It's the Evil

It's no wonder why Exclaim! named Vancouver's own White Lung's It's the Evil punk album of the year (in 2010). So devastatingly good. It's like auditory evisceration.

Tonight! ... Maybe ...

I still have to buy my Liars, Calvin Johnson, La Sera, Hives or Swans, Chelsea Wolfe, Raveonettes, Ariel Pink and Thee Oh Sees tickets, and frankly, I want to see all of them more than I want to see Japandroids, even though I never got my full Japandroids show. I guess I'll wait until the last minute to decide whether or not I want to try buying a ticket at the door (for once) at the otherwise sold-out show. Also, I feel kind of silly possibly buying another Japandroids ticket after I sold mine in order to save money for all of the aforementioned shows ... Who knows what the night brings!?!

Angus Andrew = Thom Yorke?

I don't remember Angus Andrew ever sounding this much like Thom Yorke. Angus here is just about a step down from Thom's distinct falsetto:

CASH TITS MONEY ASS CARS

0/10 video and lyrics, but everything else is cool. I can't believe Bieber collaborates with these guys.

Angel Haze - "New York" and New Blog Tag

"Best New Music"ed rappists (to borrow a mondegreen from Parks and Recreations' Jerry Gergich), most of whom fail to live up to the hype apart from a song or two, seem to emerge every week. With Azealia Banks being one of the more recent examples but actually consistently banging out hot track after hot track, from a statistical standpoint, I'm wary of praising twenty-year-old Michigan-born rapper Angel Haze too soon; plus, her work I've heard aside from "New York," from her Reservations EP due in a couple of weeks, hasn't impressed me. 

While I'm refraining from making any predictions about Angel Haze, I can say (and will say) "New York" totally kicks ass. But how could it not when she pretty much straight-lifted Gil Scott-Heron's "New York Is Killing Me"?

Blog note: Starting with this post, I've created a new "watch out" tag for posting about emerging artists. I'll still use the "spotlight" tag, but I'll reserve it for more tenured artists.

La Sera Live at the Biltmore, July 28

Slight fuzz, candy-sweetness, a catchy, chunky, fast-driving riff, simple, lovey-dovey lyrics, guitar solos that ripple like summer drizzle on a pond - this song has all the essentials. Between La Sera and Seapony, Hardly Art is becoming one of my new favourite record labels.

Challenge:

Listen to Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's album Orange. Drink every time they say "blues explosion," and don't puke: