Old friends from Portland done good.
Signed to Warp Records a few years ago, worked diligently on their album and now it's finally coming out.
Super excited for them.
It's a really solid record.
Show your support - check it out.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah + Au Revoir Simone + Radical Dads + Dirty On Purpose = Uninhabitable Mansions.
Good stuff.
Looking forward to seeing them at SXSW this year.
Good stuff.
Looking forward to seeing them at SXSW this year.
I snoozed on this Cotton Jones album last year, for no other reason than that I simply lost track of the fact that it ever came out.
Now I'm revisiting it and finding it to be absolutely lovely.
Fans of Lee Hazelwood, M. Ward, Fleet Foxes, Tim Buckley, Merle Haggard, Bon Iver, etc. may want to give this a listen.
I slept on this album last year somehow, so I'm digging it back up now.
Jam of the day, yo.
2009 was a heck of a year for me.
It included living in two cities (Los Angeles and New York),
a new job (at Young & Rubicam),
getting a heap of my vinyl stolen (so maddening),
and most importantly, falling in love with Bailey (soon to be married).
I also never worked harder in my life and therefore logged a lot of hours in my office, at my laptop, listening to tons of music.
So here it is, after much deliberation and possibly forgetting some things,
that I present to you,
- Jónsi & Alex: Riceboy Sleeps
- Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
- Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
- Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Here We Go Magic: S/T
- Atlas Sound: Logos
- Neko Case: Middle Cyclone
- Fanfarlo: Resevoir
- Little Dragon: Machine Dreams
- Mos Def: The Ecstatic
- The xx: The xx
- Favours For Sailors: Furious Sons
- Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
- Cold Cave: Love Comes Close
- Broadcast & the Focus Group: Investigate Witch Cults...
- Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light
- Foreign Born: Person To Person
- Major Lazer: Guns Don't Kill People-- Lazers Do
- Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- J. Tillman: Year In The Kingdom
- Tom Brosseau: Posthumous Success
- The Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa
- Jeremy Jay: Slow Dance
- Pink Mountaintops: Outside Love
- Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- Taken By Trees: East Of Eden
- Miike Snow: Miike Snow
- Fever Ray: S/T
- Volcano Choir: Unmap
- Dan Deacon: Bromst
- Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career
- St. Vincent: Actor
- jj (Sincerely Yours): jj n° 2
- Bon Iver: Blood Bank EP
- Real Estate: Real Estate
- Wilco: Wilco (The Album)
- Dodos: Time to Die
- Wavves: Wavves
- Paul White: The Strange Dreams Of…
- Sufjan Stevens: The BQE
- Bat For Lashes: Two Suns
- Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms
- Woods: Songs of Shame
- Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer
- DOOM: Born Like This
- Antipop Consortium: Fluorescent Black
- Andrew Bird: Noble Beast
- The Antlers: Hospice
- The Horrors: Primary Colours
- M. Ward: Hold Time
- Bear in Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth
- Blakroc: Blakroc
- Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs
- Micachu and the Shapes: Jewellery
- Memory Tapes: Seek Magic
- Discovery: LP
- Telefon Tel Aviv: Immolate Yourself
- Dinosaur Jr.: Farm
- Bell Orchestre: As Seen Through Windows
- Washed Out: Life Of Leisure
- King Midas Sound: Waiting For You
- Rain Machine: S/T
- Kings Of Convenience: Declaration Of Dependence
- Girls: Album
- Akron/Family: Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
