New Wolf Parade Tunes!

I've posted my love for Wolf Parade's "You are a Runner, but I am my Father's Son" and "Call it a Ritual," so I was pretty excited to see some new tracks from their upcoming album Expo 86 posted today. Definitely a fan on first listen, and I have the intention of playing through them a few more times yet today. Have a listen yourself below.

Montreal, Canada

Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressurebypitchfork
Wolf Parade - What Did My Lover Say (It Always Had To Go This Way)bypitchfork

props to We All Want Someone To Shout For via Pitchfork

New LCD Soundsystem Album Streaming

LCD Soundsystem has a new, and likely final, album called This is my Happening being released on May 17 (EU) and May 18 (US). Apparently, LCD threw a secret show in NY a few days ago where he gave out this new album and asked the crowd not to leak it before the official release. I think there were a few hours before it was found online, so LCD Soundsystem decided to pull an MGMT and stream it themselves (only MGMT's player allows you to select the song you want to hear, where LCD's player starts on song one and plays through, with only play and pause controls available).

As soon as I saw it available yesterday on twitter I did two things: I retweeted it, and I listened. I actually listened for several consecutive hours, and determined myself to be a fan of the new album. It seemed to me that the more I listened to it, the more I liked it. I definitely feel like the whole album as a single piece of artwork has an identifiable sound. Listen for yourself HERE, and then check out all of LCD Soundsystem's upcoming shows, including at Chicago's Metro and Pitchfork.

Some Upcoming Music to be Excited About

So, this time the lovely folks at Pitchfork put together a list of Spring releases, and I captured some of my favorites below. Click HERE to see the full list.

4/6
Doves: The Places Between: The Best of Doves
Dr. Dog: Shame, Shame

4/13
Arctic Monkeys: My Propeller 10"
Four Tet: Sing 12"
Freelance Whales: Weathervanes
MGMT: Congratulations

4/17 - RECORD STORE DAY
Beach House: Zebra 12"
Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
Bon Iver/Peter Gabriel: Split 7"
Bright Eyes: Fevers and Mirrors
CocoRosie: "Lemonade" b/w "Surfer Girl"
Crystal Castles: "Doe Deer" 12"
Deerhoof: Apple O'
Deerhoof: Green Cosmos
Modest Mouse: The Moon and Antarctica
The Mountain Goats: The Life of the World to Come
Pavement: Quarantine the Past
Simian Mobile Disco: Attack Decay Sustain Release
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/20
The Apples in Stereo: Travellers in Time and SpacePlants and Animals: La La Land

4/26
The Dead Weather: "Die by the Drop"

4/27
Frightened Rabbit: Nothing Like You 7"

5/4
Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Record
The Hold Steady: Heaven Is Whenever
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings: I Learned the Hard Way

5/11
CocoRosie: Grey Oceans
The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards
Sleigh Bells: Treats

5/18
The Black Keys: BrothersThe Depreciation Guild: Spirit Youth
LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening

6/8
The Chemical Brothers: Further
Deer Tick: The Black Dirt Sessions
Delorean: Subiza
Here We Go Magic: PigeonsNada Surf: If I Had a Hi-Fi
Rooney: Eureka
Sia: We Are Born
Tokyo Police Club: Champ

First Acts of Pitchfork 2010 Confirmed!

Tickets go on sale at noon today, and Pitchfork confirmed the first list of artists to perform (as if I needed any added incentive to buy the tickets?!) I think you can tell which artists I'm excited for :)

Friday
Modest Mouse

Saturday
LCD Soundsystem
Raekwon
Here We Go Magic

Sunday
Pavement
St. Vincent
Lightning Bolt
Sleigh Bells
Cass McCombs

You can buy tickets HERE $40 for a single day pass, and $90 for a 3-day

I plan on checking out all these artists asap, so my excitement level will likely only increase dramatically. Oh happy day.

According to the awesome blog Consequence of Sound's Pitchfork Festival Outlook, other artists anticipated include Neon Indian (yay!), Real Estate and The Smith Westerns.

Recommended Song of the Day

Oklahoma City, OK

8/30/09: The W.A.N.D., by The Flaming Lips

Listen to it HERE

LOVE it :) Experienced the lips for the first time this year at Pitchfork. I have some of that show on my YouTube channel. Check it out, yo.

Tracy :)

My Pitchfork Thoughts

Well, I had a FABulous time at P4K 2009. :) Like the rest of my postings, I'm going to keep this review brief!




HIGHLIGHTS

• Yeasayer - They were on my list of "must sees" and I had pretty high expectations for them, and yet they still blew me away. (Dancing in the rain to Yeasayer = favorite Pitchfork moment of 09) Way to be really awesome Yeasayer and turn an existing fan into a exciting fan. :)

• Final Fantasy- I love a good one-man band, and what Owen Pallett did to that violin was inspiring.

• The Labels - not any one band, but the many booths of labels representing. I have especially warmer and fuzzier feelings now towards Polyvinyl, Cardboard Sangria, Hometapes, and AEMMP Records.

BIGGEST DISSAPOINTMENT

• The Walkmen - Not only are they "above" playing the song that made them famous, but their set was blah overall. So sad.

