died young. stayed pretty.

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2012-01-22T11:57:00.001+10:00

http://therearethingsweneversaid.tumblr.com/

BLACK//WHITE//\\DARKNESS\\LIGHT

2011-12-21T20:10:00.003+10:00

2 the bitter end (k-ci & jojo rework) - wise blood.mp3

OLIVER TANK DREAMS

2011-11-22T11:36:00.003+10:00

&amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://yespleaserecords.bandcamp.com/album/dreams"&amp;amp;amp;gt;Dreams by Oliver Tank&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;
OLIVER TANK released his stunning debut ep dreams out through yes please yesterday. do yourself a favour and buy it. mad good ambient electronic sounds from the sydneysider. flip cover art by andrew creelman too.

BUY IT HERE

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BEAUTIFUL. SO IT HURTS.

2011-11-15T20:45:00.002+10:00

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

Sylvia Plath - Mad Girl's Love Song

NO CEREMONY make music that is beautiful. so i hurts. so it stays with you. and these film clips are perfect.

EVERY TIME YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM

2011-10-25T10:37:00.002+10:00

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
- JD Salinger 'A girl i knew'

for the ears. for the morning. for the power. for the glory.

flume's 19. he's from sydney. flume isn't his real name.

'possums' is one of the best morning walk to the train station/evening walk away from work songs ever. it makes me so damn happy. and his 'anthem' remix is so flip

possums.mp3

onra - the anthem (flume remix).mp3

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THERE ARE THINGS WE'VE NEVER SAID

2011-10-23T13:18:00.004+10:00

“Look...Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. And the Scenes Gone By and the Scenes to Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface. So don't sweat it. For focus simply move a few inches back or forward. And once more...look.”
-Ken Kesey, Sometimes A Great Notion

"You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely certain of its treacherous impermanence. Hank knew . . . "
-Ken Kesey, Sometimes A Great Notion

a great book. a truly overwhelmingly beautiful piece of writing. i've heard some people say that they find i hard to read, with the techniques he's used. but that's the beauty of it. you're getting these first-person perspectives from multiple people all at once and he creates this depth of character. and each scene in the book just has this added weight because of it. it's a beautiful thing. a truly beautiful thing.

and something for your ears

HAYDEN CALNIN

summer.mp3

winter.mp3

with his wonderfully sparce arrangements and use of loops to build layers in a track hayden calnin establishes this depth and emotion and its fucking lovely.

summer is such a bold song. i love it.

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THIS ROOM ON FIRE

2011-10-14T09:20:00.000+10:00

youth lagoon is the best thing that's happened to me today.

i was mad depressed earlier...

one of those days when it's sunny outside but the shadows just seem to follow you.

can't get the light.

can't feel the warmth.

can't get anything to go my way.

...but then i downloaded youth lagoon's 'the year of hibernation' and all was good.

i fucking love that music can do that.

all you have to do is listen.

youth lagoon - afternoon.mp3

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buy the album here

this film clip is stunning too. tyler t williams has mad talent behind a camera.

and as an aside,

have you seen this trailer? beautiful. the song is by chad vangaalen, who until now i'd actually overlooked. he's amazing.

chad vangaalen - rabid bits of time.m4a

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REMEMBER WHEN WE LIVED IN A DIFFERENT WORLD? REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE INVISIBLE?

2011-09-07T14:14:00.001+10:00

this movie is so flip.

i was pretty devastated when i missed it at the cinemas and i've only just got around to watching it but if you haven't seen it lock it in for essential viewing it's got a kinda lars and the real girl vibe and that film was sick.

leon ford wrote and directed and nailed both and the two stars ryan kwanten and maeve dermody are amazing particularly dermody she's perfect i've got a maddd crush on her.

and the music is sick.

for example:

BEN COCKS - so cold.mp3

AU REVOIR SIMONE - take me as i am.mp3

LYKKE LI - melodies and desires.mp3

EVER FEEL THE NEED TO PUNCH AN INANIMATE OBJECT JUST TO PROVE THAT YOU'RE NOT?

2011-08-24T15:42:00.012+10:00

...YOU SHOULD DO IT IN SLOW MOTION LISTENING TO CHET FAKER + TANK + BOARDS OF CANADA + BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH + BIG DUMB KID

"listen. hear the dulcet tones of ethereal beauty. listen, and feel the beat stemming from deep, deep within your chest. feel it course through your veins. feel it become you. feel you become it. see the colors now, see how they're brighter, they're sharper. look yonder, see how close the sky appears. so close you could touch. you could feel it. taste it. clouds come closer. swell and fade. and time slows. and its you. only you. travelling through an unmoving scene. travelling while the sounds flow through you. while the colours are bold. while the sky is close and the clouds are closer. and those tones are your soundtrack. and the beat goes on..."

when this song opens up it makes me so happy - i want this to be the soundtrack to my life

House Atriedes by Chet Faker

man chet faker just keeps dropping these absolutely immense tracks - all so flip - i wanna see this guy live in all his bearded glory

Beautiful (Snoop Dogg cover) feat. Fawn Myers by Oliver Tank

sling this man some votes here for fbi's northern lights comp - this cover is charlie sheen good - izzle

Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Atlas Hands (Mike Skinner Remix) by Dirty Hit

mike skinner can do - this is wicked - i like leftwich but sometimes he's almost too soft to listen to - skinner gets the best from this track

Dumb Luck by BigDumbKid

bro...fuck - this is dope right? - i mean when he opened i was sceptical - but what was i thinking - this is fucking sick - check out his ep 'vanilla' at his bandcamp

BEAUTIFUL

2011-08-18T14:09:00.003+10:00

= mooi = beau = schön = όμορφος = bello = 美しい = 아름다운 = bonito = красивейше = hermoso = pragtige = i bukur = eder = hardd = bell = güzel = nzuri = fallegur = álainn = ...

09 Can't Help Falling In Love (Live at Daytrotter) - Ingrid Michaelson by Died Young. Stayed Pretty

TELL ME SOMETHING SWEET TO GET ME BY: MOTHS

2011-07-22T21:00:00.000+10:00

MOTHS is one of those dudes i've been listening to for a while but because there is still no internet in the house of gus and charlies haven't got around to posting. he's way young (17), irish, and makes delicious electronic beats.

Jimmy Francis by MOTHS

Passion Pit - Little Secrets (Moths Remix) by MOTHS

Summer by MOTHS

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WUGAZI

2011-07-21T11:11:00.003+10:00

WUGAZI

get up in this.

13 chambers is a slick mashup of wu tang clan and fugazi from cecil otter and swiss andy.

such a flip mixtape. jump over to wugazi dot com and get the lot.

Wugazi • 13 Chambers by WUGAZI

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STUFF YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FREE FROM SOUNDCLOUD, OR HOW TO SURVIVE STUDENT POVERTY

2011-07-05T13:55:00.005+10:00

Cigarettes and Chocolate by Chet Faker

Flight Facilities - Crave You (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix) by Adventure Club Dubstep

Drifting Apart by Oliver Tank

BeenCryn by HALCION DAZE

BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: ZOO KID

2011-06-06T07:33:00.007+10:00

ZOO KID.

archy marshall of london.

old soul but this guys only sixteen.

great music. nice riffs, raw voice. plays with silent parts in his music, gives it an emotive quality, a maturity. sweet lyricism too, the dudes a poet.

zoo kid is genuine.

legit.

ocean bed.mp3

out getting ribs.mp3

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+++

can't go wrong with star slinger

DREAMS, THEY'RE FOR THOSE WHO SLEEP: GRIMES + COMA CINEMA + JONATHAN BOULET + FISHING + CHET FAKER + SEEKAE

2011-06-04T17:34:00.006+10:00

“Isn’t most of our lives an illusion?”
“Well, everything in the past is memory…and everything in the future is imagination. Those’re both illusions — memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that’s completely real is this one instant of the present - and that’s constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of life’s illusory”

jeffery deaver, the vanished man

grimes - beast infection.mp3

(this girl is so flip, chopped samples and an epic voice, you can get halafax free from the arbutus records site, this song is beautiful)

coma cinema - i wanna be adored (the stone roses cover).mp3

(coma cinema absolutely never disappoints, he's got most of his stuff up for free download on his site)

jonathan boulet - you're a animal (fishing remix).mp3

(check out fishing's blog)

chet faker - no diggity.mp3

(get north (chet faker minor edit) from his site, so flip)

seekae - reset head.mp3

(i've said it before but if you haven't got +dome yet buy that album, its fucking beautiful man)

WANDERLUST: PENNY AND THE QUARTERS, JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW, PERFUME GENIUS, EMA

2011-05-15T14:31:00.006+10:00

Have you ever seen someone peacefully dozing in the morning light? The sun is rising and the birds are singing and they look so wonderfully serene. In that moment you can believe in a higher being, you can believe in love and fairy tales and innocence and peace. In that moment everything is achievable and everything is real, and the tooth fairy doesn’t seem so far-fetched. And then they start to wake, almost always with a smile, almost never in a rush, almost perfect, these moments are. Have you seen the sunset? The fragmented blues and reds and purples, and the warmth that courses through you, and now suddenly the dread, you see that magnificent luminous ball, see it dip and hurry beneath the horizon. How beautiful the scene. How nice to you. How nice to me. Have you witnessed this splendour? And when you witnessed it did you seek answers? Or did you find them? I believe in the absolute wonder of the every day. I believe that knowledge has saved and ruined us. I understand the need for an explanation and I question the value of a scientific one. I want for everything and I know that that means I really want for nothing. I believe that ignorance is bliss, and that bliss ignorance is an ideal condition, because nobody wants to know the truth about everything. I believe that truth is relative and that lies are sometimes more honest than facts. I believe in magic and deception and I believe that one day a lie will be told that is so profound it will bring the whole world to tears. I believe in a higher truth, I believe that nothing is real and everything is imagined and that the ultimate honesty lies in our mistakes. I believe in opening your eyes, to see. See the mountains and valleys of virtuous nature, and the perfect grandeur of an uninterrupted skyline, see snow falling through windows and the sun set over the ocean, see fog veil the early morning light. See you. See me. See the furious glory of a shared yearning, a yearning to be free, free of plans and goals and rules and structures, limitations all, limitations of the mind and spirit. Have you felt that harsh grip of the shackles that bind us? That blind us?

penny and the quarters - you and me.mp3

james vincent mcmorrow - we don't eat.mp3

perfume genius - mr. petersen.mp3

EMA - the grey ship.mp3

BURNING IN WATER. DROWNING IN FLAME.

