Thursday's Hype

I BLK JKS da Johannesburg (ma trapiantati a NYC), gia' in copertina su Fader la scorsa primavera e in procinto di apparire per la seconda volta al SXSW, faranno parlare di loro. Per il successo planetario se ne parla quando decideranno che musica vogliono fare. Nelle quattro canzoni dell'EP di esordio (Mystery, parrebbe in uscita a marzo per Secretly Canadian anche se io l'ho acquistato un mese fa) c'e' un po' di tutto: jazz, dub, prog, rock, metal, reggae, psychedelia, world (e tutto buono).

Godetevi il video del primo singolo Lakeside (sotto) e scaricatevi la Carlos Ramos version di Summertime.



Ah, dimenticavo, ecco quello che ne dice pitchfork:

"Your search yielded no results."

nella denegata ipotesi

chissa' che ne pensa icepick di sto giubbino

per quanto mi riguarda Don King stole the show (via)

Kissinger non e' mai arrivato a tanto

Macche' infortunio mentre traslocava, molto piu' sottile:

senior advisor per nuova superpotenza offresi.

toh chi si rivede

Ancora una volta, il condotto dell'aria condizionata risolve un plot. Me = bored.

Oh hate list

My favorite records of last year (in no particular order).

Walkmen – You & Me
TV On The Radio – Dear Science
The Moi Non Plus – S/T
Department Of Eagles – In Ear Park
Portishead – Third
Elvis Costello & The Impostors – Momofuku
M83 – Saturdays=Youth
The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
Crystal Antlers – EP
Black Mountain – In The Future
Deerhunter – Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
Testament – The Formation of Damnation
Santogold – S/T
Fleet Foxes – S/T
Crystal Stilts – Alight of Night
The Magnetic Fields – Distortion
Health – Health/Disco
Tilly & The Wall – O
Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Crystal Castles – S/T
The Dutchess and the Duke – She’s the Dutchess, He’s the Duke
Sigur Ros – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
No Age – Nouns
Blank Dogs – On Two Sides
Oxford Collapse – Bits
Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing

Other artists whose records came out this year, I sort of liked but decided they don’t quite fit in the first bucket (yet those with an “*” kinda stand out and may well belong to the first bucket when I am in the right mood).

Albert Hammond Jr.
Atlas Sound
Beach House *
Black Kids
The Breeders *
British Sea Power *
Bug *
CSS
Clinic
Coldplay
The Dirtbombs
The Dodos *
Foals
Glasvegas
Guns N’ Roses
Harvey Milk *
Hercules & The Love Affair *
Holy Fuck *
Islands
Jay Reatard *
Ladyhawk
Ladyhawke
Ladytron
The Last Shadow Puppets
Lightspeed Champion
Neon Neon *
Oasis
Okkervil River
Primal Scream
R.E.M.
Ratatat
The Roots
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Sebastien Tellier
Shearwater *
Sons & Daughters
Spiritualized *
Supergrass *
The Tallest Man On Earth
Tapes ‘n Tapes
These New Puritans
The Ting Tings
Torche
Vampire Weekend
The Verve
The Virgins
War On Drugs
Why? *
Women *

Old stuff I have kept listening to a lot this year.

Black Sabbath
The Misfits
The Smiths
Bad Brains
Slayer
The Flying Burritos
Wire
Talking Heads
Pixies
Guided By Voices
The Kinks
The Who
X-Ray Spec
The Vaselines
Fugazi
The Stooges
Bowie
The Replacements
Primal Scream
The Stone Roses
Morrissey