Friday’s Feeds

A little re-cap of this week’s musings

• David Letterman’s Band Leader, Paul Shaffer, bought James Brown’s medical bracelet for $32,500 in a recent auction.
• Ratatat remakes an old Paul Simon Classic video into this.
• Britt, from eargoggles’ annual favorite Spoon, remixes last year’s “indie” favorite Fiest. 
• Snagfilms launches and gives mad exposure to what should be truly watched. Documentaries.
• “F” Muxtape. Turntable Lab reminds us that mixtapes are still where it’s at.
• eargoggles made it through 14 of 15 innings of the longest All-Star Game EVER. We heard that the American League won. Now the Angels will have home-field in the World Series!

Turn Off the Idiot Box

Here’s what’s on for the rest of this week on all your beloved Television Sets! –Check out Austin City Limits!!

summer releases

Well it’s hot out there! I mean HOT! So, we here at earggoles did some research and came up with what else is gonna be hot this Summer. Below are quite a few, a lot, of Summer releses from bands you know and some you will. Some are LPs, some digi-LPs, some DVD, but all should be worth your while. Enjoy! and look out for the releases of Malendars….

Capital’s Neighbors Need to be Muzzled

capital records building

So, Los Angeles has approved the building of a new development near the almost iconic Capitol Records building. The condo development, planned for 6230 Yucca Boulevard, was part of some big hubbub earlier this summer. EMI–along with the everpresent Hollywood preservationists–worried that the act of constructing the building, including the planned underground parking garage, would damage the acoustics know for their “Magic Properties.”

Last.fm Pays Unsigned Bands for Streaming Their Music

So, Last.fm, always on the verge of the new, launched their Artist Royalty Program back in January, allowing unsigned musicians to collect royalties when their music is loaded into Last.fm’s music brain and then streamed by it’s users; actually i think anybody can listen. Which may lead to some click fraud, but that’s just a theory flying around here at eargoggles.

TV Continues to Suck

Here’s this week’s TV music Viewing

Thursday, July 10:

ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live!: Lil Wayne (rerun)
NBC: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno: Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis (rerun)
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: The Game (rerun)
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Estelle (rerun)

Friday, July 11:

ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live!: Cyndi Lauper (rerun)
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Dr. John (rerun)
FUEL TV: The Daily Habit: Circle Jerks

Friday’s Links

• Musatachioed Cartoons
• Drunken Pandas
• Bjork and Sigur Ros Webcast
• Coldplay Giggles

Britain’s David Ford Brings His Sound to Los Angeles

You’re sitting in your car driving somewhere or listening to your ipod walking through the streets of a familiar, or unfamiliar, place listening to a song, or a set of songs, and you feel like you’re in a movie; or you should be.

This imprompto soundtrack is spot on. The music, the lyrics, the cadence of the artists voice, the rhythm of the guitars, the snap of the snare, all of it puts you in the moment and you’re lost; to the music.

And that’s just the first track.

The Shins Go Even Indier; Will Release Next Full Length Themselves

Now it all makes sense.

Later next month, July 12th and 13th actually, Sub-Pop Records is throwing themselves a 20th Anniversary Party. Lots of great acts will be in the Great Pacific Northwest hootin’-and-a-hollerin’ at Seattle’s Marymoor Park. Fleet Foxes, Beachwood Sparks, Low, Mudhoney, Wolf Parade, eargoggles-fave The Helio Sequence, Iron & Wine, will be there with many more included…except Sub-Pop darling The Shins.

Why you ask??

Los Angeles’ New “It Band” HEALTH Releases Two Newbies

Unlike most of the trendy-dance rock, flash-in-the-pan bands who “pay to play” on Sunset, these guys actually have some really fresh musical sense and weight to their music. They put together some noisy, abstract, energetic rock that would probably sound at home on both a label like DFAor some underground punk imprint from early 1990s Orange County. It isn’t something that will take hold right away necessarily, but as these scorching California Summer afternoons roll on, you’ll be in-tune with their trance well into daybreak–in California or otherwise; Indiana kids will love it.

more after the jump + music/video files