Oct
1
2011
Every Saturday, I post a 15-20 minute podcast featuring some tracks I’ve been jamming the previous week, as well as some commentary and random musings from yours truly. Enjoy!
Tracklist:
Games – No Disguise
TV Girl – Girls Like Me
Trailer Trash Tracys – Wish You Were Red
TEETH – Flowers
Youth Lagoon – Bobby
no comments | tags: Games, TEETH, Trailer Trash Tracys, TV Girl, Youth Lagoon | posted in Music, Podcast
Mar
3
2011
Spring break is upon us, and with it the finest week of the year, SXSW. As is customary, my friends and I are gonna RAGE and make like Andrew W.K. and PARTY HARD and all that good stuff. New parties and showcases are being announced every day, and next week I hope to have a list of my picks for ones to check out. In the meantime, however, after the jump is a list of bands I am hoping to see this year while meandering around downtown Austin, and you should try your damndest to see them as well.
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no comments | tags: Baths, Cloud Nothings, Collen Green, Das Racist, DOM, Dominique Young Unique, Evan Voytas, Fang Island, Fergus and Geronimo, Games, Hooray For Earth, Jeff the Brotherhood, One Wolf, Royal Bangs, Sharon Van Etten, Star Slinger, SXSW, Tennis, The Diamond Center, Thrift Store Cowboys, Twin Shadow, Yuck | posted in MP3, Music, SXSW, Video
Jan
11
2011
40. Games – That We Can Play EP
Games – Strawberry Skies
39. Delorean – Subiza
Delorean – Simple Graces
38. Brothertiger – Vision Tunnels EP
Brothertiger – Lovers
37. The Thermals – Personal Life
The Thermals – I Don’t Believe You
36. Diamond Rings – Special Affections
Diamond Rings – Show Me Your Stuff
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no comments | tags: Ben Folds, Brothertiger, Delorean, Diamond Rings, Free Energy, Games, Girl Talk, Nick Hornby, PS I Love You, Tame Impala, The Thermals | posted in Best of 2010, List, MP3, Music
Jan
5
2011
no comments | tags: A-Trak, Band of Horses, Ben Folds, Best Coast, Big Boi, Big K.R.I.T., Bon Iver, Carte Blanche, ceo, Chiddy Bang, Cloud Nothings, Crystal Castles, De La Soul, Deftones, DOM, Dominique Young Unique, Drake, Evan Voytas, Free Energy, Games, Gauntlet Hair, Gil Scott-Heron, Gorillaz, Gruff Rhys, Hooray For Earth, Japandroids, Jay Z, Jeff the Brotherhood, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Kelis, Kid Sister, Magic Kids, Matthew Dear, Nick Hornby, Nicki Minaj, One Wolf, PS I Love You, Rick Ross, Rihanna, Robyn, School of Seven Bells, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Sleigh Bells, Star Slinger, Superchunk, Tame Impala, The National, The White Stripes, The-Dream, Thrift Store Cowboys, Toadies, Twin Shadow, Vampire Weekend, Wavves, Wolf Gang, Yeasayer | posted in Best of 2010, List, MP3, Music
Jan
3
2011
no comments | tags: Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Avi Buffalo, Band of Horses, Beach House, Ben Folds, Best Coast, Big K.R.I.T., Cloud Nothings, Crystal Castles, Cults, Deerhunter, Delorean, Dent May, Diamond Rings, Drake, El Guincho, Evan Voytas, Fang Island, Free Energy, Games, Harlem, Interpol, Janelle Monae, Japandroids, Josh Ritter, Junip, Kanye West, Ke$ha, LCD Soundsystem, Lindstrom and Christabelle, Marnie Stern, Nick Hornby, No Age, Of Montreal, OFF!, One Wolf, Restless People, Star Slinger, T.I., Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Telephoned, The Black Keys, The Delta Mirror, The Golden Filter, The Hold Steady, The Radio Dept., The Thermals, The Walkmen, The White Stripes, Underworld, Yeasayer | posted in Best of 2010, List, MP3, Music
Jan
1
2011
Once every three months I list the best of what I heard in albums/songs/remixes for the quarter. I do this to personally keep up with all the awesome music I hear, as it ultimately helps me at the end of the year when I do my overall listing for the previous twelve months. I also do it to introduce you cool cats to tunes you may have missed independently.
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no comments | tags: A-Trak, Andrew WK, Broken Social Scene, Cloud Nothings, Cool Kids, Crystal Castles, Diamond Rings, Drake, Evan Voytas, Fang Island, Games, Girl Talk, Gobble Gobble, Harry Tuttle, Hooray For Earth, Kanye West, Kings of Leon, Le Chev, Marnie Stern, Nicki Minaj, OFF!, Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Passion Pit, Pilooski, Primary 1, PS I Love You, Pusha T, Rihanna, Robert Smith, Robyn, Star Slinger, Tame Impala, The-Dream, Thrift Store Cowboys, Twin Shadow | posted in List, MP3, Music, Quarterly Review
Nov
26
2010
Where did all the chillwave go? If 2009 was the year for it, 2010 was the year for slow, boring indie snooze-rock galore. Once the xx got all famous, that sound (as pretty as it is) over-saturated our hipster culture. Damn it, sometimes I just gotta dance! — to music that chops up samples, mixes 80’s new wave with trip-hop and electro, and usually consists of indecipherable, reverb-heavy vocals. Love it! So thank God for Brothertiger, and now thank God for Games.
While I personally haven’t been a huge fan of Daniel Lopatin’s drone-heavy Oneohtrix Point Never project, I adore this collaboration with Tigercity’s Joel Ford. The crew’s latest EP That We Can Play (above) is a six-track synth-y treat. The highlight is, of course, the Cocteau Twins-channeling “Strawberry Skies” featuring vocals from Brooklyn singer Laurel Halo, while “Shadows In Bloom” sounds like something clipped and diced straight from a deep Phil Collins bootleg. So in short – the backlash is over; can we start hyping this stuff again? Please?
Games – Heartlands
Games – Strawberry Skies
Games – Shadows In Bloom
no comments | tags: Games | posted in Currently Digging, MP3, Music
Spring break is upon us, and with it the finest week of the year, SXSW. As is customary, my friends and I are gonna RAGE and make like Andrew W.K. and PARTY HARD and all that good stuff. New parties and showcases are being announced every day, and next week I hope to have a list of my picks for ones to check out. In the meantime, however, after the jump is a list of bands I am hoping to see this year while meandering around downtown Austin, and you should try your damndest to see them as well.
