Today’s MOKB on SIRIUS XMU Blog Radio Playlist : 5/21/13

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Here’s the playlist from today’s My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU, Channel 35! Tune in to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM at Noon ET or 12am ET/9pm PST each and every Tuesday!

Night Moves – Country Queen
National Park System – Eggsong
Har Mar Superstar – Lady You Shot Me
Postiljonen – Supreme
Jack White – Love Is Blindness
Wampire – Trains
The National – Don’t Swallow The Cap
AELIUS – Echoes
Dead Times – Centuries
Pure Bathing Culture – Pendulum
Freeze-Tag – Hours (Ours)
Empire Of The Sun – Alive
Phoenix – Trying To Be Cool (RAC remix)
ASTR – Operate
Airbird and Napolian – In The Zone
Tim Woulfe – Joyce
No Joy – Slug Night
Chad & The Meatbodies – Mountain
The Love Language – Calm Down
Belle Mare – The Boat Of The Fragile Mind
Grouper – Living Room
Pascal Pinon – Bloom
Young Wonder – Electrified
Kisses – Hardest Part
Lockets – Surrender
Prides – Out Of The Blue
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak remix)

Song : Crocodiles : “Cockroach”

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Only a year after their last release, San Diego rockers Crocodiles will be releasing a new LP titled Crimes of Passion on August 20th via Frenchkiss Records. Sune Rose Wagner assisted with the production duties on this release. “Cockroach” is serving as the first glimpse into the new release. The guitars punch on this cut with a ferocious combination of garage and surf rock trademarks. Stream and download the song below.

Crocodiles – Cockroach

Song : Pure Bathing Culture : “Pendulum”

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Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture, the duo of Daniel Hindman and keyboardist Sarah Versprille, have announced their forthcoming debut LP, Moon Tides, via Partisan Records (US)/Memphis Industries (UK). The album will follow-up their enjoyable self-titled EP from last year. The first single from the new release is “Pendulum.” There is something very familiar and comforting about the song, almost like a caress to the face with every listen. LIsten below.

Song : Badlands : “Sleeping Beauty”

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You will not find a lot out their about the band Badlands, but their debut song “Sleeping Beauty” is good enough that I am sure this will not be the case for long. Entrancing vocals with longing lyrics (“Here forever, I’ll dream of you”), hazy guitars, piano, and a drum beat of so many great songs of old make this song hard to resist. It is a beautiful piece of pop that has us looking forward to more from this mysterious band. Stream and download the song below.

DOWNLOAD: Badlands – Sleeping Beauty

MOKB Video Premiere : French Camp : “Way To Your Heart”

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French Camp is a Brooklyn-based band comprised of singer Owen Beverly along with Benji Lee, Edward Barton, Andrew Doherty. Beverly is originally from Jackson, Mississippi and named the band after a boarding school in the Mississippi delta not too far from there. The have two records to their name with the latest being Odd Particle that was released earlier this month. During the creation of the record, they drew inspiration from Roy Orbison and many of his signature trademarks can be heard in the lyrics, guitar tones, and vocals.

Their newest single is the melodic “Way To Your Heart.” According to Beverly, the song was written shortly after a friend had passed and is referenced with some of the imagery in the new video for the song, although they tried to keep the visual “a little more playful and ironic.” The depicts a heart surgery along with Beverly running throughout the clip as a cathartic release while tossing aside objects that go along with the lyrics of the song. Find it below along with a stream of the album in full.

Song : Smith Westerns : “3am Spiritual”

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Smith Westerns’ highly-anticipated new album, Soft Will, will be dropping on June 25th via Mom + Pop Music. The first single was the wistful teenage anthem “Varsity,” now we get the disillusioned cut “3am Spritual.” It was the first song written for the new LP and discusses the feelings involved with heavy touring and trying to get things back to normal after returning home. Stream it below.

Song : Splashh : “Today (Fade Away)”

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90’s rock revivalists Splashh will be releasing their debut LP, Comfort, on June 4th via Kanine Records in the US, but in the meantime the band has given everyone a taste to get them through with a single “All I Wanna Do” b/w “Today (Fade Away).” After hearing the a-side, we now get a stream of the equally strong b-side “Today (Fade Away),” which will also serve as the first single from the debut album. Stream it below.