That's Okay, I Was Bored Anyway

New Music Roundup!

James meets Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with Light Heat's dreamy "And The Birds"...

Foxygen channel Belle and Sebastian...

Chairlift do a Japanese version of "I Belong In Your Arms", unable to translate song title...

Free Energy :: Girls Want Rock... everything I despise all wrapped up in one neat bow-adorned video package. And yet I can't turn away.

The end is nigh...


Dan Deacon goes on tour in a school bus. Plays whacked out tune. Takes many photos...

Have zero interest in Dinosaur Jr. but this video of a husband, a wife and the subwoofers that may or may not come between them is awesome...

This is Your Baptism

Almost time to start looking forward, but first... the most listened to and one of the best songs of the past three years...



And... the even more effective non-vocal version set to scenes of a freakish family... reloaded from 2010 here.

Girl You Know You've Got To Watch Your Health

Major congrats to Claire Boucher - she had a mountain of my pent-up snobbish opinion to wade through to get in the top 5. And that's not the 24 year old female part... she's from Vancouver!

Grimes turns her back on sporting events, seems to enjoy locker rooms...


Grimes 'Oblivion' from Somesuch & Co. on Vimeo.

Hot Chip :: How Do You Do?

Despite the green screen overuse, ill-advised wardrobe, stock Calgary Stampede footage (hate Calgary) and the fact members of Hot Chip are butt ugly... this video kinda works (perhaps the skateboarder saves it).

And anyway, this is the No. freakin 1 song on the only charts that matter!!

But Who Am I To Judge A Man's Heart By His Yacht Wear?

I dunno, this song seems a bit five years ago but still its got a darn infectious chorus and I like those CAKE-like talk-singy verses.

Other than that, and that it's No. 22 (!!), and that the video is stupid, I don't know who WHY? are or what this guy's yammering on about (dude gets nasty graphic near the end)...

Diplo :: Set It Off

I would find this video equally mesmerizing if those were aged rodeo clowns gyrating on that infinite space pole. 
I would find this video equally mesmerizing if those were aged rodeo clowns gyrating on that infinite space pole. 
I would find this video equally mesmerizing if those were aged rodeo clowns gyrating on that infinite space pole. 
I would find...

Some snare drum n' electronica goodness from Diplo (Major Lazer). Song No. 10 from last year...

Drinking the Kool Aid

Jason Lytle's "Your Final Setting Sun": No. 6 in the top 50 (No. 1 in your hearts baby)...

"That light you see's the setting sun
I know you seen a few friend
but tonight is gonna be your final one"



Wardrobe courtesy The Polyphonic Spree!

The One AM Radio

No. 8 on the top 50!



Starring Christina Hendricks' husband.

When We'd Breathe In Common Air

1992: Back when shoegazing wasn't such a dirty word.

Lush: number one among the ethereal dream pop bands (yeah, there was more than one!). been dead for 16 years now.

"Nothing Natural": One of the best from the best of 90's compilation currently swirling around in my head.

Miki and Emma - big-ass lipstick. connected by the ear apparently...

It Would Help To Seek Comfort In Destiny

No. 7 on the Top 50!


Too slow perhaps. Here's the pop perfection version:

Impregnable Question by Dirty Projectors

And the tears in our eyes when we ski fast in the forest

not because this is new or that i haven't posted before... but because its winter and i have yet to see snow and sunny day swedish snow is the best type of snow:


also, i miss Annika. she seems to have disappeared. more.

Open The Window Man

Fuzz n' melody... in a garden:



... and bad teeth, pixies and dueling tambourines (album out Feb 5th)

