Neil Young warm up

This friday is Y-day at Indielaundry. One of the greatest songwriters of all time is gonna visit Copenhagen. We have seen him before at Orange Stage at Roskilde Festival, but never at a intimate show like the one on friday. A little setlist-research shows, that we can keep our hopes high. On the Continental Tour 2008 he plays two sets - a acoustic/solo set and an electric. A concert-form he has been using since the seventies, like the famous Filmore East show in 1970. The sets presents some of the best songs of his career - all the way back to Buffalo Springfield and at some concerts he even plays the Squires-song 'The Sultan' which was from his first bands first single from 1963. But we can expect a great variation of new and old. And personally I look forward to some of his greatest unreleased songs like 'Sad Movies' and 'Try'. Take a look at these songs from the concert a week ago in Amsterdam. The quality is not excellent, but the music is...

She and Him mp3

Personal favorite M. Ward has teamed up with beautiful actress Zooey Deschanel. It looks and sounds swell! The album is to be released on the 18th of march.

Why Do You Let Me Stay Here

Brian Jonestown Massacre and My Bloody Underground videos

While we are waiting for the thirteenth(!) full-length Brian Jonestown record to be released on april 15., this video just came in from one of the fanboys. The quality is of course YouTube handheld shite, but you can in fact hear that Anton and the other fools is swinging.

I'm just really into BJM at the moment. Their double retrospective Tepid Peppermint Wonderland sums them up so well: Attitude, psychedelic-era excess, epic cunts, mastery, shoegazing wankers, tambourine gays, and something... more... brilliant that is. And drunk. And controversial and just plain bliss.

So if you don't already know these guys the list below will convince you that they are mad. The list is complete tracklisting for their upcoming album with video-interpretations from Mr. Newcombe himself. Enjoy?!

01 Bring Me The Head Of Paul McCartney On Heather Mill’s Wooden Peg (Dropping Bombs On The White
House)
02 Infinite Wisdom Tooth / My Last Night In
Bed With You
03 Who Fucking Pissed In My Well?
04 We Are The Niggers Of The World
05 Who Cares Why
06 Yeah-Yeah
07 Golden-Frost
08 Just Like
Kicking Jesus
09 Ljosmyndir
10 Automatic
Faggot For The
People
11 Darkwave Driver / Big Drill Car
12 Monkey Powder
13 Black hole Symphony

(mp3)    Dropping Bombs On The White House (demo)

Intermission with Stevie Wonder

A vintage pick from the 80's. This won't happen anymore, but it is just a relly exellent song!

R.E.M - Supernatural Superserious

To me R.E.M is like an old friend you never really leave even though it has dissapointed you several times. I've been buying every album they have released since 1991, so of course I'm curious, even though their last album was downright terrible.
Being back with a new album very soon this first take sound refreshing and convincingly super decent. At least the guitar is back!
So check this first single from Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe out. It's from the forthcoming Accelerate.
On Monday, February 11th, REMHQ will announce details of R.E.M.'s forthcoming European tour.

R.E.M - Supernatural Superserious

A little bonus (15/2-2008). The video for Supernatural Superserious directed by Vincent Moon. And if you up for some movie editing, then go http://www.supernaturalsuperserious.com/ . Here you can download all the shooting for the video and then make you own edition of Supernatural Superserious music video.

Aural bliss from The Superimposers

Of course it's possible to come from the countryside and still be mighty in a very laidback kind of way. The Superimposers is that kind of duo and I just learned about them on one of my favorite BBC-programmes - The Joy of Music with Sean Rowley. Now I'm pretty much mellowed down in the basement by these two guys.

The duo is Dan Warden and Miles Copeland and they are releasing the album 'Harpsichord treacle' in a few days time.
The duo plunder the sunshine pop of the 1960's but also finds that showers and shadows is a part of the weathersystem.
Altogether the mix is very laidback - dj-style - mellow and surfish. The kind of tunes you'd like in your ears on a summerbreeze while on the beach.
The Superimnposers mixes different genres and to me this aural montage, or whatever you'll call it, draws back a lot on some of the nuggets from the 60's. It has Brian Wilson, Gene Clark, but also some Spritulized and stuff like that to it.
What I really like about this stuff is that it's so full of warmth and lush symphonic production that you can't help being pleased. Also the vintage instrumentation is spot on. I think these guys deserves more press, so I can't really recommend them enough. In their genre they rock.

The release is on their own brandnew label Wonderfulsound.

The Superimposers - Golden

Helsinki is the new Seattle - about complaints choirs

I never heard about complaints choirs until the other day. And they are just priceless!

Those complaints choirs are formed to give voice to the complaints of a community. One of the best ones around the globe - these choirs are everywhere! - is the complainers from Helsinki. They are griping about everything from ready-to-assemble furniture, boring dreams, sauna etiquette, icehockey loses to sweden and ringtones in public.

This concept is very interesting in several ways. This is really social networking in it's finest hour. Bring together some angry consumers, start a choir and add some tunes and you've created a music mashup piece. This concept is grown in the underground, but recently BBC started something similar, taking somewhat credit for the idea, which really can't surprise any since public service concepts these days are pure stolen material. So pay your respect to the inventor, finnish artist Tellervo Kalleinen.

