today.

mmmmmm hmm.

roadsworth-y

today's obsession: canadian artist roadsworth (a.k.a. peter gibson). he makes our local stencil work look like pre-school projects.

"north american footprint," 

image via the artist

ain't life rand?

really into paul rand lately, for no particular reason except that one of his kids' books was part of a care package i recently sent to a new mama and it got me looking at his posters and ad/image work. for a guy from the golden era of advertising, he certainly nailed modernism.... and for a cranky old man, he continues to make his mark.

maybe he's why i like this guy so much.

image via the artist

you're grounded.

lookit what you can do with old tennis balls.

more ideas here.

image via readymade

katy goodman side project part deux

i love this girl for many reasons and i love the music she makes.
check out this vivian girl's new project la sera. less lo-fi and more bubblegum than vg and all saints day. i'm into it. thoughts?


image via the band

mix it up.

check out my 8tracks mixes here.

el guincho can't go wrong

this song'll get you back in a summer state of mind.

this video contains boobies, so it's nsfw.


EL GUINCHO | Bombay from MGdM | Marc Gómez del Moral on Vimeo.

avant crinkle pop

i forgot about this matthew dear record after i first got it. i've been burning it out this week, though, and today it seems particularly perf. he's playing in november at mighty with a live band, which could only be more awesome than his electro beats. they already stole my heart.

check it out

?uestlove/legend/roots/arcade fire

check out this cover of "wake up"

me likey.

filed under very worthy covers

black keys v. jerry butler

long hiatus over.

check out crayon fields. they're gonna make you happy. (i really like the dan block remix of "all the pleasures".)

(image via the band)

this has nothing to do with my last post....

but i think you should check out miniature tigers. they're good. and i just saw that on july 23 they're playing a show at hotel utah with the spinto band, who are an awesome bunch and  who i got to know more than a few years ago when they stayed at my house a couple times as ever-so-gracious guests of my lovely (then) roommate.  miniature tigers' record comes out 7/27 and the spintos have a new one out in october. go see. go play.

[photo via the band by brandon lee]

daily dose of omg, omg so cute.

even marines have a soft spot for kitties.

read more about how these afghanistan-stationed marines rescued 3 adorable cats (including more pictures) here via jezebel.

[images via unique scoop]

continued.

summer nostalgia.

a weekend road trip that entailed 15 hours in the car reminded me of a bunch of songs i love to love. enjoy.

mixtape for dummies.

for dummies. by big boi. get it here.

'tis the season.

lots of my favorite blogs are posting their "best of 2010...so far" lists. those lists typically give me lots of anxiety and make me especially hate the month of december because they're everywhere i look on the internet. (ahem...)

nonetheless, we all want someone (a.k.a. the blog that never fails me) posted a pretty good one so i figured i should share. check it out here. if you like, you can download the entire thing as a zip file.

same old song.

i think hard mix is going to give me more stuff to like on the upcoming lp, judging by the four tops' sample stuck in the track "memories". play it here via gvb. i wholeheartedly approve.

never my love.

searchers v. ramones

i would have liked you anyway.

green eggs and ham and.......

rainbow bacon! chock full of god knows what, so you can't eat it, but still. lookit!

read more here.
[image via ny daily news]

peta would approve.

faux coral centerpieces, napkin rings and pretty much whatever else you want to use this fun stuff for.

see the full how-to here, at design*sponge.

[image via design*sponge]

the spires.

"instead of aping a trend, they’ve absorbed their influences..."
this, so aptly put by the folks at music for kids who can't read good, is pretty much exactly what i thought when i first heard the spires' "orange yellow". it's not that you can't hear exactly who they spent their formative years listening to, it's just that they're doing a good enough job that you don't necessarily feel like being snarky and pointing it out right away.  (though the byrds/association vibe of some parts of "tam" i have to applaud because i like it so very much)

anyway, i'm going to go check them out live when they play the knockout on 9/10. i bet there is lots to be revealed. until then, hear more here.


[mp3 via mfkwcrg/photo by elliot glass via the band]

i'm in a very specific mood today...

so i've been listening to ersen all morning. it really does interesting things to my general day's outlook. see how turkish psychedelia works for you. 

opposite day.

floor on the ceiling. if nothing makes sense, then everything makes sense. love it.

