Coachella 2012: Lineup Announced

Posted on | January 9, 2012 | No Comments

Radiohead, The Black Keys, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, M83, The Weeknd, Azealia Banks, AraabMuzik, The Shins, Explosions In The Sky, The Vaccines, Manchester Orchestra, The Horrors, The Black Angels, SBTRKT, Flying Lotus, Big Pink, We Were Promised Jetpacks.

Reunited bands: Mazzy Star, Pulp, At The Drive-In, Refused.

Mind = Blown.

If SXSW’s lineup is half as good as this, it will make me feel less miserable for not
attending.

It’s a 2 weekend event this year: April 13-15 and April 20-22 @ the sweltering Empire Polo Field in Indio, California.

Tickets can be purchased here.

Update ( 01/13):

It’s already SOLD OUT. Took less than 2 hours for all the tickets to go bye bye.

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MVs Collection #61

Posted on | January 7, 2012 | No Comments

Arcade Fire – “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”
Directed by Vincent Morisset.

Panda Bear – “You Can Count on Me”
Directed by Danny Perez.

Popstrangers – “What Else Could They Do”
Directed by Luke McPake.

The Darcys – “Don’t Bleed Me”
Directed by Mike Portoghese.

Scissor Sisters Vs. Krystal Pepsy (Azealia Banks) – “Shady Love”
Directed by Hiro Murai.

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Listen: Hooked On Dirty Airplay: 2011 Year-End Spectacular

Posted on | January 5, 2012 | No Comments

In lieu of doing my annual year-end podcast (brand spankin’ new episode will
be posted next week) I decided to post the 4 hour marathon I did with my buds
@ CJLO (Omar from Hooked On Sonics & Denis from Dirty Work), of all our picks from our individual 2011 top 10 album lists.

Even HoS‘s frequent correspondent Nana from “Nana Knows Best” got into the fray
with her 5 picks.

A couple of bands made appearances on all of our lists cause we be gellin’ like
that.

Tell me (us) what you think of our picks and share some with us aswell.

What were your favorite albums of 2011?

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Hooked On Sonics

Small Brown Bike – “Onward And Overboard”
Thursday – “Turnpike Divides”
Real Estate – “It’s Real”
Colourmusic – “Tog”
HTRK – “synthetic”
Wild Flag – “Electric Band”
Future Islands – “Balance” (Nana Knows Best Pick)
PJ Harvey – “On Battleship Hill” (Nana Knows Best Pick)
John Maus – “Keep Pushing On” (Nana Knows Best Pick)
Destroyer – “Savage Night At The Opera” (Nana Knows Best Pick)
Moonface – “Return To The Violence Of The Ocean Floor” (Nana Knows Best Pick)
Radiohead – “Seperator” (Paul Pick #10)
Handsome Furs – “Serve The People” (Denis Pick #10)
Joy Formidable – “The Everchanging Spectrum Of A Lie” (Omar Pick #10)
Foo Fighters – “Bridge Burning”(Paul Pick #9)
Implodes – “Song for Fucking Damon II (Trap Door)” (Omar Pick #9)

Dirty Work

Mansions – “City Don’t Care” (Denis Pick #9)
Panda Bear – “Slow Motion” (Paul Pick #8)
Death Letters – “Your Heart Upside Down” (Denis Pick #8)
Implodes – “Screech Owl” (Omar Pick #8)
Chapel Club – “White Knight Position” (Paul Pick #7)
M83 – “Reunion” (Denis Pick #7)
Death Grips – “Beware” (Omar Pick #7)
The Vaccines – “If You Wanna” (Paul Pick #6)
Mansions – “Not My Blood” (Denis Pick #6)
Austra – “Beat and the Pulse” (Omar Pick #6)
Shabazz Palaces – “And Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum” (Paul #5)
Weekend – “Sweet Sixteen” (Denis Pick #5)
Wugazi – “Slow Like That” (Omar Pick #5)
True Widow – “Skull Eyes” (Paul Pick #4)
The Joy Formidable – “Buoy” (Denis Pick #4)
Ume – “Captive” (Omar Pick #4)
Cat’s Eye – “The Best Person I Know” (Paul Pick #3)
True Widow – “Wither” (Denis Pick #3)
Elbow – “Open Arms” (Paul Pick #2)
Fucked Up – “The Other Shoe” (Omar Pick #2)
Timber Timbre – “Do I Have Power?” (Paul Pick #1)
Mogwai – “Rano Pano” (Denis Pick #1)
M83 – “Midnight City” (Omar Pick #1)

