The Streets (Mike Skinner) - "The Escapist" New Video

The Streets are back! Never certain if Mike Skinner is joking or serious with his fun tunes, but we can expect a new collection soon. It will be called, Everything Is Borrowed . In the meantime, here is "The Escapist":

O'Death New Album - "Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin" Coming Soon, Tour Dates

Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin by Musicology NYC fave live act O'Death will be available October 28, 2008. The track list looks like this:

01 Lowtide02 Fire on Peshtigo03 Legs to Sin04 Mountain Shifts05 Vacant Moan06 A Light That Does Not Dim07 Grey Sun08 Home09 Leninger10 Crawl Through Snow11 Ratscars12 On an Aching Sea13 Angeline14 Lean-To

Live dates include tomorrow in NYC with Flogging Molly! Put on your drinking shoes if you can make it. Not being fall over drunk at an O'Death show is frowned upon.

O'Death Tour Dates:

07-31 New York, NY - Pier 54 (River Rocks) 08-13 London, England - The Roundhouse08-14 London, England - Cargo08-15 Crickhowell, Wales - Green Man Festival08-16 Nuremberg, Germany - Brucken Festival08-17 Berlin, Germany - West Germany08-28 Montreal, Quebec - Le Divan Orange08-29 Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec - El Passo Saloon08-30 Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec - El Passo Saloon09-10 New York, NY - Rocks Off Concert Cruise09-11 Lancaster, PA - Ad Lib Café09-12 Swarthmore, PA - Olde Club09-13 Alfred, NY - Knights Club

Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer Videos

Amanda Palmer will be back filling our ears with her girl angst, as Who Killed Amanda Palmer? will be released on September 16th.

She has released three new video's to promote the album. It will be her first release outside of her band, the Dresden Dolls. Watch them below:


"Ampersand"


"Astronaut"


"Runs in The Family"

Jamie Lidell - Figure Me Out on Jimmy Kimmel

Jamie Lidell's Friday performance:

Fleet Foxes NPR Lillywhite Sessions

Fleet Foxes will have a difficult time not making a million top ten lists this year. Catch the band playing live on NPR's Lillywhite Sessions with David Dye.

Our Apologies and 2008 Siren

For the past week or two Musicology NYC has been on hiatus due to the moving of our headquarters. We tried to get a few posts up, but it was damn near impossible. However, music has not eluded us.

We have been listening to a lot of great stuff lately. Frightened Rabbit's The Midnight Organ Fight, the new Hold Steady and Mogwai's The Hawk is Howling have been on heavy rotation.

We have also caught a brief but wonderful Santogold show at Summerstage, but most importantly we drank our faces off at Siren.

Islands stole the show as they blew away the mediocre Broken Social Scene. We have some iphone photos to prove we were there.

Anyway, we promise that we are back now and there will be no more long breaks.

Neon Neon - "I Told Her On Alderaan / Trick For Treat" New Video

Neon Neon joined Radiohead in being Mercury Shortlisted this year. Below check out the new vid for "I Told Her On Alderaan / Trick For Treat" . Lot's of nudity. OK not really, but, there are strippers and we should get some hits with that keyword.



Oh Gruff, how we love thee.

Kicking and Streaming: The Mystic Valley Band by Conor Oberst - Listen Free

Again, apologies for not updating regularly. We just moved our headquarters, and quite frankly we are exhausted. No excuse for missing some big news. We should be back to normal by tomorrow.

Conor Oberst new solo album, The Mystic Valley Band, will be available 8/5 on Merge Records. Right now, however it is streaming on his website.

Free Wakey Wakey Live at Bowery Ballroom

The Wakey Wakey set list went like this:

01 Brooklyn [download] (right-click and save)02 Falling Apart [download]03 LGA [download] 04 Blame You [download] 05 Messy Girl [download] 06 War Sweater [download] 07 Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover) [download] 08 Away [download] 09 Clinton Street Girl [download]

Get it all here.

That is all. This move is killing me. Hope to be back in full swing next week.

