1. 17 Jun


    The audacity of Low: What does a band ‘owe’ us when we pay to see them perform? | Local Current Blog | The Current from Minnesota Public Radio Personally I think I would have been stoked to see Low do a 27-minute version of “Do You Know How to Waltz?”. And please, Low do not “owe” their fans anything. Artists make art. They only need answer to themselves.

    The audacity of Low: What does a band ‘owe’ us when we pay to see them perform? | Local Current Blog | The Current from Minnesota Public Radio

    Personally I think I would have been stoked to see Low do a 27-minute version of “Do You Know How to Waltz?”. And please, Low do not “owe” their fans anything. Artists make art. They only need answer to themselves.

     

  2. 13 Jun


    ramsayings:

    nprmusic:

    In an eerie new video from Low, the band plays inside a glitter-filled snow globe, wearing period costumes, while giant, alien creatures look on.

    Watch the “Plastic Cup” video now.

    Love this band, but who doesn’t?

    Nice video for one of my favorite songs on the new album. I’d never really paid attention to the middle section of the lyrics to this song; watching the video just now I noted the lyrics the whole way through—I like this song even more now.

     

  3. 10 Jun



    plays: 10

    The Monkees: Cuddly Toy (1967)

     

  4. 10 Jun


    seanfennessey:

    Harry Nilsson, “Cuddly Toy”

    From Pandemonium Shadow Show, 1967

    You’d think I’d have realized this sooner, considering obsessions, but Aimee Mann samples this for this.

     

  5. 10 Jun


    anthonyisright:

    Matthew Sweet, “Sick Of Myself”

    I really appreciate how much fear and self-loathing he could fit into an uptempo valentine.

     

  6. 10 Jun


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  7. 10 Jun



    plays: 67

    newspeedwayboogie:

    Sigur Ros - Brennisteinn

    New record out next week. This is the opening track.

     

  8. 9 Jun



    plays: 89

    raptoravatar:

    delawareareyou:

    drive like jehu - caress

    Perfect riffs are perfect.

    (Source: el-arte-de-la-rebeldia)

     

  9. 5 Jun


    lacma:

    Here it is: photos of Peter Zumthor’s proposed new building for LACMA. See & share even more here.

    Over on Unframed, LACMA’s director Michael Govan writes about the years of thought that have gone into this project:

    What if, instead of being hidden, a museum’s collections were visible even when they were in storage? What if art objects could be methodically rotated to describe many cultural stories and not just one chronological and geographic historical narrative? What if there could be a comfortable and seamless transition from the casual space of an outdoor plaza to the inner sanctum of a meditative gallery? Could a museum have lots of windows to see outside, could kids be accommodated as easily as art historians, and could an arrangement of coincident spaces be suited to contemplation, education, or just hanging out? And instead of being a notorious energy hog, could a public museum building collect the energy of the sun to give back to its environment? Could the art museum’s architecture be reconsidered from scratch?

    You can see these models, and much more, in The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, opening to members tomorrow and to the public on Sunday.

     

  10. 1 Jun



    Soundtrack: Saturday, June 1 2013

    Television: Marquee Moon(1977)
    Kicked off the morning with one of the great rock albums of all time and it more or less set the tone for the day—I skipped forward a few decades after this but I stayed in guitar territory all day.

    Superchunk: Foolish (1994)
    Here’s what always happens with this album: I think about Superchunk and I think about the opening track on this record and then I think about “The First Part” and I think man, what a stone classic this record this is. And then I actually play it and I continue to believe in it for its first half but I always, always, always start to lose interest in the back half. (In reality it’s On the Mouth that is the stone classic, but the first half of this album kills.)

    Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City(2013)
    Vampire Weekend: s/t (2008)
    Vashti Bunyan: Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind (1964–66)
    Documenting one’s daily listening habits has the potential to make one self-conscious about how much one plays the new Vampire Weekend, but one must be unapologetic and honest if one is really going to do this. PS: the s/t album and Vashti Bunyan simply came on alphabetically. (But did you notice it didn’t segue into Van Morrison? My wife, god bless her, couldn’t take it any more—she deleted Astralweeks from our library and we’re all the better for it.)

    Eleanor Friedberger: Personal Record(2013)
    My second time through with this album, and I still don’t really “know” it very well. I’m a little disappointed that it’s not as immediate as her first album, but I recognize that that’s an unfair assessment and I’m trying to overcome it.

    Midlake: The Trials of Van Occupanther (2006)
    What made me play this today? I don’t know. This was my essential album of 2007, when I first heard it. I played the hell out of this record and thought I had found a band for my life. I cooled substantially after the one-two punch of a lackluster live show I caught at the Henry Fonda, followed by the absurdly flaccid Courage of Others. And I think I simply played this album so many times I’d finally reached burnout. Anyway: this is still a terrific album and I really enjoyed having it on today, after a long while away from it.

    Unknown Mortal Orchestra: II (2013)
    By dinnertime I was still feeling Indie Rock about my soundtrack desires so I went for this, which has turned out to be a very slow-burning highlight of the year.

    Daily Playlist (expires in 24 hours):

    1. Television: See No Evil
    2. Superchunk: Like a Fool
    3. Vampire Weekend: Diane Young
    4. Vashti Bunyan: Coldest Night of the Year
    5. Eleanor Friedberger: I’ll Never Be Happy Again
    6. Unknown Mortal Orchestra: From the Sun
    7. Midlake: Head Home