Girls
Album LP
Lust For Life
Big Bad Mean Mother Fucker
Hellhole Retrace
Lust for Life
From the Don’t Look Down series
via Pitchfork.tv
September 18, 2009
To you:
It’s been a rad summer here in Philadelphia. We’ve been living, laughing, loving, and all the other L words that you do during summer. And now we’ve reached our 200th post at The Daily Rag. I appreciate all of you loyal readers, however often you come visit us. There’s lots of change in the air. New seasons, birthdays, new jobs, new leases on life, but no matter what changes, we’ll still be holdin’ it down here at our online home.
There’s also some exciting things in the works for our fair blog: year end/decade end lists, new contributors and new dope shit for your eyes and ears. Hopefully you enjoy what you find here and continue to come back.
As a little personal thank you to all of you, this is a mix I’ve been listening to myself for the last couple weeks. There’s stuff on it i’ve already posted, and stuff I haven’t. Hopefully you enjoy it as much as I’ve been. Thanks again! Have an amazing weekend!
The XX
XX LP
Islands
Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca
Stillness Is The Move
Diamond Rings
PS I Love You 7″
All Yr Songs
Yeasayer
Dark Was the Night Comp
Tightrope
Atlas Sound
Logos LP
Walkabout ft. Panda Bear
The Beach Boys
Little Deuce Coupe LP
Girls On The Beach
Little Joy
Self Titled LP
Unattainable
Sunset Rubdown
Dragonslayer LP
You Go On Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)
Wale
Back to the Feature Mixtape
Um Ricka ft. K’Naan
The Dead Weather
Horehound LP
I Cut Like A Buffalo
The Antlers
Hospice LP
Bear
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Young Adult Friction 7″
Ramona
The Rural Alberta Advantage
Hometowns LP
In the Summertime
Man Man
Rabbit Habbits LP
Mysteries Of The Universe Unraveled
September 15, 2009
Beck’s Record Club
We’ve always know Beck to be a mad scientist, but he’s finally let us in on the tinkering that goes on in his laboratory. Mr. Hansen has started his quite ambitious Record Club experiment based out of his home recording studio.
For lack of a better explanation of what Record Club is exactly, I’ll let the man himself explain it as he does on his website:
“For those new to the Record Club, it is an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. An album is chosen to be reinterpreted and used as a framework. Nothing rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track is put up here once a week. As you will hear, some of the songs are rough renditions, often first takes documenting what happened over the course of a day. There is no intention to ‘add to’ the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens. And those who aren’t familiar with the albums in question will hopefully look for the songs in their definitive versions.”
The first edition of Record Club is the definition of ambitious and ballsy. The players for this first go round chose The Velvet Underground’s Velvet Underground & Nico. Wow. And as you might expect, it’s a bit hodge podge, but seriously fun to listen to and watch.
The songs are being released as videos on his website. One song per week, though they are all recorded in a day. The impromptu band put together for the recording of the VU classic includes Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Brian Lebarton, Bram Inscore, Yo, Giovanni Ribisi, Chris Holmes, and from Iceland, special guest Thorunn Magnusdottir, and of course Beck.
The second project from Record Club is Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Leonard Cohen and includes Devendra Banhart, MGMT, Binki Shapiro, etc. So far two of that album’s songs have been released to the site.
Check out it out for yourself, and dream of what your life could be like if you too were part of Beck’s scene (as I too have been doing).
And if anyone can find this as mp3’s, please let me know.
Here are a couple of my favorite interpretations from the VU session.
Sunday Morning
more about “‘Sunday Morning’ (Velvet Underground/…“, posted with vodpod
Run Run Run
more about “Beck / Record Club“, posted with vodpod
I’ll be Your Mirror
September 9, 2009
Object/Song: 36
Grizzly Bear
While You Wait for the Others Single
While You Wait for the Others ft. Michael McDonald
September 9, 2009
Raekwon the Chef
Raekwon’s new Only Built 4 Cuban Links II comes out this week. It’s a solid follow up to part one that was 14 years in the making. As is the case with most Wu solo projects, it’s full of guest spots from the entire clan, including a guest starring appearance from Ghostface who’s on almost every track.