[image from harper and sandilands via apartment therapy]

i didn't even need more reasons to love raphael saadiq...

but then he made this sweet spinners' cover and just acted like a generally cool guy. 

check out more of the levi's pioneer series (including passion pit covering the smashing pumpkins) here. his

and for more of why i like raphael, check out this video. his resume is awesome, also.

[photo via levi's]

daily dose of omg, omg so cute.

bringing year of the tiger to the next level.

read/see more about this fad here.
[photos via china foto press]

daily dose of handmade.

check out these handmade, awesome, dead stock pendleton fabric-covered pillows by the multi-talented kara green. they're all made with limited edition fabric and are one of a kind. they're also unbelievably sturdy (i have the "square clarence" ) and can instantly brighten a whole room. get one!





















see them featured here on daily candy nyc.....

i get it, ok?

yes, i have accepted the fact that tame impala's innerspeaker is going to end up on every best album of 2010 blog on the internets. i get it. i like psych-gaze-drone-pop as much as the next guy. i even sent the record to a bunch of people i share music with when i first got it. but don't ya think, and call me biased if you want, darker my love did the same thing, just at the wrong time?

in honor of the last game of the finals.

check out the fruit bats covering hall and oates' "one on one" (a.k.a. the original ode to love and basketball)




[for more a.v. undercover covers...they're doing 25 in all, most of which have nothing whatsoever to do with basketball....check out the episodes here]

they're just grey doves.

pigeons somehow manages to capture french whimsey in english, and i guess that's why i like them.
check out this new video for "fade away" and then check out a nice lil' write-up about them via chocolate bobka here. 


pigeons - "fade away"
(via chocolate bobka)

goth-spel.

this isn't new, but it's cool. and it involves ryan gosling, which is a 1.5 star enhancer of just about anything. it's dead man's bones.
since supposedly neither ryan nor his pal zach shields knew how to play any instruments before they decided to make a band, their produced shit is superior, but i bet it's alright live too. if nothing else, they're both top-tier good looking. so there's that.

xxciting.

dr. dre is finally releasing detox, which has been in the works since 2003. check out the leaked single "under pressure (feat. jay z)" here via we all want someone.

oh, and get yourself back in the mood with this goodie.

banjo or freakout.

some of their videos tell me they're silly. oh yea, and their name too. but i like this song. and if you do too, go here  for more.

the bramble.

for obvious reasons, i immediately chose this drink the first time i went to the starlight room. apparently i am ever so hip (without knowing it, of course, since knowing it would totally defeat it, unless i was being ironic...right? wait....fuck. now i forget.), since the NYT style mag now says it's THE drink (and included a recipe for your puckering pleasure). maybe i should start saying i named bramble after the "simple and immensely likable" drink "that’s been called England’s cosmopolitan - without the S.A.T.C. taint." ahhhh, pedantry.

[photo via tony cenicola/the new york times]

way to go, science.

iron-on patches (to your clothes, not your pits, of course) that eliminate b.o.

read more about these [awesome/nonsensical/awkward/?] things here via ecouterre.

definitely more of an ocean than a lake.

check out l.a.'s  bodies of water. they're a mixed bag of octave meshing, spooky, intricate instrumenting, and a whole bunch of i don't know what else. i have a crush on "ever with us" right now. hear it. and then hear more here.

[photo by dennis wisse via the band]

i love tennis.

 in many ways, but the kind i mean is the kind that's made up of a hubby and wife from denver who make fuzzy cheerpop that i want to sip through a straw. check out "marathon" especially. it's lovely.

top model.

35 years and 100,000 toothpicks.

 















learn more about this insane toothpick model of sf @ laughing squid.
[image via apartment therapy]

it's casual.

so even though i'm kinda pissed at here we go magic today since i just got an e-mail refunding my $$ and telling me that their 7/28 gamh show with one of my new obsessions, beach fossils, was cancelled (and...seems to be the only cancellation on the tour...wtf?), i still have to share the swoony, glittery track "casual" that's floating around off their new record "pigeons" (out on secretly canadian on 6/8).

check out "casual" w/ a little write-up via mokb.
[photo by ben ritter via the band]

eastern european musical cheer.

for an afternoon perk-up, check out odelo here.
they's cute.

