LINKS

I'm dying. Anyways, a bunch of these links come from Taylor's Mediation blog, definitely my favorite Minneapolis blog and one of my favorites overall. Music, design, politics, funny shit, local stuff, it's all there... be sure to add it to yr feed reader.

• Pitchfork Feature: Guest List: Goldfrapp
  Goldfrapp's Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp recently saw an elderly Ennio Morricone bring an Italian audience to tears, mourned the loss of their favorite Hollywood actor, and suffered jeers while driving in their tiny electric...
  
  
• Miley Cyrus Drinks Ketchup
  Heinz 57 picked up a celebrity endorsement on "The Tonight Show" Wednesday night when teen superstar Miley Cyrus told Jay Leno how much she enjoyed ketchup.
  
  
• Learnit lists » Welcome to Learnit Lists
  learn a language quick
  
  
• Fail Dogs
  not lolcats, fail dogs
  
  
• JUNIOR BOYS: LANGUAGE LESSONS: Fact Magazine
  Junior Boys' next studio album, the follow-up to their sublime 2006 offering So This Is Goodbye, is nearing completion; but before then the Canadian duo present their contribution to Get Physical's excellent Body Language mix CD series.
  
  
• Justus Köhncke: Safe & Sound: Pitchfork Record Review
  On the Kompakt-associated producer's first full-length since 2005's Doppelleben, there's nothing especially celebratory or assertive going on; it's almost as if Köhncke made a conscious decision to fly low.
  
  
• Goldfrapp: Seventh Tree: Pitchfork Record Review
  After two albums of fantastic club-pop, the versatile UK duo dial back to a pastoral, folksy indie-electronica sound...
  
  
• Pitchfork Feature: Interview: Robyn
  Three years after its original release, Robyn's self-titled 2005 rebirth as an independent electro-pop princeess is still hot. We caught up with Robyn a few days after she wrapped her tease of a three-date U.S. tour, and like the Robyn album itself, the...
  
  
• New LCD Soundsystem Song Written for Action Flick
  Soundtrack also features Rihanna, Broadcast, some song about young people by Peter Paul & Mary or something like that...
  
  
• RA: ...and Justice for all - Feature / Interview
  "I remember going to concerts and I was into it for 40 minutes but then I was always bored. When we play, when it's finished it...



• Spring Fashion 2008 - Five New Yorkers Who Wear Only One Color Every Day
  
  
• Attytood: Comcastic! Philly's cable giant pays people off the street to pack hearing -- on Internet free speech
  Comcast SUCKS
  
  
• Hatchback Exclusive Mix & Interview
  Sam Grawe, AKA Hatchback, is producing some of the finest modern, laid back, West Coast US Balearica around.
  
  
• Faith Fighter | Molleindustria
  Faith Fighter is the ultimate fighting game for these dark times. Choose your belief and kick the shit out of your enemies. Give vent to your intolerance! Religious hate has never been so much fun...
  
  
• nintendo8.com - play Nintendo 8-bit games online (no download required)
  The Greatest Nintendo Games of All Times - Playable Directly In Your Browser!
  
  
• Lovefoxxx Cover Shoot | Behind the music | Dazed Digital TV
  Photographer Matt Irwin and stylist Karen Langley with the CSS singer.
  
  
• At Home With Lovefoxxx | Behind the music | Dazed Digital TV
  The CSS singer shows us around.
  
  
• Css Back To Brazil - Features - Dazed Digital
  Tim Noakes travels to Brazil to interview electro pop sensations CSS and find out the inside story on their sudden rise to fame
  
  
• Essential Mix on IMEEM
  BBC essential mixes for dl
  
  
• How to Be a Gawker - New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer
  "We need to put back the Gawkeresque angry-creative-underclass glint to our voice," Valleywag contributor Paul Boutin wrote in a self-serious and totally fascinating memo passed on to Gawker Media editors this morning by managing editor Noah Robischon and...
  
  
• Too much scene - Minnesota Daily
  L - O - L
  
  
• The Daily Swarm - South By Shark Jumped
  Next month, when you're down in Austin with your $500 South by Southwest badge dangling from your neck waiting in an outrageously long line to catch a glimpse of that much buzzed band showcasing just beyond the barriers, pause for a moment to think about...
  
