March 2011
1 post
WILD FLAG
here is some information about the EXTREMELY PERSONALLY IMPORTANT ROCK CONCERT that i attended last week. it was by a band called wild flag, and it was performed at local 506 in chapel hill north carolina, my old (college) stomping grounds. i traveled a cumulative total of ~12 hours, including a shittily protracted layover, to see this band i had never actually heard. this is because...
January 2011
2 posts
Watchyvynyl:
PREMIERE: Celebration - Honeysuckle Blue
This new video directed by the talented animator and artist Miranda Pfeiffer is ghostly. Slow and shrouded in mist and chalk and charcoal, and as with any great video, matches the tone of this slow burner of a new song from the mystic Baltimore musicians. Says Pfeiffer of her process, “every hand-drawn frame is included so that all of the every...
my sister pointed out that i haven't updated this...
thank you, sister. i love you.
it is a true fact that i have not updated this or any other internet shit (aside from twitter or a saucily named beer blog) in a dang while. i had some grandiose notions of making a big ol’ best of 2010 list and stuff, but then i realized that actually i do not give many fucks about many records that people don’t already know are awesome from last year....
October 2010
1 post
two albums this year that are exactly as awesome...
-the new kylesa album, spiral shadow
-the new superchunk album, majesty shredding (could also be an accurate alternate title for the new kylesa album)
September 2010
1 post
I RETURNED TO THE INTERNET to SAY MORE STUFF ABOUT...
i wrote about this band before, and they remain delightful! and now there is photographic evidence on the internet of when i met randy randall from no age. he was incredibly kind and gracious and i was basically a total goober. i am still happy about this thing, although i realized on my bike ride home that i am also sort of mad that i don’t live in a shitty artist loft space, and instead...
July 2010
1 post
the pitchfork festival always happens over my...
last year my long-shot birthday request was for yo la tengo to play “last days of disco.” they did not play it at the festival, but they did write me a very nice email, and then they did play it when they came back in the fall.
this year my long-shot birthday requests are so long-shot that i am not actually emailing anyone about them. they are:
LCD soundsystem and robyn team up to...
May 2010
1 post
"do you want new wave or do you want the truth?"...
that’s all.
and: if it didn’t mean that no one would actually see this i would backdate it to be posted on 5/5/10, which was double nickels on the dime day, of course.
February 2010
1 post
important fact about the new joanna newsom song
they are streaming it at drag city’s site! THE IMPORTANT FACT IS that it starts out EXACTLY THE SAME as “gum chimes” by max tundra.
REAL TALK, Y’ALL
January 2010
3 posts
the thing about fever ray
as noted before, karin dreijer andersson made my favorite album of 2009, and probably also my favorite show of 2009, and since i am never going to get more articulate about this than i am right this moment (or, rather, than i felt approximately 10 minutes ago while i was doing the dishes, listening to the knife’s opera about darwin, and contemplating how much karin dreijer is my heroine), it...
i'm a bonerfied nincompoop for not having listened...
also i’m really insecure about not knowing how to pronounce his name. is it just “retard” or is that extra “a” its own syllable?
December 2009
6 posts
best-of lists are stupid
that said, fever ray made my favorite album of 2009, and i feel really strongly about that, and so i hope to say some things about it at a later date! but first, here are just a few albums from this year that are also good that you maybe haven’t heard because critics did not entirely jizz all over them as far as i know, and so maybe you should check them out!
do make say think, the other...
fuckyeahthemountaingoats:
scotlanded:
Happy...
SHIT I JUST REALIZED
as part of my life-project to correct the grievous error of lacking historical context in my music-listening habits, i bring you the following information:*
i have never listened to a full rolling stones album. WHERE DO I FUCKING BEGIN?
*[originally accidentally posted to my other tumblr, where dan graciously responded, but am interested in other opinions as well.]
!?
i am going to make a new year's mix
here are the only songs i can think of that go on it off the top of my head:
the dismemberment plan, “the ice of boston”
the wrens, “our brightest new year”
dump, “1999”
add yours here?!
two of the best mixtape transitions i have made
dancomono:
I have always been proud of “The Horse You Ride” by Department of Eagles going into “Drinking In LA” by Bran Van 3000. They are saying hello to each other! It is so coy and polite and lovely!
(I wish there were standard comments on this damn thing. I feel bad talking up a storm amidst the planned posts.)
now i have “drinking in LA” stuck in my head, THANKS A LOT JERK....
September 2009
3 posts
two of the best mixtape transitions i have made
notwist, “this room (four tet & manitoba remix)” -> fennesz, “before i leave”
olivia tremor control, “a new day” -> pj harvey, “good fortune”
honorable mention for the best mixtape transition i have received:
beastie boys, “five piece chicken dinner” -> my bloody valentine “touched”
TRY THESE AT HOME!...
“you won’t be happy with me,
but give me one more chance
you won’t...”
– the magnetic fields, “100,000 fireflies”
amazing that a song that starts out “i have a mandolin / i play it all night long / it makes me want to kill myself” can get even more gloriously cynical. in fact, it is now my favorite gloriously cynical lyric. (previous favorite...
superchunk, “detroit has a skyline...
August 2009
5 posts
me: man i started today with lightning bolt and i'm finishing it with playthroughs
me: it is like my day is a giant yin/yang of music
nickdebacle: HAHAHAHA
nickdebacle: amaaaaaaazing
(SERIOUSLY EVERYONE put some lightning bolt and some keith fullerton whitman in your ears and one will cancel out the other and you will acheive enlightenment and mindfulness??? anyway "earthly delights" and "playthroughs" are both way goddamned good)
three favorite songs of 2009, so far
1. yo la tengo, more stars than there are in heaven
everything i liked about “the story of yo la tengo,” which was and is my favorite song on their previous album, plus some strings and georgia’s beautiful singing. even without the title it would be like looking up at the stars in western north carolina on a clear autumn night. and that is what we call high goddamned praise around these parts.
...
July 2009
6 posts
bill callahan/smog song titles that would also be...
the hard road
red apple falls
the well
no dancing (for a bar that is the parallel universe counterpart of the empty bottle, with its MUSIC FRIENDLY DANCING awning)
the wind & dove
dianogah, you might go off
i saw this band for...
please read re: chicago music
oldtobegin:
abloodymess:
PLEASE REPOST THIS. PLEASE SPREAD THIS AROUND!
The Chicago music scene is in trouble. We did battle with this last year and it is rearing its ugly head again. I am talking about “The Event Promoter’s Ordinance” If this goes through, it would destroy most (if not all) of the small places to see music here in Chicago. There would be ZERO places to see shows besides a...
hey paul, hey paul, let's have a ball
so the name of today has been “extremely awkward coworker interactions” like “looking at twitter while the head of HR tries to borrow some scissors” and “being mistaken for a completely different person who quit yesterday, such that i was congratulated on a new job i am not taking,” but all that was redeemed by how i just went to the bathroom and overheard what...
“the relevant ballads are calling you
truant and then untrue”
– Destroyer