doubledutch

matt sargent & adrian parsons

2006-06-12T21:05:00.000-04:00

thanks stereogum. for everything. love, julie newmar

2006-05-25T16:53:00.000-04:00

architecture in helsinki: do the whirlwind (haimas remix)

i'm a fan of remixes, and i just wanted to get this out there because it's one of my favorites. <3

je ne te connais paaaaassss!

2006-05-25T14:12:00.000-04:00

there's a lot to be said for french music. however, i don't really know any of it (except actual french). this, i can imagine, is the skinny moustached, stripe-wearing answer to the yeah yeah yeahs. if you're not convinced, just listen to the song. ("i don't know. i don't remember you. and what do you take? it starts like this all the time. with a kiss...") anyway, heartbroken cheerleaders (yeah yeah yeah!) sing it, clap it, stamp it. and i love it.

the prototypes: je ne te connais pas

also

2006-05-04T23:05:00.000-04:00

also, jack white and this chick:

made a baby.
i bet it's not that attractive.

Who We Are

2006-05-04T22:15:00.000-04:00

Hockey Night feels like music I wanted to make when I was a teenager. It's got kind of an exuberance about it that feels like perpetual excitement. but there is nothing amateur about it. the jangly guitars with somewhat nostalgic effects (without directly referencing surf rock guitar sound) sound what weezer was trying to do all this time. i feel like this music is going to be perfect for my 14 hour road trip home, but unfortunately 14 hours of hockey night do no exist. still in the nacent stages, expect such dudes to continue rocking. i mean, look at them.

thanks, you ain't no picasso

hockey night- axe of deliverance

hockey night- who we are

Benson

2006-04-25T00:10:00.000-04:00

Brendan does it better.

I mean, Jack's capable of course. But you hear Mr. White and all you can think is White Stripes. Like Bjork in a Barney / or Von Triers joint, "LOOK IT'S FUCKIN BJORK," Jack White is called up best when you need to reference Jack White.

So here he is singing in the background, playing the bit part:

The Raconteurs - Together
The Raconteurs - Yellow Sun

1 = 1

2006-04-14T03:00:00.000-04:00

I fell in love very quickly with the new belle and sebastian album, the life pursuit. No filler, just consistantly good songs. Less mopey than previous albums, no comparisons to the Smiths.

Then I found this song on bumrocks, A Paraíba Não É Chicago by Marcos Valle, and it's so similair to Song for Sunshine on the new B&S album that I had this paranoid 36 hour fit.

Obsessively, I've been listening to each song, playing them at the same time. These songs aren't exactly the same, they're in different languages, but they feel equal.

Maybe they were written on exact opposite sides of the earth.

EDIT edit-shmedit

momus discusses the ipod. (what a surprise)

2006-04-12T19:42:00.000-04:00

i hope adrian is impressed with my geekdom in reading wired.

Momus on the ipod, raves, and silence

""Hell," said Jean-Paul Sartre, "is other people." I'd qualify that slightly. People are fine; it's their music that's hell.
When I moved to New York my first year was sheer bliss; I spent my second in the inferno. Just one thing changed: A couple of dedicated techno rave kids moved in next door. They played the same trance compilation from the moment they came into the apartment until the moment they hit the sack, and even sometimes all through the night.

Everything I did from that moment on was accompanied by the monotonously "exciting" sound of the same Roland TR-909 kick drum. Even my DVD of Derek Jacobi in the BBC's classic serial I, Claudius was transformed into a kind of 140 bpm 4/4 "trance television." Robert Graves became Robert Raves."

"And iPods help neutralize unwanted music by privatizing the bad musical taste of others, reducing potentially public music pollution to a tiny ticking sound in a pair of white ear buds. Ethics, as ever, is a balance between our own freedoms and those of others. Sure, we all now have opportunities to specialize more than we ever did. But, by the same token, music taste has fragmented into hundreds of micro-genres espoused by micro-tribes, which means that playing music in public becomes something more dangerously tribal than ever.

Unfortunately, the latest iPod-related marketing trends -- stuff like audio docking stations and music streaming -- are geared toward bringing music back out into public places again, and this emerging music now wears war paint: it's personalized, specialized, customized and feisty. We're back to pollution and imposition, battles and clashes."

hootenany!!!

