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An old friend from Dr. Dog, Justin Stens, is trying to make a record by traveling on his motorcycle across the country and recording with a few of his famous friends. Our dear friend Drew is also a long for the ride to document the whole thing (we at Static are very proud to be supporting this doc as well on many levels). However, they have hit some road bumps along the way, as I am sure many of us have in these financial times, and they are looking for a little help to finish this project. Here is there [...]

Hey y'all. Once again I have left you in the dark as far as posts and shows. No more appoliogies, just content. Twin Sister - Bad Street I feel like I might have been in a more soulful mood then usual. This song is a great way to start any playlist. Mayer Hawthorne - A Long Time In the class of Jamie Lidell where you scratch your head and say, is that voice really coming out [...]

M83's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. officially redefines their genre into more than space-synth or dreampop. I'm not going to call it shoegazing because that name is stupid and people only "gaze" at their shoes when they're in trouble. And who's the idiot who didn't come up with stargazing? After all they are named for a spiral galaxy. Uplifting, reflective and motivational---maybe we could call it church. No, it's too dancey for that. How about transcendental electronica? Gonzales did say that this album was influenced by numerous trips to Joshua Tree National Park. [...]

• M83 - Run Into Flowers

Yes, I'm going to compare the sexy, blood-spattered Drive about an (insurmountably hot) carman in a heist gone wrong to Christine, John Carpenter's film adaptation of Stephen King's novel about a killer car. Christine summary: a 1958 Plymouth Fury who entrances young males who want to own her. Once they have her they don't want anything else and eventually it leads to their ruin. Essentially they become angry, jealous, paranoid alcoholics. Christine kills for them - they kill for her. It's murdertastic. It's not just the car-love, the violence, or the many [...]

When you live outside of LA or New York, sometimes you feel like your voice is never heard. That your stories are not seen as important from an outside perspective. How many movies or long running, successful comedies or sitcoms have taken place in Atlanta, Dallas or Houston? The South is perceived as backwards and uneducated and these negative stereotypes are not, by any means, the whole story of the South. This is a proud place that through it's neglect, and isolation has built it's own unique culture that has cultivated some of the greatest food, literature and music the [...]

Ever wonder what you are known for? What your brand is? I wonder if I am known as the half ass blogger/music video show producer. To all my fans who come here on a regular basis and follow us on Twitter and Facebook . Thank you! Here is one of my favorite posts of the month. Here is our August playlist! Zee Avi - Swell Window If you start selling an album at Starbucks [...]

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I am trying to keep rocking and rolling for you. Here is the latest episode that will hopefully be on the air by the end of the week. This episode is definitely for the more emotional viewers out there. I didn't really plan on that; I just laid it on the timeline, and realized it was going to be a somewhat moody show. I am shooting an interview tonight, and I have a few planned for later this month. So, I will have some interviews heading your way in some upcoming episodes. [...]

I think Dom to me will always be associated with the Summer. With their use of distorted guitars and simple keys, they are keeping me trapped in the heat that is currently sweeping the nation. They also layer very simple lyrics over these rhythms that harper on simpler times when the small things felt important. When I listen to them and close my eyes I can hear the children running around me on the beach with the waves crashing in the background. I can feel the heat raising and the house party from the [...]

• Dom - Damn

Nothing says summer more than a light, airy Beirut album pressing its lips on your ear. You can always rely on them to be delicately romantic and dancily instrumental. The sweet crooning of Zach Condon, the only good thing New Mexico ever gave us, matched with Balkan folk horns makes me want to put on a long, billowy skirt and kick off my shoes. Apparently tinkering with fewer instruments this time around, Condon decided to stick with trumpet, ukulele, and piano on this album - instead of picking up a new instrument at every [...]

• Beirut - Santa Fe

Ran straight from the Body Language and Phone Tag show right to Glasslands to catch LA's own Crystal Antlers this past Saturday. This was a night where I really love Brooklyn. It was even darker at Glasslands than Cameo . [...]

I saw two shows on Saturday night with our writer here, Mat. The first show was at Cameo here in Williamsburg. We went to see Phone Tag and Body Language . I was suppose to interview them both, but it started raining. I'm hoping to get that sorted out this week. Phone Tag is doing some interesting stuff, and I'm excited to see them grow as musicians, and Body Language is a very exciting Brooklyn band that was very awesome to see in [...]

I may have moved to New York two and a half years ago to try and achieve my life long goals, but I think all my girlfriends that I have had up here can attest that the New Orleanean in me has never left. Though, as I think for many people like myself who were born and raised there around the same time, my memories of New Orleans are kind of skewed. Having gone through a traumatic event like Katrina has my mind playing tricks on me. What was life truly like before the storm musically? I know what my [...]

I first off want to say how awesome a world we are living in is. Just a little over a decade ago the music industry was talking about suing people for trying to download music, and now for only $5 a month you can get pretty much unlimited access to any song you can imagine ($10 to get it on your phone). It seems like all the talk these days is about Spotify , the mysterious music streaming app from Sweden that has just made it [...]

Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes Check out my review of the entire album here . Wilco - I Might Excited to hear the whole album, but then again I am a Wilco fan boy. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Blue Skies Again Came out a few months back, but I just heard it the other day. Really solid album. Little Dragon - Ritual Union Get to know this band! LOVE, [...]

Static 502 from Static on Vimeo . I'm trying to get into a rhythm with these shows. I know I haven't put any interviews in them, yet (I have a few in the can that I haven't don anything with), but I feel like keeping the momentum going is good for the both of us. Here is the track list for the above show. As usual they are in order of appearance. Hopefully it will be on TV in the coming week; my internet is disgustingly slow. [...]

I am quite possibly the laziest photographer in the world. Don't tell the music publicists that, or else I wouldn't be able to get in to see rock bands from Canada like Mother Mother . I was surprised to find out that there are people out there that don't like Canadians. Are you one of those people? Why? I have nothing against them, they are kind of like the quite kids in class that just did their homework and married their sweetheart and lived a nice simple life. Unlike us Americans who strive to be the high school quarterback [...]

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I am a sappy, reminiscent fool. I think a lot of times it puts me in bad situations and doesn't allow me to move on. Than again maybe we can only learn from our past in order to not make the same mistake again. It seems like Eleanor Friedberg of the Fiery Furnaces is having the same backward looking mentality at this point in her life an career. I spent a lot of my late teens rejecting my parents music of rock and wanted a style of music that was different and [...]

Sub Pop released singer-songwriter-producer Ernest Greene's first full-length album on Tuesday and the chillwave glo-synth movement blushed and fawned . Shut up in his parent's house in Perry, Georgia, 28-year-old Greene made his first music release in the summer of 2009. He referred to these recordings "mostly as a way to experiment with songwriting processes," but the great success of his Life of Leisure EP meant he was an obvious full-fledged virtuoso. After 2 years of touring, we have Within and Without leaving many of us awestruck, "Where did this guy come from?" [...]

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