Sneak preview
If you haven't grabbed the Alleys mix, get it now -- new soul / funk / hip-hop mix for December will take its place within the next couple of days. Here's a taste.
Zig zag wanderer
If you haven't grabbed the Alleys mix, get it now -- new soul / funk / hip-hop mix for December will take its place within the next couple of days. Here's a taste.
When the dueling Brazilian post-punk compilations were released this summer I opted for The Sexual Life of the Savages over Nao Wave, but this new 12" of remixes and edits on Germany's Man Recordings label makes me think I made the wrong call. Maybe I need both. Here, Belgium's Glimmers turn "Agentes" into dark electro that could fit on the Serie Noire compilations.
Missed em at CMJ and when they opened for the Hold Steady last month at Webster Hall, so I'm psyched that Blood on the Wall are playing the Knitting Factory on 12/15 before going on an East Coast tour with fellow travelers from The Social Registry. Along with Animal Collective's Feels, BOTW's Awesomer is my favorite rock record of the year.
Hard to believe the Skatt Bros. were marketed as a "straight version of the Village People" -- a gay disco version of the Stranglers would be more like it. Their biggest hit, "Walk the Night," popped up on Optimo's Psyche Out and now gets the bootleg treatment on the second volume of the Dark Side of Disco comps. Check it out, in 1979 disco could be punk as fuck.
Instead of an "original" post today, I'm doing a reissue. I've only been checking out mp3 blogs for the past year or so, but I found so much great stuff that it inspired me to start my own -- so here are my top five finds from my five favorite sites. Grab 'em if you missed 'em the first time.
As a great man once said, "This is not something new!!! This is something ollllllldddd .... and dir-tayyyyyyyyyyyy." I don't hit the thrift stores and cheap-o bins as much as I used to when I lived in Virginia (better pickins than NYC), but every so often I wade into the land of the discounted and discarded. Here's the results of recent expeditions -- some well-known, some obscure, some kinda cheesy, but all of 'em cheap.
About 2 a.m. last night in a Brooklyn warehouse filled with at least a thousand people, Steinski dropped this monster cover of "Expressway to Your Heart" .... the floor went so nuts they had to switch to reggae a few songs later to give everyone a breather. Crazy fun night.
Since the site is brand-new I want to clear the decks of some tracks from the past few months before they feel too out-of-date. This mix is just five songs, about 25 minutes, and to me it has a wistful end-of-summer vibe mainly because of the !!! song, a great Magnetic Fields cover. Between "Take Ecstasy With Me" and "Strange Powers," which I tracked down after hearing it in Jonathan Caouette's strange and sad autobiographical film Tarnation, I've been on a serious Mag. Fields kick lately. The rest of the tracks on the mix straddle a line between machine music and organic grooves.