On February 7, singer/songwriter Ryan Thomas Schmale’s That Ghost project will release a new EP comprised of rarities, Rosalind , on Twosyllable .
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That Ghost: "Morning Now"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
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Tags: ghost, rosalind, schmale, the-second, thomas, thomas-schmale 
No Comments »Liberteer: "Usurious Epitaph"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
Matthew Widener, who played in Exhumed in the mid 1990s and still performs in Cretin, shifted the name of his political grindcore band Citizen to Liberteer as he got deeper into anarchism. He handled everything on Liberteer’s debut, Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees , a grind record packed with major-key riffs, horns, banjos, martial drumming, blast beats, and the lyrics you’d expect from the setup
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: entire, epitaph, grind-record, his-political, homes, knees, lyrics, matthew-widener, political, usurious-epitaph No Comments »Lil Durk: "I Get Paid" [ft. King Louie]
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
Sometimes, a beat is enough. Such is the case with Lil Durk and King Louie ’s “I Get Paid”, which beats the door down thanks to mind-bending snare programming from producer Fya Starta . Both rappers acquit themselves quite nicely: Durk is young and amateurish, but minimal, party-starting beats have long fit that archetype perfectly well
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: beat, beats-the-door, case, chaos, door, freestyle, from-producer, rap-singles, rappers-acquit, stands-as-one, the-freestyle, young No Comments »Zig Zags: "Scavenger"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
On February 14, Mexican Summer will put out a 7″ from Los Angeles scuzzy punks Zig Zags , Scavenger . The title track will be backed by one other song, “Wastin My Time”. Fun fact: Zig Zags have, at one time or another, shared members with fellow West Coast bashers the Intelligence and Unnatural Helpers
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: angeles, coast, helpers, intelligence, one-time, scuzzy-punks, shared-members, song, summer, title-track, unnatural-helpers, will-put No Comments »Frankie Rose: "Interstellar"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
As we already know from recent album cuts “Know Me” and “Night Swim” , the ex-C86 punk Frankie Rose moves from jangly garage textures into the realm of sparkling dream-pop on her upcoming album, Interstellar . Rose has never presented a more dramatic sound than on the title track: a foundation of radiant synths stretch and ring softly across the song’s first minute, her vocals offering another impressionist texture. It’s an introduction full of minimal, glistening tension that pulls at you like a force of gravity
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: across-the-song, beguiling-intro, confines, distortion, immersive-synth, impressionist, more-dramatic, News, Pop, radiant-synths, sonic-enormity, vivian-girls, written-during No Comments »Shlohmo: "wen uuu (Salva Remix)"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
Last month, when we posted Shlohmo ‘s “wen uuu” from his very fine Vacation EP, we mentioned that a remix 12″ EP featuring contributions from Nicolas Jaar , Salva , and others was on the way on March 1. Well, it looks like the release date was bumped up to February 14, and this Salva remix will definitely be included.
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: featuring-contributions, like-the-release, nicolas-jaar, release, salva, the-release, the-way, very-fine, wen-uuu No Comments »THEESatisfaction: "QueenS"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
Seattle duo THEESatisfaction — whose name you might recognize from their vocal work on Shabazz Palaces ‘ Black Up — will release their Sub Pop debut, awE naturalE , on March 27. Stream a cut from the album called “QueenS”, and download it from Sub Pop in exchange for an email address.
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: album, from-the-album, News, palaces, Pop, shabazz-palaces, the-album, their-vocal, vocal, will-release No Comments »Graphics: "MacGrackleton"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
Late last month, we posted “Mama Grizzlies” , a cut from the EP of the same name from UK producer Alfie MacGibbon, aka Graphics . The Mama Grizzlies EP just recently dropped on Made to Play ; here’s another sweet choon to enjoy from it, “MacGrackleton”
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: alfie, another-sweet, grizzlies, last-month, sweet, the-same No Comments »Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny – Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
Now, it seems, her time has finally come.
