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Israel warns Syria about war crossing border, Jordan turning away Syrian refugees, Iraq fears Syria war spillover, deadly Iraq attacks continue to surge, Taliban kills Afghan cops, Afghan women increasingly jailed for 'moral crimes,' Congo war re-starts, Libyan weapons killing central African elephants, and swine flu hits Indiana and Iowa farms.

♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on Episode059 - Free At Dawn which features brand new sounds from Deerhunter, Los Amigos Invisibles, Still Corners, Savages, Neon Neon, Small Black, She and Him, Cecile McLoren Savant, youryoungbody, Ex Cops, Freedom Fry, Crimes, Inc and Kithkin...

Episode059: MP3/Feed\Archive

Previous: Episode058 - Future Hunter


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♬Liner Notes♬: Welcome back to another eclectic blast of new sounds! This week rocks some Savages, Ex Cops, She And Him, Neon Neon and much more... Let's kick it off with new Deerhunter and Pump Up Tha Volume!

Deerhunter
"Back To The Middle"
'Monomania'
4AD, 2013
Note: We begin this week with the hotly anticipated new record from Georgia's Deerhunter, and as the Guardian says, "At this point, complaining about any of Bradford Cox's musical choices seems pointless: he does what he wants, and if you don't like it, you can go and listen to something else. You might as well suggest that oranges are all very well, but they'd be a whole lot better if they were peaches. Nevertheless, six albums into Deerhunter's career, Bradford Cox's decision to embrace ultra-low fidelity seems perverse."
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Los Amigos Invisibles
"La Que Me Gusta"
'Repeat After Me'
Nacional, 2013
Note: "In the early 1990s in Venezuela, a group of young musicians decided to compose and play music unlike any thing they heard in the clubs of Caracas... Amazingly, the original line up is unchanged over their twenty years of playing together. With an enormous Latin fan base they've garnered numerous award nominations and received a couple of Latin Grammys. "Repeat After Me" is their seventh CD release and true to form is choc a bloc with absolutely great tracks."
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Still Corners
"Fireflies"
'Strange Pleasures'
Sub Pop, 2013
Note: "While Still Corners first made a name for themselves with their 2012 shoegaze-inspired album, Creatures of an Hour, their sophomore album, Strange Pleasures, has moved the London-based group, now a duo, into 80s synth pop - but not the neon colored variety. The new album is like a clear dream about past love, cinematic and endlessly absorbing."
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Savages
"She Will"
'Silence Yourself'
Matador, 2013
Note: We last heard a single from this London quartet on Episode042, but now they're back for the attack! "In theory then, debut album ‘Silence Yourself’ is flawless. Just see its monochrome sleeve – even their eyebrows look deeply important. The studied angular riffs, motorik beats and flair for tension-and-release form a confrontational soundtrack to urban friction. Every distorted note sounds under control. Savages could manipulate the screech of fingernails running down a chalkboard and make it sound melodic."
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Neon Neon
"Mid Century Modern Nightmare"
'Praxis Makes Perfect'
Lex, 2013
Note: "Shortly after the release of Neon Neon's Mercury prize-nominated 2008 debut album Stainless Style – a brilliantly catchy, 1980s-indebted rumination on the life of roguish automobile engineer John DeLorean – Gruff Rhys had this to say about a potential followup to the BBC. "I don't know about making another Neon Neon album because it was quite a specific record about DeLorean's life story. If we did something in the future it would have to be something different." Five years later and Rhys and his production foil Boom Bip have finally announced the followup, the brilliantly-titled Praxis Makes Perfect, which is, of course, a musical biography of the controversial Italian leftwing political activist and book publisher, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. One of the album's most political statements comes in the shape of the squelchy, mischievously upbeat Mid Century Modern Nightmare, premiered here, which features Asia Argento reading out extracts from a call-to-arms that Feltrinelli broadcast in Genoa in 1970, using a pirate transmitter wired up to his Fiat car."
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Small Black
"Free At Dawn"
'Limits of Desire'
Jagjaguwar, 2013
Note: "“Free At Dawn” is a fresh reintroduction for Small Black, giving us a clear and thriving picture of their present chapter as a band. Gone is all of the noise and reverb of New Chain... Limits of Desire is sure to thrill as well as to challenge listeners to a more serious emotional and spiritual encounter with Small Black’s work."
