Arcade Fire has a new interactive site/video/thing for "Neon Bible. " Pretty cool.
New Band of Horses, Cease to Begin, comes out tomorrow. Their previous album, Everything All the Time, was great so I'm expecting more good stuff. Listen to four of the new tracks at Band of Horses' MySpace. Pitchfork has given a good early review.
The fine folks at Stereogum have followed up their tribute album to Radiohead's OK Computer with a tribute to REM's Automatic for the People.
Nire is new to me, but I've enjoyed their MySpace offerings. Stereogum names them as a band to watch, and all the more with Vespers being released tomorrow. They offer a free download of "Wide-Eyed, Restless" that you should pick up.
I mentioned last week that Alaska in Winter opened for Beirut and that I picked up their CD, Dance Party in the Balkans. Been listening to it all week and haven't tired of it at all. Love it. This is something like the concert experience...
Here's a video for "The Homeless and a Hummingbird"....
Spoon's playing the 12th of Oct. at the Riveria theater at Lawrence and Broadway in Chicago, FYI.
Posted by: Mark Grapengater | 10/08/2007 at 09:57 PM
Yeah, knew that. But thanks for the heads up Mark. I considered going to the Pabst in Milwaukee for their concert tonight (probably ending about now). But we just don't have the cash because of our family vacation next week.
Posted by: Steve McCoy | 10/08/2007 at 11:13 PM
You probably knew this but just in case, there are a couple free mp3 of Band of Horses here.
http://www.subpop.com/artists/band_of_horses
Posted by: Mark jicinsky | 10/09/2007 at 09:08 PM
In honor of Music Monday, you and your readers might be interested in my two-part interview (here and here) with Don Chaffer of Waterdeep.
Posted by: Brent | 10/10/2007 at 10:11 AM