February 2012
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Grimes vs. Bear!
So, today Grimes took over the Gorilla VS. Bear site and is posting awesome, crazy stuff!
Of note:
1. Grimes new album Visions is out today! Available for purchase here.
2. Awesome video recommendation:
This is some Lynchian horror anxiety music by the coolest person I have ever met, and the guy who lays out all my album artwork; Jasper Baydala. (Grimes)
Kool Music 5 - Running Back to...
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Watch52mixtapes: A Night
“The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.”
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Watchg’morning! time for a new mixtape!
52mixtapes: downtown (a.k.a. 80s pop not from the 80s)
this time, some fun jamz that will make you wanna crimp your hair, throw on a headband and dance! so, do it!
Shlohmo + Nicolas Jaar
Rise and shine and take a listen here!
Taken from the new Shlohmo EP Vacation out on Friends of Friends.
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C2SXSW: 25 sleeps
I first heard Peaking Lights last spring when an unofficial video for the song Tiger Eyes was posted on a few bloggy blogs. The song is great, but the song WITH the video is what made it stick. Awesome.
Created with footage from the 1985 Italian film Arrapaho. Obviously, there are some BIG questions that can be asked about representation here, but I was more focused on the eery experience of...
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C2SXSW: 27 Sleeps
Pour ce soir…. Harsh Realm by Widowspeak.
Maybe it’s the seventeen hours of ‘work’ or the two flights I took over those hours, but this little diddy seemed appropriate to feature today.
There’s an ache to “Harsh Realm” that’s all their own, the central vocal line (“I always think about you”) bearing a downplayed creepiness that ...
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C2SXSW: 28 Sleeps
countdown. 2. SXSW.
In 28 sleeps we will be in Austin enjoying sun, BBQ and, of course, a smorgasbord of awesome music. Over the next 28 days I will be posting a lil’ somethin’ somethin’ on exciting bands to watch! hoorah!
today……………..let’s start with what I am most looking forward to. You can probably guess……….
GRIMES!
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Grimes! Visions! Listen! →
This just in!
News courtesy of Gorilla vs. Bear: you can now listen to Visions in its entirety over on NPR.
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WatchWhat’s that? You need a Valentine’s mix!?
Well, here you go!
52 mixtapes: alone/together (or Valentine’s Day is the worst)
Warning: this may be the most depressing (and rad!) V-day mix you have ever heard, which also makes it the most appropriate.
Enjoy!
WatchIn memorandum.
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Watch52 mixtapes: no future/no past
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” Alan Watts
Track List
As Young as Yesterday. Korallreven Space is Only Noise if You Can See. Nicolas Jaar Count Souvenirs. Junior Boys Here Sometimes. Blonde Redhead Memory Loss. The Radio Dept. Sometime (Heavenly Beat Mix). Dive...
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Morning Dance Party: QueenS
This just made this morning so much better. Dancing in my chair.
Turn it up!
Thanks Gorilla vs. Bear!
WatchYES!
listenloud:
RACES - BIG BROOM Official Music Video for RACES and their debut single “Big Broom” off “Year of the Witch” Frenchkiss Records 2012. i kinda love everything about this.
