So, I'm really bummed out that we aren't gonna make it to SXSW this year. First of all, I've never been and think it's about time I go. Second, who doesn't wanna see TONS of awesome bands/artists/djs/films/whatevers all in one place? And besides all that it's so fun to see friends, not work and be wild for a week. BUT...I'm not going. However, there's always next year (and maybe next year will be even better) and MAYBE you'll even see some sort of Young Creature/Soul Ponies collabo!
However, this is 2010 so let's forget about next year for now and check out some of the stuff that would surely be on our schedule this year.
Wednesday Hunx and His Punx @Headhunters 11:35 PM Maluca @Mi Casa Cantina 1:00 AM
Thursday MEN @Beauty Bar Backyard - IHeartComix/Green Owl showcase 10 PM Jessica 6 @Malverde - Bond Music Group/Pop Gun showcase 11 PM Salem @Mohawk Patio - Young Turks showcase 9 PM The xx @Mohawk Patio - Young Turks showcase 1 AM Pictureplane @ Speakeasy Kabaret 11 PM
Friday The Golden Filter @Emo's Jr - The Windish Agency showcase 8 PM Pocahaunted @The Hideout - Not Not Fun showcase 10:15 PM
Saturday Yacht/Major Lazer/Memory Tapes @Cedar Street Courtyard - Rhapsody Rocks SXSW showcase 11 PM Big Freedia @Submerged - New Orleans Bounce showcase
OBVIOUSLY there are tons more, but these are some recommendations to start with. For those of you going, have a drink (or 5) for me!
CREEP is a new project from Brooklyn's Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard of Dreamburger. Although there are a couple of clips of the duo's original stuff on their Myspace page, their first release into the "blogosphere" is an awesome remix of Baghdaddy's Hot Shit. Can't say I've ever heard the original, but I think I like the remix better.
If the clips and remix aren't enough to be excited about, they've also recorded two songs with Romy Madley Croft on vocals for their upcoming release on new label TriAngle Records!
Check out the video for Hot Shit, a XX remix and some other spooky jams since I've been loving this witchy stuff lately.
New Swedish faves jj are gearing up for a big year. First they'll be releasing a new album March 9th, entitled "jj no3" or however it is you do that stupid degree o sign thing. I've had a Mac for years now and I'm discovering new shit everyday. Did you know about Garage Band? Anyways, second from jj is their tour with Young Creature faves The xx. This is the event of my 2010 (The other is the summer release of Twighlight: Eclipse. So. Excited.)
Anyways, lucky for us, jj and their label Secretly Canadian are feeling pretty generous, because they released a track from the upcoming album for free. It's pretty cute. But even cuter is the double release of another song called "My Way" which samples the entire Lil' Wayne verse from Trina's bitch anthem "Don't Trip". It's totally cute.
jj - my way (ft. Lil' Wayne)
You can catch the entire jj/xx tour itinerary HERE
Some more gams:
Uffie - Pop The Glock (Mirwais Remix)
Metronomy - Black Eye/Burnt Thumb
P.S. Spot the cute dyke in the girl band. My personal fave Mel C is being replaced.
New Swedish faves jj are gearing up for a big year. First they'll be releasing a new album March 9th, entitled "jj no3" or however it is you do that stupid degree o sign thing. I've had a Mac for years now and I'm discovering new shit everyday. Did you know about Garage Band? Anyways, second from jj is their tour with Young Creature faves The xx. This is the event of my 2010 (The other is the summer release of Twighlight: Eclipse. So. Excited.)
Anyways, lucky for us, jj and their label Secretly Canadian are feeling pretty generous, because they released a track from the upcoming album for free. It's pretty cute. But even cuter is the double release of another song called "My Way" which samples the entire Lil' Wayne verse from Trina's bitch anthem "Don't Trip". It's totally cute.
jj - my way (ft. Lil' Wayne)
You can catch the entire jj/xx tour itinerary HERE
Some more gams:
Uffie - Pop The Glock (Mirwais Remix)
Metronomy - Black Eye/Burnt Thumb
P.S. Spot the cute dyke in the girl band. My personal fave Mel C is being replaced.
New Swedish faves jj are gearing up for a big year. First they'll be releasing a new album March 9th, entitled "jj no3" or however it is you do that stupid degree o sign thing. I've had a Mac for years now and I'm discovering new shit everyday. Did you know about Garage Band? Anyways, second from jj is their tour with Young Creature faves The xx. This is the event of my 2010 (The other is the summer release of Twighlight: Eclipse. So. Excited.)
