January 2011
20 posts
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Record review: Iron and Wine "Kiss Each Other...
Remember when Sam Beam first came on the scene? I’m not really asking because I want to compare Kiss Each Other Clean to Creek Drank the Cradle, but just because nostalgia is so deeply sewn into the fabric of Iron and Wine. And I’m not remembering “the tree down the river when you were 17,” as Beam sings on this new record. But rather back to 2003 or so when I would put...
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Rivers Cuomo's Pinkerton Diaries
Apparently Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo is releasing a book of his writings from around the time Pinkerton came out. Hey, nerds! Get excited! This is exciting!
“That’s a collection of all my journals, emails, letters, photos, school papers,” Rivers said. “Everything from those years ‘94-‘97, so you get an inside look as to exactly what I was thinking.”...
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Music video: Toro y Moi "Still Sound"
Sometimes you seriously just want to see some grainy, ’70s-looking footage of dudes just having a good time. Being chased by ghosts, swinging on swings, riding a bike next to their dog, dancing, dancing and dancing. If you’re in the market for this type of footage, you’re in luck! Toro y Moi has this video for “Still Sound,” from his new record Underneath the Pine...
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Bush "Glycerine"
The internet was pretty boring today. So I’m just going to post probably my favorite thing ever, which is Gavin Rossdale playing “Glycerine” from MTV’s Spring Break 1996. This video has 161 thousand hits. I’m pretty sure I’m responsible for all of them.
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Flying Lotus and Thom Yorke just hanging out
When I heard that Thom Yorke was going to be on a track on Cosmogramma (I probably didn’t know it was called Cosmogramma at the time, I guess…) I was all like “Whaaaaat!!!!!1!” Then I heard the track and I was all like “Daaaaaaamn!1!!” But seeing them together hanging out with Gilles Peterson seems actually pretty unwild. They are just two dudes having a good...
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Record review: Deerhoof "Deerhoof vs. Evil"
I first heard about Deerhoof when a friend of mine in high school was buying one of their CDs from a record store in Wicker Park, Chicago. I got into them later when my collage roommate and I would get drunk and dance to their records in the empty apartment downstairs.
Their new record is called Deerhoof vs. Evil. That alone gets me into it. But when I actually sit down and listen to the...
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Show review: Joan of Arc at Shea Stadium
They played Owls songs! Up over at FREEwilliamsburg.
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Matmos did Daytrotter with Dan Deacon
I’m really not trying to sound like such a Dan Deacon fanboy lately. But he is really doing some of the most interesting stuff of his career lately and 2011 has already been and continues to be a really exciting year for him.
Today, Daytrotter gave us this excellent collaboration between Matmos and Dan Deacon. It kind of makes sense - both make painstakingly articulate electronic music....
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Music video: Danielson "Grow Up"
“My counselor says I gotta grow up now. Whatever that means.”
This song has been on blast for me so far all of 2011. Because it is all about growing up or not growing up and asking what future you will think about present you - all things that are pretty constantly on my mind. And since Daniel Smith can voice these feelings in such great, high-pitched, couldn’t-be-more-poppy...
Cee-Lo on SNL
This was pretty awesome. Glad to see this song is still awesome. (It is still awesome.)
Dom + Cults "Bowl Cut"
This is a nice little track for me to start my morning out with. Dom teams up with indie (or not-so-indie anymore) darlings Cults on this new song “Bowl Cut.” Plus you get to see this cute kid with a bowl cut. Wait…that’s Dom? Awesome!
Listen to the track at Pitchfork.
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Dan Deacon + So Percussion
This video is neat. Dan Deacon and So Percussion are playing at the Ecstatic Music Festival next week. Both are super amazing live performers, so this is exciting.
Ecstatic Music Festival: Dan Deacon & So Percussion from Kaufman Center on Vimeo.
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Vampire Weekend vs. Black Keys
“You are both equally whoring you music.”
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Record review: Love Axe "Phenomenomenoms"
Love Axe have sort of existed for a while. But I think Phenomenomenons is technically their debut offering. Together Chris Hatfield (who’s writing these songs) and Heath Johnson (who’s drumming and adding guitar, bass or vocals) have put together a record that sounds like you put a whole lot of powerpop, indie, heartbreak, and elapsed time into a blender and then spread it out...
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No Age played Letterman
It’s going to be hard for these guys to do something that I don’t totally love.
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Record review: Total Ghost "Space Lighning"
FYI: I’m promoting the blowing up of Total Ghost on the internet. The record is out 1/18 on iTunes and Amazon, and my review is up at FREEwilliamsburg.
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This Sufjan documentary
Crooked River is a documentary Kaleo La Belle made about Sufjan and Marzuki. It is unreleased and I guess may never be released. But this clip makes my heart explode out of nostalgia for driving down Michigan expressways and hanging out in truck stops with friends and listening to Seven Swans. So someone needs to release it. Please?
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Show review: Ariel Pink at Big Apple Circus
Night two at the Rock and Roll Circus! Kind of proves the organizers didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. Up over at FREEwilliamsburg.
Plus, this video of Ariel Pink climbing on the lighting rig is rad.
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Show review: Japanther at Big Apple Circus
At FREEwilliamsburg. Japanther: Too rowdy for the circus? Security guards apparently thought so. PUNK ROCK! (or whatever)
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Yeasayer + Suckers covered "You Oughta Know"
This. Rules.
Apparently everything at this Glasslands show last month was a ’90s throwback jam. Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! This version of Alanis Morissette’s bitchy (in a good way) hit “You Oughta Know” is so clutch. Yeasayer and Suckers teamed up and the entire crowd chimed in and everyone’s heart melted because this is just so damn cool.