GORILLA VS. BEAR http://www.gorillavsbear.net a Texas-based music blog Mon, 20 May 2013 18:25:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Holy Other x Fort Romeau – Held (remix) http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2013/05/20/holy-other-x-fort-romeau-held-remix/ http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2013/05/20/holy-other-x-fort-romeau-held-remix/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 16:15:56 +0000 Chris http://www.gorillavsbear.net/?p=310572

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Jungle Gym. Santiago, Chile

We handed the boys in Toro y Moi an old camera + some film from our friends at the Impossible Project and asked them to document their tour for us, and they came through in pretty spectacular fashion. Check out their photos from TX, South America, and elsewhere around the world; all captions/images by Toro y Moi’s Patrick Jeffords (unless he’s in it):


Chaz and Earl. Austin, Texas


Family. Santiago, Chile


Sellout. Denver, Colorado


Lost Keys. Somewhere, USA


GURRRGGHH. Sydney, Australia


Andy Flexin’. California


Half Crowd. Santiago, Chile


Chasing a golf cart. Sao Paulo, Brazil



Quick Dip. Sydney, Australia


Jojo:Spina. Colorado


Kat Rogers. Austin, Texas


Painted Palms. Muir Beach, California


Pat Jones. Santiago, Chile


Patrick & Faith. Austin, Texas


Swag Daddy. Somewhere, USA


Patrick on the beach. Sydney, Australia


Crowd. Austin, Texas


Don’t Be Scared. Sao Paulo, Brazil


Jojo and Chichi. Buenos Aires, Argentina


Jordan on the Playground. Santiago, Chile


Rockers through and through. Santiago, Chile


Teef. Buenow Aires, Argentina


Tecate Dankin’. Austin, Texas


Say Brother. Austin, Texas


Dogbite reppin’ Carpark. Austin, Texas


Jay Tram. Austin, Texas


Jonti and Chaz in the beat lab. Melbourne, Australia


Lunch. Sydney, Australia


Stage. Adelaide, Australia


Adam Schatz. Austin, Texas


Sweet Andy and a wizard. Golden Plains, Australia


Pffff. California


Line Check. Austin, Texas

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Taken from the group‘s forthcoming LP Soft Will, out June 25 on Mom+Pop.

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Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture follow up one of our favorite releases of 2012 with the swaying, smoldering lead single / opening track from their lovely forthcoming debut LP, Moon Tides. The wistful “Pendulum” sets the record’s emotional tone and firmly establishes that these two are no longer a Vetiver side-project, as Sarah Versprille‘s warmly glowing voice and disarming way with words never fail to tug at our heartstrings. Moon Tides is out on August 19 in the UK on Memphis Industries / August 20 in the US on Partisan Records.

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[taken from Koreless' Yugen EP, out today on Young Turks]

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The world’s greatest reissue label continues to unearth unreal lost gems, this time in the form of the first ever reissue of the amazing complete recordings from Lee Hazlewood‘s ’60s girl group, Detroit’s Honey Ltd., remastered from the original mono tapes. The perfect Sunday AM soundtrack; listen to one of the record’s highlights (and Chairlift’s favorite Honey Ltd. song) below, read the group’s backstory here, and pre-order the record on limited, 180 gram blue vinyl (out July 23) here.

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Kanye performs new Yeezus (allegedly) track / possible Daft Punk collab “Black Skinhead” on SNL; watch the performance after the jump…


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[directed by Jason Harvey]

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Tracklist after the jump. Get it on iTunes. Physical copies apparently “on the way…” Italians Do It Better on the slight discrepancy between the tracklist that’s been floating around and the final tracklist:

“NIGHT SHIFT & JOHANNA WILL COME OUT EVENTUALLY. AND THE GLASS CANDY SONGS WILL BE ON “BODY WORK”. JOHNNY HAD 27 TRACKS MIXED & MASTERED FOR AFTER DARK 2. BUT THESE 15 WERE WHAT HE SAID …”COMPLETED THE ETIRE VISION OF THE RECORD”… FOR EXAMPLE, “CHERRY” & “LOOKING FOR LOVE” WERE BOTH RECORDED & MIXED BEFORE “KILL FOR LOVE” WAS RELEASED…BUT HE THOUGHT THEY FIT AFTER DARK 2′S PURPOSE MORE”


01 Glass Candy: Warm in the Winter
02 Desire: Tears From Heaven
03 Mirage: Let’s Kiss
04 Appaloosa: Fill the Blanks
05 Chromatics: Looking For Love
06 SYMMETRY: Heart of Darkness
07 Chromatics: Camera
08 Twisted Wires: Half Lives
09 Glass Candy: The Possessed
10 Chromatics: Cherry
11 Glass Candy: Beautiful Object
12 Farah: Into Eternity
13 Appaloosa: Intimate
14 Mike Simonetti: The Magician
15 Glass Candy: Redheads Feel More Pain

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[photo by @faithsilva]

You heard the super heavy “Rellahmatic” last week, and today producer Lee Bannon drops his stellar and extremely moody new Never/mind/the/darkness/of/it… EP. Darkness is the recurring theme, obviously; shades of Burial, Clams, trap, etc. Very worthy of your $5 via Lee Bannon’s bandcamp.

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