Tom Waits: "Chicago" Video, Stream, Lyrics

"Chicago" kicks off the wild trip that is Tom Wait's new record, Bad As Me. Chugging along on the backs of a handful of horns, the song's narrator laments the sad state of his hometown and decides to follow his woman to Chicago... where things may be better.

"Chicago"
The seeds are planted here
But they won’t grow
We won’t have to say goodbye
If we all go
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
To leave all we’ve ever known
For a place we’ve never seen
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
Well It’s braver to stay
Even braver to go
Wherever she goes I go
Maybe things will be better in Chicago

What we need the lord will give us
All we want we carry with us
You know where I can be found
Where the rainbow hits the ground
I’m not alone
I’m not afraid
This bird has flown from his cage
There’s so much magic we have known
On this sapphire we call home
With my coat and my hat
I say goodbye to all that
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
Maybe things will be better in Chicago

Video: William Shatner "Rocket Man" + Stream: "Fuck You"

William Shatner - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

William Shatner - Fuck You

Ryans Adams "Lucky Now" MP3 Stream

Listening to Ryan Adams' single from his upcoming release, Ashes & Fire, I had a thought I'd never had before while listening to Adams... he has that same gift which Wilco's Jeff Tweedy possesses, an honest voice. When Tweedy sings I believe everything he says and I feel the same about Adams while listening now. In fact, I think Adams and Tweedy should team up, for one song, at least. Honest.

Ryan Adams - Lucky Now by theaudioperv

Tom Waits: "Bad As Me" Stream

Bad As Me, Tom Waits' upcoming release, will hit stores and online sites late October, but his first single, the title track, has already been released. Give it a listen and then buy it because you love it.

"Bad As Me"



Bad As Me Track List:
01. Chicago
02. Raised Right Men
03. Talking At The Same Time
04. Get Lost
05. Face To The Highway
06. Pay Me
07. Back In The Crowd
08. Bad As Me
09. Kiss Me
10. Satisfied
11. Last Leaf
12. Hell Broke Luce
13. New Year's Eve

Catalog Number: 87151
Release Date US: 2011-10-25
Release Date EU: 2011-10-24
Formats: CD,LP,Digital

Video: Jenn Grant "Getcha Good"

Live at Honest Ed's (a Toronto institution... a shopping institution)

Jenn Grant - “Getcha Good”
Director - Southern Souls
Album - Honeymoon Punch
Label - Six Shooter Records

From her 2006 album Orchestra for the Moon
dreamer [MP3]

Bjork: 'Biophilia' Preview "Mooon"

Here's an early preview of Biophilia's opening track, "Moon". Hitting shelves on September 27 (along with the new Wilco), that upcoming Tuesday is shaping up to be a bit draining on music lover's wallets, but it's only money... splurge.

Video: Timber Timbre "Bad Ritual"

Timber Timbre - “Bad Ritual”
Director - Olivier Groulx
Album - Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin’ On
Label - Arts & Crafts


"Black Water" [MP3]

Kathryn Calder: Solo Album Due Oct. 25th

On Oct. 25, 2011, Kathryn Calder (New Pornographers, Immaculate Machine) will see her sophomore solo effort released on indie label File Under: Music. What you'll hear is a huge shift in sound for Calder. Bigger, more complex, adding this to the clean simplicity of her previous solo effort kicks everything up a notch.



"Who Are You?" - Kathryn Calder [mp3]

Bright and Vivid Tracklist
One, Two, Three
Who Are You?
Turn A Light On
Walking In My Sleep
All The Things
Right Book
New Frame Of Mind
City Of Sounds
Five More Years
Younger Than We’ve Ever Been

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks: 'Mirror Traffic' Full Album Stream

» Launch/PopUp NPR Player

Check out the latest video from SM & The Jicks here.

Wilco Giving Away Custom Built Bicycle

Wilco has a group of bonuses and prizes available to those who pre-order upcoming release The Whole Love.

*an instant Mp3 download of the album track "I Might".
*a free Mp3 download of the entire album on release day (September 27)
*entry to weekly drawings (including signed albums, a completely restored 1955 single speed bicycle
*tickets to sold out shows, a Polaroid camera and photos taken by the band, and more.
*AUG 11 prize - Surprise Grab Bag of Wilco Items. See a full list of prizes HERE

The most desirable is the one-of-a-kind bicycle. Go here to read an interview with the man who built the bike.

Wilco, Live in 2001/2011 by rrfellis

Wilco: 'The Whole Love': Teaser Video

This is definitely a heavy taste (the song is "Art of Almost") of what will be heard on Wilco's eighth release, The Whole Love. Their first self-released record on brand spanking new label dBpm Records, mark September 27th on your calendar.

At the clip's end you see a very, very tired Pat Sansone and a very hungry (and Bruce Lee obsessed) Jeff Tweedy.

