One Night In

A tense anticipation fills the air as two restless souls hover over the warm glowing light before them.  Can these two impeccable egos fit onto one mix tape?  Only the bitterly cold night of the city can tell where this pair of beatnik bottom-feeders might end up.

"One Night In"

The Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
The Soup Dragons - Softy
Elliott Smith - Sweet Adeline
Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
The Db's - The Fight
The Shins - Eating Styes From Elephant Eyes
X-Ray Spex - Let's Submerge
Bratmobile - Gimme Brains
The Cramps - Bikini Girls With Machine Guns
Television Personalities - She Can Stop Traffic
The Replacements - I Bought A Headache
Triangulo De Amor Bizarro - Isa vs El Partido Humanista(Demo Version)
Delorean - Seasun (John Talabot's Kids & Drums Remix)
Animal Collective - Bluish
Belle and Sebastian - Legal Man
Blur - Chemical World

The Dovers - What Am I Going To Do

One of the standout tracks from last year's Logos by Atlas Sound was the peppy pop number "Walkabout" featuring some dude called Noah Lennox.  I came across the original sample for this song while revisiting the always satisfying Nuggets series this morning.  The Dovers may have not released much in their day but their serve up just the right type 60s jangle to get me up and moving during this endless cold snap.

The Dovers - What Am I Going To Do

A Serious Man

The Cohen brothers have struck gold yet again.  Their latest masterpiece has them gently blurring the lines between sharp social satire and the bottomless abyss of personal isolation.  Not since Barton Fink, have the Cohen brothers drenched a film with such profound metaphors regarding religion, morality, and the exasperation of the human condition.   The banality of spiritual bureaucracy is exposed with such a piercing focus that one can't help but empathize with the hero's futile search for answers.  Each interaction with the film's marvelously constructed characters represents another obstacle in this Kafka-like pursuit for the undefinable.  Does our hero finally find relief or was this all just preparation for the inevitable?  

We will never forget

The Golden toad used to live the cloud-covered jungles of Costa Rica and was known for it's flashy color and unusual mating habits. This mae hasn't been seen since 1989 and it's probable extinction has been linked to global warming.

Can You Get to That

I've never been big on funk.  Yes there are a couple of standout artists that have made some timeless ablums(Sly, Curtis, etc.) but the genre just doesn't seem that pertinent to today's scene.  Every once and awhile you come across an old track that leaps out to you and makes you reconsider it's value.  Funkadelic has provided us with countless classics and George Clinton is now practically a living legend.  "Can You Get to That" is off their remarkable 1971 album Maggot Brain and this gospel-style piece fits perfectly between the album's numerous giant funk grooves.  Profound, catchy, and bold.  Can you get to that?

Portishead take on kraut-rock

Portishead have released a new single to benefit Amnesty International and it kills!  It's built around a simple analog beat that comes straight from the likes of Neu! and Suicide.  I don't dare say that Portishead just made an electro dance hit but the end of this slow builder takes the band to brighter places that were completely absent from Third.


Portishead - Chase the tear

Bolshevik Mix

Kids Don't Follow proudly presents it's first mix of revolutionary anthems.  Worthy sympathizers may download this compilation at the link below:

Bolshevik Mix!!!

Track list:

The Feelies - Raised eyebrows

Surfer Blood - Swim

Harbinger Complex - I think I'm down

XTC - Generals and majors

Ida Maria - O my god

The Modern Lovers - Someone I care about

The Soft Boys - You'll have to go sideways

The Bicycles - Longjohns and toques

Flame - Big wheel turning

Minutemen - Corona

Bauhaus - Third Uncle

Young Marble Giants - N.I.T.A.