Pitchfork gave Department of Eagles' Archive 2003-2006 a glowing 8.1 review. Featuring tracks recorded between the band's debut  The Cold Nose and their breakthrough In Ear Park, and around the time member Daniel Rossen recorded the classic Yellow House with his other band Grizzly Bear, Archive is, in Pitchfork's words, "a document rich with revelatory moments and educatory touchstones-- but as an album, it functions even better." They got it just right in our estimation, and again in the review's conclusory statement: "Even when they don't mean to, Rossen and Nicolaus come off as impeccably having their shit together."

Archive 2003-2006 is available now.

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Department of Eagles' awesome collection of lost recordings, Archive 2003-2006, is out today! Consisting of recordings from incomplete album and other recording sessions pre-dating the band's tour de force album In Ear Park, as well as member Daniel Rossen's work with Grizzly Bear, Archive offers a glipse at a brilliant act in its lean, formative stage. Available everywhere, including here.

Pitchfork gave their "Best New Music" tag to a track off our forthcoming Department of Eagles release, Archive 2003-2006.

The review is great and spot on. Archive, which collects assorted tracks the band worked on between their debut, The Cold Nose, and their magnum opus, In Ear Park, isn't your typical release, but the music it contains is inspired and vital. From the looks of the early reviews coming in, it seems like people are getting what makes it such an intriguing listen.

Archive 2003-2006, released July 20th, can be pre-ordered here: http://www.americandust.net/discography?id=1142

We are extremely pleased to announce the release of the debut album by Garotas Suecas, Escaldante Banda.

The album sees its release on September 7th, 2010 on the popular CD, vinyl and mp3 formats. You can preorder it right here on the American Dust website!

Escaldante Banda offers a brew of Otis Redding soul grooves and Os Mutantes craziness. The group’s most accomplished recording to date and the ideal Stateside introduction to Brazil’s best-kept secret, the record bursts with fuzz guitars, polyrhythms, scorching female backing vocals, big horn sections, and heavy psychedelia. Its grooves are thick, and it comes to make America shake. The perfect late-summer dance record.

Here is the track listing:

1. Tudo Bem
2. Banho de Bucha
3. Ela
4. Não Se Perca Por Ai
5. Você Não é Tudo Isso Meu Bem
6. Mercado Roque Santerio
7. Ninguém Mandou
8. Alma
9. Olhos da Cara
10. Sunday Night Blues

Sweaty, funky, exotic, committed. Garotas Suecas (Swedish Girls, in Portuguese) hail from Sao Paolo, Brazil and offer up a hearty, full-throated stew combining the best elements of their country’s homegrown Tropicalia with Anglo-American soul and freakbeat. The six members of the group met as teenagers at an open mic night and promptly formed a band, hijacking the home of an area poet for their rehearsals. They self funded three EPs, toured Brazil, and outlandishly landed an MTV video music award.
 
But what psychs the band more than anything is launching their Brazilian Invasion of the States. In the wake of their second smash appearance at SXSW in Austin and subsequent two week US tour (and just in time for the release of Escaldante Banda), the band is heading out for another month-long tour in September. The band looks forward to blazing a smoldering trail across the country. “We’ve played some college shows in the US where kids got super wild,” they say. “We are down for playing anywhere where the crowd is down for shaking very hard to our music.”

Here is the list of the band's upcoming tour dates:

Jul 08 James Bar Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Jul 09 1007 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
Sep 01 Spaceland Los Angeles, CA (w/ Grass Widow, Ty Segall)
Sep 02 Bar Pink Elephant San Diego, CA (w/ Black Diamond Riders)
Sep 03 Elbow Room San Franscisco, CA
Sep 04 Uptown Oakland, California
Sep 06 Bumbershoot Festival Fisher Green Stage Seattle, WA
Sep 07 Northern Olympia, Washington (w/ Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa)
Sep 08 The Cultch Vancouver B.C., British Co (w/ Calvin Johnson and The Hive Dwellers)
Sep 09 Music Fest NW @ Ash Street Portland, Oregon
Sep 10 Asbury Lanes Asbury Park, NJ
Sep 11 Space Gallery Block Party Portland, ME
Sep 12 Le Divan Orange Montréal, QC, CANADA
Sep 13 Silver Dollar Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Sep 14 Schubas Tavern Chicago, Illinois
Sep 15 horn gallery @ KENYON COLLEGE gambier, Ohio
Sep 16 Bug Jar Rochester, New York
Sep 19 U St. Music Hall Washington, Washington (w/ Kid Congo Powers and DJ Neal)
Sep 22 Knitting Factorey Brooklyn, NY (w/ Ava Luna)
Sep 23 Kung Fu Neck Tie Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sep 24 Cake Shop New York, NY
Sep 28 Snug Harbor Charlotte, North Caro
Sep 29 The Earl Atlanta, GA (w/ Gaye Blades and Selmanaires)
Sep 30 Next Big Nashville Nashville, TN
Oct 01 Roots N Blues Festival Columbia, MO


