We love new music and we are very excited that this band was created, Minor Victories are Justin Lockey from Editors, James Lockey from Hand Held Cine Club, Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai, Rachel Goswell from Slowdive, they are releasing their self-titled debut album on June 3, via Fat Possum Records / Play It Again Sam.
Here is their first single “A hundred ropes”.
Minor Vitories – Film One
Mogwai “Ether”, second track from their forthcoming new album ‘Atomic’, due for release on 1 April via Rock Action Records.
‘A New Wave of Violence’, is the title of Head Wound City‘s new album, comes out on May 13 via Vice Records.
Head Wound City is playing a few dates in March/April, don’t miss the chance to see them perform live, here are the dates:
Listen to “Scraper”, first track from their new album.
During his recent DJ’ing stint at BBC RADIO 1 “Residency” James Blake quietly released a new song titled “Modern Soul”. And it sounds like a near flawless James Blake song. His voice and the arrangements and atmosphere that he creates around the song are just amazing.
Will this song be included in the yet to be announced album? We don’t know. We would gladly take this in a 7″ format to be honest.
Here’s to hoping that this year we get to listen to a new LP from James Blake.
In the meantime enjoy the song.
Arcade Fire – David Bowie tribute parade
David Bowie loved Arcade Fire’s music, and Arcade Fire loves Bowie, we all do.
Here is their tribute to David Bowie, accompanied by the amazing Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Today, February 7th, 2016 would have been J Dilla’s 42nd birthday. Furthermore, it was 10 years ago that he released on the Stones Throw label, what would now become a staple/opus/farewell masterpiece “Donuts”.
By now he is regarded as one of the most influential hip hop beat makers/producers of our time. You can read quotes by almost any important hip hop musician and he will surely be in the conversation as an influence. In some other circles and conversations you can surely mention him in the same breath as Miles Davis or even Prince as far as how big of an innovator he was in both the culture and what is now expected in hip hop beats. He helped shaped what became known as the “neo-soul” movement (Erykah Badu, D/Angelo, ?uestlove, etc), and almost as quickly moved away from it to create something new. He never was one to overstay his welcome with anything that he was doing, It felt more like he was just always looking to create something new.
Now, that this album was released just a few days prior to his passing makes it even more memorable, or maybe even sadder. Now we don’t get to find out what could have he created next. We do get to see all the influence that he left behind with all of those artists that he continues to influence, the label Brainfeeder comes to mind almost immediately.
Happy Birthday Dilla.
Here is a new track from Electric Healing Sound, they are one of our favorite local bands, (San Diego, CA/Tijuana, MX), the song titled “Young Man Highway Blues”, check out their bandcamp page and get the “Electric Healing Sound 7″ EP“.
Massive Attack just released a new EP, called ‘Ritual Spirit’, available now on double vinyl, and here is the video for the song “Take It There” with Tricky and 3D directed by Hiro Murai and featuring the great actor, John Hawkes.
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