Entries from May 2008

Weezer’s Pork and Beans meme tribute

May 23rd, 2008

Weezer’s send up of the last decade’s Internet meme’s is entertaining… That is all.

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Tags: link

Cut Copy? Seriously?

May 20th, 2008

I typically listen to music on random. From time to time something comes on that makes me check the display. Lately, it’s been Cut Copy. I can’t put my finger on what I like about it or what piques my interest, but I seem to have developed a new guilty pleasure.

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Tags: New2Me

M83 + Maps = We Own The Sky

May 20th, 2008

Wow. 2 great tastes that taste great together. Maps remixes M83’s We Own The Sky. We Own The Sky Also, check out M83 on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. The M83 Tour Starts tonight in LA. 5/20 Los Angeles – Echoplex 5/21 San Francisco – Great American Music Hall 5/23 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge […]

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Tags: mp3 · touring

Interpol “Rest My Chemistry” video

May 18th, 2008

A tech-savvy Interpol fan created this unofficial-now-official video for Interpol’s “Rest My Chemistry” off the band’s third record, Our Love to Admire. Bewilderingly described in its own press as “a bit like a screen saver”, Blip Boutique’s programmed data mapping wasn’t exactly intended for formal broadcast, but the band got wind of it and endorsed […]

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Tags: interview · video

Coconut Records “West Coast” video

May 18th, 2008

No, this isn’t exactly new, but it’s become kind of an obsession lately. Jason Schwartzman’s “band” has a decent record led by this single, “West Coast”, which seems innocuous enough in its claustrophobic lo-fi indie pop charm until it seeps into your head and refuses to leave. You’ll be humming that piano riff all day […]

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Tags: video

Stream new Cursive

May 18th, 2008

Tim Kasher’s evolving mainstay, Cursive, has been playing a smattering of live shows recently to work out the kinks on some new material in preparation for entering the studio to record the follow-up to 2006’s under-appreciated Happy Hollow. The band just finished a live session at Daytrotter, playing a slow, loose, and tortured version of […]

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Tags: link · news · stream

Sellout: Chromeo

May 16th, 2008

Microsoft spends like $500 million on advertising each year. Let’s hope Chromeo got a fat paycheck for pimping the Zune.

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Tags: sellout · video