Josh Reisner

Photo: Lawrence Lucier

I was on this early morning flight with an airline called 1Time Airlines, which I took to be a bad sign. But then they played this song while we were seating, and I felt like well, at least they get my cultural milieu.

Oh Land: Sun Of A Gun

Photo: Tommy Chase Lucas

Because I’ve been listening to it so much, I should mention this newish album by Grimes called Visions (Amazon). It’s quite good. Her earlier albums were a bit over my head.

I love this anecdote from Wikipedia:

In 2009, Boucher and her then-boyfriend from Tennessee constructed a 20-foot houseboat, named the “Velvet Glove Cast in Iron,” with the intention to sail it down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans. The cargo included chickens, a typewriter, 20 pounds of potatoes and a gifted copy of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Boucher and her companion adopted the names “Varuschka” and “Zelda Xox” for the trip. Due to engine trouble and subsequent harassment from the Minnesota police, the journey was cut short and the houseboat and chickens were impounded.

Also, the video for this song is worth watching.

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This song by School of Seven Bells got me through a bumpy flight this morning. Get their album Ghostory. It’s so nostalgic! It reminds me of something that happened 20 years ago, but I can’t remember what it was now. Perhaps you can remind me?

Another really quite amazing video from Ok Go.

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I’m looking forward to an official release of this. It sounds as if the mp3 below was ripped from the video, so it has the sound effects. They feel right in the video, but less so in the audio track.

Lana Del Rey: Video Games

Via The Awl.

UPDATE 7/29: See? Marina Diamandis likes her too. We think alike.

Could not handle @LanaDelRey’s beauty tonight. She is 1 of the true beauty queens. Listen to her music. Love u, gf.

Austra is a band from Toronto that owes much to Siouxsie and the Banshees. I think you will like it.

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Picture taken by Leah Lin at Music Hall of Williamsburg. The show was amazing.

Update 3/26: She used an iPhone 1, in case you were wondering.

Pulp – Common People

There are so many magic moments in Girl Talk’s new album All Day, released yesterday on Illegal Art, but IMO nothing tops Radiohead vs Wu Tang Ol Dirty Bastard at 3:11 on the track below.

A full list of samples is on Wikipedia.

Update: On this site you can listen and see the sample credits as it plays.

Beautiful, transcendent show at Mercury Lounge last night. Opening band was The Dig, who were great and are having a record release party at Mercury in early June.

They also played a new song, Popinjay, video is below. I’ve already posted too much TJF so here’s a link to get the song on Amazon.