As if putting out three great albums in one year wasn’t enough, Ty Segall has formed another new band. The ambitious performer is joined by Ty Segall Band guitarist Charlie Moothart in the appropriately titled Fuzz.
The group’s debut 7″, “This Time I Got a Reason” b/w “Fuzz’s Fourth Dream” on Trouble in Mind Records, is already sold out, but you can stream both cuts below.
Last year, while Prince Rama and Sun Araw were taking shelter from Hurricane Irene in Bed-Stuy, they decided to make a song together.
The track, aptly titled “Irene,” is almost 20-minute jam recorded to an answering machine, so it’s definitely lo-fi. Sun Araw’s Cameron Stallones adds his acid-soaked guitar to Prince Rama’s tribal djembe beat.
Check out the song below. Atelier Ciseaux will release “Irene” on 12″ vinyl on September 10.
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Toro Y Moi is putting out a new single under the name Les Sins. The rising electronic artist, whose real name is Chazwick Bundick, is releasing his latest 7″ on Jiaolong — run by Caribou’s Dan Snaith.
Check out the both sides of the single below. “Fetch”/”Taken” is out later this month.
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Tagged 7", Chaz Bundick, Electronic, Fetch, Indie, Jiaolong, Les Sins, Single, Taken, Toro Y Moi, Vinyl
Dirty Projectors are currently touring in support of their recently released sixth album, Swing Lo Magellan, and they have a new tour-only single available exclusively at their shows. Because the single is so limited, the band is tweeting a password before each show, and the first fans that bring the password to the merch table can get their hands on one.
If you’re not lucky enough to be seeing Dirty Projectors on tour, there’s always the Internet. You can stream the A-side, “Buckle Up,” now, and hopefully, its B-side, “Desire to Love,” will be available shortly.
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Tropical Punk is getting ready to release the follow up to their awesome debut LP, Ends of the World. Their new recording project, Runaway American Kids, is split into three 7″ EPs. The Nashville band is pressing up 250 copies of the first EP on red vinyl, to be released this summer.
Recorded at the band’s house, the first EP finds the band looking outside the basements and parties of their debut album.
They kick it off with the spaghetti-western instrumental “Summer Heat (part 1).” The massive guitar sounds like a single Sonic Youth riff echoing dark and mysterious in the desert night. As the riff fades out, the music picks back up with the pure summertime rock ‘n’ roll of “That Night.”
The second half of the album finds the band slowing down and pushing its boundaries. “Dreams Out West” mellows out, floating on the bassline, but maintains a certain grit in the jagged strums and reverb. In the final track, singer Zach Puls nails the lonesome vocals, making ”On the Run” into a classic country song.
The first Runaway American Kids EP is out August 27 on Denim Records. Stream or download it below and pre-order it on Tropical Punk’s Bandcamp.
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Iron & Wine‘s Sam Beam has been known to do some interesting covers. He might be best known for his rendition of the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights,” but he’s also reworked The Flaming Lips, New Order and Stereolab, among others.
Beam and his full band recently stopped in to the A.V. Club Undercover to record an orchestral arrangement of George Michael’s “One More Try.” Suicide Squeeze is releasing it on a limited edition 7″, with a cover of Little Feat’s “Trouble” on the b-side.
“Trouble” has a bit more of a dirt-road country feel, but the clarinet ties it together with “One More Try.”
Listen to both sides of the single below. The vinyl is limited to 750 copies, and the pre-order is already sold out, but some copies will be available in local record stores on June 26.
Side A: “One More Try” (George Michael cover)
Side B: “Trouble” (Little Feat cover)
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Superchunk released a new single yesterday, their first new output since 2010′s excellent Majesty Shredding.
“This Summer” opens with handclaps, guitars and Mac McCaughan’s trademark high vocals. As it bops along, the rest of the band comes in, and it culminates with an intense guitar solo. It’s classic Superchunk.
The limited edition 7″ keeps things seasonal with a b-side cover of Bananarama’s “Cruel Summer.” It’s also available digitally, but the hot-white vinyl (limited to 13oo copies) comes with a bonus download of an acoustic version of “This Summer.” The single is out now on Merge.
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Tagged 7", Cruel Summer, Indie, Mac McCaughan, Merge, SoundCloud, Superchunk, This Summer, Vinyl
Rapper and producer Oh No jut released OhNoMite, a new album based around samples from Rudy Ray Moore’s Dolemite soundtrack. He got some help from rappers like Guilty Simpson, The Alchemist, and most notably DOOM (formerly MF DOOM).
“3 Dollars,” the track featuring DOOM, will be released as a 5″ vinyl single with two different versions of artwork. The song definitely has a blaxploitation feel, as you’d expect with Dolemite sampling. Both rappers lay down a verse, but it’s all over in just under a 90 seconds.
OhNoMite is out now on Stones Throw. The “3 Dollars” 5″ single is out June 11 via Five Day Weekend and is available for pre-order in the Stones Throw store. Stream the track below and check out the artwork for the single after the jump.
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Vancouver’s Mike Tucker, better known as Blood Diamonds, teamed with fellow Canadian Claire Boucher (aka Grimes) for “Phone Sex” – the song. C’mon, people.
The two originally played the song live, and then they rewrote some lyrics and mixed it in Kansas City (on the same board Thriller was mixed on, Tucker says). The track is featured on the upcoming Phone Sex 12″ (on pink vinyl) to be released July 24 on 4AD.
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Tagged 4AD, Blood Diamonds, Claire Boucher, Dance, Electronic, Emilee Lindner, Grimes, Indie, Mike Tucker, Phone Sex, SoundCloud, Vinyl
Beck just released a 7″ as part of Third Man Records‘ Blue Series. The single’s a-side, “I Just Started Hating Some People Today,” starts off like with a country twang — fiddles, acoustic guitars and an old-timey drawl. A fuzzed-out bass looms throughout most of the song, before it erupts into a full-blown punk outburst.
Jack White, who also produced the single, plays drums, acoustic guitar and lends what he calls “punk vocal” and background vocals.
Listen to “I Just Started Hating Some People Today” below and check out the single’s full artwork after the jump. The single, which features the b-side, “Blue Randy,” is out now on Third Man Records.
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