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.

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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

Monthly Spotlight: Marco Mahler

I've known of Marco's music for several years and it dumbfounds me that he hasn't made much more noise online and in print. I tried to put him over the top, but I guess I don't have the pull I wish I had. There are two albums to seek out, first his debut Design in Quick Rotation and then the follow-up Laptop Campfire Speed.

Here is what I wrote in my review of his debut on my first blog, Sixeyes.

Marco Mahler’s vocals may lean more towards a conspiratorial whisper than a shouted ‘hey-look-at-me’, but it’s his music that rises above that charismatic whisper to snag your ear. Acoustic guitar lines cut through all else, crisscrossing, blooming, like kaleidoscopic patterns in tracks like the instrumental “Hike The Lake”. And yet it’s that very voice, that calming, quiet voice delivering Mahler’s abstract lyrics, that’s the perfect foil to the penetrating acoustic guitar. Although all this isn’t in sacrifice to melody, he does wield a number of strong melodies that will lodge like an arrow in your heart. “Orange Chinese Car” softly thumps like a basketball about to be taken hard to the hoop, while “Study Airports” is an anti-lullaby, a song to wake up to rather than deliver the lulling. Design in Quick Rotation is a surprisingly well-crafted debut from a man who, not surprisingly, is also a sculptor.

There's an undeniable laid back charisma always on display. Tell me there isn't.

Listen to his latest release in the top right sidebar and visit his bandcamp page to listen to his debut (and to buy both).

"Hike The Lake" is from Design In Quick Rotation.
Marco Mahler - Hike The Lake by Bad Panda Records

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

Hipstereo's MP3 Player Mix: August 2nd

A.C. Newman
“Miracle Drug”
“Drink To Me Babe, Then”

Ted Leo
Even Heroes Have To Die

Mogwai
The Sun Smells Too Loud
Folk Death 95

Pavement
Rattled By The Rush

Destroyer
Chinatown

The Donkeys
Don't Know Who We Are

MP3s courtesy of Matador Records and Dead Oceans.

Video: My Morning Jacket: "Holdin Onto Black Metal"

Here it is, now I'm going back to bed.

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

The Shins: Tour Update

If you're on The Shins mailing list you may have found this in your inbox:

The Shins have added a handful of intimate club shows in addition to the previously announced festival headline slots at Outside Lands in San Francisco and Philadelphia's Popped!

For a limited time, we're offering an exclusive presale to email list subscribers. Presale begins Aug 1st at 11 AM PST/ 2 PM EST.

To purchase tickets, please visit www.theshins.com/getshinstickets

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For this tour, setlist will likely feature material from the long awaited fourth Shins album, which James Mercer will complete following the tour. Due out next year on Aural Apothecary/Columbia, the new album will be the band's first since 2007's Grammy-nominated gold-certified Wincing The Night Away.

Australia by theshins