a bad music moment

growing up I can remember my first trip to lakeshore record exchange. i can remember being there and being amazing at the selection. amazed that they had a used cd section. amazed that that sold albums made in japan. i felt special. i felt freedom. i felt amazing experiences were on the horizon.

and nothing was more true

imagine

... amazing ...

Epic Friday Post

Though I know no one follows my work. And also that most of this is just reposting things I find interesting, void of new or original material. However there is satisfaction in knowing that the reason why I bother with this blog is because things like the following are just too amazing to be ignored. And so in the belief that I am helping propogate beauty in the world I present to you:


A little more information regarding what you're watching.
Additionally I have just come into possession of one copy of: Neutral Milk Hotel Live at the Bug Jar - Rochester NY July 30th ... 1998. Fuck.Me.Running.

A Challenger Presents Itself

yes

Dude, Coyne drops the f-bomb and mentions evil ... need I say more? Oh, but i guess I will: strokes, pixies, shins BLAOW Suckas!!

The challenge I mention is of course against Dark Was the Night which now is a little late to get into the similarities but a few should jump right the f out at you ... like derr or some sheet.

New Music

It's once again time for me to go on a full out binge on new music.

Here are the short and sweet of the last binge:

The Great- Neko Case, Akron/family, Brakes, Japnadroids, Jenny Lewis / Rilo Kiley, Lotus Plaza, Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear, Camera Obscura

The Good - Vetiver, St. Vincent, Passion Pit, Fela Kuti, Amadou and Mariam, Ratatat, Dan Deacon, Passion Pit

The Bad- Late of the Pier, Isis, (wayverying radient), Papercuts, Super Furry Animals, ORL's new one, Doves

The Ugly - Your face.


Next Up:
Cold War Kids, Silversun Pickups, Tortoise, YACHT, Ani Defranco, White Rabbits

appropriate

Because guess what happens in ...

Two Weeks


Added Bonus mp3 download of the day: YACHT: "Psychic City (Voodoo City)"

Holiday Sweetkend

Welcome back to the grind friends!

Best Album of Late: Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear. As predicted in an earlier post this album an exceptional piece of well composed aural beauty. Don't believe me? Check out the first single Two Weeks' video here. Also in that post are additional goodies including a live mp3 version of the track, and a link to a new black cab sessions featuring g-bear.

See you at the bonna set folks. It's going to be sick.

Favorite new band of the moment: Akron / Family. Basically I've completely lost my shit over their album Love is Simple. An epic fusion of blues rock, repetitive sing along chorus jams, and sappy "love is great" lyrics combine to form an amazingly fun and interesting album that I have not been able to get out of my head at any point this weekend.

A resurgence in interest of NMH? Its like Christmas in May. Time to bust out the trumpet and get to work learning the solo in Oh Comely, eh?

Highlights from the weekend:

- Rage fueled car tirade regarding a mislabeled and incomplete radiohead mix.

- DJ Here Tonight is forced due to technical difficulties to play an all vinyl set. Despite a limited collection the eclectic mix satifies everyone. The plans for a second turntable have their metaphorical seed planted.

- Sonic Anarchy ripped up the dance floor Elaine Benes style. Black people everywhere cringed. Fun was had, and nobody but my poor flip flooped feet were phyically harmed. Mentally damaged though: probably everyone that wasn't smoking dope and subjected to the unparalleled spastic jolts of white boy nonsense that eminated from my soul into their unfortunate occular nerves.

- I heard peacebone this weekend and it made me smile again.

animal collective - concert review

So it finally happened. Me, Panda, Geologist, Avey ... same room, same time. Since you're reading this a couple of assumptions can be made.

First, no, the earth did not open up and let out a beam of light that spread evenly over the earth engulfing all species and rendering their particles combustible thus making the view of earth from space one giant world industries logo.

Second, my eyeballs are still in tact, having not actually melted out of my skull a la holy grail wrong cup sort of situation which I predicted as a result of aural waves of panda's voice splashing upon my ocular nerves for the first time.

Instead the show was actually pretty normal. Except by normal I mean fucking epic. The set list was pretty standard. I thought actually kind of short, and very MPP heavy. Guy's Eyes was a rare classic. Dude, they played Chores!!! I think my favorite part about the show really was the crowd. Which were more openly enthusiastic towards the older songs.