Here's "I Might" the second track on the record.

Wilco - I Might

Bjork: Virus: Lyrics + Stream

Bjork's upcoming record, Biophilia, will be released September 27th. After earlier previews of tracks "Crystalline" and "Cosmogony", I have to say this new song is my favourite.



"Virus"
Like a virus needs a body
As soft tissue feeds on blood
Some day I’ll find you, the urge is here
Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh
Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh

Like a mushroom on a tree trunk
As the protein transmutates
I knock on your skin, and I am in
Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh
Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh

The perfect match, you and me
I adapt, contagious
You open up, say welcome

Like a flame that seeks explosives
As gunpowder needs a war
I feast inside you, my host is you
Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh
Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh

The perfect match, you and I
You fail to resist
My crystalline charm

Like a virus, patient hunter
I’m waiting for you, I’m starving for you
Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh
Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh

My sweet adversary
My sweet adversary
My sweet adversary

Feist: How Come You Never Go There: Stream + Lyrics

Here is the first real feel for what Feist will deliver on her upcoming release, Metals. Out October 4th, on Arts & Crafts, the pre-release frenzy has been going for weeks now with teaser (annoying) videos, but that has been eclipsed by audio of the first single slipping out late Thursday night.

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

"How Come You Never Go There"

Tracklist
1 The Bad In Each Other
2 Graveyard
3 Caught A Long Wind
4 How Come You Never Go There
5 A Commotion
6 The Circle Married The Line
7 Bittersweet Melodies
8 Anti-Pioneer
9 Undiscovered First
10 Cicadas And Gulls
11 Comfort Me
12 Get It Wrong Get It Right


These are the lyrics. Perhaps someone with more time could finish them off for me.

How come you never go there?
How come I'm so alone there?
How come you never go there?
How come I'm so alone there?

I went up to your window
lightning banging on the cymbals
I looked into the light
came storming to your eyes

my horse had worked the fields too long
my bear had lost his innate calm
it's true enough x x
x x x x x x

our love is not the light it was
when i walk inside the dark come come
where we look for where it went
it's only echos in the melody x x x

how come you never go there
how come i'm so alone there

(guitar)

how come you never go there
how come i'm so alone there

waste time and blame a week without
waste energy i'm too x x x
we're living proof we gotta let go
and stop looking through the lay low

you carry on as if our time is through
you carry on as if i don't love you
and so we find the way x x x
to cover x x x without a doubt now

the rooms full our eyes are empty
like the letters never sent me
x x x x x
you're an instrumental too

BRIDGE

(horns)

how come you never go there
how come i'm so alone there

how come you never go there
how come i'm so alone there

how come you never go there
how come i'm so alone there

how come you never go there
how come i'm so alone there


... to be continued?

Beirut: 'The Rip Tide' Full Album Stream

The Rip Tide is Beirut's third album and while each is different they all bear a vintage patina... all mixed up in a territory between new songs by an old soul and old songs by a new soul. Bandleader Zach Condon croons in a high murky vibrato, a voice that would sound highly misplaced singing anything but music with significant ties to the past such as that of Beirut.

Listen to The Rip Tide (out on August 30th) courtesy of NPR.




» Launch/PopUp NPR Player

Hipstereo's MP3 Player Mix: August 5th

electric owls when i was a flood
reptar stuck in my id
james vincent mcmorrow if i had a boat
pj harvey written on my forehead
the hold steady hurricane j
black rebel motorcycle club beat the devil's tattoo
edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros 40 day dream
stars fixed

MP3s courtesy of Vagrant Records.

Bon Iver: "Creature Fear" MP3 Black Cab Session

I'd forgotten all about the Black Cab Sessions. Their slogan is "One song. One take. One cab." It's simple, they get Weezer, or Bon Iver, or Beach House in one of those famous London Black Cabs and drive around while one song is played and recorded on video.

It's been going several years I'd guess and there are dozens of artists on the site. Au Revoir Simone, The Flaming Lips, Grizzly Bear, The Walkmen, Ryan Adams, Lambchop, Calexico, Mumford and Sons, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab For Cutie (not sure but this one might be kind of scary, seeing how it's in a cab and Ben Gibbard is considered cute by Zooey Deschanel), and many more.

Thanks to twentyfourbit for reminding me of this site in his post about the sessions coming to the US (perhaps they should head up to Canada, as well).

Don't miss out on this post on Bon Iver's concert last night in DC. Stream the entire show, download it, or grab two mp3s from the show.

Here's Bon Iver playing "Creature Fear" in a Black Cab Session (download the song via the downward arrow on the right of the player). Visit the site and you'll find the video of Justin Vernon in the back of a Black Cab.

