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Eastbound and Found

By will | Published: March 10, 2010

It’s an overwhelming honor to be co-presenting another party at SXSW this year, alongside our homies from Sweet Leaf Tea, My Old Kentucky Blog, Chromewaves, Dos Lunas, Knuckle Rumbler, Ultra8201, You Ain’t No Picasso, and Ziegenbock.

This party is free and all-ages, all you have to do is RSVP and in no time you’ll be sucking down sounds with this incredibly random/awesome lineup with the sun on your face and a buzz in your belly.

WHERE: 1001 E. 6th Street, Austin, TX 78702 (corner of E. 6th St. & San Marcos St.)

WHEN: Thursday, March 18th, 2010 12-9PM

THE LINEUP:

Stage One

12:15-12:50 Grillade
1:10-1:45 Freelance Whales
2:05-2:40 Ume
3:00-3:35 Warpaint
3:55-4:30 Morning Benders
4:50-5:25 Here We Go Magic
5:45-6:20 Maluca
7:00- 8:00 GZA

Stage Two

12:30-1:05 Burnt Ones
1:25 – 2:00 Diamond Rings
2:20-2:55 Kid Sister
3:15-3:50 Slow Club
4:10-4:45 Danielson
5:05-5:40 Delorean
6:00 – 7:00 [TBA]*

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Set that Big Boi Free!

By will | Published: March 10, 2010


Dear The Music Industry,
What the fuck is wrong with you?! Big Boi’s album is done, it’s collecting dust on the shelf, everything we’ve heard from it has been hellfire and yet you can’t give the guy a fucking release date?! I’m about to quit this shit business and go be an accountant so I can make some fancy flow charts that prove why Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty is ready for public consumption TODAY! If that doesn’t work I’m going on a hunger strike, that’s right no more twinkies and grits until Big Boi’s album sees the light of day, I’m serious this time, you will rue the day you ever crossed Yours Truly.

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Got techniques drippin’ out my buttcheeks

By will | Published: March 9, 2010

13 years ago today, Biggie Smalls passed away. At age 12, Christopher Wallace started selling crack, working the area on Fulton Street between St. James Place and Washington Avenue. By 22, “Ready to Die” was on its way to becoming the single greatest display of lyrical ability in hip-hop history.

This isn’t my favorite song of Big’s but it shows how lethal he was with the lyrics, and that above all the party and the bullshit, should be his legacy.


“Smoking mad Newports cause I’m due in court for an assault, that I caught, in Bridgeport, New York”

More Big on this Best of B.I.G. mixtape and a bunch of demos, unreleased cuts and original sample versions of songs on this Ready to Die (O.G. Version) thanks to Weiss for that one.
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Soul With A Hole

By will | Published: March 8, 2010

Another stellar Stones Throw Podcast, this time courtesy of label honcho Peanut Butter Wolf. Dig into almost an hour of all soul 45’s. Listen and Subscribe here

Grooving through this only made me hungry for more so I dug up a few more soul reviews for your aural pleasure. This first one comes from Dusty Fingers alum, Mayer Hawthorne.


And here’s a couple sides from the life-changing Mississippi Records cassette-only release, A Little Bit of Hurt.

Mississippi Records – A Little Bit of Hurt Side B

Mississippi Records – A Little Bit of Hurt Side A

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I got a filín

By will | Published: March 2, 2010

It’s one thing to discover some burgeoning indie band with 2 songs and <150 fans on their myspace, and it’s another to stumble upon
a band dating 50 years back and entering a gateway to a whole genre of music you never knew existed. Today, I’ve fallen in love and had my heart broken, all due to one 1960s Cuban close-harmony vocal group called Los Zafiros.

Thanks to Said the Gramophone for turning me on to
La Luna en Tur Mirada, a beautiful tune that sent me feverishly digging through YouTube for more. In those digital stacks I found the following gem of a video for “Y Sabes Bien,”
a song indicative of the Cuban filín (feeling) movement that weaves bolero and bossa nova with doo-wop and R&B.

Thanks to Andrea for the inspiration.

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Shake Some Action + Pure Ecstasy

By will | Published: February 16, 2010


Yours Truly, in collaboration with Weekly Tape Deck, Transparent, Friendship Bracelet, Indieverse and Underwater Peoples, are aiming to leave our mark on Austin with a 3-day throw-down of Bands, Booze, Bros and Ethiopian sponge bread at Karibu Ethiopian Restaurant (1209 East 7th Street//Austin, TX 78702) March 18-20, 2010. The video above hints at the lineup, but you can check out the full list of bands AND a brand new 3-part series on Austin natives Pure Ecstasy –who just happen to be playing the party– when you Read More »

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Manimal Vinyl loves you in 2010

By caleb | Published: January 6, 2010

Prepare to be showered with Manimal Vinyl love this year. Their forthcoming releases will make 2010 the label’s best year yet – and maybe yours too. Sister Crayon’s “Here We Never Die” is a gorgeous lamentation, evocative of those moments when Portishead’s dark, minimal sounds somehow became lustrous, like the moonlit sea. It’s as breathtaking as it is haunting. Get your hands on the EP next month and get yourself on board for the full-length later in the year.