AraabMuzik: Instrumental University
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
Following on last year’s hypnotic Electronic Dream, this set collects beats made for rappers including Lloyd Banks, Fabolous, Jim Jones, Cam’ron, Vado, and others.
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: collects-beats, dream, fabolous, following-on-last, jones, last-year, lloyd, lloyd-banks, rappers-including No Comments »Blondes: Blondes
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
The Brooklyn outsider house duo’s debut LP collects three previously released 12″‘s, a pair of new songs, and a second disc of remixes by Andy Stott, Teengirl Fantasy, and Laurel Halo, among others.
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: brooklyn, collects-three, laurel, laurel-halo, new-songs, outsider-house, second-disc, stott, teengirl, teengirl-fantasy No Comments »Prinzhorn Dance School: Clay Class
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
Five years after Prinzhorn Dance School’s self-titled debut, the UK post-punk duo of Tobin Prinz and partner Suzi Horn remain defiantly un-evolved.
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: dance, post-punk-duo, prinzhorn, prinzhorn-dance, school, tobin, tobin-prinz No Comments »Pop. 1280: The Horror
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 3rd, 2012
The N.Y. noise-punk quart’s debut LP is an unabashedly grim collection, one that conjures the dystopian futurism of an early David Cronenberg film delivered with merciless brute force.
King Tuff: "Wild Desire"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 2nd, 2012
Suicide Squeeze has announced their 2012 singles series.
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: birthday, cloud-nothings, cover, desire, first-release, side-project, suicide-squeeze, white, will-feature No Comments »The-Drum: "Night Driving"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 2nd, 2012
Chicago duo The-Drum make an alluringly amorphous version of “sci-fi R&B” constructed out of lovingly languid synths and clipped vocal samples.
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: alluringly-amorphous, clipped-vocal, driving, heavy-liquid, liquid, lovingly-languid, night-driving, the-twinkling, twinkling No Comments »The-Drum: "Night Driving"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 2nd, 2012
Chicago duo The-Drum make an alluringly amorphous version of “sci-fi R&B” constructed out of lovingly languid synths and clipped vocal samples. Their new EP, Heavy Liquid , just saw release on Audraglint ; here’s a cut from that, the twinkling and aptly named “Night Driving”.
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: alluringly-amorphous, clipped-vocal, driving, heavy-liquid, liquid, lovingly-languid, night-driving, the-twinkling, twinkling No Comments »Beach Fossils: "Shallow"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 2nd, 2012
“Shallow” is the A-side to the new 7″ from Beach Fossils , which comes out February 21 via Captured Tracks . The song will be backed by another new one, “Lessons”.
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: beach fossils, captured-tracks, comes-out-february, fossils, last-year, pleasure, see-release, spin, their-full-length, tracks, year No Comments »Beach Fossils: "Shallow"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 2nd, 2012
“Shallow” is the A-side to the new 7″ from Beach Fossils , which comes out February 21 via Captured Tracks . The song will be backed by another new one, “Lessons”
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: another-new, beach fossils, captured-tracks, comes-out-february, fossils, last-year, pleasure, see-release, spin, the-new, their-full-length, tracks, year No Comments »CFCF: "Exercise #3 (Building)"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 2nd, 2012
The last time we heard from Montreal-based producer Mike Silver, aka CFCF , it was when he released the piano-heavy The River EP back in 2010. On April 24, Paper Bag will put out a new EP from Silver, Exercises . The eight tracks featured are numbered like this cut as such– and it’s worth pointing out that the opening of “Exercise 3 (Building)” sounds an awful lot like the theme to “The X-Files”
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: awful-lot, eight-tracks, featured, last-time, montreal-based, opening, piano, river, silver, the-opening, will-put, worth-pointing No Comments »Tops: "Turn Your Love Around"
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 2nd, 2012
On February 28, Montreal’s smoky (literally– just look at that picture) distanced pop crew Tops will release a new single, Tender Opposites , via Arbutus .
Posted in Indie, Reviews Tags: ariel-pink, neither-song, opposites, single, song, tender-opposites, the-single, will-release No Comments »
