Swine Flu

Heading down to San Diego this weekend to see my folks, who are in from Orlando, visiting my aunt & uncle. Because the best thing to do in a pandemic is to drive closer to the source. We're having dinner at Typhoid Mary's on Saturday night.

Below is retro-funk greatness from Curtis Mayfield, retro-90sindie low-fi-ness from Sebadoh, retro-maudlinness from The Smiths and retro-comedy from Airplane! the Movie.

More contemporarily, Passion Pit will be smashing dancefloors all summer long, Ferraby Lionheart ragtime celebrates and eulogizes New Orleans, and Cansei de Ser Sexy does what they do best.

Enjoy.

DOWNLOAD: MayDay! Swine Flu! 6-pack!.zip

'The Freed Pig' - Sebadoh
'Jive Sick' dialogue - Airplane! the Movie
'The Reeling' - Passion Pit
'Before We're Dead' - Ferraby Lionheart
'Girlfriend in a Coma' - The Smiths
'Rat is Dead' - Cansei de Ser Sexy
'Freddie's Dead' - Curtis Mayfield

Torture 6 pack

throwing this up as my dad and i take off for our Santa Barbara Sideways adventure:

DOWNLOAD: Sideways Torture.zip

Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
Chairlift - Evident Utensil
Gareth Person - Time to Pretend (MGMT cover)
School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
The Dears - Disclaimer
Empire of the Sun - We Are The People

FEATHERS&victory! six-pack

It's spring again in LA.



Not that we themed up this week's 6 pack of mp3s.

DOWNLOAD: Feathers & Victory 6 pack of mp3s.zip

Tracklisting:

United States of Electronica - "All the World"
Seattle's 'greatest Daft Punk but dafter' party band return! They use exclamation marks in all their lyrics! Or should! Lots of vocoder! Dancey beats! Monomaniacally focused on partying like Andrew W.K. (sample lyrics from It Is On: "It is on! Party people c'mon! It is on! It is on! Everybody singing along!) The perfect band to soundtrack a pillow fight.

The Boy Least Likely To - 'Saddle Up'
Twee as fuck. Settles in at a donkey clip-clop complete with horns, violin and mandolin. Bound to be used in an Apatow movie at the moment when one of the heartbroken characters needs a good cheering up. Btw, love that I Love You, Man is set mostly in Venice.

David Byrne and Brian Eno - 'Strange Overtones'
Comes bubbling up and hints at an ecstacy groove. Then the hook gets all rubbery with a hushed Byrne melody before the chorus explodes into something joyous with yes, strange overtones. How meta of them. "You are strong and you are tough, but a heart is not enough".

The Cocktail Slippers - 'Sentenced to Love'
I think this sounds a little Go-go's. If they'd had an apprenticeship with Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The opening shrieks also remind me of Kate & from the B-52s. And there's handclaps. Which they've got going for them. Which is nice.

Harlem Shakes - 'Strictly Game'
This will be a better year, they keep telling us. Maybe they were talking about 2010? I wish they were called The Harlem Shake though.

Soul Asylum - 'Sometime to Return'
From MTV's Nevermind the 80s: 120 Minutes vol 1.
Man, swinging a pillow around is ti-ring. I have a newfound appreciation for medieval battles. And I was only wearing our Reorient shirts, not chain mail. And no one hit me with a flail or mace. After about 10 minutes of pillowfighting, I needed to take a quick break and catch my breath, before diving back into the fray. This would've been perfect psyching up music to do so.

Carolina Chocolate Drops performing "Hit' Em Up Style"

Cover of the Blu Cantrell song, bluegrass style. Yow.

Pillow Fools Day

Pillow Fight Day: Los Angeles from bk on Vimeo.

Cross-metaphorization today - an April Fools mix and a call to arms for Global Pillow Fight Day.

DOWNLOAD: Pillow Fools Day.zip

GOTO: Your local global Pillow Fight Day. In Los Angeles, that'd be 3pm in Pershing Square.

Tracks:
The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
Neko Case - Runnin' Out of Fools
Run DMC - It's Tricky
Tricky - Black Steel (Public Enemy cover)
Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales of San Francisco
Le Tigre - Fake French
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Lick the Tins - Can't Help Falling in Love (Fools rush in) (Elvis cover)