Mar 18 / Dan

The Futureheads – The Beginning of the Twist video

I don’t exactly know how I feel about this song right now but the video is pretty sweet. Obviously lots of special effects and production value and blah blah blah. It’s good. I like the whole storyboard idea.

This is their first single of their new album, The Beginning of the Twist that came out March 10, 2008 in the UK.

The Futureheads:
Myspace | Website |

Mar 14 / Dan

20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time

Blender has a good piece on record company eff-ups.

Just some afternoon reading or something to kill the boredom.

20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time

Mar 14 / Dan

The Motion Sick

The Motion Sick

Integrating pop melodies with socially voyeuristic lyrics in Kurt Vonnegut style prose, The Motion Sick leaves you thinking beyond usual romance parameters with their second CD release, “The truth will catch you, just wait… ” out on January 1, 2008.

mp3
The Motion Sick – 30 Lives
The Motion Sick – Jean Paul

The Motion Sick
Myspace | Website | The Motion Sick - The Truth Will Catch You, Just Wait...

Mar 13 / Dan

Soft – Higher

This track actually came out in 2005 but it’s so good and I never wrote about SOFT anywhere so here is my chance. SOFT dropped  their latest album “Gone Faded” in October last year which I have yet to listen to but will attack soon. They’ve also got a sweet video up on their website to watch.

mp3
SOFT – Higher

SOFT
Website | Soft - Gone Faded

Mar 13 / Dan

Peter Moren – Social Competence & solo album

Solo album coming out soon for Peter Moren, member of Peter Bjorn & John.  He has released the first single off the album “The Last Tycoon,” title “Social Competence.”

For MP3, and tour date – head to thetripwire.

By the way, I’ve mentioned it before yet again – the tripwire is awesome.

Peter Moren
Myspace

Mar 13 / Dan

Cut Copy – Hearts on Fire (Joakim remix)

Cut Copy has released a free mp3 of their song “Hearts on Fire” remixed by Joakim.

Want to download: Head to RCRDLBL

Cut Copy
Myspace | Website | Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love

Mar 13 / Dan

ESCAPE FROM LA – SXSW Party 3/13

sxsww party
Nice big party put on by all kinds of awesome people with awesome bands and awesome fun.

Check out RockInsider for more information.

(click flyer for larger version)

Mar 13 / Dan

Snoop Dogg – Ego Trippin’

snoop dogg

Snoop Dogg’s EGO TRIPPIN’ album is out now.

Check out the video for “Life of Da Party” featuring Too $hort & Mistah F.A.B.

MTV2 Premiere: “Life of Da Party” ft. Too $hort & Mistah F.A.B

VIDEO: “Life of Da Party” ft Too $hort & Mistah F.A.B.

Snoop Dogg
Myspace | Website | Snoop Dogg - Ego Trippin'

Mar 13 / Dan

Awesome Color – Eyes of Light

Awesome Color

Awesome Color is a new find of mine except they aren’t new. They toured all through 06 & 07 including some sets with Dinasour Jr and Sonic Youth.

Their debut full length comes out April 29, 2008.

mp3

Awesome Color – Eyes of Light

Awesome Color
Myspace | Website | Awesome Color - Awesome Color

Feb 22 / Dan

Scissors For Lefty Remixed

scissors for lefty

Remixes available for free download over at their myspace.

Scissors For Lefty
Website | Myspace | Remixed Myspace | Scissors for Lefty - Underhanded Romance

Feb 21 / Dan

Please Quiet Ourselves

Please Quiet Ourselves

Please Quiet Ourselves creates a textured blanket of sound in a somewhat off-key, clumsy freak-pop manner lifted from Modest Mouse’s Building Nothing Out of Something aesthetic. Seven (and sometimes more) effervescent 15 to 16 year-old high schoolers from Berkeley, CA came together after Jojo Brandel wrote an original song for his 8th grade film project soundtrack. Brandel tapped local Bay Area rockers Eli Lyons, Haran Stern (So Many Clouds) and Adam Becker (O Lucky Man!) to join him. Proud parents carted the teens to Davis, CA to record at the Psychedelic Hearts garage studio with Evan Hart (Buildings Breeding). The jovial company incorporates proggy riffs into punk influenced pop songs and pulls off a group dynamic akin to that of Broken Social Scene. Cleverly placed angst throughout Please Quiet Ourselves yields an ambitious yet catchy jaunt through adolescence.

MP3
Please Quiet Ourselves – Antibodies
Please Quiet Ourselves – The Light
Please Quiet Ourselves – Say I Won’t

Please Quiet Ourselves
Website | Myspace | Please Quiet Ourselves - Please Quiet Ourselves

Feb 21 / Dan

West Indian Girl – To Die in LA

West Indian Girl -- “To Die in LA” video.

West Indian Girl
Website | Myspace | West Indian Girl - 4th & Wall

Feb 21 / Dan

Angus and Julia Stone

anjus and julia stone

Angus and Julia Stone are the Australian siblings whose monster UK buzz is just now making its way stateside. The duo’s EP Chocolates & Cigarettes is gaining unbelievable praise from some of the most revered publications across the globe, and has just been released in the US exclusively through iTunes.

Another track, “The Beast”, was recently chosen by actress Natalie Portman for her hand-picked compilation, Big Change: Songs For Finca, an iTunes exclusive playlist with net proceeds going to benefit FINCA, an international microfinance organization that provides financial services to the world’s lowest-income entrepreneurs

MP3
Angus and Julia Stone – Private Lawns

Angus and Julia Stone
Website | Myspace | Angus & Julia Stone - Chocolates & Cigarettes - EP

Feb 21 / Dan

MGMT – Electric Feel

Art-punk outfit MGMT added an interactive element to their new video for ‘Electric Feel.’ The piece features the group’s founding pair — Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden — showing viewers how to bring the hook-laden tune to life by choosing the background on which they surf, dance and generally rock the party. Each of the 4,290,888 options are a fit for this psychedelic Prince-influenced falsetto jam.

Watch the video and download the choose-your-own-adventure version on Spinner.

Download the “make your own video” over at the MGMT website.

Feb 21 / Dan

This is the MusicGlob WIRE

Hey there, it’s Dan from MusicGlob. I’ve always wanted a “sideblog” or something like what I just created to post anything and everything music related that I didn’t want to post on MusicGlob. So here we are. I plan on posting flyers, shows, press releases, downloads, links to other sites and just a bunch of other random stuff.

In the future maybe I’ll open this up as a community driven site. I really have no clue but for now it is a supplemental blog for MusicGlob. Hit me up if you would like to contribute or you’ve got a great idea for the WIRE.