“Garotas Suecas shouldn't merely be listened to or witnessed; they should be absorbed.”
-Carrie Brownstein, Sleater-Kinney
 
“Garotas Suecas has honed a slice of garage-rock-influenced soul music of which the Daptone folks should be jealous.”
-The New York Times

“Thunderous organ, drums in overdrive and group vocals to make any fan of harmony proud.”
-Aquarium Drunkard

The vinyl reissues of Jeff Mangum's Live At Jittery Joe's and Sibylle Baier's Colour Green are both out today. Please visit your favorite independent record store and pick one up. If they don't carry it , ask them to order one for you (and a couple extras for the store!)

Both LPs were given a very limited vinyl issue several years ago and have been out of print ever since.

Jeff Mangum is the visionary behind Neutral Milk Hotel. His breathtaking solo performance on Live At Jittery Joe's includes several song from NMH albums In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and On Avery Island, Phil Spector's "I Love How You Love Me," and the never officially released original "I Will Bury You In Time."

Sibylle Baier's Colour Green was recorded in the early seventies in her home on a reel-to-reel recording device. It's an incredible collection of intimate portraits of life's sad and fragile beauty.

You can order both lps on the Store page.

If you don't know already, The Shalants really are the best band. You'll be able to confirm this with your own eyes and ears later this month when the band plays a handful of west coast dates. The dates are as follows:

May 16 2010     Valentine's     Portland, OR    
May 17 2010     Lil' Red Lion     Eureka, CA    
May 19 2010     Crepe Place     Santa Cruz, California, US    
May 20 2010     Sophia’s     Davis, California, US    
May 21 2010     Chief Crazy Horse Inn Saloon     Nevada City, California, US    
May 24 2010     Knockout     San Francisco, California, US   

The next Shalants album is in the can, but release details are still being worked out. We'll have more info in the next month or two, so keep checking back.

In the meantime, the band is prepping a self-released 7" single that will be available sometime in the summer. It will be a taster for the upcoming album, featuring two songs from the sessions.

Please check out the album, Passage Through Wilderness Vol. 2, it's a remarkable collection of songs.

You can listen to their contribution to our Judee Sill Tribute below:

The Shalants - Lopin' Along Through The Cosmos

In anticipation of Department of Eagles' forthcoming Archive 2003-2006, we thought you might like to hear a track from the release.

We give you "Brightest Minds".

The record is due out July 20 and will see worldwide release via a partnership with Bella Union. Including some of the bands best songs, this waggish and at times breathtakingly intimate collection will delight fans of Department of Eagles and Grizzly Bear, and anyone else with ears.

Department of Eagles is the acclaimed duo featuring Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and his long-time songwriting partner and musical ally Fred Nicolaus.

Preorder the cd or vinyl.

Find out more about the band.

On June 22nd, we will be reissuing two amazing albums on vinyl: Jeff Mangum's Live At Jittery Joe's and Sibylle Baier's Colour Green. Both were given a very limited vinyl issue several years ago and have been out of print ever since.

Jeff Mangum is the visionary behind Neutral Milk Hotel. His breathtaking solo performance on Live At Jittery Joe's includes several song from NMH albums In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and On Avery Island, Phil Spector's "I Love How You Love Me," and the never officially released original "I Will Bury You In Time."

Sibylle Baier's Colour Green was recorded in the early seventies in her home on a reel-to-reel recording device. It's an incredible collection of intimate portraits of life's sad and fragile beauty.

You can preorder both lps on the Store page.