2006-04-12T17:53:00.000-04:00

so Cold War Kids is a band that has captured my undivided attention. yes, my playlist is covered in random tracks here and there, but i could say that i actually love cold war kids--let alone their hilariously awkward google image search. These tracks are somewhat varied in their influence of heavy, bluesy bass lines and dangerously banging pianos.

enjoy.

cold war kids- hospital beds

cold war kids- tell me in the morning

cold war kids: soloist in the living room

spring a sprung sprang

2006-03-30T16:33:00.000-05:00

in florida, there is no spring. so i have to remind myself that everywhere across the nation people are in a fucking splendid mood. and as friday draws near, i am as well. matt told me it's finally beautiful in baltimore, so here you go.

tender forever- feelings of love
this song has been on repeat for awhile for a number of reasons-- like a more respectable postal service. granted, it's incredibly cheesy ("remember that feeling of love, when we were oh so close..."). but doesn't spring remind you of other springs when you were incredibly happy and running through green fields? no? well... sorry. just wait til the drum beat and hand claps kick it.

the concretes- chosen one
i'll always love the voice of the concretes, there's no denying a scandinavian accent. another spring love song asking if you've seen this cute little girl's chosen one, sad and sweet. when it comes to fallin in love, it runs me over.

the essex green- don't know why (you stay)
i bought an essex green record when i was sixteen and gave it away. something tells me they got better. although the opening is a little "done" sounding, it quickly becomes one of my favorite driving songs, mostly for its sing along value. tambourines and some ladies make this song irrestibly lovable.

paris is burning

2006-03-29T00:43:00.000-05:00

You may remember Phoenix from the Lost in Translation soundtrack but they're so much better than that lumpy piece of Coppola banality. These kids (disclaimer, you bigots) are french and while they're not rioting they are being rioted against at home--cause, sacre bleu children, they sing in american, god bless em. Be sure to catch the four-piece when they drive through on tour and flay em' high for the awesome music.

Run, Run, Run - Phoenix

celebrrrattttee (tuesdays=new releases)

2006-03-28T07:46:00.000-05:00

i know i already made a post about how much i love the yeah yeah yeahs, but today, their album comes out. and you know what, even though you tell someone you love them everyday, you still have to tell them with flowers on valentines day. especially if they got a hot new outfit and a boob job, which seems to have happened to my precious YYYs.
1 gold lion: you should've heard it by now *but download the remix below
2 way out: a little twang, a little blondie that eventually finds it's heavy groove and crashing drums. "the shit is a'runnin, and it runs deep."
3 fancy: ORGAN!!! WAILING GUITARS!!! SCREAMING!!!
4 phenomena: "somethin like a phenomena, baby, you're something like a phenomena" a love song a la karen o with almost metallica-esque guitar riff that gets somewhat boring. enough haunting vocals near the end to carry it home, though
5 honeybear: perfect for a few additional handclaps during your hip dance party, probably some stomping, too. "my way, you want it. anyway, you want it." heavy on the synth and tempo shifts, really lively.
6 cheated hearts: maybe second gentle next to gold lion-- sing-along-able, even. "sometimes i think that i'm bigger than the sound!" i love this song, plain and simple. even with "doo doooo dooo dooo"s in the middle to really girl it up.
7 dudley: sad sad sad, with surf rock/sonic youth guitar. "the love nearly beat us, i'm thinkin like you. i'm thinkin of you... can love really stear us? can it be true?" almost in nursery rhyme rhythm
8 mysteries: my least favorite-- sounds like they gave up, lyrically and musically. although they eventually find it halfway, they quickly let it go into the "___ !!!! ___" pattern they seem to love so much
9 sweets: almost cat power vocals, soft and slow. with really good, sad beats. the heavyness sets in and drives the sad, soft, and slow into the ground in the best way possible with "what's your crime" over and over
10 warrior: like "i'm a survivor" only without the torn spandex. lyrically strongest, similiar in movement as "sweets"
11 turn into: similiar twang to "way out"-- almost southern culture on the skids sounding, but it doesn't last long. "hope i do! turn into you!" delivers some faint keyboards that make the shoulders go left and right. definitely leaves you wanting more, with a really lo-fi ending to the whole album.

i'm not blown away, but definitely happy.

gold lion (nick zinner remix)

you can also buy the new ghostface record at best buy for SEVEN CLAMS today. i suggest getting both.

