SF Noise Pop 2010

SF Noise Pop started last Wednesday and is almost over. I'm a bit bummed I couldn't go, (presently going to school in SD)—would've be cool to go to indie rock shows every night for a week, and also because I would miss San Diego's Indie Fest as well.

But yeah, if you're in the Bay Area, you have one more night of Noise Pop. Go check it out, post pictures afterward and blog a reivew so I can enjoy it vicariously through you.

Here are a couple reviews by live105 of shows so far.

Oh, nvm, just took a look at the schedule—the closing night show has already sold out.

Next year, guys. Gotta get on those indie events. (and I gotta get on blogging at times when I actually find out about shit. I saved a draft with the noisepop website url last tues. night, and didn't get to making a complete post until tonight. Win.)

Why? - These Hands/January Twentysomething

Why?: These Hands/ January Twentysomething [Anticon]

Insound | eMusic | Lala | Pitchfork

(one of) my favorite band(s).

related posts: WHY? this blackest purse, live@theLoft, alopecia (2008)

My Girls and My Boys

Animal Collective - My Girls, from the album "Merriweather Post Pavilion" (jan2009)

I don't think it's that great of a song. Drones on and gets boring after a bit. I've listened to the MPP album, too, and that just seems to be Animal Collective's sound. Kind of psychedlic, a little shoegazy, sort of dancable, but mostly just drones on and on (especially the vocals). Even if I were in an altered state of mind, I think I would still have a pretty low tolerance for their songs. Being so, I'm in that small group of hipsters who don't get what all the hype about Animal Collective was about.

Nevertheless, check out this acoustic cover by this Swedish band called Taken By Trees. It's slightly more tolerable to me because it's 2 minutes shorter than the original.

Taken By Trees - My Boys

born of hope

Truth is, we've done the I-predict-a-better-future thing since Adam checked out Eve in her newly sinful state and went, oh hell yes.

—mark morford

Oh we are cynical, oh we are hopeful. sfgate, 26.02.2010

sushi burrito

Sushi with lots of good stuff: Salmon, Cucumber, Carrot, Takuan (yellow pickled daikon), Green Onion, and some Seaweed. We ran out of seaweed sheets to roll it in so I came up with the insidious idea of using a (yes, your eyes do not deceive you) freaking TORTILLA.
SUSHI BURRITO FTW.

—J. Kuo

Band of Skulls :: Baby Darling Doll Face Honey

artist: Band of Skulls

from: London, UK

album: baby darling doll face honey

label: artist first

release date: 07.april.2009

genre: rock, alternative rock

rating: quite good, 6/10 on popmatters review
buy: amazon

« link to preview taken down due to DMCA

1. Light Of The Morning
2. Death By Diamonds And Pearls
3. I Know What I Am
4. Fires
5. Honest
6. Patterns
7. Hollywood Bowl
8. Bomb
9. Impossible
10. Blood
11. Dull Gold Heart
12. Cold Fame

You've probably heard the singles "I Know What I Am" and "Death By Diamonds and Pearls". But this album isn't all downright fun, sing-along, rock. Slower rock ballads/sort of indie-ish-maybe songs are juxtaposed between the real rock ones. Another band member (female) takes on the lead vocals on a few of them, which confused me at first until I recalled that part in the popmatters review. Overall an enjoyable album.

Mumford & Sons :: Sigh No More

artist: Mumford & Sons

from: the UK

genre: indie, indie-folk

album: Sigh No More

release date: 16.feb.2010

label: Glassnote

rating: pretty good

buy: amazon

1. Sigh No More
2. The Cave
3. Winter Winds
4. Roll Away Your Stone
5. White Blank Page
6. I Gave You All
7. Little Lion Man
8. Timshel
9. Thistle & Weeds
10. Awake My Soul
11. Dust Bowl Dance
12. After The Storm

Ok, upon first listen, I thought this was quite good, until I read the pitchfork review a couple minutes ago. Not that I completely allow critics to form my opinions. But I probably should listen to albums more than once before posting it here. Oh hey, 8/10 rating on popmatters review. And yeah, what he said: you would think that this is another americana/indie-folk band, but they're from west London. Also, some Christian themes in the lyrics. Which could be tiring after a bit, actually.

projekt ringsted

living 2006 + ringsted kaserne

by dorte mandrup arkitekter (danish)

scandinavian design ♥

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Sexy Boy

Franz Ferdinand's cover of Air's "Sexy Boy".

The original, if you've never heard it before (in which case :( sadface for you):

Air - Sexy Boy (1998)

Was denkst du?

I don't think it's bad, I agree with this guy aranwood's comment:

"It's a good interpretation of a great song. It opens up a way for pub-level covers bands to perform the tune."

more mark morford musings

All politicians are madhouse freaks
19.feb.2010

– the disgust of american politics, bipartisan deadlock, and the acidic, poisonous congress

Hi! Everything wants to kill you
17.feb.2010

– the disgust of meat, coca-cola, the american diet, and dangerously high airbag pressure

Mark Morford teaches yoga! Why didn't I know that before?

markmorfordyoga.com

I'm pretty certain now that older white guys are my type.
Ok, MM is maybe a bit too old—on note of gray hair— but yoga: fit. and his writing: hot.

I've also been wanting to be vegetarian for while, and semi am one.

On account of the environment damage meat production incurs, the inappropriate amount of energy needed to produce it and just the basic unhealthiness of meat, the argument to slash meat out of one's diet is quite reasonable.

But it's mostly because I'm too lazy and don't want to cook that I don't eat meat at home. My college diet consists mostly of trail mix, bread, yogurt, soy milk, spinach and romaine leaves, vegetarian pizza, tortellini, and chocolate. (way to be asian.) When I go eat out, however, I'm more inclined to order something with meat since I don't eat it at home. Turkey sandwich or chicken sausage omelette or a lamb Indian dish. Totally off beef, though. On Wednesday, I had a panang beef sandwich at the thai place on campus. bad choice. did not feel good.

Anyone else semi-/mostly vegetarian?

chatroulette!

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4-story hayes hideaway home

124 lily st. sf. $1.895 mil.

gd so nice. +oversize skylight. natural sunlight. ♥

sf pillow fight

Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle

SF Pillow Fight went down yesterday at Justin Herman Plaza.

I'm not sure what to think about mass flash mob events like this. Sure they look really fun, but upon a little further thought, they strike me as kind of post-modernist. Like people gotta do mass random shit to feel like something's happening and to pump up some excitement. (But then that's like everything else, right? drugs, raves, alcohol, sungod, I dunno.) And for catharsis, too. Everyone's too tense from shit so they gotta break out their pillows and congregate downtown and slam each other with soft bags of feathers and memory foam.

San Diego's holding their Pillow Fight on Sunday, April 3rd downtown at the Horton Plaza.

(April 3rd is International Pillow Fight Day. Hurray.

Why SF yesterday? *shrugs*)

A guy I know organized UCSD's TritonMob and their Pillow Fight went down during Prime Time 12:50-1pm Friday on Library Walk. The event slipped my mind and I didn't attend; hopped on the bus to downtown LJ for a relaxing lunch and a walk by the ocean. But from the vids on the fb events page and considering the apathetic nature of a good amount of Tritons, looks like UCSD Pillow Fight #2 had a pretty good turnout.

year of the tiger

2 months old Jack/Xiao Dong. reader-submitted photo on sfgate by t2helen.

international lunar new year photos

Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂 ! 恭喜發財 !

dude, for the first time in a while, i'm actually craving chinese/asian food. where are my friends with cars?? ahhg. i'm just gonna have pizza with a creme soda for lunch. so not asian. really looking forward to when i can have my pizza with a beer.

a college student's wall of happiness

by sam f.

valparaiso street art

valparaiso, chile. by a.ammon

Pedro Del Mar + Ferry Corsten guest mix :: Mellomania USA

Pedro Del Mar + Ferry Corsten guest mix :: Mellomania USA (02.Feb.2010)
2hr5min//228mb//256kbps//alldj.org

genre: trance

rating: sehr, sehr gut!

pedro del mar in the mix:
01. andain - beautfiful things (pedro del mar & ole van bohm remix) [black hole]
02. zoo brazil feat. leah - you can have it all (original mix) [black hole]
03. roger shah and signum - healseville sanctuary (roger shah mix) [magic island recordings]
04. dyor feat. david gionfriddo - don't let me down (trance vox mix) [la teams]
05. george acosta feat. fisher - true love (original mix) [black hole]
06. nery - redawn (andy blueman remix) [blue soho]
07. system f - out of the blue 2010 (akira kayosa remix) [flashover]
08. de donatis & ciacomix - angel 2010 (arctic moon vocal remix) [diverted]
09. oen bearen - unadulterated (airborne angel remix) [white]
10. solarstone - solarcoaster (haris c remix) [lost language]

ferry corsten in the mix:

no tracklist available

can anyone ID?

