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.

Innovative

Quad Time by Origamibiro and The Joy of Box - an audio-visual collective...

Quad Time from The Joy of Box on Vimeo.

Money

Love those shorts and the Gareth Keenan haircut...

Soda Jerk

Happy Happy video from The Bandana Splits...

The Bandana Splits - "Sometimes" from stereogum on Vimeo.

Looks Black To Me

Arab Strap's Aiden Moffat with Bill Wells :: The Copper Top...

Video Games

Art Video

Lucky Me by Project Jenny, Project Jan (music) and Hikmet Barutcugil (!) (marbling). Features a bunny cameo!!!

"Lucky Me" by Project Jenny, Project Jan from sammy rubin on Vimeo.

SingTel Runs Junos

Nice Postal Service vibe going on here, although the auto-tune is on high (and auto-tune is all that separates sanity from the Rebecca Black hacks of the world). But never mind all that... witness the amazing moves that seem to get more amazing as the video progresses:

Machine Civilization by World Order...

Go Japan

Secretary Song by The Go! Team and Satomi Matsuzaki...

I know it ain't 'ealthy

New... (Turn me up some by Stanton Warriors & Messrs)


Old... (I say you say trousers and pull out):

Talk Talk - Dum Dum Girl (Trousers)

Spudbelly | Myspace Video

Pretty Wise

Making South Africans proud the world over - it's Die Antwoord:

remove the 3D glasses when the Dark Side of the Moon appears....

God Damn Europeans

Someone i've ignored for far too long (kinda like this place)... PJ Harvey:



Some nice Shinsy bass lines there, this from her great new album "Let England Shake".

Woot Woot. Gots me the mojo back!