I smell sectarian civil war.

2006-03-27T20:49:00.000-05:00

"Okay, I'm done being a nice guy about this: If you don't like Blueberry Boat, I don't like you."
- Rob Mitchum, pitchfork

"Oh, and if you don't like Bitter Tea, I don't like you." - Calum Marsh, Mocking Music

In My Little Thatched Hut - Fiery Furnaces

britney, prolife, and bearskin

2006-03-24T23:34:00.000-05:00

daniel edwards, "monument to pro-life: the birth of sean preston"
music and art collide

thanks to stereogum for drawing my attention to this bizarre find... which encapsulates all my biggest fears

lay lay lay low

2006-03-08T00:26:00.000-05:00

"How long has it been since danzig?" was exactly how I first understood the first line of this marvelous outhud song. Yeah, I thought to myself, when's the last time you got to yell "tell your children not to walk my way" in rush hour traffic. 5 hours? More?

If you don't have any danzig, this isn't a competent or even relevant replacement. But it is the prior incarnation of !!! (or chic-chic-chic, or bam bam bam or whatever) that was more live fun than several sticks could be shaken. The bastard gave birth to indie electronic out fits like LCD soundsystem.

Out hud - How Long

last.fm

2006-03-07T18:23:00.000-05:00

so i just started hearing about, well, seeing this listed as people's "websites" on facebook, myspace, etc etc. because, well people i look at are cool.
the website is http://www.last.fm

and this is me

so basically, you can just look at what people listen to, instead of asking them. you can get friends or just stalk, it's up to you.

but then best thing about the whole adventure is that you can download last.fm player, which is pretty amazing. you type in a band that you like and it makes a radio station with bands that sound like that band. (although don't type in stereolab, none of them are as good as stereolab, and it just makes you queasy.) and it's basically just a big circle jerk of everything good within the past 10 years (which only gets us to 1996!) and so basically, you can just listen your dream radio station, which is perfect when you've reached critical mass in knowing everything there is to know. i wish, though, like real radio, that it would play new singles that i desperately want to hear. and i also wish i could shake my ass like the real radio makes people do.

hot boyz

2006-03-06T21:22:00.000-05:00

i saw me and you and everyone we know last night. it's a fantastic movie, honestly. and anyway, i downloaded this song today and immediately made the great, awkward, sad girl connection. the connection that makes girls talk to boys. the connection of taking something not yours and speaking it. hot boyz is not something for the sad girl, but now it is. basically, everyone wants to record their voice--even though they'll eventually hate the sound of it--and make it something else. maybe that's just me though. enjoy.

dear nora and casiotone for the painfully alone: hot boyz

URAbitterT

2006-03-06T17:45:00.000-05:00

On the upcoming Fiery Furnaces album Eleanor repeats LA area code phone number 323-221-7625 about 5 times. So, of course, I called it.

And, hold on to your west end summons, it's an active number!

"Hello? He-llo?" (woman's voice)

*click*

The number appears at the end of the song "The Vietnamese Telephone Company." Bitter Tea comes out on April 18th.

Bitter Tea - The Fiery Furnaces

ah naw u didn't

2006-03-02T06:03:00.000-05:00

Super Furry Animals will never catch a break. Track record so far,

Their albums are consistently interesting.
They put out every two years.
They know how to rock onstage.
They know how to rock onstage in bear suits.
Killer live visuals and funny accents.

Blinding fame & success: 0/5

Super Furry Animals - Cabin Fever

let's ride bikes into the sea

2006-02-26T20:21:00.000-05:00

"i've never had a sister you didn't like. you have three ugly brothers but still turned out all right"

i know nothing about oh no! oh my! except that i love this song. everyone has to admit their penchant for indie rock love songs. XTC's i'd like that being a prime example of songs that you would love to sing to your special friend, or at least have sung to you. the point is that "i have no sister" doesn't even have to be about your number one, but with verses like "you look like audrey hepburn when you get all dressed up. i've seen all your movies because audrey's a stone fox" are irrestible for a little song (and with great hand claps!!!)

oh no! oh my!: i have no sister

Daft Cam

2006-02-24T02:09:00.001-05:00

In a late tribute to the DAFT PUNK coachella news, here's stuff to get you more excited about the metal faced blip-bleepers. Some guy, Arthur King, mashes cam'ron with DPs Robot Rock, an otherwise repetitive rip from funk classicos Breakwater. Yeah, it's sick what they get away with since Discovery turned us all in to Francophiles.