2011-04-21T00:04:00.001+10:00

yo.

man it's been ages.

i've been getting all up in sydney's grill. and university's been getting all up in mine.

and now i'm officially not homeless.

dope.

seekae - go.m4a

we were promised jetpacks - it's thunder and it's lightning.mp3

dune rats - rat bags.mp3

fucked up - the other shoe.mp3

byrds of paradise - rowena.mp3

japandroids - younger us.mp3

a grave with no name - sofia.mp3

ALL GREAT AND PRECIOUS THINGS ARE LONELY: PLAINS, TYLER THE CREATOR, PURITY RING, JAMES BLAKE

2011-02-13T15:07:00.000+10:00

i'm moving to sydney next week to start a new university course. so ima be busy sorting myself out here and there over the next few weeks and thus there won't be much posting going on. here are some words and songs and moving pictures to keep you sated.

I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that peope are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in American is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians and unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of casual chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to chose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

Neil Gaiman, American Gods

PLAINS:

plains - innovator.mp3

TYLER THE CREATOR:

tyler the creator - yonkers.mp3

PURITY RING:

purity ring - ungirthed.mp3

JAMES BLAKE:

james blake - the wilhelm scream.mp3

james blake - a case of you (joni mitchell cover).mp3

HOMEBOI - SHRIMPS EP

2011-02-13T10:36:00.002+10:00

progressive house track from german marcin sleziona aka homeboi finally gets an official release through anchor factory records. the ep dropped february 10th. you can get it at juno, beatport, and dj download.

Homeboi - Shrimps EP by anchorfactory

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NO PLACE LIKE HOME: GROUPLOVE

2011-02-01T16:36:00.005+10:00

GROUPLOVE: from london, l.a., and new york via crete. kindred spirits hannah hooper and christian zucconi met in manhattan before hooking up with sean gadd, andrew wessen and ryan rabin in crete to form what is now grouplove. their debut ep was released in 2010, filled with zucconi's raw vocals, broken melodies and a shared passion for their music. it's seriously good. check out the video for colours too. its sweet.

colours.m4a

(i posted this one back in april on bvd so you might already have it. that was under the band name 'group')

don't say oh well.m4a

...but my favourite thing about his band is probably hannah hooper. girl can paint. she did the cover of their self-titled ep, along with the morning benders 2010 album 'big echo' (a really solid debut album). CHECK HER SITE OUT.

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THIS IS NO TIME FOR DREAMERS: MOUNT KIMBIE

2011-01-31T17:31:00.000+10:00

MOUNT KIMBIE: uk duo with a penchant for field recordings. they make small scale dubstep that succeeds on a much larger scale, minimal, ambient dubstep textured with loops and samples. their debut album 'crooks & lovers' is up there with the best of 2010's releases. it is a seriously great album in every sense. if you dug gold panda's 'lucky shiner' then go out and get 'crooks & lovers' now. they're playing barsoma on the 11th of march with another favourite 'seekae'. ticket details soon.

maybes.mp3

carbonated.mp3

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LYF IS A DANCE TO YR OWN BIG BEAT DRUM, LYF IS BROKEN VOICES CALLING HAVE SOME FUN.

2011-01-23T11:54:00.005+10:00

WU LYF. WORLD UNITE/LUCIFER YOUTH FOUNDATION.

manchester based collective.world unite cult.youth.blood.fire.lucifer.dirt.play.kids who have the courage to remain kids.expression.

this video is so fucking dope.

this song is so fucking dope.

this group is so fucking dope.

Established in 1998, The Lucifer Youth Foundation is a non-for-profit organization anchored to the concrete truths of unconditioned youth. The LYF encompases a selection of disciplines including petty crime, détourned design, dolla talk, busting heads, cutting film, scripting-ill literature and playing heavy (pop).

WU LYF - i got dem wu wu busted teef spitting it concrete like the golden sun god.mp3

WU LYF - heavy pop.mp3

IN SEARCH OF ELUSIVE LITTLE COMETS

2011-01-20T19:38:00.003+10:00

i don't know if you saw it but i posted this vid on my facebook page in december. cause this song is wicked indie.

the boys from little comets have their debut album 'in Search of elusive Little Comets' coming out january 21st...but, if you go to their facebook page you can stream the album in it's entirety for free for two weeks before the release. 'her black eyes', 'mathilda' and 'tricolour' are my favourites right now but the whole album is definitely worth a listen. really dope indie-pop.

here's a free download of their alternative version of 'joanna'.

little comets - joannacapella.mp3

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TOSKA

2011-01-18T19:26:00.007+10:00

toska (russian)- vladmir nabokov describes it best: “no single word in english renders all the shades of toska. at its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. at less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. in particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. at the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”

i watched danny boyle's new film 127 hours on the weekend and danny is a genius and james franco delivers and 'festival' by sigur rós plays towards the end and it is perfect and those last six minutes of the movie are adrenaline and ecstasy and this song makes it work and it's from one of my favourite sigur rós albums 'með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust' and the album cover is fucking breathtaking and it was shot by ryan mcginley and he is incredible and you will see his pictures and you will love him too.

sigur rós - festival.mp3

ORCA! STRAIGHT AHEAD!

2011-01-10T16:41:00.001+10:00

ORCA! STRAIGHT AHEAD!: sydney boys john and dane make epic experimental rock/electronic tunes.

they sound a bit like daft punk (particularly in 'work it out') in the vocals and that their music has that kind of dancy disposition. And a bit like cloud nothings in the sense that their songs have a definite pop sensibility to them despite the rawness and filtered vocal delivery. but essentially they are their own monster and they are definitely worth a listen. you can get their debut EP 'you can't say we didn't try' on itunes or at cdbaby.

in their words:

Orca! Straight Ahead! is what happens when you get two people who cannot sing, don't like anybody else enough to include them in the band, and don't think there is such a thing as a bad song.

meant to be.mp3

work it out.mp3

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GOLD PANDA AT ALLONEWORD THIS THURSDAY 13TH JANUARY

2011-01-09T11:25:00.000+10:00

THIS IS GOING TO BE HUGE. GET YOUR TICKETS HERE. NOW.

BUY 'LUCKY SHINER' HERE. PROBABLY MY FAVOURITE ALBUM OF 2010.

FOSTER THE PEOPLE

2011-01-08T11:09:00.004+10:00

new track from FOSTER THE PEOPLE 'helena beat' which will be available on their 'pumped up kicks' EP due on itunes later this month. posted their first single 'pumped up kicks' over at BVD last march, if you haven't heard it yet you should get on that.

helena beat.mp3

aus. tour dates

brisbane: 13th feb @ the zoo - tickets $44.90

sydney: 14th feb @ oxford art factory - tickets $43.50

melbourne: 16th feb @ northcote social club - tickets $43.00

THE FANTASIES

2011-01-07T13:21:00.005+10:00

Photo: Thomas Prior

THE FANTASIES: from northampton. these tracks are huge, the drums via 1960's. got a wicked isley brothers erraticness to them. 'midnight boogie' and 'tick tock' are both available for free download as part of their 'meet the fantasies' EP on bandcamp.

also check out their 'how the fantasies stole christmas!' EP (also on bandcamp). its got more of an instrumental hip/hop feel to it, huge change of pace but again, great tracks.

midnight boogie.mp3

tick tock.mp3

also, for anyone in brisbane, check out the museum of brisbane's 'the stoke' exhibition. a history of skateboarding in brisbane. huge.

CLOSE YOUR EYES AND DREAM B.I.G. LIKE FAITH EVANS

2010-12-22T19:37:00.003+10:00

CLOSE YOUR EYES:

THE BULLITTS starring Jay Electronica &

Lucy Liu as Amelia Sparks:

"And then there was him. Without words, he told me I was all needed. He transformed my entire outlook on life. He made me believe again. And just like that... I was whole."

"I was on to something. I knew there was more. Before there was nothing. With him I had all."