Voices Voices loves you from Brooklyn and their EP –coming out this month– was produced with love by Guillermo Scott Herren, who as we’ve seen could turn din into Debussy. Fortunately, Voices Voices is already solid gold. “Tape Noon” begins as a drifting dream, but unravels to become a post-rock seance. You’ll follow it’s lovely candle flame into the cave, but when it suddenly flickers out, you’ll be lost in its pitch black chamber of echoes. Expect Voices Voices to cast a spell on you with this upcoming EP or, even better, when they’re on tour with Prefuse 73.


And don’t forget to hit up Manimal Vinyl’s site for more info on future releases.

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A Stranger in a Strange Land

By will | Published: December 14, 2009

The second coolest thing about Epcot Center (other than the enormous golf ball) is the whole “travel the world in an hour” thing. Don’t pretend you haven’t been and don’t lie, you totally hopscotched back and forth between countries: imitating accents the way they sound on TV, invading border nations with an indivisible force of one, and wondering aloud if “they really eat dog brains here?” The point is, young or old, expanding one’s world view is important, and Epcot, despite the corny kumbaya ‘we are the world’ overtones, is an admirable idea –one worth imitating.

So come along on a ‘Journey Through A Strange “Country”‘ to corners of the globe unknown. Today’s maiden voyage is for the land of Australia, home to the vermicious k-nit and the world’s foremost thespians: Nicole Kidman and Mel Gibson.

From Melbourne, the itty-bitty d00-wop ditties of Little Red It’s Alright

20 yr-old, newly minted Modular man, Jonathan Boulet

A Community Service Announcement (via)

Queensland sextet, The Middle East, make moody, harmony-laden hymns like Blood

And there’s, Gotye, whose future funk burner Learnalilgivinanlovin comes with an adorable animated video (after the jump) and a Passion Pit remix courtesy of YT heroes Neon Gold (mp3 via)

Well hasn’t this been a hoot!? I hope you’ll join us after the jump as we hop across the pond to explore the wrinkled bosom of America’s big sister, England

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YT x La Blogo x Twi the Humble Feather

By will | Published: November 30, 2009

YT’s Nate Chan, filmed this piece with Twi the Humble Feather for La Blogotheque on his trip through Paris. Ecoutez pour la première fois la musique de Twi the Humble Feather les yeux fermés. Vous voilà transportés dans un monde étrange, des guitares et des bouches par dizaines, dirait-on, une chorale de faussets, la bande son de la scène finale d’un Mario Bros joué par une confrérie secrète tapie dans la forêt de Brocéliande. Ils pourraient être trente-huit, ils sont trois, trois guitares, trois bouches également mixées, qui alternent entre chants ésotériques et petits bruits, annonements, râles, grognements, qui vous construisent des châteaux, emplissent la pièce avec une accumulation de petits sons attrapés au vol.

Hit the jump for the second video in the series and this blog entry –stripped of its romanticism and charm–as translated into the King’s English.

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Sometimes a man gets carried away

By will | Published: November 17, 2009

Lover, You Should’ve Come Over comes close to killing me every time. By song’s end I’m exhausted, chasing melodies away like stray cats that scratch the skin so it stings to the touch and scabs slowly.

No other love song describes the twenty-something experience like ‘Lover You Should’ve Come Over.’ Wise beyond his years, Buckley wonders “maybe I’m too young to keep good love from going wrong.” Well yeah, MAYBE YOU ARE!  But Jeff, like me, and like you, doesn’t spend much time on this thought, he quickly turns to flirting, “but tonight you’re on my mind so, you never know.”

And just as his quivering falsetto dismantles your defenses, he slips and admits a bit of truth he hopes you won’t hear, “sometimes a man gets carried away when he feels like he should be having his fun, and much too blind to see the damage he’s done, sometimes a man must awake to find that really he has no one.”

We’re all stuck between loyalty and lust; trying to experience youth through promiscuity while spending mornings tending to those we’ve hurt with our actions. But no one expects a happy ending: fairy tales are fake and romantic comedies are for first dates. So we plunge into love, fall in, fall out, “its never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter, it’s never over, she is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever.”

Happy Birthday Jeff Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997)

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