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Saigon series #2

Dec 11, 2007, 6:31pm Nerd Litter
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Video Tuesday #46

Dec 10, 2007, 10:35pm Nerd Litter
The Kills - U R A Fever
"International Players Anthem" UGK featuring Outkast "Milk Shake" Holy Fuck "Nostalgia" Marco Polo featuring Masta A ce (via The Passion of the Weiss ) [...]
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Saigon series #1

Dec 10, 2007, 7:54pm Nerd Litter
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Man, how we used to tear apart this town

Dec 10, 2007, 3:49pm Nerd Litter
Man, how we used to tear apart this town We were sitting on the curb, trying to make sense of Saigon. Evan and I had barely made it through customs, lacking the fifty dollars to pay for our entrance. (An Israeli family saved us and I ran around the domestic terminal till I found an ATM to reimburse them from.) The ride from the airport was dizzying too, a sudden jolt of mania, neon and noise. On either side of the taxi, motorbikes thrummed hectically, their engines grunting like clearing throats. When we arrived at our hotel on Bui Vien, the street was dense with action. Vietnamese vendors mixed [...]
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Listening booth #28

Dec 7, 2007, 12:56pm Nerd Litter
Listening booth #28 Collage by Michelle Cohn * MP3: "You Are Never Alone" - Vic Chesnutt from North Star Deserter [ Buy it ] * MP3: Frenchy's - Holy Fuck from LP [ Buy it ] * MP3: "Mark of the Beast" (Zilla Rocca Remix) - Nico the Beast [ Buy other Clean Guns ] Check out more of Michelle [...]
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Artist:Holy Fuck
Title:Frenchy's
Link Text:Frenchy's - Holy Fuck
File Name:Holy Fuck - Frenchys.mp3
Bitrate:211 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Nico The Beast
Title:Mark of the Beast (Zilla Rocca REMIX)
Link Text:"Mark of the Beast" (Zilla Rocca Remix) - Nico the Beast
File Name:Mark of the Beast (Zilla Rocca REMIX).mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Artist:Vic Chesnutt
Link Text:"You Are Never Alone" - Vic Chesnutt
File Name:Vic Chesnutt - You Are Never Alone.mp3
Year:2007

Around the world #1

Dec 4, 2007, 9:13am Nerd Litter
Around the world #1 Photo by Sarah Glidden A new feature noting other noise around the tubes. * Amy reminds us what really matters during this hellish time of year: getting lots and lots of cool shit. [ Shake Your Fist ] * Chris counts down his reliably cool top 17 of 2007. Seriously guys, if you invent one album this year, make it Santogold! [ [...]
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Kissing with braces

Dec 2, 2007, 8:25pm Nerd Litter
Constantines - Kissing With Braces
Photo by Mary R. Vogt Since I know 95% of the people reading this blog are here for the up-to-the-minute Constantines news I provide, I'm more than happy to oblige. As you probably know by now, the band ( once celebrated with an entire week here at Nerd Litter HQ) left Sub Pop and signed with Arts & Crafts. Which is probably a better fit for them, I think, or at the very least more Canadian. Everyone's favorite [...]
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Menomena @ Webster Hall, 11-10-07

Dec 2, 2007, 4:15pm Nerd Litter
Menomena @ Webster Hall, 11-10-07 I don't really get chills. Sometimes maybe in deep winter or when I contract the SARS or if I'm watching that pivotal moment in Mr. Holland's Opus when Richard Dreyfus is singing to his deaf son Cole. Point is, it doesn't happen too often. My critical faculties require me to be statue-stony and objective, and not mush out the first time a band busts out a plaintive violin solo or a battalion of Scottish terriers wearing kilts and Balmorals. And yet there I was in the front row for Menomena's set tamping down the frosty tingles [...]
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Artist:Menomena
Title:Rotten Hell
Link Text:"Rotten Hell" - Menomena
File Name:Menomena - Rotten Hell.mp3
Bitrate:218 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Menomena
Title:Wet And Rusting
Link Text:"Wet and Rusting" - Menomena
File Name:Menomena - Wet And Rusting.mp3
Bitrate:218 kbps
Year:2007

