Tennis On Laundro Matinee

I always told myself that when I got a nice DSLR that took good video and an iMac with Final Cut Pro I would invite bands over to make sweet sweet vids in my backyard. Then I got all those things and realized I am just lazy as hell and will probably never ever do that. But really, does the world need another "video sessions" from some music blog anyway? Probably not, but maybe, summer IS coming and we all know how fun it is to play music in 120 degree weather.

Tennis "Origins"

I mean right... who doesn't love a good heist/caper/seal raid?

New Music Tuesday

So happy hearts day! Those are red bell peppers up there but it's the closest thing I had to hearts... aside from all the hearts I have collected in my basement. But no sense in broadcasting that to the world.

Amos Lee: As the Crow Flies
Band of Skulls: Sweet Sour
Barry Adamson: I Will Set You Free
Bears: Greater Lakes
Detroit Cobras: Mink Rat or Rabbit
Digital Leather: Modern Problems
Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Exdetectives: Take My Forever
The Explorers Club: Grand Hotel
Field Music: Plumb
Flaming Lips: Clouds Taste Metallic (reissue) [vinyl]
Flaming Lips: Hit to Death in the Future Head (reissue) [vinyl]
Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin (reissue) [vinyl]
Flaming Lips: Transmissions From the Satellite Heart (reissue) [vinyl]
Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (reissue) [vinyl]
Gotan Project: Revancha Del Tango (reissue) [vinyl]
Heartless Bastards: Arrow
Howlin Rain: Russian Wilds
The (International) Noise Conspiracy: Up For Sale EP
Islands: A Sleep & A Forgetting
The Kills: The Last Goodbye EP
Moguai: Mpire
Orange Goblin: Eulogy for the Damned
Phenomenal Handclap Band: Form & Control
Punch Brothers: Who's Feeling Young Now?
Radiohead: Bloom: Jamie XX Rework 3 [vinyl]
Rosie Thomas: With Love
Shearwater: Animal Joy
The Shins: Simple Song / September [vinyl]
Tennis: Young and Old
Tribes: We Were Children EP
Unicycle Loves You: Failure
Windy & Carl: We Will Always Be
Winterpills: All My Lovely Goners
Young Magic: Melt
Yuksek: Living on the Edge of Time

Albums Of The Year 2011

So these are not really in any order, in fact you could say they were "OUT OF ORDER!" I found myself listening to an album a lot, then not really listening to it again until I DID listen to it again. Here are the ones I listened to the most, and therefore I guess they are the best of the year, I guess. And again, let me stress that in true non committal Electric Mustache fashion, these are presented not in any specific order, and also with videos instead of album art/mp3s, because video are way way easier.

Photos: Tennis @ The Rhythm Room 2/8/11

Wowza! Tennis is really good, and I mean like really good as in excellent. If you like/love their album then you had no choice but to like/love the show the put on last night. It sounded almost exactly like the record but with a little more live panache'. And also... Tennis > Best Coast, so there.

I am totally out of practice shooting in the dark cave that is The Rhythm Room but I will be going out to more shows and posting more photos, I promise.

New Music Tuesday: Tennis, Smith Westerns,The Decemberists, Dolorean,Klaxons Ducktails

We are finally getting into the swing of things... Just like last couple of years some very strong contenders for album of the year are coming out in January. The new albums from The Decemberists and Smith Westerns are excellent but Tennis's Cape Dory is this years Teen Dream, I CAN'T stop listening to it yo!

If someone kidnapped you and was going to bury you alive and gave you the option to pick one of today's new releases to listen to until deaths sweet embrace enveloped you... what one would you pick?

16 Horsepower: Yours Truly
Aquabats: Hi-Five Soup!
Beep: City of the Future
Benjy Davis Project: Sincerely
Braids: Native Speaker
Daniel Martin Moore: In the Cool of the Day
The Decemberists: The King is Dead (CD & DVD) (CD, DVD & book)
Dolorean: The Unfazed
Disappears: Guider
Distractions: Dark Green Sea
Ducktails: Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics [vinyl]
Electric Wizard: Black Masses
Eulogies: Tear The Fences Down
The Fall: This Nation's Saving Grace (Omnibus Edition)
Fergus & Geronimo: Unlearn
Ghost: Opus Eponymous
Gregg Allman: Low Country Blues
Gilkyson-Gorka-Kaplansky: Red Horse [vinyl]
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg: Je Taime Moi Non Plus (reissue) [vinyl]
Klaxons: Surfing the Void (Deluxe Edition)
Lady Lazarus: Mantic
Ladytron: 604 (reissue with bonus tracks)
Ladytron: Light & Magic (reissue with bonus tracks)
Ladytron: Witching Hour (reissue with bonus tracks)
Les Jupes: Modern Myths
Madlib: Medicine Show No. 11: Low Budget High Fi Music
Modern Skirts: Gramahawk
Mogwai: Rano Pano [vinyl]
Mudhoney: Head on the Curb (reissue) [vinyl]
Norman Blake: Green Light On The Southern
Oh No Oh My: People Problems
Pearl Jam: Live On Ten Legs
Ponderosa: Moonlight Revival
Robert Pollard: Space City Kicks
Roomful of Blues: Hook, Line & Sinker
Serge Gainsbourg: Initials B.B. (reissue) [vinyl]
Serge Gainsbourg: Le Claqueur De Mots 1958-1959 (reissue)
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers: Teenage and Torture
Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde
Sparklehorse: Good Morning Spider (reissue) [vinyl]
Sparklehorse: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (reissue) [vinyl]
Tennis: Cape Dory
Twilight Hotel: When the Wolves Go Blind
The Walkmen: You & Me (reissue) [vinyl]
Warpaint: Exquisite Corpse EP (reissue)
White Fence: Is Growing Faith
White Lies: Ritual

Tennis "Pigeon" Video

What ever happened to bands putting their videos on Youtube and Vimeo? I know that Pitchfork is the choice of a new generation and all but they should really start using HTML5 and drop the flash. As for the actual video, meh, as for the song.? I like it! Pretty sure that Tennis are going to be the breakout band of 2011. Their new album Cape Dory is out next week. How exciting.

UPDATE: Now it's a Vimeo video... rejoice!

2011 Phoenix Concert Preview

2010 was a great year for live music in Phoenix. I crossed a bunch of bands of my bucket list (I have never seen that movie) like Gorillaz, Snoop Dogg, Slayer, Wu Tang, The National, Vampire Weekend and saw a ton of other great shows. But that was as they say, so last year. It's time to look towards the future. Here is a pretty giant list of everything good that has been announced so far. Click on the "date/time " links to get your tickets and please drive safely.

Tennis Does Yours Truly

I am really for Tennis, I am REALLY for frizzy fizzy hairdooz! We love it! Such elitists, they had trouble going back to a "landlocked city" and dealing with people that think sailing is archaic. I guess I understand where they are coming from. I also have trouble dealing with people in a land locked city that think archaeology is archaic. Do you know how hard it is to dig in a graveyard in the dark?

Tennis Video With Some Dude Skateboarding

Here is the new Tennis video that has been making it's way around the internet since yesterday afternoon. You may not read the internet as hard as we do, so you may have not already seen it already.

Why do band's still have to make videos out of found footage when you literally have a better video camera in your iPhone than the ones they used to "tape" The Cosby Show? And that show won an Emmy!