THE BULLITTS:

Monogram hologram, Seeming realistic in a dream, My phonogram, Analogue emotions in a stream, Wave radio, Beautiful fire gasoline my love,

Running like railroad train. Whistle like wind in rain. Bitter moon and sun exchange a glance,
Turn away...

Close your eyes. Radio lies. Here's dynamite sonic in real-time. This is your life. Cradle and knife. Everything grow until die.

Here we go, stereo. Turning volume down again. My merry go, Mystical reflections call a pen, Write heat explode, Falling nearer to the end my love,

Running like railroad train. Whistle like wind in rain. Bitter moon and sun exchange a glance, Turn away...

Close your eyes. Radio lies. Here's dynamite sonic in real-time. This is your life. Cradle and knife. Everything grow until die.

Jay Electronica:

Have you ever had that feeling like you been falling for weeks in a well? I was on the verge of dying like E.T. in the bald spot in the forest, right next to the speak and spell...Tryna phone home but the signal wouldn't reach the cell...Tryna hold on a little longer teeth and nail
without a hand to wipe the tears away from my cheek when they fell. When I couldn't get peace from a pipe or chiefing an L, I thought of the words of pastor Dunn when he said;

"Son, at first they screamed hosanna on the highest then turned around and crucified the christ after a week in jail"

Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains, Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims, The will us much stronger than the flesh, And it only grows stronger when you're going through duress, Imagination is the factory that makes legends...Close Your Eyes and dream B.I.G like Faith Evans.

THUS SPAKE

2010-12-20T20:54:00.009+10:00

photo: thomas prior

When Zarathustra arrived at the nearest town which adjoineth the forest, he found many people assembled in the market-place; for it had been announced that a rope-dancer would give a performance. And Zarathustra spake thus unto the people:   I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man?   All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man?   What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.   Ye have made your way from the worm to man, and much within you is still worm. Once were ye apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes.   Even the wisest among you is only a disharmony and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I bid you become phantoms or plants?   Lo, I teach you the Superman!   The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall he the meaning of the earth!   I conjure you, my brethren, remain true to the earth, and believe not those who speak unto you of superearthly hopes! Poisoners are they, whether they know it or not.   Despisers of life are they, decaying ones and poisoned ones themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so away with them!   Once blasphemy against God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and therewith also those blasphemers. To blaspheme the earth is now the dreadfulest sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!   Once the soul looked contemptuously on the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing:- the soul wished the body meagre, ghastly, and famished. Thus it thought to escape from the body and the earth.   Oh, that soul was itself meagre, ghastly, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of that soul!   But ye, also, my brethren, tell me: What doth your body say about your soul? Is your soul not poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency?   Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.   Lo, I teach you the Superman: he is that sea; in him can your great contempt be submerged.   What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.   The hour when ye say: "What good is my happiness! It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency. But my happiness should justify existence itself!"   The hour when ye say: "What good is my reason! Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food? It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!"   The hour when ye say: "What good is my virtue! As yet it hath not made me passionate. How weary I am of my good and my bad! It is all poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!"   The hour when ye say: "What good is my justice! I do not see that I am fervour and fuel. The just, however, are fervour and fuel!"   The hour when we say: "What good is my pity! Is not pity the cross on which he is nailed who loveth man? But my pity is not a crucifixion."   Have ye ever spoken thus? Have ye ever cried thus? Ah! would that I had heard you crying thus!   It is not your sin- it is your self-satisfaction that crieth unto heaven; your very sparingness in sin crieth unto heaven!   Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which ye should be inoculated?   Lo, I teach you the Superman: he is that lightning, he is that frenzy!-   When Zarathustra had thus spoken, one of the people called out: "We have now heard enough of the rope-dancer; it is time now for us to. see him!" And all the people laughed at Zarathustra. But the rope-dancer, who thought the words applied to him, began his performance.


THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
by Friedrich Nietzsche
translated by Thomas Common

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BONHEUR: HOT SPA+KAREN O AND THE KIDS+JONATHAN BOULET+FUTURE ISLANDS+BON IVER+DAS KAPITAL+THE GOOD NATURED

2010-12-13T18:22:00.003+10:00

photo - harper smith

HOT SPA - kiola beach.mp3

(australian. definitely check out the vid for this one)

KAREN O AND THE KIDS - rumpus.mp3

(watch this film. get this soundtrack.)

JONATHAN BOULET - you're a animal.mp3

(this song is immense)

FUTURE ISLANDS - walking through that door.mp3

(sam herring has THE greatest voice)

BON IVER - skinny love (das kapital rerub).mp3

('skinny love' is the greatest song ever (proof). painfully good. for anyone to even touch it is blasphemy. but this is aight. i kinda dig this.)

THE GOOD NATURED - for the widows in paradise, for the fatherless in ypsilanti (sufjan stevens cover).mp3

(again, the original is unbelievable but these guys have done a good job)

WE COULD GET SO HIGH: DUNE RATS

2010-12-09T19:38:00.000+10:00

DUNE RATS - brisbane boys. uncomplicated surfy powerpoppy lo-fi goodness. no bullshit just simple garagey tunes but they're fucking rad. check them out at woodland on friday. these two songs are up for free download on their unearthed page. are great.

FFO: bleeding knees club, harlem

colour television.mp3

woooo.mp3

myspace .::. jjj unearthed .::. facebook

CONNER YOUNGBLOOD

2010-12-07T19:22:00.004+10:00

CONNER YOUNGBLOOD - this guys got range. 20 year old from dallas, texas, now at yale university. video is him playing 'colour blind (i swear)' just conner and ukelele and soul. great track. 'monsters' (my favourite) is an electronic, almost dubstep hinged alt-pop song. and 'girl hair' is a dreamwavey track that gives alot of sufjan stevens. he's got so much breadth to his talent, covers so many genres. and he's accomplished with guitar, banjo, piano, ukelele. 'colored ghost' EP is definately worth a look, doesn't have a slack track and keeps up the genre bending.

FFO: sufjan stevens, trophy wife, a.r.kane, bon iver

monsters.mp3
girl hair.mp3

myspace .::. soundcloud .::. itunes store

RHYTHMIC POETRY: EMAY

2010-12-06T18:18:00.009+10:00

EMAY - epic talent. i get such a jay electronica vibe when i hear this dude. which is huge. jay electronica is fucking all time. mubarik adams is a poet. producer. rapper. concious wordsmith. and he's only 18. he's also collaborated with two of my favourite artists, star slinger and blackbird blackbird, as the group seeing suge. their single 'breaking' is so fucking dope. be conscious. hear emay. man's got swag.
FFO: jay electronica, blu

myspace .::. bandcamp

EMAY - racist on purpose.mp3

EMAY - if you're breathing.mp3

EMAY - drift rumpus!.mp3
(off his instrumental 'emay, karen o, and the kids' release that dropped in april. uses only samples from the 'where the wild things are' film soundtrack)

SEEING SUGE - breaking.mp3

GIRL TALK - ALL DAY

2010-11-25T16:54:00.005+10:00

girl talk released his latest mix early last week. two years in the making. predictably awesome. predicatably summery and eclectic and happy and danceable and bliss and a must have. just about broke the internet with demand when it came out. head over to illegal art for the download. and get it as one seamless mp3. its better that way. sample list for this thing is about seven and a half pages long. for a 71 minute mix. everything from 50 cent to black sabbath. the clash to britney spears. i've had this mix on repeat at work. cause work is boring and this is not. my favourite girl talk album yet. maybe only cause its fresh. regardless 'all day' definately stacks up with gregg gillis' earlier efforts which were the fucking tits.

here's some tasters;

let it out.mp3
this is the remix.mp3

also, if you haven't already seen it this is definately worth a look, girl talk playing new years eve '09 in chicago. the man can do a live show. can do. catch part two and part three.

IT FALLS ON YOU AND IT FALLS ON ME: JAMIE T

2010-11-15T19:01:00.008+10:00

she's a salvador immigrant, head through a thin wall.a frail hooker, holding her carnal walls.gleaming sky scraper bunker he looked down.laugh hysterically and then he spread around.on hoover street, then he must be alone.the precious little kid cashed the woes.salvadorian girl, she kind of made you spill.her brother mario got shot 4 times in da head.now see poor mario, he caught a hot one. through the lung, now he's done so God bless the man.cocaine moved through that system, like a river forever winding.to the last party of the lower class.even distance, just a bunch of kids who don't wanna finish last.now see the market place has changed the weight of the scale.you either get out and die or go to jail.and your best intentions splinter and frail.and a few weeks of promises and attempts to fail.it's a glass-pipe murder.glass-pipe murder.oh yeah .glass-pipe murder.it's a glass-pipe murder.oh yeah!!! (oh yeah!!!)(oh yeah!!!)(oh yeah!!!)they kick a bottle of beer and a letter.simple things made mario feel better.you see it falls on you and it falls on me.Self-annihilation, catastrophe .two packs of cigarettes for two dollars and seventy cents and a bottle of wine that's been opened and he said, "why do i do this?" a shiver through his body like a bottle of CC.not encouraging reality or me.he said, "It's who I am baby, back to it." off the deep end the record changed .you see, no one stood up and cheered for him .everyone sat down with something that happened.began... to happen.it's an old school dorm mystery.and the handcuffs bleed... it's a glass-pipe murder.glass-pipe murder.oh yeah. glass-pipe murder. it's a glass-pipe murder. oh yeah!!! (oh yeah!!!) (oh yeah!!!) (oh yeah!!!) who was the killer?... it's in the....

