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Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

rparis74 Wrote:

good review in Pitchfork for that Big Boi? any thoughts on it yet?

i like it so far. there are some weak tracks like "you ain't no dj" or "be still", but what's good is pretty top-notch. i'm getting psyched to see him in a couple weeks.

DMB04 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 5:41 pm

Is Magiska no more?

Admiral Radley anyone? The Granddady/Earlimart project is released next week...

discostu · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 5:52 pm

DMB04 Wrote:

Is Magiska no more?

Here

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 6:40 pm

Its interesting that these blogs get shut down, and pop up again.

Has the RIAA gone after Rapidshare? Just wondering. I know they are working "with" them to devulge user data now per German law, but it seems like RS would be on hitlist #1.

seafoam · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 5:39 pm

Quote:

Review by Ken Tucker
EnlargeBellesound Records
Stephanie Finch was a member of the band The Mission Express, fronted by her husband Chuck Prophet.

Stephanie Finch sings in a high, plaintive register that can sound both pleading and firm, sarcastic and wry. It's a voice of knowingness, from which innocence has been stripped away to reveal a performer who knows what she wants from herself and from other people. Many of Finch's songs — she wrote six of the ten on this album — are guided as much by keyboard and guitar riffs as by her singing. "Don't Back Out Now" uses a simple, insistent guitar hook that recalls The Velvet Underground or Jonathan Richman's Modern Lovers. And she uses the power of simplicity in "Tina Goodbye."

Chuck Prophet produced this album with Finch; they happen to be married. Prophet, who used to be in the band Green on Red and is part of Finch's group The Company Men, has produced first-rate albums for singer-songwriters various as Alejandro Escovedo and Kelly Willis. On Finch's album Cry Tomorrow, she covers a song Prophet wrote for Escovedo called "Sensitive Boys." Escovedo sang the song plaintively, as though sensitivity was a burden. Finch takes the song and makes it a sharp-eyed, tough-minded critique of boys who fancy themselves to be sensitive.

Another superb song covered by Finch on this album is "Count the Days 1-2-3-4-5-6-7," written and recorded in the 1960s by the brother-and-sister soul act Charlie and Inez Foxx. Finch and Prophet rearrange the song, slowing it down and turning it into something else entirely. Where Charlie and Inez Foxx sang "Count the Days" as a proclamation of romantic freedom, ie Finch turns the tune into more of a threat — a threat that says you'll be counting the days after I leave you. You will suffer when I'm gone. And it's all the more effectively devastating when sung in such a hauntingly matter-of-fact manner.

There's a nice avoidance of singer-songwriter confessionalism throughout Cry Tomorrow. And the album title is apt: Finch may cry tomorrow, but right now, she's going to lay it all out for you, the good and the bad stuff that precedes any crying. And besides, who says she's the one who's going to be the one in tears when she gets finished with you?

http://www.obner.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=46146

jasn · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:08 am

FT Wrote:

whenzat sun kil moon gonna leak?

Code:

http://moourl.com/plswn

Hegel · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:18 am

I've looked for it but can't seem to find an active link for Menomena's new album. I also wasn't able to keep up in here for a couple weeks. Anyone post it in here? Anyone have it that would like to up it for me?

Also, many thanks jasn for Sun Kil Moon. Very excited to get home and listen.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:23 am

Hegel Wrote:

Sun Kil Moon. Very excited

Two contradictory concepts.

shiv · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 12:01 pm

Hegel Wrote:

I've looked for it but can't seem to find an active link for Menomena's new album. I also wasn't able to keep up in here for a couple weeks. Anyone post it in here? Anyone have it that would like to up it for me?

http://tinyurl.com/3ybvbjg

FT · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 12:38 pm

jasn Wrote:

FT Wrote:

whenzat sun kil moon gonna leak?

Code:

http://moourl.com/plswn

suh-WEET!

discostu · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:09 pm

So I've been listening to the new Wavves for a week straight. Damn good record. Did a little digging and found out that backing band was Jay Reatard's and it wasproduced by Dennis Herring at Sweat Tea in Oxford, MS.

Nathan Williams just looks like someone that needs to be punched, but I like this record in spite of that, which is odd for me (see my years of hate posts about Conor Oberst and the dudes from Unicorns/Islands).

jasn · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:59 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

Hegel Wrote:

Sun Kil Moon. Very excited

Two contradictory concepts.

But that's OK, IMO.

This new one won't be overheard on a beach boombox, that's for sure, and it has seriously damaged my self-assessment about what it will take to be a decent guitar player.

The BR on that link isn't great either, BTW, but will do for now.

Dalen · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:44 pm

Mexican Summer are elated to announce their latest artist and full length release from California’s Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno, aka Best Coast. Crazy for You is a twelve track, twenty-nine minute collection of genuinely romantic sandy jams. Hazy, dreamy and genre-defining, Crazy for You proves that the impressive amount of press hype for Best Coast is more than warranted, especially coming off of her previous sold out singles on Group Tightener, Atelier Cuseaux, Art Fag, Black Iris, PPM and Eskuche. The band’s much-awaited debut album was recorded at Black Iris, a studio in LA’s Echo Park neighborhood, by Lewis Pesacov of the bands Fool’s Gold and Foreign Born. The result is a collection of maudlin and magical songs that approach relationships with a pure heart, a cloudy mind and pair of gas station sunglasses. None of the songs on Crazy for You were previously released on the earlier 7-inches. For the album’s sessions Cosentino brought in a collection of demos she had never sent to Bruno. “I wanted the record to be something completely fresh and new,” says Cosentino. “I just felt like my first record needed to be really special.”

