After the After The Jump Fest, get on the boat cuz we're going to be rocking it Sunday afternoon with very special guest DJs... I can't tell you who it is for a couple of days, but if you were there for our last one, you'll know it will be an awesome dance-filled cruise.
Also, be on the lookout for word on the next People Don't Dance No More, coming up on Sept. 7. Booooom!
There are few better songs with which to get started. I don't care if it's starting to brush your hair in the morning or starting to look for a new job - this song will be in the background has you stare back in the mirror or start cleaning stacking copies of your resume. It'll put a little spring in your step and a smile in your eye.
These dudes from Canada have come a long way. Their method is to make music out of things they found in the trash. In the beginning that led to some beautifully loud creations that fell somewhere between noise and dance music.
A lot of times when a noisy band attempts to reign in its sound for more traditional song-based structures, the music usually suffers. But with the new Holy Fuck reord more focused and fine-tuned than anything they've released before, they've only gotten better. We've been sitting on the EP this LP is based on for what seems like a year as the band figured out which label was going to release it. And it all still sounds fresh. The perfectly compressed drums, the delicate strings, the classic melody.
At any rate, the new self-titled LP is available for pre-order from our friends at Beggars. Highly recommended. The band is also on tour this fall with our boys in Wolf Parade. Here are the dates:
Holy Fuck on Tour this Fall:
Sept 6 Sugar Victoria, BC*
Sept 7 Richards on R Vancouver*
Sept 8 Neumos Seattle*
Sept 9 Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR*
Sept 10 WOW Hall Eugene, OR*
Sept 12 Great Am Music San Fran*
Sept 13 El Rey Theater Los Angeles*
Sept 14 Canes San Diego*
Sept 15 The Glass House Pomona, CA*
Sept 21 Call the Office London, ON LOLA festival
Sept 26 Empty Bottle Chicago
Sept 29 Nuit Blanche Toronto
* with Wolf Parade
Like many people, I first heard New Zealand's Brunettes on the The Shins' 2005 tour. It was at First Ave., and we were standing on the second level, watching from the railing. I don't know how many people were on stage that night, but if the band's full roster is to be believed, there were at least six of them. The band members, playing all kinds of instruments, played sweet pop music that was both loose and ornate, with loose ends and stray sounds somehow meeting to form a cohesive sound.
The Brunettes - Small Town Crew.
This track, originally from the Sub Pop website, doesn't do the band's huge sound justice. I haven't heard their new record (and Sub Pop debut) Structure and Cosmetics in its entirety, but I'm assuming this song is one of the album's quieter moments.
You can buy Structure and Cosmetics from Sub Pop and Insound.
I’ve looking for the video of Does It Offend You, Yeah’s “Let Make Out” on YouTube every single day for the past couple weeks — this has quickly become a favorite track around here, and so I have been anxiously awaiting the videos release. Thank God it is here, and thank God it lives up to all expectations. With DFA1979’s Sebastien Grainger on vocals though, how it could be anything but a hit.
I love dancing skeletons.
And because I love you… here is the extended version of “Let’s Make Out” — I love the intro on this one opposed to the other version floating around:
DIOYY - “Let’s Make Out” (Extended version)
And while we’re on the tip… here’s some more Sebastien Grainger love via his MySpace:
Sebastien Grainger & Les Montagnes - “Are There Ways To Come Home?”
Luke Temple. What a guy. The voice of an angel and the songwriting of a poet. Oh and the musical talent of a whole band, in one guy.
You may remember when I posted about Temple early last year, but he is back with a new full-length album, Snowbeast, on Seattle's Mill Pond Records. The album is full of surprises, crazy instrumentation, and stories about life and love. Luke Temple doesn't sound like anyone else out there right now, which is super satisfying to me. His high-register voice, the (I think) tape-loops, bedroom-drums and soda-bottle percussion, horns, sometimes sweet- sometimes broken-sounding keys, all layered together make for a really great listen.
Snowbeast came out today, so you can get it direct from Mill Pond's online store, or from your favorite indie retailer, or you can download it from iTunes. Very highly recommended.
Oh also, Luke is playing a number of dates - check his website for info - but there's a show at Joe's Pub on Thursday for those of you in the big dirty city. He is a really talented performer, so I suggest you make it to a show to see him.
