wait, what

found this on my old kentucky blog, which i haven't read in a while. some notorious big/xx mash ups, pretty cool actually. you can download the whole thing on that link, i suggest you do it. i'm still leery about copying and pasting links onto here.

the song that's been stuck in my head

so i realized that this was the song that's been stuck in my head every once in a while for the past month or two. everyone's heard it, i just couldn't put my finger on who performed it.

yeah, that song. sort of miss when music sounded like this. would y'all rather go to woodstock (1969) or sxsw (2010)?

in other news:

i'm thinking about changing majors. other than that, i haven't heard anything new that is strikingly cool yet today.

fun guys pt. 2

new fungi girls songs, summer is going to rule. apparently the songs on this post are going to be a-sides on a few 7" splits this summer, i'm definitely going to buy 1 (or two). i love fungi girls. i love lo-fi. how old are those guys? they look super young.

THANKS FOR THE TUNES

am i allowed to post the tunes on here (like copy and paste the links)? i don't think so, i'd rather not take the chance. heard google/blogger has been shutting down mp3 blogs, i don't think i really want to be another mp3 blog anyway. i read like 5-7 blogs per day, i think i have to read at least 100 to have a tastemaking opinion. i love transparent, i love weekly tape deck, i love chocolate bobka, i like yours truly, i like rose quartz (though they are currently out of bandwidth). i am generally directed to a few others by links on those blogs.

in other news:

mind is still blown by that toro y moi "acoustic" blessa.

what's the big deal with ariel pink? why is he considered 'the shit' all of a sudden? i guess his new song round n' round sounds pretty cool, but i don't understand. i keep reading about him, but i just don't get the hype (is alan 'neon native americans' palomo still cool? he released a song exclusively on MOUNTAIN DEW'S record label). apparently he/they has/have a new album coming out soon. maybe it leaked. whatever, i'll get it sooner or later.

hammer time

i love toro y moi, i love the toro y moi bro's style.

i love that his music translates so well into 'real' chords that aren't terribly heavily sythesized. i think this is the missing link, like all of this glow-fi music will soon play this way. since most simlar acts are 1-2 person groups, maybe they will just tour with guitars and a handfull of pedals rather than a shitload of expensive drum machines/midi keyboards/laptops/whatnot. if any of these bands survive the test of time i guess we'll see.

i saw washed out and small black play in philadelphia, they were really good. but the live bass player seemed really out of place. maybe it was his place within four other people with synthesizers (two other small black guys, ernest 'washed out' greene, and the small black drummer bro), but it was pretty awkward. its as though they want to play completely 'live' music rather than just programming their machines and then bouncing around behind their set-ups.

that's a video of the show, it's a pretty shitty video. the guy in the back with the green shirt on is ernest greene, the guy in front of him is one of the bros from small black. you can clearly observe the 'chill-bounce' that greene does throughout the show, small black bros did the bounce earlier in the show and the toro y moi bro does the bounce in lots of his live videos. i think i'd rather see toro y moi live, though washed out was fun.

in other news:

i'm waiting patiently for auction time to run out on a five record glenn miller's army air force band compilation. idk how much i'm willing to pay for it, but i want it. total wwII binge.

"epicly later'd"

i can only hope to have a head this full of incredibly memories one day. i hope i can look back on my youth this fondly one day. the video's kind of long, but i think it's really cool/worth watching. 'epicly later'd' is a skateboard-related photo blog, but apparently they do videos too. i've always been fascinated by skateboard culture, this video totally exemplifies why. the authentic skateboarder life is pretty romantic, i'm envious. however, i'm not envious of the lil punkasses that have infested everyone's high school. they're annoying.

this is number two of four, the rest are here under "max schaff" (that's number 1)

in other news:

it's officially spring in philadelphia! it was beautiful outside today!

don't know why, but i held off on downloading gorillaz' plastic beach until today. diggin it.

re-blog

Little Claw – Human Taste

swingin

i know i haven't blogged in a while y'all. midterms, spring break, etc...

this is one of my favorite swing songs of all time. everyone in glenn's band is so totally razor sharp. i'm extremely jealous of the skills of the people in the band and those lucky enough to see glen in his day.

pistol packin' mama - glenn miller

(embedding was removed 'by request.' stupid.)

there are about a hundred versions of this song, i don't know who wrote it originally. in my opinion, this is the best version by far.

in other news:

odessa by caribou is very good. I KNOW this song was leaked like ten years ago, but in case y'all forgot the album doesn't come out until april 20.

CONCEPTUAL VIDEO:

also, i have seen this video of a new panda bear song from his forthcoming album, tomboy.

that's cool, i like it