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She and Him
"Never Wanted Your Love"
'Volume 3'
Merge, 2013
Note: Death and Taxes says, "“Volume 3″ is a totally solid album, leagues better than the shrill (sorry) and oddly mastered (not sorry) “Volume 2″... “Volume 3″ legitmately sounds like the Patsy Cline / doo-wop sound that she’s been striving for all along – Zooey sounds free here – and it makes it work, it makes it click, and it makes for a great album... M. Ward, though, steps a little more to the center of the stage this time around, and it may just be exactly what She & Him needed all along – someone to bounce off of. It’s a much more different outing for both of them."
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Cécile McLorin Salvant
"St. Louis Gal"
'Womanchild'
Mack Avenue, 2013
Note: The Old Gray Lady says, "THE jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant, who recently turned 23 and is still mostly unknown to jazz audiences, though not for much longer... Her voice clamps into each song, performing careful variations on pitch, stretching words but generally not scatting; her face conveys meaning, representing sorrow or serenity like a silent-movie actor. "
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youryoungbody
"Sterile"
'Kurokabi' EP
self-released, 2013
Note: Song source KEXP says, "Known for eerie electronic music, Seattle duo youryoungbody has recently released their debut album, Kurokabi, which, like their two previous EP’s, USER and Mask, is forceful in its musical subtlety and ubiquity."
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Ex Cops
"Nico Beast"
'True Hallucinations'
Fat Possum, 2013
Note: Pretty Much Amazing says, "Throughout True Hallucinations, the debut from this Brooklyn duo, Harding and Bruun have proven themselves adept at creating infectious indie pop songs. Their songs are not only immediately appealing, but fluent in the indie pop and dream pop classics, and do their best to imitate their influences. The influences are diverse enough to make True Hallucinations worth exploring..."
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Freedom Fry
"Friends + Enemies"
'Friends + Enemies' EP
self-released, 2013
Note: Song source KEXP says, "Although they’re based in Los Angeles, Freedom Fry is comprised of New York City’s Bruce Driscoll and Paris’ Marie Seyrat, a pair that combine both of their home cities’ sleekest musical traits... Rolling with a DFA-style drum and bass pattern, “Friends + Enemies” squares Driscoll and Seyrat against one another to create a track filled with positive tension."
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Crimes
"Cloud Creep"
'Thin Sunlight'
self-released, 2013
Note: Reviler says this Minneapolis band's new record "pulls off a difficult task. It is a reverb soaked musical amalgamation, pulling together sounds from surf, garage and pop influences under one well manicured roof."
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Inc
"Lifetime"
'No World'
4AD, 2013
Note: Fact Magazine says the Aged brothers debut "is a luscious distillation of a range of R&B and soul: everything from quiet storm balladry to the sensual grooves of the Aaliyah / Timbaland catalog, but with a decidedly modern edge that feels more immediate than similarly influenced artists like How To Dress Well and the xx. The album is said to be “rooted in the brothers’ experiences” as session musicians for the likes of Pharrell, 50 Cent, and Raphael Saadiq."
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Kithkin
"Fallen Giants" single
self-released, 2013
Note: Our Pacific Northwest closer this week is more than a band, they're a self-described "Cascadian youth tribe"! This song "resonates with the kind of epic presence that’s usually only found during the closing titles of Peter Jackson films. As a piercing organ shines through the thick, pounding wave of drums, the song tells a majestic and sometimes odd...tale of starting anew."
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@PumpUpThaVolume Music News:
Damn, gonna miss Man or Astro-Man? @astrohq
well i can't stop watching this.. Chris Hadfield sings "Space Oddity" aboard the International Space Station
Some people say "Black Skinhead" sounds like former FADER label-signee Saul Williams.
Kanye West titles June album 'Yeezus,' reaches apex of megalomania
Stream Lana Del Rey's groovy "Queen of Disaster" leak
Stream ex-Harvey Danger frontman Sean Nelson's springy "Born Without a Heart"
Franz Ferdinand's new album 'Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action' is missing some recently debuted songs
Joy Division's Ian Curtis died 33 years ago today. Remember him with rare photos & snapshots from his journal

(Thanks again to KEXP, KCRW, The Current, Twilight Circus Dub Sound System and you!)

