Jheri Evans from Get Off The Coast has been blogging about the mysterious RxRy for quite a while now, and fans of Brain Enos’ Ambient 1-Music For Airports will have a field day with all of the free downloads avaliable on RxRys’ myspace. There was quite a bit of speculation that RxRy was Panda Bear (of AnCo fame), but I have been assured by a credible source that ‘I will never guess who it is’. If you want to hear some ‘modern eno’ I would definitely give RxRy a peep.

Edvrd Rvrfy Guitr – RxRy – RxRy 2010 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.

New video from Craft Spells, promoting their forthcoming EP.

This clip is Anna Karina dancing in Jean-Luc Godards’ film, “Vivre Sa Vie”.

A beautiful video for Bonfire, the B-side to Memoryhouses’ upcoming 7”, To The Lighthouse available March 2nd, which you can preorder here


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I’m a bit late to the game on this one, but my blogging friends Chocolate Bobka and Friendship Bracelet turned me on to Games (who you can follow on tumblr here). If you’re into some nostalgiac 80s miami vice (reference stolen from Friendship Bracelet) shit, you’ll totally dig this. Keep your eyes peeled for a Games’ debut EP called That We Can Play, due out this Summer.


Everything Is Working by Games


Planet Party by Games

Bryant over at Part Time Music just posted this awesome, in-depth review analyzing Pitchfork’s rating system, due to Toro Y Mois’ obviously underrated Pitchfork review. You can read it all here, but below are the general conclusions:



* All albums scoring 8.6 and higher was automatically made Best New Music.


* If you are a metal fan, you’ve gotten royally screwed over and overlooked by p4k. Only two albums were selected for BNM within the past year: Sunn O))))’s Monoliths & Dimensions and Isis’s Wavering Radiant (both with scores of 8.5). Adding insult to injury was that out of the 15 albums that scored an 8.5, 11 of them made BNM. Two of the four that didn’t make the cut were metal-related records (Baroness’s Blue Record and Converge’s Axe to Fall) — both occurring on days when no other record made BNM.



* Another one of the four albums that ranked 8.5 and was not stamped with a BNM was contemporary jazz musician Jon Hassel’s LP verbosely entitled Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street, supplying another example of a high performing album from a more obscure genre getting the shaft. In p4k’s defense, Yacht’s superb See Mystery Lights was BNMed that day which leads me to my next point…


* If you release a great record, make sure you don’t get reviewed on the same day as another great record. I don’t have an individual statistic for this, but I often saw high scoring albums (8.2-8.5) not get a BNM because another even better (or same ranking, just more hyped) album was reviewed the same day.



* If you are a hyped record or are an established act, you have a better shot of getting a Best New Music when you are on the cusp. Now this seems kind of obvious, but there were some egregious instances where this occurred. Of the 41 albums that scored an 8.1 and 8.2, five were chosen as BNM: Surfer Blood’s Astro Coast, Atlas Sound’s Logos Cass McCombs’s Catacombs, Bill Callahan’s Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle, and Wavves’s S/T


* Yeah, I have no idea what they were thinking BNM-ing that Mos Def record (the lowest score and, out of 36 records that scored an 8.0, it was the only one to get BNM-ed).

Blank Dogs: Phrases EP


To be released through Captured Tracks March 23rd

1. Heat and Depression
2. Blurred Tonight
3. Racing Backwards
4. End of Summer

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Get it from Midheaven, run of 1000.



Thanks to @PT_music for the tweet

Brooklyn band Coasting played a live radio set (which you can download here) for Jenn Pelly’s (of The Pelly Twins Blog) radio show on monday. Coasting has no physical releases yet, but keep your eyes peeled for a 7” from Group Tightener.

Well, well, well. The highly anticipated ‘I Will Be’ is rapidly approaching. I’ve been a fan since the beginning, nearly snatching 1/50 super rare red shmeared s/t EPs off of eBay (40 bucks is a lot of money for an EP!).



Here’s the problem:



You’ll be able to order The Dum Dum Girls LP from Hozac two weeks earlier, and the first 1000 will be on gold vinyl.



This LP is a co-release with Sub Pop, and pre-ordering it through them will get you an EP (which was originally released by Dee Dee and her husband Brandon Welchez’s label, Zoo Music in a run of about a 100 copies) along with the vinyl, but the vinyl won’t be colored and you’ll have to wait a bit longer before you get it. To help make the decision, Stereogum(which, by the way, you’ll notice has been completely re-done and looks super sexy) premeired a song from the ‘100 run EP’. It’s called D.A.L (Dream Away Life), and you can get it here. I would describe this track as ‘dreamy reverb pop’, and reminds me a lot of Baby Don’t Go.

Much thanks to Fader for posting up this awesome song from the Campfires/Cloud Nothings split. It’s super catchy and exactly what you’d expect from the Cloud Nothings. Happy listening! Get the tape from Bathetic



Cloud Nothings: Little Raygun


Previously:

Cloud Nothings/Campfires Split


UPDATE

Gorilla Vs. Bear posted another new Cloud Nothings track, called Morgan , which is off of this super rare (run of 250!)/limited edition/hand-numbered 7” pictured below, which you can get from Group Tightener. It’s nine bucks, but it’s still cheaper than the Best Coast 7” that sold out-stop complaining homies. Also, if you are a Rhode Island resident, the show in Providence is still TBA, but is most definitely still occurring Monday, March 8th. Keep your eyes peeled on the Cloud Nothings myspace for more details.