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bad veins – dry out

Today marks the start of a 10 stop tour for Cincinatti band Bad Veins, made up of Benjamin Davis and Sebastian Schultz, along with Scotland’s We Were Promised Jetpacks. I first told you about Bad Veins back in September when I posted their beautiful tune “Go Home” (also reposted below), which just grabs you from the first notes, and today I’ll share with you “Dry Out”, a song that reminds me a bit of The Strokes.

The tour kicks off in NYC at the Bowery Ballroom. The rest of the tour dates are as follows:

2.11 – The Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY
2.12 – First Unitarian Church – Philadelphia, PA
2.13 – Rock and Roll Hotel – Washington, DC
2.14 – The Middle East – Cambridge, MA
2.15 – The Knitting Factory – Brooklyn NY
2.17 – Casbah @ The Tremont Music Hall – Charlotte, NC
2.18 – The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
2.19 – The End – Nashville, TN
2.20 – Maxine’s Pub – Hot Springs, AR
2.21 – Hailey’s – Denton, TX

I’ve heard nothing but great things about these guys live, so make sure to check them out if they are coming to a venue near you. Sadly there is no Detroit tour stop but I’m sure I’ll be catching these guys live some time in the near future. In the meantime, enjoy the two tracks below.

Bad Veins – Dry Out

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Bad Veins – Go Home

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julian casablancas – tourist

you know how sometimes songs just follow you around? you just hear them all the time at the most random places? well, that about sums up this one for me. but the more i heard it, the more i loved it. “tourist” is the closing track of “phrazes for the young”, the debut solo album of julian casablancas, the frontman of the strokes. [aside: am i the only person who actually enjoys "first impressions of earth"?]

i really like the imagery of the choruses, and how the chorus changes up every time. after mentioning the city, suburbs, countryside and desert (among other locales) and how no matter where he is, he feels like a tourist, we learn out of the blue that its actually a love song, and then it all makes sense with the closing line: “everywhere i go im a tourist/but if you stay with me ill always be at home.”

julian casablancas – tourist

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julian casablancas – 11th dimension

its been a pretty great few month span of good music thats been released or thats about to be released and another highly anticipated album is “phrazes of the young”, the solo album of julian casablancas who is better known as the instantly recognizable voice of the strokes. it was really only a matter of time before he released a solo album since both albert hammond jr and fabrizio moretti (as part of little joy) already had pretty well known side projects going. the good news is that all of those acts have been pretty great in my book, and i have a feeling that julians new project wont disappoint either.

while “phrazes of the young” wont be released until october 20, the first track to be released, “11th dimension”, has already become a hit around the blogosphere. the first time i heard it, i knew it was the perfect choice for this weeks friday beat. but be warned, if you are a purist of the strokes, you definitely will not like this song. its pretty much a heavy synth dance track straight out of the 80s. the abrupt ending makes me wonder if the album is going to be some sort of nonstop track where one song flows right into the other. pretty much the perfect song to request at luna on a saturday night. and definitely nothing like the strokes.

julian casablancas – 11th dimension

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