This dude had a heavy hand in making one of the best records of the last decade, Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca, and now he’s trying out his solo man steez. At SPIN.
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FRIDAY: Top Tape at Hyperion Tavern (Silver Lake)
Come get reel to REAL with Dublab’s analog-obsessed Top Tape gang. Aural Standards will be there alongside music-minded beings like Matthewdavid, Frosty, Walter Gross, Jonwayne, Low Limit, Sun Araw and, if we’re lucky, AS fave DJ Crazy Scotty Str8 From Rehab (these are examples, not promises). All sexy cassingles are invited to mingle to this mix of ambient haze, screwed rap, fukt folk, and experimental freakiness (1941 Hyperion Ave, 90027). On FB.
We DJ tapes. FREE FUN for you.
Jens Lekman Stalks Kirsten Dunst on New EP
Tweeness isn’t for everybody, but Dunst should be charmed. Read at SPIN.
FRIDAY: Jesse Miller Talk Show with Jean Don’t of the Franks and Hit City U.S.A. (music + interview)
Jesse Miller meets Jean Don’t of The Franks (a.k.a. Hit City U.S.A. co-founder Colin Stutz) THIS FRIDAY at the Improv Comedy Lab at 10pm as the JMTS returns to its regular time and venue after a special one-off featuring Vice Cooler. This month’s other guests are Jon Daly (Human Giant), Melissa Villasenor (America’s Got Talent) and Scott Gairdner (Funny Or Die). $5. On Facebook.
The Franks with “Neon Politik”:
Did Modeselektor Bite Flying Lotus?
Nah, but they definitely paid the homie a little tribute. Everyone knows the men from Monkeytown are always on the move, stylistically, and their brand new LP sounds like it was burped out from the blessed bowels of Low End Theory.
Smashing Pumpkins Lean on Classics in L.A.
Don’t front. You know it’s a good lead: Quasar, /ˈkwāˌzär/, noun: 1. “A massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a star-like image” (Google). 2. The name of the new song the Smashing Pumpkins opened with at their sold-out tour kickoff at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre. 3. Useful shorthand for describing Chicago alterna-rock legend Billy Corgan with (or without) his band.
Read it at SPIN. Set list below …
Youth Lagoon Deliver Us From Anxiety, Hibernation
Really feeling this record. Kid’s got a little ways to go, but this is a fantastic start. Been including “17” on mixtapes for friends lately. Beauty beamed in from an Idaho bedroom. Pairs well with new Anticon signing Raleigh Moncrief.
THURSDAY: DJ C-Dollerz Swags It Out at the Short Stop — Crunk, Hyphy, Ham, Trap and Weirdo Rap
This is going down, for real, and I can promise it will be super sloppy. The honorable Adam Weiss (Ham on Everything) has invited me to digitally spin an hour-long set of effed up rap music — swag, crunk, hyphy, trap, whatever — at one of my favorite Echo Park dives, The Short Stop. I will be joined by my oldest partner in grime, DJ Crazy Scotty Str8 From Rehab. 10/6 @ 10PM. Free fun.
Clap Your Hands, Say, ‘Eh, Not So Much’
I’ll resist the urge to make a snide remark about blowing smoke and just say this instead: It could’ve been so much more, Alec, it could have been so much more.
At Home with Lindsey Buckingham
Okay, so that Lindsey Buckingham ^ is long gone, but I’ll take the cool-headed, contemplative silver-haired gentleman who invited me into his home on an L.A. summer’s day over the guy who might’ve burned said home down with me inside it in the mid-’70s. Pick up the current issue of SPIN, or nab our incredible iPad app, to check out the proper In My Room feature. Meanwhile, you can head over here for an exclusive video interview between myself and Buckingham.
Off camera: Lindsey’s current listening pile, which included CDs by Kanye, Grizzly Bear, Phoenix, Arcade Fire, Dirty Projectors, and Vampire Weekend.
Chris Writes Things 