See above Petar Dundov, "Oasis" (Gavin Russom remix) Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom, "#5" The picture, to answer your first question, was basically my reaction to Gavin Russom's abrupt uncloistering last winter; dude had basically spent the last three years keeping a lower online profile than me . I presume few if any of you give a shit; Days of Mars has been out for almost half a decade [...]
Subquestion: HOW MUCH DOES THE COVER ART OWN?!??!??!? Lindstrom, "Grand Ideas" (Radio Edit by Prins Thomas) - Once or twice upon a time many moons ago, I hit upon the ( completely original ) idea to write a running diary for albums as I listened to them for the first time. It worked out pretty well for a while; I really thought the buzz was about to hit critical mass when the Foo Fighters booked me to open for their [...]
not that this picture has anything to do with the following post either, but COME ON Michael Jackson, "Don't Stop" (T&T remix) - I'm not even going to pretend like this song has anything to do with the story I'm about to tell; it's a great, subtle, great, respectful, greatgreatgreat update of an obviously classic song which you should be listening to RIGHT NOW (not that anyone with one iota of sense would have expected anything less from T im Goldsworthy & [...]
oonce oonce oonce oonce What the hell. I finished this up a couple of days ago and it's good enough to meet myyyyyy high quality-control standards and so, to reiterate, what the hell. http://www.divshare.com/downlo ad/6888740-c6d (n.b. that you can stream this through DivShare if you don't want to download a 150mb file) 1. Laughing Light of Plenty , "The Rose" I was a little taken aback to [...]
Spymob, "2040" Spymob, "It Gets Me Going" While we can all agree that time hasn't been too polite to midwestern Generation X power-pop acts (poor, poor Fastball), I'd like to single Spymob out for particular distinction, both because of their off-the-charts coulda-shoulda-woulda factor and because their collective their efforts resulted in at least one very good album (more on this in a minute). They could have easily broken big in the late 90s, back when labels were eagerly [...]
Here we go Archie Shepp, "Money Blues, Part 1" - A PARTIAL LIST OF THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED SINCE THE LAST TIME I WROTE ANYTHING HERE: America collectively voted for a n3gr0, allegedly on purpose and everything The economy exploded into a million billion pieces; Congress responds by proposing to cautiously smack the economy on its side Diablo Cody [...]
Aeroplane, "Whispers" (feat. Kathy Diamond) - As a man who owns up to his own prejudices, I will freely admit that my contempt for the Red Hot Chili Peppers' song of the same name kept me from ever investigating Aeroplane before now. (Sadly, this is by no means the stupidest snap judgement to affect even my recent life; it has taken me until the middle of May 2008 to get past my internal talking point that There's A Riot Goin' On sounds "too washed out and [...]
<3 The Long Blondes, "The Couples" - By all rights, this should have been the most soul-crushingly depressing show in history. Despite my years of unyieldingly vehement advocacy, the Long Blondes have yet to secure the kind of Stateside profile necessary to warrant a headlining gig at the Troubadour; Indie 103 couldn't even be bothered to show up and park their damn van outside, meaning the Long Blondes have less pull in Los Angeles than the motherfucking Ting Tings . Consequently, the [...]
A great band to get drunk to Air Traffic, "Charlotte" - So I suppose I should disclose this right up front: I accidentally got kinda drunk at the show. You know how sometimes you roll up to the club reasonably late and without any cash, and so you head to the bar and order something, and the bartender makes it right there in front of you and hands it to you and says "six bucks" and so you hand him your credit card and he says "Uh, we have [...]
1. No, I'm not dead; tax season was a b-word and then work subsequently started a big honking super-mega on-the-rag b-word for the next few weeks. And then of course Phil Collins retired; oh man I was a wreck . Rest assured that I've got two sets and a hilariously loaded backlog of stuff to bring you on...next weekish? That work for you? Well okay then. 2. Coachella in sixteen words: Prince ruled. Mark Ronson ruled. Sam Sparro ruled. Hot Chip ruled. Erol Alkan sucked. No, really. 3. So apparently GP favezzzzz [...]
