Freshman year at NYU I was introduced to a lot of random indie bands by all my new artsy schoolmates from around the world. A few new bands I was introduced to in 2001 included The Strokes, Jack Johnson, and Death Cab For Cuite. But out of all the crazy music I discovered freshman year, Moldy Peaches defiintely stuck with me the most. They got extra famous after their songs were used throughout Juno , but their wild live shows is what really makes them special. Lead singer Kimya Dawson used to dress up as a bunny and her [...]
Ray Davies Appears at the Orpheum on Saturday Night I didn't get up to as much as I'd hoped last week, but did catch Julian Casablancas and the Happy Hollows at Spaceland. Casablancas didn't do anything to win me back, but most of the crowd seemed really into it. I'll definitely be at Ray Davies this Saturday and I'll most likely check out more of the Happy Hollows tonight. Monday 11/9/09 [Pick of the Night] [...]
PICK OF THE WEEK Band of Horses w/ Warpaint Club Nokia 1st Anniversary Show Mon 11/9 Info [ ENTER TO WIN ] THIS WEEK'S TICKET GIVEAWAYS Bishop Allen & Throw Me The Statue Tues 11/10 Echoplex | Info [ ENTER TO WIN ] [...]
A couple of weeks ago I was cooking dinner, as I do most nights. We were having some sort of chicken dish and the recipe called for 250g (~1/2 lb) of chicken breast. I wandered over to the refrigerator, pulled out the twin pack of chicken breasts that Dr. O'C had picked up at the grocery store and my jaw dropped. Inside was the biggest pair of chicken breasts I'd ever seen; each of them was upwards of 400g (just shy of a pound). This had clearly been the Pamela Anderson of chickens. My thoughts immediately [...]
"There's nothing quite like A good old fashioned bloodbath On Halloween Eve" the Misfits - Halloween
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St. Vincent , Brooklyn's sweetheart Annie Clark, has a style that can suit anyone's fancy. And Actor is a powerful example of an astonishing effort from Clark to develop down right delightful tunes. It's the warm coffee in the morning. As well as the ecstasy for an exciting night. If "Laughing With A Mouth of Blood" doesn't make you feel like break-dancing at your closest Starbucks, there is something seriously wrong with you. "Marrow" should be that sort of cut that leaves you feeling less whole when it is all sang and done. [...]
Aggro-poet, rocker,actor, activist Saul Williams headlines Afro-Punks first national tour, hitting 20 cities with various guest in each city. Joining Williams on select dates: Living Colour, Earl Greyhound, Amp Fiddler, Krak attacK, Hollywood Holt, The Smyrk, Activator, Rough Francis, American Fangs, IrRAdio, Kimya Dawson. The "The Niggy Tardust Experience" starts at CMJ tomro night with Minneapolis date on Sunday at The Varsity Theather . Win a pair of tickets by telling me the name of the 1998 indie Saul Williams made his debut acting appearance? DM answer to twitter [...]
Right then ! The inbox has been filling up with some great new or newish artists and albums so here is a quick pick of the best that has taken my attention in the last few days... Kicking Off with Bottle Up And Go whose 'darker louder' hi energy blasts into your ears from the opening chord. Their Press says 'Crush up some shards of broken whiskey bottles and colorful confetti and put in a cannon and what bursts out is the raucous, uncaged bunch that is Bottle Up and Go. Comprised of singer and [...]
For both Where The Wild Things Are and The Fantastic Mr Fox are on Spotify now. Go listen! Where The Wild Things Are is something of a primary school symphony, credited to Karen O and the Kids; that is, the idiosyncratic Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman, accompanied by a choir or rugrats. Simple, almost Kimya Dawson-like acoustic guitars rule mostly, but we do get flourishes of basic lines of xlophone plinking and strings plonking. Thoroughly enjoyable, [...]
The untimely passing of wrestling manager turned MTV pop-culture icon Captain Lou Albano is already well-known, but I doubt people were expecting the artistic outpouring that popped up on Kimya Dawson's Twitter . Dawson threw on a headband and some homemade '80s body slam gear and quickly penned a tribute to Albano that she calls " the best song of her career ", name-checking the slew of recent celebrity deaths and thanking the Captain for showing her '80s-child self that it was okay to be weird. Aw. Art Brut frontman [...]
Avete presente "Anyone Else But You", la splendida canzone che Michael Cera e Ellen Page cantano alla fine di Juno ? L'originale è dei Moldy Peaches , un duo formato dalla cantautrice Kimya Dawson e da Adam Green, anche lui cantautore, anche lui famoso per delle performance live completamente deliranti. Al di là delle stranezze, Adam Green è un bravissimo autore (consigliatissimo il suo "Gemstones", del 2005). I suoi brani sono un mix perfetto di pop, musica orchestrale e folk un po' sgangherato e giocherellone. In occasione dell'uscita del suo nuovo album [...]
