our new home

http://thefridge.org/

The future is here, my dear

Ok, so I trust that we can all agree that Band of Horses is band of the decade, Infinite Arms album of the year, and Blue Beard song of the month, but I can't just keep blabbing on about them indefinitely.

Therefore, I would like to be the Yang to Leonie's Yin, and offer some fairly epically non-morose songs for your listening pleasure.

The Melodians - You Have Caught Me

(Ben King and) Grand Rapids - Black River

Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb

Infinite Arms/Infinite Light

I know I haven't shown nuff love for ComeinThrees these last couple months, not that I haven't been reading and digesting, but it sounds like we're over huh B-Diddy?
So I'll post one last time, and make it a double barkeep. Yes they mostly err on the side of epically morose, but you know. C'est la vie pour moi, c'est pas une grosse affaire.

Bye bye, it's been fun!

"you are the starshine, do you realise? are you the girlfriend of boys who tell you lies?"
Redd Kross – Pay For Love (Phaseshifter, 1993)

"to be of use, to be of some hard simple undeniable use"
Smog – To Be Of Use (Red Apple Falls, 1997)
Buy

"what a way to start a fire, what a way to break it in! your kiss could have killed me, baby"
Scout Niblett ft. Bonnie Prince Billy – Kiss (This Fool Can Die Now, 2007)
Buy

"all my life where I can't take you on my own, I always told you I'd be here."
Warpaint – Krimson (Exquisite Corpse, 2009)
Buy

"your careful calculations keep us riding in the wind"
Lightning Dust – Waiting On The Sun To Rise (Infinite Light, 2009)
Buy

"and something happened on the night I last drank beer with you in the neon glow."
Band Of Horses – Blue Beard (Infinite Arms, 2010)
Buy

Fixin' a drink in the morning, / with the way things are

Check it out:

http://stream.bandofhorses.com/

P.P.S. I think I'm gonna take a break from this gig for a bit. My DropBox account got shut down for too much use, presumably Chinese (see comments on recent posts) internet-crawling mp3-downloading spam bots. Plus I was recently put onto last.fm, and lastpandora.com, which kinda seem game-changing. I need to rethink things a little bit. In the meantime, I'm gonna listens me to a lot of Band Of Horses...

i knew that this was cursed

so after being suitably suspicious of the fake folk brooklyn indie attack over the past few years. i fall head over heels (at least this month) for the seemingly intolerable art students do southern 60s twee pop whatevs. secretly hawt like true blood.

you can download the whole 3 track EP for free at http://cults.bandcamp.com/album/cults-7

or here at comeinthrees.amazing

1. Go Outside

2. Most Wanted

3. The Curse

It began in Africa-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca

Highlight of this month in the sonics department was attending the MtyMx festival in Mexico. Highlight of the MtyMx festival in the sonics department was Andrew W K. Why didn't anyone impress on me the urgency with which I ought to seek out his music, a ComeInThrees post perhaps? Probably because no one's posting anything at all of late (a single tear trails down his cheek).* Ready To Die, I Love NYC, Party Hard, the list goes on and on... It's the most relevant electronic-keyboard-hard-rock I've heard in a long time.

But today I want to talk about something else. Duncan once hassled me that I ought to change my name to "The Very Best Of Paul Simon", after I opened one of my few live performances with Paul Simon's "The Boxer". After Scottie B and King Tut came out with their amazing Baltimore club version of Paul Simon's You Can Call Me Al, Dunc suggested that my version of Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes would not be long in following. But a couple of weeks ago at a club with Rudy, I discovered that it's already been done, actually way back in 2006. "She makes the sign of a teaspoon, he makes the sign of a wave", indeed...

The second track I have for you is from a compilation I found out about while at the MtyMx festival mentioned above. I quite like it, but otherwise don't know anything about the artist.

Thirdly, and edging out Andrew W K for the win, this track by The Killers has been floating around in my head, recently, not totally sure why, maybe something about the line "under the heat of the southwest sun".

Enjoy!

