Aurally Speaking
Just a regular ole music blog put together by an avid music listener from central Florida. Posts will span the gamut from music reviews to awesome covers; from anecdotes about extensive show reviews and experiences to tidbits of news about your favorite artists. It will be all-inclusive of everything music related. Submissions are welcome: If you have a suggestion for an album that you think I might not have heard or a show experience you want to share or even a criticism, bring it to my submission's page. If this all sounds favorable, then keep your ears tuned in.
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The Early November @ Irving Plaza
This beats the hell out of my blurry Instagram shot. Haven’t seen a dude catch that much air in a LONG time!
Dammit Jesse. You suck
This photo is amazing.
Essential to an amazing night out with The Early November.
-Kickass Cover of the Day: Ace Enders w/ Dan Campbell, Nick Diener, and Carmen Cirignano-“Closing Time”-
The Early November are currently on their North American tour with The Swellers, The Wonder Years, and Young Statues. In between shows, the vocalists of each band took some time to acoustically cover Semisonic’s hit (and my nightly anthem), “Closing Time”. Check it out above compliments of Absolute Punk and let us know what you think.
Hitting Shelves: May 29, 2012
This Tuesday is seeing the flamboyant entrance of the Scissor Sister’s Magic Hour, the extravagantly technical debut release from metal newbies, Art By Numbers, and a return album from Swedish punk legends, Millencolin. This batch of releases is a mixed bag, but nonetheless is an interesting mix of edginess from all ‘round the genres and well worth checking out.
Feeling intrigued? Well, here’s what’s hitting shelves today May 29th:
- Architects-Daybreaker UK & Europe (Buy)
- Art By Numbers-Reticence The Musical (Buy/Stream)
- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros-Here (Buy/Stream)
- Gates-You Are All You Have Left To Fear (Buy/Stream)
- Millencolin-Melancholy Connection (Buy/Stream)
- Regina Spektor-What We Saw from the Cheap Seats (Buy/Stream)
- Scissor Sisters-Magic Hour (Buy)
- Sigur Ros-Valtari (Buy/Stream)
Late Night Jam
Emery-“Cutthroat Collapse”
Late Night Jam
Metric-“Speed The Collapse”
Metric just released to us a second track off their upcoming album, Synthetica. Entitled “Speed The Collapse”, the track follows in the footsteps of the previously released “Youth Without Youth” leading us through a dark back drop of downtempo drums, spacey tremoloing, and misty noir inspired key tones.
If “Speed The Collapse” is any indication, Synthetica is going to be an intriguing chapter of their discography both sonically and narratively. Be sure to check it out when it releases on June 12th.
This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: John Mayer can’t tour — throat problems. Luckily, there’s a Holopac-like replacement to stand in. Ish.
Wonder if the hologram also has a racist penis…
Hitting Shelves: May 22, 2012
This week in music we’re seeing the posthumous release of Joey Ramone’s “…ya know?”, Kimbra’s US release of Vows, and the second solo album from guitar icon, Slash. Check out those and some of this week’s other releases below as part of this week’s Hitting Shelves:
- El-P-Cancer for Cure (Stream/Buy)
- Exitmusic-Passage (Stream/Buy)
- Expire-Pendulum Swings (Buy)
- Gossip-A Joyful Noise (Stream/Buy)
- Joey Ramone-“…ya know?” (Stream/Buy)
- John Mayer-Born and Raised (Buy)
- Kimbra-Vows (US/UK) (Stream/Buy)
- Slash-Apocalyptic Love (Buy)
- The Spill Canvas-Gestalt (Buy)
Late Night Jam
The Sound of Animals Fighting-“Act 1: Chasing Suns”
This is probably the coolest thing that Anthony Green has ever been a part of.
The Faceless
Evan Brewer
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Metal Mondays
TesseracT-“Eden 2.0”
Metal Mondays: TesseracT’s Perspective EP Comes Out Today
Mondays truly are good for nothing. It is generally agreed upon that they’re the worst way to spend one-seventh of our weeks. But begrudgingly, we truck through them anyway. ’round here, we handle our case of the “Mondays” with a hearty dose of metal. And it’s our firm philosophy that you should too.
While most albums release on Tuesdays, this edition of Metal Mondays is seeing the release of Tesseract’s second EP, Perspective. This is their first album to feature new vocalist, Elliot Coleman (ex-bassist of Sky Eats Airplane). While the EP doesn’t showcase any new work from the guys, it does contain three dazzling acoustic renditions of tracks from their album One, a drastic remake of “Eden” lazily titled “Eden 2.0”, and a dreamy cover of Jeff Buckley’s “Dream Brother”. Be sure to pick it up over at Century Media’s online merch store.
It’s interesting seeing them test out their new vocalist in this way, but at least it gave Coleman a chance to come to life in his new form (he was in fact, the bassist of Sky Eats Airplane and only their interim vocalist). He already sounds right at home with the guys and it will be awesome to hear them turn up the intensity with some newly fleshed studio material in the future.
Late Night Jam
Doomtree-“Little Mercy”
I’m just going to let this one speak for itself.
-Kickass Cover of the Day: City and Colour-“Settle Down”
Triple J Studios have been treated to their fair share of guests in their 38 years. They can now check Dallas Green off of their guest artist wish list. He stopped by earlier this week to perform his song “Fragile Bird” and Kimbra’s “Settle Down” on their famed cover segment “Like A Version”. You can check it out above.
Late Night Jam
The Starting Line-“Birds”
Happy Birthday to Kenny Vasoli of The Starting Line! The frontman/bassist turns 28 today so be sure to send him some birthday love.
In celebration, here’s one of my favorite tracks from him off of The Starting Line’s 2007 album Direction.
Enjoy.
