Thursday, January 31, 2008

NEWSLETTER from CMJ: Destroyer's 'Troubled' Tour; Sun Kil Album; aVinci DVD Coded; Saul Williams' Rockets Glare; Free Yoav MP3



RODRIGO Y GABRIELA ROCK ESPN Just in time for the Super Bowl, acoustic heavy metal duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela will be... (more)
DESTROYER DREAMS UP 'TROUBLING' TOUR Venerated indie-pop maestro Dan Bejar, the sole architect of Vancouver-based... (more)
LYRICS BORN IS 'EVERYWHERE AT ONCE' Nearly five years since unfurling his debut and lone studio album... (more)
SUN KIL MOON TO RELEASE 'APRIL'... IN APRIL Mark Kozelek has announced an April 1 release date for Sun Kil... (more)
THESE UNITED STATES MAP OUT ALBUM RELEASE Much-lauded psych-folk collective These United States have... (more)
TORCHE 'MEANDERTHALS' OVER TO HYRDRA HEAD Florida sludge-metal merchants Torche have signed... (more)
SAUL WILLIAMS' TAR SPANGLED BANNER TOUR Smooth-talker Saul Williams can't get enough word play. Not only... (more)


YOAV
Charmed And Strange
On this debut, Israeli-born, South African-raised Yoav offers 11 melancholy tracks that show he's really got the chops—and by chops, I mean a great, novel gimmick. Yoav uses only his voice and the guitar to craft his music, moving far beyond picking and strumming to create club-appropriate beats with unbelievable methods of banging and pounding. He plays with feedback like a pizzaiolo plays with dough, molding eerie soundscapes that float like a duck across a pond... (more)

DOWNLOAD "Beautiful Lie"





"There's something to be said about being in a privileged position to have access to something, and abusing that resonates to those around you." (more)



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SLIDESHOW SOUNDTRACKS NOW LEGAL Sequoia Media Group, LC, creators of the aVinci Experience, have partnered... (more)
RHINO SCORES NUMERO UNO WITH 'JUNO' Rhino Records has scored its first number one on the Billboard 200... (more)
SYSTEM OF A DOWN BASSIST LAUNCHES URSESSION.COM Shavo Odadjian, bassist for System Of A... (more)




If Tom Petty were to have one of your favorite bands back him up at the Super Bowl, who would it be?

Wu-Tang Clan
Aphex Twin
Gogol Bordello
Cannibal Corpse
Tiny Masters Of Today








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ARTIST & TITLE
LABEL
1 1 BAND OF HORSES Cease To Begin Sub Pop
2 - CAT POWER Jukebox Matador
3 2 IRON AND WINE The Shepherd's Dog Sub Pop
4 3 ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS Raising Sand Rounder
5 5 SPOON Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Merge
6 6 YEASAYER All Hour Cymbals We Are Free
7 4 SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS 100 Days 100 Nights Daptone
8 15 JACK JOHNSON Sleep Through The Static Brushfire
9 - BLACK MOUNTAIN In The Future Jagjaguwar
10 7 STEVE EARLE Washington Square Serenade New West
11 8 JENS LEKMAN Night Falls Over Kortedala Secretly Canadian
12 13 SIGUR ROS Hvarf-Heim XL
13 22 INGRID MICHAELSON Girls And Boys Self-Released
14 12 ARCADE FIRE Neon Bible Merge
15 14 NADA SURF "See These Bones" [Single] Barsuk
16 31 DENGUE FEVER Venus On Earth M80
17 17 DEVENDRA BANHART Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon XL
18 9 LEVON HELM Dirt Farmer Vanguard
19 11 CHUCK PROPHET Soap And Water Yep Roc
20 16 SIA Some People Have Real Problems Hear-Conchord

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ARTIST & TITLE
LABEL
1 1 LUPE FIASCO The Cool Atlantic-1st & 15th
2 7 FOOD FOR ANIMALS Belly Hoss
3 4 MIKE LADD Nostalgialator Definitive Jux
4 9 NIGHT OWLS 4: A SHOT IN THE DARK Various Artists Syntax
5 3 Y SOCIETY Travel At Your Own Pace Tres
6 2 DANTE Roaming Empire Havoc
7 8 GHISLAIN POIRIER No Ground Under Ninja Tune
8 6 BUCK 65 Situation Strange Famous
9 - YAK BALLZ Scifentology II Flospot
10 5 HANGAR 18 Sweep The Leg Definitive Jux
11 10 WYCLEF JEAN Carnival II: Memoirs Of An Immigrant Columbia
12 - BREEZ EVAHFLOWIN AND DIRT E. DUTCH Troublemakers Little Ax
13 12 SONTIAGO Steel Yourself endemik
14 16 BLOCKHEAD Uncle Tony's Coloring Book Ninja Tune
15 11 OMID Afterwords 3 Alpha Pup
16 - DUO LIVE The Color Of Money Redemption Music Group
17 14 JAY-Z American Gangster Roc-A-Fella / Def Jam
18 36 WU-TANG CLAN 8 Diagrams SRC
19 15 TALIB KWELI Eardrum Warner Bros.
20 28 WELL DEEP: TEN YEARS OF BIG DADA RECORDINGS Various Artists Big Dada

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