Borrowing a little bit of the swagger of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are Funk Police: ' Funk Police steals black rhythms from an hypothetical rainforest and hurl them into their concrete jungle. Throbbing bass, sharp upbeat guitars and schizoid vocals over the haunting tribal drums' Can't beat a good bit of hyperbole can you? Their new long player is out now on Avant! Records , grab it over at Bandcamp . Funk Police- Back Inside You (Download)

Goldrush will be putting out a new release via Drexel University’s MAD Dragon Records and Motion City Soundtrack’s Boombox Generation label. Check out a blog from Motion City discussing the release below by clicking “Read More.” The third band in the  Making Moves  series is Richmond, VA’s  Goldrush . Goldrush came together when Prabir Mehta, who was in a local Richmond band called Prabir and The Substitutes, met Treesa Gold and Matt Gold, classical instrumentalists who often play with the Richmond Symphony. The Substitutes were going to record some new tracks with Treesa and Matt, but then broke ...

Last week, we reported that Jim O’Rourke will not only be curating ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror festival in Japan, but that he’ll also be performing in it. Hold onto your hats, stop the presses and all that jazz, because according to FACT , O’Rourke will be joined by a 12-piece band to play his 1999 album Eureka on the second day of the festival. TMT loves O’Rourke and this album with such passion that we named our whole favorite new albums section after it. Other confirmed additions to the lineup include The Jon Spencer ...

It’s official: you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better festival lineup ANYWHERE than the one Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel, duh) has dreamed up for the ATP Festival spot he’ll curate this March in the UK. ATP had previously announced Mangum’s initial choices, which included such heavies as The Fall, Young Marble Giants, The Magic Band, The Magnetic Fields, Low, Thurston Moore, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Joanna Newsom, Mike Watt and George Hurley, Sebadoh, and A Hawk and A Hacksaw. Not a stinker in the bunch, but like a good soup, wouldn’t hurt to add ...

With a name like Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, who could go wrong? But thankfully for all of us, these New Yorkers deserve the name. After all, they’ve been blowing our minds for over 20 years. With a ten LPs, a large collection of EPs and B-sides compilations and countless singles, Spencer and his band of Read more...

Tracks: No Reservations Tell me That You Love Me My War Get Your Pants On Black Thoughts Not Clear Still Chicken Dog Strange Baby / Happy Birthday Elvis

All Tomorrow’s Parties : Curated by Jeff Mangum: Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) – The Magnetic Fields – Joanna Newsom – Boredoms – Sebadoh – Low – Versus – Scratch Acid – Yann Tiersen – The Fall – Thurston Moore – Mike Watt & George Hurley perform the songs of the Minutemen – Young Marble Giants – Robyn Hitchcock performing I Often Dream Of Trains – The Magic Band – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Mount Eerie – American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) performing Gavin Bryars’ Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet – Roscoe Mitchell (Art Ensemble Of Chicago) – Matana Roberts – Group Doueh – The Raincoats performing The Raincoats – The Olivia Tremor Control – The Apples In Stereo – Half Japanese ...

Singer and multi-instumentalist Andrew Collberg was born in Sweden, grew up in New Zealand, and is now based in Tucson, AZ, He is currently working on his third LP. Two of the tracks of that album have been picked by vinyl label Fort Lowell Records for their 7 inch single series. Rocker Dirty Wind is propelled forward by a lead guitar channeling the sound of Crazy Horse. Back on the Shore is slower before ending with barely controlled feedback in the coda. Collberg is singing close to the mike, like he is standing right next to you. Engineered by Jim ...

Había pasado un tiempecillo desde la última vez que el programa adoptó el formato de El Desván , a saber, emisión de canciones que nos hacen tilín y que por uno u otro motivo (y a veces sin él) recuperamos para La Isla. En este caso, la excusa era la reedición a lo largo del 2011 de algunos discos esenciales de las últimas décadas del siglo pasado y que no habíamos podido incluir en ningún programa anterior. Para nosotros es una delicia disfrutar de nuevo de esos temas, todo un regalo de Reyes. LA ISLA DE ENCANTA 374 Miércoles 4 de ...

wer es auch immer mitbekommen, der wird davon profitiert haben. so viel ist klar. in fort lowell records kann man freunde fürs leben finden. denn wer solcherart musik an den mann bringt, der kann auch ein herz für uns musiknerds haben. die wir so ein bißchen (mehr) bekloppt sind, die wir uns für jeden akkord begeistern können, der etwas in uns in bewegung setzt. mit andrew collberg haben die mannen um james und sein kleines label aus tucson mal wieder was ganzes feines zu bieten. der junge schwede, der via neuseeland in arizona landete, plant sein neues album und hat ...

[photo from Yo La Tengo Twitter] In one of the most unlikely reunions in recent memory, Pussy Galore opened the 4th night of Hanukkah at Maxwell’s. This was the classic lineup, with Julie Cafritz joining Jon Spencer out front on guitar and vocals, and with Kurt Wolf on guitar. Indeed, even Bob Bert’s classic gas-tank [...]

After Justin Bieber claimed that abortion was "killing a baby" and that if you've been raped "everything happens for a reason", Rolling Stone tried to help dig him out his hole . In other words that might come back to haunt him, Bieber insisted he'd never have sex without love . Worrying signs that Lady GaGa has started to believe her own press , while Jon Spencer Blues Explosion became the unlikely highlight of the Superbowl and Wyclef Jean was being hailed hero of the Arab Spring . It can't be proved that the theft of South African cables was designed ...

(mp3) The Pentangle - Turn your money green Available on Sweet Child (1968) (mp3) Cutting Crew - I just died in your arms Available on Broadcast (1986) (mp3) Procol Harum - Something following me Available on S/t (1967) (mp3) Kate Rusby - Young James Available on Underneath the Stars (2003) (mp3) Jon Spencer and the Elegant Trio - Here come the fuzz Available on V/A - Hot Fuzz Original Soundtrack (2007)

"The world is a fucking unstable place," Tunde Adebimpe grumbled into his microphone Friday night in Brooklyn. It wasn't a random complaint: TV on the Radio's frontman was onstage with side project Stabbing Eastward at a benefit for local DJ Jonathan Toubin, a well-known New York personality who was the victim of a freak accident in Oregon on December 8. Jon Spencer led the crowd in a "Jon-a-than" chant near the end of Trash">Heavy Trash's swaggering punkabilly set as concertgoers picked up I Heart JT T-shirts to help pay for Toubin's mounting medical bills. And ...

Pitchfork : New York DJ Jonathan Toubin, the man behind the New York Night Train parties, is still in the hospital in critical condition after a freak accident in Portland last week, in which a taxi cab crashed into his hotel room. Many in the NYC scene are rallying in support of Toubin, organizing benefit shows and fundraisers. Yeah Yeah Yeahs will headline a benefit show at Brooklyn Bowl this Friday, The Village Voice reports. TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe’s project Stabbing Eastward and Jon Spencer’s Trash">Heavy Trash will also perform, and Bear in Heaven, Gibby ...