To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Candle, Da Cruz, Efren, Handsome Furs, Eilen Jewell, SBTRKT, See-I, Shabazz Palaces and White Wives. Also, vote for your favorite of today’s new releases.
Month: June 2011
Black Dub, the eclectic quartet helmed by guitarist and Grammy-winning producer Daniel Lanois, released its self-titled debut via the Jive label last year, and we have three signed copies of the album on both CD and vinyl to give away to MAGNET readers. All you need to do is be one of the first six people to email us the answer to this question: What was the title of the Neil Young album from last year that Lanois produced? (Send the email to magnetmag@aol.com, and be sure to put “Black Dub Contest” in the subject line. Also, let us know if you prefer vinyl or a CD, and we will try to accommodate your preference.) Check out Black Dub on tour next week (dates are after the jump), download a live version of “The Last Time” below, and read our 2005 feature on Lanois.
“The Last Time (Live)” (download):
https://magnetmagazine.com/audio/TheLastTimeLive.mp3
Four years ago, Seaweed reunited to play the annual No Idea Records festival. While that was cool enough for the band’s many fans, we all wanted more. There was talk of Seaweed making a new album, but nothing ever materialized. Until now. On July 4, No Idea is issuing the “Service Deck”/”The Weight” seven-inch, the band’s first new music in 13 years. Pre-order it here. But if you can’t wait a week to hear these two awesome new tracks, MAGNET has them exclusively below for you to check out. While you are listening, read our 2009 Lost Classics post we did on Seaweed’s seminal Four in 2009. And guys, if you are reading this, how about a whole album soon?!?! “Service Deck”/”The Weight” cover art and credits after the jump.
“Service Deck”
https://magnetmagazine.com/audio/ServiceDeck.mp3
“The Weight”
https://magnetmagazine.com/audio/TheWeight.mp3
Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV’s Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from ’80s college rock to ’00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite and unjustly forgotten videos from the show’s classic era.
#63: Camper Van Beethoven “Good Guys And Bad Guys”
“Take The Skinheads Bowling” would’ve been the obvious choice of video for Camper Van Beethoven, and any reasonable person should start there where David Lowery and Co.’s catalog is concerned. But that video is also tinged with the indignity of being heavily featured on MTV’s early-days Dr. Demento program, a repository for wacky clips by Weird Al and novelty acts. Camper Van Beethoven—with Lowery’s surrealism and a sense of adventure that incorporated ska, country and Middle Eastern music at a time when even college-rock bands didn’t typically do such things—makes a strong argument that smaller-city alt-rockers were always doing much weirder stuff than their counterparts in New York or L.A. Lowery later got more traditional-sounding (and successful) with Cracker, but the charm and invention of Camper Van Beethoven is irresistible.
If By Yes is the latest project from the multi-talented Petra Haden. The band’s debut, Salt On Sea Glass (Chimera), took almost a decade to make and features Haden collaborating with Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto) and Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu and Yuko Araki (Cornelius), as well as guests such as David Byrne and Nels Cline (Wilco). Haden is the daughter of jazz legend Charlie Haden and the sibling of musicians Rachel, Tanya (the sisters are triplets) and Josh Haden. Though she has played with a who’s-who of alt-rock and jazz artists over the past 20 years, Haden is perhaps best known for her fantastic 2005 a cappella interpretation of The Who Sell Out. Haden will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Check out the mix tape she made us in 2008, and read our brand new Q&A with her.
Haden: If you ask anyone who knows me, “Who is Petra’s favorite guitarist?” they’d say, “Pat Metheny.” He’s not only one of my favorite guitarists, but he’s also one of my favorite people. He is so musical. His understanding of music is so advanced, yet he has so much fun. Any time he comes to Los Angeles to play, I’m there. When I listen to, “Are You Going With Me,” I’m going with him. When I listen to, “It’s For You,” I answer the phone.