Never heard of this band until last week when Blind Melon’s guitarist Christopher Thorn posted on Facebook that he’ll be spending the summer on the road as a member of Awolnation. Turns out that the music isn’t at all something I’d expect Thorn to be involved with. Techno-soul is maybe the best way to describe it though Megalithic Symphony is a pretty diverse – and danceable – affair. Fans of MGMT (“People”, “Jump on My Shoulders”), The Loyal Divide (“Guilty Filthy Soul”) and TV on the Radio (“Burn it Down”, “Sail”) will most likely find a few songs to their liking and, for some reason, most of the tracks remind me of The New Radicals, who you might remember from their sole hit, “You Get What You Give”.
Asides
I miss The New Frontiers
These guys broke up 3 years ago after releasing just one full length (my favorite release of 2008). A Google search for lead singer Nathan Pettijohn leads to a link that shows what appears to be a CD cover (a Pettijohn solo release?) but I can’t find anything else that indicates that this CD either exists or is even being made.
Tell me this song doesn’t inspire goosebumps.
Amazon’s got lots of affordable used copies of Mending in case you’re interested.
Listen to the Beastie Boys “Hot Sauce Committee Part 2”
Looking like this will be my first physical CD purchase of 2011. Maybe I’ll pick up Duff McKagan’s new one while I’m at it.
New R.E.M. video – “Every Day Is Yours to Win”
Didn’t the Foo Fighters do something like this for their new CD? R.E.M. asked artists and filmmakers to create videos (short films) for each of the songs on the band’s latest CD, Collapse Into Now.
The video for “Every Day is Yours to Win” was directed by Jim McKay, Chris Moukarbel and Valerie Veatch.
Band(camp) of the Week: The Woozies
Last time I checked a calendar, it said the year was 2011. Funny though, this new release by The Woozies sounds like a “Summer of Love” relic from 1967 and could easily be mistaken for something by Jefferson Airplane.
This is one of those “name your price” Bandcamp releases and while you could choose to download for free, why not throw The Woozies a couple of bucks so they can continue to put out quality material such as this?