HAPPY MOMENTS

• Seeing that Whole Foods had gigantic bags of cherries available for sale as a healthy snack. Those were delicious and refreshing.
• Perusing the poster artists - found a few promising designers.
• Randomly running into folks from Moxie Motive, Loyal Divide, Verona Red and Bully in the Hallway.
• Making the most awesome picture buttons ever. :)
  
• Pretty much every moment, as music festivals are my heaven-on-earth.

SAD MOMENTS

• Realizing that the crazy, colliding fans I burried myself in for Matt & Kim actually squished all the ripe and juicy cherries in my purse, getting cherry juice on my purse, my pants, my sweater, my hand, my boyfriend, my phone, etc.

• Losing one of the most awesome picture buttons ever. :(
• Watching some drunk loser cut off some handicap guy waiting to use the handicap porta-potty. All the folks in my porta-potty line gave him the stink eye when he got out. Loser.

Check out some more images from my 2009 P4K experience

See clips of P4K performances from Yeasayer, Final Fantasy, Flaming Lips, Black Lips, Matt and Kim, and Bowerbirds HERE.

Recommended Song of the Day + P4K Day 3

Scotland, UK

7/19/09: The Modern Leper, by Frightened Rabbit

Listen to it HERE

Day 2 was FABulous! Yeasayer exceeded all of my high expectations. I have some pictures and videos I'll post soon. Until then, it's off to Day 3! Today I'm most excited for Grizzly Bear, The Walkmen, M83, The Very Best, and Flaming Lips.

DAY 3
The Flaming Lips Grizzy Bear M83 The Walkmen The Thermals Pharoahe Monch Blitzen Trapper Frightened Rabbit The Mae Shi The Very Best Mew Vivian Girls Japandriods DJ/Rupture Women Killer Whales Dianogah Michael Columbia

Tracy :)

Recommended Song of the Day + P4K Day 2

Brooklyn, NY

7/18/09: Bear, by The Antlers

Listen to it HERE

Antlers is one of the many bands playing Pitchfork today that I'm excited to see! MOST pumped about Yeasayer, Final Fantasy, Matt and Kim, and Bowerbirds.

DAY 2
The National Beirut Doom Yeasayer Final Fantasy The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Fucked Up Plants and Animals Cymbals Eat Guitars The Black Lips Matt & Kim Lindstrom Wavves Ponytail Bowerbirds The Dutchess and The Duke Antlers Disappears

Tracy :)

Recommended Song of the Day + P4K Day 1

Boise, ID

7/17/09: The Plan, by Built to Spill

Listen to it HERE

Hopefully I'll see this live tonight! SO excited for Pitchfork, hands down one of my favorite times of the year. Not suuuuper excited about anyone in particular for tonight, but hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised. If not, you'll probably find me checking out the labels in attendance.

DAY 1
Built to Spill The Jesus Lizard Yo La Tengo Tortoise

Tracy :)

Recommended Song of the Day

Montreal, Canada

6/28/09: Guru/Sinnerman, by Plants and Animals

Listen to it HERE

Definitely a good find. I love when music extends beyond the conventional 3-minute bound-for-radio style song. Check it out.

They'll be at Pitchfork this year, so I plan to check 'em out!

Tracy :)

Awesome Pitchfork 09 Playlist!

Just stumbled upon this and HAD to share. A playlist of artists performing at this year's Pitchfork festival. CAN'T wait!

Cool Playlist

HERE's a playlist from Pitchfork that includes:

Bat for Lashes
Suckers
Woods
Nodzzz
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Phoenix
Japandroids
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Animal Collective
Bill Callahan
Real Estate
tUne-YaRdS
Dirty Projects w/David Byrne

Recommended Song of the Day

3/25/09: Tunnelvision, by Here We Go Magic

How very Radiohead of them... In a good way, of course! They're touring with Grizzly Bear in June, so check to see if they're coming to a venue near you. They're not stopping in Chicago, most likely due to Grizzly Bear's July performance at Pitchfork's music festival. SO excited for that!

Enjoy!

Tracy :)

Brooklyn, NY

Recommended Song of the Day

3/14/09: La Duchess Anne, by Grizzly Bear

This is a great song! I'm SO excited to see them at Pitchfork this year :)

I hope you're having fun getting obliterated. Please don't die of alcohol poisoning.

Tracy :)

Brooklyn, NY

Recommended Song of the Day

2/5/09: Summertime Clothes, by Animal Collective

Where to begin... I saw Animal Collective at Pitchfork last summer and was awestruck. Completely surprised by the wonderfulness they seeped into my ears. I'm bummed I missed them in Chicago last month at the Metro. :(

I heard so many good things about their new album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, and all of it is true. Big fan of the album, but like many of my favorite artists who I've yet to bring to the blog, I couldn't decide which song to post! Well, life kept happening and they slipped my mind, until just now on the way home. Props to XRT for bringing them back to the forefront of my attention.

Not recognizing that the song on the radio was Animal Collective's Summertime Clothes, I anxiously started googling the lyrics as I heard them on my phone. I contemplated rolling down the window and asking passerbys if they knew. Alas, XRT told me, and I nearly knocked myself unconscious with the "duh" slap of the forehead.

Enjoy!

Tracy :)

Baltimore, MD