The Tontons

Sorry about the no post yesterday... I was out of town and not near a computer... today on the menu for local thursday we have a psych blues band out of Houston... They are called The Tontons and they are smooth... they've got the sexy lounge vocals mixed with a blues guitar... think Shivaree or Nouvelle Vague with a rock sound... the guitars sound like somebody but I can't place it... not in this track, but in others... their EP is called Sea and the Stars.... go check it out... I think you can get it on itunes... this track however is pure loungy goodness...

The Tontons - Syrup

Those Darlins Wild one

I don't know what it is about this song, but I just want to hear it all the time... it's got this infectious Elvis/rockabilly type beat, and maybe a Loretta Lynn meets Wanda jackson melody and vocals. I'm obsessed a little bit... any ways... this is Those Darlins from Tennessee.


Those Darlins - Wild One

Crocodiles ..they have quite a bite

So yeah, The new band from the heart of the whale's vagina... San Diego... or as ze germans called it San dee-Ahgo .... They are called the Crocodiles. They are another retro sounding band... although the more I think about it...when do things stop being retro? When does it just become todays sound? Regardless, I still consider them having an 80's pop electro punk... yet it's totally unique... a bit remincent of Jesus & the Mary Chain meets Love and Rockets with a dash of the Ramones. For some reason I think of the first Crow Soundtrack when I hear "Summer of hate". And "I wanna Kill" makes me happy because it starts off with the "And then he Kissed me" riff and one of the interludes sounds like "Crocodile Rock". The song names may sound harsh and angry, but they are really catchy songs...

Their debut Album Summer of Hate drops tomorrow (April 28th) and will be released on Fat Possum records. Check it out if you get a chance.

Crocodiles - I wanna Kill

Crocodiles - Summer of Hate

Covers Friday - I wanna Dance! edition vol 1

So, you're not gonna go to law school? What do you wanna do then? I wanna dance!

Movies and Dancing... they go hand in hand... If only the real world would break out in spontaneous choreographed dance... so I've got this hairbrained idea to get cover songs of all the greatest Movie dance moments of all time. well of all time would include the movies that I have seen, and have cover songs for... Amazingly this is harder than it looks... I have the dance scenes in mind, but So I'm gonna start out slow cause I'm totally not prepared...

I will start off with a few covers of Goodbye horses...
you know... the song Buffalo Bill danced to in Silence of the Lambs




Harlem - Goodbye Horses

Fan Death - Goodbye Horses



Next we got the Girls at Coyote Ugly doing a little dance for us... Reminds me of New Orleans.. but I digress....




Primus - Devil Went Down To Georgia


Next, I'm switching over to the spontaneous dance scene in reality bites while buying groceries at the gas station... one of the ultimate Gen-x er movies....



Polysics - My Sharona


I'll have to leave you with the mother of all Dance movies... Saturday Night Fever.



Keller Williams - Stayin' Alive



Oh, don't worry, I'm just getting started with this thread. If you have a dance scene to recommend, feel free.

St. Vincent ... Ready for my closup Mr Demille

It's thurday... so we are gonna have a little local flavor... St. Vincent aka Annie Clark grew up and went to High School in Dallas... Lake Highlands to be exact... She's been part of the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens' band so you know she's great live... and her debut album Marry Me was an absolute fantastic piece of work that got better with every listen. With her new album Actor, coming out on May 5th, she pulls off more of the same greatness, but different... there are still some dreamy mellow stuff, but there is some far more experimental stuff too... a little more electronic.. a little more guitars... and an overall cinematic theme. Regardless, go get it if you get the chance. I'm gonna give you the most radio friendly track and one of the strange yet good ones...

Listen: St Vincent, "Actor out of work"

Listen: St Vincent, "Marrow"

Snailhouse

Isn't a snailhouse a shell? just curious. Today's post is a bit of a departure from the week so far... a little more cofffeehouse... a little more folksy... but still good. Of course its Wednesday and this is a Boon pick, so they are probably from Canada... and he is... Snailhouse is only one guy btw... Mike Feuerstack ... although he does get some help from the likes of Julie Doiron who is pretty awesome in her own right. The name of the album is Lies on the Prize in case you were wondering...

I'd like to dedicate this song, to Crank:High Voltage... although I haven't seen it, it should have never been made. The only redeeming quality to the first one is that he (spoiler alert) supposedly died, so they couldn't make a sequel.
It's not all about the money people! I'm ashamed that people would spend money on this. I'm ashamed of Amy Smart and Jason Stathman for agreeing to do the money. I'm ashamed of the producers who thought this was a good idea. Suck it all of you.

Sorry had to get that off my chest :)

Snailhouse - Dollar Signs

Fan Death

Fan Death takes the whole 80's movement a bit further... it's gone Disco! ... They are a girl Duo (btw I'm totally making a mix CD full of two person bands... I'll call it "It takes two to make a thing go right")... But, yeah Seriously... the music they are making... it's really magically delicious... a perfect mix of synth pop and donna summer... It sounds a lot like Glass Candy if I had to pick someone more trendy... and it also sounds a bit like the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs...


I absolutely love this track.

Fan Death - Veronica's Veil