Best Coast

With Jon Brion (Kanye West, Fiona Apple, of Montreal) on board as producer, he brings a more polished and refined touch to Best Coast’s recently released album The Only Place (a string quartet actually makes an appearance on a couple of tracks). But, Bethany Cosentino still keeps her feet firmly planted in her signature fuzzy lo-fi punk sound. Sample “The Only Place” below and purchase their full album.

BREAK SCIENCE OFFERS NEW REMIX “Cosmic Love (Break Science Remix)”

“PLM artist Break Science is offering up a brand new track, exclusively premiered on This Song Is Sick, entitled “Cosmic Love (Break Science Remix).” The tune features vocals from Florence + The Machine’s “Cosmic Love” and sampled beats from The Pharcyde’s “Passin’ Me By.”  When Break Science add their special brand of electronic flavor to the pot, this track is poised to take over the blogosphere and airwaves alike.

Regina Spektor | Small Town Moon & All The Rowboats

Currently embarking on a tour through the U.S. with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Regina Spektor has already revealed nearly one-quarter of her upcoming album What We Saw From The Cheap Seats. The cute, earnest “Small Town Moon” showcase Spektor in her most accessible, but the cryptic (and a tad awkward) video for  “All The Rowboats” may make you wonder why it was chosen to be the lead single. We can expect a solid sixth record from Regina, and we’ll be looking for those gems undoubtedly buried within the songs yet unheard. The album is due out May 29th via Sire/Warner Bros.

Tenacious D | Rize of the Fenix

After the commercial nonsuccess of 2006′s Pick of Destiny, the greatest rock band in the world is set for the biggest resurgence in music history! In the works since at least 2007, Rize of the Fenix once again sees “Hollywood” Jack Black and Kyle “Rage Kage” Gass teaming up with ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. The album, itself, is replete with the raunchy humor and outrageously spun stories of sex, rock-n-roll, and friendship The D is known for. Hell, Val Kilmer took a bullet for this record.

The Lumineers Live Online Saturday 5/19 Via LiveSet

Attention all you Lumineers fans out there! Tomorrow at 5pm EST they’ll be streaming a live show from an old New Orleans house. The session will be about 30-45 minutes long and fans from all over the world will have the opportunity to ask the band questions and request songs in real time.

See the stream HERE!

Yeasayer | Henrietta

The psychedelic experiments from Brooklyn-based group Yeasayer return with a new song titled “Henrietta”. We All Want Someone To Shout For, reports that the tune appeared online shortly after physical copies of the CD were sent to fans on the band’s mailing list.

Mystery Jets

Mystery Jets’ fourth album Radlands will be released on June 5th in the states. The album was recorded in Austin, Texas and Streatham, London and was co-produced by Mystery Jets and Dan Carey (Hot Chip, Franz Ferdinand, Emiliana Torrini). The band will be touring North America in June, opening for Keane.

Mystery Jets are Blaine Harrison, Will Rees and Kapil Trivedi. On the making of the album Radlands, Blaine explains:

We’ve always wanted to make a record in America and after touring Serotonin the time felt perfect to go and do it. Our first three albums were entirely conceived and recorded in London so going out to Austin felt like the furthest place from everything we knew.  We arrived with a handful of songs, but one in particular felt like it captured the spirit of why we had come there. It was called Radlands (a fusion of the 1970s Terrence Malick film Badlands and Redlands, Keith Richard’s Sussex estate), which is also what we named our studio; a big old wooden house on the banks of the Colorado river.

All we brought on the plane were the guitars on our backs, so we ended up borrowing all this amazing valve gear from an old guy called jack who ran a little studio up in the hills-which is why the songs sound the way they do. In the daytime we wrote lyrics on the porch and in the evenings a family of Deer would gather in the back yard to hear us play. Some nights we drove into town to drink and bring people back to play on the songs.

When we arrived home, it was hard to believe any of it even happened. It somehow all felt like a strange dream. But when Dan Carey heard it and invited us down to his studio we listened back to everything and it was all there, it was real. All we were missing were some gospel singers, which he found in the Streatham community ladies choir…

Twelve months on, and we are gearing up to take Radlands on the road. Its been a long time and we cannot wait to see you all again.

And we cannot wait to see you!  Tour dates below.  For now, enjoy the single “Greatest Hits” and a video for “Someone Purer.”

Each Other | Taking Trips

Each Other are three Haligonians (for you yanks, that means they’re from Halifax, Nova Scotia) transplanted to Montreal, Quebec. Brad Loughead (vocals/guitar/bass), Mike Wright (vocals/guitar/bass) & Christian Simmons (percussion) merged together through a series of broken bands (Long Long Long, York Redoubt, Play Guitar) and at last have a common and resolute goal to let guitars, their shared love of classic pop songs and budding voices do things together.

The band started as a provisional outlet for Loughead and Wright to ruminate on their collection of older song ideas. It was soon after that a new and unexpected abstraction began to spring forth from their skewed pop fragments.