This track is a nice little gem, coated thick. The non stop, beats on repeat, guitar riff sounds less like a drone with camron hasting all over it. Beautiful mutes on the track, to give you those magic on beat a capella moments.
Note on French visitors to The Phillips Collections Degas, Sickert, Toulouse Lautrec exhibit: A coworker told me this overheard conversation A six year old accompanied by his mom sees a Sickert nude and blushes, flush red. His mother aks him why he is blushing. "Mom, my pee hurts."

Tu me casses les couilles!

Daft Punk feat. fabulous - Robot Rock / Hollaback

it just gets better

2006-02-23T02:37:00.000-05:00

so apparently the new fiery furnaces record is going to drop on april 18. which is surprisingly close. this album includes songs i heard (what was it?) almost a year ago which i immediately fell in love with. i was so dissapointed when they weren't on rehearsing my choir that i almost didn't like it just because of that fact.

"Bitter Tea is a very girly record — bouncy and full of candy-coloured sounds," Matthew told RollingStone.com. No wonder i like it so much. teach me sweetheart and police sweater blood vow are some of my favorite songs they've done so far.
she gave orders! to spill my blood! I do like the live version much better-- far punchier, double time step aerobics mode if you can imagine. Perhaps this album is not going to be as in your face with its bizarre arrangements, which might be a welcome break. but who can tell?

OH MY GOD, WATCH THIS! eleanor is like, fucking cute.

also, here's a new song from gorilla vs. bear

black hearted boy (more subdued than ever, more bjork than ever)

teach me sweetheart

nevers (matt's "singing" again!)
police sweater blood vow (vibrate, buzz buzz, tell me babe what time is it now! time for a song about dating interpol?!)

hot shit!

2006-02-22T21:51:00.000-05:00

hot shit hot shit!

new yeah yeah yeahs video

gold lion

forget that it's from aol music just for a little bit. she's got FIRE in her EYES.

old news

2006-02-22T21:27:00.000-05:00

Simian- drop and roll

far from the dancy simian i'm used to singing along to in the car, this (NEW TO ME) simian is way cooler and less concerned with having a GOOD TIME! it's a good simian that starts out fresh and clean, with a creeky rehearsed wobbly legged charming orchestra and a simple vocal strain that eventually gives way to full bellied sound and a bob-able beat. it makes me wish i had more than just la breeze for all this time. (looks accusingly at co author)

i doubt it has much to do with music

2006-02-12T18:42:00.000-05:00

in other worlds, went to the renaissance fair.
"it that newspaper isn't dated 1577 you're fucked."

next they better play the OC

2006-02-10T10:21:00.000-05:00

alive 1997 - daft punk live album

+DAFT PUNK to HEADLINE COACHELLA+

In a major upset of just about every drunken bet I've made while dancing to intestella 555,Daft Punk announced that they will play on US shores again. It's the first time they've been here in six years (read: they've never played harder better faster to a crowd shouting "freebird"). Why coachella you ask? It's the babes says Daniel Hunt of Ladytron:

"We played in 2003. It's one of the most luxurious festivals going, UK festivals tend to be pretty medieval - an exercise in human logistics, like an indie refugee camp, whereas Coachella is more about Tommy Lee riding carefree around the backstage on a Segway. And it's southern California, the gene pool is 1000% sexier than your anglo-saxon mudbath. (We) can't wait."

See below for more coachella dates, which is starting to look as good as the startlingly capable bonaroo.

ever had sex with an atari? now you have.

2006-02-08T16:04:00.000-05:00

Cody Chesnutt - With Me In Mind (w/ Sonja Marie)

You may remeber Chesnutt from the seed 2.o from Phrenology. He's missing the sexy with those boys though. Here he's in fine faux form plucking the Breakout / PONG fm synthesis keyboard with LA spoken word artist Sonja Marie. Plenty of blip blip blip 10100011001101010010111101000101101101001010000101110

yeah, yeah yeahs!

