Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti "Only In My Dreams"

It's almost like they followed me around with a camera yesterday. Except for just a couple details like the fact that I sat in my office for literally 12 hours straight and I don't have ANY hair let alone pink hair, it was my day exactly.

New Music Tuesday

If your new music womb has been feeling a little barren as of late, prepare to be impregnated with sound babies. But keep in mind that if someone forces you to listen to something and you end up liking it, that means you really DID want to like it all along. If they were legitimately forcing you to listen, your ears would have automatically shut off. It's the bodies natural defense against Owl City.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Mature Themes
Bailterspace: Strobosphere
Bill Fay: Life Is People
Bloc Party: Four
Call of The Wild: Leave Your Leather On
Careful: Because I Am Always Talking
Cate Le Bon: Cyrk II
Carol Kleyn: Takin' the Time
Chris McFarland: Beauty and Undertow
The Darkness: Hot Cakes
Dead Can Dance: Anastasis [vinyl]
Dinosaur Jr: Bug: Live at the 9:30 Club [vinyl]
Dots Will Echo: Drunk Is The New Sober/Stupid Is The New Dumb
Dylan LeBlanc: Cast the Same Old Shadow
Evan Caminiti: Dreamless Sleep
Feist: Let It Die (reissue) [vinyl]
Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (reissue) [vinyl]
Grizzly Bear: Yellow House (reissue) [vinyl]
The Heavy: Glorious Dead
Lee Hazlewood: House Safe for Tigers
Lost Lander: DRRT [vinyl]
Low: I Could Live in Hope (reissue)
Low: Long Division (reissue)
Luna: Bewitched (reissue) [vinyl]
Raymond Byron and the White Freighter: Little Death Shaker
Reverend Horton Heat: 25 to Life
Ride: Going Blank Again: 20th Anniversary Edition (remastered with bonus disc)
Ry Cooder: Election Special
The Sea and Cake: One Bedroom (reissue) [vinyl]
The Sea and Cake: Oui (reissue) [vinyl]
Sigur Ros: Varud [vinyl]
Six Organs of Admittance: Ascent
Stone Roses: Second Coming [(reissue) [vinyl]
Taj Mahal: Hidden Treasures of Taj Mahal 1969-1973
Teengirl Fantasy: Tracer
Tortoise: It's All Around You (reissue) [vinyl]
Tortoise: Tortoise (reissue) [vinyl]
Van She: Idea of Happiness
Yeasayer: Fragrant World
Young Fresh Fellows: Tiempo De Lujo

PS22 Covers Ariel Pink's "Round And Round"... It's Awesome

If you don't have kids then stuff like this prob doesn't seem as cool to you as it does to me. Mostly because I feel bad that I can't send my kids to a school as bad ass as this one. I guess I COULD, but I would have to move to NY, and I get car sick, so it would take years to get there... probably.

Is it just me or do you think that they should have just left the pony-tailed music teachers piano playing out of this, and let the kids handle it all?

Ariel Pink , Cat Massage & Idaho Beards + We Plan The Rest Of Your Year

I SERIOUSLY WROTE THIS BEFORE I SAW THIS! HONEST TO BLOG!

I guess being the number 5 reason why bands don't come to Phoenix is going to get me a lot of shit. So it's a good thing I wrote this I guess.

This post is going to fulfill a couple of different goals I have set out for myself. The first one is to post this Ariel Pink video and tell you a little story about him. The second goal is to be "optimistic" about the awesome bands that are coming to Phoenix to even out my poo pooing "hatcheting" the ones that aren't the other day.



I heard a story from a dude that was told a story about one time hanging out with Ariel Pink. During the time that this dude was hanging out with Ariel Pink, Ariel Pink said he didn't like Phoenix. I don't know if this is true or anything so take it with many grains of salt. But that would explain why he is playing Tucson twice and Phoenix twice less than 2 times. I think his tune would change if he got to experience one of Mike's world famous deep tissue/hot rock/hot n' cold oil/ trigger point/hot carl massages. He really is a craftsman of pleasure and relaxation, just ask all the neighborhood cats, he learned from the best!

Hey, my fellow Idahoans Built to Spill opened for the Kings of Leon last week but I wasn't going to pay KoL real money just to see Built to Spill, but now I don't have to! They are coming to The Marquee on 10/26. So not only do we get to see them play a lot more we don't have to be outside in July OR see KoL... win win win. There are a shit ton of other shows that I am super excited for. I am going to make a highlight list below and feel free to post some that you are excited for in the comments. That is what they are there for.

