Oh man.. this new Grimes video makes me so happy for any number of reasons. Kind of gives you hope for the future you know? Some people give her a hard time for using such a baby voice, but I have always thought it complemented her lisp and music perfectly. Not going to do a huge post about her since her album Visions is pretty well known by know and she is now signed on 4AD, however I will say that this video made my day when everything is gloomy as hell. [...]
//photo via hearty magazine (click for a review after my own heart) Really excited about Mac DeMarco's upcoming EP Rock and Roll Night Club which is due out later this month on Captured Tracks (of course). After performing under Makeout Videotape for a time, the monkier got dropped as did the octave of his singing - which is now a deep, throaty croon. I have heard some Deerhunter comparisons (especially with 'Only You') but I don't find them all that relevant. I am definitely gonna try to catch him next time the [...]
I like when I hear something that I don't have a name for, where I can hear the influences but I have no idea what to call it. British/Italian solo artist Porcelain Raft is somewhere between electronic indie pop and shoegaze guitar rock. It's not quite sad enough to be depressing, and it's not uptempo enough to dance to, so you really need to channel 9th grade and listen with the lights off in your bedroom, staring up at the christmas lights strung on your wall. Alternatively, invite your long-time crush over to drink cheap wine out of coffee mugs [...]
//mixtrade feb - j.p. UNPIANO MIXTRADE 2012 - FEBRUARY Download audio file (mixtrade_feb.mp3) Lil B - I'm God Egyptrixx - Chrysalis Records (feat Trust) Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl Clams Casino - The World Needs Change [Soulja Boy] Jay Electronica - Departure Nas - Queens Get The Money Tycho - PBS Chromatics - Lady Beaumont - Midnight Araabmuzik - AT2 Schoolboy Q - Hands On The Wheel [...]
//karen schaupeter Not sure if you remember, but a while back I did a mixtrade organized by HHSA and it turned out pretty interesting. I organized a new one this year and the mixes have already started rolling in. This one is a little late going up (as it's February) but we'll start adding these each as they come in and you can see what people have been working on. Needless to say, Karen killed it for January. Unpiano Mix Trade 2012 - January [...]
//photo via impose New Beach Fossils 73 from Captured Tracks off their upcoming second LP. I didn't post up both songs with that seemed a bit overboard, but if you search a bit you can find 'Lessons' around as well (Hype Machine *cough cough*). This is just what I need to get my heart beating back at it's normal rate after last weekend. Beach Fossils is like my security blanket after I take it too far. Mark told me that his daughter goes to sleep every night to Wild Nothing. How awesome [...]
//bruise cruise festival 2 Remember this? Well I am about to do it again. This time with a slew of new bands , Neil Hamburger, Anna Seregina, Jello Biafra, Kyp Malone and a bunch of others. Here is too hoping I don't fall in the ocean and to many many Cuban cigars. See you in a bit. Download audio file (turn_the_season.mp3) Download audio file (outta_harms_way.mp3) Download audio file (the_dream.mp3) Download audio file (answer_to_yourself.mp3) [...]
//live @ kino metropol, sovenia with the sandwitches I have been waiting so long for a Carletta Sue Kay LP that I can't even stand it anymore. After releasing the occasional gem and opening for GIRLS during their appearance at GAMH, we all know San Francisco's own Randy Walker is sitting on something big. We even just heard that he sings on one of the songs for the new Magnetic Fields release. I think the rumor about the album was that there were some label disagreements and what was supposed to be released is [...]
Just wanted to let everyone know that we have been posting a bunch of content daily on the Facebook page . Since it takes a bit of time to get these blog posts together, that is the fastest way to see the music we find as soon as it breaks. We also post a grip of other music related links up there so it's a good place to check if it's looking slow over on this side. Hopefully someday in the future we can have a live stream incorporated into the site, but until I can figure out how [...]
//photo by emma swan All hail the new era of my posts, where I don't even research the bands I talk about and instead make you do the leg work while I continue to give you awesome jams. Here we go.. Trailer Trash Tracys are not anything new and sound like a million other bands, but none the less this record rules and has been on repeat while I work on a thousand other projects. Dark, moody and wet just like I like it. Plus it's all Twin Peaks up in this motherfucker so.. [...]
