Danger Beach - Apache

If you like this as much as I do you can get it on Danger Beach's 2010 album Milky Way; purchase ($7) or download (free) via Dream Damage.

The Social Network

A few months back Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) revealed he had been working with long time collaborator Atticus Ross on music for David Fincher's upcoming film The Social Network.

The soundtrack will be released on CD, HD Blu-Ray Audio and Vinyl on September 28th. A free, five track sample is available for download right now.

Download the sample EP here.

How To Destroy Angels

Reviews can wait: Surely I am not really back on Bawley until I have written my first Nine Inch Nails related post.

Last year Nine Inch Nails played their final tour. At the time front man Trent Reznor did not rule out working on new Nine Inch Nails material but said to expect some new non-NIN stuff. Now, he has teamed up with his wife Mariqueen Maandig and longtime Nine Inch Nails collaborator Atticus Ross to form How To Destroy Angels.

A few mp3s have already started circulating the interwebs and there is more to come. On June 1st How To Destroy Angels will release their debut EP as a free download - better if you pre-order from howtodestroyangels.com as you will get an advance copy of EP track The Believers.

If you want to know more about the band you can ask them yourself via facebook/howtodestroyangels or check out a complete deconstruction of how a How To Destroy Angels song is made courtesy of Wired Magazine. (The iPad version of the magazine also has an interactive element. Eds Note: this probably the only useful thing I have heard you can do with an iPad)

Deftones put on their Rocket Skates

Deftones have just released Rocket Skates their first new song since a car accident left bassist Chi Cheng in a coma.

Sergio Vega has joined the band on bass but I wouldn’t say he has changed the sound much; Rocket Skates is typical Deftones, loud riff heavy and awesome.

The new album Diamond Eyes is out on May 18th I for one am hoping for more of the same (again).

Download Rocket Skates at gunsrazorsknives.com or direct from here, want to win stuff by blogging/facebooking/tweeting about Rocket Skates? You can do it here. (Yes I would have posted this anyway, why? Because Deftones rule.)

Another Version of the Truth: The Gift

Back in January 2009 we pointed you to some 400GB of raw HD footage captured during Nine Inch Nails' 2008 Lights In The Sky tour.

A year on and things have come along more than anyone could have imagined.

Fans have edited thousands of videos from the footage, assembled their own DVDs and live albums, even held theatrical screenings of their creations. And now, the ambitious and well-organised group known as This One Is On Us (remember this) have released their massive, highly-anticipated creation, Another Version of the Truth: The Gift.

Created by a team of dozens of NIN fans spanning the entire globe have pooled their efforts to create this professional-quality 1080p 5.1 concert film, and it has been released on just about every format from Blu-ray to DVD, iPod to YouTube.

That something of this scale was produced entirely by fans, on their own time, purely for the sake of giving something back, is absolutely unprecedented. You can read all about the project and find all the download links here, or watch it immediately on YouTube here. Theatrical screenings are already being organised, you can find more info about those here.

"Nine Inch Nails fans kick ass." – Trent Reznor

Two great free live releases this weekend

Spooky Fever Ray download

Back in March, one half of The Knife Karin Dreijer Andersson released a solo album under the name Fever Ray.

The self-titled album is one of the year’s best, full of claustrophobic electronic-pop songs that blend into each other so well that it almost finishes before it begins, leaving you reaching for the repeat button.

Fever Ray have performed the album’s tracks at some 50 shows, all of them reported to be among the most disturbing of recent years. Venues were completely filled with dry ice, through which you could vaguely make out eerie figures on the stage: a deeply sinister clown, someone dressed as a kind of insect.

This weekend, a recording of one of these shows has been made available to readers of The Guardian.

Guardian “readers” can download the album from http://guardian.co.uk/feverray

Crowd sourcing a Nine Inch Nails show

On August 23rd, Nine Inch Nails performed their self-hate masterpiece The Downward Spiral live in its entirety for the first time ever.

While the band were unwilling to pay the venue’s exorbitant fees to have the performance professionally recorded, they were able to negotiate an open camera policy, meaning fans could film the show themselves using anything from a mobile phone to hi-def video camera.

