From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Bonus Alice

May 30, 2008

Here’s a pretty little something to keep with you for the weekend. Made by 19-year-old South African artist Nick Bertke, with music “90% composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film Alice In Wonderland.” Thanks for the tip, birthday boy Xian!

If you want the tune, you can download it here.

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“Life Sucks & Love Is Dumb” Golly, That’s A Real Lie

May 30, 2008

It’s New Music Nuesday!
It often takes me a while to figure out whether or not I like a rock album. There’s not a lot of new ground to break, so it’s the details that define greatness, goodness, smoochiness, & other nesses.
I’ve only given this album a couple of spins, but I already think it’s pretty [...]

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You Know I Wanna Stay

May 29, 2008

In late 2002, I needed to go to New York for a friend’s wedding. The first thing I did was get plane tickets. The second thing I did was check to see who was going to be playing. I was stoked to see that Moistboyz was going to be playing at a converted peepshow establishment [...]

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My Heart Shies From The Sorrow

May 28, 2008

I haven’t posted a “song that makes me cry” in a while.
This one’s a top-notch weeper. I first heard this song the same way many people my age heard it — by This Mortal Coil with the ungodly good Elizabeth Fraser.
The first time I listened to the Tim Buckley original, I was expecting it to [...]

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Sobrante Park And Brookfield

May 27, 2008

“I have a bunch of thrift-store gear, and I like to turn on some red lights and just make some sounds. I guess it’s just the sound of really cheap equipment, listening to a lot of records, and goofing off.”
My man.
Too $hort – I Ain’t Trippin (James Pants ruff remix)
http://www.myspace.com/jamespants
http://stonesthrow.com/jamespants/
[quote from this interview at XLR8R; [...]

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Fou Et Telement Evident

May 26, 2008

Just because it’s a holiday in the U.S. doesn’t mean I’m not thinking about you. So here’s a late addition for your BBQ, for your post-solemnity moments, or for those precious minutes that come right after you get off work.
Yelle – Ce Jeu from the très délicieux Pop-Up
http://www.yelle.fr
http://www.myspace.com/iloveyelle

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Barrels Of Rum And A Fresh Cabin Boy

May 23, 2008

The Pirate Band has inflicted traditional and original songs of plunder, mucus, and scones on San Francisco for nigh on several hundred years — long before pirates were the new spacemen and the old zombies.
They’ve recently come ashore from a trip through “Poseidon’s guts,” so Bay Area mateys who don’t give a fig for their [...]

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La Cocaina No Es Buena Para Su Salud

May 22, 2008

Oh man, I just wanted to learn a little about this song and ended up disappearing down a wormhole of hateratiousness. There are many accusations of unkind artistic behavior against Crystal Castles, and several people are devoting a lot of time to trying to bring this band down.
I’ll say this about that: hey I like [...]

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Don’t Got To Worry, You’re Locked In Tight

May 21, 2008

I need to talk to you about an impending onslaught. Santogold is a lady, a band, a collaboration, and probably a summer.
You might have already heard plenty about Santogold, but then again maybe you don’t spend much time strapping on your waders and mucking your way through the world of bands, blogs, and other things [...]

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Eat My Dinner You Dumb Stupid Role Model Who’s About To Rock

May 20, 2008

Three cheers for mini-festivals, where you get to see enough bands that one of them is bound to be good.
The consensus highlight of last night’s Gigantour metal extravaganza was Children Of Bodom, a Finnish band named after some teenage campers who were killed in 1960 on the shores on Lake Bodom (near the delightful town [...]

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