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?myezmzznz5i

Sex, Drugs, and Dave · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:47 am

Yayyyyy!

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:32 am

Seriously, when is this fucking indie beach phase going to end? I feel stupid even saying this because I kinda like this crap, but every band getting hyped by Dalen this year is the same vibe. Wavves, Beach House, Best Coast, Surfer Blood ...

Kingfish · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:21 pm

discostu Wrote:

So I've been listening to the new Wavves for a week straight. Damn good record.
Nathan Williams just looks like someone that needs to be punched, but I like this record in spite of that, which is odd for me (see my years of hate posts about Conor Oberst and the dudes from Unicorns/Islands).

Agreed.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:37 pm

Kingfish Wrote:

discostu Wrote:

So I've been listening to the new Wavves for a week straight. Damn good record.
Nathan Williams just looks like someone that needs to be punched, but I like this record in spite of that, which is odd for me (see my years of hate posts about Conor Oberst and the dudes from Unicorns/Islands).

Agreed.

Agreed as well, but I kinda liked debut as well. I certainly spun it a bunch of times. This one is much better.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:39 pm

There's really no difference between bad and good anymore, is there?

Kingfish · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:53 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

There's really no difference between bad and good anymore, is there?

I thought the first Wavves albums was the shittiest thing I 've ever heard and I only listened to the new one to laugh at it. It's a surprising step forward in songwriting. This whole "chillwave"/surfer thing is terrible and annoying, but I still think this a good album.

Dalen · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:09 pm

thisotherkingdom Wrote:

Seriously, when is this fucking indie beach phase going to end? I feel stupid even saying this because I kinda like this crap, but every band getting hyped by Dalen this year is the same vibe. Wavves, Beach House, Best Coast, Surfer Blood ...

if you think that's all i'm hyping/listening too, you need to follow along closer. schools in session.

and yeah, you should feel stupid.

Dalen · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:21 pm

New Panda Bear single.

1. Tomboy
2. Slow Motion

Paw Tracks is excited to present the first in a series of limited edition seven inch singles by Animal Collective's Panda Bear. There will be several limited singles total (on different labels), and each one will bring us closer and closer to the much anticipated release of the Tomboy full length.

http://www.mediafire.com/?no2mz2bzno2

discostu · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:28 pm

thisotherkingdom Wrote:

Seriously, when is this fucking indie beach phase going to end? I feel stupid even saying this because I kinda like this crap, but every band getting hyped by Dalen this year is the same vibe. Wavves, Beach House, Best Coast, Surfer Blood ...

Granted Beach House was around before the whole summer/chill vibe took over the hipster world and their latest has absolutely nothing to do with a coastal environment other than the name of the band. One of the best records released this year. Top 5 for me.

Having said that... yeah the trend is a bit annoying. I guess the artists, labels and publicists making money off of hipsters and tastemakers need constant supply to take advantage of the latest fad, especially considering it's now in the warm months of the year.

If you want to hear something a little more "goth", there's an (unintentional?) hipster musician counter-movement. See: "Witch House", "Drag", et al acts like Salem, oOoOO, Balam Acab, Master Suspiria Vision, etc

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:50 pm

Kingfish Wrote:

Radcliffe Wrote:

There's really no difference between bad and good anymore, is there?

I thought the first Wavves albums was the shittiest thing I 've ever heard and I only listened to the new one to laugh at it. It's a surprising step forward in songwriting. This whole "chillwave"/surfer thing is terrible and annoying, but I still think this a good album.

There's no doubt the new Wavves album is a step forward. It's a vast improvement on the first. But anything would be a vast improvement on the first. This new one is at least somewhat musical, and it shows an admirable amount of growth in his skills - in fact, if he continues to develop this quickly then sometime around 2013 he might even put out something that rivals the worst of the Jesus and Mary Chain. Surely you people can't be THIS desperate for new music.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:06 pm

discostu Wrote:

If you want to hear something a little more "goth", there's an (unintentional?) hipster musician counter-movement. See: "Witch House", "Drag", et al acts like Salem, oOoOO, Balam Acab, Master Suspiria Vision, etc

What is, in y'all's opinion, the best release in this genre?

BTW, I've been listening to the new Far, and it's really good. Haven't really thought about them much since Water and Solutions. I can post it if anyone's interested.

tentoze · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:09 pm

discostu Wrote:

If you want to hear something a little more "goth", there's an (unintentional?) hipster musician counter-movement. See: "Witch House", "Drag", et al acts like Salem, oOoOO, Balam Acab, Master Suspiria Vision, etc

With any luck, this crowd will kill all the indie beachsters, then immediately recreate the Jonestown Kool Ade Party.

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