so this thursday, me and a couple of friends are hopping on a plane to Chicago to attend the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival. this year's festival proves to be one of the year's best festivals for the cheapest price. $60 two-day passes in which one can see a plethora of the best in contemporary indie rock/hiphop/electronic. Luckily, my friend Sean and I were able to get press passes. Him and I will be interviewing a couple of bands and taking a hell of a lot of photographs that will make for a pretty fuckin' rad blogspot post. To take photos I needed a camera-- a practical one at that. My high-school friend Aileen gladly let me borrow her digital Nikon to snap photos at the festival and around the city. And as a giant, magnified "thank you", I made her a mixtape comprising songs that I've either been listening to at the moment or thought she would enjoy. here's the track list.
1. discovery - i wanna be your boyfriend (feat. Angel Deradoorian) 2. grizzly bear/lil' wayne - 2 weeks till' prom 3. atlas sound - walkabout (live) (feat. Panda Bear) 4. toro y moi - blessa 5. broadcast - black cat 6. deerhunter - hazel st. 7. cam'ron - la bumba (feat. vado) 8. cass mccombs - when the bible was wrote 9. major lazer - keep it goin' (feat. nina sky & ricky blaze) 10. the very best (esau mwamwaya & radioclit) - tengazako 11. prince - let's go crazy 12. nina sky - move ya body (feat. jabba) 13. mos def - auditorium 14. wale - the freestyle (roc boys)
i have never heard of Toro y Moi until Edward Droste (Grizzly Bear) posted up a link on his twitter about him and, man, he's great! he's supposed to release two full lengths next year and Carpark, the label from which he resides, currently released a 7" for his song Blessa.
when you listen to the song you'll notice how air-y it sounds. there's a lot of space from which to reverberate sounds and it seems as if toro y moi takes advantage of all the space he has to create lots of delay, noisy flush, and beachy harmonies. this is kind of a great summer song.
I was eating at this Peruvian restaurant yesterday with some friends (by the way, please try Lomo Saltado. it's delicious). We were talking and the topic of conversation turned to my friend Nicole and her mix CD, and how great it was. I then brushed it off by saying that it probably wasn't THAT good and I sort of said that I could probably do one better than hers. So the idea came up to do a battle of mix tapes.
MIX TAPE WARS: Me v. Nicole.
Rules: There are no rules. It has to fill up an entire blank CDR, which is about 80 minutes. No themes or anything. Just make a good mix tape. One that can be listened to in the car, I guess... well that's what I'm going for with my mixtape. I'm pretty excited. The winner will get their mixtape played on the air. I'll devote one hour of my noise rock show to playing it.
I'll also post it up on the blog in a zip. file so you can download it... maybe via rapidshare or whatever it's called.
just saw the trailer to Cold Souls starring Paul Giamatti as a fictionalized version of himself. warning. at first this movie looks exactly like some kind of faux-Charlie Kaufman rip-off type shit... and you're kind of right. the story is very heady and kaufman-esque. paul giamatti as himself decides to like see some scientific corporation that deals in removing the souls out of people. that's like being john malkovich meets eternal sunshine of the spotless mind... just with a different actor to study and a different scientific procedure. but then he wants his soul back? uhm... were they even trying to be discrete with the plot of this?
but watch the rest of the trailer and it looks like it might be pretty funny.
paul giamatti sort of plays himself in every movie so i don't see what the point of using him as some sort metaphysical observation of himself is? im already confused by this flick. eh but then he goes to Russia and it looks like hilarity might ensue there. i don't know: just give me a movie with Paul Giamatti in a ushanka and i'll pay top dollar to watch it. in 3D. on IMAX.
a friend requested a text of my playlist from Thursday's show.
hey: listen to my show every thursday from 4-7pm. Experimental and Noise Rock!
boredoms - acid police oneida - the adversary japandroids - wet hair ponytail - die allman bruder death set - had a bird parts & labor - satellites deerhunter - rainwater cassette exchange abe vigoda - wild heart grouper - disengaged grouper - heavy water/i'd rather be sleeping the microphones - i want wind to blow pocahaunted - divine flesh fuck buttons - colours move boredoms - god from anal gang gang dance - glory in itself/ egyptian sonic youth - massage the history dirty projectors - temecula sunrise magik markers - state numbers cymbals eat guitars - like blood does pink mountaintops - vampire spacemen 3 - mary anne bibio - haikuesque (when she laughs) st. vincent - the strangers double dagger - no allies lightning bolt - into the valley boris - track 01 off of Pink the ruby suns - morning sun
whoops! yesterday i forgot to post anything. i was kind of busy with school and my radio show. then i got home and sort of went to sleep? woke up just now.
well my friend, rafael, has been telling me to listen to the avalanches' Since I Left You for a while. I finally heard it about a couple of months ago and found it to be good... but I did think it was a bit flawed. for one: the record is just a bit too long. two: because there's so many samples being used it was hard for me to pin-point my favorite songs. So i kind of brushed it off. But then I was shuffling through my iPod while driving and boom: Frontier Psychiatrist comes up. It totally reminded me how many gems are peppered in that CD.
The Avalanches have not done a CD since that first one in 2001.
