Can anyone who has heard this music really be a bad person?

KAKI KING – DREAMING OF REVENGE
King's distinctive style combines fret-tapping with slap bass techniques, using the guitar for percussive beats, as well as sound layering and looping, which creates a percussive and complex sound. This is what it might be like if you could roll up the California Guitar Trio into one small girl with a really pretty singing voice. Check out the track "Pull Me Out Alive" here:



Fulfill your own dreams of revenge here.

A Statement From Morrissey:

In late June the Montreal Symphony are hosting a TV Special to salute Buffy Sainte-Marie's 50th year making music. I am honored to be asked to take part. I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.
I am also pleased to be asked to join the bill at the V Festival at the Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver, and also at Fort Calgary in Calgary.
However, as we all know, the psychologically and constitutionally sickening Canadian seal-kill has started and is once again in full-cry.
The horror of the Canadian seal-kill is untranslatable, and although I fully realize that highly concentrated evil exists in other countries - Japan's dolphin slaughter, Iceland's newly-revived whaling, the cat-skinning trade in Switzerland, and China with just about every injustice imaginable - there is something especially menacing about Canada's seal-kill.
Loyola Sullivan (Canada's Ambassador for Fisheries Conservation) is a man of glacial coldness who claims that the seal-kill is "humane" - a view he might alter if his own skull were cracked open with a spiked axe.
The fact that the seal-kill provides a livelihood for fishermen is an insultingly dim excuse for it to take place - after all, the German gas chambers of World War 2 also provided work for someone.
The seal-kill takes place to satisfy greed for fur-pelts, and this Canadian government is happy to drag the global image of its own country down, and make it a place that people such as I couldn't bear to visit.
MORRISSEY, 29 March 2008.

maps news

Good news, friends! Maps' second album is well on its way to becoming a reality, as James Chapman (seen here modelling one of our fine Lakeshore Record Exchange shirts) reports that five songs are complete. A recent video diary post gives us a teensy little listen to one of the new tracks. It sounds great to me!

The Hard Sell (encore)

Utilizing 8 turntables and 2 loop pedals, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist explore new possibilities in live mixing, as doo-wop mixes with punk, new wave with grime, and everything in between, all with taste and humor. Check out a track here:

shrieky & shoegazey goodness...

JARBOE & JUSTIN K BROADRICK - J2
J2 is the much-anticipated ambient musical exploration from singer/songwriter/performer JARBOE (ex-Swans) and JUSTIN K BROADRICK (Jesu, Godflesh). It sounds like you might expect – dark, ambient, shrieky, shoegazey, and chilling. Perfect for freaking out your parents, your neighbors, or your pets. Check out the track that scared my dog here:



Terrify your children or pets by purchasing your own copy here.

Bright Like Neon Love

While I wait with anticipation for Cut Copy’s new album, due out April 8, it is definitely worth checking out this older (2004) title in the meantime. Though I usually write about newer releases that people haven’t heard yet, I missed this one when it first came out (and perhaps you did, too). The trio, from Australia, seem to have a knack for creating perfect new wave inspired synth-pop gems, reminiscent of bands like Human League, Ladytron, The Postal Service, and Colder. This album should have been called Buy Me, Green Machine.

Check out the tracks “Saturdays” and “Saturdays (Reprise)”



Get your own copy of "Bright Like Neon Love" here.

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AUTECHRE - QUARISTICE
The IDM pioneering duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth have released their ninth album, the follow-up 2005's “Untilted.” QUARISTICE mixes it up a bit with more and shorter tracks and has a warmer, more ambient feel that recalls some of their earlier work.

Check out a track here:


Get your own copy of "Quaristice" here.