
Based upon the stonker of a party they threw in Austin at SXSW last March, I can vouch that these guys know how to do it right.
RSVP here for $2 admission.
Eastern Conference Champions - "Noah" mp3
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Based upon the stonker of a party they threw in Austin at SXSW last March, I can vouch that these guys know how to do it right.
RSVP here for $2 admission.
Eastern Conference Champions - "Noah" mp3

Pelican (no, not THAT one) was great, a much-needed pick-me-upper. Their sounds are strangely catchy for what's essentially a lingering, powerful, almost sloppy jam session, the kind after-school garage band dreams are made of. The band members project a metric ton of inertia from the stage and are almost comically synchronized in their head-banging, something they passed on to the crowd within about 30 seconds. Their new stuff is a lot poppier (for lack of a better word) than their older stuff, and way more succinct, but they haven't completely abandoned their roots: I clocked a couple of tracks at almost 10 minutes last night, in addition to (did I hear it right?) reprisals from 'Fire in Our Throats..." And, bonus deep thought, the drummer looks like Fidel Castro. What's not to enjoy?
If you read extrawack! regularly, you know we've loved Editors from the start, and we've hipped you to the new album as well...
If you were to glance at the line-up for the upcoming Virgin Festival at Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore without knowing the concert's location, you'd swear it was a European festival based upon the amount of heavy-hitter bands and the relative wide scope of acts.
The festival is set up with two full sized stages far enough away from each other that sound clash is not an issue, and a gigantic dance tent equipped with surround sound and enough light-show power to flip any club kid's wig. There are also art installations, a sideshow tent featuring fire-eaters, burlesque dancers, & DJ's, and plenty of chill areas, shade tents, and misting areas.
I've actually seen a great portion of those bands, but the band I want to see most? Cheap Trick. That's right, I said it. Those dudes are old enough to be grandfathers (and they very well may be), but they rock on par with any band I've ever seen. Rick Nielson is still a guitar god, and Robin Zander's pipes have amazingly survived decades of constant touring. I'm psyched.



Best marketing swag of the day: The "Hot Rod Super Cool Mustache."
PROSSER - Prosser (Clickpop)
'It's good to be lonesome time to time/It's alright/It's alright,' Woodruff sings in "Get Gone", setting the tone for a trip through the album that returns to themes of depression and melancholy throughout. But the lyrical black clouds are offset by chiming guitars and a gently chugging rhythm. The downer lyrics of "Everything I Do" - 'All alone/Now I see/What you've done to me/What was my heart's an empty cavity' - are hidden amid a jangling guitar that practically screams happy sunny day.
The fine folks at Scion want to give ten lucky extrawack! readers a copy of their latest fly mix CD, presented by Vice Records and mixed by Flosstradamus, featuring Bloc Party, Chromeo, Charlotte Gainsbourg and more.
Speaking of Scion, they are hosting a free Ghostface Killah show at Highline Ballroom on Monday night as part of their Scion Live Metro Tour. I saw Ghost perform at a Scion event at Stubb's during SXSW this past March, and he did indeed kill.
That free El-P gig this Saturday night that we told you about a while back has now been moved to a bigger Urban Outfitters store "due to popular demand"...
Because our favorite rock drummer (after Cheap Trick's Bun E. Carlos) is involved, here's some info from Tsui's website:
In other news, ‘Dead Letters’ was recently featured on AOL’s music blog Spinner.com. We have also been getting a good amount of airplay throughout the country which is great news for a little band that had next to no promotion. I am still working on a tour at some point soon and the video for Metal Birds is almost completed. I promise to update the site more with more exciting things in the future. Until then...
Turn them up, hang your left arm out the window like McConaughey in Dazed & Confused, pull your aviators down, and punch it.
Just the other day I was listening to Ambulance LTD's "Heavy Lifting" on my Zune while jogging, and I was wondering what had happened to those guys. I had heard they were in the studio with the Velvet underground's John Cale late last year, but then...nothing.
From the press release:
From the press release:
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
In celebration of the release of the new Robbers On High Street album Grand Animals, extrawack! wants to give one lucky reader a killer Robbers' Prize Pack, which includes the following:
To win this flotilla of riches, send us a photo (or a link to a photo) of a "grand animal". The dictionary defines "grand" as "impressive in size", "magnificent or splendid", "highly ambitious", and/or "of great importance, distinction, or pretension". You decide which grand your animal is. The grandest animal (in our opinion) to be sent to extrawack@gmail.com by 11:59pm EST on Friday 7/6 will bag the swag. Make sure you use the subject line "Robbers Contest", so we don't mistake your entry for weiner pills spam. Contest open to U.S. residents only...Sorry Malaysia!
More fun facts about Iceland provided by Reyka: