I don't like Passion Pit or Glasvegas. I've known about both bands for awhile and they both are making everyone's "Big in 09" lists. Maybe I will appreciate them more later this year if someone gives me their torrents. But since I'm hardcore iTunes doesn't look like that's happening.
In other news I finally downloaded the LP Surfing by Megapuss, another Fab (from The Strokes and Little Joy) band. It's pretty good, but after a certain point it's hard to tell the songs apart. The beginning is very fun but the songs become slow and similar for the majority. So if you're going to download on track-by-track, get these:
Crop Circle Jerk '94
Duck People Duck Man
To Love Within
Adam & Steve
Theme from Hollywood (if you want just one track, get this one!)
Lavender Blimp
Above, the video for Adam & Steve. Styled like M83, with the skeleton guys and costuming. Fab is the only one who's dressed normally. I think I laughed all the way through this. Nick Valensi's in there too soloing on the car - I don't think he's cut his hair in years! Binki from LJ also makes an appearance.
Speaking of LJ, here's the retro video for No One's Better Sake, a great cut off their album. Nick and Devandra are in the video as well.
Cultural Offering; January 23, 2009
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE SOLD OUT
Within 2 hours.
Two.
Hours.
I'm so mad.
All the resellers are twice the price or more.
Within 2 hours.
Two.
Hours.
I'm so mad.
All the resellers are twice the price or more.
I HATE HYPE.
Anyway,
I don't like soda, but I love this pepsi spot:
So I visited refresheverything.com
and found videos of people leaving messages for President Obama.
Here's a good one...
4PV
Spin Magazine, instant camera pictures, HK wallet, Marc Jacobs scottie dog pencil sharpener, house key, monkey from the barrel, phone, 35mm film, Vampire Weekend concert ticket from last month, street stand ray ban (poet/didn't even know it), ipod, tissues, water, pens & pencils, world eraser, hair tie, cough drops, lip stuff, F21 gift card, distance glasses, metrocard.
Animal Collective Saved My Life.
Well, maybe they did. I dunno, but they are really good. An important guys to know about, since the are an influence on/share a zeitgeist with similar acts such as MGMT and Born Ruffians. However, they are extremely avant-garde to the point of being unaccessible to an average listener.
Strawberry Jam was their 2007 release. It's a very fun and well-done album. I hate the word 'catchy' because it's overused, but the songs from SJ will have you humming them long after a few listens.
Their new album Merriweather Post Pavilion just came out yesterday. They're using their voices as instruments more than their previous records. I couldn't even say what their members play usually - some pretty random sounds grace the tracks.
Check them out, listen a few times and then get your opinion.
They're on a huge world tour right now! See the dates on their myspace page.
Strawberry Jam was their 2007 release. It's a very fun and well-done album. I hate the word 'catchy' because it's overused, but the songs from SJ will have you humming them long after a few listens.
Their new album Merriweather Post Pavilion just came out yesterday. They're using their voices as instruments more than their previous records. I couldn't even say what their members play usually - some pretty random sounds grace the tracks.
Check them out, listen a few times and then get your opinion.
They're on a huge world tour right now! See the dates on their myspace page.
LOMOPOPUPSHOP
Lomography is my absolute total fucking weakness.
A lomo store and gallery is opening on 8th (near 6th) on January 27th. I sense my money becoming another camera..!
Color holga film + colorsplash camera
instant film when i run out.
Download the Whole Catalog: TPC
Tokyo Police Club. Good music. KUTE. Canadian. Win-Win-Win situation. I remember I was going to see them sometime last year (maybe it was the beginning of this year) and I was like, "oh, I know them, Their English is Good" because I had downloaded the single when it came out in 2007. Ended up seeing them at Rogers Picnic anyway.
Since I have acquired the rest of their catalog, which includes 2 short EPs - A Lesson in Crime and Smith. Get both of these and BLAST them when you are alone. The band took some heat for the length, but I like short songs/albums/EPs.
Their first LP Elephant Shell is really good. Super cohesive. Like the most cohesive album I've ever heard. That I can remember. And I'm a sucker for cohesiveness. . . I'm not being sarcastic , the album is a 28 minute song. The album has a central theme of youth/growing up/aging/dying - circle of life kinda deal.
If you download singles, don't bother with Tessellate. For some reason the general consensus is negative, even though it's not a bad song per say. Personally I don't think it's a good representation of the band/album.
Tracks of Note:
1. Centennial. The album opener, good arrangement, cute meaning.
2. Juno
3. Sixties Remake
4. Nursery, Academy. This is a well crafted song. There is the best 1 second cold open I've ever heard that doubles as an innitial hook, making it very a likable song.
5. The Baskervilles. Album closer, I just like this one for some reason.
TPC Myspace
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Don't Leave 2008 Without...
Italics are albums. Feel free to add Dear Science. TVOTR made everyone's #1.
