The Streets has simultaneously released the first single, “The Escapist,” and its accompanying video from his upcoming album, Everything Is Borrowed. You know what to do…
MP3:
The Streets - “The Escapist”
VIDEO:
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The Streets Previews New Album, Everything Is Borrowed
The Streets Announces Final Album
The Walkmen are pre-releasing their excellent new album You & Me today (three weeks ahead of its official release on August 19th) to help raise money for cancer research. The band is offering You & Me exclusively through AmieStreet.com for a mere $5 and donating the entire amount of each album sold to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Hypeful strongly recommends you check out You & Me - it’s certainly one of the best albums I have heard in 2008 and this is a great opportunity! For more evidence of the new album’s greatness, simply check out “In The New Year” below.
The first track from the new Kings Of Leon album, Only by the Night (Sept. 23rd), made its debut on the interwebs today. Although it’s not the official single, “Crawl” is a standard rocker that serves as the first peak at the Followills’ booze-and-pill-fueled fourth album featuring the group rocking out and getting political.
The nice gents of The Morning Benders have decided to thank fans for their support by generously releasing a free album of ace cover songs! Recorded in their apartment and entitled The Bedroom Covers, the collection of songs is as charming as the band itself. They’ve even managed to put a fresh shine on The Cardigan’s “Lovefool,” a song that was so over-saturated twelve years(!) ago I thought I would never want to hear it again. Check out The Bedroom Covers below and definitely bend an ear to their debut full-length, Talking Through Tin Cans, if you haven’t already!
MP3s:
The Morning Benders - “Crying” (Roy Orbison)
The Morning Benders - “Mother and Child Reunion” (Paul Simon)
The Morning Benders - “Why Dont They Let Us Fall In Love?” (The Ronettes)
The Morning Benders - “Lovefool” (The Cardigans)
The Morning Benders - “I Won’t Share You” (The Smiths)
The Morning Benders - “He’s A Rebel” (The Crystals)
The Morning Benders - “Marie” (Randy Newman)
The Morning Benders - “Fools Rush In” (Johnny Mercer/Rube Bloom)
The Morning Benders - “Temptation Inside Your Heart” (Velvet Underground)
The Morning Benders - “Dreams” (Fleetwood Mac)
The Morning Benders - “Pull Up The Roots” (Talking Heads)
The Morning Benders - “Caroline, No” (Beach Boys Remix)
The Morning Benders - “Why Don’t They Let Us Fall In Love?” (Live Daytrotter Version)
PREVIOUSLY:
New Morning Benders - “Boarded Doors”
Datarock have included new song “True Stories” in their live setlists during the past year, but I thought it was worth noting that D-Rock’s Fredrik Saroea temporarily dropped the dance-rock bit and performed an unplugged version of the track for Norwegian TV. Check it out below along with a cranked-up version of the song.
VIDEOS:
Datarock - “True Stories” (Unplugged)
Datarock Performing “True Stories” (live in Chicago 19/3/07)
Today at Comic-Con, MTV announced their intentions to do the time warp by remaking the 1975 cult-classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show to broadcast on TV next Halloween. Apparently they will work off the original campy 1975 screenplay but ”may also include music not featured in the original.” No word yet on a director or cast, but hopefully execs will not send The Jonas Brothers or Hannah Montana to the ol’ Frankenstein place. What do you think - inspired idea or movie-mistake-in-the-making? Here’s a big batch of Rocky Horror covers to enjoy while you pray Heidi Montag isn’t cast as Janet…
MP3s:
Dresden Dolls - “Science Fiction/Double Feature”
Control-R - “Dammit Janet”
Kelly Kapowski - “Over at the Frankenstein Place”
String Cheese Incident - “Time Warp”
Casper & The Cookies - “Sweet Transvestite”
Pansy Division - “I Can Make You a Man”
Truth and Beauty - “Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a Touch Me”
Suburban Legends - “Rose Tint My World”
Paul Pecorino - “I’m Going Home”
As if I needed another reason to be jealous of English culture, the super-rad title sequence for the BBC’s forthcoming coverage of the 2008 Olympics – created by the men behind Gorillaz, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett – has appeared online. The two-minute animated clip features three characters (Monkey, Pigsy, & Sandy) from the duo’s recently-opened opera, Monkey: Journey To The West, who are serving as the faces of BBC Olympics coverage.
Don’t get me wrong - the five Fuwa are plenty adorable as far as Olympic Mascots go (my fave is Huanhuan!), but I’d definitely put my money on the outnumbered, monster-battling Monkey trio if the toon groups ever fought each other! Check out the clip below along with two tracks from Monkey: Journey To The West!
MP3s:
Monkey - “Heavenly Peach Banquet”
Monkey - “I Love Buddha”
VIDEO:
Here’s some interesting news from The Department of Beatles Offspring - despite having a grandfather who played drums for The Beatles and a dad who used to drum for Oasis (and is currently the sticksman for The Who), Ringo Starr’s granddaughter Tatia Starkey has passed on hitting the skins and has opted to be a bass-player for her recently formed band Belakiss. Not to be confused with another Belakiss from Long Island, Starkey’s group is London-based and have already played a handful of dates around England’s capital.
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Ringo Walks Off Live; Still Loves Regis
The Complete Beatles in One Hour
As previously discussed, Gnarls Barkley have added an ace cover of Radiohead’s “Reckoner” to their recent setlists. Thankfully, better video and audio of the duo doing the In Rainbows track have emerged and from the looks of it, Cee-Lo’s got Thom Yorke’s flailing dance moves mastered.
MP3:
Gnarls Barkley - “Reckoner (Radiohead cover)” (Live in Barcelona/7.20.08)
VIDEO:
PREVIOUSLY:
Gnarls Barkley Covers Radiohead’s “Reckoner”
Is it just me or has 2008 been a particularly great year for returning the music video to an art form? Certainly not for the quasi-squeamish (or those with a California Raisins phobia), Gnarl’s Barkley’s new video was directed by the super-talented Chris Milk and is yet another must-see clip featuring Friday Night Lights‘ Aasha Davis, Lonely Island/SNL scribe Jorma Taccone, and a bloody, beating heart serenading broccoli. Although, it’s hard to imagine anyone breaking-up with Jorma…he’s a triple-threat of writing, dancing, and rapping!
VIDEO:
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Gnarls Barkley Covers Radiohead’s “Reckoner”
New Gnarls Barkley Video - “Going On”
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