For a band with a lead singer that makes women swoon, maybe it's just coincidence that everything's coming into allignment on Valentine's Day. Elefant's The Black Magic Show (via Kemado/Hollywood) was released at iTunes today (well ahead of the CD's release date of April 18th...let's see if it gets the ball rolling), Pitchfork gave it a 3.7 (out of ten) today and this evening the four-piece band starts a tour with BRMC. That Pitchfork review sure dissed the album (and made a good argument) though the albums' target audience -- the kind of mainstream listeners Hollywood sold a million or so Fastball albums to -- has probably never heard of Pitchfork. Coolfer is intersted in seeing how Kemado's stab at bigger success works out. It's always a crapshoot, even with a ladies' man in the band.

And, as Coolfer has pointed out before, Kemado/Hollywood are giving away MP3s of album tracks ahead of the release date. Here's "Lolita" (MP3). The Black Magic Show website -- yes, an entire website for an album -- has a media player with audio and video streams.