Archive for May, 2009:
Stay Gold.. .
Sweden’s Stay Gold is sweet & the vocals on this track are perfect.
Super Viral Brothers – Hot Chocolate + Polar Bear Rug (Stay Gold rmx)
and a nice remix from Black Lights…
Major Lazer – Hold The Line (Black Lights Remix)
Soy Cumbia
Little obsessed with Cumbia at the moment thanks to Mad Decent. Here’s a Passion Pit refix. Seeing them tonight. Soo stoked.
Passion Pit- Live To Tell The Tale (Sonora Baile Refix)
Grizzly Bear – 5_26_09
So their album is really great and all that stuff, but both times I’ve seen Grizzly Bear’s live set I almost had a little nap between the other concertgoer’s feet.
Maybe it’s just too soothing, or maybe the Commodore’s velvet curtains reminds me of the womb or maybe it was because it was tuessday, but I found myself battling to focus my attention on the stage and not the neon-clad young woman behind me who was whining “I thought you said they were ELECTRO” to her sheepish boyfriend.
They are signed to electronic label “Warp Records,” which I guess could be confusing, if you were really dumb.
It definitely wasn’t a sold out show, but there were enough people there to result in the Commodores infamous “floor of broken glass” from people just dropping their empty cups when they were finished. Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste seemed pleased with the crowd’s enthusiasm because he said he “couldn’t believe this was a Tuesday night crowd.” Their voices are super dreamy, and “Knife” got people really into the show for a bit, but I still prefer listening to them while eating toast at home.
Another thing that may have tainted my listening experience was the fact I got a nerd injury before the show (some sweet carpal tunnel in my right hand from using my keyboard too much), so at the show I couldn’t really take legible notes, and I couldn’t hold a beer. The only thing I could do was make some left handed stick drawings to give you a feel for the show.
Oh hey. hello there.
This cat likes music (see picture).
Mr Shimmer (see picture) and I were having tea and a chicken sandwich talking about jazz shoes and he reminded me of this Digitalism remix.
Play this when you’re getting ready to go out tonight:
Digitalism – Echoes (Siriusmo Remix)
T>I>G>A
Tiga James Sontag, does his best Morgan Geist impersonation.
Maybe at the next Juno awards (Canada’s Music awards) he can be recognized for best album rather than best dance album…??? Just sayin
Some older Tiga for you. Go and buy his new album, ” Ciao!” it’s the ISHT and was just released on Tuesday.
Joe Bradley
Personally, as a collector I enjoy looking at really simple things hanging on my wall that don’t distract and don’t have any immediate meaning or concept. This way, since I see it everyday, I can either totally ignore it (look past it) or stare at it intently.
I also like small. Now, small can be a framed scrap of paper, but when that hangs on your wall alone, it becomes really BIG, because it’s attracting all the attention away from the rest of the blank wall. But if you hang a huge canvas with only two lines on it (see image above) you basically get to keep your blank wall and still have something interesting to look at.
Big pieces on big walls are much easier to ignore. It’s like furniture: we generally look past our couches, or tables in a restaurant, to see the room itself.
I’ve never really been into the “draw like a kid” style but when I saw Joe Bradley’s “Schmagoo Paintings” the concept really clicked for me: do it on huge canvases so I can appreciate the abstractedness of the linework. The minimalism of a “stickman” turns into an abstract concept of three long pencil strokes and then a blast of scribble. Cool.