The first result of their cooperation is the dualism come resolved twenty minute EP, Taking Trips. Released in October 2011, Taking Trips defines sound that is unmistakably theirs, odd signatured psych-pop pieces of entwining guitars and vocal harmonies that together truly becomes a voice of its own.

Each Other hit the ground running in 2012 releasing a pair of new songs “Traces to Nowhere” / “Sit Still” on Brooklyn’s 7-inch label, Crikey! Records on March 1st to launch their debut U.S. Tour. These new psych melodies are setting the tone for a continuous stream of efforts to come.

Superhumanoids | Too Young For Love

LA-based Superhumanoids are pleased to unveil “Too Young for Love” which is the 2^nd track from their upcoming Exhibitionists LP. With this song the band continues a most ambitious creative path that was set-forth with the album’s blistering track “Geri.” With “Too Young for Love,” Superhumanoids created an ode to unrequited love filled with an assemblage of synth melodies and infallible beats. They are also currently on tour supporting Active Child and Balam Acab.

Superhumanoids make dreamy pop that shouts summery 60s harmonies, garage rock’s raw tonality, slick new-wave electronics, and the adventurous dissonance of 90s indie rock. Originally the solo bedroom project of Cameron Parkins, the LA band quickly evolved into a multifaceted outfit featuring Sarah Chernoff (Vocals and keys), and Max St. John (bass, vocals, and programming) equally focused on propulsive live performances and glimmery productions for private listening. Superhumanoids’ 2008 demos were passed around by pals to friends of pals, leading to remix work for an array of artists including Local Natives, The Wombats, Fool’s Gold, and Xiu Xiu.

MV + EE | Space Homestead

Apart from the fact that “MV & EE” is slang for zero gravity and that they’ve been doing it consistently “better” with good vibes/jams they still WANT to give you more of the best of them. This is their “space homestead” and for good reason this wall of sound applied thru DIY sensibilities was recorded over the course of a year in 9 different studios, presenting as clearly as circumstances can permit, a living idea right here in the now of what it is all about. These are sonics in motion, the satiate plural perfect supply of the hunger unusual, the picturesque in sound. Grab a shuttle for your spectrasound furniture any time in any aeon and dig the volume of their trip.

Onuinu | Happy Home

Onuinu is the project of Dorian Duvall. He’s been crafting electro pop in Portland, OR for the past few years, where the music community has been watching and waiting for this, his first full length album, Mirror Gazer. Up until now, there’s been a release on an Ape Tapes compilation and a video for the catchy “Ice Palace,” replete with kaleidoscopic, melted visuals – directed by Andrew Sloan (Tender Loving Empire).

Dorian, a multi-instrumentalist, wrote and produced the album. Jeremy Sherrer (The Gossip, Dandy Warhols, Hockey) co-produced, recorded/mixed the record and played drums.

Dorian calls the music Disco-Hop and is easy to cite influences like: Yellow Magic Orchestra, Michael Jackson, the Brainfeeder Crew, and Stones Throw Records. The giant chorus of opening track, “Mirror Gazer,” the 70s shimmer of “Happy Home,” and the roller rink ready “Always Awkward,” point to his foundation in the disco, power pop and hip hop worlds.

“I was drawn more to guitar when I was a teenager listening to Hendrix and Jazz and then transitioned into more pop music Like the Beatles, Kinks, Zombies,” Duvall says.

“I didn’t really play in very many bands, I jammed with friends, attempted to start a few bands with friends and then decided to make music on my own – I did some early recordings with an acoustic guitar and a Casio. Then I bought my first sampler and synthesizer and with those I started making loops. The early influences with that stuff were all over the place from Eno, Bowie, Madlib, J Dilla, Prince, and Jan Hammer.”

He’ll be going on tour with some Oratory favorites, Yacht & Love Inks.

Flight Facilities | With You feat. Grovesnor

Flight Facilities have unveiled their third single With You, yet another groovy and sexy disco-banger. Grovesnor (that’s Rob Smoughton, drummer in Hot Chip) takes care of the vocals this time and they are sweet as ever. The video for With You is a fully animated, beautiful short film that tells a story about love, loss and robots.

Gold Panda

Not one, but two new jams from Gold Panda! And both songs come with a video too so that’s like four things but in one post (You are so very welcome). These two new songs, Mountain and Financial District, are taken from a 7” which is out now on Ghostly, and see Gold Panda explore new heights/sounds but maintain his distinctive wobbly beats.

Nicolas Jaar | A1 and a few others

Pomp & Clout, the team behind Nicolas Jaar’s tour visuals, made a trip to the desert (read as: Arizona and California) to shoot a video for A1, the opening track of the stellar EP of DARKSIDE, Nico’s side-project along with his guitarist Dave Harrington. Check out a couple of other song’s from Nicolas Jaar.  We just started learning about his awesome ways, but he’s been around for some time now and making some big moves.

A$AP Rocky | ‘Goldie’ (Video)

What have we learned from this video? A$SAP Rocky loves gold things…glasses, teeth, guns, shoes…check it.