Music Fix: Feist, Tegan & Sara, Magnetic Fields, More

Hi! Welcome to the Audiostraddle Weekly! Very few noteworthy things have happened in music this past week. Well I guess that Madonna thing happened. Did you watch it? Are you sick of talking about it? I’m not typically a Madonna fan and so I was a little surprised to find myself enjoying every moment, even the ones that made absolutely no sense. Highlights included the awk routine with LMFAO, the look on M.I.A‘s face every time she had to wave pom poms, and that time Madge nearly stacked it on the bleachers and recovered like a pro. Have they ever let P!nk do the Super Bowl? They should.

Tegan & Sara Watch:

Last week Tegan & Sara announced that a new record is in the works! The details are a little light, but my prediction from skim-reading the post is that it will be a concept album titled Friday Night Mics, inspired by the wisdom of Tami Taylor. It’s the album that had to happen.

So far 41 songs have been written, but they won’t all appear on the record, no matter how much you want them to. No news on when the album will drop but rest assured that the moment it does, we’ll be here to facilitate the in depth analysis of every feeling and lyric.

2012 Sasquatch! Line-Up Announced

Is anyone going to the Sasquatch!? The music festival held every year at the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington, and the line up consistently spectacular. This year’s roster is particularly tempting, with acts like Wild Flag, Metric, Girl Talk, The Dum Dum Girls, St Vincent, Feist, Alabama Shakes, Jack White and Bon Iver on the bill, to name just a few. Check out the full line up.

 

Watch #1: The Magnetic Fields (NSFW)

This new Magnetic Fields video for “Andrew In Drag” is Not Suitable For Work and so I haven’t actually watched it. However AS reader Jennifer, who emailed the link in, thinks that you’re all going to have positive feelings about it.


 

Watch #2: Feist

Canadian singer-songwriter Feist has released a stunning music video for “The Bad In Each Other” from her acclaimed album Metals, which topped almost every ‘Best Of’ music list published last year. The clip is definitely worth viewing, however be warned that it depicts a range of human experiences, from happy to heart-breaking, and the latter may make you feel a little sad.

Feist is doing a run of spring dates across the USA, catch a show if you can.

 

Watch #3: Sam Sparro

Remember Sam Sparro‘s “Black & Gold“? That is a really good song. Here’s the music video for Sparro’s new single “The Shallow End,” which offers a behind-the-scene look at the recording of his forthcoming album. The track didn’t grab me as instantly as some of his other hits, but it’ll potentially grow on me.

 

Watch #4: M.I.A.

Also, the music video for “Bad Girls” premiered last week.

 

Listen: Honeybee & Hers

Honeybees & Hers are a Nebraskan based four-piece fronted by queer musician Melissa Amstutz. Morning, their first full-length album, was recorded over a span of three years in basements, closets and studios. The result is “an intimate collection of seventeen short songs that ruminate on romance, fear, obsessions, escape and longing.”

Listen to one of the tracks, “Glimpse”.

 

Check out more tracks on Facebook or pick up the album here.

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14 Comments

  1. the look on M.I.A’s face every time she had to wave pom poms

    haha yes! also, i can’t get enough of her song. and that video is fucking cool!! i am so obsessed.

    • You and me both! This is the 12 time I’ve watched the video, for real. I am so super psyched for this new album. I might honestly be more excited for this than the new T&S album, but I’M NOT COMPLAINING EITHER. Yay new music!

  2. There’s something sort of awesome about a song with the chorus “andrew in draaaaaaaaaa-aaaaag.” not one to be caught singing in the checkout line at the supermarket.

  3. I have so many feelings that both the new andrew bird and the magnetic fields albums ARE COMING OUT ON THE SAME DAY.

    I really don’t know how I’m going to deal with this.

    • I suggest a coin-toss approach to the order in which you listen to them. This way you avoid that pain of deciding

      (Also, is that a cello in that picture?)

  4. Could someone please explain the Feist video to me? I couldn’t follow the narrative at all, but I would like to have an inkling of what the hell happened.

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