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The new album 'VII' available now. 

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Ever Loved Once

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Kelley Stoltz's "Double Exposure" is available here: https://thirdmanstore.com/catalog/product/view/id/976/s/kelley-stoltz-double-exposure-12-vinyl/

While many rocking bands in San Francisco and beyond claim to be 'garage' bands' - Kelley Stoltz has actually recorded his new LP "Double Exposure" in the garage behind his house.  And while the car oil stained floors are covered by oriental rugs and there are no snow shovels laying around - there is a collection of vintage synths, 17 guitars, tape echos, mellotrons, a 50's jukebox, a Teardrop Explodes poster, a tape machine used by The Residents, an amp used by Stooge James Williamson, and a myriad other noise making devices which rear their heads on his new record.  All told the place is called Electric Duck Studio and it's become a muse capturing zone for Stoltz, as well as Sonny & the Sunsets, The Mantles, Tim Cohen, Life Stinks, The Sandwitches and many other tuneweavers big and small. 

"Double Exposure" is Kelley's first album in a while - near on 3 years since his last one, "To Dreamers" came out on Sub Pop. What the heck has he been doing since, you ask?  Well renovating the garage for one, and using said garage studio to engineer, produce or encourage the above named bands… You see time flies when you're having fun.  Add in some love, a little heartbreak, turning 40, deciding to jog everyday, staring at the wall, singing hundreds of songs into the phone, sleeping, recording an album of cover songs with his family, making a couple 45 singles, catching white wine buzzes, getting dropped by Sub Pop, playing keyboards on tour with Rodriguez, and signing on with old supporters at Third Man Records… really it's as good old Sandy Denny sang, who knows where the time goes.

Anyway, if you stir up all that stuff and a few other things we won't mention here, you have the makings of a fantastic and heartfelt record, "Double Exposure" has 10 new jams that Thee Oh Sees main man, John Dwyer, describes thusly, "A piece of gold in your ear, A lovely thought in your mind, A breeze in the sun, This record is perfect…" 

Nicely put there Johnny! And you too will thrill to the sound of delay pedals twisting the keys on "Inside My Head", crane your neck to the backwards guitars of "Are You My Love", ramble and gamble to the clanging cymbals on the title track, question the sanity of a song called "Kim Chee Taco Man", and finally, fall down and weep at the sweet fluted sentiments of "It's Summertime Again".  

For all of you Aussie rules fans, the album was mixed and mastered by Mikey Young of Eddy Current Suppression Ring/Total Control and features Stoltz playing most of the instruments himself and overdubbing parts through his trusty 8 track tape machine.

Kelley Stoltz - "Kim Chee Taco Man" Clip

A stirring cover of Talking Heads' "This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)" is one of five bonus tracks from The Lumineers (Deluxe Edition), out August 20th, 2013. Also included in The Lumineers (Deluxe Edition) is a DVD containing more than 25 minutes of stage performance, behind-the-scenes footage, music videos and interviews chronicling the band’s life on the road and rise to fame over the past year and a 28 page photo booklet of never before seen photos, images and studio notes from the recording sessions that birthed the album.

The Lumineers - This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)

“Jolene” has been covered numerous times, but despite how it sounds, this is not a cover by a pretty-sounding dude. It’s a 45 rpm record of Dolly singing that has been slowed to 33 rpm…

Found this here, but too rad not to share..

http://twentytwowords.com/2013/08/16/dolly-partons-original-recording-of-jolene-slowed-down-by-25-is-surprisingly-awesome/

Slow Ass Jolene

From "Purgatory / Paradise" — out this fall as an art book and album.

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From the Shearwater album 'Fellow Travelers', a collection of covers performed by Shearwater from artists that they've shared a stage with. "I Luv the Valley OH!" originally recorded by the band Xiu Xiu.

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Fellow Travelers

I Luv the Valley OH!!

Shearwater - I Luv the Valley OH!

Taken from Mazes' mini album 'Better Ghosts', released 21st November 2013.

Hayfever Wristband

Dhani Harrison performs “For You Blue,” a song written by his father, George Harrison. Download the full track here: http://gap.us/DhaniFS

Dhani Harrison - "For You Blue" (cover)

FROM THE ALBUM "DESERT SKIES" ON ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS : http://www.alive-totalenergy.com

Beachwood Sparks - Make It Together

There might be rats in the palm trees, but where are Popstrangers? Out on the water. The New Zealand trio recorded this new 7-inch in an old lightship moored on the River Thames in London, where the band moved in April. The recording and mixing with Rory Attwell (Warm Brains, Test Icicles) only took one weekend on the river and produced the roaring, restless "Rats In The Palm Trees" and its daydream memory B-side, "Fortuna."