1. new track? really good, i want.

..

kyau vs albert - i love you (cosmic gate remix)

motorcyle - as the rush comes (new 2009/2010 [?] remix)

new sigur ros/chicane 'poppiholla' (or other song?) remix

f.corsten didn't play all new tracks, but that was cool. i could totally tell he majorly slowed down the first/second tracks though, because pedro del mar ended his set with bpm upped. regardless, good mix.

ultra music festival 2010

ultra music festival 2010, miami, fl, march 26-27th

ahhhomg if only one could be at multiple stages at once, or if it was a continuous 5-day festival..

and if had moniezz...

DJ Shoom with guest Psneaky - Herbal Remedies

puzzle of flowers by LR70

DJ Shoom with guest Psneaky - Herbal Remedies (december 2008)

featured on di.fm

genre: psy/goa trance

rating: very good (psytars!)

59mins//135mb//320kbps (right-click, save as)

Psneaky:
00. Intro
01. 1200 Mics - Ayahuasca
02. Audialize Vs Midival Punditz - Dark Age Rmx
03. Bamboo Forest - Breath (Pop Stream Rmx)
04. Cosmic Station - Xpend You
05. Exaile - Hide and Seek
06. S.U.N. Project - Zwork (C.O.N. Sequencer Rmx)
07. 1200 Mics - Acid for Nothing
08. Illegal Machines - Fucking Confused
09. Killer B - Groove Machine
10. Digicult - The way in
11. The Prodigy - Voodoo People (Eskimo Rmx)

DJ Shoom:
01. Jikooha - Moondust
02. Yamabikaya - Spiral Dog's Trail
03. Anamist X - High on Hope
04. Aerosis - Contorsion
05. Astrancer - Namaskara Mudra
06. Asia 2001 - Red Horizones
07. Total Eclipse - The Furance
08. Trilithon - Ameland - Isle of Trance

valparaiso

valpariso, chile. by a.ammon.

sunday super bowl

Soon, fans will begin filling Sun Life stadium for Super Bowl XLIV, which will kick off at 6:25 p.m. ET.

Mark Morford

The Zen of Super Bowl watching: Whichever team has ball, root for them with all your heart & soul. Cheer and stomp and scream. When other team gets ball, switch and do the same for them. Turn off TV with 3 minutes left and game is tied. Go have sex.

vor 5 Stunden

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Kaskade @Voyeur, Haiti Relief

A few of my over 21 trance friends went to Voyeur in downtown SD on Monday night to see Kaskade play for a Haiti benefit event.

so kaskade signed this stupid painting and they auctioned it starting at 500 and ppl were all drunk n were like 600! 700! n some guy was like 1000!!! and then some other retard was like TWO THOUSAND on some B grade movie shit. woww

–Eddy Yum

santa cruz sky

by m.burstein

sex and death the facebook way

For every Facebook murder, MySpace suicide, text message heartbreak, there are 100 more juicy hookups and meetings, love-links and heartful ignitions, hopeful longings, eventual marriages, a hint and lick of bliss. Aren't there?

sex and death the facebook way!

by mark morford, SFgate columnist, 03.feb.2010

Goldfrapp :: Felt Mountain

artist: Goldfrapp

from: UK (myspace) (jukebox)

album: Felt Mountain

release date: 19.sept.2000

label: Mute

genre: trip-hop, 40s?, read below..

rating: EXCELLENT. pitchfork review

special edition (+remixes)

192kbps//101mb

holy shizz am i glad i made this musical discovery. i was listening to soundcheck on live105 sunday night, then decided to keep it on and listen to jelli radio (user-controlled radio). "ooh la la" (from 2005 album "supernature") played, and i was like 'wtf! how come i've never heard of goldfrapp?!'

You might expect the debut album from a woman who has collaborated extensively with Tricky and Orbital to be both wondrous and strange—and you'd be right to. What you might not expect is the depth of Alison Goldfrapp's beguiling, distracting 21st-century noir visions on Felt Mountain. She and her fellow composer Will Gregory can mix in Brechtian cabaret; classical instrumentation; left-of-field electronics; decadent, Gainsbourg-style French pop; and the odd piece of whistling on just one track ("Felt Mountain"). "Oompa Radar" almost reaches Tom Waits heights of infamy, the way familiar instruments come together in such a simultaneously comforting and alienating style. The baroque "Paper Bag," meanwhile, uncannily recalls Joe Meek's toy-town visions of 1960s grandeur. All this and a seductive vocal to die for.

