Posts Tagged ‘Vampire Weekend’
Winnie Is Super Stoked Right Now
Photo by Adam Koebel
OK so one of our fave Vancouver bands, Fan Death (although they say they are from Christmas Island, which does sounds pretty magical) are opening for one of my other fave bands, Vampy Weekend for their almost completely sold out UK and European dates. As well as Little Boots in NA.
AND
They are taking one of Vancouver’s finest talents to drum for them, the one man spectacle, Mr Tony Dallas (who has graced us on many occasion at our NMS night). This is rad right?
Vampire Weekend – Cousins (myspace rip, purchase the newly released version)
Fan Death – Reunited (CCENTURIESS Remix)
Hunk The Drunk – When The Bump’s Right (Fan Death vs Spank Rock)
You should check out the other bands Tony’s in, Boogie Monster, The SSRI’s, Junior Major, Mexican Drug Patrol & Supercassette.
Hurry on back Tony, you will be missed.
VAMPIRE WEEKEND that is Free and New
Vampire Weekend released their debut album in 2008, aptly titled Vampire Weekend. I liked it. I don’t care. Many people claimed they were ripping off Paul Simon and calling it Preppy, Indie AfroPop. This is not music to feel tough to. This music makes you want to wear blazers and match your belt and shoes and smoke cigarettes out of holders and watch Wes Anderson movies and guffaw at zingers. Which are things I like to do, sometimes! Don’t Judge.
Vampire Weekend have a new album coming out early January 2010, Contra. But! What they’ve done is put a FREE NEW song on their website that you can go and download and decide if you still like them or if it was more of a summer fling.
GO GET IT!
Blake’s Got A Fk Face
Vampire Weekend – One – Blake’s Got A New Face (Hunk The Drunk Edit)
We Used To Dream!
Now all we do is worry about dying!!!!!
The weekend is here and we have some parties for ya. First off, tonight, we have a Winnie party. Myself and Christian Flores are at Library Square playing all our favorite songs from the 90′s at the SHOW ME LOVE night. Shout for list.
Two big parties at Funky Winkerbean’s. Tonight we have the first night of Mutant Disco being done by the people who did the Weirdness parties at the Biltmore. Expect lots of rad-italo with a splash of cheesy 80′s and maybe even a Mr Vain or two.
Saturday at Funky’s, Winnie Cooper presents, Garland + Yarn at our NO MORE STRANGERS night, which is always a good time. But really, how can you go wrong with $1.75 beers? Hope to see you there.
aaaaand some tunes.
Vancouver’s Piper Davis
Dj Neighbor & Piper Davis – Rhinestone Cowgirl
Winnie pals, Rocca with their latest effort
Discovery is a collab between Ra Ra Riot‘s Wes Miles and Vampy Weekend‘s Rostam Batmanglij. They have an album coming out in 09. Exciting, exciting.
Winnie pals, Cof Cof have a new mini LP out. It’s rad and available for download here.
Cof Cof – T-shirt
Fesity and Benny G!
Feist + Ben Gibbard – Train Song
Canada’s k-os is keeping hip hop alive. He has an excellent new album out called, “Yes”. I give it 4 out of 5 Winnies. Look out for our upcoming Winnie-TV segment with k-os!!
k-os – I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Animal Collective have the two biggest albums of the year so far. Here’s AC take on YYYs hipster anthem.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero (Animal Collective remix)
I’m a sucker for a good cover
Magic Arm – Daft Punk Is Playing In My House (LCD Soundsystem Cover)
And for almost all things Beach Boys
The Beach Boys – God Only Knows (Aeroplane Bootleg Remix)
Pharrell’s behind these dudes. This has been out for a while. So far I’ve only found this one single to be good and the other stuff to be more disappointing.
Chester French – She Loves Everybody
Luvs me a TPC remix
Tokyo Police Club – Graves (Nightsweats Remix)
Luvs me a FR remix too
Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart (Fuck Buttons Remix)
Appaloosa – The Day We Fell In Love (Ted & Francis Remix)
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Japandroids, “Post Nothing” has been on heavy rotation. Definitely another one of the best albums of the year.
Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire
I don’t want to worry about dying,
I just want to worry about sunshine and giiiiiirls.
No More Strangers vol. 3 Mix
We have a brand new No More Strangers mix just in time for our 1 year birthday celebration this Saturday.
Hope to see you there! xox
ps, we are going weekly!
No More Strangers Vol. 3 – Mixed by Hunk The Drunk
tracklisting
Leonard Cohen – Stranger Song
Pegase – Without Reason
Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You (Juxx Remix)
Jeremy Jay – Gallop
Pacific! – Hot Lips
Silent Talk – My Risonare
Say Hi – Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
Sebastien Tellier – Divine
Handsome Furs – Legal Tender
Don Cash – Jeanette Cassette
The Teenagers – Feeling Better (Minitel Rose Remix)
Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance (Miike Snow Remix)
Peaches – Talk To Me
Miike Snow – Animal (Crookers Remix)
Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind (Hunk’s 12′ Cut Up)
Hot Fire
Swedish producers Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg aka Blood Shy & Avant were behind Britney’s “Toxic” and “Piece of Me” as well as doing work for Kylie Minogue (which is a good excuse to add a Kylie photo).
They have teamed up with Andrew Wyatt of Fires of Rome & Black Beetle and are producing work under the moniker Miike Snow.
They have a debut self titled album coming out June 9th.
Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance (Miike Snow RMX) courtesy of RCRDLBL
Miike Snow – Animal (Crookers Remix)
Miike Snow – Burial (DJ Mehdi Remix)
Mix
I have a mix I made it back in September to share. It has a lot of my fave tunes from 2008 in it and some sneaky older ones.
Hunk The Drunk – Music To Ride Your Bike To
tracklist:
Johnny Cash – Port Of Lonely Hearts (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)
The Glimmers – Physical
Vampire Weekend – Walcott (Insane Mix)
Yacht ft Claire L. Evans- Summer Song
Lykke Li – Little Bit (Mattas Berlin Remix)
Crystal Castles – Courtship Dating
MGMT – Electric Feel (Jutice Remix)
Donald Byrd – Love Has Come Around
South Rakkas Crew – Hotter Than Them
Inner City – Big Fun
A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray
Moby – I like To Move In Here (Crookers Remix)
Chromeo – Fancy Footwork (Crookers Remix)
The Gaylettes – Son Of A Preacher Man
PRGz – Bama Gettin Money (Diplo Remix)
Metronomy – Heartbreaker
Esau Mwamwaya – Chalo
Township Funk – Mujava
MGMT – Kids (Soulwax Nit Version)
YOF Albums of 2008
My Year in review goes a little something like the state of the economy. Started out strong (did it? I dunno) and went down hill quick. The beginning of the year I had a kick ass job and internship and lived in a killer apartment off Melrose and had an awesome girlfriend. Now that it’s December, I sleep on the couch, no girlfriend, bunk job, and have gotten in two car accidents. BUT things can only go up in 09! Right? I’m excited. So here are the albums that have gotten me through the worst year ever along with some mp3s because we all know that’s the only reason you check out the site Plus those awesome interviews we’ve been having. My musical taste is exquisetly amature so check it out! ( Side note: I’m making a top Bangerz of 08 list which will be drastically different than this so if you don’t like any of these tracks look out for that.) Holla!
~ Your Only Friend
10.Tilly and the wall-o
Cute indie girls and tap dancing is a combination that never fails. I was a huge fan of their last album “Bottoms of Barrels” and 08s O offers more of the same sing-songy girl vocals with some added synth here and there. Tall Tall Grass and Jenny Lewis’s Acid Tongue are tied up for my favorite Indie Girl Jam of the year.
Tilly and The Wall-Tall Tall Grass
9.Facing New York-Get Hot
Progressive funk Rock at its best. I blew these guys off for so long for some unknown reason and I’m glad I stopped that nonsense cause this shit’s my jam. If you’ve ever enjoyed a Dismemberment Plan song check these guys out.
Facing New York- Me N My Friendz
8.Girl Talk- Feed The Animals
It’s Girl Talk, ya people have been mashing up tracks forever, but not like this. The man pretty much perfected his skill on this album. Take a rap accapella and layer it with a classic 90′s drum beat and a classic rock guitar riff and just keep repeating that process. Makes for the perfect roadtrip mixtape.
7.Louis La Roche-The Peach EP
This kid is 18 years old and people were mistaking his work for new tracks by Thomas Bangalter. Really?! He came out of nowhere and dropped in my opinion the best french house EP of the year. Ya the tracks repeat a bit but. dude is 18 cut him some slack. Already finished his LP due next year. expect big things.
Louis La Roche- Do You Remember
6.Vampire Weekend-S/T
Pretty much delivered on the hype of their EP. Everythings already been said about these guys. M79 is my jam.
5.The Cool Kids- The Bake Sale
This was my LA summer album. Bumpin 88 with the roof down driving down the PCH can’t beat it.
4.Crystal Castlees-S/T
At the beginning of the year they put on one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. On Halloween they were terrible which pretty much sums up crystal castles. Stealing a bunch of ideas and coming out with in my opinion the most unique I don’t give a fuck sounding album of 08. Courtship Dating better be on everyone’s top 10 tracks list.
3.Cut Copy-in Ghost Colours
Nothing beat this album sonically. So relaxing and chill yet so danceable. Ya Hearts on fire came out at the beginning of 07 but any album that has that killer sax solo deserves to be on a top ten list.
2. Forgive Durden- Razia’s Shadow
So I grew up being obsessed with Seattle’s pop punk scene. Which will explain my top two albums of the year as both stem from musicians out of the area. Razia’s Shadow is a musical created by two brothers Thomas and Paul Dutton and a host of guest vocalist playing the different characters throughout the story. I’m not going to get into the details but it’s a mix between Moulin Rouge and Aladdin with Aaron Weiss of Mewithoutyou Narrating in-between songs to get the full context of the story . For someone who had little to no recording budget this is a masterpiece of a musical.
Forgive Durden-The Missing Piece
1.Kay Kay and His weathered Underground
I suck at writing ( Which is why I write for music blogs where a simple sentence is adequate to sum up a post) so I’m stealing this summery of my favorite album of the year from I guess I’m floating.
For those unfamiliar with the ways of Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground, here’s a bit of backstory: the band was formed from the ashes of Gatsby’s American Dream. Kirk Huffman and Kyle O’Quin picked up the pieces and brought over their quirky songwriting and peripheral instrumentation, crafting their debut album over three years in Seattle. Upon completion and release early this year, the band played a sold out show at the Triple Door, about which Huffman remarked “I thought we’d be playing for ten people. This is the greatest night of my life!”
mellifluent orchestral vibes, free-flowing bigtop circus music, drums that thump as much as they float, and melodies you won’t be able to escape for days. Everything but the kitchen sink. It’s epic.
Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground- Hey Momma
Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground- Birds ( On A Day Like Today)
