Pitchfork has named “Round and Round” by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti the #1 Track of 2010! Check the full top 100 here.
Javelin - Oh! Centra
Saw these dudes live twice at SXSW, once at Floating Fest 2k10 and the other in some random parking lot. They’re really fun!
New album No Mas just came out last week, I suggest it.
Previously: Tryouts (when they were just crate-diggin’ beat junkies)
The Beatles / Leave My Kitten Alone (1964)
mp3: Holy Fuck - Latin America
New single from Holy Fuck via their official website. I loved these dudes’ self-titled record, so them putting out this solid of a first single has me all sorts of excited for the follow up.
That next record, entitled Latin, is due out May 11th via Young Turks/XL.
Angus Andrew: We wanted to make a dark record. I think there’s a lot of music going on right now that’s so optimistic and flowery, like it’s a celebration. I don’t know what they’re celebrating! We often feel like we’ve got to be the people who are like “Is there anyone else out there who’s not feeling so rad as some of this music is pretending to be?”
Pitchfork: I feel like a lot of music in this past year that got a lot of notice was like, “It sounds like going to the beach!”
Angus Andrew: Oh my God!
Aaron Hemphill: And the world is falling to pieces!
Angus Andrew: …I think we are possibly genuinely envious of people who can somehow block out everything that’s going on in the world and make music that is so happy. And it sucks because you don’t want to be the guys who are like, “Oh, but everything sucks.” It doesn’t. But it’s just not as flowery as its coming across as, and I don’t know if that stuff is born out of maybe, you know, Barack Obama, this new thing… (read more)
Robbie Conal
Black Tambourine - Throw Aggi Off The Bridge (1991)
“Black Tambourine were one of the earliest Slumberland groups, consisting of members of Whorl and Velocity Girl, plus their pal Pam Berry on vocals. Conceived as an explicitly pop band at a time when pop bands were pretty rare in America, Black Tambourine wore their influences on their sleeves: The Jesus & Mary Chain, of course, but also folks like Phil Spector, Smokey Robinson, Love, The Ramones, Shop Assistants, The Pastels, 14 Iced Bears, Orange Juice and the list goes on…
Though they only played a handful of gigs in their brief career, their two singles on Slumberland and Audrey’s Diary wielded a large influence, and were key artifacts in the birth of US indie pop.”
Download the MP3 here.
(via undomondo:everyheaven)
