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Animal Collective dropped a new 7 inch single out of the blue last week.  The A-side is called Honeycomb and the B-side,  Gotham.  Both tracks are amazing, Especially Honeycomb!  I could not help but think there must be an album coming….So I was stoked when Animal Collective announced their new album Centipede Hz today!  The album comes out this September.  Grab the new singles below and check out the video announcing the forthcoming record.

Animal Collective – Honeycomb

Animal Collective – Gotham

Jack White has been in a lot of bands but up until now has never done any solo work. Blunderbuss is Jack White’s solo debut.  The album spans a variety of genres with a central theme of love and heartbreak.  Jack White’s songwriting really shines.  If you like anything Jack White has done then you should definitely grab this record.

Jack White – Blunderbuss 

Radiohead.  Its hard to even describe the experience.  Like the more sublime things in life you have to live it.  Radiohead doesn’t just play live music they create live experiences.  There is nothing like it.  Radiohead shows are intense and immersive sensory events and Monday’s show was no exception.  Everything was perfect: the music, the sound, the bass, the lights, the visuals, the crowd, and the band.  Radiohead played a diverse set of songs from their entire catalogue leaning, of course, in favor of The King of Limbs.  It was unequivocally the best live show I’ve ever seen.  The Seattle Weekly summed up the beauty of Radiohead’s live performances perfectly:

“They’re masters of tension and release. Just about every one of their songs opens with groove. On stage last night, they vamped on those grooves, digging in until the mood was thick, satisfying, frustrating, and teasing in the same tunes. They never overstayed their welcome: they just came in, re-invented their famous tunes, and walked off stage like they’d done it in their sleep. The band played with an effortlessness and grace that conveyed a sense of appreciation and relief. They were both 100 percent engaged in the performance, while at the same time in complete control, playing the songs as if it were for the first and last time.”

Setlist
Bloom
15 Step
Airbag
Little By Little
Myxomatosis
The Gloaming
Morning Mr Magpie
Pyramid Song
The Daily Mail
These Are My Twisted Words
Nude
Identikit
Lotus Flower
There There
Feral
Idioteque
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How To Disappear Completely
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
You And Whose Army?
Lucky
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Give Up The Ghost
Reckoner
Everything In Its Right Place

The Gloaming from Hail to the Thief was the highlight of the night for me.  I was transported to a different universe during this song.  Of course a bootleg youtube video will never do it justice but it can give you a glimpse of the mind blowing that took place.

Bob Dylan – Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence (June 15, 1965) Highway 61 Revisited outtake

p.s. Notice Bobby is holding a cat…

here’s another one.

Its been a couple months since the hit single 212 blew up and now Azealia is finally releasing some more material.  Last week Banks dropped the drum packed Diplo collab Fuck Up the Fun on soundcloud.  And a few days later she announced on twitter she was releasing a 4 track EP on April 17th.  Azealia Banks’ full length album is due out in the fall.  There is a lot of hype around her music but nonetheless Azealia Banks is steadily becoming one of the most exciting artist of 2012.

P.S. I absolutely love the video for 212.  I bet you won’t be able to watch it just once.

Azealia Banks – Fuck Up the Fun (prod. by Diplo & Dj Master D)

Azealia Banks – Liquorice

Azealia Banks – Grand Scam

I love these guys. Oh and Earl is back! Grab the new Odd Future tape after the video.

Odd Future – The OF Tape Vol. 2

If you love music you have got to watch this!

Bruce Springsteen gave the keynote speech at SXSW last week. This is one of the greatest discourses on music I’ve ever heard.  Its smart, funny, moving, and inspirational.  Bruce Springsteen is so poetic, I could listen to him talk for hours.  This guy can really write, I can’t wait for the day he writes an autobiography.

Bruce Springsteen just released his seventeenth studio album Wrecking Ball. Grab it below.

Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball 

I love Delta Spirit.  I’ve blogged about them many times in the past.  They have just released their third album.  Delta Spirit have really matured and their self-titled album represents the band’s sound at its most developed.  Delta Spirit is an album with an expansive soundscape that fills the room.  The sweet melodies and raw emotional vocals are what really get me though.  If you like fuzzed out folk rock you’ll love Delta Spirit.  I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, if you can see Delta Spirit live DO IT!  These guys are amazing.

Delta Spirit – Delta Spirit

Two awesome stop motion Wilco videos with sound board live recordings of two of my favorite Wilco songs! Check it out below.

I would kill to see these two dudes at a late night piano bar. Seriously amazing.