Dave has begun his Spring 2009 Tour and this time around he has a new album to share. Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King is the seventh studio album by DMB and is scheduled to release on June 2, 2009. “Funny The Way It Is” is available free for download on Dave’s official site.

It’s been nearly 2 years since St. Vincent’s last release, Marry Me. I am pleased to inform you that the wait is almost over. Annie will release her new album, Actor, on May 5, 2009. If you want to stream it two weeks before the release, NPR’s ‘First Listen’ series will air the entire album on April 20th at 11pm. Here’s the first single, “Actor Out Of Work.”

Another one from Papercuts courtesy of Pitchfork!

Former Weezer member, Matt Sharp, and his band The Rentals have launched their album Songs About Time. It is the first of three planned mini-albums. Enjoy the piano ballad “Story Of A Thousand Seasons Past.”

Featured on Pitchfork today is the new video by Phoenix. The album is titled, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, and will be released on May 25, 2009.

Eulogies – SXSW 09 Interview
Video Codes at www.roxwel.com

Death Cab for Cutie’s new EP, The Open Door, contains songs that were left off of their last full-length, Narrow Stairs. It also includes a demo version of “Talking Bird,” a track that did make it onto Narrow Stairs.

Click here and launch the audio to listen to the entire EP.

I have been listening to Beach House and School of Seven Bells all week. School of Seven Bells inflicts an engulfing and trance-ish type of dream-like state, while Beach House enforces a more relaxing dream-like state. Needless to say, these two bands have put me in a foggy kind of mood all week. I was driving to work this morning, in a surprising amount of traffic considering it is Good Friday, and usually traffice makes me all uptight. Today I was driving along listening to Beach House in a content daze. “D.A.R.L.I.N.G” off of Beach House’s album titled Devotion can be found on itunes.

I think it is funny when I continuously see the same descriptive words being used by music comentators. While a lot of writers impress me with their terminology and phrasing, others regurgitate what they read. Hey, I’m not passing judgement. After all, I do the same damn thing! You start to run out of adjectives after a while.

Anyway, with that being said the following vocabulary was used in NPR’s All Songs Considered today by writer Michael Katzif: hazzy; oscillating; ghostly; and my favorite, otherworldly. Alex Scully from Beach House gave a hand in the proliferation of this track which makes sense, as these words describe the-beach-house-sound as well.

“You Can Have What You Want” by Papercuts

Neil McCormick, colomnist for the British broadsheet, The Telegraph, has this to say regarding the idea that we are reaching a saturation point due to the accessibility of music. He builds on theorist Dr. Steven Pinker’s description of music as “auditory cheesecake.”

“Throughout human history, the sugar and fat (both energy-rich foods) which are the main ingredients of cheesecake were scarce, so a strong desire to eat them evolved. As refined sugar became abundant in the modern age, so obesity and other health-related issues arose. If music also evolved in a period of relative scarcity, what happens when it is so abundant it sates appetites beyond our needs?”