I had the pleasure of catching Wolf Parade for the 3rd time at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, NJ. It was kinda weird seeing them at such an uncrowded venue in Jersey...vastly different from the packed crowd at Terminal 5 in NYC.
Regardless of the crowd in attendance, Wolf Parade brought the energy I have come to expect from them, and it was a fantastic show. The setlist was a good mix of material from their three albums, and also included brand new song "Semi-Precious Stone".
Before the band released their third album Expo 86, they mentioned they had recorded so much material they could have filled a double album, or at least a follow-up EP. Turns out they're just gonna release these extra songs the modern way - they've dropped a 'virtual single' that includes Spencer tune "Semi-Precious Stone" and Dan tune "Agents of Love". You can download them via iTunes here.
Electro pop group Cut Copy are releasing their third record Zonoscope on February 8. That album art with a waterfall placed right in the middle of NYC is awesome. Really looking forward to this.
Archer is an animated comedy on FX. The titular character Sterling Archer is a secret agent working for a clandestine organization called ISIS. He's basically an asshole. Has major mommy issues (she's his boss). And he's voiced by Coach McGurk from Home Movies!
There's plenty of dirty and generally wrong humor here. A lot of 'office' type humor as well. I started watching this on Netflix Instant and it's pretty much my new favorite show, so great.
The voice cast is stellar all around. There's Coach McGurk of course, Chris Parnell from SNL (also Dr. Spaceman on 30 Rock), and the mother from Arrested Development (also the mother here).
The second season starts up in January. That is entirely not soon enough.
Long live the EP!
San Francisco group Girls are following up their debut record Album (it's amazing that anyone can Google these guys, Jesus) with an EP called Broken Dreams Club, dropping November 22.
It's gonna be 6 songs, and clocks in at 30 minutes (perfect). You can download new tune "Heartbreaker" at True Panther Blog for free. It's good, so you should probably do that.
