mewithoutYou were recently interviewed about their new album and discussed how the material in it seems more secular than the band’s last few releases. You can read the full interview here  or a snippet below by clicking “Read More.” This album seems, at least on first listen without a lyric sheet, decidedly more secular than the rest. Since it’s been a huge presence in the lyrics in the past, what effect, if any, did Faith play in writing this record? That’s a great question. I guess I started to feel my hypocrisy to an unbearable extent, singing ...

Perennial Walrus favourite Gabriel Bruce [Facebook] is back with a double EP (yes, that is a thing that exists), entitled Dark Lights Shine Loud / A Brief and Selfish Lover, and the entire thing is available to listen to via SoundCloud below. It’s an impressive step up from his earlier material, taking what’s gone before [...] Gabriel Bruce – Dark Lights Shine Loud was originally published on The Blue Walrus

'The Dictator' (UK Release: 16 May '12) // Words: Saam Das Sasha Baron Cohen rose to fame with his man(dem) of the people interviewer Ali G, following up with the increasingly controversial Borat and Bruno, each of which spawned their own feature films. Cohen has returned with a new character, the charmless leader of a fictional North African state, Admiral General Aladeen, in 'The Dictator' - a comedy filled with crass humour, occasionally poignant political satire and dubious romantic subplot. For his latest feature film outing, Baron Cohen has once again teamed up with 'Borat' and 'Bruno' director Larry Charles . While ...

Gabriel Bruce brengt 22 juli een EP met de titel ‘Dark Lights, Shine Loud/A Brief And Selfish Lover’ uit. De productie van de nieuwe nummers klinkt weer lekker ongepolijst, maar het is uiteindelijk Bruce’s  stem die het meeste indruk maakt. Beluister de EP hieronder of bekijk hierboven de videoclip van titeltrack ‘Dark Lights, Shine Loud’. [...]

Lingering a smidgen of oblique street beyond the odious ostentation of Regent Street lies Liberty. Probably the finest shop of this fair city yet one that is somewhat inexplicably, somehow, in some way humble it therefore serves as a quite apposite location at which to first encounter Sharon Van Etten . For like Liberty, she is the lusciously remarkable gem lodged barely beneath the bloodthirsty claw of the mainstream – or indeed right beneath the nose of the maddening crowds beyond these practically antiquated, single-glazed shutters. "I never wanna shop but then when I go out, it's like 'danger zone'", she ...

It’s an older, more mature Bethany Cosentino who greets Clash over the telephone line. Putting the stoner-girl routine to bed, the follow-up to 2010’s meteoric ally successful ‘Crazy for You’ sees her ditch the Twitter over-share and instead pour that emotion directly into her lyric book. Influenced by her beloved California and the pressures of the road, ‘The Only Place’ takes an unflinching, unapologetic look at what’s going on. The trademark fuzz is gone, replaced with a clearer sound – courtesy of maverick producer Jon Brion, famed for his work with Kanye West and Beck. No topic is ...

Lisa Loeb's tale of callow self-absorption has weathered rather better than such contemporaries as Whigfield Like a young Lamacq or Peel, I stumbled across Stay (I Missed You) in the mid-90s on an underground mixtape called Now 29. I'd bought the compilation on the strength of similar one-hit "wonders" Pato Banton and Whigfield , whose songs I now regard with a turbulent mix of revulsion and nostalgia, the way exiled dictators must remember their war crimes. I think time has been kinder to Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories, and their offering sits somewhere between an obviously embarrassing song loved in youth, and actually quite good. Some lazy Wikipedia research reveals the song placed 93rd on VHS 1's 100 Greatest Songs of the Nineties (only one spot below Public Enemy's 911 Is a Joke). The title, with its parenthetical over-explanation, signposts the wordy earnestness ahead. Loeb's guitar picks out a simple arpeggio as she admonishes: "You say I only hear what I want to," warning us that this may be the most self-involved song ever written. Almost every line contains a clutch of first person singulars: "I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up, and this woman was singing my song." Such callow self-absorption chimed perfectly with me when I was an adolescent and, to be honest, now. A complicated lyric recounts the criticisms of an ex, scattered with vague angsty staples about not belonging, and someone dying since the day they were born. Interestingly, while parsing the individual lines isn't always particularly edifying, the song has a clearer emotional meaning located in its form and non-lyrical content. The song is structured around a central passage of sonic catharsis. After the tentative opening, the pace and density of Loeb's roiling litany of self-recrimination increases; the personal pronouns pile up; the accents of the bass and backing voices grow ...

