February 2012
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New! Free! Retribution Gospel Choir EP
Alan Sparhawk (from the band Low) has a side project called Retribution Gospel Choir. And they are giving away their new EP called The Revolution EP for free right now. Go here to enter your email address and download it. And then listen to it loudly and slowly.
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fun. "We Are Young" on Conan
It has been so great to watch the trajectory of “We Are Young.” So great to watch the build up to the Some Nights release. So great to see a band give it their all and just get it! So from Glee to a Super Bowl commercial to Conan, “We Are Young” has gotten these guys some much-deserved attention. Now their full record is out and it is fantastic and dramatic and...
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Music video: Lower Dens "Brains"
This video kind of scares me. It’s like I just watched the Ring video and now my time is running out. But the song is oh, so good! Everyone can’t wait for Nootropics to come out!
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Rufus Wainwright "Montauk"
Rufus has a new record coming out in April. It was apparently produced by Mark Ronson, which is pretty sweet. The first track to be released is “Montauk.” It’s pretty beautiful. Rufus Wainwright has a way of making everything sound so heartbreakingly significant. It’s mostly lone piano, with a little bit of synth and drum machine sprinkled in for good measure.
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SNL's Blue Ivy Carter sketch.
This sketch is entirely perfect. From Prince slinking around to nightmarish Nicki Minaj to mumbly Jusin Vernon. Perfecrt.
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Bon Iver won Grammy's!
The New York Giants won the football bowl. Bon Iver won some Grammz. (The Grammz for Best New Artist, Best Alternative Artist) It’s like this is the the year for people in my general area - geographical and demographical - to be winners. THIS REALLY WILL BE OUR YEAR!
Pretty cool that Justin Vernon and crew refused to play at the Grammy’s because they didn’t want to play a...
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Fort Lean "Sunsick"
I’ve been huge on Fort Lean’s EP, ever since it dropped (you know, dropped on bandcamp, as a pay-what-you-want download) last summer. And recently (and I know I was a little late on it) I have been hugely into the reworked versions of those songs that the guys played on Big Ugly Yellow Couch. But this new jam? “Sunsick”? This blows away everything I have heard from this...
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Maffew Ragazino "Jackson Pollock"
I can’t tell what’s sincere anymore. This guy Maffew Ragazino has a song called Jackson Pollock, which samples Grizzly Bear and features Das Racist. All of that criteria point to this guy being an “artsy” or “indie” rapper. But…who knows? Is this just sort of like mining for keywords. I guess Heems addresses this by saying: “This is Heems from...
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Music video: Nada Surf "When I Was Young"
I know this video is about a lot more than this. Like nostalgia and being young and attracted to people and running away from things. But all I can think about when I watch this video is that the kid gets on the train at Astor Place going uptown, somehow ends up at West 4th street, and is suddenly at 2nd Avenue. And I’m all “Uhhh???” It doesn’t make MTA sense!
But Nada...