Month: June 2014

Hey everybody! So I’m about to take a few days of much-needed vacation, in which I’ll be flying out to Houston for some fun in the sun and delicious BBQ. I’m a big fan of Texas in general, and while Austin is my preferred city, Houston is pretty cool too. So anyways, be aware that the site will move along at its normal pace while I’m away, though if you send me an email that requires a reply it may take me a few days. The only thing that gets cut short as a result of this vacation is this Pick Your Poison intro, which I don’t have time to write in the way I would like. My apologies there. I’ll be back on Monday, at which time I’ll be playing catch-up. Should be fun. Anyways, good tracks in today’s Pick Your Poison set come from Banana Beach, Gracy Hopkins, Manicanparty, Mat Zo (ft. The Knocks), Two Harbors and The Yetis. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Bad Suns, Doprah, Panama Wedding, The Ting Tings, Turn to Crime and United Nations.

APB – On the Low

Banana Beach – Sri Lanka

Five Knives – Savages (Pretty Lights Remix)

Gracy Hopkins – Grayson Yard

Manicanparty – Fools Gold (ft. Too Many Zooz)

Mat Zo ft. The Knocks – Get Down 2 Get Up

Meshell Ndegeocello – Comet, Come to Me

Nick Raven – Nineteen Fifty Three

The Peach Kings – Mojo Thunder (Kent Rockafeller Remix)

Two Harbors – Be Forever

#XI ft. Sundays – Broken Bones (Love Inc. cover)

The Yetis – Little Surfer Girl

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We’ve hit another Tuesday, where I’m once again pleased to bring you a quick rundown of artists with brand new music coming out this week. The hope is to either inform you about what’s out there, but also to maybe even remind you if one of your favorite artists is putting out something new and you simply forgot about it. So without further ado, here’s your list for this week: 50 Cent, Apathy, Birdy, Blackbird Blackbird, Bob Mould, Camper Van Beethoven, Cardinal, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Dinowalrus, The Donkeys, Echo and the Bunnymen, Gabriel Kahane, Hamilton Leithauser, Joe Henry, Ken Wakan, The KVB, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Madlib, Matisyahu, Meshell Ndegeocello, The Orwells, Parquet Courts, Paul Weller, Peter Murphy, Priests, Rescuer, Rich Robinson, Robert Francis, Sage Francis, The Shoe, Swan King, Taylor McFerrin, and Tijuana Panthers. If you’re so inspired please pick some of these records up via your favorite digital or physical retailer! Now let’s get to today’s Pick Your Poison, where you can discover even more hot new music. Some key tracks you’ll want to give attention to today come from Balue, Drake, Eric Zayne, Groenland, Let’s Say We Did and The Toothe. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream new songs from Caribou, Fear of Men, My Gold Mask, Tennis, and remixes of songs from Temples and Yumi Zouma.

Balue – Grow Up

Brenmar ft. Rush Davis – Medusa (Falcons Remix)

Drake – 0 to 100 / The Catch Up

Eric Zayne – Poison Ivy

Escapists – Blood (Summertime Calypso Refix)

Frankie Stew and Harvey Gunn – Sometimes

Grandtheft – Let Me Tell You Something (ft. Jackal)

Groenland – Criminals

Let’s Say We Did – (Won’t You Please) Tell Me Something

MDMay – Come Close (Rework)

Posthuman – Step Back

The Toothe – Talons

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One of the most amusingly random and weird music news stories to emerge this calendar year has got to be the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar as a touring musical. That in and of itself isn’t so much random and weird, as it’s been a longtime favorite and classic production from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The random and weird part is the casting, which has such a WTF factor that I spit out a portion of my drink when I saw who was lined up to play key roles. Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child fame was Mary Magdalene. JC Chasez of ‘N Sync was Pontius Pilate. Both of those make some degree of sense, given their lack of other work these days. It seems natural they would gravitate towards musical theatre. But then it gets stranger. Brandon Boyd of Incubus gets the role of Judas Iscariot. Sure, the guy looks the part, but is Incubus not doing well right now? Last I checked they were still pretty popular and continuing the cycle of album, tour, album, tour. Last but certainly not least, there’s John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten from The Sex Pistols/Public Image Ltd as King Herod. If you don’t find that casting bizarre, go back and explore the man’s catalogue. Now if all this sounds like a random and strange good time, I’m inclined to agree with you, though I’d never fork over more than about five bucks to see the results. Apparently a lot of other people felt that way too, because they’ve now cancelled the entire 54 city tour just days before it was set to launch, not citing poor ticket sales but one might assume that’s the primary reason. Producers saw they were going to lose a lot of money and decided to pull the plug while they still had the chance. So tragically we’ll never find out how much of a mistake this could have been. Of course, we did get a little video preview the other day courtesy of Good Morning America, where Brandon Boyd and Michelle Williams performed a song from the famed musical. At the very least, we’ll always have that. Now then, how about today’s Pick Your Poison? Good stuff in this set comes from Canopies, Collarbones, Emma Garrett, Slow Dancing Society, We Are Temporary and Young Braves. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream new songs from The Cold and Lovely, Liam Bailey, A Million Billion Dying Suns, White Reaper and Wonderful Humans.

Canopies – Getting Older

Collarbones – The Place

Doobious & Bazooka – Chain Gang

Emma Garrett – Change Your Bones

Grandtheft & Keys N Krates – Keep It 100

Mackenzie Shivers – Nothing to Fear

Ruby – Spin

Slow Dancing Society – Pull

Tanner – Come Alive

The Verve Pipe – Crash Landing

We Are Temporary – Machine Love (ft. Misfit Mod)

Young Braves – Black Country

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