New (for me) Music
A few years ago, new music just started making me sick. Everyone became so busy watching once stupidly obscure Mutantes videos and quoting impossible influences like Sun Ra meets John Cage that I just couldn't trust anything anymore. But every now and then, without downloading or recommendation, I have managed to stumble on something new (for me) - like when I bought the first Xiu Xiu LP based on cover art, or when I saw Bobby Birdman in a basement in Langley BC, or when the Port City All Stars completely changed the way I thought about playing in bands. These sorts of experiences have been few and far between but about a hundred times more rewarding than going to 20 blogs everyday in a vain attempt to follow trends/bullshit (be warned: sooner or later you'll end up buying $300 private press psyche records off ebay).
Anyways, remember the days before this information overload? Remember when name dropping Charles Bukowski was enough? I went deep in to suburban California and retrieved this:
Elliotfuckingsmith - Roman Candles
I also recently took joy from the pop-punk stylings (oh, keyboards?) of the latest product of the Brooklyn Posi-Scene: Matt and Kim. One night at the Che, they made crusties and bike punks dance along side radical SoCal high schoolers and twenty-something loser graduate student types and then they sold cd-rs on a sliding scale: $[0,5].
Matt & Kim - Silver Tiles
tomorrow: a return to true, real, pure nostalgia
Anyways, remember the days before this information overload? Remember when name dropping Charles Bukowski was enough? I went deep in to suburban California and retrieved this:
Elliotfuckingsmith - Roman Candles
I also recently took joy from the pop-punk stylings (oh, keyboards?) of the latest product of the Brooklyn Posi-Scene: Matt and Kim. One night at the Che, they made crusties and bike punks dance along side radical SoCal high schoolers and twenty-something loser graduate student types and then they sold cd-rs on a sliding scale: $[0,5].
Matt & Kim - Silver Tiles
tomorrow: a return to true, real, pure nostalgia
posted by david b at 10:42 PM
5 Comments:
somewhere on here I posted a link to a live video of matt and kim...it looked like a really fun time
jay
Boo fucking hoo.
The Matt & Kim track has me tapping my toes. Sometimes a song fits the moment, and your post was in the right place at the right time for me.
Yay for Port City Allstars! Great music and they're nice folks, too.
PORT CITY ALLSTARS.
David, please e-mail me (booksackville at gmail.com ) so we can have an extended gushing session about how maybe a hundred people are alone in the secret that the reincarnation & ultimate version of Beat Happening existed for a year in Maritime Canada and was the best band in the world.
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