WU LYF

I've only found a few vids online of this band. They are definitely cultivating a mysterious angle. Which is cool. They espouse some, I assume faux, "purpose." http://www.wulyf.org/

They are apparently playing their first US shows this weekend in the NYC area (http://goo.gl/NLmp9).

Here's a link to a vimeo page with a few songs/vids: http://vimeo.com/user2932218.

As to the music, I'm really quite digging it. Grandiose sounding, dare I say epic, yet fun.


WU LYF-spitting it concrete like the golden sun god from LUCIFER YOUTH FOUNDATION on Vimeo.

I'm Bad Milk - Drink Me

I snagged Tyler the Creator's Bastard late last year and listened to it a few times, but I had no idea that he (or his collective - Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All [OFWGKTA, natch]) was so hot until I saw that he was one of the showstoppers at SXSW.

This stuff is generally filed under the label "horrorcore" . . . which seems about right, given how over-the-top violent and misogynist it is.  And yet (there's always an "and yet" when it comes to middle-aged white guys apologizing for politically incorrect hip-hop, isn't there?) there is a self-aware & literate edge to this which puts it in the realm of classic transgressive literature like Georges Bataille, Leopold Sacher-Masoch, Octave Mirbeau, Marquis de Sade, etc. . . . that is, it may be vile, but it can't be dismissed as just the same old regressive/repressive/reactionary bullshit.  If you have a strong stomach, give it a listen.

Also, make sure and check out the videos, especially the live ones.  Live hip-hop is a sometimes dodgy proposition, but OFWGKTA is brilliant, especially Tyler: I've never seen an MC attack the stage like he does.

For an interesting in depth look at Tyler and OFWGKTA, check out "Odd Futurism" by Bethlehem Shoals, founder of FreeDarko.com, the best current basketball site on line.  He collects a number of videos with his essay, but it's also worth looking for their performances on Jimmy Fallon or some MTV awards show to get more of a feel for them live.  By the way: the videos, except for the TV performances, are definitely NSFW.

Tyler is dropping a slab called Goblins in early May.  Expect it to be discussed.

More 80s Electro - These Beats are for the Freaks

Super dope Egyptian Lover 12". Picked it up on Saturday at a flea market. Little water damage on the cover but the vinyl is almost mint.

Heartbreaker

Saw this in a crate at a Garage Sale and got real excited:



Picked it up to realize that water damage had essentially stuck this and three other records together into one blob. This is what I wound up with:



Oh well, vinyl is pretty clean and it was $.50 cents. Also got an old school punk comp with Red Kross and Social Distortion on it, Grateful Dead "Reckoning", and an Arnold Palmer "How to Play Golf" LP from the 60's.

DC!

NYC tips

Attention Manhattan types; got a bud vacationing around times square for spring break, family style, but would like to do some music shopping. Any tips to where he could score quick in the vicinity? Please include addresses. Thanks!

updates, praises, confessions from the 80s, etc.

What's up, ya'll, haven't posted in a while, hope all is well.

Hope you guys have gotten hip to the blog Glowing Raw, which I know has been shouted out on here at least once. Some great stuff on there, in particular if you're interested in experimental music. Easy download ability as dude posts mainly with mediafire, in my experience the best of the filesharing services.

The James Blackshaw album "Celeste" has been a huge score, but it's William Basinski album "92982" that I've been feeling most. Super-minimal neo-classical/ambient stuff, 100% solid gold for late night brooding or morning wake up, I love this stuff. Dude from Glowing Raw writes really well and it's worth reading his post about Basinski in full. I think I posted a while back about a Basinski performance at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, meditative and almost holy, the whole room bathed in lasers, so cool. I didn't get it from Glowing Raw but he mentioned the Tim Hecker album "An Imaginary Country" and I got that and it's amazing.

On on the indie-rock tip, that Heron-remix thing was meh, but props to DC for getting me to check out XX, digging that album big time, love that song "Shelter" in particular, that chick has the sexiest voice, I don't want to find a picture of her in case she's not attractive and it ruins the image in my mind. I'm also feeling the new Beach Fossils album, "What a Pleasure". Oh, anyone into James Blake? This might get hit with the "gay" label by some people on this blog (you know who you are) with all the auto-tune stuff going on, but dude writes good songs and the electronics are interesting, he sold out an upcoming show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. The new Kurt Vile, "Smoke Ring for my Halo" has grown on me after being initially freaked out because it's so well-recorded.

On another note, I got a Sonos system installed in my new apartment, pretty cool, I can control the volume of the music independently in different rooms, play different music at the same time in those rooms, control everything from an ap on my iphone, still getting to know it but so far so good.

