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Youtube Is Weird
I found these homemade videos for DOP songs on Youtube. It's moving, and weirdly voyeuristic, to peer into the world of total strangers who used our songs to soundtrack a slice of their lives.
The first one is nothing but shots of a woman in training for a marathon. We see her running on overpasses, sidewalks, leafy paths, beaches. I'm guessing she's in Florida, based on the vegetation, and that she's being filmed by her loving husband, cheering her along every step of the way. But who knows? Maybe she's being stalked. The song is "Girls and Sunshine," from our first EP. There's a very small cult that thinks this is our best song and call for it at shows. We pretend not to hear them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
And in this one a young Canadian takes a snowy bike ride around his subdivision, to the tune of "Your Summer Dress." If only we had called the song "Your Winter Dress," this would be the perfect video. I love it. Thanks, nastyrats!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
xo
doug
Valentine's Day with Band of Horses + Dirty on Purpose
We are playing a show with Band of Horses on Valentine's Day (yeah yeah we know, a commercial holiday, but having a reason to make out is always good). The good folks over at JellyNYC put together the lovefest at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Kinda spooky, kinda romantic? We dig it. We hope you do too. You can purchase tickets at ticketweb.com.
Mixing with Mark Ephraim + Paul Mahajan, Damn Fine Handsome Producers
Just some photos from the mixing process of our Dead Volcanoes EP for RCRDLBL.com. We would listen to those songs over and over and over again... They are finally finished! We can't wait for you to hear them... The last three songs come out in February, March and April.
Looks like George is getting hungry...
Doug is the laid-back type.
Paul stares into the abyss of the machine...
Mark, George and DJ are obviously concentrating very hard.
"Leaving" Lyrics
i see you doing dishes
i know you're making wishes
for down the line
we're waiting on the weekend
as if we'll find some peace then
on down the line
you're making your advances
i think i like my chances
i'll hold the line
don't get so defensive
cause everything that ends is
still on the line
you're leaving here tonight
for no good reason
and no words to describe
it makes no difference
if i'm putting up a fight
or if i'm dead or alive
you're leaving here tonight
there's nothing I can say now
i'm like a dead volcano
just passing time
it's not enough to kiss you
i wish i could go with you
on down the line
you're leaving here tonight
for no good reason
and no words to describe
it makes no difference
if i'm putting up a fight
or if i'm dead or alive
you're leaving here tonight
you're leaving here tonight
she's leaving here tonight
it's not a rite of passage
just someone else's baggage
DOWNLOAD: These Are Powers - World Class Peoples
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Nigh on six minutes of propellant drone havoc here from Brooklyn trio These Are Powers, sounding like they've crammed a gang of electric eels into the innards of a jackhammer and/or used a particle accelerator as an instrument for club music. It's cribbed from a new 12-inch for RVNG, which means another immaculately-crafted vinyl package with cover art we'd gladly hang on our wall. Get one for yourself here.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Moneybrother - Born Under A Bad Sign
Northern Soul was a rough-and-tumble British thing, but far be it from the Swedes to not do anything more cleanly than its originators. Moneybrother aka Anders Wendin has already won a Grammy, notched a number one album, and, somewhat bafflingly, launched his own brand of soup–all in his home country of Sweden. With "Born Under A Bad Sign" (not an Albert King cover, but produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn & John) and the new album from which it stems, Real Control, Wendin's looking to make inroads into the U.S., which shouldn't be too hard since "Come On Eileen" is still on like ninety percent of the jukeboxes we encounter. The LP's out in April via Bladen County.
RCRD OF THE DAY: Adam Green - Castles And Tassels
Former Moldy Peaches man Adam Green is something of a fantasist, spinning tales of weird situations and weirder people into his utterly unique, strangely romantic pop. For "Castles And Tassels," from his new album, Minor Love, that means pairing a seemingly nonsensical, though entertaining, narrative with boggy, mushrooming, backwoods folk. If the Keebler elves threw house parties (tree parties?), this is what they would have on the hi-fi.
Minor Love is out February 16 through Fat Possum.
Adam Green - Castles And Tassels
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DOWNLOAD: The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Let's Go F**king Mental
"Let's go fucking mental" is sort of a moot appeal for California's infamous and storied psych collective The Brian Jonestown Massacre, because we've come to expect them to flip their wigs with relative ease and frequency (no shots, though!). Musically, this one isn't all that nuts–its encircling fuzz clouds and heavy limbed drumming are more drugged desert sojourn than spastic freak-out–but really there are few, if any, bands we'd rather lead us on such a voyage. The new–and tenth!–BJM album, Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?, arrives on February 23.
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