Saturday, July 31, 2010

Tumblr.

Hey kids,

I've been trying to maintain a blog and a Tumblr simultaneously for a while now, and I'm just not feeling it. For sake of my sanity, I'm putting this blog on permanent hiatus until I have something truly "blog-worthy" to write about. Any further music-related posts will be folded into my Tumblr, which admittedly is pretty eclectic...not that that's a bad thing.


xxx

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Yes I did just add this to my music library.

You are so jealous.

Free LiLo

Tri Angle Records Presents "Let Me Shine for You"
Inspired in part by Lindsay Lohan’s grotesquely fascinating black hole existence and in part by my unwavering belief in the power of pop music as an artform, I saw an opportunity to create something interesting with her music, and decided to ask some friends to reinterpret some of Lindsay’s songs. “Tri Angle Records Presents: Let Me Shine for You” is the result. Even though we are all fond of Lindsay in our own ways, there is no FREE LINDSAY agenda here. We all love pop music and this is merely an experiment. All of our intentions are very sincere.


I really hope someone thought to send a copy to Lindsay's prison mailbox...!

Friday, July 9, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Chill the fuck out.


This is what summer should feel like.

This image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the central region of the starburst galaxy M82 and contains two bright X-ray sources of special interest. New studies with Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton show that these two sources may be intermediate-mass black holes, with masses in between those of the stellar-mass and supermassive variety. These "survivor" black holes avoided falling into the center of the galaxy and could be examples of the seeds required for the growth of supermassive black holes in galaxies, including the one in the Milky Way. —NASA

Friday, June 18, 2010

Summertime cave rave.

I've been getting some requests for a mixxxtape, so I threw together a little sampling of some of the tracks I've been into recently and in the past year or so. This tracklist pretty much encompasses all the chill, dubby, glitchy, tribally and "witchy" music I've been consuming in recent months. It's music that's good for stone cellars and and Shaker graveyards.

Have a weird summer, kids.



Tracklist†:

Just a heads up: iTunes 9 apparently does not let you duplicate tracks easily, so I wasn't able to easily rename the album title on all these and put them in a set order. So, if you open the mix and it's not in the order above I strongly suggest you take a minute to re-organize. Sorry for the inconvenience. Blame Steve Jobs.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Horse MacGyver.

///▲▲▲\\\ - rub from fsck. on Vimeo.

I much preferred when Horse MacG went by ///▲▲▲\\\ (aka v_o_i_d) but I can see how that name caused some problems for him... "you know, the triangle guy"

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Helping Johnny Remember

Helping Johnny Remember from ashleigh nankivell on Vimeo.

This is so effing creepy in the most wonderful way.

;)

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

New from Weird Tapes.


I'm a big Weird Tapes/Memory Tapes/Memory Cassette fan, but I will say, of all three of Dayve Hawk's projects, this one is by far my favorite. Memory Tapes' Walk Me Home long mix was fantastic, but I'm very happy to hear some new(ish) Weird Tapes.


"The Walking Day" is off the first ThisIsNotAnExit comp, Manifesto #1.

An apt summation of the past week in current events:

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Lush Cola.


"They are driving a Gun-Metal Black Lincoln Continental on the interstate at night
They are riding your bike in a rainstorm when the lightning comes out
They are trying to fall asleep early on a weeknight"

Yeah, that sounds about right.

This is a project of Tim Perry of Denver lo-fi rock outlet Weed Diamond. Free download from Patient Sounds available here.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Obligatory:

New LCD is "out".

Okay, can I just preface this post by asking: isn't it weird that record release dates no longer actually mean anything? I remember being in middle school and being THUPER excited to go to Strawberry's (remember Strawberry's?!) to get the latest ~KEWLest~ *NSYNC (yes *NSYNC) album on the day it came out and then I'd be THO EXCITED listen to it on my Discman on the way home...man. It's like I was raised in the Middle Ages.

