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Tonight, chillwave artists Neon Indian and Memory Tapes will arrive at Philadelphia’s Voyeur on 12th and james.

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home girl was killing it!

check out the photos here

This Week: August 31, 2009

1. The XX – Do You Mind
2. Ninjasonik – Somebody Gonna Get Pregnant
3. Red Cafe feat. Diddy – I Tote Guns
4. Fool’s Gold – Nadine
5. Deadmau5 – Ghost ‘n’ Stuff
6. Matisyahu – So Hi So Lo
7. Anjulie – Boom
8. Amazing Baby – Headdress
9. Schlachthofbronx feat. Big Space and Spock Mathambo – Holdin that Dick
10. Jukebox the Ghost – Hold It In

Last week:

1. Discovery – So Insane
2. The Franks – Neon Politik
3. Hail Social – Paralyzed
4. Rye Rye & M.I.A. – Bang (Stanton Warrior Remix)
5. Jackie Chain feat. Jhi ali – Rollin (Diplo Remix)
6. Miike Snow – Burial
7. Joke & Ginz – Purple City
8. Black Kids -Hurricane Jane
9. The Faint  – Machine In The Ghost
10. Matt and Kim – Daylight
11. N.A.S.A. – Whatchadoin
12. Blue Scholars – Hi 808

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Check out this video I found by Grizzly Bear; The song is entitled Two Weeks, and it’ll take about as long to get tired of watching it back to back.

“We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.

A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived.

Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive.

We’re told one of the staff members at Jackson’s home called 911.

La Toya ran in the hospital sobbing after Jackson was pronounced dead.

Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.”

These lads in Pretty & Nice from Boston have yet to make much of a splash here in Philly, which is quite sad, being that they are pretty much fantastic. Crazy dissonant guitars, oddly catchy vocal lines, and dancey beats. I can’t reccomend this show more. Head over to the M-Room after Japanther if necessary, you won’t be disappointed. Listen Here

Pretty & Nice
with:
Middle Distance Runner
Edison Proposal
Deadly Technologies

21+ $8
At The M-Room, Front and Girard

You know you love yourself some NYC art punk.

with Ayoshistori
All ages

Doors: 630PM
$8
@ The Fire 412 W Girard Ave. 19123

Stolen from Takeshi Murata's website

Below, on McJawn’s blog, you can read a post showcasing the neat visuals of the new Chairlift video.  Apparently, the technique used to make those big pixels (dropouts? compression artifacts? help me here) go from “shitty Direct TV” to “hey he made it look like shitty Direct TV” was invented by video artist Takeshi Murata. Shockingly, no one gave him credit for his work in developing and teaching the technique. In an email to Street Boners and TV Carnage, Kathy Grayson (who had shown one of Murata’s pieces in an exhibition called “Mail Order Monsters”, where Kanye first saw Murata’s work) writes:

[...]

The piece he copied is called PINK DOT. I think you can find it on his website or maybe on ratio 3 website (his gallery in SF).

Takeshi invented the technique of reprograming the way your computer reads video and compresses it to make the swirly pixel stuff you posted on your blog. It is not called “roundabout” or whatever your blog said, I mean maybe that is what Kanye calls it? Sounds retarded.

Takeshi is 31, RISD grad, and recently taught some seminars and posted some instructions on the technique so others have been figuring it out too I guess.

He has been doing this for 5+ years and is well known in (parts at least) of the artworld as the creator of this technique

He is really really bummed that both Kanye and Chairlift copied this technique with no credit to him, as he has invested years of his life creating it, and it would be awesome if you looked into his work and maybe re-structured your chronology on this a bit.

You don’t have to, I mean, artists get ripped off all the time. But I thought this information might be interesting to you.

(emphasis mine)(via SBTVC)

Which is funny because, as the hyperlinked “both Kanye…” clarifies, SBTVC had run a post accusing Chairlift of stealing the idea from Kanye. Now I’m reposting content that’s already up on another site.

But I’m not an artist. I know that in liberal arts college you can use other people’s work. When you do, you use citations (Diaz). We even have an organization (the MLA), actually something like three (APA and whoever is responsible for that “Chicago Style” foolishness) that deals with these sort of things, how citations are supposed to look on the page. I don’t really know about this stuff. Is, uh, using this technique that the guy taught without crediting him douchey, super douchey, or A.O.K.(I.)?