This Is England

Nov 27, 2007, 4:07pm Nerd Litter
This Is England - trailer
From its opening frames, Shane Meadows' This Is England aims to live up to its apt title. It channel-surfs through glimpses of early '80s British telly, lingering especially on the two iconic women of that era: Diana Spencer and Margaret Thatcher. It also intersperses footage of the Falklands War with domestic anti-immigrant violence, foreboding what's to come with a subversive couch-potato ease. The clips suggest we'll get a deep sociological look at Thatcherite Britain, and indeed, This Is England delivers a cross-section as sharp and lasting as a guillotine. [...]
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Artist:The Clash
Title:This Is England
Link Text:"This Is England" - The Clash
File Name:The Clash - This Is England.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1985

Listening booth #27

Nov 22, 2007, 8:00pm Nerd Litter
Listening booth #27 Photo by AnomalousNYC * MP3: "Wolves" - Phosphorescent from Pride [ Buy it ] * MP3: "Agent Orange" - Pharoahe Monch from Desire (UK Bonus Track) [ Buy it ] * MP3: "Alive Among Thieves" - Oakley Hall from I'll Follow You [ Buy it ] Check out AnomalousNYC's Faces of New York series here and more [...]
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Artist:Oakley Hall
Title:Alive Among Thieves
Link Text:"Alive Among Thieves" - Oakley Hall
File Name:Oakley Hall - Alive Among Thieves.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Pharoahe Monch
Title:Agent Orange (UK Bonus Track)
Link Text:"Agent Orange" - Pharoahe Monch
File Name:Pharoahe Monch - Agent Orange.mp3
Bitrate:190 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Phosphorescent
Title:Wolves
Link Text:"Wolves" - Phosphorescent
File Name:Phosphorescent - Wolves.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2007

Video Tuesday #45

Nov 20, 2007, 9:14pm Nerd Litter
Múm "Rhubarbidoo" Fatcat Records
"Everything You Do is a Balloon" (Unofficial) Boards of Canada "Gronlandic Edit" Of Montreal "Roc Boys" Jay-Z "Lady" Chromatics [...]
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Martin Walker @ Googie's, 8-25-07

Nov 20, 2007, 4:12pm Nerd Litter
My Darkest Hour
Photo by Teddy Maki "New York is cold but I like where I'm living/ There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening." That's what I heard when I walked into Googie's in August, and it's even more appropriate now. On Ludlow, only a few streets from Clinton, I admired how true Leonard Cohen's couplet remains today. No matter how sweltering or frigid the city gets, our music options are always intimidatingly rich. Top-tier headliners vie nightly with up-and-comers; genres and styles are as diverse as the neighborhoods that inspire them. [...]
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Oh God, I'll miss you

Nov 17, 2007, 8:16pm Nerd Litter
Oh God, I'll miss you Is art a zero-sum game? Will continually raising the stakes of experimentation lead to empty noise? Will minimalism's logical endpoint be nothingness? With so many creative approaches already claimed, artists have to take ever-bolder risks in the name of the new. It's thrilling that they try, and even more gratifying when they succeed. But often, it seems they sabotage their work with their unilateralism. PJ Harvey's new album, White Chalk , is one example of a problematic chance that doesn't yield enough dividends. It's thematic to a fault, so timid and isolated that it fades on [...]
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Artist:PJ Harvey
Title:The Piano
Link Text:"The Piano" - PJ Harvey
File Name:PJ Harvey - The Piano.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2007

Listening booth #26

Nov 15, 2007, 11:52pm Nerd Litter
Listening booth #26 Photo by Aleks Schürmer * MP3: "Maxine" (Remix) - Wu-Tang Clan from Wu-Tang Returns mixtape [ Buy other Wu-Tang Clan ] * MP3: "You Know Me Better" - Roisin Murphy from Overpowered [ Buy it ] * MP3: "Get Innocuous!" (Soulwax Remix) - LCD Soundsystem from "Someone Great" single [ Buy it ] You can check out more photography by Aleks Schürmer here [...]
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Artist:LCD Soundsystem
Title:Get Innocuous (Soulwax Remix)
Link Text:"Get Innocuous!" (Soulwax Remix) - LCD Soundsystem
File Name:LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous (Soulwax Remix).mp3
Bitrate:198 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Roisin Murphy
Title:You Know Me Better
Link Text:"You Know Me Better" - Roisin Murphy
File Name:Roisin Murphy - You Know Me Better.mp3
Year:2007
Artist:Wu-Tang Clan
Title:Maxine Remix (Unreleased)
Link Text:"Maxine" (Remix) - Wu-Tang Clan
File Name:Wu-Tang Clan - Maxine Remix.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2007