So, yes, new LCD Soundsystem album took the interwebs by storm the other day, more than a month ahead of its release date. James Murphy reacted accordingly and immediately made the whole album available to stream on LCD's website. Smart dude, but judging from current Google auto-complete results, the interwebs aren't so down with the streaming:

Sorry James Murphy. People are impatient? No worries for LCD though -- they'll be playing sold out shows all summer all over the globe and selling disco-print t-shirts like candy/crack.

This Is Happening is classic LCD: catchy beats, catchier hooks, James Murphy sultry-sweet voice singing painfully poignant lyrics about love and youth and losing your youth. It's fresh material that stays true to project's disco-infused dance-punk that delves a little further into 80's punk rock/new wave sounds (listen: "One Touch"). Hell, he even gets a lil Bono on us there ("I Can Change"). The album is a cool and coherent follow up to the previous two, and if you like LCD Soundsystem, you'll like this album. And even if you don't like LCD Soundsystem... this is pretty much the guaranteed dance album of the summah. So yeah.

And I think we can all agree James Murphy looks boss on the album art.

LCD Soundsystem // One Touch
LCD Soundsystem // I Can Change

Links removed per request, 'cos duh my blog gets so much traffic I am singlehandedly undercutting LCD Soundsystem's album and ticket sales. I mean DUH.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Pretty pictures.



Photos by the incredibly talented 17-year-old Australian photographer, Nirrimi. According to her website, she "i started taking pictures of (her) sister at age thirteen and never stopped." She now has an agent and recently shot a "campaign for a big label" (not sure which one) in New York City. Her very whimsical blog has some great photographs as well. And did mention she's just 17??!

One day...



A girl can dream.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Brief travel update, February/March 2010.

Places I went:

  • London
  • Amsterdam
  • Rotterdam
  • Brussels

Things I did:

  • Saw stuff.
  • Ate stuff.
  • Photographed stuff.
  • Photographed stuff I ate.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Bonjour.

My 'hood.

I've been in Paris for a little over a week now, and (surprise, surprise) I am absolutely LOVING it. The city is gorgeous (duh), my apartment could not be in a better location, my roommates are incredibly cool and laid-back, and we're actually making Parisian friends! A slight recap of the past eight days:

I arrived in Paris last Saturday and cabbed it to mon petit appartement in the Latin Quarter. I was jet-lagged and tired, so I ended up sleeping most of the day, but not before meeting our slightly eccentric landlady Madame Meyer, who brought us our lease to sign and talked up her three very very successful sons. (I think she was angling to set us up with the younger two...hahaaa.)

On Sunday, my roommates Kaitlin & Nikki and I got out to explore the neighborhood. We walked up to the Seine, crossed the river to Île-de-la-Cité, and followed a stream of tourists into Notre Dame. They were right in a middle of a service, so we wandered around and took photos while a fat lady in robe sang operatic hymns.

Notre Dame

We left the cathedral and walked down to the park by Pont Neuf, one of my favorite places in Paris. I can't wait until spring, when we can walk down there and picnic..! Later that night I met up with my friend Samira by Place de la Concorde. We walked around the second arrondissement and grabbed a café. (How Parisian.)

The view from Pont Neuf

The rest of my week has been split between attending orientation classes at Sciences Po, and scoping out bars and cafés near my apartment. We found an amazing dive bar right up the street, where we made friends with some Parisian guys who taught us some French drinking games and incredibly vulgar bar songs. This whole area is overrun with students, so there's no lack of bars or drunk French dudes stumbling around at night.

Yesterday Kaitlin and I ventured to the 12th to meet up with some other USC kids in our program. We ate at a really pretty restaurant built into Viaducs des Arts, an old elevated railway track that's been converted into gallery spaces with a parkway above it. It was nice to see a different area of Paris -- the further out of the city centre you go, the more modern/urban it gets. I'm really happy to be living in the 5th though. No other area is quite so quintessentially Parisian.

Feel free to check out the rest of my photos on Flickr. À bientôt,

Emily.