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VIDEO: M83 - "Midnight City"

 

The new M83 album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming gets released this week on Mute Records, and the video for "Midnight City" has just been released. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming features appearances from Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Nine Inch Nails), Zola Jesus and Brad Laner (Medicine) as well as Morgan Kibby. The M83 tour starts on Oct. 28 in Washington DC, check out the M83 tour dates to find out where you can check out a show.

"It's a double album. It's mainly about dreams, how every one is different, how you dream differently when you're a kid, a teenager, or an adult," said M83 guy Anthony Gonzales when speaking to SPIN.

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Watch Sole - "I Think I'm Ben Bernanke"

 

In an answer to his song and video for "I Think I'm Noam Chomsky" Sole from Sole and the Skyrider band, our man Tim "Sole" Holland has created a new video titled "I Think I'm Ben Bernanke" complete with all of the relevant issues of the #Occupy Wall Street movement. Check out the cut away in the middle of the video that shows C-Span coverage of Ben Bernanke testifying before congress in which a Senator Bernie Sanders challenges Mr. Bernanke by asking "Did Wall Street greed and recklessness cause this recession? Looking him up and down, Bernanke agrees and says flatly "... and so did some failures on the part of regulators." READ: Congress. The finger pointing continues.

Like his contemporaries Aesop Rock and El-P, Sole has built his small, albeit dedicated, fan base creating dense and politically enraging rap music, going so far as stating his disgust with modern capitalism and imposing himself into an exile from the modern world.

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Listen to Dirty Projectors + Bjork - On and Ever Onward

 

Bjork and Dirty Projectors collaborative EP Mount Wittenberg Orca was released last year in a download-only format, and next week sees through an actual physical EP in limited edition vinyl and CD formats. It's a great combination of the vocal styles of both Bjork and Dirty Projectors, with harmonies as a focus. Check out the song "On and Ever Onward" as an example. Mount Wittenberg Orca was written by David Longstreth and performed by Björk and Dirty Projectors, as a result of a conversation between David and Björk about small theaters in Italy in the 1500's that gave rise to opera.

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Listen to Parts & Labor - “No Nostalgia”

After ten years of great music, Parts and Labor will start a tour this week that will be their last. The band has decided to move on and will play a series of shows as a career-spanning retrospective. In addition to that, they've also offered up the aptly titled song "No Nostalgia" as a free MP3 download. Check out the announcement from the band below:

MP3: Parts & Labor - “No Nostalgia”

Dear friends,
This January, Parts & Labor turns 10 years old. We’re planning a string of celebratory shows, in which we play selected material from all of our full length albums, leading up to a big 10th anniversary blow out on February 24th, 2012.

Following these performances, we’re going to take an extended hiatus. We feel incredibly fortunate having had a decade of amazing experiences — making records and new friends, performing with so many killer musicians and artists. But it’s time for each of us to focus
on personal projects for a while. We’re all going to continue to make music through other endeavors.

We’d like to thank everyone who’s supported us, bought our albums, seen us live, offered us a floor to sleep on. We love y’all. As a token of our esteem, we’re giving away a final song called “No Nostalgia (featuring Todd Bailey and Where’s The Party At)”, which was recorded during the Receivers sessions, but suddenly seems all too prescient.

Love,
Dan/BJ/Joe (Parts & Labor)

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Watch Spiritualized Play New Music in London

 

Spiritualized have started playing live shows again, and this week sees the band performing in London, Edinburgh and Leamington Spa. The best part is that there has been a NEW SPIRITUALIZED SONG being performed. Excited? We all should be ... after the Jason Pierce health scare earlier this year and the long time span between new Spiritualized music, anything new sounds exciting. Songs in A&E was the last proper Spiritualized album way back in 2008.

It appears that new Spiritualized song is untitled at this point, or at least the name isn't publicly known. Also in included here is the song "I Am What I Am," and the new song appears to be from the Royal Albert Hall gig, and "I am What I Am" is from The Queen's Hall show. Spiritualized were going to cover the band's entire history at the Royal Albert Hall gig (not every song, but from beginning to now), which probably included material from the new album. The new Spiritualized album is supposed to arrive in the Spring via Fat Possum Records. There's also a few Spiritualized tour dates scheduled in 2012.

Videos via 130 BPM and NJ Underground.

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