i'm into c.b.

p a r a n o r m a l e c h o e s

2011-08-30T23:43:00.000-07:00

I'm tripping the light retarded happy, the incomparable Olivia Tremor Control are back with their first new music since 1999's Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One, arguably the finest piece of psychedelia in the last 20 years. "The Game You Play is In Your Head, Parts 1, 2 & 3" sounds like an Olivia Tremor Control we haven't heard since way back in the early Elephant 6 era, with relatively few moving parts compared to the overwhelming swirl of Foliage.

None of which is to say that the track is a disappointment. While the sonic palette finds them closer to their humbler beginnings, Will Hart and company display melodic chops that their younger selves couldn't touch. All this has me practically frothing with anticipation for their set at FYF Fest this weekend. Hear the new song over at NPR.

EDIT: mp3-> The Olivia Tremor Control - The Game You Play is In Your Head, Parts 1, 2 & 3 (single, out now on Cloud Recordings)

(via Dentoneer)

Almost makes up for missing the Burn. Almost.

)'(

socialism in motion

2011-07-20T03:11:00.001-07:00

i don't care

2011-07-12T15:32:00.000-07:00

Media meteor from the fevered mind(s) at OSR Tapes, new Blanche Blanche Blanche audio/visuals:

"Alots B4"

Previously!

moutain high culture low

2011-07-12T14:24:00.000-07:00

My bfffffffs Stay Cool Forever tore it up at FMLY's pool party weekend past, here they are throwing down on "Mia" with the homie Nick throwing it back on drums. Casio flashback anti-wack atttack:

Stay Cool Forever - Mia from FMLY on Vimeo.

Some of Staycool's sickest jams are finally appearing in glossy Teen Nick promo quality, with "Gravalanche" popping up on Soundcloud

Gravalanche by Stay Cool Forever

and "20 pack'd" appearing on the sweet Save MJ MJ Records Tape II.

20 Pack'd by MJMJ RECORDS
Will Legend of the Lost Grav be better than Legends of the Hidden Temple? Only time will tell.

again, again (again)

2011-07-08T22:42:00.001-07:00

Structurally, "Velvet Days" is near identical to the last Fungi Girls song I posted. The tempo's a little quicker, the hook is a little gnarlier, though the vocals haven't gotten any more energetic. But as Em once said, "Hey, here's a formula that works." This song is pretty cool, even if the video is a little "meh." It comes from their impending HoZac LP Some Easy Magic, which ceases to impend July 26.

ya knooow

2011-06-26T16:43:00.000-07:00

Bikini Kill in Getting Close to Nothing, 1994

dug me out

2011-06-25T22:35:00.000-07:00

The Avalanches - Since I Left You (Since I Left You, 2001)

elf planet

2011-06-24T00:42:00.001-07:00

big glasses funk

2011-06-22T21:16:00.000-07:00

Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a misnomer. They ask "How Can You Luv Me?" to Yourstru.ly. You answer.

Yourstru.ly Presents: UMO "How Can You Luv Me" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

, recent rash of

2011-06-21T20:10:00.000-07:00

This is easily the best Wilco song ever, live at Primavera Sound 2008.

Goddamn.

lord am i beat

2011-06-18T21:42:00.000-07:00

Skeletons in "More Than the One Thing" from Shinkoyo on Vimeo.

NYC's Skeletons make the sort of kitchen-sink clatter that astounds as much with texture as content. They've got a new record on on Shinkoyo called "People" and frontdude Matt Mehlan's neuroses are back in fine form. Watch the video for "More Than the One Thing" and spin the whole, uh, thing, on their bandcamp.

PEOPLE by Skeletons

don't do nirvana covers

2011-06-18T01:14:00.000-07:00

Beat Happening playing "You Turn Me On" live at Kelly's, Norman, Oklahoma, 1992

Check out a ton of other songs from the performance, and a bunch of other cool shit, on gummybearcavity's YouTube channel.

...y_o_o___o_u_u__u

2011-06-12T23:15:00.000-07:00

Reaganomical synth pop outfit White Woods has dropped some New Media on us since the last time we checked in. The new jam is called "Misery Loves" and it goes hard all night long. Espc. love how close things come to literal disintegration before the Casio cavalry shows up to win the day for our neon heroes. Metadata suggests a release called PIZZA FREEK but no other information can be found.

mp3->White Woods - Misery Loves

(via White Woods)

Also: see boobies in the video for "Beat Street," my top WW jam.

hang out

2011-05-28T00:42:00.000-07:00

On the streets of Amsterdam:

nobody for president

2011-05-27T21:28:00.000-07:00

R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron, you're still speaking and we're still listening.

oregone

2011-05-17T20:40:00.000-07:00

Stream->Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Little Blu House (from Unknown Mortal Orchestra, out 6/21 on Fat Possum)
THIS IS 2011. INTERNET-FAMOUS-IS-REGULAR-FAMOUS. UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, NEW DELECTABLES FROM.

