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Battleme’s new psychedelic rocker

October 17, 2013 by morningaftershow

Matt Drenik is Battleme. You might know some of the music from the FX TV show Sons of Anarchy. Like this song, or this song, or maybe this most excellent Neil Young cover.

Battleme will put out a full length in 2014…until then, he’ll wet our whistles with the Weight on The Brain ep. I do love his SOA songs, so I thought I better hit play on the psyche-rocker “Just Weight.”

It’s a far more aggressive jam compared to the mostly acoustic songs featured on TV.

I dig that.

Battleme is on tour in the States now and playing a couple shows with Metric. Ain’t that a pip!

Go with yourself.

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New Music From Red Fang

October 16, 2013 by morningaftershow

Portland, Oregon mighty sludge rockers Red Fang bring the noise… SPIN magazine likens it to Baroness & Mastodon. That’s cool.

The first single is a doozy! “Blood Like Cream.”

The Relapse Records store has all sorts of goodies. This is bad news… I’m trying to pay down my VISA! ahhhhhh Coke Bottle Green vinyl? Just stop.

Go with yourself.

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The best song about a character from Boy Meets World you’ll hear today

October 16, 2013 by morningaftershow

The band is called Decoded. They are from Los Angeles, California. The song is called “Topanga.” That is all.

Go with yourself.

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We like all kinds of music, but I like American Music best

October 9, 2013 by morningaftershow

On the way to school this morning with Madelyn we were listening to the radio. We were punching around looking for a song and settle don The Peak in Vancouver. Laurie and Cory punched up the 1991 song “American Music” by the Violent Femmes. I love that song.

Back in the olden days, the kids used to dance to rock & roll. There was club out in Surrey called the Ozone. Thursday night, they put the beers on cheap and fired up an aggressive dance playlist of rock music. The times were good. At the end of the night, the DJ(s) would maybe play some Pennywise “Bro Hymn” or maybe the Violent Femmes “American Music.”

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So some American music? What have I heard today that I dig? How about some hardcore outta Philadelphia. The band is called Cop Problem.

Pitchfork has the stream.

Then while punching around on Pitchfork I heard this beauty from Hartford. Magik Markers.

And THEN, this song comes on after Magik Markers on my soundcloud… and Webmeister Bud came running in to the Music Hut, “what is this?”

Bleeding Rainbow? Cool!

Go with yourself.

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Jiving on a new single from The Wombats

October 9, 2013 by morningaftershow

New single from The Wombats is a real fire cracker! I always liked the UK band’s “Lets Dance To Joy Division.” My goodness, was that 2007? Since then they’ve had a record that I never really got into and now they are gearing up for their third album.

The first single is called “You Body is a Weapon.”

Lead singer Matthew Murphy said he was inspired seeing a paparazzi guy stalking a member of One Direction. Weird. He says this about the single:

“It was an easy track to record, although a few lyric changes were made to make it sound slightly less ‘creepy’. At the end of the session, Eric Valentine said ‘I’m really happy with how this has turned out, there is a quality to the lower-mid range that I have been searching for for years, and I think I’ve got it!’ – We have absolutely no idea what this means.”

I don’t know what that means either Matthew. Good song though.

Go with yourself.

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Checking out Lucius

October 8, 2013 by morningaftershow

I saw this old advertisement trying to energize people to visit and settle in Victoria! The nearest Port to the Orient! I love it.

An email today from Dine Alone Records asking us to check out a recent addition to their roster in Canada. The band is called Lucius. 5 boys and girls from Brooklyn. Apparently they got their start at the Berklee School of Music in historic Boston, MA.

Now they are dubbed a “band to watch” by such finely esteemed rags as Rolling Stone and Time magazine. neat. Let’s have a listen to their single off the upcoming Wildewoman (October 15th, Dine Alone).

Also the singers are models? Lucius Lace Shift (or at least had a dress named after the band…)

Go with yourself.

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Gnarly boogie: Deap Vally

October 7, 2013 by morningaftershow

“What you call love baby, I call hell!”

California desert boogie rockers Deap Vally wail… loving their new song “Baby I call Hell.”

Here they are talking about the song to Spin;

Julie Edwards: We didn’t realize the acronym for this song was BICH until we were releasing the song as a single, and people we work with were sending emails back and forth about “BICH artwork.”

Lindsay Troy, guitar/vocals: This is the first song we wrote as Deap Vally — it’s very true to the form of how we initially conceived it. That song was a really simple blues riff that I came up with, and we just wrote a song around it. It’s our set opener, and it’s Deap Vally — it’s the genesis of our band.

Go with yourself.

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Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio gets electric

October 7, 2013 by morningaftershow

Sometimes the bass player in Vampire Weekend…and sometimes he works the wheels of steel! Chris Baio will be rleeasing his second electronic record called Mira on October 28th (Future Classic).

Go with yourself.

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Destroyer sings in Spanish!

October 7, 2013 by morningaftershow

it is true… entirely in Spanish!

Dan Bejar fronts Destroyer, you will also find him singing on New Pornographers records.

His new ep is called Five Spanish Songs and as the title clearly states, he sing five Spanish songs.

Spin has a quote as to the why; “It felt over for English; good for business transactions, but that’s about it,” he wrote. “The only other language I know is Spanish, and the only Spanish songs I really know are those of Sr. Chinarro, led by Antonio Luque. I’ve been a decades-long fan of how he conducted his affairs, his strange words, his melodies that have always felt so natural (this is important), his bitter songs about painting the light. Something about them, I knew I could do it…”

Go with yourself.

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