The disarmingly prolific Chad VanGaalen is at it again. The Calgary based musician, animator and visual artist has gathered a selection of his charmingly bizarre images and created a 16 page, 14 x 20 cm zine called Dark Piss. The Nieves publication is limited to 150 copies and can be viewed and purchased here. You can stream and download his song “Willow Tree” at the bottom of this post. For more information on Chad visit Flemish Eye.

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Whoever is running the music department over at Adult Swim really has their shit together.
Their newest music installment for the public is
The Adult Swim Singles Program which has the network releasing 8 tracks over a span of 8 weeks.

Download all 8 tracks HERE and get any of the Adult Swim compilations on their music page.
The Chrome Children comps done in conjunction with Stones Throw are recommended.

Preview and download 2 of the 8 right here. Bam!

Cults – “Oh My God”

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Mike Bigga (aka Killer Mike) – “Swimming”

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Acephale Records is a sexy new record label hosting a good looking roster of releases. Their design aesthetic (courtesy of label co founder Rory Them Finest) and limited edition policy makes for a perfect marriage with Salem, Kingdom, Memory Cassette/Memory Tapes, Air France, CFCF, Pure Ecstasy and Midnight Juggernauts whom are the impressive line up represented by the Vancouver/Montreal/Toronto based neophytes. Stream and download You Hear Colours by CFCF at the bottom of this post. For more information visit the Acephale website or myspace page. The future looks bright.

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With only a few shows under their belt, The Band In Heaven are here to stay. The two-piece shoegaze/dream-pop band from West Palm Beach, Florida consists of percussionist/vocalist Lauren Dwyer and partner in crime guitar/vocal/organist Ates Isildak. The duo played in Strangers Family Band for a few years but departed March of this year to start something new. They have been best friends for years and desired a musical journey that was personal together. Their need was to experiment with as much noise as possible while involving a very minimal set-up. They were driven by their love for The Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3 hence keeping songs to two and three chords at most. They layer their songs with fuzzed out texture until they are nearly unintelligible. They will soon have two cassette singles available for purchase via their website  as well as an E.P. which will have a late July or early August release. You can find downloads (which includes a Cranberries cover) and links at the bottom of this post.

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For more information on The Band In Heaven visit their website.

Gold Panda‘s journey has been a long and intermittently strange one. Initially, the essex, UK artist spent his day-job time behind the counters of various houses of ill-repute adult bookstores and record shops finding that the two were equally seedy. He spent the rest of his waking hours building up a library of original, dizzying eclectic electronic music incorporating a disparate mix of influences and source material. The results were gleaming instrumental hip-hop tracks saturated with bright colors and sublimely chopped up vocal samples. Thus, Gold Panda was born. Tour dates, label link and a download can be found at the bottom of this post.

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Gold Panda’s You EP is available now via Ghostly International. You can catch Gold Panda live supporting HEALTH and Indian Jewelry 06.25.10 at One Eyed Jack in New Orleans and 06.26.10 at Red 7 in Austin.

LP4, the new album from Mike Stroud and Evan Mast (also known as Ratatat) is their fourth for XL and was conceived following the prolific LP3 recording sessions at Old Soul Studios, in rural upstate New York. Much of this album was ultimately was recorded there as well. While the albums were born in the same studio LP4 is by no means an extension of its predecessor. The band describes it as a ‘weirder’ listen than LP3, with a much braver approach to the arrangements. Ratatat incorporated even more sounds and instruments into the mix on this album, working for the first time with a full string section, which they recorded at Glassworks Studios in Manhattan. Stream and Download the song “Party With Children” below.

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LP4 drops tomorrow (06.08.10) via XL.

I hit up Amoeba and bought some new tunes that came out recently.

Sub Pop delivered on Tuesday with albums from Male Bonding and Coco Rosie.
Download “Year’s Not Long” from Nothing Hurts and “Lemonade” from Grey Oceans.

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Sub Pop also has some new tracks from Dum Dum Girls.

Sleigh Bells dropped their first full-length.
Download “Crown On The Ground” from Treats.

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Houston’s own Indian Jewelry released a new LP.
Download “Excessive Moonlight” from Totaled.

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Dios came onto my radar recently as well.
They have a super nice record that just came out in February.
Download “Toss My Cookies” from We Are Dios.

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The Beatles Complete On Ukulele is a project started by Roger Greenawalt and Dave Barratt where to two have taken on the task of recording all 185 original Beatles songs on ukulele with the help of 185 different artists. They make available for download one new recording and essay every Tuesday for 185 weeks. The first song was released on January 20, 2009 (Inauguration Day) and the project will climax on July 31, 2012 (The eve of the London Olympics).

This week’s song is “Here Comes The Sun” featuring Holly Palmer.

Download this track and all previous covers at http://thebeatlescompleteonukulele.blogspot.com/

I checked in with Dave to get a little insight into their project.
Read the interview below.

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Madlib is back with another installment from his Medicine Show series. This time the collection showcases some of the artist’s earliest works. In CD format, #5 comes with 34 tracks and a 12 page booklet / comic and clocks in at 64 minutes. The LP comes on 3 slabs of vinyl with 34 tracks plus a 10 track bonus CD. It’s a limited edition run which will be numbered and the cover will be individually screened by Hit + Run. It clocks in at 94 minutes. Below, stream and download two tracks from Medicine Show #5: The History Of The Loop Digga, 1990 – 2000.

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Medicine Show #5 drops 25.05.10 via Stones Throw.

Sleigh Bells are on fire. They’re hair tossing their way around the globe and as a result, manifesting huge anticipation of their debut release, Treats. Stream and download their newest offering, below.

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Treats is available 05.11.10 via Mom + Pop and N.E.E.T.

Last we heard from NYC duo The Books was when they released this 2006 EP. We can look forward to some new material from them this summer. Stream and download a selection from their forthcoming release The Way Out, below.

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The Way Out drops this July via Temporary Residence

Toronto’s Fucked Up revealed a track on their blog yesterday. “Here Lies Are” will be one side of a split 12″ they are sharing with Sarena-Maneesh. Stream and download the track below.

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The split 12″ is to be released on Norway’s Best of Both Worlds label sometime in the near future.

Well it’s about fucking time.

If you are a fan of Autolux it probably seems like it’s been… oh, 6 years since their
last release… that’s because it was.

It’s official now.
The new Autolux LP Transit Transit is slated to release on August 3rd on tdb.
I know this because I got an email with only this jpeg attached.

You can sign up for their sometimes mysterious messages at autolux.net or just check in on their myspace page.

Here’s the first single off Transit Transit: “Audience No. 2″

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I tracked down a few Autolux b-sides which you can download HERE.
And if you don’t have Demonstration, Autolux’s sold out first EP,
you can download HERE.

And just for fun, here’s the video for “Turnstile Blues” from Nigel Godrich’s From the Basement.

Shigeto’s grandmother was a prisoner in her own country, locked in a Japanese internment camp in the US. Half a century later, her diminutive, half-Japanese grandson (real name Zach Saginaw) fought to forge his own identity as a musician and bi-racial American. He ultimately took on the name Shigeto (his middle name) as a tribute to his great grandfather.

Below, stream the track “Bakers Blunt Basics” from Semi Circle EP. Stream and download remixes by the artist of  Mux Wool and Tycho tracks.

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Semi Circle EP is available now via Ghostly International.