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New Music To Stream RIGHT NOW

August 6th, 2009

After today’s overwhelming discovery of new albums I simply have to listen to, I thought I’d aggregate ‘em here for the masses, whatever that’s worth to you. Nothing like free music to sample before you buy, right? Andalé!

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My favorite noise punk band (No Age) has a four-song EP due out October 6th. It’s called Losing Feelings, and you can listen to it on Sub Pop’s website. You’ll have to register your email, but that’s no big deal, really. FYI, it sounds more akin to Weirdo Rippers than Nouns (hazier, slower tempos), so whatever that’s worth to you. I like it. They’ll be up for Bumbershoot, on Sunday.

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Portland art-dance weirdos YACHT have a new LP out on James Murphy’s DFA label, called See Mystery Lights (Pitchfork Best New Music, for whatever that’s worth to you). You can listen to it on their myspace here. They’ll be at the Vera Project August 14th. Might I also suggest you watch the crazy new video for “Psychic City (Voodoo City)”, featuring the rad handmade jewelry stylings of PDX’s own Sword+Fern (aka, my sister)? Yes? Okay.

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Phil Elverum, native Anacortan and the man behind Microphones, Mt. Eerie and the production board on many excellent northwest albums (Mirah, Karl Blau, etc.) has his new Mt. Eerie record streaming over at NPR. Wind’s Poem is the title, and expect to be surprised, if not blown away (whatever that’s worth to you).

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I hate AOL (no particular reason), but I love their Spinner site, weekly home to twenty brand new releases that one can listen to for free. Right now, they’ve got the new Fruit Bats (Ruminant, Sub Pop), the new Modest Mouse collection No One’s First and Your Next, Japandroid’s Post-Nothing, and Creaturesque from Throw Me the Statue, among others.

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Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some shit I gotta go listen to.