All are welcome

When we started this blog we had two goals, share music and keep a list of shows. Here's my attempt at the later.

 Whispertown - You missed it, the hawk tonight with Dinosaur Feathers

Yacht Mohawk - 8th June

Beat Connection at Red7 - 21 June

El-P, Killer Mike, Despot - 23 June Mohawk

Bloody beetroots - Rat and Jovi retirement party, old news

Danger Mouse in a Box

Electric Guest is the brainchild of Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton of Los Angeles. Their first LP, titled Mondo, was produced by Safety Rat's nemesis Danger Mouse, and you can tell. You can tell, mainly, because the album is awesome. Listen to it, but put on your dancing shoes first.

And on a weird, but also amazing note, Asa Taccone was one of the brilliant minds behind SNL's mega hit "Dick in a Box."

Anyway, get ready to dance with Electric Guest's This Head I Hold:

Maybe it never gets easier?

This is not a post about the Japanese Plastics.  These plastics are from S. Africa.  This is a post about old love and young love. Actually, I'm going to have to let the music speak for itself on this one.  Meaning I failed to find the right words.  The only thing that seemed to make any sense on the old/young love subject was this quote by Hunter S. "Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex."

Young love



Old (21 - 28)  love

Trashy Love

Quick Post.

This song is addictive. I can't stop listening to it.

Quick! you listen to it too!

Enjoy Quick! by The Magnetic Fields, out of their new album Love at the Bottom of the Sea released by Merge earlier this year.

Nothing New

Solander isn't doing anything groundbreaking.

They sound like any sad-twee bands on Morr Music or Labrador. Their album Passing Mt. Satu could be confused with one from B. Fleischmann or Sin Fang Bous, all of whom manage to make simple pop songs that always border on melancholy.

But I'm ok with that.

Not every band needs to be an avant-garde Radiohead/Bjork lovechild. Sometimes you just want to listen to sad-sweet pop.

And then you listen to Solander.

Arrested Development meets Eagleheart meets Hospitality

Hospitality is the band that I've played the most in 2012, and I'm still not tired of them. Maybe it's because it's fun and infectious — and summer hasn't zapped my love for fun and infectious music... yet — but I'm sure it's also because they're really really good.

It also doesn't hurt that their video for Friends of Friends features two actresses that rock my world constantly. Alia Shawkat everyone knows from Arrested Development. Maria Thayer, who you might not know, is not only adorable but also ridiculously hilarious in Cartoon Network's Eagleheart.

Friend of Friends is on Hospitality's first LP, also titled Hospitality. They released it in the beginning of the year through Merge.

Enjoy!

Democracy beats Record Store Day, but not by much.

Parkour here, exhausted but happy from a week of fighting for democracy all across the country. Big thanks to Safety Rat for holding down the fort, and for giving us a Swayze related post... those are always good.

While I didn't get to enjoy Record Store Day in person, I have been able to listen to a couple of released singles. My favorite so far comes from the mind of Marco Benevento, who met up with Kalmia Traver, lead singer of Rubblebucket, and Andrew Barr of The Barr Brothers, both Last Choice picks and friends of the blog (see here and here).

The song is titled "This is how it goes" and has a nostalgic, summery vibe full of synthy goodness. Enjoy!