Living Legends The Grouch & Eligh Drop Debut LP, Debut on Billboard Top 200 chart at #186!
Living Legends, The Grouch & Eligh, are pounding the digital pavement in celebration of the April 21st release of their debut collaboration, Say G&E!, The album, which is currently sitting pretty at #186 on the Billboard Top 200 after peaking at #3 on the iTunes Top Rap & Hip Hop charts. The album also found much success on Billboard Digital Album Sales charts, sitting at #83 with 42% of the sales from digital outlets.
The album features a plethora of notable guest stars over the course of its 16 tracks, including Slug, Sage Francis, Gift of Gab, DJ Fresh, Mike Marshall, Pigeon John and more. To thank their fans for its ascension up the charts, Eligh has been chatting it up live on uStream.TV, where they can subscribe to his channel and follow him. Fans can also stalk both Grouch and Eligh via twitter, where Eligh is currently returning comments and accepting cookie donations.
In addition, the dynamic duo has released a star-studded, poker inspired video for the smooth cut, “All In.” The clip features rappers Gift of Gab and the infamous Pigeon John, along with G&E in a sketchy, high stakes game of cards against profession poker player (and blonde bombshell) Lacey Jones.
For Khan fans residing in the U.S of A, the official release of What Is?!, the King’s stellar 2007 soul punk shootout with The Shrines, has finally hit our shores. To celebrate its stateside unveiling via Vice Records, the folks at AOL Spinner are offering up a full album listening party.
Passion Pit has launched a remix contest for a still-under-wraps track from Manners, offering up stem snippets of “Little Secrets” nearly a full month before the album’s release. The band has asked fans to download their own special clip, trade with other participating musicians and remixers, and build their own songs around the pieces. Fans will vote for their ten favorites until May 15th. After voting closes, Passion Pit will pick five remixes to be released along with a special vinyl version of “Little Secrets,” while the five runners up will receive a copy of the vinyl and a signed CD of Manners. All the pieces are available for preview at the link below.
In advance of the new record from Portland indie rock staples Viva Voce, the band is offering up an exclusive single at eMusic, featuring Rose City stand out “Octavio” and a pair of new remixes for the track. The single will be available this Tuesday, April 28th, about a month before Rose City drops on May 26th. The follow-up to the band’s 2006 Barsuk debut Get Yr Blood Sucked Out is an angular, immediate record that pulses with palpable urgency. “Devotion,” the propulsive first track, bolstered by stuttering drums and a wailing slide guitar, is available for download below. In other news, Viva Voce has confirmed a month-long stint with New Zealand post-punkers Cut Off Your Hands, set to start the day after the band’s appearance at Washington’s Sasquatch Festival on May 24th. Single tracklist, audio, tour dates and more below.
Today, ISIS is unleashing the genre-bending epic Wavering Radiant on poor, unsuspecting ears via their official Myspace profile, a full week before its release. Experts on melting faces and frying brains, the L.A. based five-piece have conquered lands far and wide with their unique approach to things often labeled “progressive” and “metal,” in effect cutting a swath through pre-existing genre lines. May 5th, 2009 (Radiant’s official release date) marks the group’s graduation from avant-garde metal leadership to their rightful spot as one of this century’s most original and pioneering alternative groups. This, their fourth album for California-based Ipecac Recordings, stays true to the band’s long-standing tradition of experimentation. The new set of recordings find vocalist/guitarist Aaron Turner and company at the peak of their powers, displaying an unparalleled sense of maturity and mastery of their respective instruments. Tracklist, audio download and full tour itinerary below.
Frenchkiss Records will release the debut full-length from Brooklyn island-indie ragamuffin Sean Bones (nee Sullivan) on July 21st. What started last summer as the musical component to a lighthearted fashion line quickly morphed into a full-fledged project for Sullivan. As he patiently awaited the release of his former act Sam Champion’s Heavenly Bender, Sullivan dove into the studio to create a solo single he would package with the swim trunks he’d created for his own S/S FRIENDS line. A RCRD LBL rave, and a single show later, Sean Bones suddenly became Frenchkiss’ latest signing, joining the ranks of San Francisco’s Dodos and Boston’s Passion Pit, not to mention founders Les Savy Fav.
After a lengthy hiatus, The Daily Rind’s weekly podcast is back. The new studio is up and running in our recently relocated Daily Rind HQ and we’ll now resume supplying you a weekly dose of new music as well as some catalog favorites.
San Francisco’s Still Flyin’ have been spreading the word of the almighty HAMMJAMM since 2004, demolishing minds, souls, and any notion of personal space with equal abandon. Combining the kinetic energy of 60’s era rock steady with the catchy hooks and DIY aesthetic of today’s best indie-pop, Still Flyin’ are an event rarely paralleled in music. In a recent Pitchfork article, Okkervil River’s Will Sheff said that Still Flyin’ was his new favorite band. “The most fun I’ve had at a show in quite a while. It’s just about the least pretentious music you could ever imagine…very fun to watch,” says Sheff.
Junk Science spared no expense when it came to their new video, “Fire Drill”. Literally. The self-proclaimed recession artists recently shot the home-style video for zero dollars with the help of famed director and friend Andrew Gura. The group first collaborated with Gura on the set of their video “Roads” in 2005, having kept in touch since, they leapt at the opportunity to join forces once again – this time at the group’s Brooklyn apartment. The low key but high-energy video was able to bring them back to their roots, says emcee Baje One, “I think for all of us, it was some real back to basics shit, really stripped down, and personal. No money, no crew, no stress. It was like when we were kids and we used to just make stupid videos for fun. And I really think that joy comes across in the look of the video”.
It’s no secret that Def Jux head honcho and indie rapper extraordinaire El-P is a huge fan of Brooklyn funk group Chin Chin. They are, after all, on his label and have served as a backing band of sorts to El’s live shows. Just hours ago El-P took to his Twitter, asking followers to vote for the band’s “Go There With You” video on MTVu’s 
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