So the pretty lil event site Winter is the New Summer that Devin and I have been working on has officially launched in full! Whoo! Let's have a 750ml salute to that! We did a soft launch in October, then last week we introduced the poster concept and from this week on until the end of winter we will have a different member of the Portland scene acting as a Poster Boy or Poster Girl, holding up our event picks of the week, this week being Rocky formerly of the Hush and currently of [...]
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Experimental electronic folk never sounded so dreamy. "Cotton Curls" by Sleep Whale has soft, pleasant melodies supported by a heavy percussive tromp. Fronted by mysterious, psychedelic, cooing vocals, the song splits reality with the dream-life. It's like an Animal Collective track without all the bells and whistles; just peaceful and colorful. It's evocative of a midsummer afternoon half-slumber, warm with soft pillows and messed up sheets. You can almost feel the sun streaming in through the blinds, and hear a lawnmower in the distance. And as you flicker between deep sleep and [...]
Jack White 's color palate is usually red, black, and white. But really it should be red blue and, yellow, as the man of a thousand bands (plus a record label and studio and God knows what else) is seemingly the Superman of modern rock. His next massive undertaking? To produce 72-year-old Wanda "Queen of Rockabilly" Jackson 's next album. This will mark White's second collaboration with a high-profile dame of popular music, coming five years after he had a huge hand in the Loretta Lynn revival with 2004's Van Lear Rose . [...]
My unashamed admiration and respect for Shakira was further solidified last night while atending the "secret show" taping of her performance for an upcoming feature on the iheartradio web site and mobile application. Playing to an intimately rabid fan base of 250 contest winners and special guests, the Columbian superstar was in town to perform a handful of hits, old and new, to be included on the Clear Channel owned and operated site. iheartradio has been making this exclusive content available through the online [...]
Cela sent toujours les tartines et le café du matin, les plumes volent encore après la bataille de coussins, les longues disputes sur « qui pourra bien sortir avec qui » et sur quelle tenue il faudra choisir pour la disco du dernier soir. Le passé semble encore bien présent . Mais que ferons-nous de notre avenir après avoir écouté Summer Camp ? It still smells toasts and morning coffee, feathers still fly after pillows battle, long arguments about « who's gonna date who » and about which clothes [...]
Tuesday night saw a co-headlining bill at The Rickshaw Stop, featuring Alela Diane and Marissa Nadler who are currently on a US tour. When Diane came on it was as if she were playing to a living room of close friends - her banter far from lacked genuine and humble tones, as she chuckled at requests for songs she wasn't sure if she remembered. Another tradition Diane can't seem to shy away from is inviting her father to play her homecoming shows. Tom joked about being called down last minute, but made [...]
Dulu saya menemukan lagu ini di anime berjudul FLCL (sekedar info, anime ini dibuat iseng oleh para creator Evangelion yang sedang mengalami fase kebosanan hebat). Dan lagu ini, biarpun sudah lama tidak saya dengar sejak SMA, sampai sekarang tetap menjadi favorite track saya. Sederhana, but sweet in an unexplained japanese way. The Pillows - Funny Bunny
Memorized every phone number you have had since you were seventeen and at this point There is no other girl who can brag about how tranquil you sleep how you are a mountain mistaken for a fat baby full on warm milk bottle fed before bed I have watched you melt into stacked pillows seen your bed grow a queen size space big enough for me and my mid-night uproar our bed is a sea-saw never a merry go round [...]
Following a collapse onstage , Morrissey-the only musician that really matters-has been released from the hospital and is recuperating on a grand feather bed pilled high with delicate throw pillows and Oscar Wilde books. (Not that there would ever be a good time for the Mozzer to die, but to take the stage, say "Good evening... probably," perform "This Charming Man," and then crumble to the floor is a pretty amazing way to go.) We checked with his publicist and Morrissey's upcoming tour will not be canceled (he'll be here on November 30th at the [...]
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is in stores tomorrow, as well as with Transformers: 25th Anniversary Matrix Of Leadership Edition (a 16-DVD box set that contains the complete 98-episode animated series). Other feature films out tomorrow include a Criterion Collection edition of Monsoon Wedding and Stephen Frears' Cheri . Remastered complete series collections of Black Adder and Fawlty Towers highlight the week's [...]
This Spike Jonze directed clip was originally intended to be a much a shorter video to accompany the release of Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreak , but once they started working it grew into something much larger, clearly. I for one, really hope that this is what Kanye West's life is actually like. I hope that he gets wasted beyond recognition at clubs, unsuccessfully hits on girls, bangs pillows, is actually filled with tiny paper hearts, and nightly confronts the wild thing inside of him. If "We Were Once a Fairytale," were fact, [...]