Mas y Mas @ Trash Bar, 8-24-07

Nov 13, 2007, 7:09pm Nerd Litter
"Pepsi" by Mas y Mas
Even by my anemic standards, I should probably be covering concerts I attend less than three months after they happen. But a dropped laptop and a transcontinental voyage later, I'm here to make up for my lapses. Good thing too, because I really can't get over how great Mas y Mas is. Out of nowhere, they're swiftly becoming one of my favorite bands. Since being reunited with it, I've been spinning their full-length Proud Sponsors of Pepsi faithfully. I'm also revisiting their earlier EP, Latin Outreach , when I [...]
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Artist:Mas Y Mas
Title:Global Healing Overnight
Link Text:"Pop Psychology" - Mas y Mas
File Name:Mas Y Mas - Pop Psychology.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps

Video Tuesday #44

Nov 13, 2007, 3:11am Nerd Litter
Shocking Pinks - "End Of The World"
"Teardrop" Jose Gonzalez "Someone Great" LCD Soundsystem "The Piano" PJ Harvey "Cruel" Calexico [...]
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Thailand series #8

Nov 12, 2007, 8:43pm Nerd Litter
Thailand series #8 * Previously: Thailand series #7 * Previously: Thailand series #6 * Previously: Thailand series #5 * Previously: Thailand series #4 * Previously: Thailand series #3 * Previously: Thailand series #2 * Previously: Thailand series #1
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It's a long way home when you're trying to find your way

Nov 9, 2007, 3:50pm Nerd Litter
It's a long way home when you're trying to find your way It's been a year of revisiting and reevaluation, so I suppose it's fitting I found myself back in Bangkok. Last November, it became the first city I had been to in Asia. Now ten months later, traveling through the continent's southeastern bloc, I suddenly found myself back in its heady mix. When our itinerary was still in its infancy, I hadn't been particularly psyched about returning. I enjoyed the Thai capital well enough the first time, but going back carried an air of "been there, done that." I didn't want to pass up the potential highlights of Seoul or Vientiane [...]
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Artist:Spoon
Title:You Gotta Feel It
Link Text:"You Gotta Feel It" - Spoon
File Name:Spoon - You Gotta Feel It.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2002

Listening booth #25

Nov 6, 2007, 2:03pm Nerd Litter
Listening booth #25 Photo by Daniel Fernández * MP3: "Manchasm" - Future of the Left from Curses [ Buy it ] * MP3: "This Too Shall Pass" - Danny Schmidt from Parables and Primes [ Buy it ] * MP3: "I'm On Fire" (Bruce Springsteen cover) - Bats for Lashes (via Sucka Pants ) [ Buy other Bats for Lashes ] Check out more photography by Daniel Fernández [...]
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Artist:Bat For Lashes
Title:I'm On Fire
Link Text:"I'm On Fire" (Bruce Springsteen cover) - Bats for Lashes
File Name:Bats For Lashes - Im On Fire.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Danny Schmidt
Title:This Too Shall Pass
Link Text:"This Too Shall Pass" - Danny Schmidt
File Name:dannyschmidt-thistoo.mp3
Bitrate:203 kbps
Year:2005
Artist:Future Of The Left
Title:Manchasm
Link Text:"Manchasm" - Future of the Left
File Name:Future of the Left - Manchasm.mp3
Bitrate:198 kbps
Year:2007

Video Tuesday #43

Nov 6, 2007, 1:02pm Nerd Litter
"Daughter in the House of Fools" by Enon
"Boute" Au "Kiss" Scout Niblett ft. Will Oldham "Coffee" Aesop Rock ft. John Darnielle "Jesus Saves, I Spend" St. Vincent [...]
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