jamie t

hoover street (rancid cover).mp3
(rancid own)

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direction home.mp3
(off jamie's 'sticks n stones' EP. boss)

YOUTH - LETTER TO YESTERDAY

2010-11-14T19:59:00.003+10:00

As I was in full and celestial flight of my mid-youth I heard a voice to say that it was my fate to lose all that I had made or won just to sink into an unforgiving grave.
I doubted this like any other rumour of youth and carried on so far above all others whom I now know dealt in death so poorly - all of them accepting the servitude and not the mastery of their own peril.
They were so convinced, in fact, that they would have me believe it too, to spread their wicked fates more thinly and thus less hard to bare and conspired, as plague, to rob me of my very life which was so bounteously alien to theirs.
Their phantom lies of life and death proposed so confidently sung -- a choir of idiots - handing out pilfered lessons from a cardboard box.
Live! Die! they wail, missing teeth.
I refuse to live your folded life and die in the flames of your own death because I do not accept them!
I am the master of my own creation.
I am my own crooked messiah; I have saved myself from simmering damnations in a sea of sodden fools and I do not reside above or below your conjured rivet-less stage.
I am too far away for that.
You are the string-less puppets of my own ordained screen and you are performing very well indeed. Play on! Play on! Touchstones, play on!

Have you seen the motorcar magazines?
If that is a metaphor then it is a sad one.
I will be a tyrant of my own proclamations and a pike-man at Bannockburn.
I will sell you jack rabbits a'shack Mississippi Moon sky plain full of night-less wonders.
Sweet tasting super juice among reeds and the skirt of a young banished girl flying wild in technicolour plumage high on a cool Delta red moon breeze.
The same brook breath that chimes in and wrestles with the branches of trees and the fur of prairie creatures.
The dust of the bedroom floor is the dust of the road too.
The wolf is a good friend and he travels too through the night.
Hiding in shadows of the faint moonlight spread like a quilt over the parched hot earth.
He is well adjusted to this world during which most are asleep and elsewhere; his soft pads caress sand and stone and fibre and his sobriety seeks and feels each thistle hair, each hidden player of the cricket choir, the course and the current of the wandering air and all others, the beetles hopscotch journey through hell; architect of sand like mountain boulders, and though he is not of man, he knows there is something lurking in the dark, some thing that makes him tread quickly over the open road and peering down a heavenly corridor of corn and suspect the worse, then spooked, moves on.
Stalked by some unknown enemy behind the darkness and beyond the light of red dawn.
With a single breath, he knows the majesty of our unreason.

The small Red Indian girl's neck and breast makes me swell with love, with night, with her grey brown ancestors.
I taste the pines and conifer needles beneath her skin, the icy spring and fresh pools full of glimmering trout.
If they do come looking, tell them this is where I lie.

And to those who are do not play at theatre; the malcontent, the malevolent, the mad.
I beseech you to toss off these tailored robes that fit your rounded shoulder too well and pick up your drum to beat out the sound of the death of everything before their vacant eyes.
Everything that is plain, that is grey must perish.
To make your humble creator proud that when you fell bloodline to the stars and inherited the sky, the earth and the heart of all that is that you sounded the first call to arms.
The call to bring on the death of everything so that we will no longer have to conjure our own illusive heavens.

FEET ON THE GROUND/HEAD IN THE SKY: CHAD VALLEY + TEEN DAZE + HOMEBOI

2010-11-12T18:32:00.002+10:00

CHAD VALLEY - is the name of a uk toy brand. is also the name of hugo manuel's solo chillwave project. this stuff is bliss. way chill, jungle/beach hymns from oxford, uk. debut 12" comes out at the end of the month.
FFO: we say bamboulee, star slinger

up and down.mp3
anything.mp3

TEEN DAZE - washy dream pop/chillwave from canada. debut 'four more years' came out in july. posted some of his other tracks back in august here. 'everywhere' is off the 'cold house b/w everywhere' digital 7" he did last month.
FFO: blackbird blackbird, unouomedude

watch over me.mp3
everywhere.mp3

HOMEBOI - 20 year old marcin sleziona of germany. got a bit of a posse going with the likes of nautic (16 years old, 'get satisfied' and his 'shrimps' remix are definately worth a look) and ohyeah. shrimps is a fucking tune, such an epic beat. been playing this song on repeat on my way home from work for the last two weeks.
FFO: seekae, darkstar

Shrimps by Homeboi

fonzi & dastie - freitag (homeboi remix).mp3

HEAR THE WAY HE TALKS: GOLDEN GLOW

2010-11-07T15:40:00.004+10:00

photo courtesy of hobbsy.com

i get a really joy division/velvet underground vibe when i listen to your songs. are they big influences on your music?

Totally. VU probably more than Joy Division, despite the obvious Manchester connections. I am a massive Nico fan. Chelsea Girl is one of my favourite ever albums, so beautiful. I love the first VU album too, and Loaded. They were ahead of their time, and obviously completely experimental, but underneath all that was always great songs. Some dark but some amazingly beautiful, like Femme Fatale. I love the whole scene thing too. I think there are definite parallels to be drawn between Warhols Factory scene and Tony Wilsons here in Manchester.
Its hard to escape the Joy Division comparisons, living here;- i love She's Lost Control and Transmission. Dark and desperate, but poetic too.
I think the main thing you realise living here for a while, is despite all the backstory and subsequent legacy, those guys were just 4 lads in a room, being a band. I think the similarities in our sound come more from just living in the same rainy city, and feeding off the architecture and the landscape.

manchester's association with music goes back a long way, and there's been some great stuff coming out of the city recently. does being surrounded by so much music feed your creativity, or does it feel like it makes it hard to get into your own headspace and be original?

A bit of both i suppose. Sometimes its suffocating, and can make you think 'oh i should be sounding like this' but you see things come and go and slowly begin to realise its all completely inconsequential. What works in the moment isn't something that can be dictated.
Plus it always great when someone local does something epic and blows your mind all over again. It's inspiring.

your myspace lists quite a few authors as influences (hunter s thomson, f scott fitzgerald, william s burroughs) is lyricism very important to you in your song writing?

Yeah - but not just in my songs and poems, more in my life in general. As you get older you realise everyone is on this planet for the first time, experiencing it for the first time, unaware of what may happen. I believe the only way to learn is to read what those who've been before have said. It can only do you good. Reading is something that is very personal too. Its the only medium that has transcended all generations without much technological interference. Its totally based on the power of the imagination of the individual. Its pretty powerful. I don't necessarily try and reference it in my songs on purpose, just hope that some of it seeps in the style and essence of what i'm doing.

and is writing something that comes naturally to you, or is it a laboured process?

Peaks and troughs. I think it is natural, but its easy to get lazy, plus the environment has to be right. Obviously i have periods of blankness, but i think everyone does. I'm not one of those people though who can be like 'right today i'm going to write a song'.. It doesn't really work like that..(for me).

you've done some stuff with holiday records. how was it working with those guys?

Really good. I started speaking to Jacob (The Drums) when i was going through a pretty dark period of my life, recovering from a car accident, i couldn't walk for 6 months, and that was actually when i wrote and recorded most of the album.
Someone saying they like your music is always complimentary, which gives u confidence and makes you feel like someone, somewhere likes what you are doing. Its also good to know there are still people like that that exist, genuine music lovers that do stuff for the love of doing it. As well as similar tastes we have similar DIY style ethics, and obviously because of the press attention they were getting, it shone a bit of light on me. Great guys.

what kind of music did you listen to growing up?

Pretty much only Michael Jackson until i was about 14. I was obsessed, still am. I loved the whole pop star thing as a concept, as a life. Aside from that The Beatles, a lot of Motown, a lot of Lovers Rock stuff my Mum played growing up in London, and a lot of 60s stuff, the girl groups (Shirelles, Ronettes, Shangri-Las).. it wasn't really until i was about 16 when i discovered the guitar that i started to like indie.

first album you bought?

Michael Jackson - Off The Wall.

if you could name one song/band/musician that made you want to make music who/what would it be?

Michael Jackson.

if you could name one song/band/musician that made you want to stop making music who/what would it be?

No one really - i don't think its really possible to switch it off.
If anything, the only thing makes me want to stop making music is those that are so good you kinda think, 'whats the point? i'll never reach those heights' aka Radiohead. But you soon realise there's a place for everything.

what are you listening to at the moment?

Still Corners, Cloud Nothings, 2.54, Warpaint, Boxed In.. A lot of new bands.

band i haven't heard that i should know?

Shimmering Stars. (myspace/starsshimmer)

website you spend way to much time on?

Facebook.

what does the next 12 months hold for golden glow?

We have a vinyl coming out in January on Bleeding Gold Records called 'Tender Is The Night'. Very limited, 300 copies, 12-inch gold vinyl. 10-tracks all composed, performed and produced by myself. Dead lo-fi, kinda a collection of all my demos and previous EPs so far in one cohesive package. I can't wait. After that we'll see what happens, the band is going good so I imagine it'll start getting a bit more collaborative.

golden glow is. pierre hall. is great. myspace here.

