The last time The Oh Sees played Rochester I executed the most graceful Bar Dive, my shitty town has even seen.
DL
12/16/10
Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime
The last time The Oh Sees played Rochester I executed the most graceful Bar Dive, my shitty town has even seen.
DL
Alice Cooper - Love It To Death
I hate my friends and I hate my job. I hate going to the same depressing bars every night. I hate casual encounters and family dinners. I hate almost everything, except this album. I'd even go as far as to say i Love It To Death. Ha!
DL
12/15/10
Anti-Witch House Mixtape
I have a Witch House Radio Show. It's called Le Chateau Noir, and I broadcast live Wednesday nights (technically in the wee hours of Thursday morning) from 1am to 3am, NYC time. If you're interested in listening, go to this link and click the mp3 icon on the far left to stream live. However, I'll make this announcement again, seeing as my last show is this week and then I'm back home to Boston for a month for Christmas break.
Anyways, while looking for new stuff to play on my show, I stumbled across this little gem, which gets a billion points right off the bat for having an awesome title.
I bring you: Fuck NoOoOO: The Anti-Witch House Mixtape.
12/13/10
Achilles - Hospice
Two of my co-workers, one being a very close friend, make up one halh of Rochester New York's Achilles. I've been really into this band since the beginning, but had never been truly floored by their recordings until this album was released on Hex Records in 2007. If you're into bands like Mono and Pelican, but always wished there were vocals to to the songs, then this is for you. This recording is absolutely brutal and beautiful in every sense of the words. Totally crushing and epic. America's most accurate answer to Japan's mighty Envy.
DL ∆ Buy
12/12/10
Animal Collective- Cuckoo Cuckoo.
How I lost my boy
How I lost my boy
How I lost my boy
How I lost my boy
The king in I died
He kept floating past my eyes
And singing his songs
Life was good now death's all wrong
Cause you can't feel a thing
No heart flutters in late spring
You just drift and pray
For sun kissed golden days
And I can't hold what's in my hand
Don't do any good to say this isn't what I planned
And little kids sliding down the steel park slide
Little kids can't play with things that have died
Sometimes all I want is one favorite song
And two to three minutes don't seem so long
And where's my mom I want to hold her tight
She's so far away from crowded nights
I'm going cuckoo cuckoo
We're all going cuckoo cuckoo
He said please stay
You can see me, don't go away
I can't see the landscape
Please describe its amaranthine haze
It's odd where I am
There are people you're not like them
They just look away
For rain quenched golden days
And my tears quench five feet of lawn
And I can scream, but I cannot yawn
And people gonna come and people gonna cry
He just woke and dreamt and ate and died
Don't try and erase what you have done
Put your fingers in a mouth and kiss it if it wants
And where's my friend, I want to hold him tight
He's so far away from mountain lights
I'm going cuckoo cuckoo
We're all going cuckoo cuckoo
How I lost my boy
How I lost my boy
How I lost my boy
The king in I died
He kept floating past my eyes
And singing his songs
Life was good now death's all wrong
Cause you can't feel a thing
No heart flutters in late spring
You just drift and pray
For sun kissed golden days
And I can't hold what's in my hand
Don't do any good to say this isn't what I planned
And little kids sliding down the steel park slide
Little kids can't play with things that have died
Sometimes all I want is one favorite song
And two to three minutes don't seem so long
And where's my mom I want to hold her tight
She's so far away from crowded nights
I'm going cuckoo cuckoo
We're all going cuckoo cuckoo
He said please stay
You can see me, don't go away
I can't see the landscape
Please describe its amaranthine haze
It's odd where I am
There are people you're not like them
They just look away
For rain quenched golden days
And my tears quench five feet of lawn
And I can scream, but I cannot yawn
And people gonna come and people gonna cry
He just woke and dreamt and ate and died
Don't try and erase what you have done
Put your fingers in a mouth and kiss it if it wants
And where's my friend, I want to hold him tight
He's so far away from mountain lights
I'm going cuckoo cuckoo
We're all going cuckoo cuckoo
Evan Miller - Three Songs For A Six String Guitar
Instrumental bedroom recordings perfect for all those miserable nights alone spent drinking shitty whiskey and convincing yourself that you don't care that your "friends" haven't called you in weeks.
By far my favorite of all Evan Miller's recordings.
DL
The Warlocks - Heavy Deavy Skull Lover
If you're into drugged out droney rock, like Methodrone era Brian Jonestown Massacre, then you'll love this lesser known gem of the same genre.
DL
12/10/10
Bobb Bruno - Dreamt On ep
Bobb Bruno plays guitar/bass in Best Coast, but makes better music on his own. It's definitely worth checking out.
DL
Real Estate Listings
REAL ESTATE (L2R): Matthew Mondanile, Alex Bleeker, Etienne Pierre Duguay, Martin Courtney
Alex Bleeker & the Freaks: S/T [2009]
Alex Bleeker: These Days 7" [2010]
Group Tightener // DL
Group Tightener // DL
Alex Bleeker: Maddog [2010]
Matt
The Parasails: Skylife [2009]
FUTURE SOUNDS // DL
Matt + Etienne + Ben Daly
Predator Vision: S/T [2007]
FUTURE SOUNDS // DL
Predator Vision: II [2008]
Matt + Ben Daly
Traum Ecke: S/T [2008]
Goaty Tapes // DL
Etienne + Mark McGuire (of Emeralds)
Silver Futures: From The Swamp Rot Rises My Babies Dreams [2008]
Silver Futures: From The Swamp Rot Rises My Babies Dreams [2008]
FUTURE SOUNDS // DL
Alex + Matt + Etienne + Julian Lynch + others
Bongo: Live at Sleazy's [2008]
Dirty Beaches.
do you guys ever listen to the daytrotter sessions? well this week is a lucky week cause dirty beaches recorded four songs for it. go check it out.
12/9/10
Merchandise - Strange Songs (In The Dark)
Merchandise - I Locked the Door from Id House Vid. Group on Vimeo.
I'm pretty positive that this is my favorite album of 2010. I don't even really want to describe it because nothing i can will do it justice. It's like blown-out and distorted with these subtle and somehow at the same time well defined melodies, brought to you by some of the dudes in the late Cult Ritual. It kind of makes me think of New Order, if New Order was a living being, who as a child was locked in a basement, or better yet a shitty cold dungeon with no lights, and they were forced to write hit after hit after hit. It's absolutely beautiful.DL ∆ Buy
Reading Rainbow - Prism Eyes
Reading Rainbow is a two piece from Philadelphia Pa. They play that noisy lo-fi-ish garage rock that EVERYONE else is doing, except they do it like a billion times better. It's too bad that the band name is so lame. Anyway it's an awesome record.
DL
Oh yeah, I'm John and this is my first post on here. I plan on posting things regularly. I hope you enjoy.
12/6/10
Continuing My Obsession
Ok, so after Kirsten Dunst was brought up in one of the previous posts, my obsession with her has been reawakened. Hence the following playlists. These two mixes, titled If I Were Sofia Coppola (I and II) are a collection of songs from her movies, and they're damn good.
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