TONIGHT IN INDY : Free Brendan Benson In-Store at LUNA

Brendan Benson and tour mate Cory Chisel will perform, for FREE, at LUNA Music Midtown this evening at 6pm. This is one of only four free in-stores the pair is doing on their current tour.

Benson and Chisel perform tonight at the newly re-opened Music Mill. Tickets are $10 adv./$13 day of show. Benson released his fourth solo album, My Old, Familiar Friend, this past August through ATO.

MP3 : Brendan Benson - Garbage Day (Live on Luxury Wafers)
MP3 : Brendan Benson - Tiny Spark (Live on Luxury Wafers)





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New Video : Jookabox : Don't Go Phantom

I have been so impressed, and spoiled, by the slew of recently released Jookabox videos from the band's new album Dead Zone Boys. This new one, released today and directed, designed and animated by Rafa Toro, for Don't Go Phantom continues the visually impressive trend. Dead Zone Boys is available for purchase through Asthmatic Kitty Records.



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MP3 : Jookabox - You Cried Me
MP3 : Jookabox - Phantom Don't Go

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TONIGHT IN INDY : Ezra Furman & The Harpoons + Peasant + The Working Hour at The Vollrath

(poster design : Adam Yale)

Ezra Furman & The Harpoons : Take Off Your Sunglasses...



MP3 : Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - Take Off Your Sunglasses
MP3 : Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - I Wanna Be Ignored

Peasant : We're Good on Laundromatinee.com...



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Fresh Session : The Antlers on Laundromatinee.com : Part II

MP3 : The Antlers - Atrophy (live on Laundromatinee.com)

As I stated when we launched Laundromatinee's first session with The Antlers, we spent some great time with the band at The Monolith Music Festival.  Despite their "Rising" and "Best New Music" status from Pitchfork.com, as well as the non-stop praise for the 2009 re-release of album Hospice, the band remains as humble, friendly, hard-working and down-to-earth as you would hope.

For our Monolith Esurance session, the band trades in the electric guitar and big keys for an acoustic and small Korg, but the results are just as beautiful and every bit as powerful as their electric brethren.

The songs from Hospice were partially inspired by lead singer Peter Silberman's thoughts and feelings experienced during a visit to a loved one in a children's cancer ward, but despite the grim undertones, the album is hauntingly beautiful and uplifting.

"With the right focus, in the right mindset, this album is as powerful on the soul as climbing a mountain is on the body. This album will crush you if you don’t know what to expect. Hospice is at once the simplest and most immense album of the year." - Justin Jacobs, My Old Kentucky Blog.com



MP3 : The Antlers - Shiva (live on Laundromatinee.com)

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New Songs : Light Pollution

We were turned on to Chicago's Light Pollution a few months back and have been keeping a close eye since. The band has sent us quite a few new songs recently, but here are two of my favorites.

MP3 : Light Pollution - Oh, Ivory!
MP3 : Light Pollution - Drunk Kids

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New Video : N.A.S.A + Tom Waits + Kool Keith : Spacious Thoughts

Today, Boing Boing premiered the video for the Tom Waits + Kool Keith collaboration from the N.A.S.A. project that, overall, was a bit of a letdown. The visuals in this video, which was directed by Fluorescent Hill, are not a letdown, and this is Tom Waits and Kool Keith, so, come on, right?!



Read Also...Boing Boing's interview with the folks behind Fluorescent Hill

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New Songs from Ducktails

Ducktails, the other project from Real Estate's Matt Mondanile, released two free downloads this week. Sandglider, McGuire In The Ocean, and Play In The Sun, a Departmentstore Santas cover, are all outtakes from the recording sessions that produced Ducktails' Landscapes LP.

MP3 : Ducktails - Sandglider
MP3 : Ducktails - Play In The Sun (Departmentstore Santas cover)
MP3 : Ducktails - McGuire In The Ocean

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MP3 : Ducktails - Roses

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New Video : Charlotte Gainsbourg + Beck : Heaven Can Wait

French singer-songwriter and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg teams up with Beck in her new video for Heaven Can Wait. Beck produced and co-wrote Gainsburg's upcoming album IRM. Keith Schofield directed this new video...



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New Song : Alexa Woodward : Eleanor + Live at The Earth House in Indianapolis

Many of Alexa Woodward's banjo-driven folk songs slowly slink like fog down from the Appalachian mountains and hills of Virgina and wrap your soul in melancholy. Woodward's 2009 release, Speck, is full of subtle textures and well-matched harmonies that support interesting and well-written narratives.

Eleanor, a new track not included on Speck, is just a wee-bit more pop-friendly than what we've heard previously from Woodward.

Alexa will perform at The Earth House this November 22nd. Also performing that evening : Elam Abraham Blackman, Accordions, & Holy Ghost Canyon. $5 | Music starts promptly at 8pm. For fans of Zooey Deschannel, Jolie Holland, Neko Case, Gillian Welch, Joanna Newsom, Iron and Wine, and Rufus Wainright.

MP3 : Alexa Woodward - Eleanor

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CFCF covers Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love" : Releases "Continent"

Montreal-based DJ and electronic artist CFCF (aka Michael Silver) released his full-length debut, Continent, today via Paper Bag Records. He also made this free cover of Fleetwood Mac's Big Love available for free download to celebrate the release...

MP3 : CFCF - Big Love (Fleetwood Mac cover)

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Fresh Session : Generationals on The Laundromatinee

MP3 : Generationals - Angry Charlie (live on Laundromatinee.com)

Many moons ago, My Old Kentucky Blog hosted a band from New Orleans called The Eames Era for an MOKB SIRIUS XMU Blog Radio session.  With the band now defunct, two members of that band, Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer, formed a new project they dubbed Generationals.  This year, they signed to Park The Van Records and released their very excellent debut, Con Law.

