i'm in heaven.

beachheaddddjammms (mix)

This is what happens when I get sick and have to take a day off of work...

beachheaddddjammms.zip

1. What Would I Want Sky - Animal Collective
2. Mickey Mouse - Wavves
3. Vacation - Beach Fossils
4. Summer > Epilogue - Alex Bleeker and the Freaks*
5. Walkabout - Atlas Sound & Panda Bear
6. Horse Steppin' - Sun Araw
7. Dominos - The Big Pink
8. We Own The Sky - M83

*Special super psyched city for Bleekditty's track and the upcoming record with the fffreaksss.

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do the jane fonda (mix)

Aerobics mix for Fabrice "a la" Van Michel who will soon be leaving us to return to la Belgique.

WORKOUT.zip

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mickey mouse - wavves

While I'm at it, I can't stop listening to this Wavves demo jam. I can't understand why he left this out. N-e-wayz...

Mickey Mouse - Wavves.mp3 (via gVb)

walkabout - atlas sound + panda bear

Finally a recorded version of this song (previously "Dovers Jam") has come out! It's been one of my favorite jams for a few months now.

Word on the street is, in playing super hip improvised iPod games with Animal Collective while on tour, Bradford Cox came across "What Am I Going to Do" by the Dovers and fell in love with the hook. Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) taught him how to sample and match up the beat, and now we have the lovely "Walkabout" jam.

Walkabout - Atlas Sound feat. Panda Bear.mp3 (via gvb)

love in july (mix)

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07/09 micromix: love in july

1. Rainbow - Thee Oh Sees
2. Fables - The Dodos
3. When I Grow Up (Version by Lissivik) - Fever Ray
4. No Hope Kids - Wavves
5. Shattered Shine (Daytrotter) - Crystal Stilts
6. In Your Wildest Dreams - Moody Blues
7. Being Bored - Pill Wonder
8. Chemicals - The Notwist
9. Banana Jam Pt. 1 - Julian Lynch
10. Cat Grave - Arch M
11. There Is No Sun - Jay Reatard
12. Beach on the Moon - Kurt Vile
13. What Did I Do - The Beets
14. She Don't Use Jelly - The Flaming Lips
15. Idiot Heart - Sunset Rubdown

*photo by k. trolio

(summers are for birthdaze.)

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yesterday was canada day! happy canada day?

Jay Reatard played at the Oval in the quad of Stuy Town. That place gives me the fucking creeps. It's a housing community that has been transformed from low-income projects to yuppie family dwellings and city college kid housing. There were kids everywhere, pot smoke bellowing out of windows, and hipsters pouring out of the L at 1st Ave to take advantage of a recession-friendly free show. Funnily enough, this series is also advertised as family-friendly.

Also giving me the creeps was the old (homeless?) dude standing next to me wearing roller blades and wrestling with a stray cat under his tee-shirt. Next to him was a 10-year-old girl in a wheelchair with cerebral palsy, and on the other side of me was a half-assed attempt at a pit being made by aforementioned Brooklynites who were just aware of themselves enough to elbow and push each other around for five minutes.

The show was free, like I said, and the band was great. They played a tight, 40-minute set, banging out all your Reatard faves. But still, I couldn't help but feel like I was bearing witness to something wholly inappropriate and just sort of, wrong. The icing on the cake was the Verizon sponsorship of the summer concert series. Blech.

I left quickly and braved the Sephora in Times Sq to load up on free eyeliner before meeting this guy for a date to see Todd Barry at a fucking comedy club. I know, I know. Jesus christ, I must be a masochist. Lately more and more I have been looking in the mirror and not recognizing the person staring back. It takes only one trip to midtown Manhattan on a summer evening to make you completely hate yourself, in case you were wondering.

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northside festival happened, like, weeks ago...

...but I never wrote about it. I spent about $400 that weekend partying, even though the 15 shows Nick and I saw were covered by my cheap-as-shit $45 all-access handy dandy badge pass. The highlights included Bishop Allen at Studio B, Bill Callahan at Music Hall of Williamsburg, and The Dodos show at Studio B (horribly scheduled for Sunday at 5pm). Though apparently the L Mag people had problems with the Dodos show, their set has since rejuvenated my love for Visiter - it is playing full blast in my living room at the moment - and has heightened my anticipation for the next release.

Here a few pics of pretty terrible quality, cos well why the fuck not??

Brightblack Morning Light @ Studio B - This lady on the keys rocked it so hard. She was super possessed and in the moment. Her flailing, jerky head movements were mesmerizing.


Bishop Allen @ Studio B - Again the female band member (on bells this time), Heather, stole the show for me. She sang lead for a few songs and broke every heart in the room. Justin Rice was fun and energetic, despite looking a bit haggard and as though he hadn't shaved or slept in a few.




Sisters @ Public Assembly - Although Nick and I caught this on a fluke, leaving the Tallest Man on Earth at MHOW and grabbing a drink before These Are Powers @ Death By Audio (who played there with Real Estate<###),