Thursday night, my early spring break relaxin' got interrupted by a phone call from ecstatic bandmates. They had just seen The Hold Steady with Thunderbirds Are Now! at the Triple Rock, and we HAD to have practice. Fuck the fact that it was 2 a.m.
I don't blame them for getting so inspired, and I'm not surprised that TAN!'s live show was so phenomenal. This week I got my hands on a copy of their forthcoming album Justamustache, out on Frenchkiss Records. The band, as I read in their Pitchfork feature , owe an obvious debt to the post-punk of labelmates Les Savy Fav, especially in lyrics and vocal style. But goddamn, they kick so much ass. Where Les Savy Fav turn experimental and open up their sound, TAN! are full of throttling, battling beats, destructo-pop keyboard lines, and shouted lyrics that will really rattle your brain. As a taste, before the album comes out on March 22, download "From Skulls" from their site. 2004 is turning out to be red hot for new releases.
Speaking of which, the Kaiser Chiefs and The Futureheads are, oddly enough, featured in TIME, in a feature about UK bands. Featuring, appropriately, photography from Andrew Kendall.
The latest Basement Jaxx single, "Oh My Gosh", is pretty rockin'. It's got an even rockiner video. Also of note is the Michel Gondry directed video for Devendra Banhart's "The Ribbon".
In Pitchfork: The Kills get a rating of 8.3, but I disagree with the review. I don't really think that the entire album is about VV and Hotel's relationship. I suppose some parts of it have to have that as at least inspiration, but that can't be the album's only subject matter.
The DFA remix of Blues Explosion's "Mars, Arizona" gets dissected.
Pixeltan's debut live performance gets reviewed, and apparently they fall short - and their quality was mostly from the DFA. But those are still great singles.
That Pixeltan review led me to a Brooklyn photographer's site, with a bunch of rad archived band photos. Watch out for NSFW material on the front page.
Left your 808 at home, and need a beat on the fly? Rockstar Games presents the Drumerator.
LA Weekly on how robot group 8-Bit got involved with Beck's Guero, and subsequently ripped off [via Stereogum].
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