May 2012
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“Goddard complains about the lack of imperfection in modern pop, about it being...”
– Hot Chip: ‘We’re middle-class white kids, and we’ve never tried to hide that’ | Music | The Observer
I used to be quite good friends with a guy who had very little knowledge about dance music, whom I was slowly introducing to different artists. During this time, Hot Chip...
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“The only reason people are nostalgic about music though is that they don’t know...”
– Is Tropical Unmasked: UK Electro Rockers Drop the Veil | MTV IGGY
These guys were a real pleasure on Wednesday. It’s just too bad the weather hasn’t been particularly nice this week.
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Watch(via KONBINI - Music Channel - Flight Facilities feat. Grovesnor - With You)
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Music Diary Project Day 7
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Tanlines - Mixed Emotions (x2)
Tennis - Young and Old (half)
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
Anoraak - Wherever The Sun Sets
CANT - Dreams Come True
Kindness - World, You Need A Change Of Mind
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Music Diary Project Day 6
I started yesterday off with ALB’s I Beg For A Summer EP, which is perfect from beginning to end. Then I organized this pre-summer playlist:
Tanlines - “Brothers”
Jonquil - “It’s My Part”
The Bewitched Hands - “Birds and Drums”
Django Django - “Life’s A Beach”
ALB - “Show Me Your Love”
Birkii - “Shade Of...
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Music Diary Project Day 5
I started the morning with Year of the Tiger’s Good Day For A Tiger EP while working on an article that I interviewed vocalist Sable Yong for. I also listened to We Are Serenades’ Criminal Heaven (in anticipation of the evening) and the Chris Baio EP again (in anticipation of the afternoon).
I had a really nice chat with Chris about the EP, which sounded pretty excellent on a sunny...
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Music Diary Project Day 4
I’m in an interview transcription hole, so pretty much the only music I have listened to today has been Chris Baio of Vampire Weekend’s debut solo EP because I am interviewing him tomorrow.
Also, the guy I was talking to about French rap last night sent me this song.
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Music Diary Project Day 3
ALB - Mange-Disque (will write more about this when I have time)
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
The first four songs on Holy Ghost!
Heard Foster the People - “Houdini” coming from a burger place in Williamsburg when I walked past
Vampire Weekend - “Oxford Comma” coming from that Vietnamese restaurant next to the Meatball Shop on Bedford
Zero recollection of what was...
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Music Diary Project Day 2
Got to a late start again this afternoon. I didn’t hear any music until I listened to a handful of songs off Licensed To Ill while getting some schoolwork done. (I will assuredly be blogging more about my work music habits later in the week.)
There was The Hood Internet’s The Mixtape Volume Six, as reblogged earlier. The Hood Internet always make for a good time, and over the...
THE MIXTAPE VOLUME SIX
hoodinternet:
We cooked up a whole bunch of Internet that’s happened since Volume Five and Trillwave 2 to bring you The Mixtape Volume Six. Also we’re about to go do a bunch of shows with Star Slinger. Scroll down the page for the mixtape tracklist and the tour dates. Download via Soundcloud [continuous mix] Download direct via Raptorhideout [continuous mix] Download direct via Raptorhideout...
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Music Diary Project Day 1
I’ll be blogging for the Music Diary Project this week.
I didn’t wake up early enough to listen to anything before going to class this morning, so the first music I sat down with was the Kindness album. It had initially been recommended to me while I was working on my article about international bands at SXSW, but I hadn’t properly listened to it until today. I really wish I...
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Thematic link between three of my favorite songs...
I’d rather be a functioning cog in some great machinery, serving something beyond me [Fleet Foxes - “Helplessness Blues”]
Being some wheel in the engine, it’s a notion that I can defend, and yet, it’s tough to play the part so hard and finally disappear from the scene [ALB ft. the Shoes - “Golden Chains”]
Take one for the team, you’re a cog in the...
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“Physically handling your record collection is like wandering a neighborhood you...”
– Music Fandom Gets Rewired With Spotify — New York Magazine 