[photo via the band]

all saints day

last night was the first EVER all saints day show (side project of vivian girls bass player katy goodman and cat power keyboard player gregg foreman) at the independent. they were super awesome. kind of a slowed down, reverb-y, shoegazy version of the vivian girls, but that doesn't really even do it.

AND they played a cover of "age of consent"! i died.

i saw katy walk by after their set and i told her i really liked the show, especially the badass new order cover, and that i also loved the vivian girls when i saw them with best coast a few months ago. and instead of being an aloof, too-cool-for-me hipster, she hugged me.  i've got her back forever now.

their 7" "it'll come around" is out on art fag soon. you can also hear and download two songs here via we all want someone.

there were like ten versions. and now there's finally a video.

i love this track. get into it, ok?

stevie nicks and i have the same birthday.

which has absolutely nothing to do with my love of fleetwood mac, but since the only other person i can think of is lenny kravitz, i like to bring it up. anyway, i digress. vampire weekend is the latest to cover fm. check out "everywhere" here via indie shuffle.

check out a couple more fm covers by some of our faves here via heart attack blog.
(image via amoeblog)

if you don't like this, you don't even get me, ok?

avi buffalo - what's in it for?

hear more avi buffalo here. i'll  try to ignore the fact that they're going to FRESNO and not coming here. for now.

the opposite of noise pollution.

check out light pollution's new "drunk kids" video via my old kentucky blog.

then check out more info and another track here (they had me at the "beatles or stones?" answer) and here as you prepare for the release of their album "apparitions" and the show they're gonna play for us @ rickshaw stop  (w/aptbs!!!!!!) on 6/20.

bringing new meaning to romance language.

dirty little secret has remixed an already worthy sebastien tellier song. check the new "sexuality" out here via indie shuffle.

and see below for a couple of my all time fave tellier tracks.

seeing stars.

another track is available from the forthcoming "the five ghosts" by the most adorable bss side project. ok, maybe feist is more adorable. check out "wasted daylight" here, via we all want someone to shout for.

apologies.

there's been little more than sweet vids and songs posted the last couple days. i've been a little one-track-minded, and  good news: i've given you tons of scavenging homework to do. now get to it or you're grounded.

old(ettes) and new(ettes).

the mary onettes - explosions


the mary onettes - puzzles

takin' it slow.

love this.

caribou - odessa

i got the fever.

warning: this vid contains penises.

check out more about pearl fiction via bigstereo.

leave me alone.

could it be a devil in me?

the REAL levi.

always listen to your mother.

it's back to my roots day.

my favorite bros.

as much as i want to stick them all on latfh.com...

they are good.  lots of people are making arcade fire comparisons. not sure if i'm ready to go there yet, but they are dissing us in their upcoming tour.....much like some french canadians i know. you decide.

obviously i'm in a mood.

ROX - My Baby Left Me

wiggle around in your chair, k?

shutterbug.

new big boi single.

not vegetarian. but hilarious.

big star + t. rex =

free energy.

they're playing sf on 6/30 and 7/1 @ gamh. check it out.

++gnar points for covering kate bush in the first place.

wild nothing is on repeat for me. check out his cover of kate bush's "cloudbusting" and you'll probably make yourself sick on it too.

ok, ok. maybe the burg still has us on "who's more annoyingly elitist"

read more about this REAL text here.

you're an asshole, johnny.

check out the creepiest psa ever, thanks to ashleigh nankivell's remixing of an already weird 60's era manners lesson.


helping johnny remember from ashleigh nankivell

hipster kitty.

