I love me some Daughters…. they’re a gaggle of young ones from Rhode Island that make music similar to bands like Maroon 5, Coldplay, Jay-z, The Black Eyed Peas, Ke$ha, 3OH3!!!!!!!, Justin Bieber, Anything on a soundtrack that’s mildly indie rock, your favorite songs from 80s night (COME ON EILEEN!!!), Yanni, Phish, O.A.R, E.L.O, R.E.O Speedwagon, SWV, Ma$e, Tag Team, Baha Men, and Radiohead. Check out their new single “The First Supper”
God I’m loving this:
I’m not even going to attempt to sound cool on this one because you all probably had this on cassette… SLAP BOOM THE PLAY DOT FOR SOME JANGLE TUNES. Then go buy Teen Dream. It’s out now.
This is the gist of a conversation I had earlier
Carter: Get this album
James: I like Ke$ha right now.
Carter shoots James in the leg, takes his cell phone, holds it out of reach with 911 ready to be dialed
James: Where did you get that gun?
Carter shoots James again. In the same leg.
James: Oh fuck come on. Fine fine, call the ambulance.
Carter and James listen to the album while waiting for the paramedics
James: Wow, this is pretty fucking good.
Carter: Told you.
Pity me oh pity me dear reader. Not just because I have had Ke$ha’s “Tick Tock” stuck in my head for the last 3 days, though that is reason enough. That damn synth sound…so infectious. Anyway, don’t pity me for that, however deserving it may be. Don’t pity me because I just ran out of Coffee Bean Vanilla Iced Coffee (read: crack cocaine) and am stuck in the San Fernando Valley with no car and no means to procure more caffeinated deliciousness. No, don’t pity me for that, however pitiful it may be. Don’t pity me because I just spent the better part of an hour trying, to no avail, to find an embeddable version of David Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes” video because it’s fucking hilarious and amazing. Pity me because not only are all of these things true, but I won’t ever be able to experience the first time I heard this song, late at night, coming over the top of the hill dividing Los Angeles proper from the Valley, the irony* of listening to a song about Brooklyn on the left coast not lost. Sigh**.
So enjoy, I sure did.
*Irony like the alanis morisette song. So, not irony at all, actually. Just semi-notable passing coincidence.
**Yes I am prone to over-sentimentalizing moments. Fuck you if you’re not. Your memoir is going to be fucking boring and I won’t read it.
This is the theme for Tron: Legacy. That movie with the awesome ass motorcycles and ruthless exploitation of 80s nostalgia. No, not Star Trek. Tron. Yeah, Tron.
Winter Flowers – “Misty Morning Land”
This track came out in 2006. How I missed it, I have no idea. It’s baroque influenced abstract Laurel Canyon folk at it’s best. Confused? I might be too actually… If you like the idea of the Mamas & The Papas playing with Final Fantasy, you will like this. It’s so hypnotic, I might just want to join a cult and roam around Malibu Canyon. Enjoy.
LCD Soundsystem – \”Tribulations\” (Lindstrom Mix)
Goddamnit, I totally rediscovered this jam and a half this morning. Released on Introns which was some sort of LCD Soundsystem B-Side/Remix Comp (which includes the astoundingly good “Yr City’s A Sucker”), this Lindstrom remix of “Tribulations” is a booty shaker. The vocal stabs at the end are AWESHUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
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