Friday Night Vids: 2/13/09

Streamable: "Parasites (Live)" (youtube) by The Soft Pack



Streamable: "What'cha Gonna Do About It?" by Condo Fucks



Streamable: "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" by The Small Faces



Streamable: "Eugene Mirman's advice for surviving high school, getting into college, and surviving drugs and rock" (youtube) by Eugene Mirman




Streamable: "We're Through" (youtube) by James Pants



Streamable: "Boyfriend" (youtube) by Screaming Females


Streamable: "Apathy" (vimeo) by Bachelor Of Arts


Streamable: "Daylight" (youtube) by Matt & Kim

Top 15 Albums Of 2008

Out of the all the albums that came out this year, these here... these are the tops. This list was put together with a little help from last.fm. Also, I don't apply any number ranks to my year end lists. I use the power of the alphabet, but if you really want a #1 album of 2008, let's just say it's... HLLLYH. Ok, let's go...



Top 15 Albums Of 2008:
Alegranza by El Guincho

Comment: A trance enducing world trip
Listen: "Cuando Maavilla Fui" (box.net mp3)
Listen More: "Palmitos Park" (beggars mp3)
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles

Comment: The glitch masterpiece of the year
Listen: "Magic Spells" (box.net mp3)
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

Curses by Future Of The Left

Comment: Runner up for Album Of The Year... out of all these records, this is the one I listened to the most.
Listen: "Fingers Become Thumbs" (box.net mp3)
Listen More: "Manchasm" (box.net mp3)
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

Feed The Animals by Girl Talk

Comment: Mr. Gillis makes me want to wrap my iMac in Saran Wrap. If you haven't yet, take a look at the Wikipedia dissection of Feed The Animals... here. Kind of like The Soup but with music.
Listen: "What It's All About" (box.net mp3)
Pay-What-You-Want is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

HEALTH//DISCO by Health

Comment: This will blow your mind. The best remix album of the year (maybe ever?)
Listen: "Heaven (Narctrax Remix)" (box.net mp3)
Listen More: "Lost Time (Pictureplane Remix)" (box.net mp3)
Listen Even More: "Tabloid Sores (Nosaj Thing Remix)" (box.net mp3)
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

HLLLYH by The Mae Shi

Comment: Album of the year (for now).
Listen: "PWND"
Listen More: "The Melody" (box.net mp3)
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

Liferz by Blood On The Wall

Comment: Like the 90's all rolled up into one album. The Pixies and Sonic Youth influences shine through, but you know what there's nothing wrong with that. This rocks.
Listen: "Rize" (box.net mp3)
Listen More: "Hibernation" (box.net mp3)
eMusic page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.

The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In by Thee Oh Sees

Comment: R-O-C-K
Listen: "Ghost In The Trees" (box.net mp3)
Listen More: "The Coconut" (box.net mp3)
eMusic page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.

Nouns by No Age

Comment: Amazing.
Listen: "Teen Creeps" (sub pop mp3)
Listen More: "Eraser" (sub pop mp3)
Sub Pop page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.

On Two Sides by Blank Dogs

Comment: distorted vocals with instrumentals that sound like The Cure if they had been Birmingham and not West Sussex.
Listen: "Meltdown Cloud" (box.net mp3)
Sacred Bones Records page is here.
(Free) download is here.

Out My Window by Koushik

Comment: downbeat bliss
Listen: "Be With" (box.net mp3)
Listen More: "Nothing's The Same" (box.net mp3)
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

Third by Portishead

Comment: a remarkable return (and the only major label artist on the list, sorry Beck)
Listen/Watch: "Machine Gun" (youtube)
Amazon MP3 page is here.

We Breed Champions by Royal Bangs

Comment: These guys crafted one of the best indie rock albums of the year even if my best friend can never remember their name. A good way to remember their name: it's a euphemism for sex with a monarch.
Listen: "Let's Get Even" (box.net mp3)
Audio Eagle page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.

Welcome by James Pants

Comment: The space funk album of the year
Listen: "Finger On The Knife" (box.net mp3)
Listen More: "We're Through" (stones throw mp3)
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

WOMEN by Women

Comment: Canadian indie rock drenched in droney lofi goodness. SEE THEM LIVE. That is all.
Listen: "Lawncare" (box.net mp3)
Listen More: "Group Transport Hall" (jagjaguwar mp3)
Jagjaguwar page is here.
eMusic page is here

Consider CLICKing
- Panther covering The Silos... here. Listen: "justthismorning" (krs mp3)

- Best Of 2008: Captain's Dead's Top Ten Records... here.

- Best Of 2008: The Tape's 25 favorite songs... here.

- Best Of 2008: The Daily Growl's Top 20 albums... here.

- Best Of 2008: So Much Silence's Favorite albums... here.

- Vice Gives You The Gift Of Good Music... here.

White Snow By Ben Weaver

So, Ben Weaver has a new album entitled The Ax in the Oak coming out next month. In putting this recording together Ben worked with former Red Red Meat member Brian Deck (who had produced Iron And Wine, Modest Mouse, and Califone among others). In the studio were cellist
Julia Kent (Antony And The Johnsons), vocalist Erica Froman
(Anathallo), Will Duncan (drums), Blake Sloan (bass), and bassist Steve Reidell a/k/a STV SLV (The Hood Internet).

Downloadables:
"White Snow" (bloodshot mp3)
"Alligators And Owls" (bloodshot mp3)

Given Reidell's involvement will we see a Ben Weaver Vs. The Cool Kids Vs. James Pants Vs. Titus Andronicus mashup sometime soon?

Myspace page is here.
Bloodshot Records page is here.
CD Baby page is here.
eMusic page is here.
A kickass Aquarium Drunkard post with some old unmastered tracks is here.

Consider CLICKing
- Head over to AV Beatbots for a Thrust Lab boot... here. You may remember them from this remix of the Health song... "The Problem Is (Thrust Lab Remix)" (fanatic mp3)

- Another Fucked Up mp3 is over @ the Matablog... here.

- IHEARTCOMIX points us to the Noise/Floor Crew's latest effort Third Floor: Portishead's Third Reimagined. The whole album remixed fer freeeeee... here. Listen: "Machine Gun (Noise/Floor Crew Remix)" (trash menagerie mp3)

We're Through By James Pants

Why not spend the 4th with Mr. James Pants? If it rains, you can dance around inside and make the room hot with your body heat. Or not.

Downloadable:
"We're Through" (stones throw mp3)
"My Tree" (box.net mp3) (listen for the fireworks)

Stones Throw page is here.
eMusic page is here.

Consider CLICKing
- New Rare Trippyass Black Moth Super Rainbow @ You Ain't No Picasso... here.

- TIMEDOOR spends the 4th of July with Mike Watt & Thurston Moore... here.

- New New New Mogwai is up at the 'ol Matablog... here. Listen: "Sun Smells Too Loud" (matador mp3)