HOT TRAXXX: Black Bananas - Rad Times [MP3]

MP3: Black Bananas - Rad Times

Hot Zapp-g-funk-tastic Batman! Jennifer Herrema sure brings the party—and what better way to kick off 2012? Enjoy!

Lower Dens - Brains [MP3]

MP3: Lower Dens - Brains

A new Lower Dens album in 2012? That's great news! They're calling it Nootropics and Ribbon Music is going to release it May 1st! But first - a single! "Brains" is the first peek of this highly anticipated beast and it will debut as a double 10" (with album track "Propagation" and b-side "Hours" along for the ride) which you can pre-order now - that's the art for it above.

Sounds coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!

Six ps [VIDEO]

A new year of posting begins now, fuckers. I've basically been listening to this song at least five times a day for the past month. It's oddly intoxicating and addicting. Enjoy.

FUCK YEAH! GO TEAM!'s BEST OF 2011

Yeah it's sort of late, you don't need to be a dick about it. Besides, it ain't official until we make it so! 

THE BEST OF 2011

 

JOEY GANTNER

1. Future Islands - On the Water (Thrill Jockey)

2. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse (Drag City)
3. Saviours - Death's Procession (Kemado)
4. The Spits - The Spits V (In the Red)
5. Colleen Green - Green One (Hardly Art) / Cujo (Art Fag)
6. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)
7. Bleached - Francis (Ooga Booga) / Carter (Art Fag) / Searching Through the Past (Suicide Squeeze)
8. Marissa Nadler - s/t (Box of Cedar)
9. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain (Vice)
10. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther)
11. Destroyer - Kaputt (Merge)
12. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation)
13. Little Wings - Black Grass (Rad)
14. The Babies - s/t (Shrimper)
15. Grouper - A I A : Alien Observer/ A I A : Dream Loss (Yellow Electric)
16. The Men - Leave Home (Sacred Bones)
17. Woods - Sun and Shade (Woodsist)
18. Black Pus - Primordial Pus (Load)
19. Pure X - Pleasure (Acéphale)
20. Pangea - Living Dummy (Burger)
21. Run DMT - Dreams (Culture Dealer)
22. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (Rise Above)
23. Wooden Shjips - West (Thrill Jockey)
24. Veronica Falls - s/t (Slumberland)
25. White Life - s/t (Ehse)

MATTHEW GIORDANO

1. The Men - Leave Home
2. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
3. The Skull Defekts - Peer Amid
4. Peter Bjorn and John - Gimme Some
5. Saviours - Death's Procession
6. Paper - Mischmasch
7. Wooden Shjips - West
8. True Widow - As High As the Highest Heavens and from the Center to the Circumference of the Earth
9. Jonathan Johansson - Klagomuren
10. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
11. All Fox - Peaceful Heart

HOT TRAXXX: Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless

MP3: Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless

Holy shit - Cloud Nothings went from a really cool band to something truly special in the blink of an eye! I saw them earlier in the year and it was a hell of time, and goddamn this new album is everything you would want it to be. "Stay Useless" is easily Attack on Memory's centerpiece, a total rock song with Dylan Baldi hitting some chill inducing notes, all masterfully recorded by the great Steve Albini.

It sounds fresh, exciting and most importantly enduring, something that I hope becomes the trend in 2012 - now with the added pressure of the bar being set so high by January's Attack on Memory. Don't miss it.

Pure X - Surface [VIDEO/MP3]

MP3: Pure X - Surface

Pure X
"Surface"
Pleasure
Acéphale 2011
Director: Malcolm Elijah

While putting together my best of 2011 list (coming Friday!), I've been looking a lot at Pleasure, the LP by Pure X. I didn't listen to it as much as I should've this year, which I'm trying to make up for now, but it's really a hell of a record, you know?

These are essential '11 jams, children.

Colin Stetson - Those Who Didn't Run [VIDEO/MP3]

MP3: Colin Stetson - Those Who Didn't Run

Colin Stetson

"Those Who Didn't Run"

Those Who Didn't Run

Constellation 2011

Director: Isaac Gale