Tonight is Game 7 for the Denver Nuggets vs the Los Angeles Lakers. Many didn't think the Nuggs had a chance, but here they are in LA trying to muscle their way in to the second round. I was inspired to make a California mixtape to cheer on my beloved basketball team. George Karl isn't a stranger to this situation and hopefully tonight he can reverse his fortune from the time he was the Sonics' coach and lost a pivotal game 7 vs his current team. CALI-FOR-NYA MIXTAPE [...]
It was just last night that I found myself wondering when I would get some awesome lo-fi music in 2012. Granted, I've been super awful at keeping up with anything this year (well, partially by choice, because I just can't), but I felt like last year had so much great lo-fi music (a la Puro Instinct, John Maus, etc) and I haven't found much of that this year. And then I listened to this song that I favorited on Twitter earlier to remind me to listen to it later and it was kinda just what I wanted at this moment [...]
![[Listen] Puro Instinct: "Trouble" (Lindsey Buckingham Cover)](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4064685_lg.jpg)
Ya tenia un buen rato que no tenia ninguna novedad sobre este proyecto de hermanas llamado Puro Instinct aunque a decir verdad, constantemente estan actualizando su Facebook con algunos links los cuales en ocasiones traen como contenido algunos tracks que han estado escuchando en los ultimos meses y claro, tambien han estado haciendo mixes para otros sitios asi que no crean que desde el lanzamiento de "Headbangers In Ecstasy" han estado hechando la hueva. Pero bueno, hoy, me complace anunciarles que acaban de postear a traves de su soundcloud un cover que le hicieron a "Trouble" de Lindsey [...]
To those who said that 2011 was full of shit music, I say look harder and more importantly, listen harder. Use the internet, get peoples opinions and do some work. There was a hell of a lot of music churned out again this year and the bullshit filter had to be turned up to the max but there was also a lot of great, truly great music out there that you didn't really have to try that hard to find. I had great difficulty in narrowing down to five choices, but here they are. I've dropped in [...]
So it's New Years Eve (at least it is still here in Europe) and I didn't tell you what my persoanl favourite albums of the year were, or what the overall top 5 was based on our contributors choices were. Well don't worry that is coming up in a bit. In the meantime here are my Fave 5 Internet only Mixtapes of the year, in no particular order. David Lynch & 'Big' Dean Hurley The Stool Pigeon Mixtape This one was a real classic featuring some memorable cuts fro James Blake, [...]
Upon publishing our last post, I noticed our post count was at 999. I couldn't just sit here and not complete my 1000th post (well, I had a few guest writers, but I "wrote" most of these "really good posts" mostly all myself) before we began a brand new year, could I? So, on the actual last day of the year, what better way to celebrate 1000 horrible pieces of written prose and musical delight than with my last minute, totally unplanned list of Top Albums I Listened To The Most In 2011? These are not the "best albums of [...]
BEST OF 2011 : Songs | Albums (soon) | EPs/Singles | Discoveries/Heavy Rotation | Photos A really good year! The first 40 or so are mega-jams and the latter 38 (Rawkblog loves you, baby) are still jams. I purposefully left out songs by Destroyer because I couldn't decide, so consider Kaputt represented. You can play the entire page with the handy Ex.fm player in the bottom right corner, stream the playlist on Spotify and Rdio , and download everything after the jump. [...]
![[105 - 91] 150 Tracks de 2011!](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3917066_lg.jpg)
Poco a poco nos vamos metiendo en los puestos 'mas importantes' de este conteo aunque al final, cada uno de estos tracks tiene algo que los hace unicos y especiales dependiendo de los momentos en los que los hayan llegado a marcar asi que... No importa el numero en el que esten apareciendo sino ese valor que hayan tenido para algunos de ustedes durante el año aunque claro, esto tambien sirve por si no conocian a alguna banda pues tengan la dicha de conocerlos antes de que termine el año. En esta nueva entrega encontraran algunos fragmentos de debuts que [...]
31. Wild Flag - "Future Crimes" Few straight-on rock acts forced me to pay attention this year like Wild Flag (which features Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney.) This track in particular summons up the urgency & ferocity of the best of that legendary band. 32. Teen Daze - "The Harvest" - youtube This is from Teen Daze's 2011 concept album based on C.S. Lewis's Out Of The Silent Planet , and is also inspired by the time that Teen [...]