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AGDFA’s 2011 Year-End Comp Mix

Posted on | January 1, 2012 | No Comments

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The 3rd go around for my massive year-end compilation.

53 songs! You’re getting 3 more songs then last year! Bringing
compilation awesomeness to a Whole. New. Level!

Revel in it’s greatness!

AGDFA’s 2011 Year-End Comp Mix.

01. The Black Keys – “Lonely Boy”
02. Dinosaur Pile-Up – “Mona Lisa”
03. Foo Fighters – “White Limo”
04. We Were Promised Jetpacks – “Human Error”
05. Galaxie – “Piste 1”
06. Sleeper Agent – “Force A Smile”
07. Sloan – “I’ve Gotta Know”
08. Popstrangers – “What Else Could They Do”
09. Gauntlet Hair – “I Was Thinking …”
10. The Sky Drops – “Cut That Corner”
11. True Widow – “Skull Eyes”
12. Cursed Arrows – “Empty Memory Bank”
13. Ume – “Run Wild”
14. Solids – “Whatevers And Neverminds”
15. Manchester Orchestra – “Virgin”
16. Art Brut – “Axel Rose”
17. The Vaccines – “Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra)”
18. Chapel Club – “White Night Position”
19. Yuck – “Georgia”
20. Telekinesis – “I Cannot Love You”
21. Hey Rosetta! – “Yer Spring”
22. Real Estate – “It’s Real”
23. Jason Moore & The Lost Pages – “Sunset’s End”
24. Quiet Company – “We Went to the Renaissance Fair”
25. Glossies – “Lipgloss Runoff”
26. Grouplove – “Tongue Tied”
27. Lil Wayne & Cory Gunz – “6 Foot 7 Foot”
28. Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – “Huzzah!” (Remix F. Das Racist, Danny Brown & El-P)
29. Watch The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West) – “That’s My Bitch”
30. Def Sound – “(A)gain”
31. Shabazz Palaces – “Recollection Of The Wrath”
32. The Naked And Famous – “Young Blood”
33. SBTRKT – “Pharaohs”
34. Yuksek – “On A Train”
35. Digitalism – “2 Hearts”
36. Friendly Fires – “Hawaiian Air”
37. Azealia Banks – “212”
38. Class Actress – “Weekend”
39. The New Division – “Bucharest”
40. Evenings – “Friend [Lover]”
41. You Can’t Win, Charlie Brown – “Over The Sun / Under The Water”
42. Apparat – “Goodbye”
43. Cat’s Eyes – “The Best Person I Know”
44. Bachelorette – “Grow Old With Me”
45. MUTEMATH – “In No Time”
46. Timber Timbre – “Lonesome Hunter”
47. Radiohead – “Separator”
48. Elbow – “The Night Will Always Win”
49. Cant – “Bang”
50. Panda Bear – “Scheherezade”
51. Motopony – “Wake Up”
52. Eddie Vedder – “Light Today”
53. Wye Oak – “Doubt”

This 2011 retrospective (and some 2010 leftovers) includes high octaned
Rock N’ Roll tunes, The Hip Hop, Dance-y Electro, Chillouts and some
nice, Sad Bastard music to kick off your 2012 proper.

Big ass file this is (335 megabytes) so enjoy and lemme know watcha
think about this musical monstrosity.

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My Year-End Lists Of 2011

Posted on | December 29, 2011 | No Comments

It was an OK year.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Timber Timbre and their album “Creep On Creepin’ On” was without a doubt,
the album I’ve listened to and seen performed live the most all year.
Taylor Kirk‘s dark, swampy sound speaks to me.