One Day As A Lion - "Wild International" New Song on Myspace

Oh yes, Zach De la Rocha is back with One Day As A Lion! Sort of reminds us of a '90's band called Rage Against the Machine. Check out the new song at the bands myspace.

Beck and MGMT Tour Dates - NO NYC!

We are both MGMT and Beck fans. The tour goes like this:

9/19 San Diego, CA Street Scene

9/20 Hollywood, CA Hollywood Bowl

9/22 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre

9/23 Albuquerque, NM Kiva Auditorium

9/25 El Paso, TX Abraham Chavez Theatre
9/27 Austin, TX ACL Festival

9/29 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre

9/30 Minneapolis, MN Wilkins Auditorium

10/2 Chicago, IL Aragon
10/3 Chicago, IL Aragon

It breaks our hearts.

Radiohead - "House of Cards" Video (Youtube)

Radiohead have created a video without cameras or light. Simple stuff for you and I, but if someone you know isn't smart enojugh to get it, they can watch the making of below. Pretty damn cool. Radiohead does this breakthrough shit so much that it's getting old.

Andre Lopez - camera, Tim Nackashi - producer / editor

Kicking and Streaming: Free Music at Spinner David Bowie, Ratatat, Joe Strummer

We love Spinner! This weeks free listens feature:

Albert Hammond - Como Te Llama

David Bowie - Live Santa Monica

Ratatat - LP3

Joe Strummer - The Future is Unwritten

The Melvins - Nude To Boot

Little Jackie - The Stoop

Santogold, Julian Casablancas & Pharrell - "My Drive Thru" Video

The odd teaming of Santogold, Julian Casablancas & Pharrell not only have annoying ads throughout the subways here in NYC, they also have a video for their song "My Drive Thru". Watch it below:
Santogold, Julian Casablancas, and N.E.R.D. Produced by Pharrell

Shudder To Think Reunion Tour

Exciting news for those that missed the Shudder to Think show at the Mercury Lounge last year. They're baaaaaaaaaaaack.

08-10 Baltimore, MD - Virgin Mobile Festival

09-05 Chicago, IL - Park West

09-06 Toronto, Ontario - Virgin Festival

10-03 Philadelphia, PA - Theater of the Living Arts

10-04 New York, NY - Webster Hall

10-11 Boston, MA - Paradise

10-25 New Orleans, LA - Voodoo Music Festival

11-01 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey

11-02 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore

Death Cab For Cutie - "Cath" Video

MTV has the new Death Cab video for "Cath" Enjoy it here.

Fred Durst on Tom Greene Show

Couldn't hold out any longer talking about this. Age much, Mr. Durst? Go watch the video at Tom Green's Blog. If you think looks are decieving please fast forward to 12:25 and listen to the tattoo discussion. Fred Durst -funny or sad?

Bloc Party - "Mercury" Video

Check out the Bloc Party video for the new song "Mercury" below.

Kicking and Streaming: The Black Kids - Partie Traumatic Free Album Stream

The Black Kids new album Partie Traumatic isn't available until July 22, 2008, but it is streaming in full over at the bands myspace.

One Day As A Lion - Zach de la Rocha's New Band!

Rage Against the Machine singer Zach de la Rocha has a new band and they are called One Day As a Lion. Their self-titled debut EP will be released July 22, 2008. The collaboration is between Zack de la Rocha (Rage Against the Machine) and Jon Theodore (ex-drummer for The Mars Volta).

"It's better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb"

The track listing goes like this:

01 Wild International

02 Ocean View

03 Last Letter

04 If You Fear Dying

05 One Day as a Lion

No Age - "Eraser" Video

No Age rule. Check out their new video for "Eraser" from Nouns.

Kicking and Streaming: Albert Hammond Jr - "Como Te Llamma" Listen Free Album Stream

Once again, the part is greater the sum of its whole on Albert Hammond's new album Como Te Llamma (release date July 8, 2008). It stands better than his band The Strokes in our ears. Just as his first album Yours To Keep did. Judge for yourself at Albert's Myspace, where the entire record is streaming.