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With air-tight harmonies that feel like a strange but beautiful cross between Fleet Foxes and The Grateful Dead, this Philly trio truly is deserving of the national recognition they’ve been getting recently. Just before the release of their self-titled sophomore album, Good Old War stopped by WKDU to play a handful of songs off their first album, Only Way To Be Alone.
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1 DEERHUNTER Monomania (4AD)
2 WILD NOTHING Empty Estate (Captured Tracks)
3 RESTORATIONS LP2 (SideOneDummy)
4 MIKAL CRONIN MCII (Merge)
5 LAURA STEVENSON Wheel (Don Giovanni)
6 THEE OH SEES Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
7 BORN RUFFIANS Birthmarks (Yep Roc)
8 TERA MELOS X’ed Out (Sargent House)
9 SAVAGES Silence Yourself (Matador)
10 GRANDCHILDREN Golden Age (Earnest Jenning)
11 MOUNT KIMBIE Cold Spring Fault Less Youth (Warp)
12 WAVVES Afraid Of Heights (Warner Brothers)
13 ALPINE A Is For Alpine (Votive)
14 IRON AND WINE Ghost On Ghost (Nonesuch)
15 TELEKINESIS Dormarion (Merge)
16 KURT VILE Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
17 FLAMING LIPS The Terror (Warner Brothers)
18 IO ECHO Ministry Of Love (Iamsound)
19 BROTHERS IN LAW Hard Time For Dreamers (WWNBB)
20 FRONT BOTTOMS Talon Of The Hawk (Bar/None)
21 MAL BLUM Tempest In A Teacup (Betterweather)
22 SHE AND HIM Volume 3 (Merge)
23 JAMES BLAKE Overgrown (Republic)
24 THERMALS Desperate Ground (Saddle Creek)
25 AKRON/FAMILY Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)
26 STILL CORNERS Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop)
27 GENERATIONALS Heza (Polyvinyl)
28 KATE NASH Girl Talk (Have 10p)
29 SHANNON AND THE CLAMS Dreams In The Rat House (Hardly Art)
30 BOMBINO Nomad (Nonesuch)
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By Shannen Gaffney
Eleanor Friedberger is back with a new single, titled ”Stare at the Sun”! It’s an upbeat springtime track that will make you want to ditch your work and go play frisbee with someone’s dog. Friedberger’s unmistakable voice will likely be stuck in your head for awhile after listening, but you probably won’t mind. The funny video seems to be mocking typical hipstery video production of late (in a loving way, of course). As she sings, “If that was goodbye, then I must be high / You know I’ll be seeing you soon,” a cute teenage girl loosely translates in sign language, then plays air guitar in between verses. I’ll definitely be adding this song to my ‘Wake Up’ playlist!
Friedberger has a pretty extensive tour planned for the month of June (though sadly there are no dates in Philly), along with her second solo album, titled Personal Record, coming out on June 4th.
1 RESTORATIONS LP2
2 LAURA STEVENSON Wheel
3 THEE OH SEES Floating Coffin
4 DEERHUNTER Monomania
5 TERA MELOS X’ed Out
6 BORN RUFFIANS Birthmarks
7 WAVVES Afraid Of Heights
8 TELEKINESIS Dormarion
9 MIKAL CRONIN MCII
10 BLEACHED Ride Your Heart
11 SAVAGES Silence Yourself
12 IRON AND WINE Ghost On Ghost
13 ALPINE A Is For Alpine
14 KURT VILE Wakin On A Pretty Daze
15 SHE AND HIM Volume 3
16 FLAMING LIPS The Terror
17 GRANDCHILDREN Golden Age
18 YOUTH LAGOON Wondrous Bughouse
19 JAMES BLAKE Overgrown
20 BROTHERS IN LAW Hard Time For Dreamers
21 GENERATIONALS Heza
22 ALLISON WEISS Say What You Mean
23 KATE NASH Girl Talk
24 NO JOY Wait To Pleasure
25 WAXAHATCHEE Cerulean Salt
26 THE KNIFE Shaking The Habitual
27 PISSED JEANS Honeys
28 BLACK ANGELS Indigo Meadow
29 MAL BLUM Tempest In A Teacup
30 WILD BELLE Isles
By Shannen Gaffney
So obsessed with this song right now. Grandchildren are a Philly-born pop electro band who also incorporate acoustic elements into their music. They’re on the Brooklyn-based independent label Ernest Jenning Records and their latest album Golden Age came out just a few weeks ago. Sheer pop rock perfection.
1 RESTORATIONS LP2
2 LAURA STEVENSON Wheel
3 WAVVES Afraid Of Heights
4 TERA MELOS X’ed Out
5 THEE OH SEES Floating Coffin
6 BLEACHED Ride Your Heart
7 TELEKINESIS Dormarion
8 SAVAGES Silence Yourself
9 KURT VILE Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze
10 DEERHUNTER Monomania
11 !!! Thr!!!er
12 BORN RUFFIANS Birthmarks
13 NO JOY Wait To Pleasure
14 YOUTH LAGOON Wondrous Bughouse
15 WAXAHATCHEE Cerulean Salt
16 ALLISON WEISS Say What You Mean
17 BLACK ANGELS Indigo Meadow
18 PISSED JEANS Honeys
19 FLAMING LIPS The Terror
20 IO ECHO Ministry of Love
21 WILD BELLE Isles
22 THE KNIFE Shaking The Habitual
23 DEAD CONFEDERATE In The Marrow
24 DIRTY FENCES Too High To Kross
25 WIRE Change Becomes Us
26 KATE NASH Girl Talk
27 GENERATIONALS Heza
28 DUMP Superpowerless
29 THE MEN New Moon
30 MUDHONEY Vanishing Point
On February 21st, 2013, The Front Bottoms came through and recorded a short session with us before their show down the street at World Cafe Live (opening for Bad Books).
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