TRIPPED. FELL. KNEES. BLED: BLEEDING KNEES CLUB ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS

2010-11-02T15:30:00.005+10:00

Latest tracks by Bleeding Knees Club

how'd bleeding knees club come to be. give us a birth story?

Me and Jordan have been friends since we were like 2 the I guess about a year ago we both didnt have jobs and were super bored so Jordan thought he would buy a crappy drum kit for $100 and set it up in his back shed and started jamming. Then one day Jordan was putting on an warehouse party at the Sunshine Coast and we decided we would play at it so we played 4 really shit songs,,,, then a few months later our instruments had crazy sex and we gave birth to 2 demos and thats when I guess everything started to happen.

what kind of music did you listen to growing up?

I think my first CD was the Men in Black sound track

your sound is relatively unique for an australian band. apart from the more obvious influences, bands like wavves and harlem, who else has impacted on your music?

Casey Donavan, Shannon Knoll, Guy Sebastian

was lo-fi a conscious decision from the start or just something that came as a natural progression from your garage sessions, to try and keep that raw/scrappy kind of vibe?

Yeah I guess, we wanted to sounds as shit and garage as we could.

you signed with i oh you earlier this year and just released your debut ep. what was the recording experience like?

It was real cool, We recorded at our friend Mark Duckworth's Studio, which is this little home made studio behind a sneaker shop. Mark is the raddest dude you will ever meet and he knew the kinda sound we were going for so it made it easy for us and we are super stoked on how the recordings came out.

how's the transition been from playing to crowds of mostly friends and casual one night stands on the gold coast to mostly strangers and potential one night stands in other cities?

Its been pretty cool so far. Most of the cities we have played at have liked us and I like playing to strangers more cause you never have to see them again and I guess the same goes with one night stands.

if you could name one song/musician/band that made you want to make music what/who would it be?

Casey Donavan

if you could name one song/musician/band that made you want to stop making music what/who would it be?

Mark Ronson - the bike song Worst song on the radio atm. I feel stupid when i ride my bike now

what are you listening to at the moment?

Total Slacker

what are some up and coming bands i should be listening to?

Bleeding Knees Club

bleeding knees club: is alex wall and jordan malane. is playing at the zoo this friday (5th november) with yacht club djs. tickets here.

buy the EP 'virginity' (itunes or jb hi-fi).
cos.
its heaps good.

check their myspace or da blog for more tour details.

WHERE IS MY MIND? PIXIES, GOBBLE GOBBLE, EMMY THE GREAT, MAXENCE CYRIN

2010-10-31T10:10:00.007+10:00

photo courtesy of william eadon

this is a tune. GOBBLE GOBBLE thrashes the pixies' 'where is my mind?' with his own signature sound but he's managed to keep the same feeling in the song. the raddest cover of a huge track. more GOBBLE GOBBLE here.

GOBBLE GOBBLE - where is my mind? (pixies blasphemy).mp3

the original and two more great but entirely different covers:

PIXIES - where is my mind?.mp3

EMMY THE GREAT - where is my mind?(pixies cover).mp3

MAXENCE CYRIN - where is my mind?(pixies cover).mp3
(this also has a great video up on youtube)

WE SAY BAMBOULEE

2010-10-29T18:52:00.007+10:00

We Say Bamboulée - genuinely excited by these guys. pure pop bliss. doug wright with brothers, peter and russell fitzgibbon from the blue mountains, deliver sun-drenched indie/pop with definate winks to chillwave. if you're in sydney on november 4th they're having their 'bush tricks' EP launch at goodgod small club in liverpool street (EP comes out november 8th). russell and doug also make music as fishing, a more instrumental, jungly sound but just as poppy and catchy.
FFO: seekae, the naked and famous

waiting in wisconsin.mp3

solid gold.mp3

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fishing - oooo.mp3

BREATHLESS.RECKLESS: SIRIUSMO + BAHWEE + JAMES BLAKE + YOUNG MONTANA + HARD MIX

2010-10-25T18:56:00.001+10:00

SIRIUSMO - moritz friedrich. frequent modeselektor collaborator who refuses to perform live except for family birthdays. is a berlin based artist (paintings, illustrations, graffiti). signed to monkeytown records. latest release 'the plasterer of love' EP came out in july. is great. song title 'einmal in der woche schreien' translates to 'cry once a week' or something similar.
FFO: mr oizo, das glow

einmal in der woche schreien.mp3

nights off.mp3

BAHWEE - californian beat-maker. part of the my hollow drum collective. 'flavours' is his beattape. you can get it here. great hip/hop beats.
FFO: flying lotus, dimlite

walkright.mp3
stars.mp3

JAMES BLAKE: electronic/dubstep producer from london. only 21 years old he's already got four solid realeases behind him. the latest being the 'klavierwerke' EP, which came out earlier this month. he's got a recognizable style and i'm predicting some great, progressive releases from this guy in future.
FFO: mount kimbie, deadboy

CMYK.mp3
limit to your love.mp3

YOUNG MONTANA: jon pritchard of coventry, uk. instrumental beats with a hip/hop sampling bent. if you haven't seen the video for sacre cool yet you need to watch it. check out his fader interview too.
FFO: star slinger, madlib

sacre cool.mp3

hot heathrr.mp3

HARD MIX: loungey lo-fi electronica laden with diverse samples. he's with the heart music group check out 'the tribe' EP they dropped the other day featuring COOL RUNNINGS, baths, fol chen, baths, wise blood and star slinger. up for free download at bandcamp.
FFO: teen daze, blackbird blackbird

memories.mp3
alright.mp3

I COULD STAY HERE. BECOME SOMEONE ELSE:DARWIN DEEZ+COLD WAR KIDS+EDDY CURRENT+TALES IN SPACE+BEST COAST+BLEEDING KNEES CLUB+J-RODDY WALSTON

2010-10-24T11:21:00.003+10:00

DARWIN DEEZ - scar tissue (red hot chilli peppers cover).mp3
(jjj like a version)

COLD WAR KIDS - royal blue.mp3

EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - colour television.mp3
(jonathan boulet does a great cover of this on jjj's latest like a version cd 'volume six')

TALES IN SPACE - fuss about.mp3
(jjj unearthed, sydney)

BEST COAST - i want to.mp3

BLEEDING KNEES CLUB - bad guys.m4A
(debut EP 'virginity' came out on friday. get it. see them at the zoo november 5th w/ yacht club djs (tickets) and on the 19th for their EP launch at woodland.)

J-RODDY WALSTON AND THE BUSINESS - brave man's death.mp3

UNTITLED: TEX PERKINS & MURRAY PATTERSON + ELLIOTT SMITH + COMA CINEMA + AEXANDER + TALLEST MAN ON EARTH + FLORENCE + THE MACHINE + ERIN K & TASH

2010-10-18T18:12:00.012+10:00

TEX PERKINS AND MURRAY PATTERSON - beautiful kate (main theme).m4a
(stunning track from the soundtrack perkins and patterson did for the australian movie 'beautiful kate' > segue > saw 'animal kingdom'. epic australian crime film. epic.)

ELLIOT SMITH - angel in the snow.mp3

COMA CINEMA - desolation's plan.mp3

ALEXANDER - truth.mp3
(edwards sharpe and the magnetic zeros singer alex ebert gone solo)

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH - the dreamer.mp3

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE - i'm goin' down (feat. KID HARPOON ).mp3

ERIN K & TASH - coins.mp3

I THINK I MADE YOU UP INSIDE MY HEAD: SILVER SWANS + THE NAKED AND FAMOUS + ECSTATIC SUNSHINE+ DARKSTAR

2010-10-12T05:15:00.006+10:00

SILVER SWANS - name born from comic books (the silver swans are from the wonder woman series, each has the ability to create powerful sound waves with her voice). san francisco collaboration between producer/musician jon waters and vocalist ann yu. really atmospheric music and yu's ethereal vocals give it some drama. 'secrets' is an epic, dreamy lullaby.
FFO (for fans of): the knife, the xx

secrets.mp3

anyone's ghost (the national cover).mp3

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS - these guys from auckland are the business. if you haven't got their debut LP 'passive me, aggressive you' yet get it here. playing at the club house on november 6th. tickets here. check out this live session.
FFO: passion pit, ou est le swimming pool

punching in a dream.mp3
all of this.mp3

ECSTATIC SUNSHINE - matt papich. i saw this guy open for wavves at cargo in london on my birthday back in july. such a good night. experimental/minimalist kind of stuff but its got such a cool vibe. very unique. you can get a digital copy of 'yesterdays work' here, or email him at ecstaticsunshine@gmail.com with your deets to get him to send the 12" + download card (something like $25-30 incl shipping).
FFO: blithe field, julian lynch

space sick.mp3
conch.mp3

DARKSTAR - progressive/experimental dubstep from london. debut LP 'north' set for release in november with hyperdub.
FFO: deadboy, joy orbison

aidy's girl is a computer.mp3
automating.mp3

ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER STRUGGLE: BUCK 65+E-DUBBLE+KANYE WEST+CHIDDY BANG+MAC MILLER+FREDDIE GIBBS+GILBERE FORTE+CHILDISH GAMBINO+BRENTON DUVALL

2010-10-08T18:55:00.005+10:00

BUCK 65 - paper airplane feat. jenn grant.mp3
(from jjj's free downloads section)

E-DUBBLE - get on board.mp3
(check out his freestyle fridays. fucking sick)

KANYE WEST - lost in the world.mp3
(samples BON IVER'S 'woods' from his 'blood bank' EP)

CHIDDY BANG - young blood (feat. the naked and famous).mp3
(they played this for jjj's like a version. win.)

