Alwaysmovinginstereo

There are songs I just respond to immediately. It's so predictable. I could loop the first 16 seconds until infinity. The "so come dance with me" refrain toward the end is simply icing on a pulsing, synth-filled cake. You know hard it is to say no to cake?!

The album's called I Love You, It's Cool, which makes it sound like it could be brilliant.

The band's called Bear In Heaven, and they're playing your favorite venue The Independent on April 8th. 

Star cluster NGC 6193 and Nebula NGC 6188

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Phoenix - The French indie-pop band too good for their own good. Their singles became ubiquitous in 2009, and thankfully for my sanity and probably their own, they've stayed away this past year or so. Sure, Girl Talk sampled "1901" on All Day and then Phoenix frontman's wifey Sofia Coppola featured "Love Like A Sunset" in her film Somewhere. 

But really, this song above is awesome because it isn't Phoenix. Strange Talk is out of Melbourne, Australia, and they ape Phoenix HARD on this track.

Honestly, I could have very well just said this was new Phoenix, and been on my merry way knowing I had convincingly deceived every one of my 3 followers (hi Mom). 

Where would that leave them? With "Eskimo Boy," a fresh and pleasant sounding track perfect for this Bay spring breeze. Holla.

The Sounds play this Thursday at the Rickshaw Stop, SF. Which means Maja (at left) will be there. Which means heaven because I die.  

P.S. that new Katy Perry alien video w/ Kanye and the deer legs is ridiculous and I'm totally entertained. She's been making up for her suckatude since faking bi-curiousity and calling Lady Gaga "blasphemous."

After "Teenage Dream," "Firework," that Adidas clip, and now this, I'm on the team. We'll just see how much time passes until she's loses me again. You go, K.P. 

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself.

Walt Whitman

the greatest.

Prince and the Revolution.

Hey it's like that Usher song, but for the Kate Bush-loving set. Niki and the Dove's "DJ Ease My Mind".  

So last week I grumbled about pretty much everything - sucky weather, utter broke-ness, and the lack of good new jams. I was your prototypical anonymous cynic of the internets!

This week is different. It's currently 75 degrees in Oakland with fair skies, and I'm stoked on a new track. I am however, still broke, but I'm always broke. 

French swirly dream pop band M83 dropped new single "Midnight City" off the forthcoming Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. This succeeds John Hughes-movie- soundtrack-inspired LP Saturdays=Youth, which was a damn near perfect record for ME. I mean, c'mon, an atmospheric synth-pop record inspired by moments like Ferris and Sloane bidding goodbye after a long, radical day to Dream Academy's "The Edge of Forever"? 

Saturdays=Youth was a record tailor-made for this kid who thought Shermer, Illinois was real way before Jay and Silent Bob.

New single "Midnight City" doesn't sound far off, era-wise. There's a huge sax solo at the end. I've heard this so many times before (Psychedelic Furs' "Heartbreak Beat") but with that, it hits every note of nostalgia without sounding old. 

The double(!) record comes out October 18 on Mute, followed by a gig at SF's Independent on November 10.