Live Eye Tv Mixtape #13 is filled to the brim with plenty of exciting new summer music to look forward to! Redd Kross is back with their first album in fifteen years, Swedish punks Holograms are putting out their debut LP on Captured Tracks, Exray’s have an awesome new release on Howells Transmitter, we can look forward to a heavy slab of vinyl from Ty Segall on In the Red Records, and a collection of rarities and remastered reissues from Mr. John Maus. Not enough? Okay, then check the fresh goods from Fergus and Geronimo, TEEN, Dan Deacon, and more! Stream the tracks below and grab the podcast here…iTunes. CONTINUE READING
Redd Kross is back with their first album in fifteen years, Researching the Blues, due out August 7th on Merge Records. Formed in the late 70’s in Hawthorne, CA by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald while the two were still in middle school, the boys would play their first gig opening for Black Flag at a high school graduation party. The band’s rotating cast of players would go onto form a who’s who of first generation SoCal punk with members like guitarist Greg Hetson going on to play in the Circle Jerks and drummer Ron Reyes to Black Flag. Jeff and Steve’s obsession with pop culture, with their odes to Linda Blair, albums about Saturday morning cartoons and breakfast cereal, covers of songs by The Brady Bunch Kids, KISS, etc., would also end up being hard-wired into the DNA of American punk, as would their super-charged and sugar-coated guitar licks!
MP3: Redd Kross “Researching the Blues” (Merge Records)
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Since his 2009 electronic release Broomst, Dan Deacon has really expanded his output with several compositions for chamber orchestra and drum ensemble, performances at Carnegie Hall and Toronto’s Royal Academy of Music, as well as his film score work on Francis Ford Coppala’s Twixt. Deacon has a new LP, America, set to come out August 27th on Domino Records, and till then we have the track “Lots”, darkly- tinged but brimming with celebratory rhythms and Deacon’s hyper-processed vocals.
MP3: Dan Deacon “Lots” (Domino Records)
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Looks like the European financial crisis is igniting a new wave of punk rock angst with something real to scream about! Keep your eyes on Copenhagen’s Lower whose excellent Spring EP Walk On Heads is already sold out! That’s alright you can check out their track “Craver” which starts from a random, martialing snare beat before lurching between screeching, slow motion slides and straight ahead speeds into cultural oblivion. Before that happens though, be sure to visit their Bandcamp page…
MP3: Lower “Craver” (Escho Records)
Toronto electroclash artist Airick Woodhead is back with his project Doldrums, and he has a new 12″, Egypt, out digitally this week on Souterrain Transmissions. The track “Jump Up” finds him on another ear bender exploring raved up beats and breaks, but with a penchant for subverting his creations by continually pulling apart the rhythmic fabrics of the track. The resulting brew is an auditory funhouse of warped mirrors and uneven floors. If you enjoy the strange trip that is Doldrums, I suggest you check out Woodhead’s other uber-weird outfit Phedre, an acquired taste for only the most degenerate of aesthetes!
MP3: Doldrums “Jump Up” (Souterrain Transmissions)
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This month San Francisco’s Exray’s will release their second full-length, You Can Trust A Robot on Howells Transmitter. Jon Bernson and Michael Falsetto-Mapp continue their exploration of bit-fried, pop electronic’s on their newest, but this time the band’s fascination with the dystopian visions of writers like Philip K. Dick, and William Burroughs, as well as “visual futurist” Syd Mead places the music in some bleak, near-future. On “Ancient Thing”, a narcoleptic and fuzzed melody line strains to take shape, finding it’s way note by note into a spartan world of glass strewn corner lots and open meadows where a woman waters weeds with a can of cola!
MP3: Exrays “Ancient Thing” (Howells Transmitter)
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It’s a long day living in Reseda. This month California based electronic music producer Zane Reynolds, who records under the name SFV Acid, will release his second LP, appropriately named #2. Previous releases by the artist have been on LA’s burnt-out disco label 100% Silk, but this one is out on Post Present Medium, No Age member Dean Spunt’s label. On the track “Granmasmitza”, warped samples give way to the bric-a-brac of crispy beats and the slow piling up of space trash, until broken bells carry the track reeling forward into a slow motion, nitrous oxide come-down. #2 comes out on June 26th!