2006-02-07T21:09:00.000-05:00

LOOK! it's me, laskin on the left, and karl up top. we could Totally Be A Rock Band.

ah. recently, "art star" came on and i freaked out and thought it was 5 years ago. It's not. Here's the YYYs new song and diplo's already grimy mits remix. (does he wait for anything?) SHOW YOUR BONES is maybe my favorite album name. via myspace this is what karen o says about the new album:
"Show Your Bones is what happens when you put your finger in a light socket. Maybe there is some of that electric current flowing through the tracks of our album illuminating us from the inside out for you to laugh at and cry to or fry to. Or not."

if you listen to the remix first then switch to the original, it feels like slowing the record player from 33 to 45. only karen o still sounds pretty sexy and not like a disgusting, high waisted pants, old man.

i personally can't wait.

gold lion
gold lion diplo remix

NEXT WEDNESDAY

2006-02-06T17:44:00.001-05:00

morningwood: nth degree

ATTENTION WASHINGTON. if ever you've longed to see morningwood (and apparently buy fashion) come to the SPIN/PUMA celebration with free newcastle.

(NAMEDROPPpppp tell them a friend of peter gaston sent you)

did i mention it's beautiful in february?

2006-02-06T17:13:00.000-05:00

page france: mother

today, as my ipod was walking me to class- fighting the way through the old people crowing around the ringling museum- it was sufjan stevens, the go! team, and the nurse by my white stripes. it was perfect movie walking. whenever i heard this page france song, it makes me feel like i'm in a movie thinking about my mom. (whom, incoincidently, i love and is coming to visit -technically for a conference- next week)

i still haven't decided if page france is a christian band. "jesus" and "chariot" make me think this, and a few other choice lyrics point me toward the "YES" on the ouija board. if any one has any input, i'd be glad to know.

also, i've been rocking out to mates of state. you know, just in general.
mates of state: open book

also, new(?) t.v. on the radio. OK calculator. adrian, did you know about this/have it? like whoa.
tv on the radio: say you do

also, DEVOTCHKA!

i'd like that

2006-02-04T03:25:00.000-05:00

XTC - Andy Partridge's Ape Record Label

There's something smutty about a guy who has severe stage fright webcasting his new labels stuff. Oz, man behind the mask type thing. I don't know if his newer works archived here really prove anything past Apple Venus but they do show what we've been missing. Jump on the lavish XTC box set that came out last fall.

all i know i learned from law and order

2006-02-03T00:58:00.000-05:00

in celebration of adrian's unsupervised probation, here's a fun spoon song that i just rediscovered thanks to new college's vast array of stealable music. hoorah for good taste of neighbors. hoorah for soap not on a rope.

spoon: take the fifth

agree to disagree

2006-02-02T15:41:00.000-05:00

EDIT: blogroll updated despite bumrocks crack. heh, bumrocks crack.

i've told adrian i don't like bumrocks, but since he started this thing, he's in charge of the links. so i'll give you mine here.
you ain't no picasso
maybe i like him because he's young and cute. ~~who knows. also, well updated with a ton of stuff i love.~~ YEAH THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT
stereogum
full of pop culture. like instyle only ten times funnier and cooler looking. the author's recently gotten into youtube (whatever that is) so it comes with some clips of various entertainments. like collegehumor only better. (look for lisa loeb in a thong, though)

Tromp Trump

2006-02-02T13:35:00.000-05:00

The Coup - Pimps

"if you're blind as Helen Keller you could tell i'm david rockafeller"

The Coup disappeared off the face of the earth shortly after this pre- Apprentice Trump emulation track came about. Mr. Getty apparently does handgestures while he raps. A gilded 80s party is transformed in to a deleted scene from Spike Lee's Bamboozled reimagined in white face. By the kids who brought you five-Million ways to kill a CEO.

edit: it cuts off at the end so enjoy harsh itunes crossfade

blatantly stealing from an accredited news source

2006-02-02T11:21:00.000-05:00

Music at the bottom. Like dannon.

