Blog: Midday Procrastination

Polaroid 85 is an interesting new project from Neeta Sarl and her associated band of string players, drum players, woodwind players and producers. Their first EP, 'Fuzzy Mornings' has just been released, and it makes for a stimulating listen...more after the jump. From the very first song, title track 'Fuzzy Mornings', it is clear Sarl [...]

The AV Club always does a great job with their interviews, getting people to talk about what inspires them in a way never comes off as pretentious. Good things (in fact, sometimes great things) have come from these interviews. Their recent interview with Kurt Vile, who's becoming one of my favorite artists of late, turned [...]

Following on from Sunday's upload of 'In Fine Style', I move genres, continents and decades to bring you 'Jotongo' (Mayala MA4005, 1986) by the wonderfully named Rigo Star & Josky Kiambutuka. A fantastic little record. This is a wonderful pop album. One listen, and you might disregard it as just another (and there are quite a few) catchy [...]

The idea and experience of 'home' is the focus and, appropriately, the title of the new EP by Ridgewood, New Jersey's (and, occasionally, SUNY Purchase's) Spook Houses. This theme is pervasive throughout this fantastic four track (soon-to-be) seven-inch, but this subject is no stranger to this band, who put out one of my favorite albums/EPs [...]

Credit to AstralSounds. Check the mixtapes. All so good. -AMK

Sooo exams and work and life has been taking its tole on all of us here at Midday towers. Its been difficult to find the time to write anything meaningful etc etc. That said, I'm making it a goal for this busy period to upload entire albums to our Mediafire to help make the stress [...]

Midday Procrastination is getting serious, with our third - and possibly final - show at The Lobster Shack! This one's gonna top the first two in a biig way. We have not one, and not two, but THREE bands playing! Who's playing, you ask? Well - LE CHEVALIER (Matt Carney, with a backing band TBA), [...]

If you're looking for a way to chill out before Vinyl this evening, consider Acoustic Africa at Club Soda. Oliver Mtukudzi, Habib Koite, and Afel Bokoum will (jointly) take to the stage and run through some absolute classics. Oliver Mtukudzi (or 'Tuku', as they call him in Zimbabwe), is one of my favourite musicians ever. [...]

Tonight at Vinyl the good folks behind Die Tanz Party are throwing an even bigger bash: The Elephant in the Room. The group threw a series of successful sweaty-ass-dance-partys at Vinyl last year, and are going back to the old haunt for an ultra-big one off. More DJs, more fun, more music. The event kicks [...]

Art Matters, the festival that erupts in the city of Montreal annually thanks to Concordia University, is back in a big way. It's scheduled to go on from March 1st to March 19th, and tonight, March 4th, is the Opening Party. It promises to be unreaal with a legendary lineup of internationally-acclaimed bloody-nosed Andrew WK [...]

Stuff is happening over with the Signed by Force people. Two little thingees: 1) If you like your music riff driven, aggressive, and a bit dirty, 5 year old, Montreal based, Devil Eyes is for you. Devil Eyes Hungarian TV EP by DevilEyes They are a ton more fun live (as you might guess from [...]

Just a little quickie to get your Tuesday going right. Its Edan's Echo Party Mix and its Psych-Dance awesomeness has been spinning in my head for a while now. I had let it slip to the bottom of the iTunes pile, but then yesterday I had a conversation with Matt "Le Chevalier" Carney (who's next [...]

Not to post anything, that is. So here we are. Back from our respective 'reading breaks' and ready to bring you all the goods. We're just gonna dive right in with a 'what you (may have) missed while we were gone' post. A few hints: Silly Kissers, Sean Nicholas Savage, Armen at the Bazaar, Four [...]

IT'S HERE. NOW. You thought you'd have to wait until Saturday, didn't you? Well, the band that is consistently too good to us has just raised the stakes and put out their newest album a day earlier than probably most of the world expected. Go to The King of Limbs to pick it up, and [...]

Marriage from Gold Panda on Vimeo. This is probably one of the most heartwarming things I've seen in quite some time. Coupled with the 70 degree days this week in February has brought to Maryland, I'm rolling on a surprisingly natural high right now. Gold Panda is part of the new wave of electronic producers [...]

I love you guys. Come to Montreal? Ethan saw this in D.C. and I can't get over it: Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All EDIT: And yeah that is Mos Def who gets his face in the camera at the end of the Fallon video and yells "SWAG!" Nooo problem. -Matt May

Abe Vigoda are a punk rock band based in Los Angeles, California. Originally from Chino, the band met while at high school, and started playing together because they ‘were big nerds and didn’t party’ who all ‘geeked out over the Smashing Pumpkins’.  After a few local releases the band hit it big with their third [...]

Merchandise is a relatively unknown post-punk band out of Tampa. They rule. Their debut LP, Strange Songs (In The Dark) has been on repeat for me for like 2 weeks now. Strange Songs is probably one of the best tries at being both catchy and noisy at the same time that I have ever heard. To make [...]

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Get ready. I've been snowed-under (get it?) in work lately. Or at the very least, buried in what I should be doing. So with that being said my show-going/midday-procrastinat ing has been and will continue to be minimal for the rest of this week. However, don't let this trick you into thinking there's nothing good going [...]