December 2011
3 posts
CALL THIS NUMBER
Please, please, PLEASE call 1-719-26-OATES. It may be the very best thing that has ever happened to me? GREAT!!!!!
November 2011
2 posts
WatchHonestly? I’m not the biggest fan of Colourmusic’s songs. But I could listen to this one on repeat for days. I have been, actually.
Colourmusic — “Tog”
October 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
Isn’t Penny & The Quarters just a great...
May 2011
4 posts
Easy Lover in the latest issue of Storychord
The awesome Storychord (which “features one story, one image, and a one-song “soundtrack” — each by underexposed talent” each issue) featured Easy Lover’s “End of the Season” in their latest! Please check it out here!
WatchMarnie Stern is very, very funny and totally endearing. Every interview should be this worth watching.
April 2011
5 posts
March 2011
11 posts
WatchI’m always wary of new bands — even new bands I like — covering old classics (why fuck with perfection?), so when I saw this I got a little wary. But it’s actually really pretty and totally tasteful and pleasant.
Dum Dum Girls - September Gurls (Big Star)
WatchI haven’t really been feeling Cults so much until now. But this is totally good.
Cults - You Know What I Mean
Barack Obama is the seminal #UncleTomWave... →
raptoravatar:
…except for instead of just selling out his race (look at where black uneployment STILL is if you believe he gives a fuck about anything other than protecting his cronies) he sold out his whole nation’s pretense of returning to a state where it acknowledged basic human rights. I’m really psyched…
Well, Uncle Tom — the character, I mean; the one who died for it —...
February 2011
16 posts
“I don’t want my taxes to pay for murder. Defund the goddamn military.”
– (via sexgenderbody)
Wonderful!
Sophia Knapp May Have Written My Favorite Song of...
Sophia Knapp of Cliffie Swan (The Band Formerly Known As Lights) makes these devastatingly beautiful songs that sound like a more talented Olivia Newton John became a singer-songwriter who performs modern AM Gold songs. Or something like that; it’s what I hear anyway. Nothing you can get your hands on yet, but she does have an amazing demo called “In Paper” that I cannot stop...
I just found out Kevin Shields was born in Queens,...
I find that really, really surprising.
The New Yorker Did a Piece on a Young Couple --...
It’s here. They look so young.
Members of Dum Dum Girls, Woods, Blank Dogs and...
Zodiacs are a band of indie rock luminaries: Dum Dum Girls front lady Dee Dee sings; Blank Dogs Mike Sniper plays bass; JB Townsend of Crystal Stilts plays guitar; and Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taveniere of Woods serve, respectively, as drummer and guitarist.
You can stream the new single, “Faraway Friend,” from Pitchfork, here.
The White Stripes Broke Up
It’s only half surprising. Anyway, even the NYTimes blog is writing about it, here.
January 2011
5 posts
Glee is doing a mash up of YYYs and MJ...
and it is every bit as horrible and misguided as it sounds.
You can stream it here. It’s very, very bad.
I almost forgot that this weekend's SNL...
is all about Jesse Eisenberg and Nicki Minaj.
Then I remembered and got VERY excited.
WatchFINALLY, there’s a video for “Ring, Ring.” (I know they renamed it “Rill, Rill” on the album but I thought the single was the better version. And I’m sticking to it.)
Sleigh Bells: Ring, Ring
December 2010
3 posts
