Bright Eyes – At The Bottom Of Everything (I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
Super Furry Animals – Hello Sunshine (Phantom Power)
The Supernaturals – The Day Before Yesterday’s Man (It Doesn’t Matter Anymore)
The Besnard Lakes – Albatross (The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night)
Massive Attack – Blue Lines (Blue Lines)
Frank Sinatra – I Won’t Dance (A Swingin’ Affair)
Gorillaz – Stylo [feat. Mos Def & Bobby Womack] (Plastic Beach)
Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Whitney)
Kenny Loggins – Footloose (Footloose)
Fleet Foxes – Your Protector (Fleet Foxes)
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers – I’m Not A Juvenile Delinquent (Why Do Fools Fall In Love)
Bernard Cribbins – Right Said Fred
Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land (The Winter Of Mixed Drinks)
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim – Please Don’t [fest. Santigold] (Here Lies Love)
Peter Gabriel – My Body Is A Cage (Scratch My Back)
Here we go, some new Fleet Foxes material that Robin has promised us. It’s being played solo here and it has a working title but I would expect it to be on their second LP, which Robin has said will probably be out in early 2010.
Fleet Foxes are playing Glastonbury today. If you live in the UK, you may be able to stream their performance on the BBC 6 site.
Yep, direct from Robin Pecknold’s Twitter. Hopefully this isn’t an April Fool’s joke, as even as lasting as the band’s debut and EP are, we obviously want more material from the Foxes.
If you haven’t heard of White Antelope, it’s time to get acquainted. It appears that the song has been pulled from the Myspace page but it was ripped from the page before it was deleted. It’s really quite incredible, vocal harmonies and all.
Quite an interesting animated, origami-style video. “Mykonos”, off of Sun Giant EP is surely my favorite song of theirs, although the video for “White Winter Hymnal” off of the self-titled LP is miles better. Give both a shot.
Hmm, what do we have here? Two Fleet Foxes style tracks, a mere 150 friends, Fleet Foxes as the top friend, the same profile background as Fleet Foxes, and a picture of frontman Robin Pecknold with short hair? It appears to be Robin Pecknold’s solo project.
Let’s take a look at the tracks. First is “False Knight on the Road”. Apparently it appeared as the b-side to the Mykonos 7″. What’s more interesting is the metadata pulled from the second track, titled “Guitar Duet”. Oddly, once dragged into iTunes it’s revealed to be titled something different, “Magic Rings”. The metadata also reveals:
Artist: White Antelope
Album: White Antelope
Track #: 14 of 14
Of course the tagging could be random but regardless; could Robin Pecknold be releasing a solo album this year under the moniker White Antelope?
Here are MP3s of the tracks for anyone interested (retagged if you were curious):
Fleet Foxes played two sold out dates back to back at the Grand Ballroom in New York. Fans were in for a treat as they played some new songs. Here’s a video for a new song titled “Silver City”:
The video and audio were recorded separately so the end result is pretty clear. But hopefully we’ll hear a studio version of this track pretty soon.
As if there weren’t already enough reasons to vote in the November 4 presidential election, Wilco is offering a free MP3 download to fans who pledge to cast their ballot. Recorded live on August 23 at Bend, Oregon’s Les Schwab Amphitheater, Wilco’s cover of the Bob Dylan/Band Basement Tapes classic “I Shall Be Released” finds them joined onstage by tour-mates Fleet Foxes, who lend spectacular vocal harmonies to the performance.
The MP3 is available on WilcoWorld, but in order to get it, you have to pledge that you will vote. And really, if you’re 18 and a citizen of the US, you have no excuse not to vote anyway. This election is too important.