A Quiet Band Worth Fighting Loudly About Makes More Noise
by Kelefa Sanneh from the New York Times

Not long ago a query arrived, urgent and unexpected, via cellphone. The caller had made a bet, and the matter was to be settled through an unscientific poll. The question, shouted over a lively din: Which was better — the second Belle and Sebastian album, "If You're Feeling Sinister," or the third one, "The Boy With the Arab Strap"?

Now, if you received a call like this late at night, out of the blue, you too might have found it a bit odd. A bit odd, that is, because absolutely everyone knows that "If You're Feeling Sinister" is the band's masterpiece.

For many years, the Scottish indie band Belle and Sebastian has been a quiet, wee group adored by a loud, not-so-wee cult of fans. Not just loud: contentious, too. Loving Belle and Sebastian meant loving Stuart Murdoch's murmured tales of disappointment and transcendence. But it also meant reviling the band's lesser songs and lesser albums and even, sometimes, its lesser members. It meant arguing.

On Tuesday, Belle and Sebastian releases a new album, "The Life Pursuit" (Matador), which includes some of the best songs in the band's catalog, along with a few that clearly don't reach that high standard. The album includes what is, by some measures, the band's most popular song yet: "Funny Little Frog," the first single, which entered the British charts at No. 13. Over a swinging bass line and some bright keyboards, Mr. Murdoch evokes a love unrequited and quite possibly unacknowledged. "You are my girl and you don't even know it," he sings, and he finds a rhyme: "You're the funny little frog in my thro-at."

"The Life Pursuit" is good enough that it will persuade a few fans to claim it's the best one yet. (Although it's not good enough to make them right.) But among most cult members, it isn't likely to inspire quite as much outrage or obsession as its predecessors. Could it be that these days Belle and Sebastian is more fun to hear than to debate?

The band's story begins with a limited-edition 1996 album called "Tigermilk." The album, now available on CD from Matador, includes a biographical essay that begins like a fairy tale: "Sebastian met Isabelle outside the Hillhead Underground Station, in Glasgow."

Those names, Sebastian and Belle, came from a French novel about a boy and his dog. But listeners were free to imagine that Mr. Murdoch was Sebastian, and that the band's other main singer, Isobel Campbell, was Belle. Myth and mystery were part of the group's appeal. The members declined interviews, declined to include singles on their albums, declined to print songwriting credits. And they made lovely and sometimes perfect music: fragile songs hung on sturdy melodies; lyrics streaked with love and spite. In "Judy and the Dream of Horses," Mr. Murdoch sang, "Judy, let's go for a walk/ We can kiss and do whatever you want/ But you will be disappointed." Better, maybe, for girls and boys, bands and fans, to keep their distance.

Years later, after a rather uninspired fourth album, "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant," the group abandoned its own mythology. Ms. Campbell, the mythical Belle, left the group. (Her new album, a collaboration with the former Screaming Trees singer Mark Lanegan, is to be released in America on March 7.) The members recorded a score for the Todd Solondz film "Storytelling." Even more surprising — and much more fruitful — was the 2003 album "Dear Catastrophe Waitress," a triumphant and unexpected collaboration with the mainstream pop producer Trevor Horn. That CD began with a chirpy, mildly smutty song about a workplace affair, or a daydream of one, "Step Into My Office, Baby." And it featured a glorious, giddy single, "I'm a Cuckoo."

In 2004 the band issued a chatty DVD, "Fans Only"; "Just a Modern Rock Story," the authorized biography, was published last year. Listeners with questions could write to belleandsebastian.com, where they would receive friendly answers, though not always informative ones. In the lyric booklet for "The Life Pursuit," the usual essay by Mr. Murdoch has been replaced by a selection of these questions and answers. And instead of shunning the British magazine NME as he had in the past, Mr. Murdoch contributed a guide to the new album; he describes one song as "kind of ramshackle" and admits that another was inspired by the long-running hard-rock band Status Quo. This band has thoroughly demystified itself.