  
• One Page Magazine
  all logos or headlines from a magazine on one page
  
  
• Dead Flowers: The Velvet Underground: Live at the Gymnasium, NYC
  I'm not into VU bootlegs really, but apparently this is a big deal. It's the ONLY available live stuff from 1967 and has only become available in literally the last two days...
  
  
• Jo Abraham Photography
  my friend Jo's photo site
  
  
• kanYe West : THERE'S NOTHING POLITICALLY CORRECT ABOUT THIS BUT IT'S AMAZING!
  Kanye posts about a midget fight
  
  
• The Daily Swarm - Ricardo Villalobos rare North American gig March 1...

LEAP YEAR EVE

Tonight's a crazy night for shows...

Crystal Castles @ Triple Rock w/ HEALTH

The Hives @ First Ave

Black Lips @ 7th St. Entry

Unfortunately I'm not sure I'll make it to any... I have a headache that won't quit, which sucks, since I've wanted to see the Hives for years and I missed Black Lips last time they were here.

I CAN FEEL IT (REALLY)

THE FUTUREHEADS, "THE BEGINNING OF THE TWIST"

O RLY?

LEGITIMATELY CRAZY

LINKS

• URB Magazine: In Defense of Steve Aoki...
  It was as inevitable as an embarrassing blog photo after a night of free Sparks: the Pitchfork thrashing of Steve Aoki's mix CD, Pillowface and His Airport Chronicles...
  
  
• TRASH MENAGERIE |Poster Art in Music - Helping to Bridge the Gap?
  Not that it's ever lost its luster, but I wondered if perhaps poster art could be one avenue for artists to explore to help place more tangible value on music? I got in touch with Stiles to ask some questions and get some insight.
  
  
• Steve Aoki: Pillowface and His Airplane Chronicles: Pitchfork Record Review
  Dim Mak label head and professional L.A. scenester offers a mix of, what do you know, modern-day post-punk and indie-approved dance tracks
  
  
• RA: Month to Month: The vinyl solution - Feature / Interview
  In this age of digital downloading and digital DJing, it makes no sense for labels to release on vinyl only, writes Ronan Fitzg...
  
  
• Q+A: diskJokke
  We rang up Dyrdhal on a calm Friday evening to chat about his music, this remix, and his secret nerd life as a mathematician.
  
  
• AdamConover.net » I can read VERY slowly
  I'm a few several months late on this one, but thanks to the kids at the OE Message Board for cluing me into the fact that Garfield is much, much funnier if you remove Garfield's thought balloons...
  
  
• RA: Boys Noize mixes Suck My Deck. Music News
  Berlin noisenik Boys Noize drops his debut mix CD for Bugged Out!'s Suck My Deck series next month.
  
  
• RIFF MARKET: LOVERBOY HERCULES
  Finally, more disco ranting

THE REPETITION KILLS YOU

Related names: Godard, Albarn, Pac-Man

DISCO LIES

Apparently the new Moby record is produced by Holy Ghost!, or at least that's what I've heard. Maybe that's why this new track is kind of good? But it's still annoying enough so you don't forget that it's Moby.

LINKS

• The Minneapoline 2/9 - TML
  2/9 - TML
  
  
• The Minneapoline 2/16 TML
  2/16 TML
  
  
• The Month In Techno
  This month we bookend a week with visits to London's Fabric nightclub and Berlin's Club Transmediale Festival, highlighted by performances from M.A.N.D.Y. [above] and Ricardo Villalobos.
  
  
• Bee Gees: Greatest: Pitchfork Record Review
  In this century, disco has undergone an interesting critical rehabilitation, celebrated for its contributions to underground dance music while the pop stuff has, for the most part, been pushed aside. In the case of the Bee Gees-- the gold standard for disco...
  
  
• Mahjongg: Kontpab: Pitchfork Record Review
  This chaotic and energetic Chicago band returns-- queasier, druggier, far more adventurous, and less likely to edit-- to upstage the one-trick, dance-punk ponies to whom they've sadly been compared.
  
  
• The Moment Catching Up With | Hot Chip
  The Moment chats up the British band Hot Chip...
  