Anyways, lucky for us, jj and their label Secretly Canadian are feeling pretty generous, because they released a track from the upcoming album for free. It's pretty cute. But even cuter is the double release of another song called "My Way" which samples the entire Lil' Wayne verse from Trina's bitch anthem "Don't Trip". It's totally cute.
jj - my way (ft. Lil' Wayne)
You can catch the entire jj/xx tour itinerary HERE
Some more gams:
Uffie - Pop The Glock (Mirwais Remix)
Metronomy - Black Eye/Burnt Thumb
P.S. Spot the cute dyke in the girl band. My personal fave Mel C is being replaced.
Often times, I get accused of being weird just for weird's sake. UNTRUE. I was born a wacky kid and my tastes have always leaned towards the dark side. Where kids in my class were listening to Ace Of Base, That "How Bizarre" song, and Madonna, I was blasting around my room to Joan Jett, bad punk pop, and a secret love for The Carpenters (until 2003, after that, I just stopped denying). I've never tried to stray from the alternative path and I don't think I ever will. Cause seriously, ok, story time.
Flip cup. Never played it in my life...until this past Monday. It's like a normal college kid thing to do right? What the hell kind of college did I go to where we didn't play flip cup and like, all those other bro drinking games? Oh right, I went to art school. FART ON THAT.
Anyways, I've just been jamming out lately. The more fuzzed out and spacey and druggy, the better. Did you know they have a term for it in the UK? It's called Wonky Pop, but ewwww Lady Gaga is included on that list and I don't care for her much. OK, 2010, my new years resolution is to just ignore that bitch. NOT GONNA LET HER GET TO ME. Not even the way she can barely keep her eyes open when her lash extensions are too heavy. Ughhhhhh.
Often times, I get accused of being weird just for weird's sake. UNTRUE. I was born a wacky kid and my tastes have always leaned towards the dark side. Where kids in my class were listening to Ace Of Base, That "How Bizarre" song, and Madonna, I was blasting around my room to Joan Jett, bad punk pop, and a secret love for The Carpenters (until 2003, after that, I just stopped denying). I've never tried to stray from the alternative path and I don't think I ever will. Cause seriously, ok, story time.
Flip cup. Never played it in my life...until this past Monday. It's like a normal college kid thing to do right? What the hell kind of college did I go to where we didn't play flip cup and like, all those other bro drinking games? Oh right, I went to art school. FART ON THAT.
Anyways, I've just been jamming out lately. The more fuzzed out and spacey and druggy, the better. Did you know they have a term for it in the UK? It's called Wonky Pop, but ewwww Lady Gaga is included on that list and I don't care for her much. OK, 2010, my new years resolution is to just ignore that bitch. NOT GONNA LET HER GET TO ME. Not even the way she can barely keep her eyes open when her lash extensions are too heavy. Ughhhhhh.
Often times, I get accused of being weird just for weird's sake. UNTRUE. I was born a wacky kid and my tastes have always leaned towards the dark side. Where kids in my class were listening to Ace Of Base, That "How Bizarre" song, and Madonna, I was blasting around my room to Joan Jett, bad punk pop, and a secret love for The Carpenters (until 2003, after that, I just stopped denying). I've never tried to stray from the alternative path and I don't think I ever will. Cause seriously, ok, story time.
Flip cup. Never played it in my life...until this past Monday. It's like a normal college kid thing to do right? What the hell kind of college did I go to where we didn't play flip cup and like, all those other bro drinking games? Oh right, I went to art school. FART ON THAT.
Anyways, I've just been jamming out lately. The more fuzzed out and spacey and druggy, the better. Did you know they have a term for it in the UK? It's called Wonky Pop, but ewwww Lady Gaga is included on that list and I don't care for her much. OK, 2010, my new years resolution is to just ignore that bitch. NOT GONNA LET HER GET TO ME. Not even the way she can barely keep her eyes open when her lash extensions are too heavy. Ughhhhhh.
So a little while back I posted my favorites of the decade, but now I'm gonna give it a go on 2009. I think everyone would agree that 2009 sucked in a lot of different ways, but there were actually a few really great things so I'm gonna focus on those.
Although the album contained several songs we'd heard before I still listened to Dance Mother more than most other records this year, old songs and all.
Quiet, dark, breathy boy/girl vocals, the perfect amount of reverb and lyrics that make you want to be a teen in love. I like this album so much that I'm already sad because their next one isn't gonna be as good.
Can someone drop me off in the desert with psychedelics and this record? That's how the record was made and I feel like I should experience it that way. In the meantime, I'll turn the lights off and lay on my couch to listen.