Yet it scarcely matters. Mr. Murdoch has managed to turn himself inside out without really changing at all. That Status Quo-influenced song, "White Collar Boy," is tougher and heavier than anything the band was doing in 1996, and it tells a lurid story of crime and seduction and punishment. But there's a familiar whistleable melody under those greasy guitars, and the protagonist is familiar, too: he's a Belle and Sebastian stock character, hopeful but feckless. As the law closes in, he tells his female accomplice, "Baby, you're special but there's something not quite right," and a choir swiftly upbraids him: "She's a Venus in flares/ And you wanna split hairs?"

Elsewhere, Mr. Murdoch is up to his usual tricks. "Another Sunny Day" is pure sunshine misery: a gentle song so euphoric that you can hear the depressing ending before it comes. And the album's best song, "Dress Up in You," is classic, old-fashioned Belle and Sebastian. It tells a quiet, petulant little story about two women, a "star" and a "loser," rivals who can't quite bring themselves to hate each other:

You got lucky, you ain't talking to me now

Little Miss Plucky, pluck your eyebrows for the crowd

Get on the airplane

You give me stomach pain

I wish that you were here, we would have had a lot to talk about.

A decade ago, Mr. Murdoch was a fledgling singer and a veteran fan — a loser, perhaps — obsessed with the ultra-cultish post-punk band Felt. (Of whom he recently wrote: "I can't believe this band ever existed. They're so perfect.") Since then, he seems to have realized that loving a cult hero is a lot more glamorous than the workaday experience of actually being one.

Maybe he's teaching his fans to grow up, too. It's all right to chuckle when the band rips through the double-time indie-soul song "We Are the Sleepyheads." You can learn to suffer through a dud (like "To Be Myself Completely") without suffering stomach pain. And if you listen again, you may even understand why some people prefer "The Boy With the Arab Strap" to "If You're Feeling Sinister." Doomed romance is the group's great theme, but on this album you can hear something less idealistic, more durable. It's a hopeful possibility, but a bittersweet one: maybe it's possible to love this band a little less, and a little longer.

____

here's what i've got. and i love it.
another sunny day
for the price of a cup of tea
we are the sleepy heads
song for sunshine (but three is enough for you, plus this one is not my favorite)

"this is not a hit song, it's not even a good song"

2006-02-01T18:16:00.000-05:00

tim fite- if i had a cop show

not too many people are as excited as i am about tim fite. i think this is the type of feeling whenever you get to hear something new that combines things you love. for me, it's old thyme sounds of days of yore and a lot of "m'ah fuckers" and intros like "so the concept is this, basically. we're gonna walk on this nation, we gonna walk on this racist power structure, and we gonna say to the whole damn government "stick em up, mother fuckers. this is a hold up. we come for what's ours." usually, in the course of events something goes wrong with an entire album made up of a feeling similar to a mash up, but the whole thing is consistent (except this kind of annoying click that seems to stretch on forever at the end of 'on the line' that i've only listened to completely once). i could forgive him almost anything.

tim fite- no good here

Superbowl Terror Extravaganza

2006-02-01T15:23:00.000-05:00

The Superbowl that no one seems to care about is coming this Sunday and the best I can do is get a keg and root for the best mustache to win the championship. The banal bowl, hardly XL, live from Detroit, home of 30,000 less Ford employees.

Now if the Tamil Tigers were to give us the halftime show, something tells me they'd eschew the Hollaback Girl live rework with Aerosmith. Instead, have M.I.A. slam this while Jorome Bettis fumbles a freestyle causing massive strokes across the country.

M.I.A. - Buck Done Gone (diplo mix)
Piracy Funds Terrorism

in case you're interested.

2006-01-31T22:58:00.000-05:00

this is, apparently, the coachella line up for this year (from NME). i won't go unless the money and travel gods smile upon me. adrian, you could use wendy's milezzz. although i have no idea how much tickets are.

