CFCF-Come Closer

This track is just amazing. Sexy and dark and head-bobbingly awesome, I can't think of anything I'd more rather hear at the beginning of a DJ set in a dimly lit club. Kinda like a cross between Junior Boys and Burial:

CFCF-Come Closer

Ready for Summer?

Seasonal Affective Disorder has started effecting everyone, and I plan on changing that with a little bit of summer time rap. Feel free to bump these out of your boom boxes underneath those rain-soaked awnings or inside your winter cave; music can make the seasons change, baby! Here are some standout sunshine rap trax:







PS if anyone has the Deniece track that is sampled on this, I would love to have it. Pretty hard to find, for some reason, despite it's sampling ubiquity.

Beach House

Beach House have a really amazing album coming up, and are also going to be playing with our favorite glo-fi dude Washed Out in Nashville at the end of April. Here's a fantastic track from their forthcoming Teen Dream. Wonderful melody over a complicated yet simple chord progression. Sounds like Grizzly Bear a bit too much, maybe, but you probably can't go wrong ripping those dudes off:

More Nashville Stuff: Non-Jersey Shore Edition

So first off, I'm new to this city, so anything I post here about the goings-on is bound to be old hat amongst the cool kids, but here's some stuff I'm into:

1) JEFF The Brotherhood: These guys are probably like the Nashville equivalent to Portland's Starfucker (Ahem, I mean PYRAMID). Not so much music-wise, but in terms of the precipice of popularity they are currently resting upon and how many boners bloggers around here seem to be sporting over them. They have a new music video here, which isn't like the next On To The Next One mega-production, but a pretty good visual equivalent of what I think they're trying to get at sonically. House parties, slightly psychedelic slo-mo, aura of nostalgia and sentiment; a very simple video for a pretty darn good song.



2) Natural Child: These youngsters remind me of the Black Lips, since they look a little ratty but sexy too and they play jangly, who-gives-a-fuck guitar rock like champs. Gonna go check 'em out soon.

3) LOCAL SHOWS! We have some pretty decent shows coming here, finally. Of Montreal rides in on their psychedelic unicorn February 6th at the Cannery (the same night Girls play at Exit/In, way to go shitheads). Passion Pit plays Vanderbilt April 24th, so get ready for some insanely high-falsetto vox coming from the campus that day. Then, of course, those bepolo-ed light and catchy indie-rockers Vampire Weekend will be hitting up the Ryman April 5th.

Cool, man. Now we just need a good electronic/dubstep independent promotions company around here like Portland's Abstract Earth Project (who brought around the likes of Skream, Joker, Rusko, Nosaj Thing, Flying Lotus etc. to Stumptown before they were super-huge) and we can truly call this place Music City. Right guys?

Some Exciting News From Nashville: Jersey Shore Edition

Oh sorry, I didn't notice you. I was rubbing suntan oil on this Boys Noize 12"

When I first moved here, I was excited to explore and understand the music/dance scene. Like, do people out here know how to dance without forming in a line and doing synchronized moves while the music tells them how to perform those moves? What exactly is a honky-tonk and do they allow black people? And where can I buy rhinestone-studded mudflaps?

I've been out and about for around 3 months, and my thoughts on the "scene" here are probably for another time and another blog. Let's just say so many bands have skipped over this town, I was genuinely shocked to find out Girls decided to schedule a date here (after they had made their tour schedule, too). Anyway, to sum it up, I've been a little frustrated with what Nashville has to offer in terms of music I like and want to see live.

That was, until I found out this was happening.

That's right, Pauly D AKA DJ Pauly D AKA The Man with the Tan has decided to grace us with his presence right here in Nashville downtown at McFaddens in 2 weeks. If you haven't seen the Jersey Shore, then you probably are trying to detect if there is hidden sarcasm in my writing. THERE IS NOT. I will firmly stand behind the statement The Jersey Shore is the greatest show about New Jersey since The Sopranos without a smirk, and also say that during the episode where Pauly D "Rocked it on the 1's and 2's" at club Karma was fantastic. I couldn't help but pound on my hardwood floor to the kick-drum crescendo he dropped before doing a few flip kicks and fist pumps. Thoroughly stoked for his arrival.