More Best New Music Releases & DIY Drops, Vol. II – The Whigs, The Sea and Cake, Sic Alps, Woods, Josephine Foster

thewhigs5Volume One of the Best New Music Releases for the Week of Sept. 18th featured Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, Dinosaur Jr., Menomena, Alt. J, and many others. This, Volume Two for the past week’s best new releases, includes singles from The Sea and Cake, Sic Alps, Woods, Josephine Foster, How to Dress Well, Catherine Irwin, JJ Doom. But first, here’s a double-shot from The Whigs‘ latest, Enjoy The Company.

“Waiting”The Whigs from Enjoy The Company on New West Records
Double-shot: “Summer Heat”The Whigs from Enjoy The Company

“On and On” – The Sea and Cake from Runner on Thrill Jockey

“Cali in a Cup”Woods from Bend Beyond on Woodsist

“Glyphs”Sic Alps from Sic Alps on Drag City

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SoundCloud Songs from Sweet Lights, Turtle Giant, Josephine Foster, How to Dress Well, and Catherine Irwin

Some of the following SoundCloud links include available MP3s to download as well. Enjoy.

“Hundred Needle Pins”Sweet Lights from Sweet Lights on Highline Records

“We Were Kids”Turtle Giant from All Hidden Places (self-released)

“Blood Rushing”Josephine Foster from Blood Rushing on Fire Records

“It Was U”How to Dress Well from Total Loss on Acephale Records

“Save Our Ship”Catherine Irwin from Little Heater on Thrill Jockey

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DIY Drops from The Burning of Rome and The Cardinal Points

Surfdog recording artists, The Burning Of Rome, are a San Diego band known for their live show antics and blistering rock filled with melodic hooks – drawing from genres like gypsy punk, dance and rock. This week, the band drops their new album, With Us, from which we have two tracks to share. Their submission to IRC states: “If Pink Floyd, The Misfits and Danny Elfman [the famous film composer] plotted world domination, it would sound just like this.

The Burning of Rome have shared the stage with an impressive array of artist and bands since their formation in 2006, including Devo, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, The Black Keys, Saul Williams, MGMT, Jimmy Eat World, Pennywise, Rogue Wave, Skrillex, and The Whigs, among others.

“The Ballad of an Onion Sprout” – The Burning of Rome from With Us

Double-shot: “Norman Bates”The Burning of Rome from With Us

Hot Heat Summer Songs – Annuals, Woodsman, Vampire Hands, SSLYBY, Women, ARMS, Blizten Trapper, Beck, Whalers

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Heat records have been broken all across the U.S. in recent weeks.

Much of the nation, most especially the mid-west and the south, have been trapped under a dome of extreme heat for the past month or so, while the Northeast has been dipping in and out of excessive temperatures for weeks. Therefore, we set out to put together a playlist mix with songs containing words like heat, hot, burn, humid, and so on, in the titles. Yeah, kind of corny, but we’re always looking for an excuse to tap into our private collections of rated music dating back to the beginning of rock to make specialized, thematic playlists.

Note: Not all of the songs are meant to be literal, but included because they’re just great songs. For example, there are songs with “hot” in the title, but the literal use of the word has more to do with desire and attraction than temperature.

“Hot Night Hounds” – Annuals

“This Heat” – Generation X

“Beat the Heat” – Woodsman

“Heat Fire” – Vampire Hands

“I Am Warm and Powerful”Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

“Heat & Hot Water” – ARMS

“Warmer Current’s Pull” – Blind Man’s Colour

“Heat Distraction” – Women

“Three Day Heat Wave” – Pony Boy

“Warmer Climes” – Boat Club

“Hot Ones” – Shudder To Think

“Humid Air” – The Moaners

“Hotwax” – Beck

“Hot Math” – Andrew Bird

“You’re So Damn Hot” – OK Go

“Heatwave” – Whalers

“Too Young to Burn” – Sonny & The Sunsets

“Hot Freaks” – Blitzen Trapper

“Hot Bed” – The Whigs

“I Got The Hots” – The Soft Boys

“Burn” – The Cure

“Fast Burn” – Lost Boy

“Hott in Here” (Nelly)” – Beck

“Hot Night In A Cold Town” – John Cougar

“Hot House Of Omagararshid” – The Yardbirds

Bonus Tracks

“Heatwave” Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

“Bubbling Hot” – Pato Banton

“Hot Love” – T. Rex

“Heats” – Kampi

“Hot Mess” – Chromeo

“Mr. Heat Miser”Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer soundtrack