Finally, those in their mid-30s might feel me on the 80s moment I just had in the grocery store. The Till Tuesday song "Voices Carry" came on and took me back to the early MTV days, watching videos at home, and the whole narrative of that song--the business dude dating the artsy chick he's trying to keep in the down low--made an impression on my young mind. I'm pretty sure they opened up for Hall & Oates, which was the first concert I ever went to (hahaha). As I was paying I almost broke into those vocals at the end of the song where the chick is in the theater and she breaks out shouting and embarrasses her banker sugar-daddy. I kept it under control but I wonder what the Latina chick ringing me up would have done if I totally went for it.

Bottomless Pit

I haven't felt this way about a band on hearing them the first time since Deerhunter. Bottomless Pit is two of the guys from Silkworm, the drummer from Seam (another band I've been listening to a lot of recently) and the bassist from a band called .22. These are Chicago peeps. It all has that Electrical Audio sound to the drums and the tonefreaky purity of the guitar tones, along with that close vocal- loud, but butting right up against everything else in the mix vying for attention- the thing that Sea and Cake do so well. Sometimes I think that all I'm missing in music is '90s Chicago. You can stream their two albums and one EP from their site.

Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

Album came out last summer. "Psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music" from Australia. Great recommendation to gear up for Coachella and the extra hour of sun we currently have in California.

New Favorite Band in the World

Peaking Lights is the band. "936" is the album. "+ mediafire" works.

Maybe too "Chill Wave" for some of you (first time i've ever used that term, really...) Lo-fi, synth bedroom dub pop made by a couple (expecting a baby) who are bay area transplants living in Madison, Wisconsin, using guitars, vocals, old analog cast away equipment, handmade synths and drum machines.

VIDEOS on Altered Zones.

INTERVIEW on some blog, that also has an pretty quality video interview segment thing half way down.

Taking the time to keep you informed because I care...

dc

He's The Fucking Man

Too lazy to write something, and by the time I got it done it might be pulled. Just grab it and thank me later

Iasos Scoob

That last Scoobie Brothers joint was admittedly pretty dark, so we went with something a little more uplifting on this joint, tapping into the Iasos power.



dc

Another good one...

Checking out some blogs and I came upon this gem. Collections of Background music from the Ren & Stimpy show. Nice exotica lounge type stuff mostly.

Very good weekend morning music. Found it here.

Couple Good Ones

The Black Ryder - "Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride".

Random LP I bought on a whim based on packaging and record store blurb. Really good music, on the My Bloody Valentine or Brian Jonestown Massacre tip. Three chords through tons of delay and reverb. Just good tunes to rock out to while doing the dishes, occasionally taking a break to play air guitar along to a solo. Also you can add this to your all "black" playlist along with The Black Keys, the Black Lips, Black Flag, Black Dice and, uh... Melvin van Peebles.



Bardo Pond, s/t

What's up with these guys? No idea. A few of the tunes are on the Sonic Youth, early 90's grunge/rock tip, so I thought some of you would like it. But it also has a few like 20 minute epic jams. It's a good disc, definitely worth a mediafire download for zero dollars. Think I found this at "Glowing Raw", if you know that blog.

Peace to Ke$$$ha.

d-$hizzle

I've been on an electro/early 80's kick lately. Here are a few recent scores. Shannon, as mentioned in my Ke$ha post (haha, don't care what anyone says, that shit is dope - suck it, haters) was a buck, same with Duck Rock. The David Astri, which is probably worth about $50, was $0.50. If you like this kind of music and know what you're looking for, bargains abound.

Ke$ha

I'm surprised but I love Ke$ha. Catchy bubblegum pop. Love it. Guess I'm a sucker for slick production and poppy shit. And I'm serious!! Reminds me of old B96. And I love B96 too. Product of my environment, I guess, growing up around Chicago. Echos of 80's freestyle and electro circa 1984 after Let the Music Play by Shannon was released. Even deeper shit than that too. Anybody else feeling this?

Free SXSW Sampler on iTunes

Just an FYI. There's a 22 song free sampler on iTunes with people playing SXSW this year (it skews a little famous, but hey, it's free. (http://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/sxsw-featured-artists/id423878050?wm=1)

Balam Acab Follow Up

I posted about Balam Acab maybe a month ago, his EP "See Birds" has many many plays in my iTunes. Things are kind of slow at work so I was googling him and came up on this info:

-This dude is a 19 year old kid in Pennsylvania and makes all that shit in his bedroom. Good interview with him here from Altered Zones.

-He has another project called ETHEREA that is kind of Balam Acab-y but more beat-driven a la J Dilla or something. Couldn't find any albums but good stuff up at his Myspace page.

-Dude got his song picked up for a L'oreal commercial featuring Beyonce?!

I felt like this was noteworthy in that record labels and mainstream artists are trying to figure out the new paradigm, how can we make money in the post "+ mediafire" world? Hustling to make something happen. Meanwhile here is a kid who just makes really good music and got recognized for it and defintely got paid for usage in that commercial.

Lastly, I don't even know how to process this image:



dc

Can you dig it? CAN YOU DIG IT?!

CAN YOU DIG IIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTT??????????

High Wolf

I like them. "Mediafire + High Wolf" is bountiful.

dc