One of the best records I've heard this year so far.
At times it sounds like Chrome if they were fronted by Andrew Eldtritch, formed a garage punk band and they were produced by TV Ghost.

It also sounds fantastic if you play it at 33 rpm.

The new Tindersticks record is really nice.

This is probably my favourite track from it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bx-K...eature=related

the men - open your heart - the best rock album ive heard for aaaages.

^i'll give it a listen. soon.

 

http://www.nitetripper.com/

Lotus Plaza's new album is pretty rad. I really like the guitar arrangements on this record. I think it's better than Atlas Sound's last album. Another solid release from Kranky they've put out some really nice records this year. I have also really enjoyed the new grouper collaboration and Windy & Carl which have been put out on the label.

cute boy kissing booth - spring break!
i like it a lot it is very microphones on heroin reading too much camus for their own good

I think/hope I mentioned this too. Far better than Parallax, as you said. That album was a massive disappointment, especially after Logos.

are you the inspiration behind "hayden reads a poem"?

it is hayden that speaks in that song

sweet

now i can put a voice to his posts

i am sam's inspiration for everything
derek's too

yeah hayden is also on the new uuuuuu tape

DUE OUT SUMMER 2012

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

i am a spoken word artist for hire put me on your ambient/drone tapes i will say something about drugs or something

Black Breath-Sentenced to Life

Swans-We Rose from your Bed with the Sun in our Head

Insect Factory - Melodies From a Dead Radio (Fabrica Records)

An intriguing title is a great start, and from the very first track, Melodies from a Dead Radio delivers on its promise. One would imagine said melodies to be static-filled, ghostly, out of focus, difficult to comprehend. The shortwave radio burst of “Globes” is a series of words that sounds like ignition, a spark struggling to break through. Warbles and drones surround the transmission, choking it into non-existence. Perhaps Jeff Barsky (Insect Factory) is trying to say something about the difficulty of saying something: the intentional message lost in the debris. On “Radio Forecast”, the album’s standout track, waves and drones meander, meet and strike up a conversation, establishing a semblance of form before the locusts descend. The last third of this track sounds like the artist’s nom-de-plume: an insect factory at the meat of its production schedule, shedding wings to meet a quota as antennae fall all around. This is where Barsky is at his finest: adding layer upon layer until all the levels are in the red. The beauty of the track is that both form and chaos grow at equal levels: tempo and rhythm linked to volume and mass. The second side of the LP – Fabrica’s first foray into the vinyl format – sounds more like the amplified production of ants than the hive communications of bees. The hinted-at melodies are more apparent, the interference less defined. In “New Incision”, notes blink on and off like fireflies, backed by gentler drones, eventually giving way to filtered tones and quieter beds. The album’s brief coda, a mirror to the opener, provides the set’s clearest example of tune, a vaguely Indian guitar melody tailed by distant bells, yet still fuzzy around the edges, still distant and detached like a song shot into space and forgotten. What’s in a name? In this case, the name is simply the abbreviation for the sound. (Richard Allen)
http://acloserlisten.com/2012/03/17/...-a-dead-radio/

Though not yet released, this is obviously going to be one of the coolest archival releases of the year:

 

http://mute.com/can/announces-the-lo...ease-june-19th

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4CtY...ature=youtu.be


Looks like Can is getting into the deluxe reissue with bonus tracks game as well w/ a 2CD version of Tago Mago w/ live tracks:
http://mute.com/can/tago-mago-40th-a...-2cd-edition-2
also mentions a remastered vinyl box set, vinyl only live album, etc...

de la soul's plug 1 & 2 present.. first serve


hear the single, it's excellent!
http://soundcloud.com/firstserve/de-...lug-1-plug-2-1