A really good year! The first 40 or so are mega-jams and the latter 38 (Rawkblog loves you, baby) are still jams. I purposefully left out songs by Destroyer because I couldn’t decide, so consider Kaputt represented. You can play the entire page with the handy Ex.fm player in the bottom right corner, stream the playlist on Spotify and Rdio, and download everything after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
ARMS’ spectacular Summer Skills is out this week at last. Here’s the band playing one of its many jams at last week’s album release party. Big Ugly Yellow Couch has more videos and a few live MP3s, too.
Todd Goldstein, back in his Harlem Shakes days / photo by David Greenwald
I think I’ve gushed enough about ARMS in the last couple years, so as Summer Skills‘ long-awaited November debut edges closer, here’s the band’s latest, “Glass Harmonica.” Can it save 2k11? It can try. Catch the band at CMJ starting Oct. 19.
Attendees at our Waynestock unofficial SXSW party earlier this year got an advance preview of ARMS’ exuberant Summer Skills, but here’s the first studio taste: “Fleeced,” a tense rocker that comes in and out of focus like your favorite Vimeo clip. The album’s due Nov. 9; if it’s not the best indie-rock album of the month, I’ll eat my laptop.
The band also covered the Sun Kil Moon classic “Carry Me Ohio” for the Voice Project, adding a drifting keyboard to the harrowing melody. Watch it below. Read the rest of this entry »
As we wait for ARMS to show off their Summer Skills, bassist Matty Fasano has made his solo debut: a digital 7″ featuring two somber piano ballads. It’s more dour and minor key than ARMS’ crackling indie-rock, with Radiohead’s quietest moments (“Pyramid Song”) or Liam Singer’s overlooked, intermittent genius the closest references. Hope there’s more on the way — so long as it doesn’t distract from that day job. (The tracks were also engineered by sometime-P4kers Matt LeMay and Nick Sylvester, guaranteeing this a future 7.6.)
Here’s our first look at ARMS’ sophomore effort/full-band debut, Summer Skills. (And by “our first look,” I mean, “This album is fantastic and I can’t wait for everybody else to hear it, but this will do until then.”)
I’m taking an NYC vacation next month, exactly one week too late to catch Best of ’10 chart-toppers ARMS finish off their Wednesday residency at Pianos. (Which is to say: New Yorkers! Go see ARMS at Pianos.) Here’s the band doing a typically emotion-obliterating take on “High Heels” from the Big Ugly Yellow Couch videographers.
As we wait for ARMS to show off their Summer Skills, bassist Matty Fasano has made his solo debut: a digital 7″ featuring two somber piano ballads. It’s more dour and minor key than ARMS’ crackling indie-rock, with Radiohead’s quietest moments (“Pyramid Song”) or Liam Singer’s overlooked, intermittent genius the closest references. Hope there’s more on the way — so long as it doesn’t distract from that day job. (The tracks were also engineered by sometime-P4kers Matt LeMay and Nick Sylvester, guaranteeing this a future 7.6.)