As some of you might know, I play bass in a couple of bands of the Punk genre. My lack of musical ability makes my choices perfect. Bass ( 4 strings, 2 less than guitar ), and Punk ( even I can play 5 notes ) and of course, my ever sunny disposition. My ever understanding wife has given me free reign to exorcise my demons in this manner, bless her little heart. One of my bands, Dirty Pillows; has got a gig on Long Island in Amityville (yes, the home of this) tomorrow (Sat Oct [...]
Tower records real shops have standed for 30 years here in Japan. They still have some authority of leading JPOP japanese music market. and more, Tower records and NTT docomo mobile are licencing Napster service at docomo ketai. 24th October, Tower records has 30th anniversary party; Face the music at Shinkiba studio coast, Tokyo. Band lineups are the pillows, kariyushi58, dohatsuten, TRICERATOPS, NICO Touches the Walls, THE BAWDIES, EG, QUATTRO, kegawanomarys, knotlamp, UNISON SQUARE GARDEN, People In The Box. TOWER RECORDS 30th anniversary! http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/ sitemap/CSfLayoutB.jsp?DISP_NO =003114 [...]
Robot Body Pillow Is a Freak in the Bed - F-Listed Seth Green's Mugging Is Fake - The Superficial Jennifer Lopez Wants You To Know Who Lola Is - Wonderwall Elizabeth Taylor Is Just Fine, Thankfully - Pop Eater Lindsay Lohan's Parents To Do Intervention? - Anything Hollywood Don't Call Khloe Kardashian Fat - Websters Is My [...]
I like to think I can string together a serviceable sentence, but seeing Bon Iver early last Sunday morning at LA's opulent Hollywood Forever cemetery as the rising sun burned through a thick haze of fog after a night long slumber party on the cemetery lawn was a once in a lifetime experience for which words can't really do justice. But I'll try. The all-night event began at midnight when the gates Hollywood Forever (final resting place of Charlie Chaplin , Dee Dee Ramone and Rudolph Valentino , among many [...]
HotChaCha - The World's Hardest Working Telescope and the Violent Birth of Stars (Exit Stencil Records, Oct. 20th) 4:45pm: "One Thousand Pillows Soft" Forceful percussion and a breathy moaning request to take her home tonight... sold! 4:48pm: "Ticket Away From Prague" I've never been to Prague but a ticket away sounds like a fine choice... bi-lingual lyrics make me smile. 4:52pm: "Baby Mammoth" Is punk-pop a genre? Siouxe Sioux meets Matt & Kim. 4:54pm: "Hookers Deserve a Lifetime Achievement Award" Really... Really, how do you define achievement? [...]
We've all been there: That moment when you just realized, "Oh, my god. I've never listened to that." It happens once in a blue moon for music enthusiasts, especially journalists, but it does indeed happen. Most won't admit it, and they'll probably just squeeze through the moment dumbfounded (and absolutely silent), but we're a bit honest here at CoS. I mean, have you seen some of our Guilty Pleasure articles (mine included)? So, we're back with a new feature, one that captures that awkward, tail-between-your-legs moment. It's called "Wait, You've Never Heard", and editor and writer Megan Ritt really gets [...]
We're big fans of late '80s / early '90s WWF wrestling at the Mansion. When we were kids, Axl and I used to have annual Wrestlemania parties where we got our friends together and got really high on Coke and Doritos and beat the shit out of each other with pillows. Fun times! So naturally I'm [...]
Conceptually, Oren Lavie 's "Her Morning Elegance" is one of the coolest, most unique videos out this year. An obvious dream-scape, one could imagine a similar theme in a Michel Gondry flick; it's artsy but not so over the top as to be pretentious. Made entirely using bedroom props - sheets, clothes, pillows - the directors (Oren Lavie, Yuval and Merav Nathan) paint a vivid storyline that simply must be witnessed to believe. Lavie's soft-spoken vocals, draped with a very Erland Øye-like backing electro-acoustic sound, make his music quite accessible and easily likable. [...]
I need some coffee. brb. Ok, so. I guess I should just be upfront about this... I have no real reason to count down to anything. This just sort of came together on its own and I let it. Like sometimes I wake up and something is in my head. Sometimes I wake up and wonder where my pillows went. Sometimes I just dream of buying Legos. I wish I did have something to count down to. Titties : Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full ( Seven Minutes Of Madness Coldcut Remix) (don [...]
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Friday Five: Surf Songs
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
