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
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?
School of Seven Bells: Low Times
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.
Picture taken by Leah Lin at Music Hall of Williamsburg. The show was amazing.
Sleigh Bells – A/B Machines
Update 3/26: She used an iPhone 1, in case you were wondering.
Listen and enjoy. Try to have a guy-on-the-left-type attitude about it, rather than a guy-on-the-right one.
Longwave – Satellites
More music posts! Overdue on this here blog. This song’s great. Referred to me by a man named Razzak. Sounds kind of 60s-ish British psychedelic meets Voxtrot, or something. Better descriptions welcome in comments!
I’m not going to say anything about the band, other than that they’re supposedly pronounced VY-lens, in protest of the fact that they think that having a MySpace page is a substitute for having a normal website.
Violens – Violent Sensation Descends
This song is good! The album, apparently, not so good. Pitchfork wraps up their review by saying: “still, if they get so excited about the mundane details of travel (‘paaaaaaaaayed the bus faaaaaaaare!’), then maybe touring outside of New York will give them more material as worthy as ‘Hey Now Now’.”
The Cloud Room – Hey Now Now
Geez Louise! Good news from the Favourite Sons: they’ve signed to Vice Records and have a record due on September 12!
Also, You Ain’t No Picasso has some live recordings of a recent KEXP-sponsored event in Soho.
TV on the Radio rocks. And so does this video from the Touch-and-Go Records site YouTube.
TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