I did not really dig the song at first but then I could not get it out of my head and now I like it. Good luck not getting it stuck in your head!

When I started blogging about things, I thought that it would be a great way to exercise an undue amount of cultural influence to promote the things I like. And I like the Voyage North (or, “Wolfdogbirdman and the Voyage North”). They are from “West Reading / Lancaster / Annapolis”, and as you can see in the photo above they are all very cute. This means that no matter what, they will be marketable, especially given the 1:1:girl:guy ratio. Or maybe that would be a 1:1:girl:guy:CUTIE ratio.  

Face It (Young and Dumb)

They made this video. I think it’s VHS, which is cool. w/ some kind of editing trickery (help me guys). I think it features shots of a West Philly venue where I saw them (Chernobyl). Either way, I think it’s rad, and that anyone that doesn’t have their head up MGMT/Dave P’s ass might think the same.

And that is why The Voyage North makes me proud to be an American.

I’ve set up a real last minute spot for my buds from CA this coming Tuesday, March 31st. They’re on tour with Ariel Pink right now but have a few days off after it so they’re going to come play in Philly! Their band is called CRYPTACIZE and they’re from Oakland. I can’t sing their praises enough– they are one of the best and most original bands out there. They used to have a group called The Curtains; Nedelle used to put out solo albums on Kill Rock Stars; Chris played in Deerhoof from the albums Apple O to the Runners Four (aka their best stuff!). Have a listen to some of their tunes.
http://www.myspace.com/cryptacize

You should probably go to this.

Here’s what you need to know:
TUESDAY MARCH 31
7:30 PM
$5 suggested donation
@ SAINT MARCH COLLECTIVE (406 South St.)

with:

LAYERS/QUAKE (Philadelphia duo, ex-member of Mass Movement of the Moth, Des Ark)
CHEAP DINOSAURS (solo 8-bit electronic music from Philadelphia, ex-Chromelodeon)

10. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Lie Down in the Light This should probably be way higher, but I haven’t gotten the chance to listen to it as much as I would have liked.	5. The Mae Shi – Hlllyh If you’re going to make an eleven minute remix of all the songs on your album, you might as well stick it smack in the middle. I never really felt like it disrupted the flow of the record at all, and if it were the closing track it would most likely be overlooked. Dance party kicks in at 2:28. The whole album is pretty religious (they don’t really strike me as the god-fearing type), but it’s not in your face and easy to overlook if that kind of thing rubs you the wrong way. I’ve been a fan of the Mae Shi for awhile now, so I was psyched that I finally got the chance to see them this year when I was in Baltimore.
9. The Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride/ Black Pear Tree EP John Darnielle had a busy year, releasing his third full length in four years, as well as two Eps. For me, The Sunset Tree and Get Lonely felt too produced for John. The songs on Heretic Pride feel more aggressive and emotional than the previous releases. I’ve been particularly fond of “Lovecraft in Brooklyn” for awhile. Aesop Rock also does an awesome remix of this song. The line ‘I woke up afraid of my own shadow, like genuinely afraid. So I went down to the Pawn Shop, and bought myself a switchblade’ is classic Darnielle. It reminds me of my favorite line from Going to Georgia, ‘The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you, and you’re standing in the doorway’. Also, make sure to check out “Thank You, Mario, but Our Princess is in Another Castle” from Black Pear Tree.	4. Mount Eerie – Black Wooden Ceiling Opening This isn’t really a full length, but I think it deserves to be on the list anyway. I haven’t listened to Lost Wisdom enough to consider it yet.
8. The Death Set – Worldwide I’ve seen the Death Set more than any other band this year, and they always killed it. Definitely one of my favorite bands of the year, in general.	3. TV on the Radio – Dear Science, Awesome. Period.
7. Parts and Labor – Receivers Not as good as Mapmaker, but still awesome.	2.Ponytail – Ice Cream Spiritual The last Baltimore band on the list. I thought they killed it at Whartscape over the summer. I wish I had been able to see them when they came to Philly in August. I think it’d be hard to top the energy of seeing a Baltimore band in Baltimore, anyway. I liked Kamehameha more than Ice Cream Spiritual, but this album is still amazing.
6. Beach House – Devotion Baltimore again, but representing the other side of the spectrum. I put this album on when I needed to chill out or take a nap.	1. Why? – Alopecia I had almost forgotten that this album even came out in 2008, but even now, it still remains one of the most consistently played albums on my ipod/tunes/record player. The lyrics on Alopecia are much less surreal than Elephant Eyelash and Oaklandazulasylum, for better or for worse.

