How very appropriate for today that we give you the new single/video from Monster Truck that is politically focused, right as America is heading to the polls.
Hopefully they get the message from it we don't have He Who Must Not Be Named in charge down south. Have a listen to "For The People" and get back to your TV sets.
It's my birthday and I'll choose the Song Of The Day if I want to!
A week from today I'll be in Seattle to finally see Her again live. It's been almost a year since I caught them at the Trans Musicales festival in France for the first time, so I'm stoked to be able to hear them and the new music.
If you have the desire too, head to The Crocodile on November 14th in Seattle or if you're sticking to Vancouver (hopefully they'll come visit here soon) take a listen to the new song "Queens" below.
(PS Come to Karaoke at the Cobalt for my birthday tonight and sing me a song!)
New Mother Mother!
It's been quite a while since we've got some new music from the band (I heard some of it at NXNE in Toronto over the summer). The new single (and video, below) "The Drugs" reminds be over older songs from the band like "My Baby Don't Dance".
Word is, the new album will be out in early 2017, so keep an ear out!
We're just one week away from the release of the brand new self-titled Brasstronaut album.
(And three weeks away from their show at Fortune)
Over the last four years, members of the Vancouver band have dispersed to separate corners of the continent and worked on their own solo projects, but they kept in touch, building on musical ideas to make up the new album.
"Hawk" is the second single, the song starting with soothing vocals before exploding into... is "interstellar jazz" a genre? If not, it is now.
Check it out below!
PHOTO CREDIT : GLEN WILKIE
Australian duo Oh Pep! has released a video for their latest single "Wanting". The charming folk-pop song is off their album Stadium Cake, which was produced by the great Daniel Ledwell, and is out now on Dine Alone.
Okay, I know I posted this as last Hallowe'en's SOTD, but it really is my favourite spooky song, and I wanted to start a tradition. "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?" is by an all star lineup calling themselves North American Halloween Prevention Initiative, released as a charity single that pokes more than a little fun at "Do They Know It's Christmas?".
All proceeds of the song were donated to UNICEF, and the song "stems from a frustration with other benefit songs' misguided, somewhat patronizing attitude, and Western-centric worldview."
So just how "all star" was the lineup? Well, let's have a little rundown, shall we?
Win Butler & Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire
Beck
Buck 65
David Cross
Liane Balaban of Dessert
Devendra Banhart
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Feist
Gino Washington
Syd Butler of Les Savy Fav
Nick Diamond & J'aime Tambeur of Islands
Malcolm McLaren
Nardwuar the Human Serviette
Peaches
Dntel
Jenny Lewis & Blake Sennett of Rilo Kiley
Roky Erickson
Chris Murphy of Sloan
Asya & Chloe of Smoosh
Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
Russell Mael of Sparks
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Steve Jocz of Sum 41
Tagaq
Anna Waronker of that dog.
Dan Boeckner & Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade
Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs
We've got a timely video for you today from the band Walrus, for their song "Close My Eyes" off the Goodbye Something EP.
The video features a pumpkin-headed person picking out pumpkins in a patch, and running into what appears to be a candy/pumpkin eating monster?
Go ahead and give yourselves some nightmares right before Halloween!
Those fearless freaks The Flaming Lips are back! And their new single "The Castle" is a lot less... um... 'acid trippy' than some of their stuff from the last few years. Instead it harkens back to the more lilting, soaring psyche-pop of Yoshimi-era FLips.
The song is the first single from the upcoming album, Oczy Mlody, which is loosly translated from Polish to mean Eyes of the Young, which will be available January 13th.