Why don’t crazy bands have a transmedia strategy in place? Look at Lady Gaga, the most supposedly cutting edge of all beat-by-the-pound yet somehow infectious pop divas, shouldn’t their fans be given a chance to impersonate her and battle it out with Bayonetta in their Xbox 360s?
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July 31st
Currently playing: Angela - Fantasy 7” (1984) Thank you so much Crispy Nuggets for posting this so I can share it with my listeners! Germany successfully cloned a Pat Benatar in the 80s and she came out very, um, German-looking.
Currently playing: Angela - Fantasy 7” (1984) Thank you so much Crispy Nuggets for posting this so I can share it with my listeners! Germany successfully cloned a Pat Benatar in the 80s and she came out very, um, German-looking.

Currently playing: Angela - Fantasy 7” (1984)

Thank you so much Crispy Nuggets for posting this so I can share it with my listeners! Germany successfully cloned a Pat Benatar in the 80s and she came out very, um, German-looking.

July 26th
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Playlist 2010-07-19: an appropriate response to reality ♫

Music inspired by the life and writings of Philip K. Dick

You can download this online. The download will only be available until the next playlist is posted.

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(via lastdancedeathdisco)

July 24th
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Plumtree - Scott Pilgrim (1997) 

This version is cleaner sounding than the EP (like, Matthew Sweet levels of clean), but you can actually hear the backing vocals on it. This is my favorite song right now, and will likely continue to be until September, at the latest!

July 21st

hardcorefornerds:

rawkblog:

kevcops:

too chill (via GvB)

SO CHILLWAVE IT HURTS

these beats remind me of late-period Suicide.

Sippin’ syrup levels of chill are going on here. Also, I think bangs and braces are my kryptonite.

July 19th

Vondelpark - California Analog Dream

Another take on the ‘beach’ theme/meme, this time through the filter of home movies via a VCR-style ‘tracking’ effect.

I’m starting to wonder how much empty nostalgia I can handle.

July 7th

How did I ever miss this? Stay with it until 3:53 at least (via perpetua)

Miles Fisher 
“This Must Be The Place”

Miles Fisher’s recording of this Talking Heads classic is only slightly novel, and doesn’t have a great deal to add to the song. That is definitely not the case for David Green’s extraordinarily slick music video, in which the chilly precision and deliberate twitchiness of Fisher’s version is fleshed out by having him slip into Christian Bale’s version of Patrick Bateman from Mary Harron’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. On one hand, it’s enough just to nudge the aloof sweetness of David Byrne into full-on sociopath territory, but there’s a lot more going on here. Fisher’s main gig is acting, and so there’s some implied commentary on acting, on Bale’s performance, on Bale himself, on an aspiration to be Bale-esque — or is that Bateman-esque? (Batman-esque?) This is also about the act of adaptation and appropriation — covering songs, remaking films, turning books into movies. Midway through the clip, the music fades out so Fisher can play out a version of Bateman’s most famous tic — his smarmy recontexualization of cheesy ’80s pop music. It’s for laughs, sure, but it’s poking fun at the perceived “greatness” of the song itself, and Fisher himself for attempting to redefine someone else’s work of art.

July 7th

Once I was old enough to be interested in discovering music of my own, I gravitated to reverb-drenched 60’s Californian and Texan pop: The Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, Bobby Fuller, Roy Orbison, …  It was all probably in rebellion against my older sister’s David Lee Roth/Van Halen and my older brother’s Iron Maiden & Motley Crue.

The last few Best Coast tracks I’ve heard really fill my need for reverb, fuzzy/muted guitar, and bittersweet lyrics.

via perfectpopsongs (my new fav music Tumblr):

113 BEST COAST - “WHEN I´M WITH YOU”

So she moved to New York City and started working on music that blended the vulnerability of Girly Sound-era Liz Phair with a budget version of Phil Spector’s wall-of-sound splendor.

Cowritten with multi-instrumentalist bandmate Bobb Bruno, gorgeously reverbed ballads like “Make You Mine,” “Boyfriend,” and “When I’m With You” were inspired by her memories of growing up in L.A. and are suffused with a classically Californian melancholy. “I listen to a lot of ’60s beach music,” she explains. “It sounds happy and innocent, but it was made during a time that wasn’t happy or innocent at all.”

Turns out other people love bittersweet beach tunes, too. Thurston Moore, who once handpicked an old Cosentino project to open for Sonic Youth, has professed his fandom; “When I’m With You” is featured in commercials for the hit BBC teen drama Skins” (Melissa Maerz. Spin Magazine)

July 7th

Gosh, 30-years ago today, some pretty good play-by-the-numbers two-tone ska came out (courtesy of newwavetimewarp):

…And also apropos-of-not-much ska, like Arthur Kay and the Originals’ “Play My Record” single, released July 7, 1980.

I really dig the Meatloaf/Bat out of Hell-styled Lambretta on the album cover.

July 7th
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I had a lot of fun putting this week’s Last Dance at the Death Disco together! I’ll do another one of these around WMBR’s fundraising time (November-ish).

lastdancedeathdisco:

Playlist: 2010-07-05 NEWORDERedition ♫

New Order is dead! Long live the New Order!

2 hours of music by and produced by the members of New Order (Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, and Phil Cunningham). Yes, this means you’ll be hit by the monstrosity that is Revenge’s Pineapple Head (that is, Peter Hook takes a break from NO after Temptation and creates an album who’s cover is 100x better than its contents). But we also played some classic Be Music produced (that is, Sumner, Hook, and Morris produced) dance hits (52nd Street, Quando Quango, …) and various other side projects. We didn’t get to Bad Lieutenant or Freebass this time around, but we’ll likely do a version of this show again.

You can download or stream this online from WMBR.org

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July 6th