MAC MILLER - kool aid & frozen pizza.mp3

FREDDIE GIBBS - the ghetto.mp3

GILBERE FORTE - cold summer feat. brian underwood.m4a
(see more gilbere here)

CHILDISH GAMBINO - bitch look at me now (two weeks).mp3
(danny glover from 'community'. that show is the tits)

BRENTON DUVALL - stop making sense (BIG and snoop).mp3
(more brenton duvall here)

LADIES IS TROUBLE: I BLAME COCO + COCOROSIE + AMY CUSHWAY + ELEANOR SEABIRD

2010-10-05T21:58:00.011+10:00

I BLAME COCO - i blame coco sumner. i blame sting's daughter. she makes great intelligent pop music. been listening to her for a couple of months and for some reason never posted her. debut 'the constant' is out in november, definately worth a look.

FFO(for fans of): ellie goulding, marina & the diamonds

self machine.mp3
caesar ft robyn (miike snow remix).mp3

COCO ROSIE - these sisters are the business. released their fourth long play 'grey oceans' in may and its brilliant. get it here. i posted 'lemonade' from the album here.

FFO: joanna newsom, the knife

r.i.p. burn face.mp3
surfer girl.mp3

AMY CUSHWAY - gold coast alt pop musician. in her words; 'I write alternative pop anthems, I am a Taurus, I have lost two finger nails to both the acoustic and electric guitar, I can't keep still when I play (I should get that looked at) and remember, the most rebellious thing you can ever do is to come to my show and bring your whole damn family!' . these two tracks are off her unearthed page but you can get lasy year's 'love's not anorexic' EP here.
FFO: laura imbruglia, emmy the great

take time take me.mp3
little overweight for tv.mp3

ELEANOR SEABIRD - london based. sent this track through a few days ago it features on her new release 'the elle p'. wordplay. genius. get it here. in her words; 'It's pop and whilst I can appreciate super underground indie type things which I used to do earlier, I just kinda got back to what I do best; catchy, simple, withdepth woven into a good hook.' dig it.
FFO: blondie, lily allen/karen o

rescue me.mp3

SEX DRUGS AND MONEY, OR HOW I FOUND HAPPINESS: G-EAZY + GILBERE FORTE + BRENTON DUVALL

2010-10-05T15:42:00.009+10:00

G-EAZY - great production on 'waspy'. tennis's 'marathon' is a great track in its own right but this is a killer beat right here. check his bandcamp for some free/pay what you feel music.

waspy (feat. tennis).mp3
coming home (feat. bryce vine).mp3

GILBERE FORTE - released his debut '87 dreams' this year. guys been writing songs for 11 years and he's only 23. he's getting attention for his sampling, same vein as hoodie allen and chiddy bang.

dog days are over (yeasayer remix) feat. gilbere forte.mp3
1st floor (feat. freelance whales).mp3

BRENTON DUVALL - guys a remix/mashup genius. great music taste too. get 'the potomac boys club demos' here. stupid good. biggie, raekwon, jay-z, hall & oates, gary jules and j0nsi are all there.

that's all (remix feat. gucci mane).mp3
that tree (snoop and cudi vs the xx).mp3

I AM A CROSSWORD GENIUS: GOBBLE GOBBLE + SEEKAE + WISE BLOOD + JAMIE XX

2010-10-03T12:36:00.009+10:00

GOBBLE GOBBLE - hectic. like aural strobes hectic. like, fuck...heart attack glitches 'n business. like a hailstorm, except instead of hail stones its sparks falling from the heavens.

like a sparkstorm.

and all the electrical devices are going nuts and doc emmett brown's delorean is playing up cos the sparkstorm is affecting the plutonium so he can't go back to the future to realign the space time continuum and tv screens are all black and white ants and the children are screaming SCREAMING because their playstations and xboxes arent working anymore and someone somewhere is crying curled up on the floor cos they went to go on facebook but their computer was fried just like the chicken they used to buy from kfc before they went bust cos they couldn't refridgerate their produce due to the FUCKING SPARKSTORM THAT GOBBLE GOBBLE CAUSED WITH THEIR FUCKING EPILEPTIC MUSIC.

but honestly i kind of love this music and i definately exaggerated how hectic it is. a bit. it sounds like a mixture of teen daze and dan friel.

lawn knives.mp3
eat sun, son.mp3

SEEKAE - sydney three-piece. ambient shoegazy goodness. playing the zoo with cloud control and deep sea arcade on friday 22nd of october (tickets), and then back in brisneyland again on monday 6th of december supporting broadcast at the hi-fi (tickets).

void.mp3
blood bank.mp3

WISE BLOOD - know nothing about this dude...so i'll make something up. real name hugo montiel. 19 year old born and raised in montreal to a protestant mother and a journalist father. began his musical career after encouragement from his biological father moby. get the 5-track ep '+' at his bandcamp. its superb.

STRT SRNS.mp3
B.I.G. E.G.O.mp3

JAMIE (FROM THE XX) - (curly haired dude that does all their remixes and production) premiered this on xfm recently. its part of an as yet unnamed solo project and its the fucking tits.

far nearer (radio rip).mp3

SHAKE

2010-09-22T22:04:00.008+10:00

sky ferreira - one.mp3
the knocks - when you've got music.mp3
aiva the great - broken lines.mp3
phoenix - run run run.mp3
the drums - when i come home.mp3
alex winston - medicine.mp3
dan black - drowninginthedark.mp3
the pass - trap of mirrors.mp3

CLOUD NOTHINGS + TOTAL WARR + HOUSES

2010-09-22T19:02:00.004+10:00

photo via JUST MISSED US

CLOUD NOTHINGS - 19y.o. dylan baldi of cleveland, ohio. lo-fi indie rock

hey cool kid.mp3
i apologize.mp3

TOTAL WARR - paris, france. synth crack guitar ambience. EP on the way. don't be fooled/put off/vomit just because of the name. don't judge a book...

gangsta rap.mp3
i don't need your friendship.mp3

HOUSES - check their story here. debut 'all night' out with lefse in october. comforting ambient arrangements from the chicago-based couple.

soak it up.mp3
houses/teen daze - bikes.mp3

i never felt a part of anything. i felt apart from everything.

2010-09-16T17:23:00.011+10:00

I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand. Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man? New sensations barely interest me for another day. I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, take the shock away. It's getting faster, moving faster now, it's getting out of hand. On the tenth floor, down the back stairs, it's a no man's land. Lights are flashing, cars are crashing, getting frequent now. I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it out somehow. What means to you, what means to me, and we will meet again. I'm watching you, I'm watching her, I take no pity from your friends. Who is right, who can tell, and who gives a damn right now? Until the spirit, new sensation takes hold, then you know. Until the spirit, new sensation takes hold, then you know. Until the spirit, new sensation takes hold, then you know. I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling. I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling. Feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling.
joy division 'disorder'

the tallest man on earth - the gardner.mp3
(this guy does a fantastic cover of paul simon's 'graceland'. posted it here)

lady of the sunshine - lady sunshine.mp3
(props to andrew for getting me to check this album out)

ernest ellis - loveless.m4a
(finally got around to buying 'hunting' this week. such a good album. get it here)

life without buildings - the leanover.mp3
(star slinger sample's this for 'may i walk with you' here)

joy division - disorder.mp3
(epic band. epic song. have you seen control? watch control)

pixies - wave of mutilation.mp3
(black francis is way the fuck ugly)

wavves - take on the world.mp3
(buy king of the beach. fucking do it)

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also. watch this. spike jonze is the tits.

I LIKE YOU MOSTLY LATE AT NIGHT: GOLD PANDA + LITTLE LOUD + STAR SLINGER

2010-09-06T20:35:00.006+10:00

massive fan of these guys and their style. little glo-fi. little chillwave. little glitch. little hip/hop

gold panda - uk artist, built his rep on the back of some great remixes(little boots, telepathe, health) before releasing his own japanese/vhs inspired minimal techno hip/hop tunes.

you.mp3
telepathe - chrome's on it (gold panda remix).mp3

little loud -another uk producer. been following this guy since i heard his remix of memory house's 'bicycle'. so far he's only released remixes and this cover but his blog promises that original tunes are on the way.

dancing in the dark (bruce springsteen cover).m4a
yeasayer -madder red (little loud remix).mp3

star slinger - uk. again. darren williams self-releases his own instrumental hip/hop tunes. sample-laden beat tapes showcasing his eclectic and excellant taste in music along with some crafty remix's are all available on his site, strongly recommend you get them. exhibit A for his music taste: this first track samples life without buildings' 'the leanover'. get 'the leanover' here.
**these are both serious tunes. must download.

may i walk with you?.mp3
rollerskaters - sleep tight (star slinger remix).mp3

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS

2010-09-06T18:48:00.003+10:00

The Naked And Famous's Debut Album 'Passive Me, Aggressive You' is out now.