- Megafaun: Gather, Form And Fly
- The Field: Yesterday and Today
- Nosaj Thing: Drift
- YACHT: See Mystery Lights
- Desire: II
- Julian Casablancas: Phrazes for the Young
- Dâm-Funk: Toeachizown
- Kurt Vile: Childish Prodigy
- Passion Pit: Manners
- Black Moth Super Rainbow: Eating Us
- Iron & Wine: Around The Well
- The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
- Bowerbirds: Upper Air
- tUnE-yArDs: BiRd-BrAiNs
- A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Ashes Grammar
- Cymbals Eat Guitars: Why There Are Mountains
- Timber Timbre: S/T
- Wild Beasts: Two Dancers
- Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue
- Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine
- Alela Diane: To Be Still
- The Cave Singers: Welcome Joy
- The Veils: Sun Gangs
- Telekinesis: S/T
- Big Pink: A Brief History Of Love
- Bonnie Prince Billy: Beware
- Malakai: Ugly Side Of Love
- James Pants: Seven Seals
- Fink: Sort Of Revolution
- Nudge: As Good As Gone
- Mayer Hawthorne: A Strange Arrangement
- Eat Skull: Wild And Inside
- Sa-Ra Creative Partners: Nuclear Evolution
- Julian Plenti: Is Skyscraper
Compilations, Reissues and Honorable Mentions
Every vinyl release from Mississippi Records (Portland, Oregon)
V/A: Fire In My Bones
V/A: Warp 20 Boxset
Rodriguez: Coming From Reality
The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms
The Feelies: The Good Earth
Whitefield Brothers: Earthology
Big Star: Keep An Eye On The Sky boxset
Pylon: Chomp More
V/A: Spiritual Jazz – Esoteric, Modal + Deep Jazz From The Underground
SJOB Movement: A Move In The Right Direction
Mebusas: Blood Brothers
Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM
V/A: Forge Your Own Chains
The Heliocentrics: Fallen Angels
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou: Echos Hypnotiques 1969 -1979
V/A: Ghana Special – Modern Highlife
V/A: Africa Boogaloo – The Latinization Of West Africa
Everything released on Minimal Wave Records
V/A: Zanzibara Vol. 5
V/A: Tumbele! – Biguine, Afro & Latin sounds from The French Caribbean
V/A: Singapore A-Go-Go (Sublime Frequencies)
Roj: The Transactional Dharma Of Roj
The Drums: Summertime
Edan: Echo Party
Madlib: Beat Conducta Vol. 5 & 6
V/A: Legends Of Benin – Analog Africa Vol. 5
V/A: Shadow Music Of Thailand (Sublime Frequencies)
V/A: Siamese Soul – Thai Pop Spectacular Vol. 2 (Sublime Frequencies)
V/A: Tropical Funk Experience
V/A: Local Customs – Downriver Rivival
Moby: Wait For Me
V/A: The World Is Shaking – Cubanismo From The Congo 1954 – 55
Kélétigui Diabaté: The Syliphone Years 1970-1976
V/A: Pop Ambient 2009
Animal Collective: Fall Be Kind EP
V/A: Cuban Funk Experience
Lafayette Afro-Rock Band: Darkest Light – The Best Of
Black Dice: Repo
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Loverboy
Arthur Russell: The Sleeping Bag Sessions
V/A: Cazumbi – African Sixities Garage Vol. 1
Monks: The Early Years 1964 - 1965
Coconot: Cosa Astral
Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras: Catholic
The Raveonettes: In And Out Of Control
Sonic Youth: Eternal
V/A: Open Strings
Helado Negro: Awe One
Laura Gibson: Beast Of Seasons
PJ Harvey & John Parish: A Woman A Man Walked By
God Help The Girl: S/T
Willie Isz: Georgiavania
Silversun Pickups: Swoon
Chester French: Love The Future
Ear Pwr: Super Animal Brothers III
Tabu Ley Rochereau: The Voice Of Lightness
Lucky Dragons: Open Power 12”
Nick DeWitt: Supernatural Punishment 12”
V/A: Eccentric Soul – Smart’s Palace
These Are Powers: All Aboard Future
V/A: Five Years Of Hyperdub
Juice Aleem: Jerusalem Come
Deastro: Moondagger
K-Os: Yes!
Zomby: Where Were U in '92?
