by DJ El Toro
Tuesday, March 31:
“I didn’t get to digest as much music as I’d have liked yesterday. (Plus I have a wad of Britney Spears’ “If U Seek Amy” rotting in my colon, refusing to pass — just the chorus, repeating ad nauseam, making its tenacity known with such aggression that I find [...]
The week before last, I polished off Bill Drummond’s excellent and hilarious memoir 45. Drummond managed the Teardrop Explodes and Echo & The Bunnymen, was one-half of the KLF, and found subsequent infamy as a art provocateur, author, etc. His rabid discourse on music in myriad forms inspired me to make a pact: I will [...]
Animal Collective’s new album cover deserves to be viewed larger than life. Just roll your eyes across this bad boy and feel the underwater movement the band tried to emulate in the recording of today’s release, Merriweather Post Pavilion (apparently, it was the lagoon at the outdoor venue in Maryland that inspired the concept). Freaky… [...]
Posted in KEXP, New York, Out This Week! | Also tagged A.C. Newman, Andrew Bird, Antony and the Johnsons, Atmosphere, Blackout Beach, Blue Giant, Bon Iver, Coconut Records, Cut Off Your Hands, Fiction Family, J. Tillman, Kyle Andrews, Ladyfinger, Matt & Kim, Modern Skirts, Or the Whale, Psychic Ills, Robert Pollard, Roger O'Donnell, Saeta, The 1900s, Titus Andronicus, Zero Boys |
