This week's edition of New Tunes Day features a diverse compilation of singles, covers, videos and live performances that should whet your musical appetite for a time. Watch, listen and enjoy 'em below, and check out a breakdown of albums coming out this Fri., Sept. 4, along with links to full LP streams.The Arcs, "Outta My Mind" live
Dan Auerbach's new side project finds him teaming with Leon Michels, Richard Swift, Homer Steinweiss, and Nick Movshon; their debut outing, Yours, Dreamily, drops this Fri., Sept. 4, via Nonesuch. The video for the slow grooving fuzz of "Put a Flower in My Pocket" premiered a few weeks back and was promptly followed by this live performance of "Outta My Mind" at The Village recording studio in LA. Auerbach's finely-wrought blues-soaked garage rock is intact with added soul, organ drama, and female vocals accompanying Auerbach's own deliciously smoky intones. [Full album stream here.]
Tijuana Panthers, "Set Forth" video
The experimental garage pop outfit from LA debuted this stop-motion claymation video for the track "Set Forth," on Pee-Wee Herman's My Log. The inspiration was the old Penny cartoons. According to band drummer Phil Shaheen, “We grew up on a Saturday in the 1980’s with our babysitter H.R. Pufnstuf and our pal Gumby, who once fell through tube during the Land of the Lost theme song. Gumby made it out alright but the blockheads that followed weren’t so lucky. A girl named Penny would visit us in the playhouse…Chad would sit on Chairy, Daniel would wrestle with Randy & I would listen to Cowboy Curtis go on and on about Miss Yvonne. We were homeschooled by Mr. Herman on how to view the world around us and more importantly, how to interact with it. Pee-wee told us to “Set Forth,” so we did and into the woods we ran…found our own paths, with our own friendly creatures, and together we keep bopping along down that crazy surrealist bucket. ” New album POSTER is available now via Innovative Leisure.
Fort Lean, "Might've Misheard"
This Brooklyn-based quintet is dropping their debut of lightly '80s-hued electro-rock with moments of charming sparkle, Quiet Day, on October 2 via Ooh La La Records."Might've Misheard" is washed in synths and carried on urgent driving tempos.
Western Science, "See What You Want To" video
It's another stop-motion video, sans animation, from indie rock duo Western Scene (Tom Pritchard and Emily Wilder). This song just makes me happy with its tinkling sonics and odd embellishments and exuberantly cheerful vocals paired with hand-claps and hoots. The video was shot entirely on an iPhone 6 and features handcrafted wooden characters built in the duo's woodshop in South Central LA. The song appears on their forthcoming EP, release date TBA.
Speedy Ortiz, "Hanging Around"
And now for a pleasant cover of a Cardigans tune from everybody's favorite Sadie Dupuis-led indie rock/noise pop outfit
RELEASES OUT THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
Aerosmith, Aerosmith Rocks Donington 2014
Against Me!, 23 Live Sex Acts [Live album]
Lou Barlow, Brace The Wave [Full Album Stream]
Dan Bern, Hoody
Joey Cape, Stitch Puppy
Cold Beat, Into the Air
Dâm-Funk, Invite The Light [Full Album Stream]
The Dear Hunter, Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
Diamonds, Never Want to Die
Diane Coffee, Everybody's A Good Dog [Full Album Stream]
Family of the Year, Family of the Year
FIDLAR, Too
Peter Frampton, Now
Gold Class, It's You
Helena Hauff, Discreet Desires
Helen, The Original Faces [Grouper's Liz Harris project]
Iron Maiden, The Book Of Souls
k-os, Can’t Fly Without Gravity [Full Album Stream]
Marrow, The Gold Standard
The Money Pit, The Money Pit
Monokle, Rings
Motives, This World, Not Dead, Merely Sleeping
Painted Palms, Horizons
Public Image Ltd., What the World Needs Now...
Ramming Speed, No Epitaphs
Roadside Graves, Acne/Ears
Rick Ross, Black Dollar
The Souljazz Orchestra, Resistance
Travi$ Scott, Rodeo
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, The Night Creeper
Widowspeak, All Yours
The Wonder Years, No Closer To Heaven
Woolen Men, Temporary Monument
Lizz Wright, Freedom & Surrender
Young Empires, The Gates