  
• Foals - Music - Review - New York Times
  Yannis Philippakis, lead singer of the emerging British band Foals, spent most of Tuesday night with both his hands on his chest. He wasn't being shy; he was playing the guitar.
  
  
• CARL CRAIG: Fact Magazine
  FACT caught up with Craig at a Shepherd's Bush hotel a couple of weeks back to discuss his Sessions, and some of the lessons he's learned in a career which spans nearly 20 years.
  
  
• Dead Meadow: Old Growth: Pitchfork Record Review
  Despite a few twists, this is mostly what Dead Meadow have given us for a decade: nodded-out midtempo chugs of stoner rock.
  
  
• Pitchfork: MSTRKRFT Check in From Studio, Announce Tour
  "I guarantee you when this record is done and people have heard it, everyone will want to talk to us again."
  
  
• ohnotheydidnt: Vanity Fair. The Hollywood Issue.
  THE FULL HITCHCOCK PORFOLIO FROM THIS MONTH'S VF FEATURING KEIRA, CHARLIZE, MARION, JAMES & A BUNCH OF OTHER PEOPLE. SOME MORE FAMOUS THAN OTHERS...
  
  
• RA: In session with Carl Craig
  Todd L. Burns checks in with underground legend and now Grammy nominee Carl Craig.
  
  
• THE KILLS: Fact Magazine
  FACT caught up with Jamie Hince to get the lowdown on dirty drumbeats, playground chants and how not to...

DENVER

Last night we kicked it at Hi-Dive, tonight I'm playing at Rock Bar with host James St. James. We're rolling up to the club in a hearse, no joke. Check it!

LINKS

• Pitchfork: Daft Punk, Shins, Hot Chip, Iggy Pop Pose for Playboy
  Playboy once again invited these musical types to design special t-shirts incorporating that iconic rabbit insignia for the Rock the Rabbit campaign.
  
  
• RA: Headman: Catch me if you can
  Swiss punk funker Headman aka Robi Insinna drops his third longplayer Catch Me this March.
  
  
• Shouts & Murmurs: Last Session: Humor: The New Yorker
  How do you know when you are healthy enough to say goodbye to your therapist? And how should a therapist handle it?
  
  
• Ryan McGinley
  photographer's website
  
  
• YouTube - "Ready For The Floor" - Behind The Scenes
  A look at what went on behind the scenes during the video shoot for "Ready For The Floor".
  
  
• MySpace.com - The Letter G - London - Electro / Thrash / House - www.myspace.com/lettergmusic
  band opening for hot chip
  
  
• Guest List: Hot Chip
  Hot Chip's Joe Goddard divulges the source of the bizarre "studio sounds" on their latest album, recalls a Brazilian festival where they shared a bill with Björk and Spank Rock, and gets some nuggets of trivia from his favorite radio DJ, Bob Dylan.
  
  
• Billboard's Rock Posters Showcase
  The 25 Best Rock Posters of All Time
  
  
• Solid Goldberger: Samples List
  a list of "French Touch" samples

YIKES

DON'T STAY IN

I WANT TO SEE YOU OUT TONIGHT!

LINKS

• Various Artists: Kitsuné BoomBox / Kitsuné Maison 5: Pitchfork Record Review
  French dance (not dance) music label Kitsuné offers its first DJ mix, along with the latest of its Maison compilations. Among the artists featured are Daft Punk, M.I.A., Feist, Chromeo, Digitalism, Alan Braxe, Rex the Dog, and Fischerspooner.
  
  
• We Decode the ‘Lost’ Online Game for You
  Vulture helps out
  
  
• Hot Chip: Made in the Dark: Pitchfork Record Review
  London's Hot Chip follow their breakthrough 2006 LP, The Warning, with the lovable but flawed Made in the Dark.
  
  
• Pitchfork Feature: Interview: The Raveonettes
  We speak to the NYC-based Danes about switching record labels, boycotting remakes of classic films, writing songs in bed, and their new album, Lust Lust Lust.
  
  
• sovietpanda's bookmarks on del.icio.us
  MY 2000TH LINK!

MIKA MIKA MIKA

Last minute announcement here. I'll be DJing at the Mika show tonight at First Ave. See you there.

