This heart’s on fire, dancing and drinking champagne from a paper cup.
Never as tired as when I’m waking up.
image via the depths
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
There’s a great show tonight at the Galaxy Hut with DC’s Paul Michel and Sad Crocodile. If you can’t make it there, you should try to make the Black Cat in DC to check out electropoppers The LK with Meredith Bragg. That’s all…hey it’s Monday.
mp3: The LK – Tandem Bikes –> website –> buy
mp3: Meredith Bragg – Twin Arrows –> website –> buy
So these aren’t music videos, but videos I just happen to come across on Wooster Collective that really put a smile across my face. I hope they do the same for you.
mp3: Digable Planets – Graffiti
mp3: Blockhead – The Art Of Walking
mp3: Architecture In Helsinki – Tiny Paintings
mp3: Hot Chip – Plastic
mp3: Sarsaparilla – Plastic Bag Ghosts
Sunday is here and our web host is back together. Time to celebrate with some shows. Here in Baltimore you could check out Manchester Orchestra at the Recher Theater, but there are some crazy good shows in DC tonight. At the Rock and Roll Hotel theres Caribou and Fuck Buttons while DC9 has The Dodos and Silje Nes. Have a good time.
mp3: Manchester Orchestra – Brother (Annuals Cover) –> website –> buy
mp3: The Dodos – Walking –> website –> buy
mp3: Caribou – Hello Hammerheads –> website –> buy
mp3: Fuck Buttons – Ribs Out –> website –> buy
So…it’s Friday. How are you all doing? Was the week good? Sunny? Cloudy? Flood-ridden? Was your boss/teacher a prick? Did music inspire you? Bore you? Barrack? Hillary? McCain? Did you see something that amazed you? Did you read something that made you sick to your stomach? Did your computer eat your brain? Did you wake up late? Did you get to sleep? Did you find the one thing you have been looking for all your life? Are you ready for tomorrow? Are you tired of stupid questions? Me too.
mp3: Cut Copy – Lights & Music (Superdiscount Remix) Alternate Link(YSI)
mp3: Mystery Jets – Young Love (Shoes Mix) Alternate Link(YSI)
mp3: Justice – D.A.N.C.E. (Diplo Remix Extended Version) Alternate Link(YSI)
mp3: Liars – It Fit When I Was A Kid (Crystal Castles Remix) Alternate Link(YSI)
image by Banksy via Matt Brown esq
The Ottobar has a pretty fantastic show tonight in store for you. The Ravonettes headline with Baltimore’s Thrushes and Black Acid opening. In DC be sure to catch John “The Slice” Vanderslice opening for Stephen Malkmus at the 9:30 club.
mp3: Thrushes – The Hardest Part –> website –> buy
mp3: Stephen Malkmus – Baltimore –> website –> buy
mp3: John Vanderslice – Me an My 424 –> website –> buy
Yes I’m covering two days in one post because unfortunately at some point late tonight or early tomorrow our web hosting site(where all the mp3s are housed) will be down for an extended period of time. Hopefully all will be well come Sunday and Monday. Anyway Saturday has some sweet shows in DC and Philly. In DC there’s Deleted Scenes, Drink Up Buttercup, Butterflies, and The Fordists at DC9 and the Rock and Roll Hotel has New Rock Church of Fire, Death By Sexy and Nunchucks. In Philly Johnny Brenda’s has Caribou and Fuck Buttons while The Fillmore has John Vanderslice and Stephen Malkmus.
mp3: Caribou – Bees –> website –> buy
mp3: Fuck Buttons – Bright Tomorrow –> website –> buy
mp3: Deleted Scenes – Hyperbaric –> website –> buy
mp3: Drink Up Buttercup – Mr. Pie Eyes –> website –> buy
Just to rub salt in the wound’s for not making SXSW this year, MDR put up video of a pretty cool new song called The Unbeliever. Sounds good to me.
So you might have heard of this band, Hot Chip. No? Well they’re super popular and just released a great new LP, Made In The Dark in January. It’s taken me a while to digest this enough for me to actually form words and post on it. Back in 2006 I was thoroughly taken with The Warning and played ‘Over and Over’ over and over (as many did). So I was a bit nervous when first listening to this new one. There was a lot of hype. A lot of good remixes. Shake A Fist was a great first single, but how would the full length come across. From the first couple of moments with Made In The Dark I noticed the rhythms were thicker…more expansive…edgier. It sets the tone. Gliding through the rest of the album, you realize the true beauty of Hot Chip. They can bump it up with dance floor tracks then interweave silky harmonies between the bass rattles. Just when you’ve got them pegged, they slow it way down then speed up again, shifting synths at will, from ambient to acoustic to dub. Maybe this stems from their beginnings when they met in 2000 and wrote songs like sixth form poetry with acoustic guitars then scrapped that because it pissed them off and decided to make more defiant sounds. Change is good. Way to go Hot Chip.
mp3: Hot Chip – Wrestlers –> website –> buy
mp3: Hot Chip – Touch Too Much
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