Kendrick Lamar feat. Dr. Dre -The Recipe
Kate and I be jammin on this in the office.
(via Left as Rain)
Darkside -A1
I love how Nicolas Jaar completely removes you from reality and drops you on another planet.
(via Rick Raymond)
Modeskeletor & Thom Yorke -This
This video is hauntingly captivating. Plus it includes monkeys with cymbals, my proposed Bay to Breakers costume.
(via Pitchfork)
Django Django -Default (Later with Jools Holland)
This song is quirky and contagious.
(via semi-frequent mixtape from Sum the Greater)
DIIV - Doused
Oh boy … these guys are exciting. Perfect mix of musicianship and ear-pleasing song writing. It’s like Tame Impala met up with New Order and jammed. If you’re doubting their jam ability, check out this track. It was really, really hard to choose.
Here We Go Magic - Hard to be Close
Apologies for neglecting da blog. Nothing has struck my fancy plus I’ve been on a month-long bender. Came back to the new Here We Go Magic album and my love just keeps growing. I will say that the first half of the album is superior to the latter, but in general I think Luke Temple makes some pretty intricate, creative music. This one is feel good, too. Enjoy.
A Little More Color: On Friends and Unfiltered Moments
If you took some time yesterday to peruse through the photos of the last must-follow Instagram user on my list, you might have caught a few snapshots of me. Alright… yes, JP is not only an intrepid Instagram user with an eye for color and composition — he’s also one of my bestest buddies in San Francisco. He took this photo at my panel last month and this photo at my reading last year. So needless to say, I am a big fan.
After I decided to add him to my arbitrary-as-hell list of users to follow on Instagram, I spent the entire afternoon looking at his photos. Unlike me, who jumped on the Instagram bandwagon shortly after I got a iPod and just a few months shy of the buzzy Facebook acquisition and with totally ulterior, pre-meditated motives to pen an “expose,” JP has been using Instagram for over a year. Looking through his Instagram collection brought back a flurry of — albeit filtered — memories reminding me once again just how lucky I am to have found such awesome friends in San Francisco. In that, JP played a part.
After college, there are no such things as real world orientation or new adult week. Yet haven’t we all envisioned, viciously, the type of friends we are destined to meet? People who crave like we do, desperate for brighter color, deeper contrast, vibrant life. And in our hunger, together share the collective memories of those frail, unfiltered moments when we were all so young, broke and beautiful. Those memories — at least Mark Zuckerberg and JP agree — are worth about a billion dollars.
Father John Misty -Nancy From Now On
Ms. DoubleOnTundra showed me this gem of an artist and upon stalking I saw this video. Hilarious. Excited for the rest of his album.
PS - he’s in the Fleet Foxes
Jack White -Sixteen Saltines
Mr Little Jeans - Runaway
This isn’t even her best song but I’m just too damn excited for new MLJ material.
(via Stereogum)
Paolo Nutini -Coming Up Easy
This is good. New discovery for me but it’s been around a while. Thanks to Tay Carlberg, a great friend whose father generously set me up with the MOST.INSANE vinyl set up ever. I might just have to get this on record!
Daft Punk - 2006 Interview in Japan
This video makes my heart hurt. I miss them. They are the most adorable geniuses ever.
(via a Skrillex interview on Pitchfork Ralph sent me haha)
Nico Jaar edit - Feeling Good (Nina Simone)
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! HE’S SO DREAMY DREAMY DREAMY
(via doubleontundra)
Andrew Bird -Hole in the Ocean Floor
My sister has been an avid AB fan for a while, but until now I haven’t appreciated him quite as much. This album has much more instrumentation which is probably why I’m drawn to it. In any case this song is beautiful and well worth the 8 minutes … not worth doing if you’re not going to do it right!
Here We Go Magic -Make Up Your Mind
Someone told me this song reminded them of early Phish songwriting (unbelievably bold statement) and I can actually understand that sentiment. In other words, this is GOOD. Pigeons album is strong, as is Luke Temple solo material (although both pretty different from one another). Check ‘em out.
(via Secretly Canadian)