• Karl Blau – AM
• High Places – High Places
• Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances
• No Age – Nouns
• Magnetic Fields – Distortion
• Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
• Woods – Woods Family Creeps/Some Shame

I wasn’t feeling Woods Family Creeps as much as I was hoping I would, but the vinyl version is so beautiful (clear red vinyl!) that it’s worth buying for that reason alone. Some Shame (a tour-only cassette) is more reminiscent of At Rear House or How to Survive in the Woods. You can download it here.

• Pocketknife – Tambourine Dream

A mixtape of dance remixes of indie/folk songs. Sweet. The illustrations on the vinyl are really well done and probably the main reason I bought it. I’m a huge sucker for that kind of thing. The cd version has 18 tracks, while the vinyl only has six.

I need to re-upload Worldwide and Hlllyh, so those albums are currently not able to be downloaded.

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Evan Roth, of The Graffiti Research Lab, went hard for his visual play on Jay-Z’s “Brooklyn Go Hard” (featuring Santogold). For 5 years he’s been holding off requests to use the typographic illustration utilized in the video. He says for hopes Jay came calling. Well, it was RED and The Global Fund that called, but the effect remains the same. A stellar video for Hova’s newest track.

More Info: http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/2008/12/03/jay-z-brooklyn-go-hard-typographic-video-by-evan-roth/

The pair also revealed that the release may see a new visual look for the animated band.

Damon Albarn stated that there would be no more Gorillaz albums last year, but has now told CBC that he has already begun work on the album.

“We’re doing another Gorillaz record,” explained the songwriter. “We came back from summer holidays and realized we could do exactly what we wanted to do with Gorillaz. Essentially, Jamie just had to agree to draw the characters again. ‘Cause I just do what I do anyway.”

“I’m so fucking bored of drawing those characters,” added Hewlett. “But then we had a moment where we had a new angle on it.”

“We’re not entirely certain [what it will be like]; we generally just go with our gut,” said Albarn. “I dunno. We are obtuse and quite abstract, really. We play a game but it’s not strictly the game. Sometimes it really works and sometimes… Actually, usually it really works.”

More Info: http://www.nme.com/news/gorillaz/39847

Last week, I went to go see Among Criminals performing at the World Live Cafe. As soon as I got there, they started to get on stage. Tickets sold out as soon as I was up to get my ticket. I normally would’ve called Bean to get me in but since he was on stage, I was shit out of luck. Then my best friend, Geo, decided he had to get me in, no matter what. He pulled Bean off stage and he came and put me & Tyler on the guestlist. Not only did we get to see them perform, we got in for free! Bean & Geo are the best dudes ever.

I promised them I would upload the videos and post them here but it took about 4 hours to upload each video. Sorry it took so long guys! Also ignore the one part where Jack tells me to, “Hurry up and take the picture.” He didn’t know I was filming HAHAHHA.

There are a bunch of videos of other performances from different events I have yet to upload. They’re coming soon!

enjoy :B

ps. i do not believe in capitalization.

for those who missed out on sunday’s free BLACK LIPS and DEER HUNTER show in williamsburg, brooklyn.. don’t expect this post to be about them because it’s not.

this is king kahn touching his man bits, taken just SECONDS before he whipped it out

this is king kahn mooning us (deerhunter was playing)

this is king kahn in drag

this is king kahn and his make believe fruit (?) balls (black lips was performing)

this is a shitload of toilet paper flying around

to make things short+simple,
the show was fun. music wise, some of the bands that played were..meh. but that king kahn dude is insane and made it worth while.