February 2011
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January 2011
WatchGrand Mal - Guitars Strum in Dejection
A lot of us worship Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot record as one of the best of last decade. I hear the weight of that influence in this single from these New York rockers, which, any way you slice it is a good thing. I feel like this song could have been ripped straight from the b-side. If yr picking up what they’re laying down, be sure to grab...
WatchButtonhead - Champion Bread
Absolutely gorgeous hand-painted collage/animation by Lloyd Bowen for the lead single off this London band’s first record 3D Opera Whale on Horse Arm Records. Frenetic and loopy and I’m guessing probably friends with Micachu and The Shapes. Keep an eye out for this record in March.
WatchPandit - Artichoke
Echoes and reverb. Echoes and reverb. Texan Lance Smith knows how to lasso soundwaves into an organized stream of consciousness rivaling the flow of Gulf of Mexico tides.
Single from the upcoming full-length Waaga Records release Eternity Spin out on Feb 22nd, featuring Star Slinger and Foxes in Fiction. Video by Renato Quijada.
WatchPurity Ring - Ungirthed
This track has been making the rounds of bubbling internet hype for good reason. I’m throwing my hat into the (purity) ring. Built by Gobble Gobble vet Corin Roddick and pushed by Megan James’ fantastic vocals, it’s the stroke of genius by The Tearist that put me over the edge on this song. Putting the music up against the gorgeous 1966 short...
Black Books - The Big Idea
Big, beautiful,...
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#SXSW
It’s the time of year again! Anyone in downtown Austin wanna rent/lend me a chill room/airstream/studio/crash pad for the fest? Gimme a shout if you’ve got a lead (put SXSW in the Subject). I promise to be an entertaining house guest. Thx, y’all! Yr the besties.
PS - #MEGABLAAG ‘11 is coming.
PREMIERE: Archers - Evil City Music
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WatchJeans Wilder - In My Dreams
Insanely beautiful song accompanied by an insanely beautiful super-8mm film by Stephanie Wuertz. Win, win. Find this track and more on the Nice Trash LP out on La Station Radar et Atelier Ciseaux.
Pick up the track from the premiere post on 20jazzfunkgreats.
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WatchMakeout Videotape — Only You
This band! My god, I love pretty much everything the do and I’m going to continue my unabashed hyperbole until the rest of the world wakes up to their genius. M’kay? The band conceptualized this surrealist gender-bending ‘mood piece’ with lovely cinematography by Evan Prosofsky.
I’ve got an advance copy of their newest Ying Yang LP and...
Mood Rings - Indian Hills
The entire Sweater...
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“If a band was slotted as a subheadliner in 2008 and falls to regular-line status...”
– A small nugget of KatBee’s excellent and lengthy Coachella rant entitled “BRO APPROVED TIME MACHINE BACK TO 2007+THE DEMISE OF THE AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL, OR, A SERIOUS REFLECTION ON THE COACHELLA LINEUP”
“If a band was slotted as a subheadliner in 2008 and falls to regular-line status...”
– A small nugget of KatBee’s excellent and lengthy Coachella rant entitled “BRO APPROVED TIME MACHINE BACK TO 2007+THE DEMISE OF THE AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL, OR, A SERIOUS REFLECTION ON THE COACHELLA LINEUP”
WatchPREMIERE: Celebration - Honeysuckle Blue
This new video directed by the talented animator and artist Miranda Pfeiffer is ghostly. Slow and shrouded in mist and chalk and charcoal, and as with any great video, matches the tone of this slow burner of a new song from the mystic Baltimore musicians. Says Pfeiffer of her process, “every hand-drawn frame is included so that all of the every...
