April 2009
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Video Doizenberry 4.30.09
Before I begin, I’d like to wish my little sister, Happy Birthday! See you tonight, kiddo! On to the videos…nothing music related, but all dope nonetheless. Phil Lumbang of Obey Giant does some magnificent mural work for a friend in LA (via BB) Evelien Lohbeck’s new video Notebook is a fantastic fusion of animation with computer work, that creatively catalogues her previous work Art...
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The Field and The xx
The latest from JR, just up in Rio Good day ladies and sirs, I hope all is well. The Field is how most of the music world refers to Axel Willner. Willner was working at the Swedish equivalent of a liquor store upon being discovered by the folks at Kompakt through his demo. After a few smaller projects, he put out From Here We Go Sublime in 2007, which earned a deserved 9.0 from the harshest of...
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Culture Club: Klean Edition
I’d like to send CotP’s thoughts and prayers out to the family and friends of street art photographer Ian Talty, who passed away Sunday. Ian was passionate about graf and street art and beat the streets all over the twin cities in search of the best work from the area’s writers and artists. He will be missed in the graf community. Most of these are from over the weekend, will have more to...
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Not to turn this into a video blog...
…but I’ve been coming across a lot of great videos the last few days. Kinda pressed for time, so I’m going to eek this out real quick. Enjoy! Passion Pit’s new video for “The Reeling” came out late last week. They also have a new track off of Manners (out May 19th) that’s been strategically leaked, “Moth’s Wings” which was released via...
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Video Doizenberry 4.27.09
Time to drop a doizen. Here’s a great video of Q-Tip looping a beat by needle dropping. If this looks easy to you, give it a shot. I’ve tried to avoid thinking of Two Girls, One Cup since watching it, but I stumbled across The Roots’ reaction video the other day and it’s the best that I’ve seen, without a doubt This wont make much sense unless you’ve see the Where the Wild Things Are...
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Coachella Final Recap
I was in the vicinity of this dude while this was happening and overheard a girl comment on his, uhhhh, endowment, “Is that all?” All in all, I had a terrific Coachella experience. I was a little tired and may or may not have caught Swine Flu immediately afterward. As a result, I posted very little, but I wanted to do a final recap with a few overall notes that didn’t really...
A Heavy Dose of Americana
Lately I have been listening almost exclusively to low-fi, American folk-rock. What does that mean, you ask? I don’t really know, but its all good. The journey started with Woods latest release Songs of Shame. This fuzzy, backwoods quartet produces unbelievably catchy songs bustling with crackling guitars and muffled falsetto. Not so far off are The War On Drugs who I evidently am a little...
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Sunday Coachella Recap
Good evening everybody…after a bunch of delays, two flights and a night comped at the Comfort Suites in Dallas, I made it through the second CotP summit in DC. I tried to write this on the flights, but after three days of jamming out, I conked out on both of them. And now I’m in New York in Laura’s place, trying to get my life together and trying to recount the final day, 5...
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Green Apple Festival: Flaming Lips
This is basically just my response to Sam getting to go to Coachella, but sadly does not compare. Today was the Green Apple Festival in Washington DC, which is basically the big event leading up to earth day. In my other life I am some what of an environmental advocate so I was happy to support the cause and the Flaming Lips were headlining, so all the better. When I first showed up Moe. was...
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Sunday Preview
Gotta keep this quick. I haven’t made all my decisions yet, so I’ll include all potential artists/bands. Also, I’m flying to DC tomorrow to chill with Heavy D and the boys, so I’m probably going to write my recap for today on the plane and post it late Monday or early Tuesday. Also, I’d love to see the Knux, but there’s no way I can spend more than 3 hours in the sun without passing out. 3:15...
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Saturday Recap
Boy, o, boy does the heat take it out of me. I am absolutely spent, even after 9ish hours of sleep. I think I’ve been blowing it with the walk home. We’ve got about a 2 mile walk from the house we’re staying at to the venue. Friday and yesterday, I waited to leave the venue until I felt tired and then the walk was killer. I’m not making that mistake tonight. Regardless, yesterday was a lot...
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Saturday Preview
I spent too much time on the recap, so this is going to be quick and dirty. 3:45 - Blitzen Trapper 4:30 - Dr. Dog 5:10 - Michael Franti (yeah, so what…look at the rest of the lineup right then) 6:00 - The Bloody Beetroots 6:35 - TV on the Radio after a brief drive-by of Glasvegas 7:25 - Fleet Foxes 7:55 - Thievery Corporation 8:30 - Crookers 9:10 - M.I.A. 9:50 - The Chemical Brothers (DJ...
