Monday, April 28, 2008

(feel my heat): Coachella

Salute Your Solution - The Raconteurs
Back In Your Head - Tegan & Sara
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Girl / Boy - Aphex Twin*
Catacomb Kids - Aesop Rock
The Year Before The Year 2000 - Les Savy Fav
Veni Vidi Vici - Black Lips
Race: In - Battles*
Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You - Black Kids
Heart it Races - Architecture In Helsinki*
Free Stress Test - Professor Murder
Hearts On Fire - Cut Copy
The Crystal Cat - Dan Deacon*
1999 - Prince
Glory Box - Portishead
Tour de France, Étape 2 (Continued) - Kraftwerk*
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
Ready For The Floor - Hot Chip
Peacebone - Animal Collective*
Time to Pretend - MGMT
Office Boy - Bonde do Role
We Used to Vacation - Cold War Kids*
Running, Returning - Akron/Family
How It Ends - Devotchka
lovely allen - holy fuck*
Body Language / Interpretation - Booka Shade
Sleep Deprivation - Simian Mobile Disco
DVNO - Justice*
So Alive - Love and Rockets
From Here We Go Sublime - The Field
Fancy Footwork - Chromeo*
The Night Starts Here 4:55 Stars
Normandie - Shout Out Louds
Attack Of The 60 Ft Lesbian Octopus - Does It Offend You, Yeah?*
Gideon - My Morning Jacket

* Back Music still all Fest Bands

So thoughts on Coachella are that it wasn't that great. I obviously did not go but if I am just going on who played versus other years, this was a weak year. I think this is largely due to the fact that the promoters were trying to get the festival in New Jersey off the ground. Coachella needs to step it up next year and I will for sure go. I am a little upset I didn't get to see Prince but otherwise oh well, I was more upset last year when I didn't get to see LCD and Arcade Fire. Until then I can not wait for the Pitchfork fest, I am not paying $200 plus for Lollapolloza no matter how decent the lineup is. That is all it is, decent. I will be see most of the second tier bands on a given night in LA. So there is a little rant for you all.

Monday, April 21, 2008

(feel my heat): Canada vs. America

Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend
2080 - Yeasayer
Lover - Devendra Banhart
People - J Dilla*
You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son - Wolf Parade
Painter In Your Pocket - Destroyer
Dead + Rural - Handsome Furs
Waves - J Dilla
Oceanside - The Decemberists
Little Brother - Grizzly Bear
English House - Fleet Foxes
Apple Orchard - Beach House
Stop! - J Dilla*
7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene
Take Me To the Riot - Stars
My Sword Hand's Anger - Apostle of Hustle
The New - J Dilla*
Dramamine - Modest Mouse
How We Know - The Thermals
Phantom Limb - The Shins
The Way We Get By - Spoon
Light My Fire - J Dilla*
Present of Future End - The Most Serene Republic
Sing Me Spanish Techno - The New Pornographers
Nature of the Experiment - Tokyo Police Club
Workinonit - J Dilla*
Bye Bye Bye - Plants And Animals
Wolves - Phosphorescent
The Diff'rence - J Dilla*
Intervention - The Arcade Fire
The Great Salt Lake - Band of Horses

This was harder than I expected because what about Wilco, Ryan Adams, Ted Leo or any number of other bands.

Monday, April 14, 2008

(feel my heat): Theme Time Radio

Welcome to the Working Week - Elvis Costello
Manic Monday - Bangles
Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones
Wednesday - Drive-By Truckers
When We Escape - Minus The Bear*
Thursday - Asobi Seksu
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting - Elton John
Exploding Snowhorse - The Octopus Project*
Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground
Red And Purple - The Dodos
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Shine A Light - Wolf Parade*
Red, Yellow And Blue - Born Ruffians
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
The Funeral - Band of Horses*
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Melissa - The Allman Brothers Band
Alison - Elvis Costello
Ada - The National
The Choice is Yours - Black Sheep*
Billie Jean (Single Version) - Michael Jackson
Gloria - Patti Smith
Candy - Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson
She's Mine - Burning Spear
Grass - Animal Collective*
California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
Plans - Band of Horses
+81 - Deerhoof*
New York - Cat Power
Sink, Florida, Sink - Against Me!
New Amsterdam - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles*


*In keeping with theme all background music is by animal bands

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

(feel my heat): Roots and Influences

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Whole World - Aloe Blacc
9 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails*
Monkey Man - The Specials
I Confess - The English Beat
LDN - Lily Allen
1 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails*
At Last (Single) - Etta James
Back To Black - Amy Winehouse
5 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails*
My Little Underground - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Run Run Run - The Velvet Underground
Dead Sound - The Raveonettes
6 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails*
Wrong 'Em Boyo - The Clash
Night of the Living Baseheads - Public Enemy
World Town - M.I.A.
2 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails*
Artists Only - Talking Heads
The Dignity of Labour (Pt. 1) - The Human League
Whoo! Alright-Yeah... Uh Huh - The Rapture
3 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails*
DJ 4:02 David Bowie
Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers
North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem
4 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails
Janie Jones - The Clash
So It Goes - Nick Lowe
Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
8 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails*
4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) - Bruce Springsteen
Heartattack and Vine - Tom Waits
First Night - The Hold Steady

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

(feel my heat): New eMusic and Old Favorites

Consoler Of The Lonely - The Raconteurs
Midnight Vignette - Evangelicals
Aly, Walk With Me - The Raveonettes
4 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails*
Quarantined - Atlas Sound
Strange Lights - Deerhunter
Semi-Sorted - No Age
Veni Vidi Vici - Black Lips
3 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails*
Neighborhood 3 - Power Out - The Arcade Fire
Squalor Victoria - The National
Living Proof - Cat Power
18 Ghosts II - Nine Inch Nails*
Plasticities - Andrew Bird
Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe - Okkervil River
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
20 Ghosts III - Nine Inch Nails*
Take Me To the Riot - Stars
Desiree - Caribou
Take Pills - Panda Bear
33 Ghosts IV - Nine Inch Nails*
To The East - Electrelane
Dr. Strangeluv - Blonde Redhead
Wedding Bell - Beach House
6 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails*
Cause = Time - Broken Social Scene
Baltimore - Stephen Malkmus
Wordless Chorus - My Morning Jacket
Helen - The Cave Singers
24 Ghosts III - Nine Inch Nails*

*Talked