Darlings are so summer

Hey! This band is good. Check them out.

I don’t know why I picked these two songs because the whole album is great, really. You should buy it. Perfect, sincere garage pop songs that sound like good times in warm weather.

My swag, my life

Fuck yeah, on repeat.
jj - My Way

Samples two crazies– Charles Manson and Lil’ Wayne

Big league chew

Made by friends, is great.

Berzerkulosis – “Big League Chew” from David Lombroso on Vimeo.

Out of the 70s, into the 80s

i love synths. Watch the entirety of BBC’s recent documentary “Synth Britannia” covering the glory of synths in the U.K. and the groups that pioneered the sound (for eventual abuse by New York hipsters).

For an abridged version, here is a video of three guys performing an 80s synth hits medley:

Performance plugging

Hi, shameless plug. My very cool and small friend Alexa played her first show a couple of nights ago and it tugged heartstrings and lifted spirits and blew minds. Her backing band consisted of several more friends, one of whom demanded that I post this video (in which for some reason he is dead-center and bathed in spotlight).

There is a full house of devoted fans behind this camera, by the way. When Alexa is sitting atop the acoustic scene hierarchy in the near future… Well. You heard it here first.

Memory Tapes

Memory Tapes is the lovechild of NJ producer Dayve Hawk’s two solo projects: Weird Tapes and Memory Cassette. (Can we expect future releases under “Weird Cassette” to round out this quadfecta of aliases?)

The first three tracks on the new album, Seek Magic, are absolute money. Give “Green Knight” a listen–yes, that is indeed a basketball game sample about a minute in. Genius? dude yeah.

Frankfurt Express, from France

Eagerly anticipating some kind of official release by Frankfurt Express, a duo produced by Lifelike.
(God I can’t wait until someone develops a better social network platform for musicians so that Myspace can be phased out entirely)

Wolfgang amadeus awesome

This album is so rad. At a time when media distribution and consumption has become so fragmented, the cohesion of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is refreshing. It puts the “album” back in “album.”

New thom yorke 12”

From comments section of a Stereogum article announcing the above:

“If you’re a serious Radiohead fan, you will listen to both tracks simultaneously.”

Fall shows in nyc

Kings of Convenience (Sept 10)
Trentemøller (Sept 17)
Fever Ray (Sept 28 & 29)
Röyksopp (Nov 24)

I love Scandinavians, can you tell?

Miike Snow

New band on the block, Miike Snow. They’re from Stockholm, and I love it, obviously. I have a thing for Swedes and their Scandinavian brethren. “Animal” is getting a lot of blog attention, but the third track off the album, “Silvia,” is my favorite and absolutely incredible.

Sounds afterhours

It seems I’m late on the Little Joy wagon. Better late than never.
Little Joy, being only one degree of separation away from the Strokes, still embodies that Velvet Underground influence; hence I am so down. Binki Shapiro sounds so much like Moe Tucker in track 5, it’s great.

Burial two

Burial – Untrue
This album is MINDBLOWING.

Modern guilt

Beck’s Modern Guilt album is months old already, but I am just now giving it a real listen. I like “Walls” and “Gamma Ray.”

Anyway I drew a picture of him (in thought). It looks pretty good if you back up about five feet and squint so that the hatch marks are blurry and “not there.”

Why don’t you do any dishes?

Allison Schulnik’s No Luck Too is on view at the Mike Weiss Gallery and the video installation is backed by this awesome Grizzly Bear tune called “Granny Diner.”

Watch “Hobo Clown” on her official site.

Major Atari madness

If you have love for strobe lights.

One of the sickest album covers in recent times, I must say.
And also, bangin’ music.