Purchase it here:

iTunes (NZ) or Bandcamp

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I posted their hit 'Young Blood' here the other day. You can also grab a free download of their cover of The Mint Chick's song 'Crazy Yes Dumb No' by signing up to the mailing list on their website.

They'll be in Brisbane this Thursday (9th September) playing BIG SOUND at the Artisan Gallery Outdoor Stage.

Holy Rollers + RAC

2010-09-05T16:30:00.004+10:00

this film look okay. despite how annoying jesse eisenberg's face is he is pretty much exclusively in good films (squid and the whale, adventureland, zombieland). but the soundtrack is the real reason i want to see it. RAC (remix artist collective) make great music. check the soundcloud page and have a listen. most of the remix's are up for free download.

RAC - if you forget me (feat. liset alea).mp3
this is the song in the trailer above

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edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros - janglin (RAC mix).mp3

edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros - home (RAC mix).mp3

RAC - super mario bros (RAC mix).mp3

SLACKER: bleeding knees club + coma cinema + teen daze + wavves + no age

2010-08-31T16:43:00.011+10:00

been listening to these a lot lately, bit o' lo-fi/surf/skate/gaze

bleeding knees club - locals. playing i oh you's warehouse party on wednesday. good.

have fun.mp3
i.mp3

coma cinema - mat cothran. free. good.

have you?.mp3
bath of time.mp3

teen daze - good cover. reverb. good band.

wet hair (japandroids cover).mp3
driving home from the beach (the feeling of).mp3

wavves - lo-fi. saw him in london. great. fuzz.

cool jumper.mp3
so bored.mp3

no age - skate. energy. good.

glitter.mp3
eraser.mp3

I OH YOU

2010-08-30T20:30:00.006+10:00

I OH YOU ARE A GROUP OF KIDS FROM A SHARE HOUSE IN MELBOURNE.

WE THROW SWEET PARTIES

WE RELEASE SWEET RECORDS

WE LIKE TO PARTY

WE LIKE YOU

this party should be immense

i oh you
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i oh you brisbane

bleeding knees club
big fan of these guys. they're touring with yacht club djs in oct/nov

guineafowl

comic sans

SEPTEMBER: BRISBANE FESTIVAL + BIG SOUND 2010 + VALLEY FIESTA

2010-08-30T17:19:00.008+10:00

.any excuse for a party.

brisbane festival:
arts festival kicking off with riverfire on the 4th, and running till the 25th of september, with theatre, dance, music, visual displays and talks. first aid kit, oh mercy, old man river, paul dempsey, the gin club + many more will be performing.

big sound 2010:
this is such a great initiative. it's a music industry summit and showcase running from the 8th-10th of september. six venues (including two outdoor stages) hosting 60 great artists over two nights (wednesday 8th and thursday 9th). tickets for one night (30 acts) are only $27.50+bf with a two night pass costing $44+bf. Venues include the brisbane marketing stage bakery lane, ric's bar, the artisan gallery stage, the club house @ tempo hotel, the troubadour, and the zoo.

this is just some of the lineup;

ball park music
big scary
boy & bear
children collide
daniel lee kendall
ernest ellis
jinja safari
last dinosaurs
love connection
ruby frost
the naked & famous
the vasco era
washington

the valley fiesta:
is a not for profit, free, brisbane street party running from friday 10th-sunday 12th of september. music, art, food , fashion all on show in brisbane's own fortitude valley. dan parsons, the love connection, ball park music, jinja safari, tom thum, last dinosaurs, and yacht club djs will be there. check the program here.

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...some relevant music

first aid kit - heavy storm.mp3

oh mercy - lay everything on me.mp3

big scary - autumn.mp3

boy & bear - mexican mavis.mp3

daniel lee kendall - lost in the moment.mp3

ernest ellis - when i feel like jesus' son the world will feel much different.mp3

jinja safari - peter pan.mp3

the naked & famous - young blood.mp3

washington - rich kids.mp3

a little or a lot

2010-08-25T15:25:00.007+10:00

cee-lo green - cee-lo fucking bleeeds r&b. have so much respect for how he's brought funk and soul back into the mainstream. whether it's through his work with gnarles barkley or other collaborators or in his solo work he makes a great genre relevant to a whole generation that it could've been lost to. his new solo album 'the lady killer' is due later this year

fuck you.mp3
no one's gonna love you(band of horses cover).mp3

dan black - great hip/hop influenced electro-pop. he'll be out here for parklife. these tunes are off his 'weird science' mixtape. debut album 'UN' is out now.

spank the cure till brooklyn.mp3
slave to paper.mp3

daniel lee kendall - is from central coast, nsw. these are really great pop songs. sounds like a little bit of jonathan boulet, little bit of whitley and alot of daniel lee kendall. he's in brisbane for big sound in september. check his unearthed page for free downloads and show your support.

a long way.mp3
the point is.mp3

hip hop is a state of mind

2010-08-19T16:18:00.008+10:00

this guy's a fucking brilliant artist

PaperMonster Ate That Little Boy @ Vincent Michael Gallery Time-Lapse from PaperMonster on Vimeo.

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now for some hip hop.

my sick uncle - lil wayne Vs (500) days of summer OST = (500) days of weezy. a mixtape of acapella weezy over samples built from the (500) days of summer soundtrack. verse like...

'she pulled me over... pulled me out the rover
then she pulled me closer... do me in the back of the car
Put me in handcuffs start ripping my pants off'

...over regina spektor's 'us' should sound like sacrilege. but it doesn't. it sounds great. get the full mixtape here.

fear forever.mp3
here comes your milli.mp3

hoodie allen - new york based rapper doing what chiddy bang did so well last year. takes hooky indie tunes, mixes, layers with verse, and produces good summertime hip hop.

words of wisdom (feat. two door cinema club).mp3
you are not a robot (feat. marina & the diamonds).mp3

mouth's cradle - solid summery mix of hip hop, pop and electronica. facebook bio;

'Kevin Hegedus made music with his body ... Brandon Linn made mashups... they met at a party...they formed Mouth's Cradle and havent made a weak beat since.'

summertime.mp3
front porch/back porch.mp3

k.flay - according to her...

'i currently live in san francisco, hobnobbing with lunatics and writing music. i’ve played shows all over the country with a bunch of different artists. this past fall, i wrote, produced, and recorded a non-edible mixtape called MASHed Potatoes. if you were to put hip hop, indie rock, and electronic music in a blender, it would sound like me.'

get the MASHed Potatoes mixtape here

2 weak.mp3
paper planes & spitballs feat. mc lars.mp3

isaiah and hovey -richmond, VA based duo isiah clements (rapper) and hovey benjamin (producer) released their debut 'dante's love inferno machine' in may.

kerosene.mp3
fidelity.mp3

binary star - alt hip/hop group formed in '98 composed of pontiac, michigan rappers one be lo and senim silla. their debut album 'waterworld' which was recorded, mixed and mastered on a $500 budget. all verses were recorded in one take.

honest expression.mp3
reality check.mp3

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also, i finished reading dave eggers's 'a heartbreaking work of staggering genius' this morning. phenomenal. he writes so vibrantly, so real, so inclusively that it's hard not become emotionally invested in even his most trivial thoughts and actions. and it's the understated moments that cut deepest, his anger and almost innocent hope, and always that underlying fury, feeding him, polarising his opinions. his work is heartbreaking and staggering and genius. it's so good, i mean so fucking good. you have to read it. you must. you owe it to yourself and to the author. he is owed.

we are young and stupid

2010-08-18T20:56:00.008+10:00

imagine a world without terror and pain where it's always sunny no thunder no rain where dreams are reality and they always come true where everyone's happy and they all smile at you where the colours are bright and the people are nice where it's always easy no roll of the dice no greed or possession money doesn't exist no lust or temptation to try and resist a world full of love and beauty and peace where the hating would stop and the wars would cease where the animals play and the people don't lie where the flowers don't wilt and the children don't cry imagine this world imagine the bliss imagine the pain and the sorrow you'd miss

bright yellow -nice and agreeable.mp3

the morning benders - stitches.mp3

radical face -doorways.mp3

s. carey - in the stream.mp3

radiohead - videotape.mp3

dead man's bones - young and tragic.mp3

big scary - thinking about you.mp3

lady of the sunshine - home sweat home.mp3

bear bones - the great escape.mp3

up, down, top, bottom, strange, charm

2010-08-10T18:49:00.009+10:00

alex winston - pull my heart away (jack penate cover).mp3

whitley - more than life.m4a
brilliant at splendour in the grass, he played a great set mixing solo renditions of tracks from his debut release 'the submarine' and full band efforts for 2009's 'go forth, find mammoth'. this track was a favourite.

justin vernon - sides.mp3
this man a god. every single song he writes or performs is magic. this is no exception.

corte real - siberia.mp3
young. french. and awesome.

tokyo police club -favourite food.mp3
i used to listen to these guys so much a few years ago and i'm just rediscovering them. this song's off their 2010 release 'champ'.

the drums - i'll never frop my sword.mp3
played a solid set at splendour. i love how melancholy most of their songs are, especially compared to 'let's go surfing' the song that got them so much attention in the beginning.

radical face - welcome home.mp3
i know nothing about this guy except that he is brilliant.

the cranberries - dreams.mp3
fell in love with the cranberries all over again when passion pit covered this song at splendour.

error operator - follow.mp3
the vocals make this track. its taken from the film 'network'. check the speech here.
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passion pit - dreams (the cranberries cover).mp3
undoubtedly the highlight of splendour in the grass 2010. passion pit were outstanding, so much energy in the crowd and the band looked as though they were having fun. this cover live was incredible.

fields of splendour

2010-08-02T17:24:00.002+10:00

got back from splendour in the grass on monday. so scattered i couldn't talk and so fucking hungry, so hungry.

but what a festival. what a festival site.

here's some highlights;

1. passion pit launching into a brilliant cover of the cranberries 'dreams' (i'll post it later)

2. the guy standing, stark naked, on another man's shoulders, in the mosh for florence and the machine

3. yacht club dj's incorporating the roger ramjet theme song into an epic set

4. the MOST excellant ampitheatre stage. a beautiful natural arena.

