Posts Tagged ‘Beach House’
Beach House – “White Moon”
New(ish) Beach House. All you need to know. “White Moon” streams below.
“White Moon” is part of the six track iTunes Session EP which features four from Norway Teen Dream, one from Devotion, and the newish “White Moon.” Beach House has developed quite the live presence and the EP aims to capture that. Order info. Some more Beach House below.
Best Singles of 2010*
Here it is, our favorite singles of 2010 so far.
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Singles:
1. The Morning Benders – “Excuses”
From Big Echo, out on Rough Trade
2. Beach House – “Norway”
From Teen Dream, out on Sub Pop
3. The New Pornographers – “Crash Years”
From Together, out on Matador
4. LCD Soundsystem – “Dance Yrself Clean”
From This Is Happening, out on DFA
5. Broken Social Scene – “Forced To Love”
From Forgiveness Rock Record, out on Arts & Crafts
6. Drake – “Over”
From Thank Me Later, out on Cash Money
7. Dr. Dog – “Shadow People”
From Shame, Shame, out on Anti
8. Local Natives – “Airplanes”
From Gorilla Manor, out on Frenchkiss
9. Fol Chen – “In Ruins”
From Part II: The New December, out on Asthmatic Kitty
10. Kanye West – “Power”
From Upcoming LP
11. The National – “Bloodbuzz Ohio”
From High Violet, out on 4AD
12. Vampire Weekend – “Cousins”
From Contra, out on XL Recordings
13. Gorillaz – “On Melancholy Hill”
From Plastic Beach, out on Virgin
14. White Flight – “Panther”
From “Panther” single, out on Range Life
15. The Black Keys – “Tighten Up”
From Brothers, out on Nonesuch
The Mix: For Extended Listening
Best Albums of 2010*
The best albums of 2010 halfway through the year anyway. We pooled our individual lists and tallied up the points to arrive at this, the official Tale of The Tape Best Albums of 2010* List. Interestingly, Teen Dream was the only consensus pick with regard to position and selection. Quite a few albums to go this year so we’re interested to see how this holds up when we reconvene to make our year-end lists. If you’re up on some or all of these albums jump in the thread and we can compare notes.
1. Beach House – Teen Dream
2. Black Keys – Brothers
3. The Morning Benders – Big Echo
4. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
5. Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
6. Dr. Dog – Shame, Shame
7. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
7. The New Pornographers – Together
9. The National – High Violet
10. Vampire Weekend – Contra
Also in the discussion: Sleigh Bells – Treats, Gorillaz – Plastic Beach, Harlem – Hippies
Check back tomorrow for our Best Singles of 2010* List. It’s here now.
Some thrilling news on the local tour front. Vampire Weekend and Beach House have announced new US tour dates, including stops within a few hours drive from The Tale of The Tape office. Dum Dum Girls open from 8/29-9/17 with The Very Best picking up the slack through the remainder of the tour.
Vampire Weekend & Beach House US Tour Dates
08-29 Redmond, WA – Marymoor Amphitheater
08-31 Troutdale, OR – Edgefield Amphitheater
09-01 Eugene, OR – McDonald Theater
09-02 Salt Lake City, UT – In the Venue
09-03 Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheater
09-05 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
09-06 Bloomington, IN – IU Auditorium
09-07 Toronto, Ontario – Molson Canadian Amphitheater
09-08 Montreal, Quebec – Metropolis Theater
09-10 Rochester, NY – Main Street Armory
09-11 Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
09-12 Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavilion
09-13 Holyoke, MA – Mountain Park
09-15-17 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
09-25 Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre
09-26 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
09-28 San Diego, CA – SOMA
09-29 Las Vegas, NV – The Pearl at the Palms
10-03 St Louis, MO – Chaifetz Arena
10-04 Tulsa, OK – The Brady Theatre
10-06 Dallas, TX – Palladium Ballroom
10-07 Houston, TX – Verizon Wireless Theatre
10-08 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits
10-11 Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
10-13 Miami Beach, FL – The Fillmore
Tickets go on sale for the Tulsa stop this Friday 6/25, you can get them here.
These are the freshest tracks of the week, plus some we can’t stop listening to.
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Beach House – “Zebra (UK Edit)”
LCD Soundsystem – “I Can Change”
Kristmas – “Kristmas International”
Weekends – “Raingirls (Short)”
The National – “Afraid of Everyone”
Best described as a transitional album, Beach House’s 2008 effort, Devotion, makes good on the promise displayed in 2006′s Beach House, namely by way of the dreamy compositions and Victoria Legrand’s compelling voice, but most of all in cleaning up the rough edges that made their debut an interesting, if unpolished product. Hindsight is what it is, but the critical affection for Devotion now seems premature considering many of the qualities espoused are on display to even better effect on the current release, Teen Dream. That is, even tighter songcraft which instills palpable forward thrust in the album tracks instead of the oft-times meandering nature of Beach House and Devotion tracks, as well as even better production values. Below we’ve got the video for “Heart of Chambers,” directed by Victoria’s brother, Alistair.
Beach House at The Interface Studio
Could AOL stake a comeback with The Interface? Doubtful but their selections so far have been pretty solid, and the production is quality. Beach House is their latest featured artist. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally perform four tracks off in-house fave/obsession Teen Dream. What’s most impressive so far is not only how strong the band sounds in live settings, but the tendency to apply a few subtle tweaks here and there, they sound just different enough to keep it interesting. Legrand alludes to touring as their livelihood and it shows, their performance works even though their stage presence is the guitarist seated and the singer behind a keyboard. We’ve got “Lover of Mine” for you here but recommend you check out the whole show.
Check back Friday for our look back at Devotion, the band’s 2008 album.
