Photo by Robyn Von Swank . Copyright 2010 VONSWANK. (mp3) Garfunkel And Oates - Pregnant women are smug Available on Music Songs (2009) (mp3) Mason & Fenn - Lie for a lie (feat. David Gilmour) Available on Profiles (1985) (mp3) Foo Fighters - On the mend Available on In Your Honor (2005) (mp3) Volcano Choir - Youlogy Available on Unmap (2009) (mp3) Walker">Scott Walker - Where love has died Available on Stretch (1973)

Filed under: News Michael Buckner, Getty You have to give American politicians some credit as it's been several weeks since anyone's been caught using an artist's music without permission. But according to Punknews that streak came to an end over the weekend when Boston band Dropkick Murphys called out Wisconsin Republican Jeff Fitzgerald for using "Shipping Up to Boston" in a campaign stop. "We just got word that Wisconsin State Rep and Speaker of the State Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald used 'Shipping Up to Boston' as his walk-on song yesterday at the Wisconsin GOP Convention in Green Bay ...

Scott 4 didn't chart, but it showed Walker">Scott Walker at his warmest and most gentle Walker">Scott Walker is the recluse's recluse – a singer and writer who went from teenage heartthrob with incredible hair to tortured soul in the space of four eponymous albums between 1967 to 1969. In the 43 intervening years he has released only four more "proper" solo albums, each more eremitic than the last (plus others of standards and country ballads he would rather expunge from history). This is a man who literally avoids the limelight. When I went to see his avant-garde ...

What: The Sparrow by Lawrence Arabia. When: July 13 through Spunk!. Key notes: Third solo album for New Zealand songwriter James Milne, following Chant Darling , which won the Taite Music Prize (New Zealand’s equivalent of the Australian Music Prize) in 2010. Written mostly “in borrowed lounge rooms and rehearsal spaces” over a summer in London. Recorded live in October 2010 at a large house in Surrey, England, with Elroy Finn and Connan Mockasin. Strings and horn overdubs were added during 2011 in a couple of sessions at Neil Finn’s Roundhead Studios in Auckland. From the presser: “Venturing away ...

A somewhat blokey edition of New Noise, featuring Dave Graney, ex-Snowman member Joe McKee, Brisbane slackers Dune Rats and the folky alter-egos of Gerling’s Darren Cross. – King of pop or king of puns? Dave Graney returns with a new single called ‘Flash in the Pantz’, a “big beat song” about being a man with muscular riffs and a title inspired by a malapropism on the wireless. “I heard a woman caller on sports radio dismiss a player as a “flash in the pantz” and took off from there,” he says. “Like a lot of my songs it starts from ...

"This is my sermon" shouts Ed Schrader, after just over 5 seconds of noisy, almost incomprehensible lyrical shouting top open his Music Beat's debut album. A sermon is exactly correct - what Ed Schrader's Music Beat are spelling out with this often repeated chant is a suitable description of what's to come. With this mission statement heard loud and clear the duo preach to an unsettled flock, and it's the sense of unsettlement that is a constant throughout the album. Through the slower tracks such as 'Gem Asylum' and 'Airshow' the Baltimore duo set out their more ...

Photo by Mark Seliger The annual Meltdown Festival  at the Southbank Centre in London is curated by a different artist every year; past curators have included David Bowie, Morrissey, Walker">Scott Walker, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello, Ray Davies, Massive Attack, and Jarvis Cocker. This year, the honor goes to Antony Hegarty . His festival, which runs from August 1-12, represents a "constellation of artists" he greatly admires.

Daughn Gibson - ‘In The Beginning’ Post-dubstep Gothic-country? Chalk me down. I tried to avoid the hyperbole on this one, what with the references to James Blake, Johnny Cash, Walker">Scott Walker, Nick Cave, Brian Eno,  Arthur Russell, Magnetic Fields, Matthew Dear and The xx, the list goes on. Probably the best analogy is “imagine if    Nicolas Jaar edited together a cocaine-country album,” that one is by Gibson’s Aussie label Mistletone. I’m adding another to the list, the closest in my mind, see one David Thomas Broughton .  To his advantage Gibson comes with a romantic Americana back story, he ...

We've been asked to drop some knowledge on Danish 'underground' acts, so here are some outtakes of what’s happening right now within the borders of tiny little Denmark. Of course we could go on with many more, but there had to be some sort of limit, which leaves out a lot of other truly good groups. Hope you will take your time to listen to some of these extraordinary bands. You can visit Pinkunoizu by heading to pinkunoizu.com Selvhenter Selvhenter is a most unique Danish band playing a delicate sort of primal noise music with loose connotations ...

(mp3) Walker">Scott Walker - Cowboy Available on Any Day Now (1973) (mp3) Björk - Isobel (Deodato remix) Available on Telegram (1996) (mp3) Hypatia Lake - Prophecy I Available on Ouroboros (2011) (mp3) Cream - Deserted cities of the heart Available on Wheels of Fire (1968) (mp3) Little Dragon - When I go out Available on Ritual Union (2011)

by BBG Pinkish Black art Fort Worth crew Pinkish Black cite names like Suicide, Magma and Walker">Scott Walker as influences on their new self-titled effort which is due via Handmade Birds on May 15th. While there are definitely elements of...

There are so many facets to Walker">Scott Walker’s public persona that it’s difficult to mention his music without delving into a lengthy aside. It’s not just that his career has spanned more than four decades, or that he’s had success both within a group and solo, it’s that his work truly spans the creative spectrum [...]

This week sees the release of Crybaby’s self-titled debut album, and it’s one of those records that is being talked about in all the right places. The London music scene cognoscenti, and trusted tastemakers are already referencing Crybaby, (real name Danny Coughlan) and he’s being compared to Walker">Scott Walker, Richard Hawley, and Roy Orbison. The [...]

If conforming to regional stereotypes, you would expect this West Yorkshire-based group to be down-to-earth and laconic plain speakers with no fancy trappings. But from their name (pure Edwardian flamboyance) to their size (eight members) to the music (sweeping orchestral pop), Arthur Rigby And The Baskervylles are more about opulence and feel-the-width quality. Comparisons would include 90s orchestral troupe Jack or early Divine Comedy before Neil Hanlon got too arch for his own good. But these five songs about abbeys, bluebells, mills, hay bales and church-yards also come across as romantic tales of Bronte country as sung by Walker">Scott ...