Almost as soon as the show ended, fans started using the nin.com forums and quasi official NIN fan sites NIN Hotline and thisoneisonus.org to hunt out and compile footage from all who attended. Now only two months later, a polished multi-cam edited downloadable DVD of the full Webster Hall performance has appeared.

Forget crowd surfing - crowd sourcing is the new thing to do at rock concerts.

You can download the DVD from http://theninhotline.net/features/TDSlive/ or stream the YouTube channel here.

Horchata: New Vampire Weekend

Earlier today the Vampire Weekend site started counting down, counting down to what no one knew some of the more interesting guesses were (via Stereogum):

Paul SImon vs. Vampire Weekend showdown

Their limited addition Vampire Weekend Boat Shoes go on sale.

The exact minute the new LL Bean catalog rolls off the press?

The announcement of another countdown which (after a few weeks) will lead to the revelation of two new albums: Vampire Weekend Rising and Vampire Weekend: Peace Walker.

A free mp3 of the first single!!!!

The clock hit 00:00:00 and all has been revealed: Yes, it is a free mp3 taken from their next album.

Head to http://www.vampireweekend.com/ to download your copy

These Are My Twisted Words: New Radiohead

Today Radiohead confirmed that last week’s Friday Freebie the leaked These Are My Twisted Words is indeed a new Radiohead song.

Guitarist Jonny Greenwood said,

"We've been recording for a while, and this was one of the first we finished. We're pretty proud of it. There's other stuff in various states of completion, but this is one we've been practicing, and which we'll probably play at this summer's concerts. Hope you like it."

The band have also made the track available for free download via their W.A.S.T.E online store.

Lost Valentinos - Midnights

Much has changed since The Valentinos bust onto the Sydney music scene in 2005.

Firstly the band’s name; a clash with 50's doo-wop artist Bobby Womack encouraged the band to become Lost Valentinos.

Secondly their sound; which has matured from jilted dance-punk to psychedelica tainted indie-dance.

One thing that has not changed is the bands ability to hook up with the big names. After having early EPs produced by The Presets and Pnau, Lost Valentinos have called on Ewan Pearson (The Rapture, Junior Boys, M83) to produce their debut album Cities of Gold.

You can sample the album with Midnights available as a free download here.

You can also download the Knife Machine remix of Serio from http://www.lostvalentinos.com/

Cities of Gold should be out this month.

F***ing Friday Freebie from ATP

This weekend Holy Fuck will join Throwing Muses, Bon Iver, Wire, CSS, Melt Banana and many more at The Breeders curated ATP festival.

A series of indie remixes, a solid debut album and some banging singles have positioned Holy Fuck as a leader among the many late 2000’s F**k bands (w/ Fuck Buttons, Fucked Up) and their set at Glastonbury last year was hailed by NME as one of the top three performances of Glastonbury 2008. All this means is ATP attendees should be in for an f***ing good time.

Download: Holy Fuck - Jungles

Holy Fuck play the Centre stage at 1:20am on Sunday morning.

Black Lips feat GZA - WTF

While recording their excellent album 200 Million Thousand Black Lips drummer Joe Bradley hinted that the band were hoping to get a member of the Wu-Tang Clan on board to do a guest vocal or remix of one of their tracks, and now they have.

The GZA features on the new Black Lips single Drop I Hold.

I know you are thinking what is a self-described flower punk band doing teaming up with the GZA? This can’t be good!

Bass player Jared Swiley understands your concern, saying

“It (Rap/Rock) has led to some of the worst music of all-time. It can be done tastefully, but there is a very fine line to be tread.”

Do Black Lips and the GZA succeed in treading this line? You can decide for yourself with this week’s Friday Freebie.

Black Lips (feat GZA) – Drop I Hold

Deerhunter Review The Breeders

I agree.

Deerhunter join CSS, The Bronx, Pit er Pat, Bon Iver, Gang of Four and many more at (now sold out) The Breeders curated ATP festival.

Friday Freebie (part II): The Breeders - Fate To Fatal (mp3)

Friday Freebie: Jarvis (hearts) Angela

Angela, an early track from Jarvis Cocker's forthcoming LP, Further Complications, is perhaps the most clichéd song about a girl you will download all week, and will download it: Why? Because you know, he use to be in Pulp.

Angela is no Deborah nor has she studied sculpture at St Martin’s Collage but she does make four-fifty an hour with a complementary shower, Angela!!

