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Tonight, two of our favorite Australian acts—Empire of the Sun and Culture Collide veterans, Gold Fields—perform at The House of Blues in Dallas. And before many of you start to whine about how you don't live in Dallas, Yahoo! On The Road has you completely covered.
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Since we're on Team Coco, we trust that our favorite ginger has great taste in music. And he does, because just last Wednesday, Beware Of Darkness performed an energetic and raucous rendition of "Howl"— the lead single off of their freshman full-length, Orthodox—on Conan, and we loved it.
This performance marked the band's national television debut, and it showed off exactly what the LA trio is all about!
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FILTER likes music. There's no hiding it. We also like our own opinions a whole bunch, so once a week we give the masses a fleeting glimpse into our selective stereos and Internet browsers to let them see firsthand what fuels our endless devotion. We like to think of it as community service. We're selfless like that. So without further ado, here are the official, inarguable, objectively good FILTER Weekly Picks—providing everything from new LPs you should be spinning to the latest good-fer-you videos. Yeah, we're good at what we do:
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Last year when we reviewed The Presets' album Pacifica, we identified "Fall" as a standout track that would soon sweep dance floors across the country. With a pulsing beat and undeniable disco groove, this track is sure to infect you.
It seems the time has finally come for The Presets' reign, now that they have released the visuals for "Fall."
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Barely a month has passed since the conclusion of both Coachella 2013 weekends, and we're already preparing for what the desert has to offer in 2014.
Starting this Friday at 10AM PDT, advance passes for Coachella 2014 go on sale at the official Coachella website. Weekend one will take place from April 11-13, and like the past two years, weekend two will be the following weekend: April 18-20.
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Tracey Duodu and Tom Barber perform under the name 14th, providing a dreamy mix of R&B vocals with modern electronic sounds.
The latest offering from 14th is a cover of "Never Letting Go" by Tina Moore and "Are You Sleeping?" by Indo. Though the track is clearly reminiscent of '90s R&B, 14th brings a dark, hazy quality that breathes a new, 21st century life into the genre.
Contests
No one claims the title of "cool" better than Miles Dewey Davis III: the composer, trumpeter and international jazz icon best known as Miles Davis.
Though not inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame until 2006, Davis' contributions to jazz and its various sub-genres—jazz-funk, bebop, cool jazz, etc.—made a profound impact on 20th century music, as well as to the betterment of countless music lovers' lives.
This Sunday, May 26, marks the musician's 87th birthday. In honor of this special occasion, Legacy Recordings is featuring Davis as their current "Artist of the Month."
To continue this celebration, one lucky jazz aficionado will win a prize pack containing Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition; The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (October 1998): a 4-CD boxed set that won the Grammy for "Best Boxed Recording Package"; Miles Davis Quintet 1965-’68: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (February 1998), which is the 6-CD box set that won the Grammy Award for "Best Album Notes"; and Live In Europe 1969.
In addition to all of these Miles records, the winner will receive t-shirts, a resin magnet and a pint glass.
For a chance to win, all you need to do is plug in some simple contact info below!
This contest will run from now until June 15, 2013, officially closing at 11:59 p.m. PDT. A winner will then be selected at random and notified via email!
Happy birthday, Miles!
Reviews
“Nothing ever ends up quite like what you planned,” rasps firebrand frontman Bradford Cox in the closing verse of “Pensacola.” This lyric could serve as an apt credo for Deerhunter’s modus operandi: a gradual process of distorting and mounting upon tightly coiled grooves until the listener’s endgame, by track’s conclusion, has been met with a seamless sort of subversion. On the other side of the coin, the line has thematic resonance also, as the idée fixe of this particular case of monomania—as near or far as one can see—seems to be Cox’s curious preoccupation with his own doom. “And in my dying days/I could never be sure.../They’ll never take me away,” he finally issues on “Monomania”...
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Perils from the Sea will give you chills the first time you hear it. By the fifth or sixth listen, you’ll want to have a box of Kleenex handy. “1936” is about a kid who steals a collectible coin from his mother, only to discover that its real value was the priceless memory it gave the woman of her dead dad. “Gustavo” is about a man who hires an illegal immigrant, then laments his decision not to lend him a hand in the worker’s time of need. “Baby In Death Can I Rest Next To Your Grave” speaks for itself. Kozelek’s prose is often placed atop acoustic guitar, but LaValle’s truly haunting electronic backdrop makes the storytelling even more devastating. Kozelek said one song here was...
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The name may appear like it was penned by a kindergartener’s crayon, but Canada’s Majical Cloudz create sparse bursts of emotive electronica that’s anything but whimsical. Lead singer Devon Welsh’s baritone grumble is the only emotive element of Majical Cloudz besides collaborator Matthew Otto’s bare-bones chords, a welcome relief from the maximalist stylings of many contemporary artists working with synth loops and samplers. Rather, the duo utilize minimalist instrumentation, focusing instead on casting a spell on the listener with quietly unsettled lyrics like, “I want to feel like somebody’s darling.” On their Matador debut, the two manage to plummet you into a melancholy somewhere...