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Friday Recap
(photo courtesy of Pop and Hiss) Good morning! I’m just getting going and I’m a little tired, but ready for another brilliant day of music. (Aside: this is way too long, so I’m not proof-reading. Sorry for a typo or two in advance) Yesterday was perhaps the best day I’ve had musically at a festival. I’ll rehash what I saw by posting my notes, in italics and...
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Friday Preview
I just woke up and I am thrilled to see some great performances; of course, I’ve got a whole lot of time to sit around until things get going over there, but nevertheless, here’s my Friday preview. The X-Factor: the heat. Where I come from, it’s roughly 55 degrees F. The highs for the weekend: 87, 95 and 101. My tentative schedule; best guesses as to who I’ll actually see are in bold. I might...
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Culture Club: In Brief(s) Edition
I haven’t had much time for the interwebs these days, but the good word is that I will be able to get online, if slightly precociously, out here in Indio. Here’s a brief Culture Club with Friday Coachella preview to follow shortly there after. Music -Here’s Pop & Hiss’ Coachella preview piece on Girl Talk -The AV Club interviewed Dan Deacon about playing in the pit and with a large...
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New Video: French Kicks - Abandon
“Abandon” was one of my favorite songs from 2008 so I am glad to see it finally getting a proper video almost a year after its release. If this track is new to you I highly encourage tracking down the rest of the French Kick’s fantastic LP, Swimming
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Coachella.
Hello blogosphere. I’ve just been informed by my cousin that the house we’re staying at out in the desert is sans internet. As such, writing about Coachella is going to be tough. If I can’t get on the interwebs, then I’ll post a bunch of stuff on Monday or Tuesday, including, if all goes well CotP’s first forays into video. So…have a good weekend and stay...
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New Video: Phoenix - Lisztomania
Yup, French people like ray-bans as much as we do. Also, Phoenix just announced their North American tour (including DC!). Check it here.
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Culture Club Banana Juice Box Edition
¡Buenos Dias! I’ve got a pile of good stuff for you today, so let’s get to it. I’ve got a bunch of good music to put up, but probably wont get to it until tomorrow, so keep an eye out. Music -Princeton scholar Dr. Cornel West interviewed Lupe Fiasco at Calvin College’s Festival of Faith and Music (link goes directly to audio) -?uestlove sat down with Willamette Week for a solid...
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The Cellar Door: Built to Spill - Perfect From Now...
If you are anything like me you probably haven’t been listening to hip, blog-worthy music your whole life. Sam recently mentioned the great new pitchfork feature 5-10-15-20 which traces the evolution of artists musical taste. Off the top of my head mine would look roughly like this: 5 - music from Disney’s Dumbo; 10 - meatloaf (poor parenting really); 15 - dashboard confessional; 20 -...
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Doizenberry 4.13.09
Happy Monday everybody. I’m as zonked as the rest of you, no doubt. -Cool retrospective here by Q-Tip (via Common) -Felix da Housecat has a new track and video, sort of -Here’s Tokyo via timelapse (probably worth clicking through for HD) -Spike Lee is doing a one game documentary on Kobe Bryant, titled Kobe Doin’ Work, which, thanks to a judges ruling has bumped 2 Fast 2...
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B-Roc
I may or may not have mentioned this here in the past, but I’ve known B-Roc of The Knocks and namesake of HeavyRoc Music since he was in diapers. Actually, that’s not true. But I grew up with his older sister and I can remember when B-Roc got his first turntables and mixer. He’s come a long way since then, as you can see, though the winter cap is still ever present. In...
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Culture Club: "The Whistles go WHOOOOOOOOOOOO!"...
-First things first: on Tuesday, the Vermont State Legistlature legalized same-sex marriage giving Governor Jim Douglas the proverbial punch to the nuts and over-riding his veto. As a New Hampshire resident living on the VT/NH border, I am thrilled for Vermonters and I hope that similar measures can be taken in New Hampshire. Vermont joins Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa as states in the...
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Flying Lotus and Alan Wilkis
Quick drive-by posting this morning: -Flying Lotus is a guy who’s got an air about him that makes me think he knows more than the rest of us. His music shows bits of soul, funk, hip hop and electro (for lack of a better broad term) among other genres. Flying Lotus has carved a name for himself in the blogosphere but also on the club music scene using a drum-pad esque controller and a Monome...