As for the rest of my top 5, these albums will be listened by yours truly
for years to come.

The next 15, are pretty much interchangeable rank-wise. One I will like
better than the other on any given week.

2011 was the year of the EP. Soooooo many good ones came out, it was
pretty unbelievable. You got yourself quite a nice list to sample.
You will not be disappointed by any of these picks.

I actually have no clue what’s in the pipeline album-wise for 2012 and
I kinda like it like that. I’m hoping for a lot of nice surprises
that may one-up anything i’ve heard in the last 365 days.

Here’s hoping.

Top 20 Albums Of 2011

01. Timber Timbre Creep On Creepin’ On
02. Elbow Build A Rocket Boys!
03. Cat’s Eyes Cat’s Eyes
04. True Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth
05. Shabazz Palaces Black Up

06. The Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
07. Chapel Club Palace
08. Panda Bear Tomboy
09. Foo Fighters Wasting Light
10. Radiohead The King Of Limbs

11. Jason Moore And The Lost Pages Steps EP
12. The Joy Formidable The Big Roar
13. Ume Phantoms
14. Class Actress Rapprocher
15. We Were Promised Jetpacks In The Pit Of The Stomach

16. My Brightest Diamond All Things Will Unwind
17. S.C.U.M Again Into Eyes
18. Ringo Deathstarr Colour Trip
19. Manchester Orchestra Simple Math
20. Eddie Vedder Ukulele Songs

Honorable Mention:

Apparat The Devil’s Walk
Army Navy The Last Place
Death Letters Post-Historic
The Disciplines Virgins Of Menace
Friendly Fires Pala
Galaxie Tigre Et Diesel
Glossies Phantom Films
Guillemots Walk The River
The Kills Blood Pressures
Lanterns On The Lake Gracious Tides, Take Me Home
The Lonely Island Turtleneck And Chain
Low C’mon
Laura Marling A Creature I Don’t Know
Seasick Steve You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
Still Corners Creatures Of An hour

Shoegaze:

Grooms Prom
The Sky Drops Making Mountains [EP]
SPC ECO You Tell Me
Spotlight Kid Disaster Tourist
True Widow I.N.O. [EP]
The Vandelles Summer Fling [EP]

Hip Hop:

Tanya Morgan You & What Army [EP]
The Roots Undun
Wugazi 13 Chambers

EPs And Singles:

Analog Rebellion Evaders [EP]
Cursed Arrows Skin Behind The Shroud [EP]
††† (Crosses) † [EP]
Epic Ditch Epic Ditch [EP]
Exitmusic From Silence [EP]
Mazzy Star Common Burn / Lay Myself Down [Single]
The New Division The Rookie [EP]
Solids Fog Friends / Blown Out [7″]

Disappointments / Pure Suckage:

Björk Biophilia
Dredg Chuckles And Mr. Squeezy
Glasvegas Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\
Mute Math Odd Soul

2010 Releases Discovered This Year And Enjoyed:

Dinosaur Pile-Up Growing Pains
The Naked And Famous Passive Me, Agressive You
The Robots Hey Buddy, Dummy
The Soft Moon The Soft Moon
The Sunshine Factory Sugar
Young Adults Black Hole

Top 3 Shows Of 2011:

1. Soundgarden ( July 5th / Lebreton Flats Park / Ottawa, ON )
2. Portishead ( October 7th / Quai Jacques-Cartier / Montreal, QC )
3. Timber Timbre ( December 3rd / Église St. Jean-Baptiste / Montreal, QC )

I waited 15 years to see Soundgarden in all their live,
Grungelicious glory and I tell you what, Chris Cornell and Co.
didn’t not disappoint one damn bit. I had musicgams left and
right from their 2 hour performance. Something I’ll remember for
the rest of  my crummy little life.

My Fav Films Of 2011:

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest
Corman’s World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel
Drive
Hobo With A Shotgun
Horrible Bosses
Super 8
Tucker And Dale Vs. Evil

“Drive” being the absolute best movie I saw (twice) this year and
“The Future“ being a big ol’ pile of artsy fartsy excrement i wish
i could scrub out of my brain forever.

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