Some new tunes, some old tunes, all good tunes, some days… Somebody knows who I am / Somebody sees me and wants to be my friend And I know, know / This is all that I want, want Right-Click + Save Link As: Lee Bannon - Rellahmatic Travis Scott - Hell of a Night My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star The Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven [...]
Some new tunes, some old tunes, all good tunes, some days… I don’t know what this kush do / But I think of you when I get high Right-Click + Save Link As: Miguel - Do You… (Cashmere Cat Remix) Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission Lil B - Life’s Zombies Way Yes - Money Field Drake - Do It All Michna - Do What [...]
It's safe to say most kids love peanut butter and jelly. I did not. Globby, purple and red preserves never appealed to me, which is why-in one of those inspired parenthood moves-mom always added honey to transform my simple bread and spread sandwiches into a "PB&H." I still make them when I'm feeling homesick. For me, Clams Casino and DOOM go together like peanut butter and honey. I've been enamored with the molasses @ClammyClams aesthetic since Lil B's "Motivation" rang out of my tinny Macbook speakers what feels like forever ago, but was [...]
2012 may have ended on a down-note, but the past four months have been a deluge of traveling, partying, working… And compiling this mix* to optimize your early-summer evenings. And so, The Mixtape, Vol. II would like to thank Mardi Gras, Detroit, Spring Breakers , old friends, new tattoos, Montreal, new jobs, RiFF RaFF, Camo Christ, Orlando, paraphernalia, new friends, Austin, Pavel Datsyuk, White Castle, Transformers, boat shoes and Oberon for inspiring all the sounds you hear above. [...]
Some new tunes, some old tunes, all good tunes, most Mondays… Sometimes you’re quiet and sometimes I’m quiet / Hallelujah! / Sometimes I’m talkative and sometimes you’re not talkative / I knowww Right-Click + Save Link As: TNGHT – Acrylics IO Echo – When the Lillies Die Grizzly Bear – Sleeping Ute (Nicolas Jaar Remix) Elliott Smith – Ballad of Big Nothing (Alternate Vocal) The xx – Reconsider [...]
Some old tunes, some new tunes, all good tunes, most Mondays… There’s so much more / Left to do / Well I’m not young / But I’m not through Right-Click + Save Link As: The Subjects - The Hounds of War Autre Ne Veut - Play by Play Menomena - Muscle’n Flo Justin Timberlake - Suit & Tie (Four Tet Remix) James Blake - Retrograde Tangerine [...]
What a beautiful way to sift through Shabazz Palaces ' stellar Black Up ...
Some old tunes, some new tunes, all good tunes, most Mondays… She broke down and let me in / Made me see where I’ve been / Been down one time, been down two times / I’m never going back, again Right-Click + Save Link As: Anathallo - Hanasakajijii (Four: A Great Wind, More Ash) Beacon - It Won’t Be Long How to Dress Well - & It Was U (Elite Gymnastics Remix) Blue Hawaii [...]
Digging up rare, awesome or obscure tracks… It's takes a minute and a half of patience to hear why "A Tender History in Rust" is such a beautiful piece of music, but those early seconds of ephemeral noise give way to the most harmonic, delicate guitar playing; a melody that lingers and lingers and lingers... Très magnifique. "Rust" closes out the a-side of You, You're a History in Rust (2007) from Toronto's almost-all-instrume ntal band, Do Make Say Think . Right-Click + Save Link As: [...]
Some old tunes, some new tunes, all good tunes, most Mondays… Who fucking loves New York? / Who is the biggest fan? / Who is a fiery cheerleader / Caught in some un-New York foreign land? Right-Click + Save Link As: Toro y Moi - Say That Unknown Mortal Orchestra - So Good at Being in Trouble Local Natives - Ceilings Kanye West - Mercy (Salva & RL Grime Remix) [...]
TNGHT 's self-titled EP was one highlight of last year's ever-growing genre of Frankenstein, dance-floor, trap music: Gamera -sized beats that make you want to drink, smoke, freestyle and grind like you're in Sodom or Gomorrah, not Williamsburg. Baauer had a killer single and a few remixes in 2012 that explempified this to a tee, so it's no shock producer-extrodinaire Just Blaze tapped him for an upcoming tour. Apparently, this is the first fruit of their collaboration... Here's hoping it gets even better. Right-Click + Save Link As: [...]
