Songs That Sound Like Coming Home By Diddy Dirty Money

First of all, I can’t think of many names worse than Diddy Dirty Money. Maybe Staind, or Airborne Toxic Event…anyways, lately I’ve been noticing songs that sound like Coming Home:

The Black Eyed Peas have a song that sounds like it. They have a song that sounds like everyone, but still. The songs came out right about the same time, so it can’t be added to the list of the BEP’s many plagiarism suits.

Now I’m watching a mediocre Brosnan Bond movie, and the beginning of the Madonna theme song sounds like it too.

That’s all I can think of, so its really not that many. I just heard all of them today, so I guess it was on my mind.

The Antlers in 2011

I didn’t love Burst Apart at first. I gave it a mediocre review over at No Ripcord (http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/music/antlers/burst-apart). Its something I definitely underrated. I still don’t find it as powerful as Hospice, but its a less emotionally draining listen. Its easier to get through and, while certainly not a happy album, doesn’t leave me depressed for a few hours afterwards. This post was really just meant to about their solid cover of the XX’s VCR. So here’s that.

http://pitchfork.com/news/44577-listen-the-antlers-cover-the-xx/

I’d also like to mention that the new Atlas Sound record is wonderful (http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/music/atlas-sound/parallax) . Somebody already disagrees with me, but that’s okay. At least he’s not calling me a piece of shit for disagreeing with him.

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Start of fall quarter tunez

I’ve got lots of them.

Nicolas Jaar- Keep Me There
Modeselektor-Blue Clouds
Girls- Forgiveness
M83- Intro Feat. Zola Jesus
The War On Drugs- I Was There
Radiohead- Little By Little (Caribou Remix)
Youth Lagoon- Cannons
Future Islands- Before The Bridge
Neon Indian- The Blindside Kiss
Sleep Over- Romantic Streams
Nicolas Jaar- Love You Gotta Lose Again
Dinosaur Jr.-Raisians
Dope Body- Enemy Outta Me
Mark McGuire- Get Lost
Baths- Pop Song
Teebs- Double Fifths
Atlas Sound- Terra Incognita

This is awesome: http://soundcloud.com/alteredzones/sets/run-dmt-dreams/s-hn9Vj

And now for a wonderful collaboration from two of my favorite artists.

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Sharon Van Etten – Crime

 

Sebadoh – Not Too Amused

 

Robyn Hitchcock – Executioner

 

The Joy Formidable – Whirring

 

Ty Segall – My Head Explodes

 

Thundercat – For Love I Come

 

White Denim – Street Joy

 

The Breeders – Do You Love Me Now?

jkay

So Far In 2011

I’m just like Andrew! Kinda!

My Favorite 25 tracks so far (in alphabetical order with the intent of excluding redundancies)

• The Antlers – Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
• Battles – Ice Cream (feat. Matias Aguayo)
• Black Lips - Family Tree
• Bon Iver – Towers
• Cheveu – Charlie Sheen
• Clams Casino – All I Need
• Colin Stetson – A Dream of Water
• Cults – Abducted
• Dam Mantle – A Statue that is Perpetually Unveiled
• David Lynch – Good Day Today
• Hooray for Earth – True Loves
• James Blake – I Mind
• Little Screams – Cannons
• Micachu & the Shapes – Everything
• Mind Spiders – Don’t Let Her Go
• Nicolas Jaar – I Got A Woman
• Peaking Lights – Key Sparrow
• Sic Alps – Do You Want To Give $$?
• Siriusmo – Einmal In Der Woche Schreien
• Thundercat – Daylight
• Thurston Moore – Benediction
• Tonstartssbandht – Jesse
• tUnE-yArDs – Gangsta
• Weeknd – House Of Balloons/ Glass Table Girls
• Yuck – Holing Out

jkay

Halfway Done: The Best of 2011 So Far

These are my favorite things of the year so far. I’m like Oprah!