Lisa- Albert Hammond Jr
Piecing it Together-Born Ruffians
Red, Yellow & Blue- Born Ruffians
White Winter Hymnal- Fleet Foxes
Sex on Fire- Kings of Leon
Little Joy-Little Joy
The Postelles EP-The Postelles
Lolita-Throw Me the Statue
Elephant Shell-Tokyo Police Club
Vampire Weekend-Vampire Weekend
A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation-The Wombats
Lisa- Albert Hammond Jr
Piecing it Together-Born Ruffians
Red, Yellow & Blue- Born Ruffians
White Winter Hymnal- Fleet Foxes
Sex on Fire- Kings of Leon
Little Joy-Little Joy
The Postelles EP-The Postelles
Lolita-Throw Me the Statue
Elephant Shell-Tokyo Police Club
Vampire Weekend-Vampire Weekend
A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation-The Wombats
Last Night: Vampire Weekend !
Vampire Weekend at Terminal 5 last night was honestly the best gig I've been to in awhile. It was so fun. They played all of the songs off of the first album along with Ottoman, since they had a string section for a few songs to back them and three new songs they promised to record early next year. (NME also had a piece stating this a few weeks ago)
The encore was a cover of my favorite Fleetwood Mac song, Everywhere (not kidding/you can download it here) and Walcott.
They did help me realized that I am afraid of crowd surfers though. Thankfully and un-thankfully I was surrounded in by a bunch of tall skinny guys who a) pushed the the crowd surfers down to the floor and b) obstructed my view even though I was only about 3 rows of people back on the right.
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Call and Response: blake's got a new face !
The encore was a cover of my favorite Fleetwood Mac song, Everywhere (not kidding/you can download it here) and Walcott.
They did help me realized that I am afraid of crowd surfers though. Thankfully and un-thankfully I was surrounded in by a bunch of tall skinny guys who a) pushed the the crowd surfers down to the floor and b) obstructed my view even though I was only about 3 rows of people back on the right.
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Call and Response: blake's got a new face !
vent / am i a stalker?
I'm so mad.
I'm so mad.
I'm so f'cking mad,
and I can't decide if I should be.
I feel like a Born Ruffians stalker. Seriously. I haven't even listened to any of their stuff recently. They were in my dream a few nights ago...and then I was catching up on Nirvana the Band the Show, these ridiculously funny Canadian webisodes about these two guys trying to get gigs in Toronto. I've been watching them since the summer. And The Born Ruffians happened to be on the two episodes I didn't see. Seriously though...it's the weirdest coincidence ever.
Oh, oh. So today I get an e-mail from Bowery Presents with all the new gigs for the major linked New York venues. And Tokyo Police Club's playing a set in February with. Born. Ruffians. The gig's not even posted on their own myspace. It's 18+ and TPC sells out places pretty damn quick. I will be going to the Mercury Lounge box office shortly.
But maybe I shouldn't be so quick to deem myself a stalker. The culminating events of the past few days were nothing short of mutually exclusive. Meaning I had no control of the occurrences. Right? Right?! Console me...I wanna be a fan, not a fanatic.
p.s. Kurt Vonnegut (youtube below) came up in discussion in English today. The author, of course.
WHAT IS GOING ON?! This is all too weird.
I'm so mad.
I'm so f'cking mad,
and I can't decide if I should be.
I feel like a Born Ruffians stalker. Seriously. I haven't even listened to any of their stuff recently. They were in my dream a few nights ago...and then I was catching up on Nirvana the Band the Show, these ridiculously funny Canadian webisodes about these two guys trying to get gigs in Toronto. I've been watching them since the summer. And The Born Ruffians happened to be on the two episodes I didn't see. Seriously though...it's the weirdest coincidence ever.
Oh, oh. So today I get an e-mail from Bowery Presents with all the new gigs for the major linked New York venues. And Tokyo Police Club's playing a set in February with. Born. Ruffians. The gig's not even posted on their own myspace. It's 18+ and TPC sells out places pretty damn quick. I will be going to the Mercury Lounge box office shortly.
But maybe I shouldn't be so quick to deem myself a stalker. The culminating events of the past few days were nothing short of mutually exclusive. Meaning I had no control of the occurrences. Right? Right?! Console me...I wanna be a fan, not a fanatic.
p.s. Kurt Vonnegut (youtube below) came up in discussion in English today. The author, of course.
WHAT IS GOING ON?! This is all too weird.
Cultural Offering; November 28, 2008
Three posts in one day. But I found a website that whoever reads this (which is possible nobody) might find some kind of artistic/aesthetic/nostalgic value in. And I'm probably going to forget it sooner than later myself.
Being the culture and photography fan that I am, (I use 35mm, various Lomography cameras, digital and instant) Square America . com was really cool to find.
Basically it's a collection of mostly square color and b/w photographs taken in the mid 20th century. I've gone through a lot of the database, and this is one of my favorites:
Basically it's a collection of mostly square color and b/w photographs taken in the mid 20th century. I've gone through a lot of the database, and this is one of my favorites:
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