Monthly Archives: April 2012

2012, miscellaneous, news

Carrie Brownstein on WTF Podcast with Marc Maron

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Carrie Brownstein
Carrie Brownstein

Carrie Brownstein of Wild Flag is featured on this week’s WTF Podcast with Marc Maron. If you aren’t a fan of the podcast now would be a perfect time to start checking it out. Marc presents 2 episodes a week of conversations with comedians, actors, writers that are sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes revelatory and always entertaining.

On this episode (No. 267) Carrie and Marc discuss Carrie’s years with Sleater-Kinney, awkward meetings with Peter Buck of R.E.M., meeting Fred Armisen and creating Portlandia, guitars, pets and a whole bunch of other things. Check it out.

Also, as an incentive to listen, Marc gives his listeners a 20% discount on the Merge Records website. That discount covers everything on the site from vinyl, CD’s and merch to digital downloads, so take a listen and find out how to get that discount.

Check out the WTF Podcast with Carrie Brownstein  here

Download from iTunes. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast, it’s regularly great.

Wild Flag is currently finishing up their tour. There are still some shows coming up on the West Coast, and Mexico, through May. Check them out if you can.

Marc Maron and the WTF Podcast: Web | Twitter | Facebook | iTunes

Carrie Brownstein: Twitter | Wild Flag | Wild Flag Facebook Page | Wild Flag Twitter

2012, music, songs

New track: Dirty Projectors – "Gun Has No Trigger"

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Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything new from Dirty Projectors. Dave Longstreth and company gave us Bitte Orca in 2009, and toured extensively on its success. After a deafening silence on their part a new song has appeared on their site, and on their label’s soundcloud.

“Gun Has No Trigger” focuses all of its energy on a funky bass and drum reduction in combination with the beautiful, ethereal backing vocals of Amber Coffman and Angel Deradoorian. The entire track is a slow build that grows through the choruses without the aid of Longstreth’s quirky, characteristic guitar playing. I would suggest listening to this track on headphones or a good system with the bass turned up. It picks up exactly where Bitte Orca closing track “Fluorescent Half Dome” left off.

The album is apparently, hopefully, going to be coming out this coming Spring, i.e. soon. Keep an eye out for it. If it is anything like Bitte Orca, or like this track suggests it is going to make your summer. Dirty Projectors also have started booking some dates in support of the album this summer, which includes their 2nd visit to the Pitchfork Music Festival. Check out the track below.


Dirty Projectors: Web | Domino Records site | Facebook | Myspace

2012, albums, miscellaneous, music, news, songs

Download: Titus Andronicus Mixtape Vol. 1

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Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus has released a mixtape through their tumblr presence that not only includes properly recorded versions of two new tracks, but also a whole host of collectible material from their early days prior to the recording of their first album, outtakes from their 2010 masterpiece The Monitor, acoustic demos and even some Weezer (?!) covers. It’s travelling around the internet already, so grab it while it’s hot and pump yourself up for more new material from Titus Andronicus, but I would warn you against following Patrick Stickles on twitter as that dude stays up late and can be really annoying, but then again he also announces stuff like this via twitter so….consider yourself warned.

By the way, following the download link to their tumblr page will also provide you with several new live video clips. Be sure to check those out as well.

Download the mixtape.

Titus Andronicus:  Twitter | Tumblr | web

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