You Blew It! will be heading out on a lengthy summer tour this June and July. Souvenirs will be joining the band on select dates. Check out the routing below by clicking “Read More!” 6/23 @ Atlanta GA @ Under the Couch 6/24 @ Greenville SC @ Earshot Records 6/25/2012 Greensville, NC, @ Pool house 6/26/12 - Christensburg, VA @ Lucie Monroe Specialty Coffee 6/27/2012 Richmond, VA @ House Address 6/28/2012 Philadelphia, PA @ TWOB HOUSE 6/29/2012 Brooklyn, NY @ Suburbia 6/30/2012 Robbinsville NJ @ 7 donna st r 7/1/2012 New Haven CT @ Taco Hut ...

Mount Eerie Clear Moon [P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. ; 2012] by Ed Comentale Rating: “The music-lover experiences, in listening to a concert, a joy of a different order from the joy given by natural sounds, such as the murmur of the brook, the uproar of a torrent, the whistling of the wind in a forest, or the harmonies of human speech based on reason rather than on aesthetics.” –Guillaume Apollinaire, 1913 “I meant all my songs/ Not as a picture of the woods/ But just to remind myself/ That I briefly live.” –Mount Eerie, 2012 It’s not easy to write about ...

Our friends at AbsolutePunk posted a great Thursday discussion yesterday on albums that met or exceeded the lofty expectations we as fans had for them. We wanted to get in on some of the action today, so I wrote up some albums that met or exceeded my expectations and I’m hoping you’ll let us know what albums fit that criteria for you. Check out the list below and feel free to reblog this post or comment in the AP.net thread ! blink-182 - Neighborhoods But, it sounds like Angels & Airwaves. blink-182 is my favorite band. There’s no question ...

by Alexander Slotnick • May 2012 This month, director Grant Gee’s new documentary Patience (After Sebald) has its limited US release. The film is a hypnotic meditation on the writer W.G. Sebald and his book The Rings of Saturn. As many Tiny Mix Tape gourmands already know, English experimental musician The Caretaker was responsible for the film’s soundtrack , which shares the film’s title and was independently released at the beginning of the year. Beyond providing a hypnotic 82-minute plunge, the film and its score are noteworthy for precipitating general consideration of how today’s music interacts with ...

Virna Lindt The Windmills Of Your Mind Virna Lindt The Dossier on Virna Lindt Virna Lindt Attention Stockholm The Woodentops Get It On Before Portishead and other vitamin-D deficient Anglophone producers set to a wholesale plundering of the work of film composers  John Barry and Bernard Hermann , in turn giving the world the unwelcome gift of Trip Hop and the adjective "cinematic" as a critical term denoting the addition of vinyl pop & hiss sounds and postmodern ennui - the equivalent of a sepia filter (or hey, Instagram!) - a relatively gorgeous Swede translator by the name of Virna Lindt  infused the icy cold archness & languid irony of Cristina and Amanda Lear (ex-models' musical output, a genre unto itself) with human warmth and her own appreciation of the big-room orchestral pop of soundtracks gone by. The three songs here don't accurately represent the range of Ms. Lindt's output - the lumbering cover of Michel Lagrand's The Windmills of Your Mind , the absurd dead-eyed naivete of  The Dossier on Virna Lindt , and  finally, her Tot Taylor-produced debut single, Attention Stockholm -  virtually a template for 3/4 the output of  Belle and Sebastien ...  Great songs, yes, but there are other songs, more adventurous, sort of like Sparks and Yello Magic Orchestra, especially on 1985 Play/Record, which was, predictably, a hit in Japan. Had Lindt's influence been felt more deeply, Trip Hop might have a more noble pedigree and not reached its nauseating limit in the studied melancholy of Mono's 1996 sap-fest Life in Mono   The song, a barely concealed rewrite of The Windmills of Your Mind , was a prominent part of (the not-unloveable overwrought) fever dream melodrama of Alfonso Cuarón 's film adaptation of Great Expectations .  Or not...  Who knows if we would have been spared the existence of Black Box Recorder - an ignoble and wholly reprehensible musical clusterfuck that has forever tarred the name of Jesus & Mary Chain 's John Moore .  (The wholly calculated effort to get famous and to get into Sarah Nixey 's pants succeeded on one count, at least.) But Trip Hop will continue to live on forever, along with drum & bass, in the scores of police procedurals on American network television, and in the dusty CD-piles buried in the back of a closet by Unmarried Women of a Certain Age. Note: When I think of Dickens style of writing, I think of the Book of Mormon, a tedious a Holy Book as I've ever read...  An entire post-Christian mythology written by a group of autistic people sitting around a table playing Exquisite Corpse - and so it came to pass, and so it came to pass, and so it came to pass... I've spent countless hours, if not days, searching through the Trouser Press , dollar bins and the back-alleys of Discogs.com , and it's very rare that I come across a chart-topping song or artist in the new wave/post-new wave pop genre that I've got no familiarity with.  (Even rarer that I actually enjoy the song).  In this case, I came across the Woodentops in Oliver Assayas ' 1986 film Disorder - a film that presents with weightier issues than those that make up a subgenre of post-punk trainspotting films- the Clash's  Rude Boy , Penelope Spheeris ' Decline of Western Civilization and Suburbia .  As anthropological curios & points of reference for context-hungry teens they serve their purpose -  as an illuminating or even halfway interesting piece of art, not as much.  Assayas' meditation on the corrosive of guilt and murder without consequence , each in their own way, are Cliff-notes Dostoevsky for their respective class/subculture. This song shares the same manic urgency of  The Feelies  or  Human Switchboard , but has more adventurous production and instrumentation.  The obvious touchstone for Rolo McGinty's brashly confident voice is Echo & The Bunnymen 's Will Sergeant. Alright, it's back to R&B; for a little while, so I don't end up investigating bands that shared bills with the Housemartins .