Bon Iver - Creature Fear (black cab session) by hipstereo.blogspot.com

Bon Iver: Live at The 9:30 Club: Aug. 2nd

Last night Bon Iver played their second night in a row at Washington DC's 9:30 Club and NPR were there to webcast the performance live on the air. Here's the first song played and the first old number hauled out on this tour in support of Bon Iver's latest album, which is self-titled.

Bon Iver - Creature Fear (live August 2/2011) by hipstereo.blogspot.com

Bon Iver - Perth (live August 2/2011) by hipstereo.blogspot.com

STREAM the entire show in this player or visit the NPR page to download the entire thing.

» Launch/PopUp NPR Player

SET LIST:
Perth
Minnesota, WI
Towers
Holocene
Creature Fear
Flume
Hinnom, TX
Wash.
Brackett, WI
Blood Bank
Who Is It (Bjork cover)
Re: Stacks
Calgary
Wolves (Act I and II)

ENCORE:
Skinny Love
Beth/Rest
For Emma

FEIST: 'METALS' Cover Revealed, Track List, TOUR DATES‏

This is the third video in a series leading up to the October 4th release of Feist's Metals. August 3, fans can pre-order Metals as well as bundle the album in multiple formats with tickets for the first round of European and North American tour dates.




Metals Track List
1 The Bad In Each Other
2 Graveyard
3 Caught A Long Wind
4 How Come You Never Go There
5 A Commotion
6 Bittersweet Melodies
7 Anti Pioneer
8 Undiscovered First
9 Cicadas And Gulls
10 Woe Be
11 Comfort Me
12 Get It Wrong, Get It Right

Tour Dates
OCT 15 AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND / CARRE THEATRE

OCT 17 LONDON, UK / PALLADIUM

OCT 19 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM / CIRQUE ROYALE

OCT 22 BERLIN, GERMANY / TEMPODROM

OCT 29 PHILADELPHA, USA / WORLD CAFÉ LIVE 20TH ANNIVERSARY

NOV 02 BROOKLYN, USA / HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE

NOV 04 CHICAGO, USA / RIVIERA THEATRE

NOV 06 ATLANTA, USA / TABERNACLE

NOV 08 DALLAS, USA / MAJESTIC THEATRE
NOV 12 LOS ANGELES, USA / WILTERN THEATRE

NOV 14 SAN FRANCISCO, USA / WARFIELD THEATRE

NOV 16 PORTLAND, USA / ARLENE SCHNITZER CONCERT HALL

NOV 17 SEATTLE, USA / MOORE THEATRE

NOV 18 VANCOUVER, CANADA / PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE

NOV 20 EDMONTON, CANADA / NORTHERN ALBERTA JUBILEE
NOV 21 CALGARY, CANADA / JACK SINGER CONCERT HAL\
DEC 01 TORONTO, CANADA / MASSEY HALL

DEC 03 MONTREAL, CANADA / METROPOLIS

DEC 05 OTTAWA, CANADA / NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE

DEC 06 QUEBEC CITY, CANADA / GRAND THEATRE du QUEBEC

Feist by Arts & Crafts

Blitzen Trapper Announce Tour Dates

Blitzen Trapper head out this fall with Dawes on a co-headlining tour, all dates below. Spinning around the continent beginning in California and winding up there, it's all in support of American Goldwing, Blitzen Trapper's upcoming record out September 13th on Sub Pop. Supporting will be Smoke Fairies for one half and The Belle Brigade the other.

There will be a limited ticket pre-sale beginning Aug. 5th at 10am EST.

Pre-order Blitzen Trapper's American Goldwing at subpop.com or blitzentrapper.net




TOUR DATES - more dates will be added soon, so don't fret Montreal, Winnipeg, etc., maybe they'll hit more than just Toronto and Vancouver.

October 7th Petaluma, CA
October 8th Santa Barbara, CA
October 9th Solana Beach, CA
October 10th Phoenix, AZ
October 13th Dallas, TX
October 14th Utopia, TX
October 15th Baton Rouge, LA
October 18th Atlanta, GA
October 19th Nashville, TN
October 20th Louisville, KY
October 21st Asheville, NC
October 22nd Chapel Hill, NC
October 24th Washington, DC
October 26th New York, NY
October 27th Philadelphia, PA
October 28th Boston, MA
October 30th Toronto, ON
November 1st Cleveland, OH
November 2nd Grand Rapids, MI
November 3rd Chicago, IL
November 4th Minneapolis, MN
November 7th Boulder, CO
November 10th Vancouver, BC
November 11th Seattle, WA
November 13th Eugene, OR
November 15th San Francisco, CA

Blitzen Trapper - Heaven And Earth by subpop

Lykke Li: "Jerome" Acoustic Session

Lykke Li's latest, Wounded Rhymes is a favourite. So, I grabbed this version of "Jerome" as fast as I could.

Thanks to twentyfourbit.com. Visit the site for a video of this performance.

Lykke Li - Jerome (acoustic) by hipstereo.blogspot.com