American Dust is thrilled to announce the release of Department of Eagles' Archive 2003-2006, comprising sessions originally intended for the band's second album, alongside additional material recorded during, well, 2003-2006. The record is due out July 20 and will see worldwide release via a partnership with the mighty Bella Union label.

Department of Eagles is the acclaimed duo featuring Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and his long-time songwriting partner and musical ally Fred Nicolaus. The band released their masterpiece, In Ear Park, in 2008, but many people are unaware that the two had recorded and scrapped an entire album's worth of sessions prior to the recording of that album. The sessions have gained a feverish notoriety among the few that have heard them, and we're proud to be giving these recordings their official release.

Including some of the bands best songs, this waggish and at times breathtakingly intimate collection will delight fans of Department of Eagles and Grizzly Bear, and anyone else with ears.

Preorder the cd or vinyl.

Find out more about the band.

The debut US release by our favorite tropicalia/garage outfit, Garotas Suecas, has finally arrived.

If you happened to catch the band at one of their SXSW performances you may have already found yourself walking out of a dank, Austin club clutching one of these hot pink pieces of goodness pictured below. Until now that would be the only instance in which you'd find yourself in possession of one. That's all changed.

The young Brazilian group's 7" single won't be available in stores until the first week of April, but you can purchase it right here through your trusted American Dust website and we'll ship it out immediately. Think of your jealous friends and their jealous faces! Envy!

The Carrie Brownstein endorsed band is still in the midst of their US mini tour, so be sure to catch them when they come to your town.

The Moore Brothers will be the opening act for Joanna Newsom on four upcoming East Coast tour dates.

Catch the sibling magic!

March 19th and 20th
First Unitarian Church - Sanctuary
Philadelphia, PA
(more info)

March 22nd and 23rd
Sixth & Historic Synagogue
Washington, DC
(more info)

Available now: the Moore Brothers latest masterpiece, Aptos, featuring a musical contribution from Joanna herself

American Dust is very excited to announce the arrival of our latest artist, Brazilian psych-garage-pop combo Garotas Suecas. These guys are amazing. Their songs pop and fizz with so much musicality, it'll make you dizzy if you don't dance.

In March we will be releasing a taste of the band's wicked prowess with the cracking Codinome Dinamite/Ghostwriter single on sweet 7" vinyl. The a-side is streaming now on the player to your left, but don't disregard the benefit of snapping up one of these limited 7" singles. If ever there was a band whose music fit the crackling old-school garage rock format of the wax single, Garotas Suecas is it.

(And stay tuned for information on a full-length of all new material to be released in the fall.)

The band will also be touring the US in March, bringing their can't-miss, knock-'em-dead South American fire to northern ears. Dates below.

Pitchfork has named Frida Hyvönen's recording of "Jesus Was a Cross Maker," off our own Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill, as one of 2009's greatest tracks. Check out the list and listen to Frida's recording right here. (She's at 77, a number the numerologically inclined Judee would probably love.)

Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill, featuring exclusive recordings from Beth Orton, Bill Callahan, Final Fantasy, Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and many others, is available now.

We're really into this great new Moore Brothers video for the regal "Henry Alexander", one of our favorite tracks from the band's latest album Aptos.

Click here for more info and to purchase Aptos.

Also, catch the brothers on their current tour, including upcoming dates with Why?. Check the band's website for more info.

Our long-awaited, New York Times Critics' Choice-selected Judee Sill tribute album, Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill, is now available! Crayon Angel features original recordings by Beth Orton, Bill Callahan, Final Fantasy, Frida Hyvonen, Marissa Nadler, Ron Sexsmith, Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles, and many more, all covering songs by the inestimable Ms. Sill, including two compositions never before heard.

Various tracks can be streamed here, here and here.

Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill is available through iTunes, Amazon, our own online store and fine retailers everywhere.

Streaming now at Beth Orton's official site is "Reach for the Sky," a track off our upcoming compilation album Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill. Judee Sill never recorded "Reach for the Sky" in her own lifetime but she did leave behind sheet music, from which the inimitibale Ms. Orton brings to life this beautiful song for the very first time. Thanks, Beth!

Crayon Angel, released September 22, features another never-before-heard Judee composition, "For a Rainbow," recorded for the first time by the awesome Bill Callahan, as well as contributions by Frida Hyvonen, Daniel Rossen (of Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles)and many more. More information and pre-orders are available here.