The BBC's Complaints Choir on "The One Show"
Jerusalem Complaints Choir

A Hot Chip bag and some selfmade rumours

Week is already busy and my mind is still on monday. But it's tuesday. And it's busy. And soon it's wedensday and suddenly our life is over. Or wait, it's soon weekend.

To slow us all a bit down, drowse and relax, I've - for once - tried to be on time with a new release. Hot Chip is soon out with a new spinner on DFA/Astralwerks. It's called Made in the Dark.

I'm looking quite forward to hear what the electro-soul of the new Hot Chip album will bring us this time. Since The Warning they've been busy in my iPod and even though I love Coming on Strong as well, the style and momentum found on The Warning is the style I want from these dudes. The laidback attitude carefully designed for those crosscountry busrides, your headphones and the dark spots on the dancefloor.

So far my ears tell me the new album will mix the two poles between the kitchy and yet affecting lyrics and of course have both the deeper quirky ambient sound and the groove to get your head nodding.

My ears also tell my that these guys will join Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Van Halen and The Decemberists this year at the Roskilde Festival. Just guessing, but I'll bet ya!

Hot Chip - Made in the dark

Hot Chip - In the Privacy of Our Love

Over and Over (From The Warning)

Cave's coming to town!

The coolest man in the world will play in KB-hallen in Copenhagen on the 19th of may. See you there?

Indie Laundry goes jazz with Dave Brubeck Take Five

Sometimes it's just not time for rock or indie. These are the jazztimes. And for some snack-minutes I've felt it. And learned a bit about Dave Brubeck - the shang-chi of the jazzpiano.
Check out this 1961 recording of Take Five. The alt-sax is Paul Desmond and the drummer is Joe Morello. He is brilliant. Behold the moment around the 1:45 mark. Such subtle restraint, and then some serious speed to top things off. Just what you need for these small jazztime moments.

New song from Sun Kil Moon

One of my absolute favorite singer-songwriters is Mark Kozelek. He has released breathtakingly beautiful and melancolic music for the past 15 years. Whether he has used his own name, Red House Painters or now Sun Kil Moon (appearently named after a Korean boxer) the quality has always been top-notch.

Kozelek's voice is world class and his usually simple arrangements on his blue acoustic guitar cuts right into the core of the songs - his own or in stunning covers of e.g. AC/DC (sic!) -with gorgeous results.

April will bring a new Sun Kil Moon release fittingly called 'April'. The reports have revealed that no other than Bonnie 'Prince' Billy joins in a couple of tracks. Very prmising, indeed!!

Do not miss the great first taster 'Moorestown' from the album.

Spacy Twins

Ok, I admit this post is more than a bit unusual. Yes, Its downright strange. Normally, I certainly don't care much for tv shows like 'American Idol' but I must confess I saw the Danish version, X Factor, this Friday. And I don't regret it because of one single, extremely strange experience.

Enter two - well, lets just say odd - twins in identical clothes looking completely baffled and behaving weird. But then they start to sing and... well, I'm speechless. Its not great in a trational way but not bad either. It defies description, really. I think this will devide our readers but you can't be unaffected by this machine-like high-pitched duet. Very monotone yet cool - or..? I really can't describe it better than the judge Thomas Blachman who was absolutely nuts about it. "This is not the new thing. This is never than that" & "You remind us that we in the end are nothing but aliens hanging in outer space without a clue of anything", he said in awe.

Judge for yourself. I'm sure that the twins won't go far in the contest - they are simply too weird. And I can go back to not caring for the show...

Tom Waits nanny Jesca Hoops really rocks

There's no guarantee that babysitting Tom Waits offspring will land you rising fame and fortune, but singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop managed to do both.
After trying out her record Kismet, released in the autumn, I much say I'm damn impressed 'bout this girl.

Jesca Hoop is not in for girly indiepop you can dance to. Her way is quirky off-beat guitar-vocal stuff with evershifting rythms and complex figures. She really demands to be listened to, but the challenge is always rewarding and enchanting and maybe just a bit to emotional for me at times. But it's unconventional and honest, so it's hard not to be compelled by it.

After five years of babysitting at the Tom Waits mansion her employer finally decided he loved Jesca Hoops songs and forwarded them to a dj he knows. Since then lots of airplay with the single below - Seed of Wonder - in hometown Santa Monica colliding with her record release last year.

For musical references I'll mention "The New Weird Americans", Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Faun Fables and also Bonnie Prince Billy. Her style is also cabaret, hiphop, blues and ordinary folk. So homage to names like Edith Piaff, Judy Garland, The Roots, PJ Harvey and The Police would also be appropriate.

Jesca Hoops - Seed of Wonder

Jesca Hoop - Enemy

Jesca Hoop MySpace

Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place video

There's no doubt that we here at the office thinks that Radiohead is ace. I havn't seen this first video off the In Rainbows album before now, but I'm still amazed about how this band can make a great artconcept with webcams strapped to a bikehelmet. And of course one of the best songs from the album. So sorry for another YouTube-video.

Radiohead - Jigsaw falling into places

Noah and the whale - a cheerful video

So this is the new year? Well, I definetly feel better. At least than yesterday. But not being all upbeat yet I might as well just post something cheerful, creative and worth 04:02 of your time. It's Noah and the Whale.

BTW: Our site has undergone one of its biggest developments in the past year: it now has a 'post this entry to your Facebook' under each posting. Amazing? Well, we don't know.