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The quasi-reunited Led Zeppelin (no John Bonham, no Led Zeppelin) has been rehearsing its classics in a lower key to accommodate the fact that Robert Plant can’t squeeze his lemon tight enough to eke out the high notes anymore, which is exactly why a Led Zeppelin reunion should not be happening. I don’t know why fans are scrambling […]

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Iceland’s Seabear(official site) deliver a precious cover of John Peel’s all-time fave, The Undertones’ Teenage Kicks. Seabear’s 2007 release The Ghost that Carried Us Away, was released by Morr. Bonus: Here are some tracks from Seabear’s 2004 Self-Released EP, Singing Arc. Singing Arc Also, while we’re covering covers made by bands on Morr, Seavault covers […]

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“After the surprise success of his self-titled, low-key debut on Hyperdub , Burial returns with an eagerly awaited follow up album, ‘Untrue’. The new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch bent until their […]

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Music for Kids Who Can’t Read Good has a nice collection of downloadable tracks that work well with Phase, the iTunes/iPod video game. Personally, I’ve enjoying playing Phase with DJ Shadow, Depeche Mode, Death Becomes Even The Maiden, and Smashing Pumpkins. Oh, and Future Sound of London. I tried Battles, but it was a bit […]

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Ahead of the Neo-Shoegazing resurgence by at least 5 years, Virginia’s Skywave [1995-2003] channeled My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain and more. An experience they apparently parlayed into an effects pedal business, appropriately named Death by Audio. Today it would appear that they are producing records [scroll right] by some of the new breed […]

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Via that non-carnivorous brooklynite comes word and mp3 of 2 new Gang of Four demo tracks. (courtesy of Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen’s wonderful blog, pampelmoose. more here.) gang of four – password

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