Really crazy, really good new music from Mac DeMarco. The video for Viceroy is kind of depressing. He literally sings about cigarettes the entire album, lol. I apologize in advance for it and mean no disrespect to past, present, or future smoking anywhere!
Monday, December 31, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
AIR - You Can Tell It To Everybody
And I mean e'erbody, yo.
Two coolest dudes on the music biz? Probably.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Beach House - "Irene"
Saw them live this last week. Wow. Best show in a long time, and 100x better in doors at the Pabst than outside at Pitchfork.
This song was their outro and closed the encore. They played the same thing for about 8 minutes. It kept getting louder and more emotional. Definitely the best moment of the concert, and I'll never forget it.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Boiler Room
As you all may have noticed, I've shared mostly an electronic style of music lately. Frankly, I never knew about the knob twiddler subculture and thus never appreciated the finer points.
But right about 2009, I discovered a few artists that had some inspiring sounds that fit with my life style. What do I mean by that? Well, I work at a computer all day, hacking away at code or designing interfaces. When this is your day job, music needs to be present, but not invasive. Music with lyrics can be distracting when balancing dozens of complicated math logic in your head. Almost out of necessity, I had to transition away from the likes of Smashing Pumpkins and Red Hot Chili Peppers and more towards DJs.
Now, I realize this stuff probably isn't many of your gigs. But the thing I enjoy about this blog after Stephen turned me on to it was the resetting of different types of music being shared. I kind of forgot about music like Andrew Bird, et al. So thank you for that. I hope you get a little value then with insight into this unique subculture—I know I never would have looked into it on my own.
The other reason why I appreciate this music is that is has turned me on to an even more diverse palette, as crazy as that sounds. The more I've explored the European electronic scene, the more I've realized that much of their output comes from listening to every genre imaginable. Thus much of their inspiration I've found engaging as well. For example, lately I've consumed 80s reggae, 90s African, 70s Japanese disco, 80s Brazilian folk, and 90s German krautrock and enjoyed every second of it. I don't think I would have done that if I stuck listening to the Modest Mouses of the world.
One last note: the ferocity at which these European DJs collect vinyl has gotten me into records. Again, another thing I don't think I would have done 5 years ago, but now am totally in to. I feel I've "leveled up" as a music fan. And I love vinyl now :-)
Here's Kieren Hebden's personal record collection:
So anyways, here's a recent live set at Boiler Room this week. Seeing this stuff done live is kind of mind blowing. The real purpose of me sharing is to show what these guys actually do up there. It's almost more entertaining the actual sound, lol. So many gadgets, so many cords, so much possibility. How they weave their sounds is kind of incredible to watch.
The two videos are the same 45minute set, but at two different moments worth checking out (if your curious that is; my feelings won't be hurt if you're not).
Friday, October 5, 2012
Thom York - "Cymbal Rush"
Following up on the other Thom York solo album posting, this one is remixed by our good friend Axel Willner. Cool indie music video with it too.
Thom York - "Atoms for Peace"
Remixed by our good friend Kieren Hebden. These drums are for you Stephen!
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
Friday, September 21, 2012
The Promise Ring - "Rumor Has It" (Adele Cover)
The Promise Ring covers Adele 2 Milwaukee bands together. 2 drummers. Off-key vocals. A Brewers hat. It all adds up for me.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Grizzly Bear - "Sleeping Ute" (live)
New album dropped this week, btw. Not sure if any of you have followed it. VERY good. Here they are live on Fallon.
And bonus! Some dude doing extra percussion to it.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Beck w/ The Flaming Lips AND Ted Danson - "Lost Cause"
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Friday, August 31, 2012
Modest Mouse - "Workin' on Leavin' the Livin'"
Monday, August 27, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Bon Iver - "For Emma" (A Capella)
Schmiel and I used to listen to this song over and over again Middler year.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
My Pitchfork Top 21
http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/dafed280/
Gosser, I love this. I started out with 50 and narrowed it down to 21.
Gosser, I love this. I started out with 50 and narrowed it down to 21.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Pitchfork Peoples Lists
So I did this thing. This is my top 20. You guys should do it too! Curious your thoughts on my list.
http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/b2d8d65b/
http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/b2d8d65b/
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Friday, July 27, 2012
Friday, July 20, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Midlake - "Head Home"
Monday, June 25, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Of Monsters and Men - "Little Talks"
I think this band kind of sounds like Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. This song is pretty catchy!
Friday, June 22, 2012
New music from Luke Abbott - "Modern Driveway"
Been a huge fan of Luke Abbott for a while. This is the new single from his forthcoming EP.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Eric & Magill - "You Make It So Good"
Any band with an ampersand in its name immediately goes up in my book.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
MOVIE TIME: Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
45-minute movie on the classic album. No embed, though, so hope on over to pitchfork.tv to view it.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Stepdad - "My Leather, My Fur, My Nails"
The lead singer was a class below me at MLS. They toured with Passion Pit. I like this band.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
"Weight of My Words" - Kings of Convenience (Remix)
It's really a shame these guys came about at the same time as Kings of Leon because now whenever you see "Kings of" you can't help but think of those pop-southern-rock-alt-bros when you see these Norwegian indie folks.
At any rate, a pretty great remix:
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Titus Andronicus - "A More Perfect Union"
This is a little more rock than I typically prefer these days, but this bearded lead singer has stolen my heart.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Lower Dens - "Brains" and "Stem"
One of my favorite new bands is Lower Dens. Their latest album, NOOTROPICS, came out last week. Here is my favorite single from it, along with the song that immediately follows it.
Monday, May 7, 2012
One Little Plane - Into the trees
A new release of a great poppy/folksy/regina-spektor-y female artist named One Little Plane.