Digging up rare, awesome or obscure tracks... Today it's marching, stripped-down folk from of the Sutherland Brothers , an early '70s British folk/rock duo. Rod Stewart recorded a cover of the track in 1975 and though it ended up being his biggest-selling single in the UK, the original is so, so, so much better. Right-Click + Save Link As: Sutherland Brothers - Sailing Note: Originally published in April, 2011
Though I didn't advertise it here, Jessie Ware 's Devotion was one of my favourite releases of last year , an album knotted with pop-diva, neo-R&B and London-dubstep allusions, pulled taut by one hell of a voice. Ware released her If You're Never Gonna Move EP earlier this week and-convenient for me-it's a pure victory lap, packaging a slight rework of Devotion 's "110%" with two other album highlights, a Bobby Caldwell cover and a simmering Two Inch Punch remix... Right-Click + Save Link As: [...]
"Brandon Flower's preacher's-warble meets bootleg instrumentals off Rod Stewart's Blondes Have More Fun , with a dash of Danzig and the Cryptkeeper." That's how I'd best describe "The Hearse," the a-side of Wampire 's debut 45. Their band name's incredulous, but the song's pretty catchy. And kitschy . I dig it. Can these wampires make it work for an entire album? We find out come May when they drop their debut, Curiosity . In the meantime, they're touring with [...]
How was your December? Mine was shit. Which helps explain why I'm as late as Pazz & Jop in posting my Top 50 Albums of 2012. However overdue, this list is guaranteed to blow all the other lists you ever read about the year 2012 in music away... — Citizen Insane's Top 50 Albums of 2012 — 50. Nude Beach - II 49. Purity Ring - Shrines 48. Supreme Cuts - Whispers [...]
I've had Junip 's latest on my hard-drive for all of half an hour and I've spun it through four times already- José González , you and your band make some solid freak folk. "Line of Fire" is off the group's forthcoming sophomore LP (self-titled, natch). As long as they pick up where Fields left off, I'm on board... Right-Click + Save Link As: Junip - Line of Fire Junip - In Every Direction
I'm not sure what any lowly, young writer can ad to the music criticism of David fucking Bowie, so... I won't try. I will say I've been playing this Lynchian epic since the Duke dropped it on iTunes a week ago and I still can't wrap my ears around a 66-year-old, lounge-singing Bowie. Then, two and a half minutes in, everything clicks and I need to hit play again. Also, that album art? Brilliant. Right-Click + Save Link As: David Bowie - Where Are We [...]
Some old tunes, some new tunes, all good tunes, most Mondays… After a monthly mix loaded with electronic jams, this one’s a little more ‘indie-rock’ heavy, whatever that means to you. Right-Click + Save Link As: The Kamikaze Hearts - Beverly Hills Sawaaba Soundz - Owuo Rhye - The Fall Parquet Courts - Stoned and Starving Polaris - Hey Sandy (Edit) Chew Lips - Hurricane (XXXY [...]
Death to 2012, long live A$AP… Like John McClane, this blog just won’t die. And so, I decided to start the new year off right by crafting the best mixtape you’ve heard in 2013; I swear. My resolutions are to blog more and learn French—I’d say this is a good start to one. Tracklist : 01. Chrome Sparks — Send the Pain On 02. Chrome Sparks — Marijuana 03. SWV — I’m So Into You 04. Ruddyp — Maybe 05. The Weeknd — The [...]
So Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile has the fourth album of his Ducktails project due out early, early next year. Til now, the band’s been a solo, bedroom act, nothing but seams-showing, shambling, lo-fi, psychedelic-pop. The Flower Lane , however, is Mondanile’s first album proper, recorded in an actual studio, with actual musicians, which might help explain that keyboard-heavy AOR sound. It’s not quite The Doldrums -lite, but there’s definitely some Ariel Pink coming thru the cracks…
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