Andy Kroll dissects campaign financing and the IRS. Asli Bali on Syria. Stan Cox talks rationing. Paul Thomas talks education. Todd Williams reports from 'post-racial' Hungary. Michael Roper covers beer. Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode153 -
Scandal Week, Angelina Eugenics, Mini-Bilderberg
Welcome back to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: How the IRS, Benghazi, and AP scandals might converge
Congresswoman: Obama gave Benghazi stand down order
Video: Navy SEAL Extortion 17 EXPOSED

Story #2: Angelina Jolie will have ovaries removed next
Angelina Jolie inspires women to maim themselves by celebrating medically perverted double mastectomies

Story #3: Mini Bilderberg? Bill Gates, Bloomberg, and World's Richest Meeting on Gated SC Island
They're called the Good Club - and they want to save the world
Future EU president attends Bilderberg dinner
Jim Tucker, 'Bilderberg Hound', Dead at 78

Visit NewWorldNextWeek.com to get previous episodes in various formats to download, burn and share. And as always, stay up-to-date by subscribing to the feeds from Corbett Report here and Media Monarchy here. Thank you.

Previous: Episode152 - Syria Bombed, Hill Jailed, Zero Dark CIA

Scores killed in Iraq bombings, at least 13 dead in Pakistan mosque attacks, Syrian torture evidence discovered, Syrian refugee crisis explodes, manhood rites of passage kills 23, US soldier gets life for killing five colleagues, Russian military may return to Afghan border, 15,000+ protest Israeli military conscription, and Bahrain "red line" crossed.

Nothing like chasing ambulances.

16 killed in Afghan car bomb blast, another Syrian execution video, Asics factory collapse kills two, bribery probe hurts Wal-Mart profits, Nigerian war ramps up, Egypt's worst economic crisis since 1930s, Pope condemns capitalism again, hit men target Colombian journalists, and Israel takes steps to expand settlements.

Deadly Iraq bombings continue, Nigeria's 'state of emergency' follows 'declaration of war,' US military sexual misconduct scandal widens, Osaka mayor suggests US troops use prostitutes, Walmart won't sign Bangladesh garment worker safety agreement, BP and Shell raided in price-fixing scandal, Greek austerity causes more HIV and malaria, Europe in record recession, and Vietnam 'rubber lords' destroy Cambodia and Laos.

Hincty food and pyramid schemes 'Made in America'

200 Rohingya killed fleeing monsoon, four US troops killed in Afghanistan, US officer court-martialed for pissing on dead Taliban, France not so hopeful for Syria peace talks, Syrian rebel commander filmed biting heart of dead government soldier, South Sudanese troops raid aid agencies, Greece bans teacher strike so government workers walk off job, Chinese sex worker abuse condemned, and US taxpayer money promotes Monsanto's genetically-modified food.

♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on @PumpUpThaVolume! Episode058 - Future Hunter was recorded at the home studios of MediaMonarchy.com and features brand new #SongOfTheDay sounds from Mikal Cronin, Leisure Society, Kingsbury Manx, Carmen Villain, Ludovico Einaudi, Postal Service, Child Of Lov, Thee Oh Sees, Jonny Fritz, Steve Mason, Born Ruffians, VANDAAM, Chrysta Bell and Stone Gossard... because it can't be news and politics all the time!

Episode058: MP3/Feed\Archive



Previous: Episode057 - The Beauty Surrounds
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♬Liner Notes♬: Another genre-spanning episode with Thee Oh Sees, Steve Mason, Child of Lov, Postal Service and much more... Indie rock to classical, country to electropop - we are "Future Hunter"s!