5. hot showers at the reserve campsite

6. delphic's set

7. frightened rabbit doing a brilliant rendition of 'my backwards walk'

8. the whole of boy & bear, two members of passion pit and julia stone joining mumford & sons onstage for a raucus hoedown

9. whitley's entire set, which included a cover of 'dancing queen'

10. the joy formidable set

we will become vital

2010-06-09T19:52:00.003+10:00

gregory & the hawk - boats and birds

kathryn calder - slip away

his girl friday - end credits (chase and status cover)

s. carey - in the dirt

the drums - baby that's not the point

shugo tokumaru - rum hee

the morning benders - cold war (nice clean fight)

rafter - fruit (baths remix)

the acorn - restoration (four tet remix)

the tallest man on earth - graceland (paul simon cover)

have mercy on me

2010-06-09T19:48:00.002+10:00

photo courtesy of jacoblambert.blogspot.com

chilly gonzales - many men
(from the pianist envy mixtape)

nocando - two track mind (feat. busdriver)

b.o.b. - fuck the money (feat. asher roth, produced by kanye west)

q-tip - renaissance rap (remix)(feat. busta rhymes, raekwon & lil wayne)

j.cole - lights please

kid cudi - know why

m.i.a. - theres space for ol dat i see

blu - till we die

fin

2010-06-08T20:24:00.001+10:00

cat power - metal heart

bon iver - beach baby

elliot smith - needle in the hay

miles benjamin anthony robinson -buriedfed

angus & julia stone - big jet plane

mgmt - congratulations

the drums - down by the water

otis redding - for your precious love

regina specktor - hero

sigur rós - samskeyti

scene

2010-06-08T20:22:00.002+10:00

(there is no video in this clip. there is over 15,000 still shots)

we are the all-singing all-dancing crap of the world

2010-06-03T15:47:00.001+10:00

justin vernon & aaron dessner - big red machine
(this is off the epic dark was the night compilation, definately an album worth checking out)

lana del ray - diet mtn dew

operator please - heart of glass (blondie cover)
(triple j like a version session)

the drums - i'll never drop my sword

frightened rabbit - not miserable

grizzly bear - while you wait for the others

the black keys - everlasting light

future islands - in the fall (feat. katrina ford)

gregory and the hawk - boats and birds (protohype remix)

modest mouse - the world at large

whoiam.howicametobe.

2010-06-03T15:45:00.001+10:00

king charles - love lust
(does a killer black cab session. check it here.)

big scary - autumn
(melbourne duo getting good play on triple j)

the national - england

future islands - tin man
(big fan of these guys)

ra ra riot - each year (absofacto remix)

blithe field - bible school
(really like this guy. his album beautiful wave '74 is available for 'pay what you feel' download here)

dead man's bones - dead hearts
(amazing tune, so much atmosphere)

see how they run

2010-06-03T15:44:00.001+10:00

tv on the radio - staring at the sun

sleigh bells - tell 'em

the pass - crosswalk stereo

the xx - vcr (matthew dear remix)

passion pit -little secrets (plus move remix feat. future kiddd)

metronomy - not made for love (astronomer remix)

the joy formidable - whirring (brahms)

memory tapes - bicycle (little loud remix)
(check out his myspace.i think this guys pretty amazing)

gold panda - you
(high rotation on my itunes this month)

fee.fi.fo.fum.

2010-06-03T15:39:00.002+10:00

snoop dogg - gansta luv (mayer hawthorne g-mix)

danger mouse & zero 7 feat. doom - somersault (danger mouse remix)

theophilus london - sorry to interupt

rich hill - eps (feat. kid cudi)

blu - bossco.2

k'naan - take a minute

grizzly bear - knife (girl talk remix)

mos dub - history town
(mos def with desmond dekker & the aces)

a-trak - trizzy turn it up

what you focus on gets bigger

2010-06-03T15:34:00.002+10:00

lemonade - coco rosie
(i fucking heart coco rosie)

simple graces - delorean
(spanish.awesome.)

bless the waves - the deer tracks
(sound kinda like imogen heap, yeah?)

b - iamamiwhoami
(?)

flight of the feathered serpent - fuck buttons
(epic noise)

tonight's hero - futurecop!
(posted their transformers track a while ago)

beyond fantasy - pictureplane
(pictureplane is always a win)

material things - jake troth

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Watch Official Video Here
(handclaps)

bitches - l'homme run
('so there we was, me and bitches'.best lyrics?...i think so)

colours - group
(neon gold gave these guys a big rap)

funeral song - minks
(suspiciously cure-esque)

flashes - spirit spine
(19 y.o.)

control - nottee
(swedish pop)

TIN CAN RADIO INTERVIEW

2009-11-01T18:40:00.001+10:00

so here's the interview with the boys from tin can radio that was promised a little while ago
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First up guys i'll just say we love your music here at BvD. So great to have such a good music scene in our fair city.

You all seem to have a few projects on the go at once, do you find that helps keep you inspired and energized?

Yeah our side-projects span from soul/funk to Glitch/IDM… It keeps the music fresh and helps as an extra outlet for our love for mixed genre music and our search for new and exciting music. Plus it helps to have amazing musicians up our sleaves, with favours to repay ;) Both Jack and Tom play with the staggering talent that is “Georgia Potter”, track her down at http://www.georgiapotter.com/ and also on her east coast tour at the minute dates can be found on zee myspaf www.myspace.com/georgiapotter Another side project is one for the electronic panda inside “Inspired Insomniac” this is my out-let for basically every emotion from, speedblastering rage to procrastinating moth-sex-beats to make you melt and disappear into another realm where anything is possible and no rules exsist. Well anyway that was what I was going for anyways. Check www.myspace.com/inspiredinsomniac. One Love.

You've also garnered yourself a reputation as one of Brisbane's most electrifying live acts. Is that something you strive towards or does it just come out when you get on stage?

We defiantly try and add energy to our tracks as much as possible as we all feel the mutual love for songs that makes you uncontrollably feel the need to dance and or pee/jizz in your pants. But when we are on stage there is defiantly an extra level of energy humming between us so to engage the audience as much as possible. And when we get a response it gives meaning to why we are there. Sit back and enjoy the adventure. Tin Can Radio awaaay!

We heard some new songs from you at fasterlouder's birthday bash, what's the story behind them?

The two new songs that we played are momentarily called "Hot Trash" and " You Ate My Last Crayola". We wrote these when we went on our 'new sound' quest to a family friends property in Springbrook. We set up on the top of the mountains and played to the horizon and out they came, "Hot Trash" was basically how we were all feeling at the time on the peek looking out, as we were playing in glee, undercover in the misty rain overseeing the world. "You Ate My Last Crayola" is roughly about the perils of monotonous daytime jobs; mainly a recent job where my boss wore way, way, too much make-up and consequently looked like she had been eaten crayons secretly throughout day. Also our outro smasher is called "Pants Osmosis"... no story, just a slap in the face before we tuck you in for the night.

Do you all have a hand in the song writing process? and would you ever consider doing a cover?

Yes we all add ingredients to the mixing bowl in the song writing process, it usually starts with a riff then we bounce them around the room a bit and try and soak in influences from every aspect of life, whether it be erections on a bus or watching a seagull raping a pigeon.

We have never ruled out the idea of a cover track I just don’t think we have found one that could stick. We used to play a funk version of “The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air” but kinda got faded out of the set-list, maybe one day we will revive it for a good cause. Also we are currently in the process of covering a couple of songs, but that’s top secret, you have to wait to find out won’t you.

You also mentioned the possibility of an Australian tour, any news on that?

We're booking a Melbourne/Sydney tour at the moment for Febuary. it's such hard-yakka. Making calls, schmoozing emails, something that definately does not come naturally to me.. But we will be in Melbourne from the 4th-17 and Sydney from 17-28th stay tuned for details + supports.

What's the story behind the hats?
Ahh, da hats... soo many hats. One for each of the heads. I love them so, I can't go een to de-detail.