In a future album review, I will compare Curren$y’s 2010 beats to the steely grooves of Dan Bejar’s Kaputt. The Hood Internet have taken the parallel one step further, serving up a Destroyer beat alongside a full plate of verses from the chef himself. Go get some lemonade, this is some pretty hot shit.
Here are my L.A. concert recommendations, short and sweet, for the week. Only things I actually would like to see. On days with multiple listings, they’re in descending order of priority. Click below to add the ongoing calendar to your Google Calendar, iCal, etc. Read the rest of this entry »
In which Zack Galifianakis goes anti-Between Two Ferns and plays the straight man to Rawkblog comedy hero Showalter’s character, an indie-rocker who doesn’t play instruments (nor shows). “Do you get it?”
Within this video: The greatest rap lyric about Arby’s ever; cameos from Odd Future’s Left Brain, Hodgy and Jasper; a hook catchy enough to have already ruined your Memorial Day weekend; crazy swag.
You could call “In This Home on Ice” a forerunner of the current edition of 1980s revivalism. Its guitar chords melt into the sides of headphones like microwaved gummy bears, the occasional lead bits emerge just long enough to proclaim their love for Johnny Marr and fade back into the mix; the only sign the ’90s happened at all is Alec Ounsworth’s gloriously ragged vocal. But it’s all enough to separate Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and their abandoned potential from pretty much all of a half-decade of ensuing synth-pop. Joke’s on the band, though: the Strokes got to the chord progression first with “Someday.” So maybe this is ’70s revival? It’ll sound great forever. (And probably better on vinyl on June 14, when it gets remastered and reissued. The band’s latest, Hysterical, is due in September.)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “In This Home On Ice”: mp3
Stereogum just premiered the video for the Brooklyn songwriter’s latest mega-jam, the live version of which (ahem) premiered right here. Enjoy. Sondre Lerche is out June 7.
Miles Kurosky solo at SXSW 2010 / photo by David Greenwald
(Editor’s note: This post originally appeared in May 2007. MP3 links have been updated.) Radio sessions are the best. You get a quality recording and the band tends to do things acoustic and quieter. This particular session is not acoustic and quieter — in fact, it’s noisier than some of the album versions of some these tracks. This is great TheCoast is Never Clear-era material with Beulah in fine form. For the uninitiated: The Coast is Never Clear is one of the best pop records of this millennium, up there with Oh, Inverted World.
Beulah @ KCRW, 9.25.01
1. Program Intro:mp3
2. Battle Cry of the West:mp3
3. Emma Blowgun’s Last Stand:mp3
4. Night Is the Day Turned Inside Out:mp3
5. Interview:mp3
6. If We Can Land a Man on the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart:mp3
7. Popular Mechanics for Lovers:mp3
Frank Ocean is Odd Future’s secret weapon, an R&B singer who remembers what the latter initial stands for. His Nostalgia, Ultra mixtape is full of almost-great moments only in need of a bit more flesh, as the short, sweet “Acura Integurl” (a non-album cut) showcases. In fairness, it’s a mixtape (and a free one), more an announcement of Ocean’s future wave-making than a definitive statement — and after Tyler, the Creator’s 70+ minute behemoth, it’s nice to have a little brevity. And a little tenderness. (via Some Velvet Blog)