by Paul Bower • May 2012 Tristan Patterson’s Dragonslayer was one of the most invigorating cinematic experiences of 2k11. Focusing on a burnt-out skate-punk in Southern California, Patterson’s debut documentary piqued our interest and flirted with larger issues while remaining completely grounded in the reality of the lives it depicted. Borrowing some of its distinctive tonality from several key, genre-defining youth-in-revolt films from the late 1970s and early 1980s, the film doesn’t feel specifically modern, even though its underlying subject matter — the economic collapse of recent memory and its effect on young adults — most decidedly is so. We ...

Horror My Friend - ‘Leave Me Alone’ (mp3) The Sunshine State may have earnt its fair share of cultural schtick in the international music press as the place for scuzz and house parties courtesy of DZ and Bleeding Knees Club, but don’t count on these guys from Adelaide to keep suburbia quiet for too long. This track [...]

Ahead of her performance headlining the DiS stage at Camden Crawl, we finally caught up with FOE to have a chat about Radiohead, Reuben, sordid sex in suburbia, making a video for twenty pounds, being a new artist on a major label in 2012 and what happens when your label suddenly no longer exists... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com

Ahead of her performance headlining the DiS stage at Camden Crawl, we finally caught up with FOE to have a chat about Radiohead, Reuben, sordid sex in suburbia, making a video for twenty pounds, being a new artist on a major label in 2012 and what happens when your label suddenly no longer exists... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com

*The Wonder Years* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/thewonderyears) entire Suburbia... album was played in the UK, check out the video in the replies.

The Wonder Years performed the entirety of their 2011 Hopeless Records album Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing while performing at The Peel, in Kingston Upon Thames in the UK.

The Wonder Years performed  Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing in full at The Peel in Kingston during their European tour just a few days ago. Watch the entire set below by clicking “Read More.”[[MORE]]

The Wonder Years' recent "Suburbia, I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing" album show in Kingston, UK can be viewed in its entirety by clicking read more.

Following the death of Levon Helm, drummer and sometime lead vocalist with the Band, read an interview with the group by Al Aronowitz, first published in Rolling Stone magazine in August 1968, and made available now courtesy of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism Big Pink is of those middle-class ranch houses of the type that you would expect to find in a development row in the heart of suburbia rather than on an isolated mountaintop high above the barn architecture of New York State's rustic Woodstock. When The Band moved into Big ...

Aww, I'm knackered tonight. Can't we just have some shoegazey psychedelia? The Darkside were like a run-off band from Spacemen 3, formed by a couple of former members. Here's a live version of Guitar Voodoo from their 1991 album Psychedelicise Suburbia . It's a really basic bit of instrumental rock'n'roll, but it's swathed (obligatory verb) with more guitar fx than I care to think about. A great sound. The Darkside - Guitar Voodoo (alternate download)