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Popstrangers - Rats In The Palm Trees

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - No Second Thoughts 
Gary Numan - Are 'friends' Electric?
David Byrne - My Big Hands (Fall Through The Cracks) 
Randy Newman - Baltimore 
Tim Buckley - Home To Stay 
The Byrds - Ballad of Easy Rider 
The Byrds - Truckstop Girl 
The Flamin Groovies - Whiskey Woman 
Rowland Howard and Nikki Sudden – A Quick Thing 
Syd Barret - Opel 
Pink Floyd - Green Is The Colour 
Aphrodite's Child - Take Your Time 
Bill Fay - Warwick Town 
Big Star - Stroke It Noel 
Michael Chapman - You Say 
Miles Davis - Here Come De Honey Man 
David Bowie - Art Decade 
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts 
Prince - Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) 
Lou Reed - Charley's Girl 
Royal Trux - Waterpark 
The Rolling Stones - 100 Years Ago 
Aphrodite's Child - Valley Of Sadness 
Ween - Lullabye 



KV Mixtape

Acoustic demo with Uncle Tupelo (Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar), recorded 1991, Long View Farm Studios, North Brookfield, MA

Bottle Rockets and the Brooklyn Side

Indianapolis

LP/CD/Digital

"Indianapolis (1991 Demo With Uncle Tupelo's Jeff Tweedy & Jay Farrar)" by The Bottle Rockets

'Avocado, Baby' is the new 'single' to be taken from Los Campesinos!' forthcoming fifth album 'NO BLUES'.
It features vocals from the Cardiff Cougar Allstars cheerleading squad.

'NO BLUES' can be pre-ordered now via iTunes (x-msg://64/smarturl.it/noblues ) or directly from the band. By pre-ordering from the band you will receive a digital copy of the album ahead of release date http://loscampesinos.bigcartel.com/

Los Campesinos! will be playing some UK shows in December of this year:
DECEMBER//
5 // Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff (w/playlounge)
6 // Cockpit, Leeds (w/ Joanna Gruesome)
7 // Queens Social Club, Sheffield (w/Joanna Gruesome)
8 // Gorilla, Manchester (w/Joanna Gruesome)
9 // Heaven, London (w/Joanna Gruesome)
Tickets: http://www.seetickets.com/tour/los-campesinos- …

Avocado, Baby
There's no box to tick for red, so I put down blue instead cos it's closest there's to grey in the categories.
And the veins within the whites are a statement of demise, Doe Eyes you should stay at home licking batteries.
I feel like I'm the host of a terrible game-show and the guests on today's quiz are celebrities.
Won't respond to any clues they're just cracking jokes for views but the answers to these questions mean everything.

I had a friend who, had made a flag day
blood on their hands from shards of a heartbreak 
I have known friends to, crack from love's weight
blossom in ribcage, until their backs break 
Oh it won't get better, that doesn't mean it's gonna get any worse.
You're final draft'a life-long love letter, signed to the man who will be driving your hearse

Salacia's in the depths, and if I avoid the nets, threaten "I'll cuckold you Neptune" for definite
Meet between the dog and wolf, with the hoar frost underfoot and I'll show you every fire in Delphinus.
May she who casts the first fist of dirt across the casket have mourners lick the mud from her fingernails
'tween the breadth'a your arms span I was a renaissance man, books of lies stacked either side you were my carrell
 
(A heart of stone, rind so tough it's crazy, that's why they call me the avocado, baby)

Pre-order now!

Avocado, Baby

Minor Alps "Far From The Roses" (from Get There)

Throw My Mess Around

GRMLN covers Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".

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GRMLN - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen Cover)

Bloom Forever/Honeymoon

HONEYMOON

This is the song James Dean Bradfield and I wrote for the Senghenydd Memorial Event on October 14th 2013 and ended the performance of All for each, each for all- it is a testament to the stoic beauty and mental strength of that generation growing up in mining communities in the early 20th century- gives me goosebumps every time i hear it.

It Will Take More Than A Grave To Bury You- by james dean brad field

Green Jacket Grey

Cavity click keeps the rhythm, keeps it movin'.  Any day it's gonna crack.  Popcorn kernel, olive pit, at any moment smashed to bits (yeah).  Toothache's better than heartache baby, I've figured that much out.  And I thought I knew a thing or two about the blues but you've got me wonderin' now.

Dog-eyed kindess (naive and trusting) fans the purest flame of morning fire.  But once it fizzles out into charred, formless evening, how do you ignite without turning to ash (yeah).  Seasick's better than heartsick, baby.  I know that much by now.  And I thought I knew nausea from sea to cars but you've got me wonderin' now.

Forced into morning, tempted into night.  Tally all the things that you broke.  Bending her branches.  Snapping, sapping and writhing.  For me alone.  Yeah, I guess sunburn's better than heartburn (barely).  Guess I never figured that out.  And I thought I knew a thing or two about the blues but you've got me wonderin' now.  

'Tally All The Things That You Broke' EP, Out 10/8/13 on What's Your Rupture?

Parquet Courts - You've Got Me Wonderin' Now

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