Leaf House kind of left people (myself included) going absolutely bat shit crazy. The vocal percussion carried and accentuated heavily by the collective vocal stylings of the band's loyal followers. A moment that will not be forgotten. The epic nature surrounding fireworks lends itself to wanting to see it as the band's "typical" show closer. But judging from the way they seem to stay fresh each night with new sets and new cities and crowds to play to this type of regimented situation seems almost an impossibility. Though fireworks is a staple of every show, making it one of the few things you can count on.

The most telling detail of the night was the band's Chocolate girl intro into Comfy in Nautica. PB's voice hailing the sold out crowd to try and remember just to haev a good time. It was his voice and this message that persisted throughout. At any given time throughout the show it was easy to spot the supreme jubilation this group can wreak over its loyal fandom.

So what did we learn? Panda bear is supreme. Everything you could hope for and more. The only thing you can count on is that you can't count on anything. Their show is definitely built for two things. First, an outdoor venue. Their sound is way to vast to keep inside a mid size club. And the size of their fan base removes the possibility of making their shows intimate any more. An outdoor venue is the only way to experience this properly.

At all costs see these guys whenever, where ever you have the chance. You're guaranteed to get a different experience each night. If one thing came out of this show, its the fact that regardless of who plays opposite them at any festival shows, theirs is the set to choose. Seee you at bonna, pink speedo, headband, knee highs.... only the best.

short posts

Only have time for a few things today. I know it's been a while, but thus is life. There's only so many hours in a day and basically i've had to decide between work and play. Thus because I enjoy getting paid I needed to up my work time committment lately.

But enough with the sad times, here's the good word from the sonic anarchist:

- Time off for APW officially approved, see you suckas in NYC!!

- On that note the initial MUST SEE APW list:
- Fleet Foxes
- My Bloody Valentine (pant blob!)
- Tokyo Police Club
- Vampire Weekend
- Lykke Li
- Akron / Family - I just started listening to them, they're pretty standard sonic anarchy music. Epic jammy indie pop love ... wheelhouse baby.
- The National - I have a crush on Bryce Dressner after the DWTN VA jamz he put together ... heartskies!
- The Obvs: Tool, Gayplay ... only seeing g-play to take notes on what my faux military ensemble should consist of. You know, since girls seem to be into british faux military sass.

- Shows I plan on making up because I will miss it at bonna:
- YYY's
- Neko Case - fucking brilliant!
- St. Vincent - ditto
- Beastie Boys

- Interested in checking out if time permits
- Silversun Pickups
- Ra Ra Riot
- White Rabbits


- Currently working on a message board for the dinfu. The plan is to set up some discussions regarding bonnaroo. I'm thinking separate topics for collabs on: travel schedule / itinerary, what to bring / who is bringing what, show scheddy's, who's got the erb .. etc, ect.

-Possibly cohosting the SA blog there as well. Check out my sass so far

this tone bone is glad, because he went, to theeeee

The interwebs assures me that this is how it went down.

1. Chocolate Girl
2. Comfy in Nautica
3. What would I want sky
4. Lion in a coma
5. My Girls
6. Guys Eyes
7. Fireworks
8. Leaf House
9. Brother Sport
Encore
10. Chores
11. Summertime Clothes

I don't remember it being quite like that. I thought they played leaf house earlier, I also thought b-sport and my girls are actually in the reverse of what happened. Also no mention of the new song as the intro into chores during the encore ... here's the link to that song to help jog your memory.

animal collective :: bleed (live)

the bear strikes!!

so today an advance copy of Grizzly Bear's new album Veckatimest fell *cough* cough* into my lap *cough* ... i'm going to make an early call on this one and go ahead and predict that its going to be a 9/10 album of the year type of ordeal. So far a few things i'm noticing that bode well, vast arrangements of sound, straightforward with a gentle approach, offbeat and epic rock anthems that soar, dip, and drive.

... those are some of choices I might put into my pool if I were trying to make a list of adjectives that could be used to describe this album. Upon initial review only. I'll probably have something different to add. Check back in 24hrs.

its a good album though, i can tell.

also according to this I totally lucked out in terms of timing? weird. though it wasn't completely random. I was poking around p4k and found this song to be kind of aweseome. Thus my reason for trying to check out more. Man

NMH + HSM + XXX

Mendesday

Today marks the first official "Mendesday". For those of you unfamiliar is the is a play on the combination of Men + Wednesday ... and has nothing to do with Mending. Which is something I think women in the 1800's did to dungarees when they tore.

thine royal pants hath been shat

after years and years and years and years of waiting ... and few more years of denial. the heavens have opened up and unleashed upon my eyes and ears the best fucking news ever ....

