Keep Shelly In Athens - Our Own Dreams [VIDEO/MP3]

MP3: Keep Shelly In Athens - Our Own Dreams

Keep Shelly In Athens
"Our Own Dream"
Our Own Dream
Forest Family 2012
Director: Thanasis Tsimpinis

Tennis - Origins [MP3] + Deep in the Woods [VIDEO]

MP3: Tennis - Origins

Tennis
"Deep in the Woods"
Origins
Forest Family Records 2011
Directors: Scott Laidlaw & Frank Rinaldi

BONUS: Enjoy an mp3 of the a side - "Origins", which will appear on their forthcoming LP2 Young and Old on Fat Possum. Excited for this one, as the group seems to have amplified everything that was charming about them and abandoned the lackluster songwriting that plagued their last effort Cape Dory, preventing it from becoming anything memorable.

FUCK NO: Cults' Go Outside video

MP3: Cults - Go Outside

Cults have really got a lot of mileage out of a limited catalogue, with most of the focus being on their excellent "Go Outside" hit. Today, a video produced by anti-music video company MTV has premiered and man did everyone involved miss the point entirely.

Staring Emma Roberts and Dave Franco (a kid who is endlessly destined to always have it mentioned that he is the brother of James, mostly because he has no talent to help him stand on his own two feet), it takes a song of dark, evil, cheerful pop and glosses it to a 2-bit love story that no one could give a shit about. It is truly everything that is terrible about music videos and I'm hoping with one viewing of this schlock I can forget it's image anytime I listen to this song.

Shame on Patrick Hoelck, the director. Clearly, you are a hack. Let's please throw money at people WITH vision people!

Space, mother fuckers.

MP3: Earth Girl Helen Brown - Hit After Hit

I don't know guys, it's early and this new project from members of the great Sonny & the Sunsets and just as great the Sandwitches comes with a lot of important information, maybe too much for this time of morning that I'd need to type up and then make sound like I came up with it: I didn't - I came up with this. But this song is way radical and it's coming out from friends Forest Family Records so I'mma cut and paste their press release. They did a great job with it:

Announcing the debut record from the soulful, “nomadic psychedelic folksinger” Earth Girl Helen Brown: a “unique mix of country, girl group, R&B, and ghoulishness,” brought to life by Sonny Smith of Sonny & the Sunsets, with help from Heidi Alexander + Grace Cooper of the Sandwitches. Here’s Helen’s story, as Sonny tells it:

“Helen Brown was born in Vancouver, Canada, but raised in an Athens, Georgia-based religious cult, and was blinded in one eye from a childhood baseball injury. As an adult, she dropped out of Evergreen and traveled the country for a while as a nomadic psychedelic folksinger, before forming her first band One Eyed Tramps. For years, she lived alone in a mountaintop in southern Alaska, where she befriended a Cherokee Shaman (later revealed as a fake) who encouraged her to pursue a frustrating academic career. Rampant drug use, frequent fainting on stage, and occasional self-inflicted knife wounds on stage led to more interest in her stage antics than her music. However, a few sides did emerge in the late ’90s (recording dates unknown), which feature a unique mix of country, girl group, R&B, and ghoulishness. Crude and amateurish at best, these recordings are appreciated for their sincerity and intensity of feeling.”

Earth Girl Helen Brown’s Story of an Earth Girl 10” EP is limited to 500 copies on white vinyl, out on March 1. Pre-order the 10” here.

There you go, brah.

That Feeling b/w Eastover Wives

MP3: Dent May - That Feeling

MP3: Dent May - Eastover Wives

REAL QUICK / MORE FOREST FAMILY: Download this whole 7 inch by Dent May, then pre-order it. This dude is the real deal buds.

OOUTERLIMITSS

MP3: SLEEP ∞ OVER - Outer Limits

Sucks this one is already out of print, but Forest Family released a 7 inch from SLEEP ∞ OVER and it's a fucking gem and a half. "Outer Limits" is the highlight, it totally makes for a nice stoned Thursday night.

Grab the whole thing here.

Gauntlet Hair, mother fuckers.

MP3: Gauntlet Hair - I Was Thinking...

Hot on the heels of their sold out Cults 7 inch, Forest Family has announced the follow up: a 7 inch from Lafayette, Colorado duo Gauntlet Hair. "I Was Thinking… b/w Our Scenery" will be out in late May/early June with a pre-order to come, but in the meantime the label was kind enough to share the a-side with the interworld and it's a fucking keeper. Lick it up.