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If you’ve never been blessed enough to see Of Montreal live, you finally have the chance thanks to NPR. The folks at NPR will be streaming an entire Of Montreal show taking place in Washington D.C. this evening. Show stream time is set for 10 pm E.T. (that’s 9pm Texas time). The Georgia band usually puts on quite the live set, so be sure to tune in. Read more about the stream over on the NPR website.
The Walkmen will be showing up at The Parish on Friday night and we suggest you make it out. Tickets for the show are only $15 and can be bought from the Front Gate Tickets website. Also, check out the band’s recent single “Red Moon” elsewhere on our nice website.
About a month ago we gave you the new Matt & Kim track “Good ol Fashion Nightmare” and now we give you more. This new track is called “Daylight” and is oddly released by the new Mountain Dew/Pepsi label Green Label Sound. Who knew Mountain Dew was puttin’ out tunes. Regardless of their label choice, Matt & Kim continue to make some pretty solid pop jams.
Download: Matt and Kim – Daylight [MP3]
Amy Millan is a quite the busy lady. She sings for major Canadian bands Stars & Broken Social Scene, tours with both acts, and somehow found the time to put out a solo record. The Canadian songstress, currently on tour with Stars, answered a few questions for us before her band’s performance at last weekends ACL festival. Amy and I discuss why she won’t be doing a BSS Presents album, how Stars can win a Juno award and why MP3s are just as good as vinyl. Read about these topics and many more after the jump.
This could be the best week at Spinner’s CD listening party I’ve ever seen. The week in music is pretty crazy as far as releases go and Spinner is streaming a whole mess of them. New albums available include the new Glasvegas, Of Montreal, Deerhoof and too many others to list here. Listen to ’em all now!
Austin Town Hall caught up with guitar players Carol Parra and Ana Rezende of CSS after their bands killer set Saturday at ACL Festival. We discuss their favorite American foods, why Brazil is struggling in the soccer world and what the iPod commercial meant to them. Check out the entire interview with CSS after the jump. Read more
One of the great pop/rock bands to make it out of the 90s, The Presidents of the United States of America, will be making an appearance at Stubbs Wednesday evening. Lucky for you, local Austin act The Black and White Years will be opening for the veteran band. Doors for the event are set to open at 7 with The Black and White Years starting around 8. Get them tickets now! We also finally have a reason to post “Peaches” on our site. YES!
Download: The Presidents of the United States of America – Peaches [MP3]
We read about this new SoCal band, The Japanese Motors, a few places online and thought they were worthy of mentioning. The song we have for your listening pleasure is entitled “Spendin’ Days” and appears on the bands self-titled effort due out 10/7. It’s quite the catchy little diddy.
Download: Japanese Motore – Spendin’ Days [MP3]
Calexico recently did a short live set for the NPR Sound Check website. As always, the band blows you away with the strength of their stripped down live songs. Check out the whole thing on the NPR website. Don’t forget that the band will be making a stop in town Nov. 7th at Stubbs but we’ll remind you about that closer to the date.
During ACL weekend, we met up with Ben and Andrew of MGMT to ask them a few questions about life and music. Full interview can be read after the jump.
