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MIA, McCarren Park Pool, June 2008
Wow, this is a real find. SPIN got this exclusive track from Cornershop, “Topknot,” which features MIA, then Maya Arulpragasam, in 2004.
The south asian sound is a fitting match with MIA’s vocals, and the song is a real jam. About halfway through everything drops out but two beats, and a vocal line, not MIA. It’s stark and sets you up for the rest of the build that’s coming. And then… MIA. “My point of view, is it in your interest?” So MIA. Right?
Cornershop: Topknot (Cavemen Mix featuring M.I.A.)
WEDNESDAY
Zs, Chaw Mank at Glasslands, 9ish
Monotonix at Brooklyn Bowl, 9
Crystal Castles, Pictureplane, Alex English at Irving Plaza, 9ish
THURSDAY
Liars, Fol Chen at Bowery Ballroom, 8ish (and Sunday at Music Hall of Wburg)
FRIDAY
Underwater Fun Fest feat. Real Estate, Family Portrait, Liam the Younger and Big Troubles at Monster Island Basement, 8ish
Air Waves, Beach Fossils, Total Slacker, Eternal Summers, Beachniks at Bruar Falls, 8ish
Wussy, The Fervor, Mystery of Two at Cake Shop, 8ish
SATURDAY
Pure Ecstasy, Twin Sister, Weed Hounds at Los Hermanos Tortilla Factory, 9ish
SUNDAY
Eternal Summers, Beachniks, The Honey Dos, Maine Coons, Mashmallows at Coco 66, 8ish
FMLY PARTY: Truman Peyote, Weekends, Birthdays, Total Slacker, Philip Seymour Hoffman at Surreal Estate, 7ish (check back here for deets)
MONDAY
Snoop Dogg at Brooklyn Bowl, 9ish
Sometimes following people’s advice on Twitter is worth it. Last night, Best Coast tweeted about No Joy: “Dude, NO JOY is the best band ever. two hot blonde girls just shredding away. sooooo amazing.”
I decided to take Bethany’s advice. I checked them out. And No Joy is good. There are only two songs on their Myspace and Bandcamp, (both available for dload), but they exhibit a fresh raw attitude. “No Summer” is covered in hazy reverb, the vocals so drenched you can’t make a thing out. This may bother some, it even bothered me for a minute. But you’ll get over it when you realize that the effects only make the visceral power of the song more noticeable.
“No Joy” features some seriously crunchy guitar noise that is reminicsent of early Sonic Youth, no joke. You’ll hear it in the timbre.
So, thanks Bethany. Get “No Joy” below and head over to Bandcamp for “No Summer.”
The band is playing at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn on May 26.
No Joy: No Joy
(ALSO: Curiously, when you google “no joy” a website deciphering military jargon comes up first. “No Joy” means “In air intercept, ‘I have been unsuccessful’ or ‘I have no information.’”
Dirty Projectors never stop. Here’s another new one from the band that never seems to tire, and that is always sounding fresh. Stereogum got this from someone who saw the band play recently on the Cape. Awesome.
Tim Perry is quite the fellow. I can just imagine him. I’ve never seen him or met him. But I bet he drives around in a Jeep or something with four wheel drive and sees things on the side of the road and has to pull over and write it down, or hum a melody into a little voice recorder. This stuff is really inspired, at least it seems like it is.
It’s called Lush Cola and it’s Perry doing his thing pre-Weed Diamond. Patient Sounds is putting out 100 black cassettes. Get them over there and the full download of Lushhhh Colaaaa.
The songs on this tape are haunted. There are hisses of feedback, playful keyboard lines, shockingly David Lynchian guitar strums… all of this happening most clearly on “Fold Your Shirts,” available below.
I think Perry has a knack for ambiance. Listen to this song and try and tell me you don’t feel like you’re in the bedroom of a complete stranger. And even though the person is a stranger, you understand them. It’s weird.
Lush Cola: Fold Your Shirts
This is the work of the other 2/3′s of MICRO-PIXEL-RITES. Emilie Friedlander plays the violin, yes, how fucking rad, in La Big Vic, and Elise Oh caught it all on camera. It’s a beautiful thing.
This video was shot at Cameo Gallery. Also in the band: Toshio Masuda and Peter Pearson.
This is so awesome. The song more so than the video, but both. I really like how Ducktails is both introspective and spacey. You can get either a lot or nothing out of the music. “Pizza Time” is off Backyard, an overseas release from Release the Bats. They also seem to have the Julian Lynch/Ducktails split, which I think is sold out elsewhere…
more about “Ducktails: Pizza Time“, posted with vodpod
Lil Daggers is another one of those raucous bands out of Florida that seem to be all over the place, like fish in an overstocked river. Swimming for oxygen-rich water could be as hard down there as it is in Brooklyn. Wait, what am I talking about?? That’s a crazy thought. Florida is really fucking big.
Anyway, Lil Daggers hail from Miami, which is not the same as some of the weird ass places other Floridian music makers come from. (Like, for example, Emily Reo is from Orlando, ouch…)
The band is in town this weekend. So, if you want to check out their particular brand of Floridian rock stomp haze, go to Don Pedro’s tonight at midnight, tomorrow around 9, or to Glasslands on Sunday, where they perform with Shark?.
Taste taste:
Lil Daggers: Outta My Hair
Yeah, I know, these memories are a little out of order. But that’s how memories are remembered, yes? Without further blah blah’s, here’s Cloud Nothings, a band I really love for their utter infectiousness. Shot by the awesome Samantha Cornwell.
Also, you may not know this song…
more about “Cloud Nothings- Live- Micro Pixel Rit…“, posted with vodpod
More like touch the light. This song bleeds with tactile greatness. Soft Circle is the project of Hisham Bharoocha, formerly the drummer for Brooklyn (by way of Providence) noise band, Black Dice.
Soft Circle is largely a solo project, one that seems to work as a vehicle for Bharoocha to pay witness to the unstoppable power of drone. He somehow doesn’t get lost in the sound, which makes me think that he is truly and deeply in touch with his inner screaming self. Or maybe it’s not a scream at all, it’s a hum, an ommm, like how Buddhists connect with the universe, the deepest and most base of all humanity, through meditation.
“Feel the Light” rides the line of harsh sound. There are times when your ears begin to ring, and then the smallest shift in timbre occurs, and the pipes to your brain clear out. Make sure you don’t get too entranced, the most subtle and poignant moments in this “song” come toward the end. Think of it as an exercise in patience. Good things come to those who wait, they say.
Soft Circle plays tonight, with High Places, at Shea Stadium, 20 Meadow St. The two bands released a split last year.
Soft Circle: Feel the Light (via)
