Ugly Cassanova

I've always loved Issac Brock and think ALMOST everything he touches is gold (e.i. Harrison Ford and the unmentionable Indianian Jones IV). It was for this reason I was very excited when I found out about this movie 180 South. Sorry, correction I don't really care about the movie but when the soundtrack was announced I was jumping for joy. Issac Brock's not so approved of side project with members of Red Red Meat and The Black Heart Procession is going to be releasing 9 tracks on it, and 8 of them are new! I always thought the more toned down Ugly Cassanova would never get another release due to the issue with Brock joining Sub Pop under a different name. Below is the tracklist, a new song by Ugly Cassanova and if you care a trailer for the 180 South.

01 Ugly Casanova: "Mountains of Storms"
02 Ugly Casanova: "Here's to Now"
03 Mason Jennings: "Machines"
04 James Mercer: "Doug's Theme"
05 Ugly Casanova: "Wave Goodbye"
06 Ugly Casanova: "Lonesome Blues"
07 James Mercer: "Journey Through the Past"
08 Ugly Casanova: "Hotcha Girls"
09 Jack Johnson: "Spring Wind"
10 Ugly Casanova: "Maybe We're Lost"
11 Ugly Casanova: "Corcovado"
12 Love as Laughter: "Coconut Flakes"
13 Ugly Casanova: "The Geezer"
14 Ugly Casanova: "Lay Me Down"
Here’s to Now


and the movie

New Of Montreal

Of Montreal has been working on his new new album, which will be titled False Priest, since the '08 release Skeletal Lamping. Kevin Barnes had this to say about the new album:

"It’s not as fragmented as Skeletal Lamping — more conventional songwriting, it doesn’t change every minute. We’re trying to create a really good headphone record that can transport you to these different places and sort of scatter your brain in a cool way." (thanks to readthehook)

Here is a new track which may or may not be called Famine Affair



Here's an acoustic version of another new song that will hopefully be on the new album

Record Club covers

Quick one before I dash off to work.

If you don't know who the record club is they are fronted by Beck Hansen, of Beck (naturally). The record club is Beck and his friends covering LPs by the likes of Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, Oar, and INXS. Here is Never Tear Us Apart by the Record Club.



And here's the 1987 original

Black Keys - Brothers

As you've probably noticed by the numerous posts I've done recently about the new Black Key's album Brothers that I was extremely excited about it. Extreme hype for an album, or anything for that matter, isn't always a good thing. You get in your mind just how everything should sound and unless its perfect it won't live up to the hype. Sadly, this is exactly what happened to me.

I first heard Tighten Up and was blown away. I listened to the song everyday, and most times more than that. The next single was Next Girl and I thought it was only getting better! Soon after the second single the album leaked onto the internet. I started to listen and for the first four tracks I really enjoyed, however, tracks 2 and 3 were ones I had previously heard and loved. After that it got less and less like the Black Keys I was expecting to hear.




For the most part I did not enjoy Brothers. It had way too much of an electronic sound when I was expecting a more bluesy jam band sound like their previous albums. On the plus side on Brothers is that when it comes time to decide the best tracks of the year you should expect to see Next Girl to be pretty high up on that list.

National - Anyone's Ghost

Here's an acoustic session the National did. The song they're playing is Anyone's Ghost, which is currently my favorite from the CD.

Girl Talk

Hopefully you've already had a chance to see the Twilight concert series which will now be at pioneer park, previously it was at Gallivan.

I'm very excited about almost all of these shows, the only ones I'm not excited about is just because I haven't heard the band... yet!

The second week at Twilight is Girl Talk who puts on an amazing show. I previously saw him last year at the U and there was so much energy, and alcohol, resulting in one helluva show. If you're wondering what Girl Talk does live, or if you're worried it sounds like he puts on his CD and just presses play, then you're in luck. One of my favorite bloggers, Matt from youaintnopiccasso, has compiled a list of bootleg Girl Talk shows and this morning he posted a new one from this year.

Here's the link to his archive, the newest bootleg is at the bottom (sound doesn't start until about 2:30 so don't worry if you can't hear much, just be patient.)

Click here

I've always been impressed with Girl Talk's ability to throw in random samples and this years show doesn't disappoint with a little Miley Cyrus.

Supposedly (my source in wikipedia hence the supposedly) GT has announced plans for a new album in 2010.