Albums:
1. The Weeknd- House Of Balloons
2. Tune-Yards- Whokill
3. James Blake- James Blake
4. Radiohead- King of Limbs
5. Clams Casino- Instrumental mixtape
6. Destroyer- Kaputt
7. Nicolas Jaar- Space Is Only Noise
8. Panda Bear- Tomboy
9. Colin Stetson- New History Warfare Vol. 2
10. Mono/Poly- Manifestations EP

Songs:
1. The Weeknd- Wicked Games
2. The Weeknd- The Morning
3. James Blake- I Never Learned To Share
4. Radiohead- Separator
5. Mono/Poly- Needs Deodorant
6. Clams Casino- Motivation
7. Panda Bear- Slow Motion
8. Dorian Concept- Her Tears Taste Like Pears
9. Smith Westerns- Imagine pt. 3
10. J Mascis- Several Shades Of Why

Favorite Shows
1. Crystal Castles at the Showbox Sodo
2. Modest Mouse at Sasquatch
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor at the Showbox Sodo
4. Twin Shadow at The Crocodile
5. J Mascis at Sasquatch

Dying in the Library

The Antlers – Rolled Together

Cults – Abducted

Thurston Moore – Benediction

Hooray for Earth – True Loves / Sails

Ford & Lopatin – Emergency Room

David Lynch – I Know

 

jkay

A Slow Tuesday

The Weeknd-

Miles Davis-

The Antlers-

Comma-

Clams Casino-

Pink Playground-

Sasquatch is a month away playlist

Only one more month. Heres the things I’m most excited for.

Kettering- The Antlers
As long as the live show is less depressing than the album.

Ten Mile Stereo- Beach House

The Hair Song- Black Mountain

ATX- Alberta Cross

Going Steady- Death From Above 1979
Their first reunion show at SXSW turned into an actual riot. This years reunited band (like Pavement last year) is really the only draw on Friday for me.

Twilight At Carbon Lake- Deerhunter
Of the three times I’ve seen them, this has only been played once. I’d love to see it again. Their live show is never the same twice, and thus far they’ve been great 2/3 times and absolutely incredible once. Here’s hoping that first time gets repeated. Either way, its a band I love.

Watching The Planets- The Flaming Lips
Legendary, theatrical live show. Sure to be a highlight of the weekend.

Do The Astral Plane- Flying Lotus
How could FlyLo not be a highlight of everything ever?

You- Gold Panda

Lounge (Closing Time)- Modest Mouse
I’ve heard that their either really good or really bad. Hopefully they err on the good side. With the exception of a few songs, I hope they play nothing recorded after 2002.

Seventeen Years- Ratatat

Riot Rhythm- Sleigh Bells

Imagine Pt. 3- Smith Westerns

Wooded Hill- The Globes

Heavens On Fire- The Radio Dept.
I like the Thurston Moore intro.
Feel It All Around- Washed Out

St. Rosa and the Swallows- The Thermals
A joyful, sweaty mess. So much fun.

King Of The Beach- Wavves
Another joyful, sweaty fun mess.

Kamera- Wilco

Modern World- Wolf Parade
Its their last show ever, and I’ll go if nothing conflicts with it.

Ambling Alp- Yeasayer
I hope they play only stuff from All Hour Cymbals and then this song. I didn’t like Odd Blood very much.

All My Life Foo Fighters
Definitely a why the hell not show. Besides DFA1979 I have no one I care to see on Friday, so I might as well see the Foo Fighters.

Sunday

More or less the product of reviewing music I felt I had overlooked.

Bibio – Mind Bokeh [Mind Bokeh is a disappointing release after Ambivalence Avenue. Bibio just tried to push his music in too many different directions in one album. That said, there is a handful of very good songs that are worth listening to if you are willing to dig a bit]

Sic Alps – Do You Want To Give $$? [I kind of glossed over Sic Alps earlier this year, but Napa Asylum is full of solid tracks that certainly showcase their Bay Area garage style.]

Crystal Stilts – Departure [Joy Division. Not even Joy Division-esque. Just Joy Division.]

Harlem – Cloud Pleaser [One of a dozen songs off of Hippies that I have intermittently chosen as my favorite. A fun, jangly song about being cheated on.]

Dan Auerbach – Whispered Words (Pretty Lies) [Auerbach's solo album came and went pretty silently in 2009, but, like most of the other songs in this list, it is full of a bunch of gems.]

Foxes in Fiction – 15 Ativan (For Erika) [... Atlas Sound...? No? ... huh]

Solar Bears – She Was Coloured In [Slow, wonky, electro-infused psychedelia]

Neon Canyon – Libra [Smartly constructed dream pop]

Supersilent – 10.8 [I like Supersilent just about as much as anyone can like experimental jazz with an ambient leaning. 10.8 marks the high point on 10, a standout track amongst the otherwise effortless fluidity of the album.]

jkay