Kristen Stewart The Twilight movies suck (no pun intended) but I love Kristen Stewart's tortured teenage lesbian portrayal of Bella Swan. It's like she doesn't even really want Edward, she just wants something. If she could stop being stupid about Edward for like a second and go to college she would finally find out that the something is lesbianism. I'd like to believe that KStew's thesbionic choices are a reflection of her lesbionic desires in real life, but we'll probably have to wait like 50 years to find out for sure. In short, I'm tired of Lohan.
I can't say I've given Pictureplane's whole Dark Rift album a fair shot at making my top faves list because I just want to listen to Goth Star. How could you not love a song that chops up and fuzzes out Stevie Nicks?
Great dance jams + totally radical queer lyrics = one of the most exciting bands of 2009.
Kristen Wiig
Even though Kristen Wiig has been overextended as of late on SNL, she is CLEARLY the best part. I pretty much only watch Saturday Night Live to see what weirdness Kristen Wiig is bringing that week.
Heavy Cross is a good song. The Heavy Cross remix Fred Falke did is a GREAT song. It's everything a good remix should be. It resembles the original version but takes it in an unexpected direction. The song is a love song, but I never really felt the romance and sadness and hope and everything else Beth Ditto was singing about until I heard the remix.
YACHT - Psychic City Maybe Psychic City won't go down in history as one of the greatest songs ever written. It might not even be on that many end of year lists, but I love it. It kind of feels like a modern version of "Genius of Love". It's fun, but not novelty and just generally interesting to listen to.
True Blood Season 2 Maybe I'm a total nerd, but True Blood is one of best shows I've seen in A WHILE. I started watching it this year (thanks internet!) and was immediately hooked. Since I watched it in a (more or less) marathon format, I'm really just choosing the show in general, but I can say that 2009's Season had some pretty wild stuff going on and I loved every minute of it. Can't wait for Season 3!
So a little while back I posted my favorites of the decade, but now I'm gonna give it a go on 2009. I think everyone would agree that 2009 sucked in a lot of different ways, but there were actually a few really great things so I'm gonna focus on those.
Although the album contained several songs we'd heard before I still listened to Dance Mother more than most other records this year, old songs and all.
Quiet, dark, breathy boy/girl vocals, the perfect amount of reverb and lyrics that make you want to be a teen in love. I like this album so much that I'm already sad because their next one isn't gonna be as good.
Can someone drop me off in the desert with psychedelics and this record? That's how the record was made and I feel like I should experience it that way. In the meantime, I'll turn the lights off and lay on my couch to listen.
Kristen Stewart The Twilight movies suck (no pun intended) but I love Kristen Stewart's tortured teenage lesbian portrayal of Bella Swan. It's like she doesn't even really want Edward, she just wants something. If she could stop being stupid about Edward for like a second and go to college she would finally find out that the something is lesbianism. I'd like to believe that KStew's thesbionic choices are a reflection of her lesbionic desires in real life, but we'll probably have to wait like 50 years to find out for sure. In short, I'm tired of Lohan.
I can't say I've given Pictureplane's whole Dark Rift album a fair shot at making my top faves list because I just want to listen to Goth Star. How could you not love a song that chops up and fuzzes out Stevie Nicks?
Great dance jams + totally radical queer lyrics = one of the most exciting bands of 2009.
Kristen Wiig
Even though Kristen Wiig has been overextended as of late on SNL, she is CLEARLY the best part. I pretty much only watch Saturday Night Live to see what weirdness Kristen Wiig is bringing that week.
Heavy Cross is a good song. The Heavy Cross remix Fred Falke did is a GREAT song. It's everything a good remix should be. It resembles the original version but takes it in an unexpected direction. The song is a love song, but I never really felt the romance and sadness and hope and everything else Beth Ditto was singing about until I heard the remix.
YACHT - Psychic City Maybe Psychic City won't go down in history as one of the greatest songs ever written. It might not even be on that many end of year lists, but I love it. It kind of feels like a modern version of "Genius of Love". It's fun, but not novelty and just generally interesting to listen to.
True Blood Season 2 Maybe I'm a total nerd, but True Blood is one of best shows I've seen in A WHILE. I started watching it this year (thanks internet!) and was immediately hooked. Since I watched it in a (more or less) marathon format, I'm really just choosing the show in general, but I can say that 2009's Season had some pretty wild stuff going on and I loved every minute of it. Can't wait for Season 3!
