Who's the fairest of them all?

Been listening to the new album from Desire, off the always awesome Italians Do It Better label.
Melancholic, glassy-eyed disco made in rainy cities.
What could be better?

http://www.myspace.com/primitivedesire
http://www.myspace.com/italiansdoitbetterrecords
http://www.troublemanunlimited.com/store/idib/

People, my people, do you not want to go?

Silent Knights (Bryan + me) will be DJing tomorrow night at the PICA & Paper magazine party at the new Ace Hotel in NY.
DJ Spooky will be also jumping on the decks.
My guess? Fun will be had by all.

And I will be spinning cuts like this:

http://www.pica.org/

http://www.acehotel.com/newyork

Re-obsessing about Mirah's post-Hurricane Katrina song "Nola".

I first heard Mirah perform this song at PICA's TBA Festival in 2005, right after Hurricane Katrina had happened.

She had written it that day and performed it live for the first time that night.

My friend Sara Meadows made a lovely live recording of it.

This is the official version that K Records released. It is also on the PDX Pop Now! 2006 compilation:

http://www.krecs.com/Shop/product_info.php?products_id=1944