January 2012
1 post
December 2011
3 posts
23 tags
2 tags
November 2011
3 posts
1 tag
October 2011
6 posts
In which B’s choreography, costumes, and blinking reach yet greater heights.
September 2011
5 posts
Fanfarlo’s back! and Replicate’s certainly a promising first single.
August 2011
11 posts
In this Far Away performance for Yours Truly, Washed Out roll out a rather pleasant amount of sax.
Lia Ices, Love is Won
June 2011
5 posts
“I knew that cyberspace was exciting, but none of the people I knew who were actually involved in the nascent digital industry were exciting. I wondered what it would be like if they were exciting, stylish, and sexy. I found the answer not so much in punk rock as in Bruce Springsteen, in particular Darkness on the Edge of Town, which was the album Springsteen wrote as a response to punk- a...
The Antlers, Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
May 2011
9 posts
What a way to open an album; using the words of Essex Hemphill, Justin Vivian Bond delivers an American Wedding unlike any nuptial march ever recorded, also thanks to some stunningly dread-full saxophone work (From the album Dendrophile by Justin Vivian Bond).
Immerse yourself in fuzz both aural and visual with the Dum Dum Girls’s delightful He Gets Me High.
2 tags
Parenthetical Girls might sound all imperiously insouciant (see also; Morrissey, maybe Suede), but this appropriately NSFW video for The Pornographer is anything but (via Said the Gramophone).
The Miracles Club’s Light of Love sounds like the return of Madchester, minus the shouty Brits, at least in this Cut Copy re-vision.
3 tags
Best albums of 2011, so far: 1. tUnE-YaRdS - W H O K I L L 2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver 3. Lady Gaga - Born This Way 4. Justin Vivian Bond - Dendrophile 5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong 6. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake 7. The Decemberists - The King is Dead 8. Radiohead - King of Limbs 9. Yuck - Yuck 10. The Antlers - Burst Apart
April 2011
2 posts
3 tags
1 tag
The dark collects our empties, empties our ashtrays.
Did you mean this could go...
– from Ben Lerner’s magnificent collection The Lichtenberg Figures (via slope 17).
March 2011
11 posts
4 tags
3 tags
2TheWalls journal highlights the delirious set design of Ferdinando Scarfiotti, whose work for Barry Levinson’s crazy Robin Williams comedy Toys (1992) provided my teenage self with unreasonably high expectations for the way comedies look, with these great animated GIFs.
1 tag
4 tags
3 tags