During the brutal dark winters in Scandanavia all you can do to keep from losing your mind is to focus on how sweet it is to be hanging out on a beach in the sun. This particularly harsh winter in Finland, French Films wrote the soundtrack to an 802s summer movie that I wish existed, where Robert Smith goes on a road trip to LA to try and sign his band, but his car gets stolen on the way and he has to hitch hike with a stray dog that he befriended in Idaho. Each time there's a driving montage, [...]
These days everyone with a computer is "working on an album." Most of them never actuallyhappen, and the ones that do are pretty much always terrible. Every now and then some idiot-savant finishes up his bedroom disaster, and it somehow ends up sounding super raw and bizarre and it's completely fucking perfect. I don't know anything about Local Wizards except that it seems like their changed their name from "Pizza Pizzazz," and that's pretty great too, so they really got the whole package here. Local Wizards - Burn It Down Local Wizards [...]
A week ago, after spending an afternoon looking like an idiot in an old wood-floor rollerskating rink in Glendale, I Netflix'd (that's a verb now) this awesomely bad roller disco movie, set in Venice during the supposed late 702s rollerskating craze and featuring a tarted up Linda Blair with some castaway cast of soon-to-be-in-porn actors and actresses that can't act or act-ress. Its a typical teenage fad movie, like Breakin' or Thrashin', with some good-hearted rich girl trying to be down and a struggling out-of-her-league underdog trying to get famous for something you can't make money at, and his cheeky [...]
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I'm not much of a Folkie, so a lot of the subtleties of the genre are lost on me. But every now and then, a Folk project just sounds "right," like the songs really did need to be written in an abandoned church in the woods. Microphones - The Glow Pt 2 grabbed me this way, and it sounds like Phil Elvrum is a major influence for Mesita, at least for A Million Shades of Sky. The long-form song structure, guitar vamp, subtle arrangements all nod to Elvrum, but Mesita isn't afraid to layer in a synth or drum break [...]
Wish it was Summer but it's not. I was going to try and sit on this one until then, but I get to excited and can't ever seem to do that. Stephen Gardner and Ben Bailes of Chessie have both been around for a minute, messing around with electronic music all through out the late nineties and finally released Manifest in 2008 on Plug Research. Combined with 20012s Overnight , you get an amazing combination of style and beauty that makes you reference all your favorite bands from last week. Try not to fall in [...]
Hey look, its little Inga Humpe from the German art-punk outfit Neonbabies from a few posts back, all grown up and off to covering British dance hits. Sometimes, when I re-read the things I write, I hate that I always say things like "it sounds like 'x' mixed with 'x'", but I'm a really lazy writer, especially after a few beers, so I'm going to say "it sounds like the Chromatics mixed with early OMD, covering the Pet Shop Boys". But this time I'll have to add "except it sounds about ten times cooler than anything [...]
Jazz guitar great Joe Pass must have gone through some sort of acid-induced nervous breakdown (or the usual baby-boomer-style mid-life crisis) when recording this record in 1969. It starts off innocently enough, with the first few similarly named tracks on the a-side consisting of the usual nimble, solo guitar work that made him a jazz guitar icon. Somewhere between the last bars of "Interlude #53 the acid kicks in and Joe's all of a sudden backed by a full band and vocal choir that lands itself somewhere between Up With People and The Free Design; a poppy, trippy, near cult-like [...]
Ever since posting that Nashville Ramblers single a few weeks ago, I've been thinking of the b-side, a sweet cover of "Fragile Child" originally recorded by the pre-Creedence Clearwater Revival garage band, The Golliwogs (named after a British, old-timey racist rag doll no less). Initially more of a vehicle for John Fogerty's brother Tom during the early and mid-60s, these suited up teenage minstrels released a string of bluesy, sweet-voiced garage-rock singles on San Francisco's Fantasy Records. Getting a little bit attention around the bay area, John eventually took control as the main songwriter and vocalist as the [...]
Happy New Year - I can't believe that we are still doing this. And I love that. This is one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite people . Stay up in 2012. N Amesake E - The Ocean Is One Day To Give Up Its Dead Download audio file (namesake-the_ocean .mp3)
Unpiano
No Church In The Wild
Nas - Daughters
The Rains of Castamere by The National
CHROMATICS "THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME"
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Avicii – Two Million
Beck – I Just Started Hating Some People Today
H&M Lookbook Mujer y Hombre Otoño 2012.
Amanda Mair
