Surfer Blood

Just saw Japandroids at the Echo which was a pretty good show but more notably Surfer Blood opened and they killed it.

Surfer Blood.zip

the album is filled with catchy jams but swim takes the cake

Best Coast-When I'm With You

Phresh best coast.

Every part of this Best Coast track sounds perfectly effortless: the slow open, the major/minor chord changes, the harmonies that blow in for the refrain, the bridge("I hate sleeping alone.") This is what I wish Weezer records still sounded like, obvious gender issues aside...

Titus Andronicus

posted a new video on their blog... civil war theme

allusion to new album perhaps?

The National

The National – “Blood Buzz Ohio” (Live In Boston)

The National – “The Runaway” (Live In Boston)

The National – “The Runaway” (Live on Q TV)

Flaming Lips on KCRW Cover Pink Floyd

During a set on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, The Flaming Lips decided to break out a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse” off of The Dark Side of the Moon. The band is planning to release a full cover of the 1973 album in collaboration with the band Stardeath and White Dwarfs. Henry Rollins and Peaches will also make appearances. Gettin hyped

Beck covers Velvet Underground

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "Femme Fatale" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

I guess he is going to have an entire album of these... definitely delivers here with Femme Fatale

nice, like it

New Thom Yorke

live but totally worth a listen

MP3 Thom Yorke – “The Present Tense” (Live)

Fever Ray

Images were taken from comics novel "Black Hole" by Charles Burns. "Memory comes when memory's old I am never the first to know"

down

gentle friendly's lovers rock

pretty down with this song. saw it on www.nopaininpop.com

Beck, Wilco, Feist cover Skip Spence's "Little Hands"

Record Club: Skip Spence "Little Hands" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

And the line-ups get more all-starier! For the next installment of his record club, Beck corralled Wilco, Feist and Jamie Lidell to do a cover of Skip Spence’s album OAR. This might be the most solid-sounding recording to come out of the record club recordings.

White Rabbits + Britt Daniel do "Instant Kharma"

Here’s a video of White Rabbits and Britt Daniel of Spoon covering John Lennon’s “Instant Karma.”

Good little setup for the upcoming lennon movie... loks pretty rad