I Dumped My Mind

Scary Mansion are set to release their sophomore album later this year. No details on the album yet, but a couple of tracks have crept onto the internet.

The first is 'I Dumped My Mind', a kind of semi-official release, seeing as it's featured on the Scary Mansion You Tube page:

The second is a demo/alternate version of the song 'No Law'. The video is directed by Andrew Hoepfner of Creaky Boards, who says that the album version will be more punky in feel:

I was completely addicted to the debut album by Scary Mansion and am very much looking forward to the new tunage heading our way.

Brooklyn

Since I seem to have a bit of an obsession with the music scene in Brooklyn of late after blogging about Joseph Arthur, Scary Mansion and Creaky Boards who are all from there, I thought I'd post a pretty cool live video of the song 'Brooklyn' by Jesse Malin, that was recorded at the Mercury Lounge in 2007.

There's a great story at the beginning of the video about Jesse and his 'man with a van' business, where they moved a bed for Barbra Streisand. It's always great to catch Jesse at his solo shows as he's not only a gifted musican, but also a great story teller. Check it out:

'Brooklyn' is featured on Jesse's debut album, which was produced by Ryan Adams.

Jesse is playing a three night stint at the Bowery Electric, NYC this weekend. It's called 'Almost Grown - An evening of songs and stories with Jesse Malin'. I'd love to go to the show, it's been too long since I've caught Jesse live.

You can check out more Jesse goodness at his MySpaz page. I'm off to check out some more music from Brooklyn. Feel free to post a comment if you know of any good Brooklyn based bands I should check out.

Brooklyn Is Love

Creaky Boards are another Brooklyn based band that I’ve been getting into recently, along with Scary Mansion. In fact, both bands have even worked together in the past. Creaky Boards is the name Andrew Hoepfner has given to all of his music since moving to New York City in 2004. They got quite a bit of publicity earlier this year when they accused Coldplay of copying one of their own songs, the aptly named ‘The Songs I Didn’t Write’, by posting the following video on You Tube.

The song does sounds a bit similar at first to “Viva La Vida”, but to my ears sounds a lot better than anything Coldplay have put out since ‘Parachutes’. It may have been a bit of a cheap publicity stunt, but certainly something that has helped spread the word of the ‘Boards. This all happened back in June. I must have been oblivious to it as I only just found out about the band.

The bands new album, 'Brooklyn Is Love', comes out in November and can be pre-orderd through the band's MySpaz site, where there are also a few songs streaming from the album, including the pretty groovy ‘Brooklyn’.