The Monday-Tuesday Night Rollout for Chicago

Sonotheque is a venue I have yet to experience, though I apparently know billions of people that have either played there or been there.  (Me exaggerate?  Never.)   Simian Mobile Disco are playing there Monday night (3/17), and its going to be amazing.  At last glance it was sold out, so I’m going to have to charm my way in. 

I love The Internet Archive because it lets you find things like this which gives you a pretty good window into what was the indie underground sound at that point in time from the perspective of the Rapture.  Part of the reason I’m excited about their gig at Rehab tomorrow night (Evil Olive.)

And Tuesday, fucking Digitalism is playing with Guns ‘n Bombs.  Fucking-a.  I wonder if I can stay an extra day…

Damn It!

I hate fests. First your standing outside . its hot. if there is beer its probably really really expensive. It sounds like shit. And lets not forget to mention how retardedly crowded it isThe bands you are watching are probably playing later that night in an actually venue somewhere close.where they have decent sound. no sun. and a bar. And bars have burbon! I mean come on its a no brainer. and then this happened ………….

Friday, July 18 2008:
Pitchfork Music Festival and All Tomorrow’s Parties present Don’t Look Back

Public Enemy performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

…….Yeah….well shit. Looks like in going to a fest this summer

There are some other bands Ive never heard of playing as well

in a perfect world this will be their encore

They did it again

So when i first saw the white Supra NS over atLeaders a couple of weeks ago i said to myself. Why are these dudes trying to sell me some skytops for 200 dollars?!?!?! And then i took a closer look and kind of fell in love. The NS line is killing it. I dont think i could ever bring my self to spend 200.00 on some fucking sneakers but if i was gonna do it……

Check out more detailed pictures here

France, Toronto, Baltimore

The new French glitch:

These two have been on kitsune mixtapes before, and have thrown out some very odd but entertaining remixes of Kylie Minogue and most recently Daft Punk. If I can get my ass to New York in June, I’ll be seeing them at the Highline Ballroom (according to their myspace)

And yet more Canadian rolling electro basslines: YORK

So Eyes For Indie posted about Candy Coated Killahz back in February, but “IT Factor” just rolled through my playlist again, and I’m still not tired of it. In fact every time I hear it, I get really excited… I love playing it too, its got the smoothest feel as far as new tracks I’ve heard from the northern territories.

Your new party anthem creator:

Oh Snap got the discodust treatment at the end of February, and my friend Ken dropped some of his stuff on me when we were doing a brief stint of Sunday night gigs together through some of the coldest nights I’ve ever experienced in c-bus, which as D will tell you, ain’t shit compared to Chicago. People not only laughed their asses off at “I’m too fat to be a hipster” but also demanded more, as his production is clean, smart and simple, and his tracks are fun.

There are other…..

……places you can watch this video. Lots of other places. but im gonna put it up here anyway because i like it. You know what this is. You have heard this song before. They play in Chicago with Diplo on March 20 at the Rivera. It should be entertaining

Directed By So Me……happy?

so its pretty obvious

that my girlfriend is out of town and i have that i have the day off
that being said
im not sure what is happening to the roots but im in to it thats for sure. this video is pretty sweet. and Peedi Crakk is always entertaining.

New Record out of Def Jam on 04/29/08

favorite shit of the day

For those of you paying attention

Santi White has been killing it recently. Hell shes been Killing ever since she basically wrote that perpetually slept on Res record.

Below is her new video. get on it girl

New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)

The new Erykah Badu record was described to me as

Funkadelic and Dilla and his mpc jamming with a sweet psych band thrown in there for good mix .

Its good. But its not THAT good. New Amerykah part one is supposedly the first in a two or three part series. The stand out song for me so far would have to be “The Healer.Its got the great plodding kick and hand claps in the vain of the late great dilla. its good to hear Ms. Badu doing things again even if its not the perfect mixture of black american music it was made out to be. Im looking forward to see what sje has in store for us for the next installment

And as soon as i figure out how to host music (and by how i mean ask the hb2 boys to kindly host some mp3s for me) then you can hera some songs i like.

how fucking excting

Sigur Rós – Heima

……Is amazing and exactly what i want to listen to……sometimes. Other times its boring lullaby elf music. Iceland is the land of the Vikings and im sure that there are still some pretty scary looking people that live there. None of them are in Sigur Ros. Anyway. They made a movie . Its about them and Iceland. Its shot beautifully. Sometimes its boring. Most times its not. enjoy

ps. watch out for the little boy around the 12:43 mark. he smells some bullshit and its awesome.

pps Am i crazy or does the bass player have a Scottish accent?

things i would say

So i dont care if hes gay. In fact i would probably find him more interesting and yes i do realize how fucked up that is .

But first he kisses his “daddy” and now this

The homoerotic overtone in this picture are blowing my mind. Or maybe they are just blowing me.

i might start doing this alot. keep on the look out.