August 2009
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SONG OF THE WEEK: Whitney Houston Million Dollar Bill
Today I’d like to take a moment to look back to my one of my childhood idols, Whitney Houston.
I was not a hip kid but I did have a radio, so I knew about Whitney from songs like How Will I Know? and I Wanna Dance With Somebody, both of which had amazing upbeat videos with colorful appearances from happy-go-lucky 80s props like...
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More Hot New Loudness Action Time OK!
Three songs drop in the site this week. Each of them is pretty awesome.
UK-based act the Franks’ song “Modern Man” is raggedy indie-garage sung with a British accent because the band is British. It’s the kind of music that makes you want to dance sideways.
Munk’s Hacienda remix of “Sure Thing” by The Voices is a...
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PICK OF THE WEEK: “Splintered Bridges” by the Splinters
This is my favorite song this week (at least), “Splintered Bridges” by the Bay Area-based garage band the Splinters. I love how the song sounds like three other songs that are already favorites; so of course it’s going to be a favorite itself, you know? It has a good-timey punk energy and infectious ’60s-y...
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It’s Tuesday — time for new jams!
Bay Area-based good time garage party act the Fresh & Onlys deliver cacophonous fun with “Shattered Moon.” This is a song that will make you want to strip to your underwear and dance around the room.
“Mechanical Feelings” by the Lost Sounds might have you wishign that the group were still around. Fronted by the suddenly...
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Rejection and Salami
I spent this evening largely trying to bounce back from a feeling of rejection. Can one ever perfect that skill? In attempts to inanimately analogize it away from my still-reeling human existence, I started thinking about this edit I’m working on, of the early rave tune New Generation by Tom Salta.
Preparing to produce the track, me and my buddy listened through its’ original section...
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At All Points West the other week, our friends MGMT covered a song by the impossibly great New Zealand act THE CLEAN. Here they are doing “Anything Could Happen.” The original promo clip, from 1982, is here, in case you don’t know the original. MGMT are clearly fans of classic Kiwi pop; just last month they did a special DJ gig to benefit CHRIS KNOX of the TALL DWARFS, who...
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Pick Of The Week: Blue Snakes by Canyons
I can honestly say that I like everything I’ve heard from Canyons, my most recent DFA/Modular turn-on. If I had to narrow it down though, and I do since this isn’t “pick(s)” of the week, it would be the very first I heard from them: Blue Snakes.
This song is long. There’s no getting around it. But in the grand scheme it’s actually quite short...
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New Loudness Tuesday
It’s New Loudness Tuesday, which everyone loves so very much that it would be a national holiday except that since it happens every week that would greatly disrupt the flow of commerce. The following three songs drop in the game today:
Scanners’ track “Bombs (Trizzy’s Boom Bam Slam Mix)” is super ace, isn’t it? The NME gushed, as the NME is wont to do, the...
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Tonight I’m going to go out dancing, and one thing I’m psyched about is that I won’t be paying attention to the words in the music. In most dance music, of course, the words are the icing they’re not the focus. This is a gross generalization, but please bear with me here.
The thing is, I respond so much to words and music together, it can just be too much. You know how it...
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Thanks to the Four Men with Beards label, I now own more Moondog records on vinyl! Even his major label releases can go for like $200 these days, so this is seriously a big deal. Well, for me anyway.
A tall and hefty dude, Moondog cut an imposing figure with his long beard, hand-made leather poncho and clothing, clutching a large staff and various funky-looking instruments. Moondog made his...
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Stay Gold
We’d like to offer a slight respite with this here playlist. The theme this time, in case it’s not clear, is artists who do something new with retro-ish sounds. What’s cool is how the end results often approach a sort of “space yacht” vibe. Many of these songs present a new take on soft rock — one that you can dance to, sure, but it’s lighter on the synths...
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I don’t know about where you live but it was sunny and nice and all blue sky day over here on the Oregon coast yesterday. So I naturally played some happy music by Electric Light Orchestra as soon as I could — their 1977 album Out of the Blue, arguably one of the greatest records in rock history, approaching such canonical recordings as Sister Lovers, Loveless and Exile on Main Street....
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New Loudness Tuesdays
It’s Tuesday and have we got some rad new songs for you? Wait, that wasn’t a question, it’s a statement, so it totally should read: Have we got some rad new songs for you! Glad that’s sorted. “Last Choice” by the Swedish-based Love Is All is short, sweet, bright and shiny. The good-looking quartet releses music on the New York-based What’s Your Rupture?...
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Fantasy Island
REWIND: Fantasy Island
Every Friday, we hit rewind to visit one of our older playlists. The following is one of our favorites from the Loudcrowd vaults. We’re pretty jazzed about Canadian superstar indie electro act Metric’s new album Fantasies — so much so that we constructed an entire playlist around the concept of fantasies. These songs celebrate and/or describe sweet...