I somehow skipped over listening to any of Julian Lynch’s music until his new music video appeared last week alongside the new Ducktails video on the Underwater Peoples blog. Glad to have his music brought to my attention, quite a catchy mellow song with some really fun visuals to go along with it. Contemporary point of reference might be Woods/Real Estate…but it definitely stands on its own.
Check ‘em out:
Julian Lynch – Garden 2
Ducktails – Parasailing
I’ve been a fan of Bay Area artist Lily Maring of Yes Please’s work for a bit over a year. I kept waiting for a release of her organic and soaring looped vocal songs to see the light of day but alas… it looks like she has now taken on a new group project Grass Widow. Kind of a shame as she easily rivaled the likes of Julianna Barwick’s ethereal choirs, only with a more psychedelic and darker slant. But I digress, this newish video for Grass Widow’s best song sees them penning songs just as catchy as much of those great new sounds drifting out of Dum Dum Girls, Kurt Vile, and Real Estate…
Wow. This track is some kind of incredible. Sorta Panda Bear meets Flying Lotus meets Mike Love circa 1970 (more on this soon). It’s kind of a nice soothingly sonic break from all the garagey low fi noise this summer. He just got signed to Carpark records with 2 records to come out next year.
Check it out:
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Jewelled Antler 3″ CDRs from 2002
Loren Chasse, Steven R. Smith, Glenn Donaldson, Rob Reger
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Yes, Disney and Salvador Dalí nearly created a film together, but the production was halted due to money woes in 1946. Dalí and Disney artist John Hench worked on creating storyboards for Destino for eight months, but the project was laid aside when it came time for the film to be made. In 1999 the abandoned movie was unearthed by Walt Disney’s nephew who decided to complete the project. A team of animators from France deciphered Dalí and Hench’s storyboards and finished Destino in 2003. Hope you enjoy…
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Tiny Vipers’ newest record Life on Earth tiptoes the line between silence and melancholy without succumbing to self-pity. It’s music for looking back or, if indeed the past is shut out, looking ahead but seeing foggy, fatuous uncertainty. There’s a half-faded photograph underlying each numbed-out, insouciant melody that Jesy Fortino purrs into her dead midnight confessional; there’s a benign detachment from emotion that smolders in the austerity of sadness. The acoustic guitar is patient enough to sit back and let Jesy do the talking, but it is listening intently, waiting its turn to interject an opinion on the matter. Meditative, yes — but simmering, mindful, unable to sleep. This is an album of noisy inner dialogue.
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Shot by Vincent Moon, this video was shot during Akron/Family’s New York residency in March 2009, as part of multi-night stands the band did in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal and New York, leading up to the release of Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free.
In other news, Akron/Family’s label, Dead Oceans, will be releasing a series of Akron/Family 7″s. These releases can be purchased at the band’s shows first before they will be made available to traditional retail outlets. The first in this series, “Everyone is Guilty,” is all but sold out – there are a few copies left at the band’s web store at akronfamily.com. The second 7″ in the series, “River,” can be purchased during the September run and from traditional outlets in October. Details from the “Many Ghosts” single will be announced soon.
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Tour dates below the jump….
Increasingly digging these summer infused fuzzed out jams by Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, former Pocahaunted member. Here’s a new fan-made video that mostly works.
What’s not to love about the chorus “Sun was high/so was I”?
Buy the tape, it comes out next week…
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In celebration of the forthcoming release of Lauren Dukoff’s Family Book, Space 15 Twenty is pleased to announce a month-long series of musical performances, film nights and a gallery show at Gallery Space.
The collection of portraits and candid images from FAMILY includes Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Entrance, Bat for Lashes, Cibelle, Vetiver, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Little Joy, and many others individually and together, in performance and more private spaces. Complementing the photographs will be artwork by musicians Banhart, Matteah Baim, Jon Beasley (of Hecuba), Adam Tullie, Luckey Remington and more.
Stop by opening night to get your copy of FAMILY signed by Lauren while enjoying a live performance by Devendra Banhart.
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Michael Gira of Young God Records has just released a limited run of 500 books of original artwork. These books were privately pressed at Stumptown Printers in Portland, OR and are hand-numbered, signed, and presented with the care and love of a personal letter to a friend. Head over to the Young God website for thumbnails and ordering info.
From Michael:
“As with my songs, I have no idea where these drawings came from. Usually, I stare at a page and wait for something to appear – either a short phrase or an image. I then begin fleshing it out, and it transforms itself along the way. In any event, familiar subjects appear – abjection, cosmic fury and dismay, addiction, love, bliss, hope, and naturally a good bit of a perpetually adolescent fascination with gross, icky things – and in this case the work was modeled with an unsteady and crude hand wielding a Sharpie on a blank white 8 ½ X 11 imaginary Ouija Board. The original drawings were done on cheap copy paper, blotched liberally and repeatedly with Whiteout, drawn over, cut up and pieced back together with clear packing tape etc. So, the final printed, more graphically clear version on nice paper is higher in quality than the drawings themselves, in the end. Anyway, maybe there’s something in them you’ll find useful for your own purposes.”
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Collie Ryan is set to play her first ever Los Angeles show next Sunday at the Philosophical Research Society.
¤ Collie Ryan ¤
¤ Mia Doi Todd ¤
¤ Erica Hyska ¤
8 PM, Sunday, July 12, $10
3910 Los Feliz Blvd, LA, CA 90027
[download] Star Bright (Song Of Silence)
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