I'm Trying To Be Normal But There's Evil In My Head- June 24, 2008 Architecture In Helsinki "Hold Music (Max Tundra Remix)" - Given the explosion in remixing over the past decade, I reckon we're at the point where something like 98% of all remixes are totally unlistenable and awful. The bad remixes are usually either glitchy, self-indulgent garbage that amounts to some idiot making some terrible new composition out of fragments of the source material, or someone taking the source material and finding a way to dumb it down or otherwise strip it of its original..http://www.fluxblog.org/2008/06/im-trying-to-be-normal-but-theres-evil.html The Loud Proud Volume Freaks- June 21, 2008 Sloan Bowery Ballroom 6202008Believe In Me All I Am Is All You're Not Don't You Believe A Word Everything You've Done Wrong I'm Not A Kid Anymore The Dogs Sensory Deprivation Burn For It Ready For You Witch's Wand I Am The Cancer Ill-Placed Trust Emergency 911 Down In The Basement Something Wrong I've Gotta Try Living The Dream Take Good Care Of The Poor Boy Friendship The Other Man Money City Maniacs Flying High Again Who Taught You To Live Like That Deeper Than Beauty .http://www.fluxblog.org/2008/06/loud-proud-volume-freaks.html The Weblogs That Get Tangled As You Willie And You Wangle- June 20, 2008 R.E.M. Madison Square Garden 6192008Living Well Is The Best Revenge These Days What's The Frequency, Kenneth Bad Day Drive Hollow Man Ignoreland Man-Sized Wreath Leaving New York Disturbance At The Heron House Houston Electrolite (Don't Go Back To) Rockville Driver 8 Harborcoat The One I Love Until The Day Is Done Let Me In Horse To Water Pretty Persuasion Orange Crush I'm Gonna DJ Supernatural Superserious Losing My Religion Begin The Begin Fall On Me Man On The Moon.http://www.fluxblog.org/2008/06/weblogs-that-get-tangled-as-you-willie.html Mixed Message Sending- June 19, 2008 Glam Chops "Tell Us, Are You Ready, Eddie (Eddie, Are You Ready)" - Following the apparent dissolution of Art Brut, Eddie Argos has re-emerged as the frontman of Glam Chops, a band that sounds more or less exactly like Art Brut, but with a horn section and back-up singers. As you could've guessed by their name, there is a thin "glam" conceit to the new band, but obviously, it's glam as applied to Eddie Argos' shtick. Basically, this is a song about a guy who has been self-consciously toying...http://www.fluxblog.org/2008/06/mixed-message-sending.html We Are So Many Tiny Pieces- June 18, 2008 Wild Beasts "The Devil's Crayon" - Given that the main attraction of the Wild Beasts has been the distinct singing voice of their frontman Hayden Thorpe, their latest single "The Devil's Crayon" is something of a curveball: It's a duet between Thorpe and his bandmate Tom Fleming. Thankfully, Fleming's voice only serves to enhance the band's ragged yet enchanted aesthetic. In contrast to Thorpe's femine affect -- the last time I wrote about him, I described him as singing like a hobo who is...http://www.fluxblog.org/2008/06/we-are-so-many-tiny-pieces.html Always Going Back And Forth- June 17, 2008 Be Your Own Pet "Black Hole" - When it was announced that this song was cut from the American edition of Be Your Own Pet's second album out of concern for the violence in its lyrics, it was more than a little bit confusing, mainly because it's so hard to imagine that anyone could hear it and not immediately grasp that Jemina Pearl was not being very serious. Make no mistake: "Black Hole" is 100% over-the-top adolescent hyperbole. It's about being bored, and wanting to devour junk food, and...http://www.fluxblog.org/2008/06/always-going-back-and-forth.html All Your Sad and Lost Apostles- June 16, 2008 R.E.M. Jones Beach 6142008Have You Ever Seen The Rain So. Central Rain These Days Living Well Is The Best Revenge What's The Frequency, Kenneth Man-Sized Wreath 1,000,000 Ignoreland Hollow Man Welcome To The Occupation Houston Electrolite Horse To Water The One I Love Let Me In Bad Day Orange Crush I'm Gonna DJ Supernatural Superserious Losing My Religion It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) Fall On Me Man On The MoonSo, yeah. This was kind of a...http://www.fluxblog.org/2008/06/all-your-sad-and-lost-apostles.html This Was Supposed To Be My Moment Of Triumph- June 12, 2008 Wire "One Of Us" - Even when writing a straight-forward pop song about the messy dissolution of a relationship, Wire can't help but seem entirely cold and dispassionate. It's actually easier to hear this as being a song about the end of a professional partnership, and not simply because Bruce Gilbert has apparently left the band. Colin Newman betrays very little emotion in either his lyrics or his voice, aside from perhaps an eagerness to tidy up loose ends and cling to some semblance of...http://www.fluxblog.org/2008/06/this-was-supposed-to-be-my-moment-of.html A Lame Way To Comfort Yourself- June 11, 2008 Quitzow "Better Than Ever" - It's kind of a rare thing that I get to get to feature an artist who is from more or less the same region where I grew up. This isn't to say that there aren't many musicians in the Hudson Valley of New York, but rather that they either just are not to my taste -- there's always been a lot of earnest folky stuff, especially as you get further up into hippie country -- or the artists don't really do much in the way of self-promotion, and you just never really hear...http://www.fluxblog.org/2008/06/lame-way-to-comfort-yourself_8791.html Acting All Respectable In Front Of Your Mother- June 10, 2008 Hemme Fatale "Animal Lover" - The most obvious touchstone for Hemme Fatale would be the Human League in their prime, but there's something about their take on classic boygirl electro-pop music that comes out sounding subtly skewed and mildly disorienting. All of their songs are informed by a ridiculous, deadpan sexuality that, when combined with the off-kilter funk of their tracks, result in something close to actual sexiness. In "Animal Lover," the group mess around the listener's...http://www.fluxblog.org/2008/06/acting-all-respectable-in-front-of-your.html |