MP3: SFV Acid “Granmasmitza” (Post Present Medium)
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The Ty Segall Band goes sooo heavy on this kick-ass track “Wave Goodbye”, which you’ll find on their new platter of destruction Slaughterhouse out now on In the Red Records. Segall’s band consists of Emily Rose Epstein, Mikal Cronin, and Charlie Mootheart, and on “Wave Goodbye” they descend down a winding stairway to hell to do battle with the god powers of Heavy Metal, only to return with the hairy scalp of Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister. Fuck yeah!
MP3: Ty Segall Band “Wave Goodbye” (In the Red Records)
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We will finally have a debut full-length from Swedish punks Holograms on July 10th, and the self-titled LP will come out via Captured Tracks! Graduating from high school into a future of low end factory work might make you want to smash your head into the proverbial glass ceiling, too, but Holograms do it with such perfect, vintage finesse you don’t have to. “Chasing My Mind” will be on their new one one, and it starts with a do-it-yourself organ line almost anyone could play, before careening off on drums and guitar at a pace barely under control, and with vocals that drip just the right amount of snot and boredom.
MP3: Holograms “Chasing My Mind” (Captured Tracks)
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Hey guys, looking for a fun girl to grow senile with? You might want to look into this Heather Strange chick! You can find her on the new Fergus and Geronimo track “Roman Tick”, and luck will have it she doesn’t have a lot of requirements. Just lookin’ for a guy who’s synapses aren’t fried by LCD screens. If that’s you, drop the boys a line to tell them you’d like to meet, and they will hook you up! Who said love was lost in the post-modern, digital age. You can find “Roman Tick” on the LP Funky Was the State of Affairs, due out August 7th via Hardly Art.
MP3: Fergus and Geronimo “Roman Tick” (Hardly Art)
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Have a hankering for tranced-out, slo-fi, psychedelic pop? We suggest Brooklyn’s TEEN, and their new track “Better”. The band is made up of three sisters, Teeny Lieberson, formerly of Here We Go Magic, her sisters Katherine and Lizzie, and their longtime friend Jane Herships. The band’s new LP In Limbo (Carpark Records) was recorded in rural Connecticut, with further work done at MGMT’s Blanker Unsinn facility, while being finally mixed and produced in collaboration with Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, Spectrum) at his New Atlantis Studio in England! Let “Better” roll around in your ears, and see if it doesn’t get stuck there!
MP3: TEEN “Better” (Carpark Records)
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I guess it’s kinda hard to call Stagnant Pools‘ sound a sunnier version of Psychcocandy-era Jesus and Mary Chain when the song we have for you is called “Dead Sailor”, but who says we can’t stretch a metaphor? Hailing from Bloomington, IN Stagnant Pools are brothers Bryan and Douglass Enas, and with just a guitar and drums the brothers ride reverb drenched waves with pop aplomb. Having just finished college this past spring the boys have got a new album, Temporary Room, coming out August 7th on Polyvinyl, and will be touring this summer in their new graduation present.
MP3: Stagnant Pools “Dead Sailor” (Polyvinyl Records)
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Following the success of last year’s excellent LP We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves, John Maus is back with A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material, due out July 17th on Ribbon Music. 500 limited edition copies will be coming out on pink, translucent vinyl! While many of the 16 songs collected from the last ten years have been released in one form or another, they have all been remixed and remastered here, with album art by Wolfgang Tillmans. Listening to a strangely brilliant track like “Mental Breakdown”, with it’s bedroom cloistered vibe, reveals an artist capable of traveling far from the center to deliver a performance that can only be called completely mental!
MP3: John Maus “Mental Breakdown (2004)” (Ribbon Records)
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