Brand new video for Cass McCombs’ latest single “Bradley Manning”, off his more rock-oriented album Humor Risk. Buy the 7" or the digital version (includes a b-side called “Empty Promises”) through Domino.
Nashville, TN.
My favorite country girl just did this awesome version of “Piledriver Waltz”, a song that was written especially to your favorite movie of 2010, Submarine. Alex Turner thought of this mellow-simonandgarfunkelesque-polaroid ballad would fit perfectly into the movie, and I guess it did. But Caitlin just took it to another level. Taste it. Everything is better with a slide-guitar.
JFC
First submitted post we’re publishing. It was written by the artist herself, hence the quoted text. We usually won’t accept self-promotional posts here – we want our “Submit a post” button to be used by music fans letting us know about bands they like, and not their own – but this is actually a nice album, worth taking a spin or two and streamable on BC after the jump.
You’re not mad, you’re just lonely is a full-length recording from the duo Delphine Dora & Half Asleep. Together, the French and Belgian musicians crafted an album of startling pop songs, with classical, experimental and contemporary influences, taking an obvious pleasure in their collaboration while seeking to push forward the boundaries of their respective universes. For this new project, they spent a week together in Southern France, 5 days of which they dedicated to the composition and recording of the album’s 13 songs. During the session, they invoked the literary spectres of playwright Sarah Kane, writer Janet Frame, famous wife and letter-writer Zelda Fitzgerald, or of Beckett’s fictional character Molloy, making central to their musical peregrinations the theme of mental alienation, a topic they each in their non-music-related lives devoted several years of research to. The result is a spontaneous and somewhat heterogeneous collection of songs centred on the piano and vocal, and that will take the listener to a variety of enchanted, amusing or terrifying places.
<a href=“http://delphinedora.bandcamp.com/album/youre-not-mad-youre-just-lonely” data-mce-href=“http://delphinedora.bandcamp.com/album/youre-not-mad-youre-just-lonely”>You’re not mad, you’re just lonely by Half Asleep &amp; Delphine Dora</a>
It’s Sunday night (not exactly the most rock n’ roll of nights) and I’m watching of Montreal. I haven’t even been drinking, but the balloons, the mischievous piglets, the confetti, the large inflated synthetic boobies (you kinda had to be there), and a mesmerising (not to mention topless) Kevin Barnes sure have the same effect. Having seen them at Primavera Sound last year, I was glad to get a chance to see them in a more ‘intimate’ setting, where, in addition to seeing the setlist in advance, I was able to see the colour of Kevin’s socks, the stealth dancers creeping their way to the front of the stage and the smiles exchanged between band members. Obviously they were never going to play all the songs I would have liked (I’m still dreaming of a Kevin Barnes acoustic set in a tiny back room of a coffee shop), but a set including Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse, The Party’s Crashing Us, A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinder and a sped up version of She’s a Rejector still left us singing our hearts out all the way home.
SAJB
Cavalheiro, one of the best songwriters Santo Tirso, Portugal (hometown of three Bolachas writers) ever spawned has just put out his 4th EP, Ritmo Cruzeiro on the solid Barcelos label Honeysound. The atmosphere here (as well as the guitarplay) kinda evokes Destroyer’s Trouble in Dreams – if we forget about Dan Bejar’s vocal eccentricity, of course. As (almost) always, Ritmo Cruzeiro is available for free download and streamable on the BC widget below.
&lt;a href=“http://cavalheiro1.bandcamp.com/album/ritmo-cruzeiro” data-mce-href=“http://cavalheiro1.bandcamp.com/album/ritmo-cruzeiro”&gt;Ritmo Cruzeiro by Cavalheiro&lt;/a&gt;
Oh, and for those unable to beat the language barrier, here’s a Deerhunter cover for you.
DSS