The incredible, harmonizing Moore Brothers head out on the road next week, hitting more American cities than most of us have ever been to. Check out the incredible list right here, and if you're in the San Francisco area be sure to check the boys' tour-opening date this Sunday, August 23, with J. Tillman of Fleet Foxes, at the Cafe du Nord.

The Moore Brothers' swoon-worthy new album, Aptos, is available now.

The standard-bearing Stereogum blog recently premiered a new track off our upcoming Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill. Frida Hyvönen's breathtaking version of Judee's classic "Jesus Was a Cross Maker" is available here for stream and download, along with a short interview with the Swedish chanteuse.

You may also remember Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles' awesome version of Judee's "Waterfall", premiered earlier on Pitchfork.

Crayon Angel, also featuring Beth Orton, Bill Callahan and Final Fantasy, among many others, is released September 22. Pre-orders available now.

The hard-working, ever-touring Port O'Brien have a new album and a new tour on the near-horizon. Threadbare is released Oct 6 through the estimable TBD Records. Congrats, dudes! New track "My Will Is Good" is premiering now on Stereogum.

Also, if you live basically anywhere in Western Europe or the States, you should be able to catch POB on tour in the coming months. Check the band's myspace page for all the details.

Port O'Brien's remarkable debut, The Wind and the Swell, is available now.

The wry Outside Left magazine has just posted a fine piece on the Top 5 Love Songs of 2009 (So Far), and included are our very own Moore Brothers, with keen album-opener "Daughter Feather."

"When they finish," Alex V. Cook writes, "you are left with something marvelous and unique, a thing that reveals its making while soaring above it."

Pick up the Moores' awesome Aptos LP, featuring "Daughter Feather," right here.

The Bye Bye Blackbirds manage an extremely well-written and thoughtful blog called For As Many As Will. The band documents their creative progress, pitch philosophies regarding the band's own existence, and talks a little about some of the artists that have influenced them. What else would you expect from a bunch self-trained rock scholars?

The latest post describes the recording of a recent set of demos for their next album. They've even linked to one for your listening pleasure.

The band has also contributed a track to Crayon Angel, American Dust's forthcoming tribute to Judee Sill. You can find out more about the album and preorder it here.

Or, you can purchase the band's assured debut album, Houses and Homes, here.

You'll also be able to catch them live over the next couple of weeks as they play a few festivals in California (info below).

friday july 31st
audie's olympic club  http://www.myspace.com/clubfredmusic
1426 n. van ness ave
fresno, ca 93728
9pm
w/ the parties, blue skies for black hearts, sleepover disaster

saturday august 1st
the elks lodge  http://www.myspace.com/thetempleventura
11 s. ash
ventura, ca 93001
4pm-12am $8 adv $12 atd
indie fest w/ franklin for short
and many, many more (we go on at 4:30pm)

sunday august 2nd
fais do do  http://www.faisdodo.com/
5257 west adams blvd.
los angeles, ca 90016
8:30pm $8
12th annual IPO festival  http://www.internationalpopoverthrow.com/

The awesome Bye Bye Blackbirds were recently featured in the San Francisco Examiner. Kind words, highlighting the group's rich musical palette, pulling inspiration "from 60’s British bands, 70’s pop bands, 80’s underground bands, country rock, folk, and more." And even a mention for our upcoming Judee Sill tribute album! Nice one.

The Bye Bye Blackbirds' debut full-length, Houses and Homes, is available now.

If you live in California be sure to catch the incredible Matt Baldwin - our favorite man on the axe - performing with a variety of ensembles:

Thurs. June 25 @ Cinefamily in Los Angeles - performing as Inner Beauty for the Festival In The Forest film sneak preview

Fri. June 26 @ Slim's in San Francisco - performing with Sam Flax & Higher Color - with Fool's Gold and Rodriguez

Sat. June 27 @ The Uptown in Oakland - with Howlin' Rain

Thurs. July 9 @ The Crepe Place in Santa Cruz - with Howlin Rain

Matt Baldwin's mind-melting psych-folk debut, Paths of Ignition, is available now.

Check it out here:

http://pitchfork.com/news/35638-premiere-grizzly-bears-daniel-rossen-covers-judee-sill-mp3stream/

Click here for more info on Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill. You can also listen to the track and  preorder the album.