Pinback @ The Sail Inn 7/21
Mini T's & Kinch @ The Rhythm Room 7/27
Here We Go Magic & Beach Fossils @ The Rhythm Room 8/1
Mimicking Birds & Bears of Manitou @ The Rhythm Room 8/12
These United States & Or The Whale @ The Rhythm Room 8/16
Ha Ha Tonka @ The Trunk Space 8/21
Woven Bones @ The Rhythm Room 8/22
The Delta Mirror & Useless Keys @ The Rhythm Room 8/30
Titus Andronicus @ The Trunk Space 9/3
Screaming Females @ The Trunk Space 9/6
The Walkmen & Japandroids @ The Clubhouse 9/17
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings @ The Orpheum 9/26
Jaime Lidell @ The Rhythm Room 9/27
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists @ The Rhythm Room 10/4
Matt & Kim @ The Clubhouse 10/6
Land of Talk & Suuns @ The Rhythm Room 10/12
The National & Owen Pallett @ The Marquee 10/14
Ra Ra Riot @ The Clubhouse 10/22
Built to Spill @ The Marquee 10/26

Ariel Pink Coming To Tucson... Twice! No Phx WTF?

Apparently the boycott of Arizona doesn't include Tucson, or Flagstaff for that matter.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti are going on a pretty huge tour that takes them all over the U.S. from July up through Oct. They are even going to come to our dirty racist state... twice! Just both times will be in Tucson, Aug 5th at Plush and again on Sept 12 at Club Congress. WTF Ariel Pink?

Dr. Dog also just announced another tour, and the closest they are coming to Phoenix is Flagstaff. In November no less! Who the hell want's to go to Flagstaff in November over Phoenix?

So either Phoenix has become the sole embodiment of SB1070 and our smaller cities get a pass for being "progressive college towns" or something else more (or even less) sinister is going on.

If only someone that had any idea of what is going on would leave a comment letting us know.

Here is a list of other bands only playing in Tucson... I left some others OFF the list because they just played here in the last few month IE Tallest Man on Earth & David Bazan:

Tokyo Police Club
The Walkmen they were playing here the whole time, my bad.
Spoon
School of Seven Bells
Matt Costa
Of Montreal

While some people might tend to be be more optimistic and say "Sure THOSE bands aren't coming but there are a whole bunch of other ones that ARE!", to those people I say "We are the 4th or 5th biggest city in the country, if a band can play in Flagstaff or Tucson they can make there way here too. Nobody would play Bakersfield and not play L.A. right?"

I also understand that there are sometimes venue scheduling conflicts and it might not have anything to do with the bands not wanting to play here. But that doesn't piss me off any less :-(

New Music Tuesday: The Roots, HEALTH, The Chemical Brothers

If you look at the list I made you will see that there is a lot of good stuff coming out today, Like HEALTH, The Roots and The Chemical Brothers. You will also see that those douche bags in Stars or STARS or S.T.A.R.S. have a new album out. Don't buy that shit. Fuck them. Fuck them right in their Canadian faces (I have nothing against Canadians but they are Canadian so it makes for easy insult writing. Similar to when people call me a "Fat fucking piece of shit".)  I hope they read this and write a nasty letter to my boss or something. I am sure he will reprimand me accordingly for the swears.

Video: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti "Bright Lit Blue Skies"

We try not to post a lot of the same stuff as Gorilla Vs Bear but really who the fuck cares, am I right!?!? Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's Before Today is getting a lot of positive buzz about maybe possibly being one of the best albums of the year. I like it, but it's not Sleigh Bells, Beach House or The National though I hope we don't get any death threats written in graffiti... haunted graffiti that is.

New Music Tuesday: What Laura Says, Ratatat, The Drums, Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti, Blitzen Trapper, Casiokids, Deer Tick

Holy poo poo in the face today is a good day for new releases. First off I am going to mention What Laura Says' new album Bloom Cheek is out today despite the email I got last week that it was pushed to June 22nd, I have been listening to that album for months now and it's still amazing. The rest of my pics are in BOLD N' GOLD after the break, along with all the other pics. Why the bee picture you ask, I have a bee hive in the tree in my backyard and it seamed appropriate.

mp3: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti "Round and Round"

Los Angeles band Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti are currently working on a new album and are giving away the first single as a free download.  As you can see from the album art below we have a clear and early winner for "best album art of the year." You can download and listen to the song "Round and Round" down below.