Mikal Cronin
"Weight"
'MCII'
Merge, 2013
Note: For starters, Pitchfork says, "MCII is also his most fully realized, beautifully arranged, and well-crafted work to date. Since he's spent the past year shredding for the masses in the Ty Segall Band, it's easy to forget that he recently earned his B.F.A. in Music and learned how to compose for different instruments."
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Leisure Society
"A Softer Voice Takes Longer Hearing"
'Alone Aboard the Ark'
Full Time Hobby, 2013
Note: "As a fan of UK's The Leisure Society, Ray Davies' of The Kinks invited the band to record their album at his Konk Studios. Today's Top Tune gives us an idea of the band's expansive electro-pop sound..."
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Kingsbury Manx
"Future Hunter"
'Bronze Age'
Odessa, 2013
Note: Their local North Carolina Indy Week says this band's sixth record is "a very sophisticated and subtle band hiding their involved machinations behind pop music meant to sound, once again, elegant and elementary."
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Carmen Villain
"Lifeissin"
'Sleeper'
Smalltown Supersound, 2013
Note: "Let's get this out of the way first - Carmen Villain used to be a very successful model. Her face has appeared on the covers of Vogue and Nylon, and high profile cosmetic ad campaigns. It turns out Carmen Hillestad (Carmen Villain) has been a spy in the house of fashion. Behind the scenes, she was channeling her frustrations into a set of songs with a defiantly DIY underground free-rock sound."
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Ludovico Einaudi
"Brothers"
'In A Time Lapse'
Ponderosa, 2013
Note: "No longer do small snippets of Einaudi do his music justice; the natural crescendos and decrescendos, the accelerandos and the ritardandos, lend themselves to a fuller experience, one better suited for soundtracks than the latest NBA commercial. At the least, In a Time Lapse is a release that will undoubtedly solidify Einaudi’s place as one of the greatest pianists and composers of our era."
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Postal Service
"A Tattered Line of String"
'Give Up' (Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition)
Sub Pop, 2013
Note: For the second week we get some Postal Service, but THIS time it's a 'new' track from the deluxe edition of the now legendary album. "A much-anticipated sophomore album was planned but never completed, so fans will have to make do with the double-disc Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition, which adds two new songs: the pulsing and danceable “Turn Around” and “A Tattered Line of String.” This tremendously influential work is Sub Pop's second-bestselling album behind Nirvana's “Bleach,” and listening to it again tells the reason why."
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Child Of Lov
"Heal"
'Child Of Lov'
Domino, 2013
Note: "Results may vary, but you know that whatever Damon Albarn associates himself with will never be dull. In the words of The Mighty Boosh’s Howard Moon, when Damon sees a boundary, he eats a boundary. So when it was announced that Blur’s musical polymath would produce and guest on Dutch newcomer The Child Of Lov’s debut, the coupling seemed perfect... on the stabbing funk of ‘Heal’, with Williams falsetto-ing over grimy synths and layered backing vocals"
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Thee Oh Sees
"Toe Cutter-Thumb Buster"
'Floating Coffin'
Castle Face, 2013
Note: Making their landmark fourth appearance on PUTV - and for the second week in a row - we get more from the new album that's topping college charts. "John Dwyer and his project, Thee Oh Sees, has been wonderfully impossible to pin down over 15 albums. There have always been different experiments with pop-folk and psychedelia and all kinds of fuzzy, eccentric noise play. But with last year’s Putrifiers II, the band found a concise mix of all its wide sounds... Floating Coffin both extends and distorts that progression. It’s another tense, potent dose of rocking jangle, but it’s also darker than its predecessor and more interested in tonal and mood shifts mid-song."
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Jonny Fritz
"Goodbye Summer"
'Dad Country'
ATO, 2013
Note: "Dad Country is the first release under the name of Jonny Fritz. Dad Country is a good title direct for the songs collected on the album. Known as a musical entity under the heading Jonny Corndawg since his late teens, the real Mr. Fritz is using the name that he used to sign his ATO Records deal."
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Steve Mason
"Seen It All Before"
'Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time'
Domino/Double Six, 2013
Note: "Steve Mason is a man who spends much time thinking about the world around him and the effect it has on himself and society at large. Perhaps he is welcoming us into a corner of his mind as Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time -- his third album under his own name -- begins."
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Born Ruffians
"Needle"
'Birthmarks'
Yep Roc, 2013
Note: "This album follows a simple idea: grow or die. Birthmarks is, largely, the sound of the [Canadian four piece] learning how to gracefully leave behind pre-pubescent tomfoolery in favor of meatier themes and weightier production."
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VANDAAM
"Electron Oceans"
'VANDAAM' EP
self-released, 2013
Note: "It was a side project... Now it’s transitioned into a trio based here in the Twin Cities with Adept and Lady Midnight joining in on the beat-making process... The two initial demos were fascinating enough, but VANDAAM’s current release is a gorgeous, down-tempo and matured affair."
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Chrysta Bell
"Right Down to You"
'This Train'
La Rose Noire, 2011
Note: "Chanteuse Chrysta Bell has joined forces with her close friend David Lynch to produce their first album together; a bewitching and impassioned alliance. David Lynch’s dark and dreamy idiosyncrasies are unmistakable and Chrysta Bell oozes aloofness, a Monroe-esque sex appeal. The result is a hauntingly beautiful collaboration."
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Stone Gossard
"I Need Something Different"
'Moonlander'
Monkeywrench, 2013
Note: And finally, our Pacific Northwest closer this week "is a man who needs no introduction. As the guitar player in four influential Seattle bands - Brad, Green River, Mother Love Bone, and Pearl Jam (plus the short-lived Temple of the Dog)... Centered around a dirty, punk blues guitar sound, “I Need Something Different” finds Gossard walking down new musical paths while lyrically commenting on his new pursuits."
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@PumpUpThaVolume Music News:
Steve Roach right now at SomaFM
Artist Lauryn Hill Ordered by the Court to Undergo “Counseling” Due to her “Conspiracy Theories”
Lauryn Hill playing last minute Brooklyn show at Music Hall of Williamsburg (before jail)
Best New Music Releases, Week of May 7th – AM & Shawn Lee, She & Him, Deerhunter, Mikal Cronin, Savages, Fitz ...

