in pop culture by dedicating the next two Mixeries to the bases of Bella Swan’s love triangle – Jacob (the Werewolf) and Edward (the Vampire). This week we’ll get hairy with the wolves.
Wolf Mixery [zip] MP3: TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” MP3: Dead Man’s Bones – “Werewolf Heart” MP3: Sea Wolf – “You’re A Wolf” MP3: Coco Rosie – “Werewolf” MP3: Wolf Parade – “You are a Runner and I am my Father’s Son”
Hot Chip Talks New Album, Releases “Take It In” February 9th marks the release date for Hot Chips new album One Life Stand c/o Astralwerks. As of right now only UK dates are set for the blustery February month, but you can expect shows across the US to get announced soon enough. In the meantime, let’s all feast on the first release from the album, entitled “Take It In”, which is both really good and really available below. (tour dates after the break) MP3: Hot Chip – “Take It In”
R.I.P Jerry Fuchs
34-year-old Athens, GA native Jerry Fuchs died Saturday, Nov 7th after falling down an elevator shaft. Best known for bringing the drums alive for bands such as !!!, the Juan MacLean, Maserati, and Turning Machine, Fuch’s accident occurred after he and a friend tried to jump out of an elevator stuck between floors.
Nana Grizol Tour + New Album + New Track! Athens, GA’s Nana Grizol are one of our favorite music-makers here at DustSleeve which is why we’re both psyched and bummed that Nana Grizol are out on the road RIGHT NOW as we speak. Psyched, because a new tour means a new album – Ruth, out january 12th on Orange Twin Records – and bummed because the tour doesn’t land anywhere near Cleveland. I guess we’ll have to make due with the first available track from Ruth, entitled “For Things That Haven’t Come Yet”, below. (tour dates after the break) MP3: Nana Grizol – “For Things That Haven’t Come Yet”
Solange Knowles Covers The Dirty Projectors
Looks like Solange is as hip on indie music as her sister Beyonce, a known Grizzly Bear concert attender. Check out the younger Knowles sister covering The Dirty Projectors’ “Stillness Is The Move”, below. MP3: Solange Knowles – “Stillness Is The Move” (Dirty Projectors Cover)
Tours: Nana Grizol, Hot Chip, La Roux, The XX & more! Keep reading →
Jimmy Fallon knows good music, or at least someone who books his talent does. Last week the Ward/Oberst/Mogis/James super-group Monsters of Folk swung by the show to perform their title track “Dear God”, and house band The Roots couldn’t keep themselves from being involved. That’s a lot of good looking and good sounding talent, kids. (Side Note: How awkward does Oberst look in that suit and behind a bass? I love it)
Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear have one of the best albums of 2009 on their hands with Veckatimest, along with some of the weirdest videos to go along with it (See: “Two Weeks“, “While You Wait for the Others“). Last week they premiered this clay-mation art-school-type piece for “Ready, Able” directed by Allison Schulnik. Let’s be honest, we don’t get it but we are still left feeling like these guys can do no wrong.
The economy may be down but if there’s one thing we here in the good ‘ol US of A have in abundance it’s bearded folk singers. Unfortunately for you, I’m still not sick of them, which is why I feel the need to introduce you to the New England-based twang sangers Brown Bird. I’m not usually one to do this, but I’ll let their myspace do the talking, because I feel it does it so well.
“Brown Bird began over five years ago as the brain child of songwriter David Lamb and has developed into a miniature orchestra of harmonized voices and instruments carrying Lamb’s haunting lyrics on surging waves of Appalachian, gypsy, and shanty music. The group pulls from the talents of each member to create a quiet, dark, folk music that often swells into high-spirited, foot-stomping madness.”
There you have it. Their second LP The Devil Dancing is out now on Pea Pod Recordings. Sample track “Danger & Dread” is below.
NYC’s favorite Japanese-shoegaze duo Asobi Seksu brings us an interesting re-record of past matieral on Rewolf, one of the last albums recorded at the infamous Olympic Studios (See: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, etc). Expect mostly acoustic re-interpretations of your favorite Seksu tracks, such as “Thursday” from 2006’s Citrus, streaming below. (Side Note: Asobi Seksu means “casual sex” in Japanese. Naughty!) [I'd like to buy that, thank you]
MP3:Asobi Seksu – Thursday
Belly of the Lion is the second LP release from Austin’s Ola Podrida. Headed by talented film score composer David Wingo, Ola Podrirda falls into the now very well established folk format along with favorites like Bon Iver and Iron & Wine – but don’t allow his soft lyrics and acoustic rhythms to be merely grouped with his contemporaries and overlooked. Wingo stands on his own, with poetic lyrics and a Texan perspective to boot. Check out “Your Father’s Basement” and “Roomful of Sparrows” – available below. [I'd like to buy that, thank you]
MP3: Your Father’s Basement MP3: Roomful of Sparrows
Pants Yell! -> Received Pronunciation Slumberland Records ->
Nothing says “we make fun music” like an exclamation point glued to the end of your band name, and Boston-based trio Pants Yell! is no exception. We find Pants Yell! five albums into their career with Recieved Pronunciation, and they’re doing what they do best – plain and simple, catchy, clangy indie-pop. It may not be their best, or most challenging album, but it’s enough to get me going – and it seems to be their last. At least, that’s what they’re claiming for now. Album single “Cold Hands” is below. [I'd like to buy that, thank you]
MP3: Pants Yell – Cold Hands
Also Out This Week:
Bobby Birdman – New Moons Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Live Clipse – Till The Casket Drops Dashboard Confessional - Alter The Ending Flyleaf - Momento Mori Rickie Lee Jones - Balm In Gilead Robyn Hitchcock – I Often Dream of Trains in New York Hurricane Bells – Tonight is the Ghost Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Xenophanes Mr.Gnome – Have Your Skelleton
It took me a couple of spins to fall in love with Tegan and Sara’s Oct. 27th release Sainthood, but ever since I’ve been a solid fan. Recently the twins stopped by Conan’s set to play the first single “Hell”, and even though it’s a good song and I have nothing but the highest respect for T & S’s ability to rock their material live, this performance kind of sounds like…well, hell. Who to blame? The folks in charge of Conan’s new set. It’s not the first time I’ve heard a good band sound bad on his newer late night set up.
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The economy may be down but if there’s one thing we here in the good ‘ol US of A have in abundance it’s bearded folk singers. Unfortunately for you, I’m still not sick of them, which is why I feel the need to introduce you to the New England-based twang sangers 
Asobi Seksu 
Ola Podrida -
Pants Yell! 
