The Unicorns do “Abominable Snowman” (a song later turned into an Islands song) at Rhino’s
People think I’m crazy, but I think the Unicorns are one of the best/most important bands that existed during my post-middle school life. They were probably the first band I loved to break up after I got into them and not before, so that was a pain. But there is comfort in sight! The Unicorns’ unofficial-but-OK’ed-by-the-band DVD Live at Rhino’s is available for purchase.
If you go to the Secret Unicorns Forum (shhh…) and click the image to the right, it’ll take you to paypal, where copies can be bought for $15. I don’t know all the shipping information for other countries, but Americans get it with s/h included in that price.
And in addition to adding a sweet new live DVD to your collection, you’ll be supporting Rhino’s — and thereby helping the future of live music and ensuring that the next great band will have a place to play. You’re so thoughtful.
Indie-poppers and YANP-favs De Novo Dahl are playing a free show downtown in Lexington today as a part of CD Central’s Independence Day party. They’re joined by Bedtime, Tight Leather, Everyone Lives Everyone Wins, Ben Allen and the Tallboys. All this will be going down at Phoenix Park, near the downtown library.
Here’s the full schedule and a stream of De Novo Dahl’s “Speed Racer theme” cover, which they’ll hopefully whip out for us. If you make it to the festivities, come say hey!
De Novo Dahl - Speed Racer Theme
CD Central Independence Day Party at Phoenix Park
10:30-11:00 am: Ben Allen
11:15-11:45 am: Everyone Lives Everyone Wins
Noon- 1:00 pm: The Tallboys
1:15- 2:00 pm: Bedtime
2:00-3:15 pm: Independence Day Parade
3:15-4:15 pm: De Novo Dahl
4:30-5:15 pm: Tight Leather
Good news, fans of wacked out weirdo tunes! Black Moth Super Rainbow are going to be releasing a rarities/obscurities record Dripper later this year. It promises all sorts of strange goodness, as backed up by this bad boy right here…
MP3:Black Moth Super Rainbow - Happy Melted City
I’m having a hard time figuring out why this is a rarity. Though their joint record with the Octopus Project might be my favorite of theirs, this is definitely up there. It sounds like something Animal Collective would have done if they’d flown completely off the handle four years ago. It’s beautiful how the song can be so foreign and jarring, yet so melodic at the same time.
They’re also streaming another “new” song on their myspace, so head on over that way after you’re done digesting this one.
Never thought I’d use the word “teaser” on here two days in a row, but here goes. Cold War Kids are offering up this minute-long video for their second record. Their first record was (duh) a pretty big hit in even mainstream circles, so here’s hoping their second record follows in its footsteps. The teaser video’s got my ear, but we’ll see how the rest of the record plays out.
Thanks to Frequenze Indipendenti for the MP3. I bought a nice Bowie lightning bolt tshirt the other day, so I’m glad to get to extend my love with this nice cover.
MP3:Au Revoir Simone - Oh You Pretty Thing
Last year Keith Murray of We Are Scientists was kind enough to contribute to Mixmas again. His theme was an unusual one — even for him: songs that he had, but couldn’t share because they wouldn’t come out until 2008. Well it’s 2008 now, baby, and here’s this cover. I will, however, let Keith do his summation of it for you. Enjoy.
This is coming out sometime in the nearish future on some K7 compilation of Bowie covers. Do I even have to go on at length about how excited I am that Au Revior Simone have recorded a Bowie song? To really encapsulate my enthusiasm, this synopsis would ideally just be an animated GIF of the Earth exploding and showering the cosmos with puppies and Skittles-brand candy pieces and slices of pizza bottles of single-malt Scotch and crap. Can somebody please put something like that together? - Keith
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is playing a show July 26th in Jeffersontown, KY at 7pm. There are only 300 tickets out there and apparently the vast majority of them are snatched up by now. Your only bet is to head over to Leatherhead at 1601 Bardstown Road. Tickets, if you can find them, are $10.
Not sure how official this is, but you can stream 1:20 of the new Of Montreal record over at at Les In Rocks. I’ve heard the new album (and it is good) and this is probably one of the weirder teasers that could have surfaced. This section is Kevin doing his own version of the “love is patient, love is kind” bit — needless to say, it’s a bit of a sexual head-scratcher.
Some bittersweet news in the festival circuit today. Method Man is not longer playing Forecastle this year (boo), but his spot will be filled by co-headliners GZA and Del tha Funky Homosapien (yay!).
I’m sort of torn. I was really, really looking forward to Meth, but GZA and Del together sound pretty darn appealing. True, I saw GZA last year, but he was good enough to leave me looking forward to seeing him again. Guess this’ll be my chance.
