Show & Tell: Flying Lotus – MmmHmm
Posted by Anupa in Music, Show & Tell on 14. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
The first time I heard Flying Lotus’ latest album, Cosmogramma, in full, I was in the sleek basement of a local bar at a pre-organized Stan-ish–meaning unofficial–listening party. Aside from the back bar and a projector screen broadcasting neon EQ visualization-style geometrics, the room was dark enough, sound system heavy enough, and crowd high enough [...]
Show & Tell: Sleigh Bells – Treats
Posted by Simon in Internet, Music, Show & Tell on 12. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
Here’s the list: Drake, Justin Bieber, Sleigh Bells. Those are the only three artists I can think of who, without being previously famous, have been so hyped up on the internet that people literally wait at their computers in anticipation of buying their debut album the second it becomes available. Music and musings after the [...]
Show & Tell: Blur – Fool’s Day
Posted by Simon in Music, Show & Tell on 25. Apr, 2010 | 1 Comment
Remember the mid-late nineties, when you were spending all day watching Pop-Up Video while stuffing your face with Arch Deluxes? It may seem crazy in retrospect, but during those halcyon days, there was at one point a legitimate debate over who the greatest modern (at the time) British band was: Oasis or Blur. It seems [...]
Show & Tell: “Drunk Girls” by LCD Soundsystem
Posted by Anupa in Music, Show & Tell on 19. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
“Drunk Girls” has already been critically panned as the “SexyBack” of LCD Soundsystem’s listened-to-it-already-and-know-its-awesome new album This Is Happening (meaning it’s the most predictable, most sonically offensive, most base piece of crap on there). The thankfully-drunk-girl-free video, however, is GREAT and contains all of my childhood fantasies: singing into a microphone, writing on walls, dressing [...]
Show and Tell: Shad, TSOL
Posted by jessekg in Concerts, Music, Show & Tell on 09. Apr, 2010 | 4 Comments
I remember randomly running into Shad this past winter at a small restaurant on Toronto’s Harbord St., The Roxton, and since I am actually a big fan and have interviewed him a few times before I decided to go up and ask him when we were going to see a new album. He said they [...]
