New Weird

Fursaxa - Purple Fantasy

2006-12-04T14:32:00.000-06:00

this song is freaking crazy. its like absinthe in audio form. Its called "purple fantasy" by fursaxa.

Weird Weeds - Weird Feelings

2006-10-28T19:17:00.000-05:00

This experimental rock band from austin, TX really puts on quite a show believe me. The cute little short-haired guitarist played her guitar sitting down and with a piece of chalk, causing to to make all the scratchy noises. The drummer/singer had a triangle suspended inside his base drum too. Anyway here they are!

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We're Back!1!11 + Swan Lake coming soon!

2006-10-23T23:42:00.000-05:00

Alright people heres the deal:

You haven't seen any posts here for a while because the service I used to host songs (googlepages) stopped allowing me to upload large mp3s all the time. Now I hate rapidshare and other serivces like that just as much as you do so I wasnt about to settle for something that wouldnt allow me to put that little flash embedded player in each post (which i love). I have found an alternative and I wanted to announce that all the advance release goodness you've come to expect from me will return this wednesday in the form of a nice fat ALBUMMMM. Yeah thats right I'm gonna put up a copy of Swan Lake's forthcoming album "Beast Moan" which is set to be released later next month. Thats right you heard it here. In case you havent heard of Swan Lake, they are Daniel Bejar, Spencer Krug, and Carey Mercer (from Sunset Rubdown, Wolf Parade, Frog Eyes, Destroyer, and The New Pornographers (wow! what a supergroup). Unfortunately I can't post it today b/c I have a film midterm tommorow and I gotta study but keep on the look out.

love,
eric

so yeah

2006-10-07T16:45:00.000-05:00

sorry guyz i dont know if ill be able to post music here for a while but heres something to hold you over:

Sick Bike Messengers in NYC

2006-09-10T15:36:00.000-05:00

I just had to post this. Excellent sountrack too, in case you didn't know its "Bandwitch" by Broken Social Scene.

Video for Lilly Allen's "Smile"

2006-08-22T22:49:00.000-05:00

I think I'm pretty much obligated to post this for fear of my music blogger's liscence being revoked so here goes.

site problems

2006-08-22T20:26:00.000-05:00

hey kiddies there seems to be a problem with the site that hosts the mp3s i post here. so just chill out and listen to all that os mutantes that just got re-issued!

Terje Isungset - Song

2006-08-15T13:59:00.000-05:00

Terje Isungset - Igloo - 2 - Song

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Every year in the icy wilderness of Sweden, a group of artists and architects gather to build what is know as the Ice Hotel. A surreal building lit with blue and yellow nestled far from the cities. You can sit at the ice bar and drink vodka from ice glasses while listening to this man, Terje Isungset, work his magic with ice. All of his instruments (except for the actual strings) are made entirely of ice. The results are unbelieveable as you can probably tell by now.

Elissa P. and Brenmar Someday - Counting Down

2006-08-14T20:13:00.000-05:00

Elissa P. and Brenmar Someday - Disaster for Breakfast - 02 - Counting Down

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I saw these guys at the abbey pub a few weeks ago when they opened for Sage Francis and was really amazed by them. Elissa P. is a beautiful keyboardist with an even more beautiful voice and Brenmar Someday calls himself that ever since his 2 year old brother called him that once. What more could you ask for :)

Beirut - Brandenburg

2006-08-10T01:20:00.000-05:00

Beirut - Gulag Orkestar - 3 - Brandenburg

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Heres another one I'm probably wayy late to the party with but here ya go. Beirut supposedly consists of one 20 year old dude playing all the instruments himself (not at the same time of course). But still though that is amazing, he is self taught though. Anyways check this song and hope you all like the new players. Leave me a comment or something, i have analytics that tell me i get like 100 readers a days so far but no one knows to just click the 0 next to the topic to post a comment. come on people.

Sunset Rubdown - Us Ones In Between

2006-08-03T16:49:00.000-05:00

Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming - 03 - Us Ones In Between

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This may be WAY late but hey I just heard these guys for the first time last friday when they played at the metro with Voxtrot and The Joggers. Theyre really awesome though. Think a more atmospheric Wolf Parade (hint: this IS Wolf Parade).

Headlights - TV

2006-08-02T17:40:00.000-05:00

YAY songs come at the tops of the posts now, with an upgraded flash player!!
Headlights - Killing Them With Kindness - 02 - TV

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Longtime Champaign, IL local favorites Headlights are all set to release their first full length "Killing Them With Kindness" on Polyvinyl Records August 22nd. This song "TV" is one of my favorites on their and I highly encourage everyone to go buy this immediately. It fucking rules, I seriously don't know anyone at U of I who dosent like this band.

CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy)

2006-07-01T16:20:00.000-05:00

Sorry for not updating for a long long time but I've been without an interweb connection. Fortunately panera bread has free wifi so thats where I am right now.
Anyways heres a new song from this band called Cansei de Ser Sexy. Their album dosen't even come out for a while now and these crazy brazilian hipsters have already made a big splash in the music-blogosphere. So listen to this song called "Lets Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" and once again I apologize for the lack of updates. :-)

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Pere Ubu

2006-05-22T18:17:00.000-05:00

If you havent heard of Pere Ubu (the name means king shit) yet then i suggest you check out this song. Sorry this isnt new music but ive been home for summer break for a while and wont be updating as often since I'm on dialup. Anyway if you wanna learn more about this extremely important band check out Pere Ubu's Avant Garage
heres what some other people had to say about them:

Robert Palmer, in the New York Times, wrote:
Pere Ubu was either ahead of its time or out of step altogether; the band's earliest music sounds as if it could have been recorded yesterday, and is likely to keep sounding that way for some time.

Joe Cushley, Mojo, wrote:
Ubu are generally regarded as the missing link between the Velvets and punk. From the beginning they obviously understood the nuts and bolts of popular music, and then loosened them.

Anyway heres a song from the album Modern Dance titled "Nonalignment Pact"

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NEW Boards of Canada!

2006-05-10T19:38:00.000-05:00

Hey its a new Boards of Canada EP titled "Trans Canada Highway". I think its out sure but im really not sure on that. Heres a song off it called "Heard From Telegraph Lines"

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Camera Obscura

2006-05-07T12:47:00.000-05:00

Hey anyone who loves Camera Obscura, or just scottish pop in general is gonna love this. I managed to pick up their new album which is supposed to come out next month. Heres a track called "Let's Get Out of This Country" from the album of the same title:

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Frightened Rabbit

2006-05-07T12:41:00.000-05:00

Heres a track by this new band Frightened Rabbit called "Go Go Girls." These guys have been pretty big in Glasgow for quite a while now and theyre just starting to get some press here. Check it:

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Bird Show

2006-05-02T16:05:00.000-05:00

From Kranky's website:

Lightning Ghost is the second Bird Show album, following the debut release Green Inferno. It centers around Ben Vida's home-fi sound experiments. Tracks are carved out of opiate'd chanting, disjunctive drum circles, synth meditation and prepared piano trance song. Vida's sonic explorations are embedded into tighter song structures, with a greater role given to vocals in the mix. The ceremonial air has been retained and expanded with a strong percussive presence and repeated, mesmerizing musical figures. Vida recorded the album at home, but much of the material resulted from the hours spent on stage this past year.

I'm really starting to like these guys. Some think theyre ripping off Animal Collective but I sure dont. Heres a song off their album called "Pilz":

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NEW Tilly and the Wall album "Bottom of Barrels" LEAKED!!

2006-05-01T19:31:00.000-05:00

Wow man leak of the week. here ya go kids its a song "Rainbows in the Dark" off the new tilly and the wall album which i was so lucked to have procured in its entirety:

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A Few Changes

2006-05-01T18:56:00.000-05:00

I'd just like to let everyone know that I've changed the RSS feed for this blog to http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewWeird
So if you use firefox's built in feed reader just click the feed button in the address bar. If you want to subscribe with a web based feedreader just go to the link above and click "show all subscription options." thanks for reading everyone and thanks for resubscribing!

Vetiver - Idle Ties

2006-04-30T21:08:00.000-05:00

Here's a song by Vetiver, a good friend to Devendra Banhart and all the new neo-folkies. Its off his new album "To Find Me Gone" wich is set to be released May 22nd I believe. Anyways here ya go:

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Tunng - Woodcat

2006-04-29T19:14:00.000-05:00

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Heres a song called "woodcat" off Tunng's new album "Comments on the Inner Chorus" which will be released May 22nd. Think The Books combined with Animal Collective with more developed lyrics. U kids heard it here first.

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Japanese Tele-bondage

2006-04-27T00:49:00.000-05:00

sorry for not posting music this time but I really had to put this up. A Japanese show teaches you how to tie up your significant other with.... what is that?.... yarn?!

By the way i dont know if everyone is seeing the entire website properly because when i checked in today it had lost like every entry practically. i recovered everthing though. leave a comment by clicking the zero by the post title if the page looks strange.

Rose Melberg - Take Some Time

2006-04-25T21:26:00.000-05:00

Heres a song from Rose Melberg's new album "Cast Away The Clouds" which just came out today. Rose is a former member of Tiger Trap and the Softies and I just thought her music really goes perfectly with the spring. Shes a bit like a female version of Nick Drake combined with the pop style of belle and sebastian.

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Aloha - Weekend

2006-04-23T16:39:00.000-05:00

Heres a song by Aloha. Its pretty good, i dunno CNN called them "a laser show soundtrack for the art school set" so...

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