–Everett True

haunting, unearthly, and wondrous, ethereal and moody, incredible, dark, enchanting, extremely fresh sounding, yet, at the same time, quite nostalgic

(amazon reviews)

Immediately upon listening to the first track off this album, I was reminded of Portishead. But this whole album is way more interesting than Portishead, imo. Portishead is more dreary. This is more..wondrous. You gotta listen to it. Felt Mountain feels like music from the 40s, (if i'm wrong, fuck me i don't know time periods), like from a noir soundtrack. Imagine the black and white films, a dark nightclub, gentlemen in suits smoking cigars, and a band playing, with a very sensual singer. Amazing.

CD1
1. Lovely Head
2. Paper Bag
3. Human
4. Pilots
5. Deer Stop
6. Felt Mountain
7. Oompa Radar
8. Utopia
9. Horse Tears

CD2
1. Pilots (On A Star)
2. U.K. Girls (Physical)
3. Lovely Head (Miss World Mix)
4. Utopia (New Ears Mix)
5. Human (Calexico Vocal)
6. Human (Masseys Cro-Magnon Mix)
7. Utopia (Tom Middletons Cosmos Vocal Mix)

Ministry Of Sound :: Chillout Sessions XII

Various Artists

Ministry of Sound

Chillout Sessions XII

release date: 30.aug.2009

genres: electro, indie-electro/nu-disco, synthpop, electro-pop, pop, alternative, indie, indie-pop, anything BUT chillout.

rating: sehr sehr gut. recommended.

2cd//total 156mins//VBR//258mb

purchase (in UK)

You've probably heard a good number of songs here, which are quite good, which makes this a very good compilation. I don't know why MOS names this "Chillout Sessions", though. I found it when browsing a chillout forum looking for actual chillout albums. I'm conjecturing "chillout" because it is relatively chill compared to what MOS is known for–trance, house, banging dancefloor anthems. Ehh, well, just making sure you don't get tricked like I did into thinking I was getting an album with tight chillout remixes of Ladyhawke and Empire of the Sun. But yeah, as I said, a very good compilation album, highly recommended.

CD1
1. Duffy - Stepping Stone
2. Sarah Blasko - All I Want
3. Lisa Mitchell - See You When You Get Here
4. Tame Impala - Sundown Syndrome
5. Fink - Sort Of Revolution (Cinematic Orchestra Radio Edit)
6. Josh Pyke - The Summer
7. Miike Snow - Burial
8. Daniel Merriweather feat. Wale - Change
9. Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone
10. Jenny Wilson - Anchor Made Of Gold
11. Peter Bjorn And John- Nothing To Worry About
12. Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work
13. Lost Valentinos - Serio
14. Au Revoir Simone - Shadows
15. Bat For Lashes - Daniel
16. Ryskee feat. Leslie Ming - Leave Me Amor (Bloody Beetroots Remix)
17. Empire Of The Sun - Standing On The Shore
18. MGMT - Weekend Wars
19. The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition

20. La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix)
21. Fever Ray - When I Grow Up

CD2
1. Grace Jones - Williams' Blood (Greg Wilson Remix)
2. Phoenix - Lisztomania (Classixx Version)
3. Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
4. Paul Dempsey - Ramona Was A Waitress (Faux Pas Remix)
5. James Yuill - This Sweet Love (Prins Thomas Sneaky Re-Edit)
6. Damn Arms - Destination Pt
7. SIA - Buttons (CSS Remix)
8. Metric - Help I'm Alive (Twelves' Remix)
9. The Golden Filter - Solid Gold (Extended Version)
10. Bertie Blackman - Thump (Wild Turkeys Remix)
11. Lost Valentinos - Thief (Nile Delta Remix)
12. The Juan Maclean - One Day (Original Version)
13. MSTRKRFT feat. John Legend - Heartbreaker
14. Metronomy - A Thing For Me (Breakbot Remix)
15. Ladyhawke - My Delirium (Chateau Marmont Remix)
16. Sebastien Tellier - Kilometre
17. Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity Of Huge (Allez Allez Remix)
18. Vampire Weekend - The Kids Don't Stand A Chance (Chromeo Remix)
19. Beni - My Love Sees You (Classixx Version)

20. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (Fred Falke Remix)

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