WELCOME TO THE LOGGINSPHERE, FOOLISH HYPE MACHINERS Dinosaur, "Kiss Me Again" Dinosaur, "Kiss Me Again" (version) WARNING: IN BIG-PERSON 320K But seriously, folks: out of every word that I've ever written in the three-ish years I've been doing this stupid thing, the only ones I still consistently get specific mail about are the ones I used right cheer the first time I wrote up "Kiss Me Again". Naturally, most of the mail comes down [...]
Can't I do one simple GIS for "postman" without being bombarded with mail-on-mail action ? All things considered, I had a pretty good week last week. My boss gave me a raise out of the blue; it won't be enough to keep me working at that soul-killing death factory one second longer than I have to, but hey, free money. datA and the inexplicably-named MY!GAY!HUSBAND rocked shit at IHEARTCOMIX Saturday night, despite datA being hampered by some truly disheartening tech diffs (bass cutting out right when [...]
actual GIS result for "still not dead" (Editor's Note: Look, I'm knee-deep in a motherfucking banger of a post, but it's nowhere near completion; consequently I figured I might want to look into just posting handfuls of relatively random songs which have had me by the ears lo these many months. Of course, the epic New Apartment Project has pretty much precluded me from finding anything new or undiscovered; consequently, you can expect to see a squillion songs you've seen on countless other blogs roundabout these parts until [...]
Please do not use this I'll be honest: even taking the Biblical annoyances which have plagued my music-consumption habits over the last few months - the move, two computers dying, Time Warner being Time Warner, certain harumph cough hack being shut down by the cough blagh hork snxxx, etc - the fact remains that my musical 2007 was spent decidedly elsewhere . 2007 was, for instance, the year I entered into My Steely Dan Phase, a project which certainly took priority over determining whether White Williams was worth being [...]
Seriously, you can ask Jen: the day I was all ready to get back into this here blogging fooferaw, my less-than-three-month-old laptop crapped out on me, requiring that it be sent back to Bumfuck, Egypt for servicing. Well, it's back now, and I plan on following suit on Monday with one of the most retardedly exaggerated content explosions in this site's history. So yeah, watch out for that.
Hey y'all - just a quick note, but as I'm still in the process from moving out of my old, shitty apartment into my new, non-shitty apartment I still don't have internet access and therefore cannot furnish uproarious self-loathing at the moment. (Also, this happened and I'm still laughing.) Believe you me, I've got stuff rarin' and ready to go for when I do get back; keep an eye on this space.
It's been a long time; I should'n'a left you/Without a dope beat to step to It's kinda funny - well, okay, it's not really funny at all, but editing is for pantywaists: At the beginning of the year, I had between three and five writing commitments, depending on who wanted what from me when; now I have one, you're reading it, and as you may have noticed I kinda sorta suck balls at updating it at this point. I have no excuse; this is simply all I have, and I beg of [...]
Hi Mom Those of you who've been wondering where I've been for the last two weeks clearly don't live in Los Angeles; up until disarmingly recently it's been like Los Angeles had spent its high-school tenure shoving the sun in a locker, and now the sun was back to make us fill up the gas tank on its Maserati. Luckily for YOU, Exalted Reader, I elected to pass the time by holing up in my hysterically tiny, miserably underventilated apartment and listening to one ass-load of records. Let's explore those, shall we? [...]
more like MADE OF AWESOME Kate Nash, "We Get On" - It figures; I go and write up a big, relatively-personally-authorit ative explication of my favorite stuff from the world o' music this year, and then I go and trip ass backwards over a record which may or may not obliterate the whole thing before it's even off the front page. That's not to say that Kate Nash 's Made of Bricks is a sure-fire lock-the-doors end-of-year up-fucker, of course; it is , however, the first [...]
I apologize to all girls & non-nerds Chicago, "You're The Inspiration" - My taste in music may (MAY?!?) be impeccable, but even I can't argue with the folks who would characterize my taste in musical reading materials as, in the words of my NorCal brethren, "hella suspect". I am, after all, a man who readily admits to being mightily influenced by Nick Hornby's Songbook , who can practically rattle off between forty and sixty percent of the singles described in This Is Uncool [...]
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Miike Snow – Paddling Out (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
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