Kristian Matsson / The Tallest Man on Earth. Photo: Sarahana
The Tallest Man on Earth’s next album will be The Wild Hunt, and he’s switched labels to Dead Oceans. The album is set for an April 13 release in the US. Everyone’s live favorite “King of Spain” (below) is the first listen we’re getting from it; as you might’ve expected, it’s pretty true to the live version. He also played a song called “The Wild Hunt” at the last few New York shows. Can’t wait to hear the rest!
Download “King of Spain” (album version)
Download lots of other Tallest Man goodies on this site.
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The Tallest Man on Earth, The Wild Hunt album artwork
Brigid Dawson is second from left
Daytrotter posted a Thee Oh Sees session yesterday (”Ruby Go Home” included), and while the accompanying text talks about front man John Dwyer at length, it doesn’t mention Brigid Dawson by name once. But if you’re like me, it’s pretty obvious that the band would have half its might without Ms. Dawson. This thought led me to her wikipedia page, which had been deleted twice because she wasn’t deemed “notable” enough. So I went ahead and spent a good part of the morning re-creating a new one for her, highlighting her notability: My new Brigid Dawson page on Wikipedia.
Let’s see how long it will stay up.
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Members of the Beets, from Jackson Heights, Queens, play at the Brooklyn Museum
I just found out I’m allowed to post another track from that Beets album, Spit in the Face of People Who Don’t Want to Be Cool, so here’s one I like slightly better than the one I posted before. Besides, I forgot to mention that the parents of the two members who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens (where cheap and delicious food of international flavors abound) were in attendance at the Brooklyn Museum show. Juan’s were notably excited and giddy. When they showed up he said, “Now I’m nervous”. I noticed the parents were wrapped in a Uruguayan flag, and there’s a Uruguayan flag on the back of their CD as well. You know who else is from Uruguay? The amazing Eduardo Galeano!
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Download “What Did I Do” by The Beets
Sweden’s Miss Li is the newest to join the line of iPod commercial stars, with her perky song “Bourgeois Shangri-La” gracing the equally colorful and hyper iPod Nano ad that shows off the device’s video-recording capabilities (and how much fun and color it can add to your otherwise bleak life!). What sticks out in the 30 seconds of this perfect iPod saleability is that bit of crunchy rock-and-roll-ness to Miss Li’s otherwise flirty, girly voice. I hope she intends to do a few blues numbers, too. (Photo stolen from her myspace page)
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Download “Bourgeois Shangri-La” by Miss Li
Remember Luke Winslow-King and his friends, who played a song for us on a rooftop back in January when it was freaking cold and the tuba froze?! His full-length Old/New Baby, inspired by the streets of New Orleans, is coming out this month on Fox on a Hill Records. Above everything, it feels like a work of romance: when he sings “Where there’s two mocking birds”, and takes his voice up to say “mocking high”, and back down to “mocking low”, you want to leave the dishes half done, drop all your kitchen things, and go find yourself a new love story. It’s only disappointing that you can’t actually smell the flowers you know are blossoming somewhere between those notes and that your face isn’t physically warmed by the dash of sun tumbling down the fabric of horns.
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Download “If I” | Here’s some Piers Faccini music as promised. And an excerpt from an interview with Santa Barbara Independent, dated December 2006:
Does your worldly upbringing give you better insight into songwriting? The music that I do is influenced by a lot of different kinds of music from around the world. It’s a very kind of eclectic music, which I’ve been listening to ever since I was 18 really. I don’t know if I could say definitely [that it makes me a better songwriter], but the fact that I wasn’t in one country, that I moved around speaking more than one language, that made me an outsider constantly. I know how England works, I speak the language, but I don’t feel English. I go to France, I don’t feel French. I go to Italy, and I don’t feel Italian. That gave me more a sense of whit and scope for when I write songs. I don’t feel limited to any particular format.
View full post for La Blogotheque recordings and more pictures from the previously posted Summer Stage show.
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