One half of sisterly duo Piper from Puro Instinct took time out from their busy schedule to let us know her thoughts on this years top 5 hottest albums. Piper filled us in on what will be coming in 2012 from the band. "We're releasing a lot of stuff next year. Definitely some EP's but potentially a full length. Going to start recording in a proper studio when we get back from Europe next week. So excited. We also have a compilation [...]
Como habitual, fica por cá o resumo do que de mais importante se passou na minha página alternativa do Facebook. Infelizmente a semana foi quantitativamente fraca em termos musicais, o que não invalida que os temas que a preencheram não sejam aqui divulgados. Ora vejamos, a semana iniciou-se com Puro Instinct e o seu maravilhoso tema "Silky Eyes", retirado do seu álbum de estreia '
Les soeurs Kaplan, alias Puro Instinct , sont depuis la sortie de leur premier album, Headbangers in Ecstasy, l'objet d'une attention médiatique soutenue. L'esthétique accompagnant leur projet en est l'une des raisons, avec notamment cette pochette d'album soignée et vaguement porno soft, sur laquelle on découvre les jolis minois, pas si innocents, des deux jeunes artistes de 22 et 16 ans. Mais si l'image revêt ici une importance indiscutable, ce serait faire une erreur que d'occulter pour autant la valeur musicale intrinsèque de ce premier LP, dont on vous avait d'ailleurs cet été amplement vanté les mérites ici . [...]
Puro Instinct's superb 2nd EP 'Pearl Harbor' is now available to buy over at Bandcamp . Check it out below. On another note I could not stop listening to their awesome Japazz mix today. It was on repeat so here's the share. You can stream and download below. Check out more on Puro Instinct Here. &a mp;amp;amp;lt;a href=" http://puroinstinct.bandcamp.c om/album/s-t"& amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;s/t by puro instinct&a mp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&a mp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp ;amp;gt; puro japazz by puroinstinct
Puro Instinct are a marketing man's dream. Two achingly cool LA sisters, aged 24 and 16, with Ariel Pink on speed dial, who make a hybrid of chillwave and 80s indie with a dash of cheesy sax to keep the yacht-rock brigade on side. It's enough to send the hipster alarm into overdrive - somebody call the style-over-content police! It's a surprise, and indeed a pleasure, to report that 'Headbangers In Ecstasy' not only works, but contains some great pop moments and a healthy dose of innovation. Recorded on a shoestring with Ariel Pink on knob-twiddling [...]
Al parecer "Headbangers In Ecstasy" salio a la venta oficialmente el dia de hoy en Japón y con motivo de este hecho y de que tambien el dia de hoy las chicas de Puro Instict estan cumpliendo 24 años han puesto en descarga gratuita a traves de su soundcloud un mix titulado "Puro Japazz", no hay ningun tracklist acompañando esto que dura casi 50 minutos pero esta bastante bueno, esta muy muy en la linea de lo que aparece en "Headbangers In Ecstasy" de principio a fin reuniendo y mostrandonos cada uno de los estilos de los que [...]
Sometimes there's nothing better than the feeling of discovering a new band and finding that you quite like them. Puro Instinct, formerly Pearl Harbor, is made up of the Kaplan sisters, Piper (vocals) and Skylar (guitar). They're a young duo; Piper is 24 and Skylar is just 16. Read more..
Check out this gorgeous off beat homage to all things eclectic underground 80's and pop by Puro Instinct . Form a band, make music, tour the world – that's every teenager's dream. It's also the reality that Piper and Skylar Kaplan now live as the adorable dream-pop outfit Puro Instinct, who count Ariel Pink as one of their many fans no less. TRUEEMERALD by Puro Instinct by Oki-Ni on Mixcloud
Winding electro tainted pop from Los Angeles' Kaplan (Piper and Skylar) siblings delivers a sound that pounded Top of The Pops in the 80s, 'Slivers Of You'. The message is not important, it's all in the moment from the range of aching instrumentals, to the slightly lurid, echoing yet, occasionally downbeat vocal push led by Piper. 'I've Got Some Happiness (Leland)', starts off in a fatter, fuzzed up digital manner that allows the vocals to slow down and give off a forlorn feel. Mogwai strolling out of an Amsterdam cafe with A Hawk and a Hacksaw sums up [...]
This week's Oki-ni's mix series calls on dream-pop band Puro Instinct. They put together a wonderfully 80s dreamy mix that makes you want to relive your Summer all over again. A lot of the tracks they used is some real rare, hard to find type stuff and guaranteed that you may not have heard of [...]
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