(via p4k)

what's L.S.D.?

2011-05-09T14:17:00.001-07:00

SEBASTOPOL 20

2011-04-29T11:43:00.000-07:00

[Download]

Looking backward: a work of utopian fiction by Edward Bellamy, America's passtime, my current state of mind. Features songs from the irresponsibly chill Obsession comp on Bully Records.

01. The Ventures - Exploration In Terror (Ventures In Space, 1963)
02. Sonora Casino - Astronautas A Mercurio (Obsession, 1972)
03. The Freeborne - Land of Diana (Peak Impressions, 1967)
04. Spirit - Girl In Your Eye (Spirit, 1968)
05. La Barra De Chocolate - Proyectos De Un Ladron Prisionero (Obsession, 1967)
06. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Zig Zag Wanderer (Safe As Milk, 1967)
07. The Id - The Rake (The Inner Sounds of The Id, 1967)
08. The Capes of Good Hope - Lady Margaret (Shades/Lady Margaret 7'', 1966)
09. Del Shannon - Gemini (The Further Adventures Of Charles Westover, 1968)
10. The Monks - Oh How To Do Now (Demo) (Five Upstart Americans, 1965)
11. Yuzo Kayama - Black Sand Beach (Black Sand Beach, 1964)
12. Randy Newman - Last Night I Had A Dream (Last Night I Had a Dream 7'', 1969)
13. Harry Nilsson - Poli High (The Point!, 1971)
14. The Red Crayola - Hurricane Fighter Plane (The Parable Of Arable Land, 1967)
15. The Exciters - Tell Him (Tell Him, 1962)
16. Roberto Cacciapaglia and Ann Steel - Portrait (Ann Steel, 1979)

doctor einstein, we're going supernova

2011-04-27T19:58:00.000-07:00

Milan, 1979: avant-garde electronic composer Roberto Cacciapaglia teams up with an upstart American singer/model by the name of Ann Steel to produce one of modern music's greatest pieces of science fiction. Ann Steel is totally weird, a space-age Italo-disco epic touching on the great Futurist themes: highways, progress, the delirious rush of modern life. "My Time" chugs along on impossibly fat synths while Steel's remarkable voice at turns drips cyborg androgyny, accented cheese, and even drops a John Cale impression about halfway in.

Cacciapaglia on making music with computers:

"It is a marvellously poetic instrument that evokes the beauty of the new technologic environment and it gives everything a great artificial taste of grand actuality . . . I would like it to be even more simplistic, in fact, and my aspiration is to uncover it on a weightless day – so weightless, in fact, as to have it fly away like a balloon."

mp3->Roberto Cacciapaglia & Ann Steel - My Time (from Ann Steel, 1979)

(via this guest mix by White Denim on Gorilla vs. Bear)

are you now, or have you ever been?

2011-04-27T11:41:00.000-07:00

tonight: 'la finale' premier show w/ stay cool forever & halloween swim team

2011-04-25T00:45:00.000-07:00

Amir Coyle
Halloween Swim Team
Stay Cool Forever
Felt Drawings
Dadfag

@Pehrspace - 325 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
9:30 PM - $5 - All Ages

a man from America speaks out

2011-04-22T21:27:00.001-07:00

lol

checkin in with OSR tapes

2011-04-22T10:56:00.000-07:00

Zach Phillips and co. haven't let up on the Hitz just yet, here's everything I could find that he/they've been up to since we last heard from them.

As with fellow texture crusader Sam Mehran, the videos are an integral part of the whole experience:

Here are songs from Blanche Blanche Blanche's upcoming Night People LP Wink With Both Eyes.

More Blanchex3, these come from something called "papas proof" that I can't find any more information about.

From what I understand, when Zach isn't playing in Blanche or being a one-man-pop-laboratory as Jordan Piper Phillips, he sometimes indulges his abstract dronier side as Bruce Hart.

mp3->Blanche Blanche Blanche - Map of the City (Royal Trux cover)

mp3->Jordan Piper Phillips - The Climate (from Glades, coming soon on Feeding Tube Records)

check me out in this ad for booze

2011-04-21T22:57:00.000-07:00

But seriously, I really like this Theophilus London song.

Thanks Shannagins

science marches on

2011-04-14T19:47:00.000-07:00