Tori Amos - Fire to Your Plain & Making of Abnormally Attracted to Sin

Tori Amos discusses Abnormally Attracted to Sin here,  Video below.  

Fire to Your Plain - Tori Amos

Lissie Trullie - "Boy Boy" Video

Lissie Trullie's EP Self Taught Learner has grown on us here at Musicology. Check out her new video for "Boy Boy" via Stereogum.

Dude from Interpol to Release Solo Album Julian Plenti

Paul Blanks of Interpol is Julian Plenti. The snippets at the website sound interesting and if nothing else, a lot different from Interpol's sound.

COLDPLAY LIVE ALBUM TO BE GIVEN AWAY FREE AT SHOWS AND ONLINE

Been meaning to pots this...How very kind of the Coldplay crew:

At every remaining live showin 2009 (apart from festival shows). Starting
with the band's first North American tour date, at West Palm Beach in Florida on
May 15th,every fan attending a show will be given a free copy of thenine-track
CD.

Also on May 15th, LeftRightLeftRightLeft will be made available as a free
download from Coldplay.com, for
fans everywhere.

According to the band, the give-away is meant as a
recession-bustingmark of gratitude to everyone who's supported them: "Playing
live is what we love. This album is a thank you to our fans - the people whogive
us a reason to do it and make it happen."The album was recorded over the past
year in various cities aroundthe world on the Viva La Vida tour. To see LRLRL's
tracklisting andartwork, click here:http://emr.emi.com/go.asp?/bEMU001/q29AO5E/xO2NG5E.

Spinner Conor Oberst, Peaches, Shout Out Out Out Out

Spinner has a bunch of good albums this week highlighted by St. Vincent and Shout Out Out Out Out. But also including Peaches, the New York Dolls, Ben Harper and the NIN supported Horrors.

Cool Kids Mix Tape Gone Fishing

Cool Kids had a great EP last year and now in preparation for their new record they have released a free mixtape called Gone Fishing. You can get it here.

Gone Fishing tracklisting:

1. “Introduction to Ice Fishing”
2. “Hammer Brothers”

3. “Champions”

4. “Gold Links”

5. “Cinnamon”

6. “Premium Blends”

7. “Step Back”

8. “Jump Rope feat. Tennille”

9. “The Last Stretch feat. Jahda”

10. “The Art of Noise (interlude)”

11. “The Light Company”

12. “Popcorn”

13. “Wise Words by GLC -Told by GLC”

14. “Pennies (the updated rosters) Remix feat. Ludacris & Bun B”

15. “Broadcasting Live”

16. “Takin' a Break”

17. “Tune Up”
18. “Weekend Girls feat. Ryan Leslie”
19. “Summer Vacations”

20. “Words of Wisdom by GLC - Told by GLC”

21. “Knocked Down”

Enter the Vaselines Review and "Son of a Gun" MP3

It's easy to hear the Vaselines influences as well as the influenced. But it's funny to think a band of relatively unknowns as big influencers. As we all know, we owe Kurt Cobain for that. He spoke very highly of this band.

And that inspiration may not appear to be worn on Cobain's sleeve. But, really it is. There are many things that are special about the Vaselines. Most important is their talent with melody. These songs seep into your brain and can float about for days. How very Nirvana is that?

In fact it is fun for the casual fan to stumble upon a few songs that they may have credited to Nirvana in the past ("Son of a Gun, "Molly's Lip's", "Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam")

On Enter the Vaselines- a career retrospect in two parts-a reissue of a reissue of the bands complete recordings from 1992 (at the height of Cobain-mania) and the remaining demos and live tapes.

Although this is a lot of music to listen to consecutively there are few bad moments. On the second half of the release many songs will slip into the background because of the weak recordings or because of boredom.

But the jangle pop punk is so sweet on the first half of the disk that you will wonder how more aren't influenced by this band.

As far as their influences, they owe a lot to the Velvet Underground, but the boy/girl contrast of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee -though somehow lo-fi-also channels punk bands without much distortion.

The highlights on the album are many. The aforementioned Nirvana covers are stunning to hear in their original form. And beyond these tracks "Dum-Dum", "Dying For it" and "You Think You're a Man" continue along the bands playful sexual driven tunes.

This is an album that all rock fan should have in their collection. Many owe Nirvana a thanks for getting them off commercial rock. And if you aren't off it and still listen to Nevermind regularly this may be the album to wean you off and take you through a decade plus of great indie music...even if these tunes are years older than Nirvana.

Rated: "It's Great"

Vaselines - "Son of a Gun (MP3)