The Pelican's Perch » Uncategorized http://perchmusic.com Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:06:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Ra Ra Riot Tease New Album “The Orchard” http://perchmusic.com/2010/06/ra-ra-riot-tease-new-album-the-orchard/ http://perchmusic.com/2010/06/ra-ra-riot-tease-new-album-the-orchard/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:04:50 +0000 Kevin http://perchmusic.com/?p=1102 I’m back!  Story of my absense is too long to tell now.  Broken computer, new job, amazing new girl, Lemondrop, etc., etc.   For now, here’s one of my most anticipated albums of the year.  The Orchard by Ra Ra Riot.  Drops August 24th!

Ra Ra Riot “Keep It Quiet” (Preview) from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.

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If you haven’t been watching Community up to this point, go HERE and catch yourself up.  One of my favorite comedies on TV right now.

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Make sure to go to their Youtube Channel on May 15th as they’re playing the new album in its entirety live from Brooklyn.

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I’m not sure if this will actually work, but I randomly stumbled upon formspring and thought it might be an interesting way for you guys to ask me questions of all kinds.  Music related or otherwise, that you think I might be able to help with, or questions about things you’ve always wondered about me.  It’s my little experiment, but it should be fun to hear what questions come out of it.

Either go to my profile, or ask a question in the widget on the sidebar over there ————————————————————->

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Kid Cudi + Band of Horses – The Prayer [mp3]

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Freelance Whales – Generator 2nd Floor

Freelance Whales Myspace | Official Site

They’re giving away the song at their site in exchange for your email.  Seems like a fair deal to me.

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Stars are finally releasing a new album called Five Ghosts on June 22, 2010 and I couldn’t be more excited.  The first track is “Fixed” and has Stars’ classic sound written all over it.  Enjoy the song and the behind the scenes doc and I’ll post more info on the album as I find it.

01. Dead Hearts
02. Wasted Daylight
03. I Died So I Could Haunt You
04. Fixed [mp3]

05. We Don’t Want Your Body
06. He Dreams He’s Awake
07. Never Been Good With Change
08. The Passenger
09. The Last Song Ever Written
10. How Much More
11. Winter Bones

Behind the Scenes pt. 1

Behind the Scenes pt. 2

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Official Site / Myspace / Video for “Daisy“

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Greenberg is the new film from Noah Baumbach (Squid and the Whale), starring Ben Stiller as a down on his luck forty-something guy looking to start over and reconnect with friends.  Of course, this being a Baumbach film, his luck doesn’t improve much on his journey and he gets humiliated time and time again.  The Squid and the Whale was a great movie, despite its rather depressing look at a family dealing with divorce, and I imagine Greenberg will be more of the same.  Depressing, but in this case fun to watch and uplifting for the most part.

I’m really looking forward to this one when it comes out late March, and am also looking forward to its soundtrack, which features a lot of new tracks by James Murphy, aka LCD Soundsystem.  Check out the trailer and featurette below, as well as the first single from the soundtrack by Murphy called “Oh You (Christmas Blues)”.  (It’s a radio rip with the DJ talking at the very end, but this is just to let you hear it)

Trailer

Featurette


LCD Soundsystem – Oh You (Christmas Blues) [mp3] (radio rip)

Greenberg Official Site / Pre-order the Soundtrack /
LCD Soundsystem Official Site / LCD Myspace

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MGMT – Flash Delirium

Not sure what to think of this new offering from MGMT.  I don’t want to join the masses out there saying they’re trying to fit too many influences and styles into one song, but they’re definitely not wrong.  I’m used to dancing away to most songs on their last album, and this one really wouldn’t work too well at a dance party.  Unless we were all on drugs I guess.  Judge for yourself, but this left me quite underwhelmed.  It’ll be near impossible to top Oracular Spectacular, but there better be at least a few songs that can rival “Kids” or “Time to Pretend” and not all be psychedelic stuff, or this blogger won’t be very happy.

Download the mp3 at their official site.

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