I know here at Bigstereo we tend to focus on music, but recently a few videos have been quite captivating and worthy of a post, in my opinion. They all have one thing in common, Jean Demery. I’m loving his style and was practically begging to see the CYOA video as soon as it was done. He also did the Digitalism video interview that I posted a month back, in case you didn’t recognize his signature neon emphasis throughout. I love his black and white ‘walking the drizzly streets of Paris’ feel he gives his projects. And I think he may love Digitalism as much as I do…..
Check out his website for more videos and upcoming projects.
PS doesn’t the blonde kid in the CYOA video kinda look like Le Castlevania?
So the wife and I have been intrigued by Philly lately. Maybe it's been the subway outages. Maybe it's been the parking tickets. Maybe it's been the grass-is-always-greener phenomenon. Whatever the reason, we tend to pay a bit more attention to things that come from slightly down south, and curiously look out the right-hand window when driving down to Baltimore.
We also tend to pay more attention when there's adult baby heads rapping from inside manginas with pink-haired male nurses attending. That sort of thing.
Plastic Little, making a repeat appearance on MFR, has kept it going, whatever their undescribeable "it" is. But it's going like a jacked ghost-ridden whip. Y'all probably remember Crambodia, featuring Ghostface and Spank Rock, and Mark's earlier selection, which Diplo had a hand in (you can also get the full length CD, She's Mature and other PL tracks from the lab). With the CD done, they're working a whole slew of videos (including the one below for the track above, directed by Ted Passon), for a whole volume called She's Mature: The Musical coming out on DVD in 2008.
The video is maybe a little NSFW, just in the beginning. The song definitely ain't, since you'll probably break down your cubicle wall bouncing out of your chair. If you have a parrot or other domesticated avian that enjoys resting peacefully on your shoulder, be sure to remove it before playing this song so you don't seriously perturb it with all the bouncing those shoulders are above to do.
Yay! Crazy hip-hop makes hip-hop fun again! Check out the incredible video:
Pulsallama was a short-lived, yet legendary, 12 piece all-girl percussion band who ruled Manhattan nightlife for a brief period in 1981 and 1982. Their sound has been described as “13 girls fighting over a cowbell.” The band often fought with each other verbally and physically in the studio and at shows. The groups rowdy behavior, theatrical stage antics, props and costumes and awkward time signatures were what the New York underground loved most about them.
In 1982 Pulsallama opened for The Clash, where an adoring audience of 6000 showered them with coins and cups of beer. Pulsallama’s single, ‘Devil Lives in My Husband’s Body’ was released on Y Records and was distributed by Rough Trade & became a minor college radio and cult hit.
Pulsallama - “Devil Lives In My Husbands Body” (mp3) [Recommended]
Pulsallama - “On The Rag” (mp3)
Pulsallama - Ungawa Part 2 (mp3)
Pulsallama - “Oui Oui” (mp3)
Pulsallama - “May” (mp3)
Pulsallama’s record company ran out of funds during the last stages of recording their first full length and the band called it quits shortly thereafter. Jean Caffeine, one of the founding members went on to form a new group, Clambake.
The various 7 inces and singles that Pulsalamma did release are often on gemm. I got my ‘Devil Lives In My Husbands Body’ 7 inch from ebay a few years back and there actually is another copy on there right now going for $6.50.
Felix da Housecat - “Something 4 Porno” (YouTube)
The cat with more than nine lives is back with a new persona… Virgo Blacktro. Felix da Housecat’s new album, Virgo Blacktro & the Movie Disco, arrives this October and judging from the three tracks already to hit the Internets, Virgo Blacktro isn’t gonna let us down. “Future Calls the Dawn/Sweet Frosti” is in digital stores now. “Something 4 Porno” in stores August 29th with mixes from Armand van Helden, Teenage Bad Girl and Kris Menace.
I think I first got familiar with Tronik Youth a year or so ago when I would discovered his mixtapes and listen to them nonstop. He has since stopped doing them so frequently, but still has a few on myspace (and top song lists) that you should definitely go check out. Not only does he have impeccable musical selection, he also makes f*uckin good music….
Tronik Youth - We Are…
Tronik Youth has worked pure magic on this track. Somehow he managed to completely rework ‘Bonafied Lovin’ without losing the heart of the song. It’s so distinctly him, yet still so distinctly Chromeo. Is it bad to say that I maybe prefer this version to the original?
Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin’ (Tronik Youth rmx)
And this is just the beginning…looks like he has almost eleven different remixes in the works, including one for NYPC!