The way I heard about her is through Kieren Hebden (four tet). He produced it, and also played guitars. (The dude is so talented!)
Here is the whole album.
The way I heard about her is through Kieren Hebden (four tet). He produced it, and also played guitars. (The dude is so talented!)
Here is the whole album.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
I make my own sunshine & don't stop
The Umbrella Sequence - "Urban Lull (At Once Charmed)"
Here's to the best band Minneapolis has ever known. If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Stephen Schmiel was a clapper on this album. Correct?
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
It's Good to Be King
Sorry for the Petty everyone, but this song is far too good not to post.
I think you should all be surprised it took me this long.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Besnard Lakes - "Because Tonight"
There is something about pedals and other doodads on guitars that intrigue me. Around the middle of this song, some pretty sweet stuff starts to happen.
Deerhunter has some great examples too. I'll share them sometime.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Girls - "Thee Oh So Protective One"
I sometimes forget how good this album is. Didn't care for their latest though. This particular song I like a lot, and it reminds me of Captain Beefheart's "Hot Dog Tropical Night" song with the crying trumpets.
And for reference... I won't be made if you don't listen to the whole thing, lol. But at least listen long enough to hear the crying trumpets!
Dawes - A little bit of Everything
This isn't the newest song in the world, but Dawes is growing on me - except the drummer. He is not winning any cool awards.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Explosions in the Sky
Do you remember that time at an MLC talent show when a kid had a long introduction about his song and then it was just a guitar solo - no words, nothing? This song was like that for me, except I loved this one. Maybe today I was just in the right mood. Everything about it was beautiful.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The Punch Brothers - "Just What I Needed" (Cars Cover)
Punch Brothers cover The Cars
The Onion has an arts and entertainment section called "The AV Club." They do a series each year where they ask bands to come in and cover a song in their offices. Sometimes they're really bad. I thought this one was pretty good.
Monday, April 9, 2012
The Field - "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime"
I like to do many things to this song, including the dishes.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Youth Lagoon - "Daydream" (and concert review)
Pretty poor concert to be honest. The opening bands were a special kind of terrible. The YL kid himself got food poisoning from a hotdog in Chicago the night before (lol), and only played 5 songs. For $10 though it was worth it to say I saw him. At least he played an extended version of this song:
"Drive" Soundtrack
As recent viewers of Drive, Stephen and I thought we'd share the best of the soundtrack--which is fantastic.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
LCD Soundsystem - "New York, I Love You
Old song, I know. I rediscovered it today, however, and decided to post it.
Youth Lagoon - "Montana"
I'm going to see this kid at Turner Hall tomorrow evening. I'm very excited. He's 22 and from the same childhood Pacific Northwest area as Isaac Brock. Special call out to the song "Montana" in honor of Stephen :)
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Friday Remix: Bonobo - "Pick Up"
Every Friday I'll post some sort of remix of something. I'm a big fan of exploring alternate, inspired variations of other works of art. It's how we learn.
The first is a Bonobo piece titled "Pick Up", remixed by Kieren Hebden. I thought you'd really dig those drums mid-song, Stephen!
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
New from Dntel (the "other" guy from Postal Service)
A new track just came out from Dntel, an electronic musician who is commonly called James Figurine as well. He was Ben Gibbard's partner for Postal Service. This is a little more British DJ-ish than what you'd expect from something like "We Will Become Silhouettes", but you can still hear sparkles of "Clark Gable" if you make a big enough leap.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Flaming Lips & Neon Indian - "Is David Bowie Dying?"
Thank you to Stephen and Alex for allowing me to author great music along side you all. Like you, I will be sharing things I listened to at some point during the day. But I hope to mix things up and share gems we all either forgot about or things from Left Field to freshen up your day. I will attempt to share a little background information as well per song.
With that, here's my first entry: "Is David Bowie Dying?" by a Flaming Lips and Neon Indian collaboration. It was a limited release you can't really find anywhere, but thankfully You Tube has it. It was released initially as mp3s on a flash stick...inside gummy skulls. I had a chance to see it live at Summerfest last year, though. Very interesting.
Friday, March 23, 2012
The Rentals - "Friends of P"
I'm posting this even though Matt Sharp ruined Weezer when he left the band.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Ratatat - "cherry"
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Kid Cudi - "Pursuit of Happiness" (Live)
The Ratatat solo about 2/3 of the way through is pretty great.
The Shins - "Simple Song"
The Shins are coming out with a new CD, and this is the first single. The band members have changed a lot since a bunch of us saw them senior year at First Avenue. I was particularly saddened to see they dropped the guy that looked exactly like Ben Leyrer.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
Said the Whale - Heavy Ceiling
Like most "groth-esque" music, I have no clue if this is new, but I liked this song when I heard it today.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
DeVotchKa - "How It Ends"
DeVotchKa did most of the music for "Little Miss Sunshine," including this song.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Spoon - "Black Like Me"
Did anyone else get the newest Spoon album, "Transference?" I was kind of disappointed by it.
Bright Eyes Cover Tom Petty's Walls
I love this Petty song, and I think the Bright Eyes did a great job covering it
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Broken Bells - "The High Road"
Broken Bells is James Mercer from The Shins and one guy from Gnarls Barkley.
The Morning Benders - "Excuses"
I've probably watched this video about 30 times over the last 6 months and I love it every time. The song doesn't start until about 50 seconds in.
Cee Lo Green - "No One's Gonna Love You"
I'm not a huge Cee Lo fan but I like this Band of Horses cover.
It's True - "Take This One from Me"
The Head and the Heart - "Rivers and Roads"
Carrie and I saw this band open for Iron and Wine. I actually enjoyed their set more than anything that night.
J.D. McPherson - "North Side Gal"
NPR loves this guy. I checked out some of his other stuff and it's pretty cool.
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