October 2010
The Archives
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10.29.10|Celebrate Halloween With What Laura Says|There are a lot of ways you can spend the Friday before Halloween, but I tend to gravitate towards events that are both free and full of good music and cheap booze. So, What Laura Says playing with a few friends at the always awesome Yucca Tap Room will fit that bill quite nicely. There's no time on the flyer, but I'm guessing music will get started around 9 and go until closing time. This is a perfect way to start the evening before ending up at a certain legendary Phoenix houseparty that will leave you devastated. If you caught ...
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10.28.10|MP3: Tahiti 80 – “Keys To The City”|Phoenix winning a Grammy this year and selling out multiple nights at Madison Square Garden clearly show that the Franco-pop takeover of America is complete. While they have long been one of my favorite bands and deserve everything that has come their way, I hope their success leads to a few other bands in their scene getting more recognition. Tahiti 80 has actually been at it for even longer, releasing their first EP in 1996, and it looks like 2011 might be the year their profile rises worldwide. The band just released a new EP called “Solitary Bizness” on Tuesday ...
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10.28.10|Savage Skulls Comes To The Crossover|The local club scene is growing at a very rapid rate and it's starting to seem like Phoenix will soon be discussed as one of the dance music capitals of the country. Now, I know the Scottsdale scene has been bringing big names in the house scene for years now, but who the fuck wants to hang out with a bunch of Jersey Shore rejects? I know I sure don't, and I'm not impressed by implants and $30k millionaires either. The Crossover is the type of event I look to when I want to point out to someone how awesome ...
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10.28.10|Future Watch: Penguin Prison|I know that it's a little bit early to start picking potential favorite albums of next year, but I'm ready to make a bold prediction. Penguin Prison will release his debut LP in February, and the world just isn't ready for what's coming! If you've been sleeping on Chris Glover and his amazing falsetto, you're not going to be able to for much longer. He is releasing a new single for the track "Golden Train" (which I've included a remix of below) on November 22nd and the hype meter is about to blow up for this young man from New ...
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10.28.10|Cityscape To Hold Gallery Show And Free Concert For First Friday|I know there's a lot of people with varying opinions on the Cityscape project, and I haven't quite decided how I feel about it all yet. However, I think one thing that everyone can agree on is we need more places downtown that will allow for awesome events like this one to take place. For the December edition of First Friday, the mega-development will be hosting the 26 Blocks exhibit that features 26 writers teamed up with 26 photographers set out to document the history and evolution of 26 different blocks around Phoenix. The exhibit is a tribute to our ...
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10.27.10|Diplo & Benzi X Mansions On The Moon|Mansions On The Moon is a group comprised of Lane Shaw, Ben Hazlegrove, and singer/songwriter Ted Wendler. The group splits their time between Atlanta and Virginia Beach and was just in LA recording the mixtape that you see posted here. The group has been garnering quite a bit of hype lately, and it's very well deserved. However, if you want to have your hype meter go through the roof, enlisting Diplo and Benzi to produce your debut mixtape is sure to get the job done. "Paradise Falls" is the perfect length (32 minutes) to allow the group to show you ...
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10.26.10|MP3: Crystal Castles – “Not In Love” (ft. Robert Smith)|I'm fully aware that this song is all over the internet already, and the leaked version is low quality, but that isn't going to stop me one bit from posting it! Crystal Castles put out on of my favorite albums of this year, completing shattering all expectations I had for their second LP. One of my favorite songs on the record is "Not In Love", which took their vocals in a new direction. Apparently that wasn't enough as they actually got the legend Robert Smith to record vocals for the song. This is being released as a single with a ...
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10.26.10|MP3: Lykke Li – “Get Some”|The incredibly talented and beautiful Lykke Li has returned with a new single, posted as a free download on her website earlier today. "Get Some" is a risque and fun track that may surprise fans of the singer, and should delight everyone that listens to it. Well, the prudes out there may not appreciate this one, but hopefully they aren't reading this site anyways. The single includes a much more subdued b-side named "Paris Blue" as well. I have included both tracks for download below. You're welcome! These are coming from her forthcoming album that currently is without a title ...
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10.26.10|MP3: Baths – “Pop Song”|Will Wiesenfeld (aka Baths) just released this new demo track through his Facebook feed. He is temporarily living in an apartment in Brooklyn and recorded this number there. When a demo track sounds this good, it's not hard to see why his debut album "Cerulean" is set to end up on a whole bunch of best-of lists come year end. I know I've already got this record sitting firmly in my top 10 for the year. There's a lot of interesting electronic music coming from LA right now, but this release on Anticon sits firmly at the top along with ...
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10.26.10|Check Out Two Tracks From Warpaint’s Debut LP|If you're reading this post right now, there's a good chance you were worried that I might be dead, or at the very least that this blog was. It has indeed been over two months since I've updated and I appreciate all the comments from loyal readers I've seen at shows wondering what happened. I've been incredibly busy and overwhelmed with things in my personal life the past couple of months, and lost sight of something I truly enjoy, which is of course writing this blog. I am refocusing my efforts and you can expect to see daily updates here ...
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