Whoa, the PicPosterous app is really effective. I took these pics with my iPhone at this Art Battle back in late March but they have been held hostage on the phone until today when I saw PicPosterous was done. These Art Battles are actually way cool to watch. They have all kinds of experimental DJs spinning while two painter dudes go at it.
Anyway, nice work on PicPosterous guys.
So I've posted about Passion Pit before; they were my KEXP mp3 crush back in December . I decided to revisit them this week after I saw John Richards played a track from their 2009 release, Manners, on his show last week. Whoa! This is a great album. I'm always a little wary about getting into what's popular in Williamsburg, but these guys definitely deserve an exception. Three great tracks, right here for your enjoyment. Very cool.
"Let My Love Open The Door" by Pete Townshend.
Also, Jessica just moved to NYC today.By Gui Boratto. Dude is out of Sao Paolo. I swear since I got back from Brazil, I am much more aware of Brazil as a major country and as a unique culture.
Anyway, check out this sick cut and then go get his second album, "Take My Breath Away."
So I am listening to Thursday's "John in the Morning" KEXP show as I often do on slow weekends, and Modest Mouse's "A Life of Artic Sounds" came on. I realized how much Modest Mouse's music means to me and needed to share.
I first heard "All Night Diner" in a fraternity brother's room as a sophomore at Stanford. This was 2002 before Modest Mouse had achieved mainstream popularity. I started downloading their stuff and gradually got more and more into it. I think I was drawn to it because its so honest. I was mainly listening to Building Nothing Out of Something, This is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing to Think About and The Moon and Antarctica back then. The songs on these albums could be crazy and excitable but equally sad and deeply felt. I think that by being honest in their songs about their fear and frustration and disappointment and loneliness, Modest Mouse allowed me to be honest about mine. After school, I moved to Seattle, near where Modest Mouse is from (Issaquah, WA). During the ~3 years I lived there, I began to see life painted in their colors. I ate and drank (a lot) in the informal, often wild establishments of the area. I took in the beauty and the isolation of the Cascade Mountains and the Puget Sound. I suffered the numbing depression eight months of cold and rain and overcast skies will bring on.I eventually left Seattle but I know I will return someday. Somehow in the same way Modest Mouse's honesty reaches right to the core of me, living in the Pacific Northwest shows me the joy and pain of life in their purest forms.
Alright, enough of that. Enjoy these songs from Building Nothing Out of Something. Maybe in some later post, I'll explain why I like Band of Horses so much.
That's H-a-p-p-y spelled backwards for you slower ones. I heard this guy(Joe Corrales Jr)'s music playing in Sonic Boom Records in Capital Hill during my last visit to Seattle, and I quickly realized it was really great stuff. I find electronic music is appealing to me more and more. Maybe I am evolving into 21st Century Man (Digitosapian).
Anyway, check it out. These two tracks are from his first album, You Are Beautiful All The Time. It's kinda like Radiohead for kids too young to know about Radiohead (minus all the singing, of course). (whoa, that was deep... dude, quick talking and pass the bong)
Stuff White People Like's Christian Lander, recently called the Upper West Side 4-piece, the "whitest band." While that is almost certainly true, he failed to mention that Vampire Weekend really is just a hipster's Spoon. Compare and contrast:
I suppose they are both for hipsters. Oh well.
Check this track out from Animal Collective's new 'ish... Pretty sick, no?
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