It Hugs Back: Inside Your Guitar
Weekends: Weekends
The Muslims (aka The Soft Pack): S/T
Elvis Perkins In Dearland: S/T
Bobby Birdman: New Moods
Hudson Mohawke: Butter
A.C. Newman: Get Gulity
Condo Fucks: Fuckbook
The Builders And The Butchers: S/T
Jay Reatard: Watch Me Fail
Richard Swift: The Atlantic Ocean
The Juan MacLean: The Future Will Come
The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love
Lotus Plaza: The Floodlight Collective
Beirut: March Of The Zapotec
BLK JKS: After Robots
Throw Me The Statue: Creaturesque
Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band: S/T
Bishop Allen: Grrr…
Phosphorescent: To Willie
Surfer Blood: Astro Coast
Group Doueh: Treeg Salaam
Swan Lake: Enemy Mine
Where The Wild Things Are (Soundtrack)
Dangermouse & Sparklehorse: Dark Night Of The Soul
Simone White: Yakiimo
Matt & Kim: Grand
Devendra Banhart: What Will We Be
Silk Flowers: S/T
Times New Viking: Born Again Revisited
Cotton Jones: Paranoid Cocoon
Box Elders: Alice & Friends
Lightning Dust: S/T
Asobi Seksu: Hush
Mount Eerie: Wind’s Poem
Zola Jesus: The Spoils
A Place To Bury Strangers: Exploding Head
Jon Hopkins: Insides
Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3
Choir Of Young Believers: This Is For The White In Your Eyes
Speech Debelle: Speech Therapy
Pens: Hey Friend! What You Doing
Vitalic: Flashmob
Lullabye Arkestra: Threats/Worship
Yura Yura Teikoku: Hollow Me/Beautiful
The Clientele: Bonfires On The Heath
The Avett Brothers: I And Love And You
Monsters Of Folk: S/T
Air: Love 2
The Mountain Goats: The Life Of The World To Come
The Legends: Over And Over
Clipse: Til The Casket Drops
Daniel Johnston: Is And Always Was
Panther: Entropy
Mirah (A)spera
Royksopp: Junior
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It’s Blitz
Drake: So Far Gone
Au Revoir Simone: Still Night, Still Light
The Heavy: The House That Dirt Built
Basement Jaxx: Scars
Lord Newborn & The Magic Skulls: S/T
Hildur Guðnadóttir: Without Sinking
The Boxer Rebellion: Union
Hudson Mohawke: Butter
El Michels Affair: Enter The 37th Chamber
We Were Promised Jetpacks: These Four Walls
Savath & Savalas: La Llama
Prefuse 73: Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
With a gift card from my sister in pocket, I headed over to Other Music today at lunchtime and picked up a few things:
The World Of Arthur Russell (one of the albums stolen in my Los Angeles debacle last year)
Memory Tapes LP
My Bloody Valentine: Ecstacy (reissue on Lazy)
SJOB Movement (Academy reissue)
Mebusas (Academy reissue)
In Aeternam Vale (Minimal Wave release)
Good good stuff.
Thanks Bridgett.
You made your brother's day.
Still figuring out my Top 100 Albums of last year
and will have that posted shortly. In the meantime, I wanted to get the new year started out right.
Here's a track from the upcoming Beach House album.
Perfect for fighting the wintry New York.
Happy 2010.
Here's to all good things.
Peace, joy, laughter, music, love.
and will have that posted shortly. In the meantime, I wanted to get the new year started out right.
Here's a track from the upcoming Beach House album.
Perfect for fighting the wintry New York.
Happy 2010.
Here's to all good things.
Peace, joy, laughter, music, love.
http://www.subpop.com/catalog/artists/beach_house/full_lengths/teen_dream
Going through the best albums of the year and making my top list and I randomly came across this classic Neil Diamond song that I have loved since I was a little kid and still love.
So here's a shout out to Mr. Diamond, for nothing more than that you can still hang with the rest of the best sir, even in the year 2009.
Thanks for all the nostalgia over the years.
In my (and many others - The Replacements, Elliott Smith, R.E.M., Teenage Fanclub, etc.) music universe, Big Star are a massive force, and tonight they are playing at the Masonic Hall in Brooklyn, just 7 blocks from my house.
I've never seen them live and I lucked out on a guest list spot via Rhino/Warner Bros.
Big ups to Cyndi for that.
Though it's not the original line-up, this is a show that I am looking forward to the most
in many, many years (aside from Dylan, who I am seeing tomorrow night).
Can't wait.
The first time I ever saw The Dodos was a few years back at Todd P's party at SXSW.
It was one of those times where you just stumble in not expecting anything in particular and then walk out blown away. This is my favorite track so far off their new "Time To Die" album:
It was one of those times where you just stumble in not expecting anything in particular and then walk out blown away. This is my favorite track so far off their new "Time To Die" album:
http://frenchkissrecords.com/band/records/time_to_die/
http://toddpnyc.com/