So a little while back I posted my favorites of the decade, but now I'm gonna give it a go on 2009. I think everyone would agree that 2009 sucked in a lot of different ways, but there were actually a few really great things so I'm gonna focus on those.
Although the album contained several songs we'd heard before I still listened to Dance Mother more than most other records this year, old songs and all.
Quiet, dark, breathy boy/girl vocals, the perfect amount of reverb and lyrics that make you want to be a teen in love. I like this album so much that I'm already sad because their next one isn't gonna be as good.
Can someone drop me off in the desert with psychedelics and this record? That's how the record was made and I feel like I should experience it that way. In the meantime, I'll turn the lights off and lay on my couch to listen.
Kristen Stewart The Twilight movies suck (no pun intended) but I love Kristen Stewart's tortured teenage lesbian portrayal of Bella Swan. It's like she doesn't even really want Edward, she just wants something. If she could stop being stupid about Edward for like a second and go to college she would finally find out that the something is lesbianism. I'd like to believe that KStew's thesbionic choices are a reflection of her lesbionic desires in real life, but we'll probably have to wait like 50 years to find out for sure. In short, I'm tired of Lohan.
I can't say I've given Pictureplane's whole Dark Rift album a fair shot at making my top faves list because I just want to listen to Goth Star. How could you not love a song that chops up and fuzzes out Stevie Nicks?
Great dance jams + totally radical queer lyrics = one of the most exciting bands of 2009.
Kristen Wiig
Even though Kristen Wiig has been overextended as of late on SNL, she is CLEARLY the best part. I pretty much only watch Saturday Night Live to see what weirdness Kristen Wiig is bringing that week.
Heavy Cross is a good song. The Heavy Cross remix Fred Falke did is a GREAT song. It's everything a good remix should be. It resembles the original version but takes it in an unexpected direction. The song is a love song, but I never really felt the romance and sadness and hope and everything else Beth Ditto was singing about until I heard the remix.
YACHT - Psychic City Maybe Psychic City won't go down in history as one of the greatest songs ever written. It might not even be on that many end of year lists, but I love it. It kind of feels like a modern version of "Genius of Love". It's fun, but not novelty and just generally interesting to listen to.
True Blood Season 2 Maybe I'm a total nerd, but True Blood is one of best shows I've seen in A WHILE. I started watching it this year (thanks internet!) and was immediately hooked. Since I watched it in a (more or less) marathon format, I'm really just choosing the show in general, but I can say that 2009's Season had some pretty wild stuff going on and I loved every minute of it. Can't wait for Season 3!
Here's what I know about the xx. 2 boys, 2 girls. 19yrs. British.
I'm usually not hyped up on "buzz bands" (see: The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, other boring indie crap...), but I really do like the xx. Their girl/boy vocals and mellow electronics draw me in and keep me wandering around in their hazy landscape of pop...and that's a nice place to be.
Their record is out now and is available through Rough Trade. Also, if you buy the CD version you get a bonus disc featuring 3 cover songs. So check it out!
Here are a couple of the tracks floating around the internet and the a really cute acoustic version of Crystalised Romy & Oliver did for Amsterdam Acoustics. (Also jump over here to check out their mix for Fact Magazine)
The blogging world LOVES the xx...maybe you will too?
Here's what I know about the xx. 2 boys, 2 girls. 19yrs. British.
I'm usually not hyped up on "buzz bands" (see: The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, other boring indie crap...), but I really do like the xx. Their girl/boy vocals and mellow electronics draw me in and keep me wandering around in their hazy landscape of pop...and that's a nice place to be.
Their record is out now and is available through Rough Trade. Also, if you buy the CD version you get a bonus disc featuring 3 cover songs. So check it out!
Here are a couple of the tracks floating around the internet and the a really cute acoustic version of Crystalised Romy & Oliver did for Amsterdam Acoustics. (Also jump over here to check out their mix for Fact Magazine)
The blogging world LOVES the xx...maybe you will too?
Here's what I know about the xx. 2 boys, 2 girls. 19yrs. British.
I'm usually not hyped up on "buzz bands" (see: The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, other boring indie crap...), but I really do like the xx. Their girl/boy vocals and mellow electronics draw me in and keep me wandering around in their hazy landscape of pop...and that's a nice place to be.
Their record is out now and is available through Rough Trade. Also, if you buy the CD version you get a bonus disc featuring 3 cover songs. So check it out!
Here are a couple of the tracks floating around the internet and the a really cute acoustic version of Crystalised Romy & Oliver did for Amsterdam Acoustics. (Also jump over here to check out their mix for Fact Magazine)
The blogging world LOVES the xx...maybe you will too?