Coachella 2006 Lineup Announced
SAT APRIL 29
Depeche Mode
Franz Ferdinand
Sigur Ros
Common
Damien Marley
Atmosphere
Carl Cox
My Morning Jacket
Ladytron
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
Posca
Cat Power
Animal Collective
Hard-Fi
Devendra Banhart
She Wants Revenge
The Walkmen
The Juan Maclean
Audio Bullys
Lady Sovereign
Deerhoof
The Duke Spirit
Editors
Stellastarr
Lyrics Born
The Zutons
White Rose Movement
Colette
Wolf Mother
The Living Things
Nine Black Alps
Youth Group

SUN APRIL 30
Tool
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bloc Party
Paul Oakenfold
Scissor Sisters
Matias Yahu
James Blunt
Mogwai
TV On The Radio
Sleater Kinney
Gnarls Barkley (Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo)
Coldcut
Digable Planets
Amadou Mariam
Little Louie Vega
Mylo
Seu Jorge
Phoenix
Wolf Parade
The Go! Team
Metric
Imogen Heap
Art Brut
Dungen
The Dears
Jamie Liddell
The Magic Numbers
Los Amigos Invisibles
Jazzanova
Michael Mayer
Mates of State
Gilles Peterson
Gabriel & Dresden
The Subways
Minus the Bear
Be Your Own Pet
Giant Drag

ALLLLLLSSOOOO! HERE'S SOME BONAROO HIGHLIGHTS. (june 16-18)
Devotchka
Andrew Bird
Devendra Banhart Band
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Dresden Dolls
Cat Power
Radiohead
Beck
Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Death Cab for Cutie
Bright Eyes

from the boom tube

2006-01-31T17:06:00.000-05:00

while i wait for the world to succumb to getting tired of talking about alito and waiting for the new belle and sebastian album to drop, i spend most of my time listening to Nina Nastasia, hip enough even to get a little play from NPR's all songs considered. basically, i'm drawn to nastasia's voice and her simple constructions of haunts and plateaus of sounds--never too over or under done. Like some bizarre joni mitchell and fiona apple got together and evened each other out, without a hint of a piano and only sparse guitars played by men who are probably the cause of the tumult of which she sings. Her album Dogs, the one i have, is solid all the way through, no matter the wobbly strings. go for it.

nina nastasia:
bird of cuzco
stormy weather

a meekish request for patience

2006-01-26T14:37:00.000-05:00

until i figure out what is going on with the network at New College, at which i am a New Student, i won't be able to offer any musical stylings. hopefully, this period will last a number of days until i can figure out how to get my life back. if you want, in the meantime, to visit my other blog, be my guest. (although be warned of the personal, hence boring, content and lack of recent updates)

now that that's over, i have to go make new friends. by the way, in sarasota, florida it's 68 and sunny. maybe i'll post a picture of a tan. and one of my new friends is totally dutch. she even studied there. woo, for claire in short shorts.

also, the guy from Voxtrot has my last name!!! VAN FLEET TO THE MAXXX.
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Sparrow House When I Am Gone mp3
This is the first track from Voxtrot's Jared Van Fleet, under the Sparrow House moniker. Many have commented that this track would feel right at home on the soundtrack to a Wes Anderson film, and I agree. The best song I heard this month, and one of the best I've heard in quite some time.

Versus

2006-01-26T00:25:00.000-05:00

In traditional godzilla vs. mothra form, Elizabeth and I will be battling. Each post will then be its own seperate monster, readying itself like some crazy ass turn based RPG.

This one is mine and, oh, what a monster it is. Do you miss that man-monster Beck? Do you remember his freakish multiple personalitioes manifested from Golden Feelings to Mutations?Realizing how once he went to Sea Change the boy became a man and his maturity level could never raise--ahem, lower--itself back to pop, even with the morsels of Girl or Hell Yes.

Now mate that corpse of a man Beck Hansen, the one we once knew ,with some funk ass brain borrowed from the one-hit mad scientist vault under J for Jamiroqai. You get one Jaime Lidell.

Realize I know shit about this guy other than that his debut album, multiply, is blowing my mind right now and there are anti man monster factions ready to bring pitchforks and scythes on to anyone unwilling to download this track:

Jaime Lidell - New Me

TAG TEAM EMMPEE THRIZZLES

2006-01-25T16:39:00.000-05:00

Welcome to dubdutch.blogspot.com you naive young babe.

Doubledutch blog is a collaboration between two Dutch kids in born in the US. A tall boy and a tall girl. Every once and a while you'll get a taste of musical genius here and it's gonna be sweet and unpredictable like a hazlenut panakoken with gouda on top. And you'll dip your head back with satisfaction as you download daily to your ipod.

We're not trying to out flux the fluxblogs of the world and this may be more for us than you. But at least you're invited no?