It just snowed 20 inches down here in DC, and while I quite enjoy not having school, I just want to be warm. Summer's been on my mind lately (for obvious reasons) and I think I'm not alone in this regard, so here's a summer-ish (at least I think so) mix to get ya through to the warmer months. Enjoy
Tracklist:
1. Lust for Life - Girls
2. Death to Los Campesinos - Los Campesinos!
3. My Head in Front of Your Head - Best Friends Forever
4. Osaka Loop Line - Discovery
5. Sunlight - Harlem Shakes
6. The Boy With the Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian
7. Generator ^Second Floor - Freelance Whales
8. French Navy - Camera Obscura
9. Silver Lining - Beulah
10. Rad Pitt - Egyptian Hip Hop
11. Imagine, pt. 3 - Smith Westerns
12. Janglin - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes
13. Girls FM - Happy Birthday
14. Sun Was High (So Was I) - Best Coast
15. Sovereignty - Japandroids
16. Cool Jumper - Wavves
17. Deadbeat Summer - Neon Indian
18. 5K - Matt & Kim
19. Temecula Sunrise - Dirty Projectors
20. Brother Sport - Animal Collective
Listen Here: http://8tracks.com/discretemath/discrete-math-s-summer-mix
- Alec
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
The Sandwitches
Lately I've been listening to a lot of lo-fi, garage-ish rock, and among all the bands I've found, The Sandwitches really stand out. They put our their debut How to Make Ambient Sadcake, which, aside from having a cool name and sweet sweet music, has a kinda strange drawing of a 2 legged cat on the cover, baggin them extra points.
If the Smith Westerns had a baby with Best Coast, and that baby had a baby with fellow San Franciscoans, Girls, that baby would sound something like The Sandwitches. In case that description didn't help you (and if it didn't go check out all those bands) they've got an almost jangly/retro twist on their lo-fi sound, and they occaisonally have semi-country-ish vocals on a few tracks (but don't let that throw you off, it sounds good).
Don't just take my word for it, have a listen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5-JG6-QPQo
- Alec (sorry for the large pic)
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Show Review! : Of Montreal!
(not our picture, and not actually of the show, but Kevin was dressed like this and all we had was a film camera)A couple days ago, on thursday, we headed out to the club to check out Of Montreal! James Husband (Of Montreal's drummer) opened for them, but he was only okay, and pretty bad at times. I wanted to like them since he had a cello player up there but most of his songs sounded pretty similar, and weren't a good match with Of Montreal's catchy, dance-y pop music. He had one preeety sweet song though, but I can't find it anywhere sooooooooo who knows.
and Of Montreal - what can I say? If you've seen em before you know just how crazy they can get, and if you haven't you should get some tickets! Their set started with some guys in animals masks with intro music goin on before Of Montreal came in with Suffer for Fashion. They ran through a bunch of tunes compelte with ninjas sneakin' on stage with props and feather shooting machines before the end where Kevin Barnes got up on some cross thing and got stretched out. They came back out for the encore and ended with a Jackson 5 cover which worked out pretty well.
Kevin's voice was a little different from the records (a little more girly) but the playing was solid and the crazy weird show made up for it (although it was supposedly pretty tame for an Of Montreal show). They focused mostly on their newer albums but didn't play Wraith Pinned to the Mist, which was just fine by me.
Setlist if ya want it: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/of-montreal/2010/930-club-washington-dc-5bd76b34.html
If you haven't heard them, here's a smattering to get ya goin
- Alec
and Of Montreal - what can I say? If you've seen em before you know just how crazy they can get, and if you haven't you should get some tickets! Their set started with some guys in animals masks with intro music goin on before Of Montreal came in with Suffer for Fashion. They ran through a bunch of tunes compelte with ninjas sneakin' on stage with props and feather shooting machines before the end where Kevin Barnes got up on some cross thing and got stretched out. They came back out for the encore and ended with a Jackson 5 cover which worked out pretty well.
Kevin's voice was a little different from the records (a little more girly) but the playing was solid and the crazy weird show made up for it (although it was supposedly pretty tame for an Of Montreal show). They focused mostly on their newer albums but didn't play Wraith Pinned to the Mist, which was just fine by me.
Setlist if ya want it: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/of-montreal/2010/930-club-washington-dc-5bd76b34.html
If you haven't heard them, here's a smattering to get ya goin
- Alec
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Letting Up Despite Great Faults
Letting Up Despite Great Faults is a shoegaze/dream pop type band that combines blissfull, fuzzed-out guitars with synth pop to create tune in the vein of The Depreciation Guild and M83. Based in LA and led by Michael Lee, they currently have out an EP: Movement (2006) and recently put out their self titled full length (Letting Up Despite Great Faults) in October 2009. Check em' out if you've got the time, they're definitely a favorite among my recent discoveries and they've got a great winter-y sound.
- Alec
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