The whole new Vampire Weekend album was playing right before The Teenagers came on stage. Yeah you know you were bobbin’ your head. Like what?! My thoughts later.
[MP3] The Teenagers “Starlett Johansson” [MP3] The Teenagers “Sleeping Bag (YO Version)”
Setlist at the bottom:
The video for “88th Precinct” by FRICTION alums Team Robespierre documents one of the band’s infamous live performances at Brooklyn’s Chicken Hut. Directed by Allen Cordell (Dan Deacon), the video opens with a caped man running along the Nassau Ave. subway platform, which is followed by tripped-out backgrounds of swirling colors and dolls with […]
I remember seeing Apes & Androids a single time before they played FRICTION at Sin-e in the summer of 2006. There wasn’t anything particularly over the top about my first A&A live experience, except that the band put on a solid and impressive set. I think the most out-of-the-ordinary thing about that Asterisk […]
FRICTION NYC
Props to Nghia for pulling an all-nighter over weekend to get the “new” site up and running, while retaining the old posts from Crackers United. We decided over the summer that we basically wanted to streamline everything to give the FRICTION shows their own webpage instead of just using MySpace. In addition, the site […]
Above pic via christopher
[MP3]: The Cinematic Orchestra ”To Build a Home” Ma Fleur, Ninja Tune; 2007
MGMT’s fantastic debut full-length Oracular Spectacular came out this week. “Kids” (this is an early version) is my favorite jam off the album. Plus
They were on Letterman earlier this month:
I first stumbled across Los Angeles tropical punk outfit, Abe Vigoda, while checking out Brooklyn faves High Places’ West Coast tour dates. I was initially intrigued by the quartet’s peculiar moniker, taken from the “late” Abe Vigoda, the American actor who’s been “reported dead as many times as he’s been reported alive.” However […]
[MP3]: Luca SS - “Italo Disco Mix”
This guy is handsome and is probably really smooth. Pic from Fader
Tracklist below:
I’ve had Sébastien Tellier’s new track, “Divine,” from his forth-coming album Sexuality on constant repeat. It has a sleazy electro doo-woppy sound to it, inspired by Brian Wilson and 60s era Beach Boys music. Tellier calls the song “a tribute to the Beach Boys and the Juicy Fruits. It’s about a time […]
Chalk this up to an album (and band) that I completely overlooked last year. Originally based out of Philadelphia with concentrated live plays in New York and Philly, I missed the (now Chicago-based) “swirl-pop” outfit, Panda Riot, along with their debut album She Dares All Things. With a sound right up my alley […]
Cruel Black Dove (MySpace)
When I had some down time over the holidays I was dorking-out on the My Bloody Valentine forum because I hadn’t been to the site since the summer. I found one particular post pretty interesting. A “demo” version of a song by My Bloody Valentine called “Explosive” had been posted, apparently from a […]
Above pic via Alex Brown
[MP3]: The Big Sleep ”Bad Blood” Sleep Forever, Frenchkiss; 2008
Above pic via Zara
This turned out to be one of my favorite mixtapes that we’ve done so far, there’s some pretty great choices in this bunch. As the title of the post says this month’s mixtape is all about (in Karim’s words) “chilling, relaxing, and chillaxing.” I’d throw another word in here but […]
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