Best Songs 2012

1. How Do You Do? by Hot Chip
2. Get Free by Major Lazer
3. Oblivion by Grimes
4. Sad Eyes by Crystal Castles
5. Dark Parts by Perfume Genius
6. Your Final Setting Sun by Jason Lytle
7. Impregnable Question by Dirty Projectors
8. Accidents by The One AM Radio
9. Tides by The xx
10. Set It Off by Diplo
11. Lazuli by Beach House
12. Peach Blossom by Eels
13. Cherokee by Cat Power
14. Bait and Switch by The Shins
15. Today's Supernatural by Animal Collective
16. Professional Griefers by Deadmau5
17. Andrew in Drag by The Magnetic Fields
18. Asunder by Fang Island
19. Sedna by Efterklang
20. Kill For Love by Chromatics
21. The Wave by Miike Snow
22. Sod In The Seed by WHY?
23. Origins by Tennis
24. Drift Dive by The Antlers
25. Before We Run by Yo La Tengo
26. Man on Fire by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
27. Tearz for Animals by CocoRosie
28. Laura by Bat For Lashes
29. Days by The Drums
30. Sommarfågel by Vintergatan
31. The Messenger by Johnny Marr
32. Gramma by Lana Del Rey
33. One Drop by Public Image Ltd.
34. Rise by Antony and the Johnsons
35. Same Love by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
36. Put Me On by Diamond Rings
37. Tonight by Saint Etienne
38. Hail Bop by DJango Django
39. Expire by Screaming Females
40. Wind Was the Wine by Woods
41. Feels Like We Only Go Backwards by Tame Impala
42. Dreams by Taken By Trees
43. Dirty Paws by Of Monsters And Men
44. The Child With the Star On His Head by Das Racist
45. I Belong In Your Arms by Chairlift
46. Ungirthed by Purity Ring
47. End Of The Line by Sleigh Bells
48. Millions by Eternal Summers
49. Dead Flowers by Young Prisms
50. Fitzpleasure by Alt-J

 

In the meantime and in-between time

In which Kurt escorts Hagrid to the wrestling hotel - a melancholy tale soundtracked by another Lambchop gem...

 

I've always been a ladies man

The Magnetic Fields return to their 69 Love Songs best - though for some reason it took me ten listens to realize this.

Fag Stag Bag Wag Brag Jag Shag Gag - it's... Andrew in Drag:
 

The Art of Beer Swilling Jian Sword Dancing

Some Best Songs of 2011

Air - Seven Stars
Alex Turner - Piledriver waltz
The Antlers - No Widows
Austra - Lose It
Author and Punisher - Terrorbird
The Bandana Splits - Sometimes
Beirut - Santa Fe
Best Coast - Sunny Adventure
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
Casually Sunshine - Consequences of the Kill
Chad VanGaalen - Sara
The Chap - We'll See To Your Breakdown
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Same Mistake
Crystal Stilts - Sycamore Tree
Cults - You Know What I Mean
Death Cab For Cutie - Home is a fire
Decemberists - Down by the Water
Destroyer - Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
Die Antwoord - $0$
The Drums - Money
The Feelies - Nobody Knows
Genki Sudo World Order - Machine Civilization
Girls - Lawrence
The Go! Team - Voice Yr Choice
Jay-Z and Kanye West - Murder to Excellence
Jogger - Nephicide
Kate Bush - Wild Man
Lana Del Rey - Video Games
Lykke Li - Sadness Is A Blessing
Major Lazer - Original Don
M83 - Midnight City
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton)
Miike Snow - The Rabbit (Stuart Price GVNR Remix)
Mogwai - San Pedro
Noah and The Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.
O'Death - Bugs
Octapus - Murman
Peter Bjorn and John - Second Chance
PJ Harvey - The Last Living Rose
R.E.M. - Walk It Back
The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures Of Raindance Maggie
Röyksopp - Keyboard Milk
Slow Magic - Corvette Cassette
Starfucker - Bury Us Alive
Summer Camp - Better Off Without You
Summer Fiction - Chandeliers
Tennis - Origins
They Might Be Giants - Electronic Istanbul Not Constantinople
TV Girl - Benny and the Jetts
Wild Beasts - Albatross
Wye Oak - Civilian
Young Galaxy - We Have Everything
 

I need nothing

Lana Del Rey may be guilty of several things (faux mysteriousness, recycling videos, overly pouty lips...) but the music keeps on keeping on and is... terrific: Parenthetical Girls spend mucho $ on album covers...

Swallow The Rapture

A Life Abandoned Midstream

Coulda done much better with this - and I wouldn't have broken the law a half dozen times doing it (hey you damned kids, get off my lawn!). Nice excuse to hear this excellent song however. This is Vancouver...

Destroyer - Savage Night at the Opera from Merge Records on Vimeo.