This time next year will Jack from Mazes be the Suge Knight of deep-dish DIY psych-pop? Probably. He’s started an awesome new label called Suffering Jukebox. Before long he will be taking guns to meetings and dangling rappers off balconies. Expect new Mazes material and a single from majestic Mancunian heartbreakers, Milk Maid. Milk Maid [...]
01.04.10.
[Pic by Amelia]PENS are back with more boneheaded bubblegum chaos. It sounds like they’re still hanging out, drinking cheap beer, having an awesome time, and that is totally inspiring and we are going to go and do that right now. PENS – You Only Love Me When I Tell You I’m Wrong [mp3] [Buy]
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Maybe Sealings know my girlfriend because she is always telling people this. Sealings – My Boyfriend’s Dead [mp3]
01.04.10.
321 Week is back, beginning with Brooklyn’s Blissed Out. Thanks to their feverish, psychoactive jams we spent the weekend in an altered state, experiencing bizarre, intense, paradigm-shifting imagery and regressing into a mostly amorphous mass of conscious, primordial matter. We also went to the park. The duo answered our questions from their base in Bushwick’s [...]
01.04.10.
If you’re in the Colorado mountains and you shout long and loud enough, Gauntlet Hair‘s horizon-hugging anthems will come echoing back at you. Not too much is known about Andy and Craig, but thanks to the power of facts and songs and wishes we can reveal the size of their teenage haircuts and their excellent [...]
01.04.10.
Seams has just finished touring with our buds Gold Panda and Dam Mantle. Three dudes using weird boxes to make awesome noises. Does that mean it’s a scene? Probably not, but it already has a handful of ridiculous names: eccentronica, reflectro, glitzsche, heavy heartcore. Hmmm. Seams told us about metric modulation and an early brush [...]
01.04.10.
Even though this song is not a cover of James Brown’s Rocky IV anthem it’s still a fizzy, sarcastic funbomb, and besides Dom are from Worcester, Massachusetts, where all the laser unicorns migrated to when that Burger King opened in Williamsburg. Dom from DOM answered our questions with cheerful disdain for conventional grammar. DOM – [...]
01.04.10.
When Philip Seymour Hoffman wrote that song about Natalie Portman and how she was a fucking bitch if she didn’t love him we thought he’d wrecked his Hollywood career not to mention his sideline interests (blogging, weird jams) but no he’s still making movies and he has a 7″ coming out this summer. Well played, [...]
01.04.10.
Myles Cooper – Gonna Find Boyfriends Today This kaleidoscopic Bontempi banger from our new hero Myles Cooper might be the most joyful jam of all time, and arrives arm in arm with the happiest video ever (A singing strawberry! Dancing muppet things! A cartoon guy in a sombrero smoking a doobie and playing giant glowing [...]
01.04.10.
Last week The Big Pink soundtracked Chuck and Blair’s latest relationship crisis and punched an Atlantan off their stage. Now oOoOO has them in his wicked clutches turning Tonight into a drowsy, carnal threat. Which begs the question, if oOoOO made it on to Gossip Girl would he change his name to xOxOO? Never mind. [...]
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