future islands is a shimmery new wavey sorta group who used to play with dan deacon and wham city; on 12 june at 8pm they will be playing at the silent barn in ridgewood; you should come! this is an especially pretty music video (in hd!!!) for their song tin man: their music feels like pastel [...]
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music n mushrooms
Posted in creativity, music, tagged 4'33", avant-garde, high school, indeterminacy, john cage, merce cunningham, mies van der rohe, mushrooms, music, this recording on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
i haven’t been the biggest fan of john cage since i was in high school, when the boy i was dating performed 4’33″ at our senior solo recital and i was so embarassed to have been dating the kid who stood on stage in silence for almost five minutes that i thereby rejected all avant-garde [...]
You Know that You Could Use This Cover
Posted in music, tagged cover, kings of leon on March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Sunday night. Are you feeling like you could use somebody? I could use this cover of Kings of Leon any night of the week. [mairin]
Romanticism
Posted in music, tagged Chagall, The Weepies on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m slightly obsessed with this song right now, and thought I would share: Painting by Chagall, The Weepies Thunder rumbles in the distance, a quiet intensity I am willful, your insistence is tugging at the best of me You’re the moon, I’m the water You’re Mars, calling up Neptune’s daughter Sometimes rain that’s needed falls [...]
It’s Friday, Chill TF Out!
Posted in music on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pour yourself a glass of wine (still at work? take a lunch break), relaaaaax, listen to the intoxicatingly simple guitar riffs (ok I don’t know what riffs are, but maybe?) of Alejandro Rosso (below) and Emilio de Benito (above). [mairin]
Contemporary 80′s: Tunes
Posted in music, no but seriously, tagged 1950s, 1980s, Anime, Au Revoir Simone, Kelly Osborne, Oldies, The Explorer's Club, The Marvelettes, The Ronettes, Zach Galifanakis on February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have recently been introduced to a few auditory time travelers: musicians who have managed to produce music in the 2000s, which one would have sworn came from an earlier decade. As for my first example, Brooklyn-spawned Au Revoir Simone, have the song Stars, to which my immediate internal reaction was a sensation of de [...]
Viva la Roux!
Posted in music, tagged la roux on February 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
So, this is no breaking music news, but thanks to a music service named after a mythical character who ruined the world with her box (not Eve, actually), I’ve added the fabulous La Roux to my repertoire. I now walk the streets of New York (they make you feel brand new!) with a power pace, [...]
grizzly bears ROCK MY WORLD
Posted in music, tagged department of eagles, grizzly bear, pitchfork on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
aight; this is exciting. Grizzly Bear Reveal Veckatimest Cover, Tracklist | Pitchfork. (mmhmmm pitchfork SUCK IT UP you know you read it too) FUCKIN’ GRIZZLY BEAR we’ve already shared our feelings on department of eagles. NOW we are given the chance to return to our roots and ADORE the music we’ve always loved, in a [...]
nostalgia
Posted in fashion, music, tagged mr. t, skeeter davis, the bobby lord show on February 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
(from search & destroy) [ stefanie ]
eagle vs. bear
Posted in music, tagged department of eagles, grizzly bear, in ear park on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
you listen to grizzly bear, right? a few years ago a friend showed me a video of three guys wandering around paris, singing the prettiest a cappella music i’d ever heard, lookin’ kewl, exuding dreaminess in all capacities. also their music is really wonderful for long drives and plane rides. grizzly bear rulezzzz. what [...]