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Já ouviu a voz suave de Kimya Dawson ? As músicas dela, a mim, soam canções caipiras (do interior dos EUA) pra fazer qualquer um embarcar num convidativo sono cheio de bons sonhos. E o caipira ali, apesar desse adjetivo ser estigmatizado, só quer dizer bem do som dela, ok? Aliás, adoro som caipira, não só vindos dessa região não. Pra quem ainda não ouviu, eis a faixa que abre o penúltimo álbum, " Remember That I Love You ", de 2006. Sente: Kimya Dawson - Tire swing [...]
Cover by Walzac Well, it's Saturday... but just because it's the weekend, doesn't mean we can get our groove on, eh? Real quick, before we get started, wanted to announce we've got another photo contest started, this time over at Tsuru & The Bride !!! Pretty self-explanatory, in my opinion, but just in case... A photo contest where they theme is "Twos". Anything & everything, with some pretty awesome prizes for the winner!!! [...]
Look ma, it's a post! We've been pretty quiet this year, in part because we've just been very busy, but also because we haven't really been all that inspired by anything - since Pains of Being Pure at Heart, that is. We have, however, just been to 3 of the most disparate festivals we possibly could have attended, all of which were good and bad for incredibly different reasons, and I thought it might be nice to provide some vague assessment of the pros and cons of the lot. The [...]
On Sunday the sun is no longer relentless though the musical quality is. Luckily for any diligent reader of the festival programme, The Whispertown 2000 are nothing like the band to which they are compared (Kimya Dawson and The Moldy Peaches). Instead, the sweet but world-weary country harmonies of singers Morgan and Vanesa ring out over the sun-drenched main stage audience. Not as overly 'quirky' nor saccharine as Dawson's band, their delicate voices and gentle acoustic strums are occasionally punctuated by the heavy bass drone and Lee Hazlewood-style delivery of bassist [...]
[ download ] On October 13th, the duo of Jenny Owen Youngs and Xian Hawkins will release the first installment of their collaboration as Bell Horses. Hawkins has made a name for himself through his recordings under the Sybarite moniker on labels such as Ghostly International and 4AD, as well as the third member in the reunited incarnation of experimental electronic music pioneers Silver Apples . Youngs has two well-received solo records under her belt, but is perhaps most infamous for her cover of Nelly's "Hot in Herre." [...]
I've always known that I should like Daniel Johnston . Kurt Cobain regularly and famously wore a t-shirt with the cover art to Johnston's Hi, How Are You album. Nirvana aside, Johnston's ubiquitous influence has spread to some of my favorite bands, including Yo La Tengo and the Flaming Lips. Bright Eyes even covered his song "Devil Town" on the closing episode to the first season of NBC's "Friday Night Lights." But listening to Daniel Johnston's recordings was a struggle. The man's childlike voice, tinny instrumentals, and grim lyrics made me feel creepy just for listening, as [...]
I've always known that I should like Daniel Johnston . Kurt Cobain regularly and famously wore a t-shirt with the cover art to Johnston's Hi, How Are You album. Nirvana aside, Johnston's ubiquitous influence has spread to some of my favorite bands, including Yo La Tengo and the Flaming Lips. Bright Eyes even covered his song "Devil Town" on the closing episode to the first season of NBC's "Friday Night Lights." But listening to Daniel Johnston's recordings was a struggle. The man's childlike voice, tinny instrumentals, and grim lyrics made me feel creepy just for listening, as [...]
I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict that nearly every other review you read concerning Windmill's recent follow-up to its debut album, 2007's Puddle City Racing Lights , will spend significant energy on the relationship between the album and Matthew Thomas Dillon's childhood trip to Walt Disney World's Epcot Center . The reason for this is more because that's what the easy hook the press release gives us and it is a whole lot easier to crib from the press kit than to listen to an album over and over again, thinking through lyrics [...]
As if this lazy Sunday couldn't get any better, Kimya Dawson just tossed up a MySpace bulletin with more videos than I know what to do with from her recent show with Daniel Johnston. Kimya began the Olympia Free Choir - an all ages, no experience necessary and no audition choir - and they were present to back her on the tune that made me initially fall in love with Baribeau's music, "Ten Things." More videos after the jump including Dawson backing Johnston on "True Love Will Find You In The End" and Johnston playing drums on Dawson's "Being Cool" [...]
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
Friday Five: Surf Songs
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