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Doizenberry 4.9.09
Multitouch Barcelona is a wonderful new project encouraging people to interact with technology. They also make pretty interesting videos: Shepard Fairey and crew do work If people can do this with their iPods (via PSFK)… …then we can’t be too far away from this
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Culture Club: UNC = Dominant Edition
I’ve got quite a bit to pass on today, but first I’d like to congratulate the North Carolina Tar Heels on their win last night. As a life-long UNC fan, it was great to see this group of players get a title after plenty of adversity over the last three seasons. “Work to Work By” is a funny project from Publicis Mojo → Music -Stephen Metcalf of Slate discusses Morrissey’s ability to...
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Beyond Here Lies Nothing
OK, so I am a pretty huge Bob Dylan fan. My dad is even bigger. Beyond my mysteriously cool online tag, Heavy D, I am a Dylan, in large part because of my dads fandom. It is in my blood and I’ve always felt like I needed to like Bob Dylan to live up to the name. Luckily, it came pretty naturally. Now I normally wouldn’t write about Bobby D here because it doesn’t exactly fit in...
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Chiddy Bang, G.O.O.D. and Wale
I’m a big fan of mixing genres. Don’t believe me? The first tape I bought was the “Ice Ice Baby” single. Throughout hip hop’s history, the bulk of sampling work came from older genres, most prominently soul and funk. In the last few years, though, things have changed. We’ve seen much more sampling of contemporary material, from all sorts of different,...
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Doizenberry 4.6.09
The Fader had Esau Mwamwaya to their East Village Radio show for a live performance last week I mentioned a while back that Ed Banger and Stones Throw were doing a show together in Paris. I’m not baller enough to have gone, but luckily Alan of Mass Corporation was there to show the rest of us what went down Here’s a cool stop-motion video using Google’s Street View to take us across the Golden...
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Fever Ray Tour 2009
In case you were wondering if Fever Ray’s live performance would be as weird as her videos, it will be. Check here for a list of upcoming dates and pray that this freakshow makes its way to the U.S.
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Why there are remixes.
Today I’ve got two remixes for you. Both are of songs that I don’t particularly enjoy on their own, but thus is the power of the remix, now I DO enjoy them. The first is the recent single from Datarock, “Give it Up”. For the most part I find Datarock gimmicky (what those guys in the matching red jump suits, no way) and not particularly interesting. That is exactly the...
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Aleister and Bad Brilliance
Here’s what’s known about Aleister (or at least, what’s broadcast about him on the internets): he’s British, at first glance he looks a bit like Marilyn Manson what with the white makeup, he’s tight with Andrew WK and as such has performed a number of times at Santos Party House, he’s British and he’s been working on a mixtape (Damn! with AWK, our boy...
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Culture Club: I Heard the News Today, oh boy......
-Before we get to the Music stuff (of which there isn’t a lot), I’d like to pass along this video, an abridged version of Steven Johnson’s speech from SXSW about his relationship with news, the future of news and the potential for a “news-ecosystem.” (Full text here.) Coincidentally, Clay Shirky wrote about the past and the future of the news industry on the same day that Johnson gave this...
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Doom, not gloom
So Doom (previously of the MF variety) certainly did not disappoint with his latest, Born Like This. The metal-faced MC still has his inimitable, grimy flow that makes everyone else in the game look soft. So impressive in fact that the interminably gloomy Thom Yorke decided to lend his eerie brand of remix to Born Like This stand out “Gazzillion Ear”. Its damn near impossible to...
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D-d-d-doizenberry 4.2.09
Little intro here, so peep these: This film, The Archive, about the world’s largest record collection, looks phenomenal, even if it end’s up being nothing more than this dude’s rants Here’s Styles P performing “Good Times (I Get High)” at SXSW. While I’m glad that my musical tastes have expanded since 11th grade, there’s still nothing like hearing a jammer from back in the days While...
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Trent Reznor takes a piss...
This is a fantastic prank.
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Culture Club April Fools Edition
(images via WC) Zimbabwe’s economy is in dire straits and a local newspaper is making their displeasure known, wallpapering billboards and walls with their devalued currency and using it as advertising for their website. Good evening, everybody. A mildly belated Culture Club for y’all today, coming from my house, which, after a LONG delay, has internet. After an hour of chilling on...