Live Eye Tv Mix Tape Series
Here’s a bunch of great new music to look forward to in the coming year. This month we have sixteen songs, or one hour of new music to check out on LIVE EYE TV MIXTAPE #11, featuring bands with up-coming releases in 2012! Check out tracks from Lower Dens, Xiu Xiu, Disappears, Black Marble, Mind Spiders, Shigeto, Yasiin Bey, Lantern and a whole lot more. We cover a lot of ground here, from beat-up, garage punk to stripped-down, Detroit techno! You can stream the tracks below, download a copy from Soundcloud, or listen as a Podcast…iTunes. CONTINUE READING
This year Jana Hunter and her band Lower Dens will follow up their excellent 2010 release Twin-Hand Movement (Gnomesong) with two new works for Ribbon Music. On May 1st the band will release their second studio LP Nootropics, which was recorded in Benton Harbor, MI at Key Club Recording with Drew Brown, whose engineering credits include Radiohead, Beck, and Blonde Redhead. The band will also put out “Brains”/”Propagation”, an advance, double A-side 10″ with the track “Hours” on the back. To get a flavor of Lower Dens new work check out this track “Brains”, which marshals it’s slow building tension using a crisp, motorik beat, and meticulously layered vocals that seem to circle and rise on bronze slabs of guitar and keys.
MP3: Lower Dens “Brains” (Gnomonsong)
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Jamie Stewart’s unflinching ability to stare into the most difficult emotional corners of personal loss have made his body of work an eviscerating and cathartic experience. It’s been two years since Xiu Xiu‘s 2010 Valentine’s Day release, Dear God, I Hate Myself. Limited edition copies came with vials of blood, so it has been with nervous anticipation that fans have awaited the next chapter of couch-ready confessions from Mr. Stewart. Wait no longer, though, as Jamie recently revealed via his blog that on March 6th Xiu Xiu will release Always, on Polyvinyl. Limited edition copies will come on pink vinyl, and purchase the LP to receive a collage poster of Xiu Xiu scars and tattoos! Oh yeah, and if sex in all it’s strange permutations is your thing, check out Stewart’s recent blog post about trolling sex-cam sites, only to find them the, “greatest performance art space in human history.”
MP3: Xiu Xiu “Hi” (Polyvinyl)
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After joining them on their Guider tour, it looks like Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley has joined Chicago band Disappears as a permanent member. In addition, the band has recorded their third, soon-to-be released LP, Pre Language (Kranky), at Sonic Youth’s Hoboken studio, Echo Canyon West. On the track “Replicate”, a snakey, psych- line is reigned in by rigorously aligned bass and drums that hammer at each other until sparks fly, and Brian Case’s vocals emerge with cold swagger to posit, “New thoughts/Or new fake/Is it replicate?”
MP3: Disappears “Replicate” (Kranky)
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Death Grips debut release Exmilitary is a deranged barrage of tainted media, unleashing surreal visions of a culture at constant war with itself. The group’s shadowy membership includes stellar, avant-drummer Zach Hill, as well as up-n-comers MC Ride, Flatlander and Mexican Girl. Check out the track “Lord of the Game”, as it shreds through beats and styles at break-neck speed, while MC Ride spits out paranoid rants with some help from Mexican Girl. Exmilitary is available as a free download from the bands’s website, and you can also pick it up on vinyl.
MP3: Death Grips “Lord of the Game (ft. Mexican Girl)” (Third Worlds)
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