LINKS

• You Ain't No Picasso -A Collection of Of Montreal Covers
  some of my all-time favorite songs, surprisingly
  
  
• Is a ‘Wet Hot American Musical’ on the Way? Reading David Wain's Tea Leaves
  
  
• Pitchfork Feature: Interview: Goldfrapp
  We speak to both halves of the eccentric English avant-pop duo about clowns, the appeal of the countryside, and their pastoral new album Seventh Tree.
  
  
• Hot Chip on Synths: The Casio VL-Tone
  A calculator that could play rhythms.
  
  
• RA: Take The Glimmers home for free. Music News
  Here's a way to clever way to combat piracy: Belgian discoists The Glimmers are giving away their debut album for free at gigs.
  
  
• Pitchfork Feature: Guest List: Vampire Weekend
  Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij does a dead-on M.I.A. impersonation, imagines shooting a Super 8 film on his bicycle, and declares his appreciation for Tchaikovsky's deep cuts.
  
  
• Soulwax: Most of the Remixes...: Pitchfork Record Review
  The Belgian duo (aka 2 Many DJs) collect their best remix work-- songs that reconfigure tracks from LCD Soundsystem, Kylie Minogue, Gorillaz, Klaxons, Muse, and more-- and add a second disc that mixes them together.
  
  
• Midnight Juggernauts: Dystopia: Pitchfork Record Review
  Melbourne outfit struggles to merge the musicianship and bombast of arena rock with the textures and physicality of dance.
  
  
• The Minneapoline 1/26 - TML
  
  
• THE KILLS - NYLON MAGAZINE
  Brit rockers the Kills, exclusively on nylonmag.com!

THE SAME THING AGAIN

I BECAME VERY VICIOUS

HOT CHIPS

Dazed Digital has a pretty cool, different feature from Hot Chip going up this week. The band goes over and reviews some of their all-time favorite synths. Included so far are the Roland SH-101, the Casio VL-Tone, and the Yamaha GX-1.

To get to the articles, click on Hot Chip's contributor page and go to "Recent Articles".

IN ANTICIPATION

More info from Modular on their upcoming release of the new Cut Copy, the Tim Goldworthy produced In Ghost Colours.

1. Feel The Love
2. Out There On The Ice
3. Lights And Music
4. We Fight For Diamonds
5. Unforgettable Season
6. Midnight Runner
7. So Haunted
8. Voices In Quartz
9. Hearts On Fire
10. Far Away
11. Silver Thoughts
12. Strangers In The Wind
13. Visions
14. Nobody Lost, Nobody Found
15. Eternity One Night Only

Video for "Lights & Music" (you will hear me spinning the Boys Noize Happy Birthday Remix):

PASKING IT UP ON THE SCENE

Max Pask is my new favorite person. Dude kills it. Do not miss Max and myself at Too Much Love tonight!

Plus after party info, from Moon Goons:



location - 3rd st and 3rd ave south. Between Ricks cabaret and lickity split. 3rd floor. look for doorman....standing in front of the blue colored doors....Underneath the XXX sign...

PLEASE BE AWARE WHEN ENTERTING THE BUILDING AND WALKING OUT FRONT TO BE EXTREMELY RESPECTFUL OF THE AREA. WE DO NOT NEED people acting stupid on the way in... ALSO.... PARKING LOT off washington/3rd is 1/2 block away......Parking suggested in this lot... or on the street at a meter...

EMILY

MORE FROM THE "TOTALLY CALLED IT" FILE

The following is an IM converstaion I had with my friend James on January 11:

Peter: New Music: Lil Mama [ft. T-Pain and Chris Brown]: "Shawty Get Loose (Remix)" [Stream]

James: WTF
James: i don't know if i'm ready for this
James: taking a deep breath

Peter: she says "janet jack"

James: jesus, that's t-pain and chris brown harmonizing
James: both with autotune

Peter: lil mama is a good rapper

James: yeah i know

Peter: the autotune is more tolerable with harmonizing

James: when she's old enough to swear on her records she's going to be like the girl lil wayne
James: can you imagine what the video for this is going to be like

Peter: no i was trying
Peter: maybe that WAS the video

James: i just keep imaging the scream video
James: but with t-pain
James: in zero gravity

Peter: awww shit yes

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Well, the video just came out. And it's a complete rip-off/homage to the "Scream" video. CALLED IT!!!