(via fuck yeah! hipster kitty!)

filed under music to be happy to.

not new, but summer is the time to be reminded of 60's style-chamber pop-melody lovers gigi.

check them out.
(image via the band by michelle mayne)

sshhhhh....

and listen to the librarians.

check out this awesomely accurate review, including riyl's by mike @ obscure sound and then check out the three tracks after the jump. "cranberry palace" is especially twinkly and awesome. p.s. yea, yea, yea i know they edge a little too far in on animal collective sometimes, but give them a break.
(image via the band)

ay bee see dee.

look at these awesomely simple bags and coin purses by alphabet bags.

they also have a sweet summer collection that will make you happy, no matter how heavy your groceries are.

yellow fever.

check out yellow fever here. they're label mates on wild world with vivian girls, but to me sound more like delta 5 than the garagy punk bands the vivian girls seem to love (see, i.e., the slits).

heavy hawaii.

heavy hawaii: suicide summer

more here. especially, check out the track "sleeping bag".

christmas island.

check it out.



more here.

poor-celain.

this project is awesome and easy and makes some very pretty things. see the up-close how-to here.  
(via p.s. i made this)

afternoon danish.

if amy winehouse never smoked, did drugs and was from denmark, she might sound more like this. good thing she did that, though, because we need her around too.


Quadron "Pressure" from Plug Research on Vimeo.

more here.


(thanks rybotron)

morning benders sample.

check out 4 songs from their new record "big echo" below.

via the band

twin blackbird sister blackbird.

check out the blackbird blackbird remix of twin sister's "lady daydream" at the top of their tumblr page. it makes me want to lay in the sun on the verge of an amazing nap.

animal language.

yet another reason that lou reed is the ultimate shit. ..he and wifey laurie are having a concert just for dogs at the sydney opera house.

superfluous....but strangely appealing.

find out more here. 
image via designspotter.

earth/fire.

find out how to make these succulent tea lights (sounds sexy huh?) here. 
photos by greg scheidemann via readymade

i was so embarassed that i missed your party.

belle & sebastian are coming to see us.

that's cool, arcade fire. we'll still love you.

arcade fire released us tour dates for the first time since neon bible and they aren't coming to sf. i die. too bad they know the snub will only make me want them harder.  plus i can't be that mad since they're giving $$ from the tix to partners in health.

check out a full version (with lyrics) of their new single "the suburbs" here.

photo via af.

heart.

check out mayer hawthorne's version of "i left my heart in san francisco". he rules my universe.




after that, watch this video and he will rule yours too.

don't be koi.

lower haight, sf

i think they like the beach boys.

the magic kids played with girls back in february and now they're opening for ariel pink's haunted graffiti and pearl harbor in july. check out the "video" below for some melodic jangle to brighten your day.

sharon jones and the dap kings.

i admit, i have a magnetic tendency towards all things motown, but this band is amazing independent of all that. i have loved them since i saw them live (incredible!!!!!) @ the warfield last year. they have a newish record that you should get. check out a good review of it here via aquarium drunkard and a sample from it here via pma. 


then have a taste of an older song and a shuggie otis cover from dark was the night below.

white wine.

this blog is pretty amusing. and embarassing.

fake science.

go here and have a laugh!

rather be a bandit than a lover.

Little Dragon - Feather from Nate Guerrero on Vimeo.

graceland.

check out grizzly bear covering paul simon here via hype machine.

two sevens.

i liked this painting (acrylic on wood) from the getgo, but even more so after someone asked if it was a painting of me. check out more of these tattoo girl pieces and other art (paint/print/photo) by bay area artist matthew mcgowan (a.k.a. two sevens) here.

what ariel pink listens to.

check out this international oddball mix (track list and download link mid-page) he made for fact magazine.

a different kind of dog.

small black: despicable dogs from
yoonha park on vimeo.

if you just ignore the lipsyncing and cheesy gestures,

you'll realize this is one of the best dusty songs EVER.

beach fossils...

are one of my faves these days. i can stay in my surf phase but then they throw in a little new order so i feel like i'm diversifying. (by listening to what i already know i like, but mixed in with other stuff i already know i like? i don't know.) hear more here.

yes. we have turmeric. and i know exactly where it is.

get ye some chalkboard paint and.....

 























via apartment therapy 

(Image: Apartment Therapy Spring Cure member NEGS26, from the Home Cure Flickr Pool)

put it on repeat.

and even more.

i saw best coast with the vivian girls @ bottom of the hill in february. it was bethany's first show in sf and it was awesome. check them out.