Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Monday, April 16, 2007



samizdat
sa·miz·dat
Pronunciation: 'sä-mEz-"dät
Function: noun
Etymology: Russian, from sam- self- + izdatel'stvo publishing house
: a system in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and countries within its orbit by which government-suppressed literature was clandestinely printed and distributed; also : such literature(m-w.com)

albeit presumptous and ranting, the psychic soviet is pure fun and a perfect extension of svenonious’ hysterical gospel yeh-yeh sermonizing and weird war psychedelic fonk-blooz politicizing. at times, the psychic soviet is like a literary equivalent to getting stoned with your favorite sociology professor…hilarious, verbose, self-important, paranoid, and hilarious. like “born on the floor” the book.
-from bookbeat.com/thebackroom

Sunday, April 15, 2007


this is...
bits of a broken social scene =

Stars And Sons 5:09 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People Alternative 1 4/15/07 7:24 PM
Cause = Time 5:30 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People 2 4/15/07 6:44 PM
I Slept With Bonhomme at the CBC 5:26 Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost 2 10/1/06 7:39 PM
Da Da Dada 7:09 Broken Social Scene Beehives Rock 5 4/15/07 6:37 PM
Swimmers 2:57 Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene 1 4/15/07 6:38 PM
Blues for Uncle Gibb 6:59 Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost Rock 1 4/15/07 6:38 PM
Mossbraker 5:33 Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost Rock 1 4/15/07 6:38 PM
Cranley's Gonna Make It 5:24 Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost 1 4/15/07 6:40 PM
Pitter Patter Goes My Heart 2:24 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People Post Rock 1 4/15/07 6:40 PM
7/4 (shoreline) 4:53 Broken Social Scene album.final 2 4/15/07 6:43 PM
Guilty Cubicles 3:03 Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost 2 4/15/07 6:43 PM
Lover's Spit 6:22 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People Alternative 1 4/15/07 6:41 PM

Friday, April 13, 2007



reLA :

1. performance / tones on tail
2. the other side of mt. heart attack / liars
3. instrumentals volume 1 / arthur russell
4. andy warhol / david bowie
5. beyond the drapes / mew
6. cherry-coloured funk / cocteau twins
7. fire it up / modest mouse
8. 505 / arctic monkeys
9. i'm not always so stupid / wedding present
10. gimme that love thing / arbiters
11. like new / deerhunter
12. pulling our weight / the radio dept.
13. bros / panda bear
14. like clockwork springs / daedelus
15. moody / esg
16. time / richard hell
17. born on the floor / make-up

Saturday, April 07, 2007



thanks mckenna.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

FILE UNDER: best existential fight songs




modern world (wolf parade)

i’m not in love with the modern world
i’m not in love with the modern world
it was a torch driving the savages back to the trees

modern world has more ways
and i don’t mention it since it’s changed
while the people go out and the people come home again

it’s gotta last to build up your eyes
and a lifetime of red skies
and from my bed saying your haunted hissing in my bed

modern world don’t ask why
cause modern world will build things high
now they house canyons filled with life

modern world I’m not pleased to meet you
you just bring me down
modern world I’m not pleased to meet you
you just bring me down
modern world I’m not pleased to meet you
you just bring me down
modern world I’m not pleased to meet you
you just bring me down


although "apologies..." came out a while back -way back in 2005, modern world still has the ability to send me into ecstatic fits of broad smiled air guitar-air drum-table piano-fist pumping-violent head shaking. it is also probably one of the best songs i've ever heard performed live. (the wiltern. summer 2006. beautiful velma from scooby doo sat behind me with her hipster dickhead boyfriend. i had to get up out of my seat and spaz out in the aisle. and the boys from wolf parade were showering the audience with light and the chugging stomp kept rising with the howling of the band and the audience and there was no way to avoid really just FEELING it. it was revival rally type emotion.

they're smart to not give it away...it's dangerous stuff knock-yr-block-off type stuff. but i've posted a couple other jabs that they are kind enough to share off their website. bob and weave.

http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/download.php?url=/downloads/free/Shine_a_Light339.mp3&mid=339

http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/download.php?url=/downloads/free/You_Are_A_Runner325.mp3&mid=325

Monday, April 02, 2007


H.O.R.S.E. -

1. D.A.N.C.E. : justice
2. bostich : yello
3. white horse : laidback
4. haldern : boys noize
5. the thrill of it all (M.A.N.D.Y. vs booka shade rmx) : roxy music
6. get down saturday night : oliver cheathem
7. don go do it : the rapture
8. over you : roxy music
9. bigmouth strikes again : the smiths
10. comfy in nautica : panda bear
11. providence : sonic youth
12. fleetwood mac : sara
13. working to work : field music
14. beautiful life : gui baratto
15. ali in the jungle : the hours
16. staring at the sun : tv on the radio