Bonus: While you wait for the download you can watch this video of Jarvis spelling his name with crazy plastic letters. C. O. C. K... I'm sorry, childish I know.

Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time, download this week’s Friday Freebie from http://www.jarviscocker.net

Blood from The Middle East

Today's Friday Freebie is Blood a sublime track from Townsville indie/folk band The Middle East.

Original pressings of their self-titled EP have sold out but an official release is on the way. For now you can download more from The Middle East on triple j Unearthed and myspace.

The Middle East - Blood (mp3)

Good Friday Freebie.

Bob Evans is back with a new album and as promised it is a little more rocking than his previous two efforts.

The first single from the album is Someone So Much, and thanks to triplej you can download it now.

I know that for some of you a little Bob Evans is never enough, so if you hop over to the schnazzy new bobevans.com.au you can download the previously unreleased We’re A Mess.

Happy Easter.

Vince the Impaler

While the UK lad rock scene is generally a pretty boring place, Kasabian offer something more. Their electronic-indie-rock is played with the swagger and confidence of Oasis, but without some of the arrogance.

This week’s Friday Freebie is Vlad the Impaler taken from the band’s third album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, you will have to be quick as the download link will expire at midnight tonight.

Get it now get it here.

Kasabian obviously know that we like funny men almost as much as freebies, inviting The Mighty Boosh’s Noel Fielding to design promo posters and play the lead role in the video for Vlad The Impaler. Watch below.

West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum is out on June 8th.

Remix Bloc Party

Way back in 2007 Bloc Party gave their fans a chance to remix The Prayer some of the results were great the k-rad remix even found its way into that years Bawley 100.

Jump to 2009, ahead of the release of Intimacy Remixed Bloc Party are giving you another chance to mess with their music. The Intimacy tracks Signs, Ares, and Ion Square are all available to download as multipart mp3 ‘stems’.

When you are finished you can share your completed work and listen to other fans attempts on www.blocparty.com.

Download Here:

Signs
Ares
Ion Square

And don't forget to tell us know how your remixes are coming along.

Brand New NIN For 2009

Surprise! The new Nine Inch Nails album is available. Now!!!

Produced by Timberland and rammed full of special guests the album is called Strobe light and can be downloaded from the nin website.

track list:

1. intro skit
2. everybody's doing it (featuring chris martin, jay-z AND bono)
3. black t-shirt
4. pussygrinder (featuring sheryl crow)
5. coffin on the dancefloor
6. this rhythm is infected
7. slide to the dark side
8. even closer (featuring justin timberlake and maynard james keenan)
9. on the list (she's not)
10. clap trap crack slap
11. laid, paid and played (featuring fergie of the black eyed peas and al jourgensen)
12. feel like being dead again
13. still hurts (featuring alicia keys)
14. outro skit

Timberland salad may not make a good album but it is a great April Fools.

Friday Freebie goes to Mexico

Five years have passed since The Bronx burst onto the hardcore scene, in this time they have released three self titled albums and evolved their sound into a swaggering blend of punk and hard rock.

Now let us introduce El-Mariachi Bronx: the band’s horn-spiked Mexican alter-ego.

Both The Bronx and El-Mariachi Bronx will be playing the Breeders curated ATP festival, before then please help yourself to this week's fridays freebie Young Bloods taken from The Bronx (the bands third self-titled album)

NIN|JA make it 3 for Friday

Last month we told you Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction were teaming up for a series of farewell|welcome back shows. It seems there is more to the NIN|JA relationship than we were led to believe, Jane’s Addiction have been re-recording some old tracks and working on a few new ones with Trent Reznor acting as producer.

You can get a free taste of these tracks plus previously unreleased Nine Inch Nails and Street Sweeper tracks on Seed 5 the NIN|JA tour EP. Download from http://ninja2009.com

NIN|JA EP track listing:

1. Jane's Addiction - Chip Away
2. Nine Inch Nails - Not So Pretty Now
3. Street Sweeper - Clap For The Killers
4. Jane's Addiction - Whores
5. Nine Inch Nails - Non-Entity
6. Street Sweeper - The Oath

With 3 Friday Freebies from 5 Artists giving you 107 mp3s there is no excuse for you not to enjoy the weekend.