(Thanks again to @KEXP, @KCRW, @TheCurrent and you!)

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode152 -
Syria Bombed, Hill Jailed, Zero Dark CIA
Welcome back to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: Unprovoked Attack On Syria - Israel Commits Egregious International Crime
19-Hour Internet Outage In Syria Ends
Israel Granted Oil Rights in Syria to Murdoch and Rothschild Two Months Ago
Stephen Hawking Joins Academic Boycott of Israel
"House Of Cards" Chapter 2 Features Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

Story #2: Lauryn Hill Signs A Five-Song, $1 Million Deal With Sony To Avoid Prison
Lauryn Hill Gets Three Months In Prison For Failing To Pay Taxes
Lauryn Hill Blames 'Slavery' as She's Jailed for $500,000 Unpaid Tax Bill
Flashback: Lauryn Hill's Taxing Problem - "Manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex"
Flashback Video: Why Dave Chappelle Quit
Flashback: Geithner Didn't Pay Taxes

Story #3: CIA Requested 'Zero Dark Thirty' Rewrites, Memo Reveals
Flashback: Documents Show Admin Offered Access to Osama Filmmakers
NWNW Flashback: Obama's Oscar
Video: CNN Anchors Fake Satellite Interview In Same Parking Lot

Visit NewWorldNextWeek.com to get previous episodes in various formats to download, burn and share. And as always, stay up-to-date by subscribing to the feeds from Corbett Report here and Media Monarchy here. Thank you.

Previous: Episode151 - Boston Bombings, Financial Pirates, Quake Swarms

http://www.artofthetitle.com/ File under escapism but we all need that in Hell, right… The recent Google Doodle celebrating the late great Saul Bass on his 93rd birthday made me think about how much I really love the greatest film title sequences in the history of film.  Here’s a website that feels the same way.  

Emily Matchar talks 'The New Domesticity.' Kirsten Gwynne on the drug war and law enforcement. Nicole Aschoff explains explains what's behind the 'Imported From Detroit' PR campaign. Sarah Jaffe gives 'Dispatches from the Class War.' Dave Buchen reports from Puerto Rico. Greg Palast dissects the FBI's Chechen investigation. Kate O'Donnell says, 'Thank You, Science! Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.

Bangladesh garment factory deaths pass 1,000, Syrian refugees selling young daughters for marriage, bombs rock Benghazi, Nigerian wives protest husbands deaths in ambush, Africa being ripped off by tax evades and mining concerns, ultra-Orthodox Jews violently confront women praying at Western Wall, half of Chinese men admit to physical and sexual abuse of women, ex-Guatemalan dictator awaits genocide verdict, and Earth's climate-changing carbon dioxide levels pass record milestone.

Racism is still 'America Strong.'

46 Nigerian cops killed in ambush, another deadly Bangladesh garment factory fire, protests follow death sentence for Bangladesh opposition leader, Pakistan rules US drone strikes are "war crimes," US will have nine bases in Afghanistan after withdrawal, both sides violated international law in November Gaza-Israel fighting, Israel expands illegal settlements, new Egypt may limit civil society more than Mubarak ever did, and China bird flu deaths up to 32.

There's a new trivial pursuit!

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