Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
It totally HAD to be this way. Though, sadly it’s not nearly as good as the Oxford Comma video, imo. (via)

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M83 – Kim & Jessie
Rollerskating! I really want to be cynical about m83 and the whole John Hughes thing, but I just can’t. I know I’m being mentally raped but I just don’t mind all that much. (thanks to the slut)

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Wow. This is really good. I saw a flicker of this in my reader this morning, but I’m just now getting to it. Gnarls Barkley’s were amazing on SNL a few months back, but for some reason there’s no footage of it on YouTube. Anyway, adding to their live pedigree, this is their cover of [...]

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In a slick bid to pad the fan-list, Kings of Leon are offering a free download of the new song, “Crawl”, in exchange for your email address. This type of thing is the only reason I still have a yahoo account. The new song is a mid-tempo rocker (imagine that). But, really, it’s a [...]

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Apple is inexplicably offering a limited edition iPod Nano featuring the original 90210 cast (not that new CW crap) for those jonesing for some anachronistic gadgetry. David Silver and Donna Martin didn’t make the cut (wtf). And to stay consistent with the high-falutin’ Beverly Hills theme, this will set you back cool $269, but [...]

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The always entertaining Tumblog About Today points us to an NPR stream of Waits’ July performance in Hotlanta, ‘08.

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When you buy the new Walkmen Album for $5 at Amie Street, all proceeds will go to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as part of the site’s “Download To Make a Difference” campaign. Not a bad deal if you were planning on buying the album anyway, especially since you’re getting the album early.

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“Chemical Chords is their first album proper since 2004’s Margerine Eclipse (if you discount the EP collection of 2006, Fab Four Suture) and it features thirteen songs by Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane and one solo Gane composition, as well as string and brass arrangements from Sean O’Hagan.” (via)
I’m pretty sure I probably don’t listen [...]

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Architecture in Helsinki Do the Whirlwind (via simsie)

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So, I downloaded TuneUp after reading this BoingBoing bit. It’s a versatile iTunes ad-in (currently only available for Windows with Mac support on the way) that cleans up your ID3 tags and finds missing album art, among other web-referencing listening functions. I’m pretty anal about my music collection in all formats, so screwed up [...]

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Short reviews can be funny. The hands-down best one ever was by J.D. Considine in Musician magazine back in 1982 for his review of GTR’s self-titled debut. It read “SHT.” Pure gold. Pitchfork’s review today of Black Kids’ Partie Traumatic is not so clever. It’s a picture of an LOLdog with “Sorry” pasted on it [...]

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Not too many surprises here from Blur’s notoriously quasi-reformed louche, though Martin Amis seems like he would have been a shoe-in for the list with London Fields, what with its influence on Blur’s career-defining album, Parklife. I suppose that was more Damon Albarn’s Bag. Anyway, James’ tastes mimic his English-ness and his former penchant [...]

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This was left as a comment on a previous post about Saul Williams selling out. The video is crap, but it is interesting to hear him try and justify his selling out to Nike after being so outspoken against corporations, child labor, etc.

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Sweden’s eclectic DetektivbyrÃ¥n are (FINALLY!) set to release their debut LP, Wermland, on September 3rd. I can’t express how excited I am about this release. (via and via)

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Nothing new, just a good song from Beirut’s Gulag Orkestar. (via)

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Not sure what I make of this from everyone’s favorite imaginary boys.

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“Shoegaze is a dumb term made up by clueless NME idiots,” argues Mogwai’s Stuart Brathwaite, a My Bloody Valentine fan as well as a friend of its architect Kevin Shields. “It’s pretty demeaning as well. If someone called us shoegazers, I’d be pretty unhappy.”

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(Hipster Runoff posted that damn Outback commercial and now I can’t get Wraith Pined to the Mist out of my head.)

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Magnetic Fields announce tour of fully seated “theatre” venues with upright pianos and minimal conversational noise (once at a Magnetic Field show I saw back in ‘94, Stephin was so annoyed with someone talking at the bar that he threw a half-full water bottle at them).

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