4 free downloads this week! This playlist sure made me hopeful for some great camping trips this summer. It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a long hard look at a clear starry night. I find that each time I make a trip to the mountains I’m overwhelmed by the clarity of the night sky. It’s a great reminder to get out of the city every so often. Cover photo via Zach Dischner . Follow SNC: YouTube | Spotify | SoundCloud Photo via rxb . Photo via Zach Dischner . > 1. Original post: Sunday Night Chill: Foals, Great Skies, ASC ...

Check out a video of Aficionado performing a new song titled, "Selfish Season" for AltarTV by clicking read more.

*Verse (http://absolutepunk.net/versehxc) *will release Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace on July 17th (http://absolutepunk.net/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e;=47842&day;=2012-7-17) via Bridge Nine Records. _Track Listing_ 1) The Selfish of the Earth 2) The Selfless of the Earth 3) The Silver Spoon and the...

Verse will be releasing  Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace  on July 17 via Bridge 9 Records. Check out the track listing and artwork for the release below by clicking “Read More.”[[MORE]] 1) The Selfish of the Earth 2) The Selfless of the Earth 3) The Silver Spoon and the Empty Plate 4) Setting Fire to the Bridges We Cross 5) Segue One 6) You and I Are the Fortunate Ones 7) The End of All Light 8) The Relevance of Our Disconnect 9) Segue Two 10) Oceanic Tendencies 11) Finding A Way Out When There Is No Way 12) Segue ...

Verse have announced they will release their new album, "Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace" on July 17th through Bridge Nine Records. Track listing: 1) The Selfish of the Earth 2) The Selfless of the Earth 3) The Silver Spoon and the Empty Plate 4) Setting Fire to the Bridges We Cross 5) Segue One 6) You and I Are the Fortunate Ones 7) The End of All Light 8) The Relevance of Our Disconnect 9) Segue Two 10) Oceanic Tendencies 11) Finding A Way Out When There Is No Way 12) Segue Three 13) The End of All Life

Professor Green attracted quite the cross-section of people on the last night of his ‘At Your Inconvenience Tour’. The O2 Academy, Brixton, was packed with tracksuit-clad teenage boys; perfectly primped girls in their early twenties in addition to an older generation of audience members, all keen for the Hackney-bred boy to appear. Following an audience sing-along of ‘Ray Charles’ led by Chiddy Bang during his opening set, we were treated to some party tracks from DJ IQ and Felix Billionaire who filled their ten-minute warm-up with guaranteed crowd pleasers like DMX’s ‘Lose My Mind’, Jay-Z & Kanye West’s ‘Ni ...

Never underestimate a son’s desire to win approval from his father. Game of Thrones plays like a treatise on selfish ambition, whether conniving (Lord Baelish) or forthright (King Joffrey). It stems from a belief in divine right (Daenerys, Stannis) or simple opportunism (the Lannisters, Xaro). Most of the characters vying for power will do anything to further their own gains. But we usually only see the finished project.

Anybody still alive after the rain? Excited about Roy Hodgson? Apologies for a football orientated intro, but today is a fairly glorious day, plus, Live At Leeds is this weekend, and I am very excited to catch Single of the Week alumni such as Being There, Spector and Peace, along with the perks of a press bar. How selfish. Brilliant. To match the vague sunshine I can glimpse through the industrial haze of the Leeds sky we have a few blinding singles today, in a fairly quiet week for releases. Have a listen, then let me know what you think ...