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Paging E-6. Love em, or hate em, today's video is Deerhoof. Applause not necessary.
[edit] suck it, pitchfork.
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Loading... i'm currently having the opposite problem as our house doesn't seem to be keeping heat. after spending SO MUCH [redacted] [redacted] TIME trying to wrap all the windows (dear lord, is that what my parents went through?), it'd better work.
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John Spencer, before the blues exploded.
Live from Germany, 1987.
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 10)Loading... after one album in 20 years, here was the hot new single from his album tilt.
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1995
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I saw Laurie Anderson three years ago at the Kimo Theater in Albuquerque, NM. She puts on one hell of a show. Here she is with WGOM favorite Colin Stetson on Dave.
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For my last day, I decided to pick a song of pretty great importance to me. I first heard this song on 120 Minutes when I was up way too late in elementary school. I was instantly in love. It was listed as being on the soundtrack for The Crow, and I went out and got it immediately. Eventually I found out it was also on their album Betty, which I got as soon as I could.
That album changed my perception of what rock could be. It was heavy, dense, and unrelenting. I was only 12 or 13, but I'd never heard anything like it before. After that album, my tastes started forming to what they are today. I owe a lot of who I am to a song I just happened upon on TV. Helmet is a band who had a huge influence on the rock scene. I doubt it would be a big deal to them, but they had one on me too. And it all started with this song.
And thus ends my week at the controls. I hope you enjoyed it.
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While most of my favorite rap (and all that I've posted thus far this week) is from the dirty south, Cadence Weapon is from Montreal via Edmonton. I first heard about him because he posted on a music message board I used to read. I think he's pretty great. His beats are pretty wild, and he writes interesting lyrics.And in 2009 he was named Edmonton's poet laureate. Pretty cool.
He also puts on a hell of a live show. I saw him in October, and I'm considering driving to Winnipeg again next weekend to see him again. This was the last song he played when we saw him, and it was hype as hell.
(2 votes, average: 6.50 out of 10)Loading... httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWUrBwDXTp8
I couldn't really put a week of music up and leave out The Intelligence. They're probably the band whose work I look forward to the most these days. Their album last year, Everybody's Got It Easy But Me, was worth the (excruciating) two year wait. This was the first single from the album, and was my favorite song of 2012. I figured it was a fitting choice for FMD.
If anyone likes this song, and is interested, I've got download codes for their last three or four albums. I'd gladly send them to you when I get back to Fargo so you can enjoy them. They're also all on Spotify. You know, if you're so inclined.
(4 votes, average: 7.50 out of 10)Loading... Again, strong lyrics in this. But the video is so good I couldn't pass it up.
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SGP is a part of the current wave of mixtape rappers (see also: Lil Ugly Mane, Gorgeous Children) bringing back the mid-90s Memphis sound. His mixtapes are full of pops, hiss, and really poor mastering. He was signed to 4AD last year and brought out Mysterious Phonnk, which was a collection of his best mixtape tracks re-done with far, far better production values. This session has Purrp in a mic'd up room performing three tracks: "Mystikal Maze," "Get Yah Head Bust," and "Don't Give a Damn." The songs and visuals are both on point.
(3 votes, average: 5.33 out of 10)Loading... httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GLr13N212Y
A Frames were on the bill at the first show I went to at Ralph's Corner Bar after I turned 21. They played with the band FM Knives. I'd read about the show in the paper, and had nothing else going on that night, so I went to take in a night of punk rock. A Frames completely blew me away. Their music is tight, angular, driving punk. They work with a very tight set of themes for their music; most deals with dystopian societies and/or technology. Erin has a really great, monotone voice that works well with the subject matter. Continue reading A Frames – Chemical
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