Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP

The details of the mystery Animal Collective preorder are sorted out.
The verdict? Fall Be Kind EP is slated for December.

Tracklist:
01 graze
02 what would i want sky?
03 bleed
04 on a highway
05 i think i can

^^^

Pitchfork: Fall Be Kind is an EP, right?

Dave Portner: Yeah. It's like 28 minutes long, five songs. The title is kind of a play on "fall behind," when you move the clocks back. Everything seems to be very seasonal or weather-oriented for us this year. I wanted to keep it a little bit in line with that. It felt like Merriweather Post Pavilion was really springy or summery. We always try and push for our releases to come out at a specific time. It didn't really happen with Merriweather, unfortunately, but that's because we just really wanted to get that one out quickly. But with this one, we were hoping it would come out in the fall, so Fall Be Kind. I think digitally it's probably going to come out in the middle of November, with a pre-order kind of thing for vinyl or CD for the beginning of December.

Go Niko

Nikolai, The Strokes' bassist, has been training for a marathon and fundraising for Team for Kids, a charity about helping children in underserved communities.

Follow his running diaries on twitter.com/FraitureTFK
We found out about The Strokes being in pre-production on his page, so hopefully there will be some more news on that matter soon.

New Animal Collective LP?

A mysterious page has appeared on amazon.com...a pre-order for (supposedly) Animal Collective's second full length for this year, "Fall Be Kind".
Release date, December 8th.

They're also re-releasing 2003's "Campfire Songs" in January on Paw Tracks.

Regina on B'way

From Grey's Anatomy to department store commercials, the lovely and insanely talented pianist/vocalist Regina Spektor has conquered just about every medium with her carefree tunes and beautiful voice. Next stop: Broadway! The singer was approached to score Beauty, a new show by Tina Landau.

Catch Regina play Saturday Night Live this weekend.

MP3: "Crooked Moon" - Graham Wright

Graham Wright, Tokyo Police Club's (extremely energetic) keyboardist, has been releasing free, really mellow solo work for quite some time now.
His latest is Crooked Moon, a home recorded love song.

Get it for free at Bandcamp.
Read what he wrote about the track on his tumblr.

PHX RMX

Clearly the world needs more free Phoenix remixes.

A couple have been released on the band's blog:

First one's by Nate from Passion Pit. He's releasing solo work under the name Shuttle.

[MP3] Love Like a Sunset - Shuttle remix

Then there's a pretty quirky one by the guys in the Soft Pack.

(Read about them here)

[MP3] Fences- Soft Pack remix

MP3: Vampire Weekend Single "Horchata"

Vampire Weekend has taken a popular route and released their new single Horchata today for free on their website. Take a listen and grab the MP3!

Their sophomore album, Contra, is out January 12, 2010 on XL Records.

Sunday October 4, 2009

UNDER CONSTRUCTION ALL DAY!

EDIT; 12:52am:
Still much work to be done. Looks like it's going to turn into a week long project.
If anyone knows how to fix the home-about-legal-contact buttons, please let me know. I have no idea how to align them.
Please excuse the sidebar as well...it's in severe disarray!

Animal Collective x Phoenix

Animal Collective remixed Phoenix's Love Like a Sunset.
Indie blogs crash from an overload of indie-ness.

[MP3]Love Like a Sunset (Deakin's Jam)

Free Write

Penpal is an indie duo from Chicago.
They sound a little like Bombay Bicycle Club, but stripped completely of BBC's punk/rock influences. Their debut is mostly instrumental music..great for studying.

Grab said debut for free at penpalmusic.com