Also I just right now found out that the female vocals on the postal service album were Jenny Lewis.

Umm, shit.

only 5 more months

till this can be all yours...

The countdown begins

So I woke up this morning a bit tired and aloof from a 90mph weekend that left me both physically and mentally frazzled. Good times, good friends, and great memories were had.

But alas it is back to the grind, with one exception. There is a buzz growing inside me. At first I couldn't really understand it. I figured it was after effects of the weekend. But instead it was something in my memory, trying to scream out and make its way to the forefront of my consciousness. That's when I realized ... 6 more days. Animal Collective in Toronto. My throat closes up. The goosebumps are summoned, and my dreams becoming reality fill my moments with elation and excitement ...

get ready...

welcome to my morning

got up and put on the coffee

went to the computer and tried desperately to find something interesting to read on my igoogle start page, going back and forth between the tabs scouring, scouring, scouring ... nothing.

decided to see if TMT had their reviews up for the day yet. Yep. El Grupo Nuevo. Which coincidentally is the most interesting music review I have read ... on an online rag ... maybe ever (save maybe the fever ray album review, which was hilarious and vivid).

currently losing my shit to the album. a paradigm of pure joy and deep disappointment that comes with the realization that I need to get my ass in the shower and get ready for work.

umm .... zach hill ... its like fate is done with the subtleties and now it's just giant ogre club smashes over my dense skull.

short shot: it becomes more and more apparent the worst part about ORL / CBZ combo is CBZ's voice. Man, if this was an all instrumental it would be so effic. I kind of hate Cedric's voice, like on the level of how much I hate Ozzie Osbournes voice. It sounds stupid.

obvious day

the most obvious statment you will read/hear today: The Clash's London Calling is an amazing album. The best purchase I have made so far for my record collection. God, what an amazing album. More bands need to rip off the Clash.

I feel like a douche cause i'm so far behind the curve on the clash. But I guess that's not important. As long as you get a chance to hear it.

Also, Abbey Road is the one Beatles album I never "owned". Though as with every Beatles album I'm familiar with 90% of the songs. However, after hearing it this weekend, its a high priority pickup in the used section.

Top 5 Albums to get List:

1. Band of Horses - Everything all the time
2. Daft Punk - Discovery
3. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
4. The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
5. The Decemberists - Her Majesty

Concert Review - Jeremy Jay

The finale show of Stick it To the Man week was L.A. 's Jeremy Jay. A young relative unknown in the indie groove scene. I just made that term up, and have no idea what that means, but it is my best attempt to describe JJ's sounds. The amalgamum of adjectives I could also use would be soulful, sexy, synthy, dark, moody love music.

It's really is a difficult sound to describe, and I think at first glance people would mistake his sound for boring or lazy. But really it's quite an emotional sound that is played without over complicating that idea. There's always something to be said for getting your point across in the least amount of words, and I think JJ excels at this.

So when he took the stage sporting the following: 1 standard drum kit (6 piece), 1 electric guitar, 1 Bass, 2 Effects pedals, and a mini Korg syth machine you could tell the man lives in emotion of the songs, not the details. Surely enough Jeremy then proceeded to unleash his impossibly dance grooves on the crowd . Passing the guitar and bass back and forth between the other stage hipster between songs was as natural and necessary as the crowd's uncontrolable urge to get down to the epic sonic smothness torching their ears. Unfortunately the only thing more sparse than the band's stage equiment was the crowd. and so I'm not certain the appreciation for the effort went fully recognized. Mr. Jay.

Though most musicians spend their careers in relative obscurity sometimes certains artists come along that for whatever reason seem to have that certain undeniable superstar quality that escapes the world wrapped up in hype. So count this at least as one person who promises to act as part of Jeremy Jay's hype machine for as long as he is making music. Next time you see me it's an almost certain guarantee his deep grooves will come across your ears, because whether you transcribe to the less is more ideal or not there is something to be said for the way JJ makes you feel like more, with less.