MP3: Deny All

Bettie Serveert release their ninth album, Pharmacy of Love, later this month. Above is the first track of the record for your downloading pleasure. You can pre-order it at Amazon.

Bettie Serveert escaped me in the 90s, and it has only been in recent years that I’ve been playing catch up with the band’s discography. It’s been fun digging through the catalog and this new album fits in nicely with the band’s sound.

Keep reading for a video of Deny All… (more…)

MP3: Titus Andronicus – A More Perfect Union

New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus is doing a mini tour of in-store performances in support of their new Civil War concept album, The Monitor, which is out tomorrow on XL. One of the seven stops will be at Used Kids Records here in Columbus this Wednesday, 3/10. And it’s free. The poster says 7 pm, Used Kids says 6 pm. Who will you trust…

They’ll also be back in Columbus at the Summit April 22.

MP3: Single #9 – Sleep

#9 in Ghost Shirt’s 52 Singles in 52 Weeks project.

MP3:Guinea Worms-B.I.S.I.

Guinea Worms are having an event to highlight the release on their long desired album Sorcererers of Madness on Columbus Discount at Cafe Bourbon Street this evening.
I don’t know much about this band and I prefer to not write book reports.
Click on their name to read an educated opinion.
And i read some statistic on how this record’s national demand exceeded it’s supply so…listen to MP3 and evaluate your evening i suppose
If Jay Electronica or Get RIght isn’t your thing tonight.

MP3: The Mercury Program – Arrived Departed

Seems like most people I talk to got their introduction to instrumental post-rock through bands like Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. My initiation, however, was at a show in Richmond, Virginia by a band called The Mercury Program when they were touring on the album A Data Learn the Language (awesome title, btw). The show floored me at the time and remains stuck in my brain today — overlapping guitars drenched in delay, intricate/intense drumming, masterful dynamics and the best use of vibraphone I’d heard. I was spellbound.

I’ve checked the band’s website from time to time to see what they were up to, and for a long while the status was “indefinite hiatus.” But I somehow missed that the band released a new LP in November called Chez Viking on Lovitt Records (Engine Down, Bats and Mice). And now the Mercury Program is hitting the road for the first time in five years. Check out the dates (w/ Fin Fang Foom, also on Lovitt) after the jump. (more…)

MP3: RJD2: The Shining Path Alan Wilkis Remix

Alan Wilkis Remix of RJD2’s “the Shining Path” that feature Grammy nominee Phonte of Foreign Exchange and Little Brother singing.

MP3: Two Headed Boy

Fleet Foxes’ singer Robin Pecknold is opening the short but sweet Joanna Newsom tour, which includes a stop in Columbus.

On tour:

03-28 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
03-29 Columbus, OH – Southern Theatre
03-30 Cincinnati, OH – MusicNow Festival
03-31 Bloomington, IN – Buskirk-Chumley Theatre
04-02 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
04-03 Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre

Above is a live cover of Robin covering Neutral Milk Hotel for your downloading pleasure. More details about where the cover comes from here.

(Photo by Sound on the Sound)

MP3: Single#8 – Go Mailbox i

#8 in Ghost Shirt’s 52 Singles in 52 Weeks project.

MP3: Micah Schnabel – American Static

This record started out as something Micah pressed himself and sold out shows, but Suburban Home is giving When the Stage Lights Go Dim a proper release on March 9. And proper, it is — you can pre-order six different packages. There’s digital (mp3 and flac), CD, black vinyl, green-and-white vinyl, plus coozies, buttons, pint glasses, posters and so on.

I also got a pleasant surprise when I pulled the trigger on the green vinyl pre-order: The mp3 download for the record (which is e-mailed immediately) also included a digital album called “Two Cow Garage – Live @ 3 Kings,” which presumably is from one of the band’s shows at the 3 Kings Tavern in Denver. Nice!

After a cursory listen, the record is pretty much all I would want from a Micah Schnabel solo album — no frills, very few overdubs or collaborators (lil’ piano here, lil’ fiddle there). Just the man’s tobacco-stained voice and acoustic guitar. Not slick, not quite lo-fi. And I can’t imagine a more perfect song for him to cover than the Replacements’ “Can’t Hardly Wait.”

If you want to give it a test run before pulling the trigger yourself, you can grab that mp3 up there and stream the whole album here.

CJ Townsend is a recoccuring character on Donewaiting (Diplo Show,Marcon, Sammy Bananas,Iglu etc.)
Here is a new minimix by the super busy Columbus DJ.(Via the Grip)
MP3: Electric Minimix

“It’s Electric.”

Tracklisting:

1. Cubic Zirconia – Josephine (Greenmoney RMX)
2. Major Lazer – Keep It Going Louder (Alvarado RMX)
3. Technotronic – Pump the Jam (Risk One RMX)
4. Larry Tee & Roxy Cottontail – Let’s Make Nasty (Afrojack RMX)
5. Lee Mortimer & Laidback Luke – Blau! (Doorly RMX)
6. South Rakkas Crew – Mad Again (Fake Blood RMX)
7. MVSEVM – French Jeans (Dada Life RMX)
8. Groove Armada – Paper Romance (Urchins RMX)

MP3:Rah Digga-Warning Shots

You know how you started listening to snap music because you got tired of all the hardlegs sitting around rapping really real and smoking dirtweed.
You said to yourself procreation practice isn’t possible because the parts don’t fit. So you were like time to have fun.
Rah Digga, y’know the name, is adding an equalizing female touch to the boom-bap biosphere’s regrowth with this call to arms “Warning Shots” produced by Nottz.
She starts off saying if Lauren Hill isn’t gonna do it then someone gotta air it out for estrogen based lyricists.

Not on her upcoming record but odb raw, ya dig. ahh. sorry

MP3:destructo_uberzone_major_lazer_bruk_out_remix.mp3.php

Here is a Major Lazer remix by Rick Rubin/Knottsberry Farm affiliate Gary Richards aka Destructo. Download and pre-party for the Columbus Major Lazer Show at Boma April 6th.

MP3: Nada Surf – Electrocution (Bill Fox cover)

Donewaiting has been a big fan of Nada Surf since forever, and our recent obsession with Cleveland’s Bill Fox pretty much makes this track required posting. It’s off Nada Surf’s upcoming covers album, if i had a hi-fi, which will only be available at shows for a while, then released officially on June 8 via Mardev Records (the band’s own label). The trio chose songs by Depeche Mode, The Moody Blues, Arthur Russell, Spoon… a real mix. Looking forward to it.

Album art, full track list and tour dates after the jump (no Columbus date; all three NY shows sold out) (more…)

MP3: Single #7 – The Wreck

#7 in Ghost Shirt’s 52 Singles in 52 Weeks project.

(Poster by Alison Rose)

MP3: Magazine (from Live at Electrical Audio; original version on Pedro the Lion’s Control)

During David Bazan’s last full-band tour, he and his tourmates stopped at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in Chicago and recorded some tunes live in the studio. The result, Live at Electrical Audio, is being released March 30 on CD and April 30 on vinyl. You can pre-order now, and all pre-orders come with an immediate download link.

Also, mark your calendars: David Bazan (w/ full band) and Headlights, March 28, for a Donewaiting.com/BenCo show at The Summit. Ticket giveaways, concert poster and all that jazz to come. Purchase tickets online here.

Track list and more album details after the jump. (more…)