218. PRINCETON "CLAMORING FOR YOUR HEART"

check out the latest uber-catchy, hook-laden, wistful, 80s-tinged, The Smiths-esque single Clamoring For Your Heart, from Los Angeles-based indie pop outfit Princeton. enjoy!

MP3: Clamoring For Your Heart

you can find Princeton here: myspace | facebook | princetonla

218. TO ...

218.

To begin with, let us take the following motto

(not especially for this chapter, but generally):

Literature is Love.

{Vladimir Nabokov, Despair}

217. BOBBY "GINGER (WATER BIRTH)"

here's the stunning new rhythmically hypnotic et atmospheric, psych-tinged incantation Ginger (Water Birth), from Massachusetts-based avant/noise rock outfit Bobby off their magnificent self-titled debut album "Bobby" (2011).


MP3: Ginger (Water Birth)

i would highly recommend getting hold of the brilliant "Bobby" album if you haven't already, it is available from Partisan Records on cd, mp3/loseless or double lp, with limited edition green and white vinyl limited to 500 copies only! also digitally available from itunes.

check out my post for the incredible debut single Sore Spores here.

you can find Bobby here: myspace | facebook | bobbytheband

217. WILL ...

217.

'Will you tell us what is the theme

or meaning of this book?'

{Sybille Bedford, As It Was}

216. CASIOKIDS "DET HASTER"

next up is the wonderfully infectious lead single Det Haster, from Bergen, Norway-based experimental, electro pop outfit Casiokids off their forthcoming album "Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen" (2011).


MP3: Det Haster

the "Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen" album will be released september 30th via Polyvinyl, available on cd, mp3 or lp {on black or limited edition blue: 500 copies only!}, pre-orders are available now!

check out my post on Casiokids awesome London Zoo single here {if you haven't already}.

you can find Casiokids here: myspace | facebook | happyjokes

ADVENTURE "RIO" MUSIC VIDEO FOR!!!

check out the disquieting, grainy, crash-zoom-laden, vintage-styled, experimental video for Adventure's anthemic track Rio, directed by Andrew de Freitas.

216. SO ...

216.

So I don't think I was mistaken when I thought I could

make myself useful by picking up my pen, and all I need

to do now is to defend myself against the natural impulse

of self-esteem that I might be justified in feeling by 

revealing such truths as these to mankind.

{Xavier de Maistre, A Journey Around My Room}

NEW MATTHEW DEAR MUSIC VIDEO FOR "SLOWDANCE"

check out the stunning new trippy, glitched-out, b&w experimental video for Matthew Dear's single Slowdance, directed by Charles Bergquist.

215. MY ...

215.

My dilemma is poetic.

{Jeanette Winterson, Sexing The Cherry}

214. TORO Y MOI "HOW I KNOW"

next up is the new off-kilter, retro-fied, euphonious, funk-infused single, How I Know from Columbia-based "electro-funk" crooner Chaz Bundick aka Toro Y Moi off his fantastic "Underneath The Pine" (2011).


MP3: How I Know

check out the great new 80s, B grade-style "horror" music video for How I Know, featuring a pair of cute bubblegum-bubble-blowing ghosties, directed by Thomas Kim.



if you haven't got it already, "Underneath The Pine" is available from Insound or Rough Trade on cd et lp! or grab it digitally from itunes.

you can find Toro Y Moi here: myspace | facebook | toroymoi

214. IT'S ...

214.

It's a squad of trees which 

will eventually make a forest,

it's a squad of stars which

will eventually make one less day,

it's a squad of one-less-days which

will eventually make up my life.

{André Breton, The Verb To Be}

213. ECHO LAKE "ANOTHER DAY"

i've been meaning to post this deliriously woozy et airy, MBV-tinged, wistful, guitar-driven reverie, Another Day from London-based dream-gaze quintet Echo Lake off their new "Another Day/Breathe Deep" 7" (2011).


MP3: Another Day

the much sought after "Another Day/Breathe Deep" 7" is still available on vinyl from Rough Trade or digitally from No Pain in Pop, Boomkat or itunes.

you can check out my post for Echo Lake's brilliant single Young Silence here {if you haven't already}

you can find Echo Lake here: myspace | facebook | echolakeband

AWESOME NEW SPANK ROCK MUSIC VIDEO FOR "DTF DADT"!

check out the absolutely stunning new b&w experimental "dance" video for Spank Rock's latest track DTF DADT.

213. BEAUTIFUL ...

213.

Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head.

{Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird}