Friday, June 29, 2007

Fun Friday Goodies!


The Clientele visited the Yahoo! Music studios in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, they just missed meeting 50 cent! They played Bookshop Cassanova, and chatted about The Beatles and The Banana Splits proving that everything does sound more adorable when you have a British accent! Check it all out here!


M. Ward will perform live on KEXP at 1pm PST; 4pm PST. He'll be joined by a special guest vocalist! If you can't listen at work, catch the streaming archive.


The Broken West are coming to the end of yet another tour. Don't worry, though, those crazy boys can't stay home for long! They did a few dates with Fountains of Wayne who gave them a shout on their Onion tour diary.

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

M. Ward on The Hottest State soundtrack


M. Ward recorded a song written by Jesse Harris for the soundtrack to the movie, The Hottest State. The soundtrack features Willie Nelson, Feist, Bright Eyes, Cat Power & more. Listen to the M. Ward song and see full tracklisting here. The soundtrack will be available in stores on August 7th, and the movie opens August 24th. While you are at it, check out M. Ward's rad new website design, too!

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Radar Bros. avoid the fire & mix new record!


Jim, Steve, Senon & Jeff are putting the finishing touches on their new record to be released early next year. They sent us this picture of the Griffith Park fire as it looked from Jimmy's front yard and the following update:

how goes it? staying cool in the warm south of summer? getting hot here too...we will be done mixing our new record next week, and it will be mastered july 9th.

it's been business as usual over here. no crazy cocaine or pcp stories to tell. just a few sloppy bourbon fueled performances that sounded good when we did them, but not so good the next day.

xo, Jim


Watch their myspace page and their website for more updates!

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Monday, June 25, 2007

McCarren Pool Pictures




Pictures from yesterday's Superchunk / Oakley Hall show at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn are popping up here & here. Slip n' Sliding and lots of rock! There will soon be streaming video footage from the entire show at spin.com. Stay tuned!

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Shout Out Louds play on the street!


Our friends at Stereogum provided a link to this cool video footage of Shout Out Louds playing their new single, Tonight I Have to Leave It, acoustic-style on the street! A little something to tide us over until their US tour dates!

You can get your own copy of the new Shout Out Louds ep here!

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Friday, June 22, 2007

Superchunk + Oakley Hall @ McCarren Park Pool



Sunday, June 24th beginning at 2pm. DJ Todd O-Phonic Todd, +/-, Oakley Hall, & Superchunk!

Free Show at a seriously cool venue, but you have to RSVP here! First come, first serve.

Have fun! Report back!!


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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Stream Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga!



Bonnaroo was last weekend and Spoon played right after the Hold Steady, dubbed by one reader of Stereogum as "OMG BEST PAIRING EVER?!" Also, "britt + coyne = awesome."

You can now stream the entire Spoon album! Listen HERE.

Preorder here!

Tour dates here!

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Your First Taste of Caribou's Andorra!



Melody Day EP is out July 10, and Andorra follows on August 21!

Visit Caribou on Myspace, or head on to Virb for a little something different.

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Thursday, June 07, 2007

Richard & Tim COME ON DOWN!

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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Tales from the Road . . .



With so many bands on tour, it is nice to get an occasional update about crowd size, celebrity sightings, drunken antics, etc. The Broken West are excellent at sending their reports that we post here, but we thought a little blog collection would be fun "hump day" reading for you! Enjoy!

The Clientele: Alasdair, Mark, & Mel.
The Rosebuds
Portastatic

And as a bonus - The Ladybug Transistor on Daytrotter

Feel free to post your own show reviews & gossip! We love it! Full list of Merge Tour Dates here!

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Monday, June 04, 2007

Monday Merge Radio Alert!



Big Merge week on the lower half of your FM dial!

Win & Regine from Arcade Fire will be interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air today! Fresh Air is a nationally syndicated NPR program. You can listen to your local NPR station or online here.

The Rosebuds & The Clientele each visited World Cafe recently for live sessions and interviews with David Dye. The Clientele session will air Tuesday, June 5th & The Rosebuds will air Wednesday, June 6th! World Cafe is also nationally syndicated on NPR, or you can listen here.

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