New Music: Minus the Bear's "My Time"

We've already discussed how much potential there is for 2010 to be great musically. The first 1/4 of the year has seen some solid releases, but I'm guessing when we look back in December, May is going to be the month when the first year in this new decade either blew the doors off the place or revealed itself as a boring disappointment. On the 4th alone, Minus the Bear, New Pornographers, and Broken Social Scene all release records (sorry, the new Papa Roach record isn't a contributing factor). Later that month we'll also get new releases from Band of Horses, Tokyo Police Club, and The National. In other words, May is going to be stupid, so get your headphones ready. MTB just released the opening track from Omni, "My Time", for download, and it's definitely not doing anything to temper my excitement or anticipation. Check it out, and if you dig it, you can go here and swap your email for a legal download.

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New Track for Neon Indian

If anyone is interested. Download here.

Sleep Paralysist

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The National Perform New Track on Fallon

The Late Night pipeline to great music is still breathing. The latest: The National, who as of right now might be the best band this side of the Atlantic, performed "Terrible Love" last night. It's a new track from High Violet, which comes out in May. Enjoy:

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COLLISION COURSE!!!!

The world should really know about this movie. It looks like a blast. Just had to post it with Leno flashing his silver spoon around lately.

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New (and Semi-New) Music Roundup 3/6/10

The Weekend = get caught up on new music. Gonna keep this short and sweet:

• New Rogue Wave album Permalight was released this week. After extensive listening, I find it to be a pretty solid pop/rock record all the way through, even the semi-cheesy tracks ("Permalight" & "Good Morning"). Favorite track, so far, "Right With You":

• Peter Gabriel's indie cover album, Scratch My Back, is mostly just kinda weird, but his cover of Bon Iver's "Flume" is really, really cool:

• Really looking forward to Broken Social Scene's Forgiveness Rock Record (out May 4). Check out the first released track, "World Sick":

• Broken Bells self-titled album hits stores next week, and they've released the second best song on the album, "Vaporize", as a single since the last time I mentioned them:

New album confirmations: The National (High Violet, May 11), Minus the Bear (Omni, May 4), Band of Horses (Infinite Arms, May 18).

Gorillaz' (?) new album Plastic Beach is out there floating around in cyberspace. Gotta say the initial listen left me unimpressed. The first single, "Stylo", sounds like it was ripped straight from my favorite Super Nintendo game Top Gear 3000, which is cool, but it doesn't have much else going on. That being said, the video is really cool, if you're into that sort of thing:

• Last but not least, Spoon were on Letterman recently. "Got Nuffin'":

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Toro Y Moi

Hey Fikak! I'm Toro Y Moi. I wanted to introduce myself to you and whoever might read your blog. I know it may be a little cumbersome to ever bring that name up in conversation but you can actually go ahead and call me by my real name, Chazwick Bundick. I'm not so sure if anyone has listened to my new-ish full-length album, Causers of This, but its really pretty dope. I'm going to guess and say that as soon as you start listening to it you'll wanna say, "Geeez, enough with the chillwave crap." Don't. Although it seems like the hip thing now and the cool thing to get in to, but dadgummit, most of it is pretty flippin' good. One of the cool things about it too is that we have the skills to take one of those awful songs that you hate to remember and turn them into some serious grooves. So, if you think you're music library might have enough of this type of music then go ahead, pass me up. But if you really don't care about current trends and the popular scene and just go for what you dig then I say you should get me. I won't disappoint you. Also, if you feel like we're on the same page I also have an EP that you can probably find floating around out there on the World Wide Web. If it helps your decision making process, I'm pretty tight with Earnest Greene. You know. That dude who calls himself Washed Out. Here are some songs to sample while you fold your laundry or something. Well, I've gotta go do some awesome again. Peace in the Middle East.

Blessa


Thanks Vision


Human Nature (MJ cover)


Repeated (The Longcut)

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Steel Cage Match: Green Day vs. Weezer

I've been thinking about this one for a while now and I want to know what other people think, so this is kind of a survey. My main question is "Green Day vs. Weezer: Who has had the bigger downfall?" In my opinion, they were both great bands at one time and now are just pretty awful. Green Day had the first two on Lookout! that were pretty damn good, Dookie is fantastic, and Insomniac isn't bad. Weezer had the Blue Album and Pinkerton, both basically perfect, and maybe you could at least say the Green Album was ok, maybe. Now there are all kinds of ways to look at this, like "If you had free tickets to see either one now, who would you rather see?" Would you rather have the chance of hearing Welcome to Paradise followed by American Idiot or Say It Ain't So followed by Beverly Hills? Also, "If you were on a deserted island and had to pick between having Green Day's entire catalog or Weezer's for the rest of your life?" Or maybe just "Who has the better overall career?" You decide! I don't know that I have a definite answer but I have some good thoughts. And, there are probably some other bands that could fit into this discussion but I can't think of them off the top of my head. So, let us know what you think!

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