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Friday, February 11, 2011

The Strokes Post #618

I never thought I'd see the day with pink in a Strokes album cover...

also, read NME's review of UCOD here

Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Strokes Post #617

this isn't my wrist, obv.

it belongs to Charlie Brown.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The Strokes Post #616 (AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!)

this is fucking incredible. I heard it on my lunch break today and went insane

The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness [mp3]

I love every bit of this song. I am not going to dissect it or tell you why. I just will tell you to listen to it LOUDLY on repeat with headphones on, like I'm doing now. also, I have a very strong feeling that Angles is going to be my favourite Strokes album. this song is perfect.

I FUCKING LOVE YOU JULIAN CASABLANCAS.

lyrics:

Slip back out of whack at your best

It's a nightmare

So I'm joining the army

Know how folks back out,

I still call

Will you hate for me now?

We got the righteous advice to use it

Got everything but you can just choose it

I won't tie me a puppet on a string

Don't go that way I'll wait for you

And I'm tired of all your friends

They're still at your door

And I won't, I better call you

So long my friend and adversary

But I will call you
Get dressed jump out of bed and do it best

Are you ok?

I've been out around this town

Everybody's been singing the same song for ten years

I'll wait for you Will you wait for me too?

And they sacrifice their lives

In the land of our closed eyes

I've been saying we're beaten down,

I won't say it again

So long, my friend

The sorry embrace

Don't go that way I'll wait for you

i'm tired of all your friends
Knocking down your door
Get up in the morning, give it your all
So long my friend and adversary
Won’t you wait for you?

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

watch: The Black Keys - Too Afraid to Love You (stripped)

goodness gracious. TBK + the South + this song.

my goodness gracious.

Monday, February 7, 2011

"many tears have fallen here// I'll be driving, you look the other way"

photo via dA

Phoenix - Rome [mp3]

I can't listen to this song without tearing up a little bit.

The Dodos - Black Night (+ tour dates)

sometimes I want to have children just so I can make them listen to The Dodos.

The Dodos - Black Night [mp3]

from the forthcoming No Color (15 March)

they are seriously excellent.

they play the Fillmore in April

TOUR DATES:

3/10/2011 – Reno, NV – Lincoln Lounge

3/11/2011 – Las Vegas, NV – Beauty Bar
3/12/2011 – Tucson, AZ – Club Congress
3/13/2011 – Phoenix, AZ – The Duce
3/14/2011 – Santa Fe, NM – Warehouse 21
3/15/2011 – Austin, TX- SXSW
3/16/2011 – Austin, TX- SXSW
3/17/2011 – Austin, TX- SXSW
3/18/2011 – Austin, TX- SXSW
3/19/2011 – Austin, TX- SXSW
3/20/2011 – Norman, OK – Opolis
3/21/2011 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
3/22/2011 – Omaha, NE – Waiting Room
3/23/2011 – Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
3/24/2011 – Fargo, ND – Aquarium
3/25/2011 – Winnipeg, MB – West End
3/26/2011 – Saskatoon, SK – Amigo’s
3/28/2011 – Calgary, AB – Republik
3/29/2011 – Edmonton, AB – Starlite
3/31/2011 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw
4/01/2011 – Victoria, BC – Sugar
4/02/2011 – Bellingham, WA – Wild Buffalo
4/04/2011 – Seattle, WA – Neumo’s
4/05/2011 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir
4/07/2011 – San Francisco, CA – Fillmore
4/08/2011 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theater
4/09/2011 – San Diego, CA – Casbah
4/27/2011 – Donostia, Spain – Gazteszena
4/28/2011 – Vigo, Spain – University
4/29/2011 – Madrid, Spain – El Sol
4/30/2011 – Barcelona, Spain – Plaça de la Odissea (Free Outdoor show)
5/02/2011 – Grenoble, France – Le Ciel
5/03/2011 – Milan, Italy – Salumeria Della Musica
5/04/2011 – Rome, Italy – Circolo Degli Artisti
5/05/2011 – Ravenna, Italy – Bronson
5/06/2011 – Aarau, Switzerland – Kiff
5/07/2011 – Munich, Germany – 59-1
5/09/2011 – Berlin, Germany – Magnet
5/10/2011 – Hamburg, Germany – Prinzenbar
5/11/2011 – Cologne, Germany – Blue Shell
5/12/2011 – Nijmegen, Holland – Doornroosje
5/13/2011 – Amsterdam, Holland – Melkweg
5/14/2011 – Brussels, Belgium – Botanique Festival
5/16/2011 – Vendome, France – La Chapelle Vendome
5/17/2011 – Strasbourg, France – La Laiterie
5/18/2011 – Paris, France – Divan du Monde
5/19/2011 – London, UK – Scala
5/20/2011 – Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute
5/21/2011 – Glasgow, UK – Arches

The Strokes Post #615

Radiohead - Just

Chuck Klosterman once wrote "The reason Johnny Carson was important was not because he was funny or clever or cool ... but that he was the last universally shared icon of modern popular culture"

what he meant by that is we live in such an intricate vast society and pop culture has so many damn subgenres that there are JUST no more cultural phenomenons. I think about that a lot, especially when I'm consuming music. There's just so much, yknow?

"Just" by Radiohead is one of my all time favourite songs. I realized earlier that I hadn't seen the video before. So I watched it. But then it hit me like a ton of bricks that I had seen it, probably ten years ago, way before I started listening to Radiohead.

you should watch it.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

preview Under Cover of Darkness!

BAHHHHH!

listen HERE

I'll wait for you, Julian C.

Jack White and Danger Mouse deliver a new song

Danger Mouse said:“I played some of the music for Jack White when I was on tour shortly after doing the first session, just to show him what I was doing, because at the time everyone thought I was just a hip-hop guy, or whatever. He liked it, but at the time I wasn’t even thinking of using him – you know, it’s Jack White. But in the end, I thought, he’s really into it – why not? He tried it in different voices – a high voice, a low voice, and I thought, why don’t we leave them all in? There’s a bunch of his vocals on Rose With The Broken Neck, and it doesn’t always sound like him – sometimes you’re like, is that Jack or not?”

"Two Against One" is eerie and has distinctive Southern charm. listen to it HERE

The song comes from Rome, Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s multiple-collaboration joint musical experiment. You know how Danger Mouse does it. Jack White also lends vocals on "The Rose With The Broken Neck"

Rome will be released on March 1st.

Tracklist:
01. Theme Of Rome
02. The Rose With The Broken Neck
03. Morning Fog (Interlude)
04. Season’s Trees
05. Her Hollow Ways (Interlude)
06. Roman Blue
07. Two Against One
08. The Gambling Priest
09. The World (Interlude)
10. Black
11. The Matador Has Fallen
12. Morning Fog
13. Problem Queen
14. Her Hollow Ways
15. The World