New Wave || Disco || Synthpop || Industrial || Post Punk || Electrofunk
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During my sets I generally try to drop a couple Vampire Weekend tracks. I dig their tunes but am not a big follower. This morning while reading on one of my favorite blogs La Blogotheque I stumbled upon this Vampire Weekend clip. I can’t complain, the quality of music is good. It just seems as if their trying to highlight the lead singer as a The Beatles Style meets 2010. It’s a bit strange with all the closeups and the girls surrounding him cause he’s so “dreamy”.
With all that said though, I enjoy the tracks… It’s a nice listen but I could do without the “heart-throb” video.
Okay, so I realized I barely write about any contemporary music on ye ol’ blog, but hey, I’m a throwback kinda gal I guess. Plus there’s a whoooole lotta garbage out there…but really I think I’m just losin’ my edge, or actually it’s probably just sheer laziness. Well, whatever, the point is, is that PINK SKULL has caught my eardrums, mind, heart, and animal spirit and goddammit, I’m seriously obzezzed! They RULE man, so much!!! Like whoa.
Julian Grefe and Justin Geller are the mastermind producers behind this electronic band/duo. And they’re actually based out of Philly (!? Shouts to Full Time Fun / Actionbastrrrd / Mini Tonka / MoSharp / whoever else I’m missing), and not some awesome obscure European city, and/or Australia. Americaaaa, fuck yeah!!!!!
They just came out with their second album/EP through Philly’s main man, Dave P’s label RVNG Int’l, entitled Endless Bummer, the title being both comical and just really cool. Which is also indicative of their sound and visuals as a whole. I’m googly-eyed for these bros, what can I say. Their sound is both familiar and not so much, walking this tightrope between being accessible and still pushing boundaries and leaving room for experimentation. It’s like this morpho-mutation betwixt post-punk, industrial, electronic, psych rock and dance/disco. Soooo…basically it’s fucking badass to the max.
Us New Yorkers just missed them at Le Poisson Rouge on January 23rd! Dah!!! I could kick myself for that. But I have a feeling they’ll be comin’ round the bend soon…plus Philly’s only a heartbeat away right?! We should all make a trip.
Punk rock and post-punk are two genres that are held close to my heart. I’m by no means an expert, and definitely not super well-versed (especially in punk, perhaps more so in post-punk), but I can definitely appreciate and wild out to those types of jammers. Of course, as a teenager, it was more of the angsty, anger-type shit that I (and other moody ass teens) related with. But as time rolls on, the more I can just simply appreciate the rawness of expression and the pure energy that is conveyed through the music. Shit is RAW! This type of expression always reminds me of Herzog’s idea of “Ecstatic Truth,” which is a concept that is also locked away deep in my heart. Keepin’ it real ya’ll!
Anyway, so yeah, yadda yadda….the first time I was introduced to punk was through a mixtape (yes, an actual cassette tape) that my friend Rachon made me whilst in the throes of high school. It was super legit. She was wayyyy into it, all about it. We were both music junkies and did a swap. At that time, I was way into gangster rap…ha! But hot damn, the parallels that can be drawn betwixt the 2 genres! I immediately took a liking to punk. The bands that stood out the most on that tape to me, were The Descendents, Bouncing Souls and Suicidal Tendencies. I would go with my friends to punk rock shows and do the whole crowd surfing thing (which was supremely awesome!) and even got down in the mosh pit once, like an idiot. Got knocked in the face then too, maybe that’s why I’m remembering all this punk rock nonsense.
