On The RCRD: Panda Bear
While getting you the finest new jams to listen to will always be our main squeeze, sometimes it's good to gain a little context into our favorite artists – a quick view into their brain that might demonstrate why we love their sounds so much. That's the idea behind our new series On The RCRD. We use a flip on the classic Proust Questionnaire and let our favorites, well, do whatever with it.
Up next is Panda Bear. With an angelic voice, expert yet experimental sense of pop music and contender for most influential record of the last decade in Person Pitch, Panda Bear presents a rare combination of spirituality, headphone candy and even dancefloor-primed songs. His domesticity and anti-materialism present an interesting flip in an era defined by lifestyle marketing. Check out our exclusive Q&A to find out his life changing record, most influential basketball commentator and comedian, favorite piece of gear and much more.
On The RCRD: Cloud Nothings
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While getting you the finest new jams to listen to will always be our main squeeze, sometimes it's good to gain a little context into our favorite artists – a quick view into their brain that might demonstrate why we love their sounds so much. That's the idea behind our new series On The RCRD. We use a flip on the classic Proust Questionnaire and let our favorites, well, do whatever with it.
Up first is Dylan Baldi of Cloud Nothings. The band's new record, Attack On Memory, came out this week on Carpark, packing an aggressive wallop filled with razor guitars, howls and drums so huge you might think Napoleon was back in the game and his army was coming 'round the corner. Baldi's turn from a sweet, lo-fi bedroom pop to a dark, full-band atmosphere has been one of the more pleasant surprises of 2012, so check out exactly where his mind is at and grab a few free tracks in the process.
INTERVIEW: Music Supervisor Gary Calamar at the SEEN blog
Ever the TV-philes, the guys over at the SEEN RCRD LBL blog have a cool interview with Gary Calamar, a KCRW DJ who has had stints as a music supervisor on shows as varied as Six Feet Under and Weeds. SEEN got into his brain a little bit and found out what music makes him tick.
Gary Calamar at the SEEN RCRD LBL blog
