#20 Veni Vidi Vici - The Black Lips Album: Good Bad Not Evil Year: 2007 For sheer bravado, boys, you win. When I think of the phrase "piss and vinegar," generally, I think of this song about one beat later. I usually feel embarrassed to listen to songs that name drop biblical figures (except for "Jesus Was Way Cool" [Read Full Post...]
And the Oscar for Best Weekly Subfeature In A Supporting Role By A Newcomer To The Field Of Music Blogging (we've all got to have dreams, so fuck off) goes to... New Music Monday! New music from James Mercer of The Shins and Broken Bells, AND from Ugly Casanova, the solo project of Isaac Brock of Modest [Read Full Post...]
#20 The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? Album: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Year: 2002 I actually had "Funeral" by Band of Horses penciled into this spot originally. It's a really pretty song with some significant emotional heft, but it feels less and less enjoyable to me in light of their newer work. Instead, I present you [Read Full Post...]
Just a quick post to let you know about the hot and the new... Psych-rockers Of Montreal have announced a September 14th release date for their newest album, False Priest. The album will reportedly be highly funky and great dance floor material, even bordering on R&B (which makes sense considering Solange Knowles and Janelle Monae are slated [Read Full Post...]
The first trailer is out for Sofia Coppola's new film, Somewhere. Any new work from the director of the revelatory Lost In Translation is cause for excitement, but for us music lovers there is an extra piece to pay attention to. Buzz band Phoenix will be doing the score/soundtrack for the film, obviously because they are [Read Full Post...]
Internet's back! Sorry for the delay, kids, but the 'webs have been non-functioning at my apartment since sometime on Sunday. Luckily, I appear to be developing a raging case of insomnia and can now profit from their return. In addition to retarding the publishing of this post, the situation has also given me an unfortunate [Read Full Post...]
Music: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Daydream Station. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new sounds, to seek out new scenes and new bands, to boldly go where no blog has gone before, each and every New Music Monday... I discovered Norwegian phenomenon Casiokids a couple of weeks ago and they just keep [Read Full Post...]
#25 Hercules and Love Affair - Blind Album: Hercules and Love Affair Year: 2008 Antony Hegarty has a voice among the most distinctive of our generation. His quavering, delicate voice reaches ambitiously for hope on the horizon in his work with Antony and the Johnsons (a project that produced some beauty but never quite suited me). I expected [Read Full Post...]
So, Gypsy & The Cat singlehandedly saved Remix Roundup this week. I was totes uninspired by the offerings out there and then I remembered I had majorly been grooving to their insanely catchy "Jona Vark" about six months ago, and thought I'd poke around the internet and see what the Aussie duo had been up [Read Full Post...]
#30 Young Folks - Peter Bjorn & John Album: Writer's Block Year: 2006 I have just learned (thanks, Wikipedia!) that the tune of the whistling featured in "Young Folks" is actually something called the "Oriental Riff," a longstanding sonic cue used more recognizably in "Turning Japanese," by The Vapors. The Oriental Riff usually indicates a certain tendency towards Orientalism, [Read Full Post...]
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is [Read Full Post...]
#30 Ratatat - Seventeen Years Album: Ratatat Year: 2004 Maybe you love Ratatat. Maybe you don't. Maybe you did love Ratatat, but have gotten tired of them as their sound has failed to evolve. It really doesn't matter. When you take their first LP, Ratatat, and cue up track one, you hear Young Churf boast about his [Read Full Post...]
6/12 Aqueduct Crocodile Cafe, 8pm, 21+, $10 Aqueduct - Keep It Together 6/13 John Vanderslice, Karl Blau Tractor Tavern, 8pm, 21+, $15 John Vanderslice - Pale Horse Karl Blau - Before Telling Dragons 6/15, 6/16 Stars The Triple Door, 7:30, All-Ages, $25 Stars - Wasted Daylight 6/19 Junip (Jose Gonzalez' band) The Vera Project, 7:30, All-Ages, $14 Junip - Rope An Summit 6/27 Mimicking Birds Tractor Tavern, 8pm, 21+, [Read Full Post...]
There's only one thing better than music, and that's free music. And when better to snag some sample tunes than New Music Monday! Aquarium Drunkard Records has commissioned their bands to do a track-for-track cover of Television's 1978 album Adventure. They have released one free sample track, and luckily for us it happens to be [Read Full Post...]
#35 The Arcade Fire - Intervention Album: Neon Bible Year: 2007 The Arcade Fire set the bar extremely high after debut full-length Funeral. When follow-up Neon Bible emerged, I was intrigued by opener "Black Mirror," pleased by "Keep The Car Running", and accepted a quiet moment on the title track. When track four rolled around, I felt the [Read Full Post...]
#35 Color Bars - Elliott Smith Album: Figure 8 Year: 2000 Coming at us from the very beginning of the decade, Elliott Smith's "Color Bars" is very much a song from the nineties that happened to be released in the Aughts. But that doesn't make it any less amazing. Because that piano, guys. O.M.F.G. It's those two notes after [Read Full Post...]
Daydream Station High Applauds The Sasquatch Class of 2010 For Their Continued Excellence and Fondly Remembers the Senior Trip to The Gorge Amphitheater... Most Dedicated: Shabazz Palaces. The twenty-year plus hip-hop veteran unveiled a slew of new material and is still honing his craft relentlessly. Currently you'll find him sporting a grimy, stuttering sound unlike anything [Read Full Post...]
This week, we'll get all gooey over adolescent sadness, folk singers taking to the dance floor, and leave our hearts in Denver. (You'll see). Mixtapes (Buffetlibre Remix) - Plushgun Who isn't a fan of Barcelona-based DJ duo Buffetlibre? They release kickass mixes of eighties covers by hot new electropop acts, craft impossibly buoyant dance pop remixes and [Read Full Post...]
Unlike Aaron, this little blogger did not go to Sasquatch. I prefer to get fucked up and OD on live music in a more urban setting,so to Portland I went to catch festival acts The Long Winters and LCD Soundsystem at their pre-Quatch sets at Berbati's Pan and the Roseland Theater, respectively. In many ways, [Read Full Post...]
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