Continuing some of the sugary, sunshine-pop ways of The Eames Era, Ted and Grant have taken over vocal duties, for the most part, with Generationals and brought more of a 60s influenced power-pop vibe to the sound.  They show off a wide range of influences throughout the songs on Con Law, but you can count on crunchy, driving guitars, hints of motown, and sing-a-long choruses.  A fun comparison I read the other day was Belle & Sebastian crossed with MGMT with dreams of one day joining/reuniting Beulah....something familiar, yet something fresh.



MP3 : Generationals - Exterior Street Day (live on Laundromatinee.com)

Previous...Free album cuts from Con Law :

MP3 : Generationals - Angry Charlie
MP3 : Generationals - When They Fight, They Fight
MP3 : Generationals - Wildlife Sculpture

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Lil Wayne + Sleigh Bells : Fireman On The Ground

We've been in love with Sleigh Bells' Crown on the Ground since first listen, but now an unknown has mashed this favored track with Lil Wayne's Fireman for some pretty impressive results. The Hood Internet would be proud. Speaking of The Hood Internet, see them here in Indianapolis on December 3rd!

MP3 : Lil Wayne vs. Sleigh Bells - Fireman On The Ground



Thanks to P4k

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MP3 : Sleigh Bells - Crown On The Ground

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Paper Bag Records Covers Compilation : Celebrate Seven Years

Two of the best shows MOKB Presents has ever hosted have involved Paper Bag Records bands. Woodhands, of course, brings the crowd and the party every time we bring them back to Indianapolis, but the most criminally underattended show we've ever hosted was for The Acorn. Of course all this was before Kanye West proclaimed their greatness on his blog.

Paper Bag is now releasing a free covers compilation to celebrate their seven years of life as a label.

Download : Paper Bag Records Covers Compilation

MP3 : The Acorn - Strange Animal (Gowan Cover)
MP3 : CFCF - How Bizarre (OMC Cover)

Full tracklist:

01 CFCF - "How Bizarre" (OMC cover)
02 Winter Gloves - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Nirvana cover)
03 Woodhands - "Electric Avenue" (Eddy Grant cover)
04 Sally Shapiro - "Dying In Africa" (Nicolas Makelberge cover)
05 You Say Party! We Say Die! - "Falling Out" (Rick Agnew cover)
06 Josh Reichmann - "Daniel" (Bat For Lashes cover)
07 Laura Barrett - "Gamma Ray" (Beck cover)
08 Rock Plaza Central - "I Want You" (Bob Dylan cover)
09 The Acorn - "Strange Animal" (Gowan cover)
10 Little Girls - "Heinz" (Artery cover)
11 Slim Twig - "Behold A Lady" (Outkast cover)
12 Under Byen - "Du er min øjesten" (Peter Malberg cover)

Previous : The Acorn on The Laundromatinee

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New Song & Remix : Fan Death

Late last month, Fan Death released a new video for their most excellent Reunited track. A new track, Cannibal, found its way out late last week, and this week a CCENTURIESS released a new remix of Reunited. Fan Death's A Coin For The Well EP is due out at the start of January on The Pharmacy Recording Company.

MP3 : Fan Death - Cannibal (follow link)
MP3 : Fan Death - Reunited (CCENTURIESS RMX) (yousendit)

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King Khan & BBQ Jailed in Kentucky : Released, Tour Manager Takes The Rap

As is being reported all over the interwebs, King Khan & BBQ, along with their tour manager, were jailed in Oak Grove, Kentucky late last week. The garage rock project, who rocked my face off at Red 7 in Austin, Texas just a short week ago, has been released, as has their tour manager Kristin Klein, but it looks like Klein will take the fall. She is being charged with driving with a suspended license and possession of a controlled substance.

Lots of other news regarding their tour with Those Darlins interweaves. KK&BBQ had to cancel their St. Louis, Lawrence, KS, and Denver shows. John McCauley (Deer Tick), and finace to Nikki Darlin, filled in at the St. Louis show. Still waiting to see if any other shows will be cancelled.

Backseat Sandbar now reports that King Khan and BBQ say they'll "never set foot in Kentucky again." Yeesh.

MP3 : King Khan & BBQ - Blow My Top

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TODAY : MOKB Presents...The Meat Puppets + Colt/Patriots Pre-Game Party! Win two tickets to the game!

Your Colts/Pats tailgate starts here! TODAY! - On November 15th, MOKB, Pabst Blue Ribbon, 92.3 WTTS Circle City Tickets and Nuvo Present: A Colts vs. Patriots Pre-Game Party featuring:

The Meat Puppets @ Radio Radio with special guests Blue Moon Revue | Radio Radio is a 21+ venue | Doors @ 4pm | Stay after the show to watch the Colt/Patriots game at Radio Radio!

The deatails...
Tickets $10 in adv/ $12 day of show
+ Free open cornhole play in the back lot
+ Win a pair of tickets to the Colts/Pats Game
+ tons of giveaways from PBR, MOKB and Monolith

Indy Custom Cornhole will be on-site with several sets of boards set up in the back, along with one contest board. Tons of prizes will be available from MOKB, Pabst Blue Ribbon and Monolith Festival. Cornhole starts at 4pm and will run through the end of the show!

The Meat Puppets returned to form this year with Sewn Together. Check it out here!

Backwater - Meat Puppets

Lake Of Fire - Meat Puppets

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