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Bring on the summer!!!

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If you also live up here in New England, you know we’ve been getting shafted royally by Mother Nature. Seriously, is that bitch on a perma-period? We here in Massachusetts set a record for the month of March with 14 inches of rain. To put that in perspective, the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico gets 14 inches all year long. Not the best example, maybe, since that’s in a pretty dry climate, but who cares. I tried. I’m nerdy.

Anyhow, I am like so many others up here that are truly sick of rainy, cold weather. I want the summer to come! So I figured I would give you all a little bit of summer in my music post! These are all songs that have to do with summer in some way, shape, or form. A couple are newer. And probably are songs you know pretty well. The other? Is a favorite of mine that I actually have on wax. Actually, now that I think of it? I have another nice little mint piece on wax that will get the posting happiness today, also.

The first two are the newer releases. The first is by Texas band Neon Indian. They started to make a bit of noise late last year, and it turned into an album by the name up Psychic Chasms on the Lefse label. The tour he has going even starts off with a bang! Two tour dates with Massive Attack? Yes, please! Well, this track is summer related, and honestly my favorite from this 21 year old wunderkind. It’s “Deadbeat Summer”.

Download Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer

Next up is from a band I’ve posted about before. YACHT is now on the DFA label (no surprise there) and they’ve made a full length album entitled See Mystery Lights. I’m still pretty iffy on these guys, but I admit I dig this song, so I think considering the theme of this post today? We can let it all slide. This one’s “Summer Song”.

Download YACHT – Summer Song

Now come the real treats. Well, they are to me. So whatever. And such. Donna Summer? Anyone? And no, not that person calling themselves DJ Donna Summer. This is the legend from the days of disco and excess. Well, this song has been sampled and remixed to death, but nothing really beats the original. It’s her classic track “I Feel Love”. It’s one I picked up dirt cheap and played fairly often. How can you really diss Giorgio Moroder? Well, I’ve got the album version here, as well as the now underground legend of a remix by Glenn Underground. Well, because of some probably obvious issues with releasing a remix and getting rights to samples? This became a white label. It heavily relies on Moroder’s track “The Chase” from the film Midnight Express. This is a brilliant piece of work – remix or not!

Download Donna Summer – I Feel Love

Download Donna Summer – I Feel Love (Glenn Underground remix)

And lastly, just to trip you folks out? How about the video for “Summertime Clothes” by Animal Collective? Yes. Fun times.

Now, go buy some stuff. These guys are bringing you warm vibes. Buying something is the least you could do!

Year end? Not quite.

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So I guess Mookie will be giving you your snazzy year in review. I can still give you a few awesome tracks from this year, though. Some? Are definitely repeats of what’s already been posted, but I won’t assume you’ve been reading this all year. That would be pretty stupid of me.

Before all that? I do want to share another song – not from this year – with you all. As you know, I have been posting a little of the stuff Deerhunter has made. “Disappearing Ink” is definitely amongst my top songs for this year, by the way. Well, from last year’s album Microcastle, Deerhunter released one stellar tune in “Nothing Ever Happened”. The real highlight of the tune is the guitars and then the keyboards within the last minute to minute and a half. Epic shit. Don’t believe me? Take a listen for yourself.

Download Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened

So how about those top songs? Well, these aren’t really going to be much different than most of the lists you’d see out there, I’d imagine. First off, I have to say that the best video this year? We Have Band’s “You Came Out” is the clear winner here. In case you haven’t seen it yet? Here it is.

Now, on to what I deem the best tracks of the year. There really isn’t a challenge on the best cut of the year. For real. Now, I’m not the biggest Animal Collective fan. They’re a little hit or miss at times for me, which is probably a good thing. It keeps my mind clear to how I view all the tracks. Now, “My Girls” is just stellar in about every regard. So It’s an easy choice as the top track of the year.

Download Animal Collective – My Girls

As for the rest of my top tunes? Well, I have to say it’s a huge drop from #1 to #2. That doesn’t mean these aren’t good tracks, but Animal Collective I honestly think did something very unique and special in creating “My Girls”. Since I don’t really like making a list in order, I just want to put it out there that the next few tracks are among my favorites for this year.

The Horrors – Sea Within A Sea
Sunset Rubdown – You Go On Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)
Micachu – Golden Phone
Deerhunter – Disappearing Ink
YACHT – Waste of Time
White Denim – Regina Holding Hands
Atlas Sound ft. Panda Bear – Walkabout
Phoenix – Girlfriend
Shout Out Out Out Out – Bad Choices
Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream
We Have Band – You Came Out
Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky

And now the normal bullshit thing to say – BUY STUFF! Seriously! And hell, if not? Donate some money to Mookie, who runs this site. He busts his ass for you guys to bring you some awesome music, and I feel quite honored that he asked me to help him out. So yeah…..do that.


What to post….what to post…..

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So after the high I felt after last week’s interview with house legend Derrick Carter, I feel the strong need to post something fantabulous. I don’t care that that’s not a word. I say it is. So there!

So I finally got around to buying a couple new tunes I had meant to grab. And they’re the focus of this week’s post. They’re both fun, funky, and keep with my style of just being a little off kilt when it comes to musical tastes. And that’s a good thing. I think it’s why George keeps me around. Between you and me, I think it’s because he was afraid I’d launch an affirmative action case against him for not having enough of us pale skinned folks on staff. Kidding, of course. I’m translucent.

So enough stupidity. You want music. I know. The first is a track that was making huge waves online just a couple months back. It’s the group YACHT, and this track is a cover of the track the Fabulous Stains did called “Waste of Time”. You can now finally pick it up via whichever buying method you’d like. Great track!

[Download YACHT – Waste of Time]


Next is the track “Golden Phone” by UK oddball Micachu. I say oddball in the nicest way possible, because holy fucking christ, you need to see this kid’s hair! I mean, it’s like her – yes, that’s a female – hair is Flock of Seagulls gone terribly wrong! But dammit, this song is just catchy as all hell, and has that great balance of catchy and poppy as well as underground just enough. So here’s “Golden Phone!

[Download Micachu – Golden Phone]

And seriously. Check this girl’s hair. WTF? I can forgive it.

And from the folks at BIZ 3? I am gonna pass along a little message about a contest. It’s the HARD Fest. And you can win tickets! Check out the info on how you can win by clicking here.

As usual? Buy stuff. It’ll help the economy. And if you buy a song, an angel gets its wings. Know how I know that? Because I’m a wholesale wing seller. Fact. I <3 CAPITALISM!!!