This is a frighteningly cute video, or maybe a cute video trapped in a frightening environment? Either way see a baby brave a city full of monsters before he is absorbed by a psychedelic cartoon that would make Robert Crumb proud. Yes it is that good.
June 5, 2009
March 27, 2009
Make Friends with the Plugs!
I’m a little late to the party, but the UK quartet known as Plugs have got some fantastic tracks. I was having a particularly good day the other day (A on a Midterm anyone?), and listening to my Creative Zen X-Fi on shuffle and a track came on that matched my mood perfectly, and that song was “Imaginary Friend” off of their Imaginary Friends EP which was released in December of 2008. In an online world where the ultra compressed beats of Justice rule, and the sugary sweet pop of Passion Pit is erupting all around us, Plugs contains a bit of both. I particularly enjoy playing their songs loudly out of my car as I pass a gaggle of drunken folk stumbling back to campus.
March 14, 2009
Emil & Friends Unleash New Track; "The Shrine"!
That sometimes folky, sometimes dancy upstart known as Emil & Friends from Brawlston Massachusetts is back with a new song on a folkier kick called “The Shrine”. If you’re looking for a laid back song for an early morning or late night of scrambling around to get all those things on your impossibly long list of things to do done “The Shrine” is the perfect chill pill.
December 25, 2008
Passion Pit Remixes!
Here is a collection of the Cambridge, Massachusetts band Passio Pit’s remixes that have been sent to me through various sources. Including Wallpaper’s remix, who won the Finger on the Pulse remix contest!
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (Mr. Vega Remix)
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (Skitsnygg Remix)
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (Wallpaper Dio Remix)
August 24, 2008
Walter Meego
Chicago based electro pop-group Walter Meego is comprised of Guitarist/singer Colin Yark and Keyboardist Justin Sconza. Imagine a quirky singer songwriter fuzed at the hip to a keyboard and drum machine; that comes pretty close to what Walter Meego sounds like. Just add in some sweet guitar riffs, some vocoder, and it becomes pretty clear that Walter Meego is a winner.
Walter Meego – So You Wanna Be A Star
July 27, 2008
Falcon
There’s something mythic about Brooklyn based band Falcon. It’s not a penchant for face melting solos, mystic robes, or even a rock legend in the band’s line-up. Their concept is mythic.
Falcon is a new band founded by three classmates of a junior high student named Jared Falcon. Jared Falcon was a songwriting prodigy that wrote nearly a song a day from 1986-1988 on a fischerprice tape recorder until he was institutionalized. The band studies the recordings and then fleshes out the musical arrangements to create some stunningly affecting rock songs. Neil Rosens’ boyish vocals add to the stark poignancy of the lyrics. They may have been the compulsive musings of a junior high student but the band gives incredible power to the simplest lyric. If some of the power present sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because the band is powered by the guitarist and drummer of Longwave. With a debut EP of this high a caliber, not only are Falcon making Jared proud, they’re making some really great music too.
November 4, 2007
Time to Pretend
MGMT is a band that has been picking up a lot of attention these last few months, with their psychedelic sampling style and dance inclinations. Their full length debut “Oracular Spectacular” is a journey through college coffee shops, pagan rituals, and synth tinged nostalgic folk freak outs. Like Hall and Oates shaking hands with Echo and the Bunnymen through a Pink Floyd Filter. Trippy stuff.
The album opens with one of the strongest tracks on the record, “Time To Pretend”, which has a deliriously violent bounce and narrates the cycles of modern life through eyes envious of the old playground. Another highpoint deserving of radio play is the smooth “Electric Feel”. The track grinds on a galloping beat and ascends into the category of “Baby-Making Music” on the flute loops and satisfying falsetto. The woozy style and ethereal delivery of the music makes “Oracular Spectacular” the 2am album of the year. Bring on the all-nighters.