Tangoterje - Diamond Dubs

Los Amparito - Por Medio De La Lectura ("I Have A Photogram Of You" At-At Records compilation available for free download)

The Killers - Neon Tiger (buy Day & Age)

*P.S. Seriously tho, I'm trying not to let this blog die, I think it's fun and several of you have told me that you think it's a good idea. But the stats kind of speak for themselves:

Month: Posts:
Dec 09 - 2
Jan 10 - 2
Feb 10 - 2
Mar 10 - 2
..
i.e. if you read this blog please post to this blog! It'll make it way better! thanks

When Faceless and Anonymous come to beat down your door...

Ok now we're down to business

I recently realized that Neil Young has released two albums since his massive Living With War. Where have I been? To save you the trouble, I'd say that Fork In The Road is definitely better skipped, but Chrome Dreams II actually has quite a lot of depth to it, quite liking it. This track appears on my upcoming California Soft Rock mixtape, if I ever get around to finishing it :)

Also recently bought the Monsters Of Folk (a collaboration between My Morning Jacket, Bright Eyes, and M. Ward) album, that's also growing on me like crazy. I think I was listening to it when I got my first speeding ticket ever recently, so unfortunately it kind of reminds me of that. But I love this track.

Last but not least, Mike Stinson just released his third album! Heaven.

(I hope you like mopey country/folk music)

Neil Young - The Way (buy Chrome Dreams II)

Monsters Of Folk - Magic Marker (buy the album)

Mike Stinson - Square With The World (buy The Jukebox In Your Heart)

choon

so for quite a while i've been secretly into this music coming out of the deepest darkest clubs of sheffield. or at least that's the way that bassline/niche has been sold on wikipedia. actually wikipedia says the scene is associated violence and gang culture, which is hard to believe for music that is basically super slow R&B vocals and ridiculously heavy sped up basslines. can't really imagine people getting violent while "baby, can you kiss me?" blares across the speakers.

"bassline (dance music)" feels slightly like a guilty pleasure and reminds of reggaeton in it's lazily repetitive (hypnotic) formula - but you also get the sneaky suspicion that one or a couple of tracks could blow the whole thing up rather than consign it to the damned history of weird uk club sub-genres. or at least it's worth keeping an ear out for so you might just end up with a hell of a night out dancing in the right london club.

here's some recent songs, at least one of which shows some promise to stray from the formula:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/73328588473bd01a/

1. Addictive - Candy Rain

2. Addictive - Right There (Burga Boy Remix)

3. TS7 - End with Goodnight

4. Delinquent - Playing Around (Dub)

Campus A Low Hum 2010

Hi all, apologies for the delay.

At the end of January I had the grand pleasure of attending Campus A Low Hum 2010. I can't say enough good things about it, and you should definitely try to attend next year, if you have any way of getting to New Zealand, etc.

A couple of highlights:

Gaywyre

The heaviest of metals, from Wellington, New Zealand

So So Modern

This was one of the first songs I heard when I got to the Camp. It made me think of what it might sound like if Justice did a cover of Eye Of The Tiger. They're also from Wellington, New Zealand

AND - (not related to Camp a Low Hum)

I just last night was told about a band called Surfer Blood. They are literally blowing my brain right now...

Gaywyre - Battleshark (buy the EP)

So So Modern - Berlin (apparently "Crude Futures" is not yet available in the USA. But do buy it if you're in NZ or the UK)

Surfer Blood - Swim (buy the album)

Best albums of the decade?

My friend Dan S. (danschwartzblog.com) is wondering what people's top 10 albums of the years 2000-2009 are. Comments please

If your brother won't rock then your sister will

I've had a song from Dan's Rock & Roll mix (http://danschwartzblog.com/post/192889087/rock-roll) stuck in my head for maybe two months now. Well overdue for posting here. (Wo, that makes me feel old - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cochran - tells me that Eddie Cochran died at the tender age of 21! Also of note is the fact that Dave Dee of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, and Titch, learned to play guitar on the guitar of Eddie Cochran's that was impounded after his death by automobile accident).

It somehow makes me think of a 1950s Ramones, I guess it is Rock & Roll after all so shouldn't surprise me so much. Consequently I am drawn to the melodic similarities between C'mon Everybody and I Wanna Be Sedated.

Eddie Cochran - C'mon Everybody (buy it)

The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated (buy it)