The U & U Show 509 | Halloween 2017!

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*Mark Lanegan : On the Steps of the Cathedral*

*Tom Waits : What's He Building In There*

*White Zombie : Grease Paint and Monkey Brains*

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds : We Kno Who U R

Push the Sky Away (2013)  |  Official Site

U & U Show 454 | New Thee Oh Sees & Revisiting Reatard

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Car Seat Headrest : The Ballad of the Costa Concordia

Teens of Denial (2016)  |  BandCamp

 

Jay Reatard : There Is No Sun

Watch Me Fall (2009)  |  Official Site

 

The Unknown & Unheard Show 162!!!

Stream & Download The U & U Show 162 Right Here, Right Now! (MediaFire) Jay Reatard – Always Wanting More – Matador Singles ‘08 (2008) - Died last week at age 29. - punk rock, power pop, straight forward rock… a lot of distortion - punched a fan who jumped on stage… video Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine The Besnard Lakes - Albatross - Are The Roaring Night (2010) - forthcoming 2nd full length. - Their debut was a highly praised effort with the critics. - Out of Montreal. - There is a constant and consistent build of electric guitar distortion that remains steady throughout the track’s surges. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Surfer Blood - Twin Peaks - Astrocoast (2009) - Debut album - Echoey sound is reminiscent of Kurt Vile except these guys have more of a anthem sound. - This might be the lightest, most straight forward track. MySpace : Stream on HypeMachine Bad Sports - And It Goes - Bad Sports (2009) - debut album - Texas band - Musically reminds me of British garage punk rock with a touch of the early Who. MySpace : HypeMachine Cold War Kids – Sermons - Behave Yourself EP (2009) - Forthcoming EP - Debut full length album out in 2006 - 3 EPs prior to debut's release - Newest full-length album is ‘Loyalty to Loyalty’ Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Broken Bells - The High Road - Broken Bells (2010) - Forthcoming debut full length. - Gnarls Barkley producer Danger Mouse teams up with singer James Mercer (*post-posting bit of info: James Mercer is in the Shins!). Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Eels – In My Younger Days - End Times (2010) - Newest album - Calls it 'the divorce album.' - Defintiely a more restrained album compared to Hombre Lobo Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Efterklang - Modern Drift - Magic Chairs (2010) - Forthcoming album out February 23rd. - Danish band - best album so far is Parades. - They recorded a stunning live version of that album and called it Performing Parades. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Gigi - I'm Not Coming Out Tonight (feat. Sydney Vermon & Marissa Johnson) - Maintainment (2010) - Album from producer Colin Stewart - Each track on the album features different vocalists - This is an album that experiments with a lot of vintage reverb effects. HypeMachine Dark Dark Dark - New York Song - The Snow Magic (2008) - Debut full legnth - The duet on this song is great with the old time-y folk feel. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine The Roadside Graves - Ruby - My Son's Home (2009) - 2nd album - Very well received album. - Remind me a good deal of Lucero and their bar room style of rock/southern rock. - The pulsing tempo changes make this track stand out to me. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Handsome Furs - I'm Confused - Face Control (2009) - 2nd album from Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner and his wife. - one of my big misses this year. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine MOONFACE - Marimba and Shit-Drums - Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums (2010) - Wolf Parade's and Sunset Rubdown's Spencer Krug's latest solo project. - It's a 20 minute 'track' - Available digitally right now on his site for whatever donation you want to make. Official Site : HypeMachine

The Unknown & Unheard Show 132!

Stream & Download The Unknown & Unheard Show 132 Right Here, Right Now! The Builders and the Butchers – Golden and Green – Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well (2009) - Sophomore album out June 16th - From the previews of this album I’ve heard, they’ve really stepped up the sounds and progressions… and that’s saying a lot if you are familiar with their debut. - Such a powerful track! - Get excited about this album! - Playing the Volrath August 6th Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine : DayTrotter Session Rock Plaza Central – (Don’t You Believe the Words of) Handsome Men - …At the Moment of Our Most Needing Or If Only They Could Turn Around, They Would Know They Weren’t Alone (2009) - 2nd album from the Chris Eaton led rotating group of musicians - Another track that packs a boatload of intensity. - Strained feel to the song that you get from The Builders and the Butchers and even the Mountain Goats… comparable vocals as well. Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Seasick Steve – Walking Man - I Started Out With Nothin' and Still Got Most of It Left (2008) - 3rd album, I think… he’s released some in the UK and here - Slower style of blues than what he grabbed me with initially. Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine White Denim – Heart From All of Us – Workout Holiday (2008) - debut full length - new album on its way, ‘Fits’ - Check out the video for ‘I Start To Run’ the first video single off the new album - Their music follows no pattern and never gets boring… enjoyably schytzophrenic. Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Modest Mouse – Autumn Beds – Autumn Beds EP (2009) - 2nd of two 2-song singles released by the band - this set of two is much more mellow that the ‘Satellite Skin’ pair Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Hockey Night – Renegades – Keep Guessin’ (2005) - 2nd album - This is that band that’s grown into Free Energy - Not quite as big of a sound, almost more modest mouse type of feel. - Really wanting to hear the entire Free Energy Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Drummer – Mature Fantasy - ??? (2009) - debut album - ‘Supergroup’ of drummers compiled by Pat Carney, drummer of The Black Keys - Don’t come here expecting anything resembling the Keys though - Reminds me of some early 90’s alt rock… early Offspring? Bush? Myspace : Stream on HypeMachine The Henry Clay People – You Can Be Timeless – For Cheap Or For Free (2008) - 2nd album… debut out in 2006 - Some part of this band makes me thing the presidents of the USA. That is a very good thing! - Big energetic anthem rock Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Eels – Tremendous Dynamite – Hombre Lobo (2009) - Newest album - Translates to ‘Werewolf’ - There is a really interesting look into Mark Everett’s past on a NOVA on PBS, ‘Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives’ - This is the next album on my must have list. Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Jay Reatard – It Ain’t Gonna Save Me – Watch Me Fall (2009) - first album since relaunching his label, Shattered Records. - Out August 18th - This is a musician that has taken some time to grow on me. - Made up a lot of ground in an onstage incident where he punched an idiot fan who jumped on stage. Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Matt & Kim – Lessons Learned – Grand (2009) - 2nd album, debut out in 2006, Self-titled. - just added to the Pitchfork Music Fest, which is one of the more relevant festivals you’ll find - keyboard & drums that sound like much more than that… sum of the parts - Big indie rock sounds without a doubt… the sound of the vocals scream it. - This band is growing on me tremendously! Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Lightning Dust – Listened On – Lightning Dust (2007) - debut full length - Another Black Mountain side project… you can really hear the Black Mountain in this track. - Great vocals Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Cave Singers – I Don’t Mind - Welcome Joy (2009) - 2nd album - An eerie style of folk… the vocals really stand out and perfectly compliment the sound of Lightning Dust - The lead singers sound like they could be brother and sister Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Sunset Rubdown – Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh! – Dragonslayer (2009) - 4th album… out June 23rd - Eagerly awaiting this album - One of Spencer Krug’s many bands - Playing Jake’s in Bloomington July 8th - This album has some epic sounding tracks. Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine