FULL STREAM: Weed - Deserve LP (Couple Skate Records, 2013)

Finally. I have waited two years for this. Album review to come? ... In the meantime, catch Weed's album-release show tonight at THEY LIVE Video, with Seattle bands FF and So Pitted. $5:

First Concert of 2014

The first concert I'm going to in 2014 announced. January 24 at the Commodore Ballroom, $29 + s/c:

MORE FUCKING DANCING!!!

Janelle Monae - "Dance Apocalyptic" (Live on the Today Show, 09/12/13)

The coolest, hottest, hippest, most stylish God-damned talented thing going today. It's hard to believe this performance wasn't backtracked or lip-synced, because the whole band is so fucking good. Forget live audiences: Janelle Monae was made for the CAMERA. Great to see real fans at one of these things for once too, even if that one person in the front row was like, "Janelle is right in my face, but I'm going to stick my phone in hers." Come the fuck on. You want documentation? THE TODAY SHOW is your documentation!

Waxahatchee + Sweain' X Vancouver

Waxahatchee + her and her twin sister's band Swearin' are coming to Vancouver on Nov. 29! Venue TBA. My twee heart swells!

New Best Coast "Mini-Album" Fade Away Due Oct. 22

On Bethany Cosentino's own new label Jewel City. "Fear of My Own Identity" and "Who I have Become", both from their 2013 Record Store Day single, will also appear on the new seven-song "mini-album."

The songs are apparently going to be faster-paced but have been inspired by the likes of Mazzy Star, Patsy Cline and My Bloody Valentine. Seems contradictory, but it certainly helps the intrigue ...

Listen to both "Fear of My Own Identity" and "Who I Have Become" below:

Boris - "Electric"

"This song makes me want to steal cars" - B.L.