Music Releases
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Heath Ledger directed video: Modest Mouse – King Rat
The video for Modest Mouse’s ‘King Rat’ track was premiered yesterday on Myspace. It’s partly directed by late actor Heath Ledger and was finished off by his film company The Masses following his death. Heath conceived the idea and wanted to use it to raise awareness of illegal whale hunting off the coast of his native Australia. All proceeds from video downloads via US iTunes during the first month of sale will go to anti-whaling charity Sea Shepherd. // more
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Just For Kicks: Passion Pit, Miles B.A.R & Grizzly Bear
Tracks for the weekend made up of songs from three of my favourite new albums including one from the Grizzly Bear record out this week. Also check out their Black Cab Session above, an alternate version of album track ‘All We Ask’. // more
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On Repeat: Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Buriedfed
‘Buriedfed’ is taken from this 25 year old’s debut album out now on Transgressive records. The man of many names, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson hails from Brooklyn and although his album does feature cameos from some key players in the Brooklyn scene (namely Chris Taylor Of Grizzly Bear andKyp Malone of TV On The Radio), he has very much his own voice. // more
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On Repeat: Suckers – Get Your Body Moving
Founding members of Suckers, multi-instrumentalists and cousins Quinn Walker and Austin Fisher grew up together in a small fishing village in Conneticut but eventually relocated to New York where they recruited a friend Pan (another multi-instrumentalist) and drummer/keyboardist Brian Aitken. The four-piece are now very much immersed in the Brooklyn scene and in 2008 they released debut double album ‘Laughter’s An Asshole/Lion Land’ on CocoRosie’s label Voodoo-Eros.
For Fans Of: Animal Collective (Campfire Songs era), Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket (earlier releases). // more
