— Nicki Minaj, in her ridiculous (interpret how you will) verse in Trey Songz’ “Bottoms Up” (via ivethhh)
SHOWCAST / DENVER: Crystal Castles, Ogden, August 9, $35. Might be the best $35 any individual Denverite can spend all summer. You don’t want to miss this.
Below: “Untrust Us”, off Crystal Castles (2008).
Ogden event page is here. (h/t to axefield on deviantart for the image.)
alan palomo, neon indian
crowd for neon indian
dirty projectors
dave longstreth, dirty projectors
Some very belated photos from this year’s Westword Music Showcase — Neon Indian/Dirty Projectors were easily the best two sets I’ve seen all summer. Crystal Castles (August 9, Ogden, showcast post upcoming) might have something to say about that, though. Or Tokyo Police Club, or Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
New from Crocodiles, after a relatively long disappearance: “Sleep Forever”. Download the song via RCRD LBL here.
SHOWCAST / DENVER: The Dodos (w/ New Pornographers), July 28, Ogden, $26 advance (or $30 DOS, but I wouldn’t count on that).
This one requires very little explanation — it’s the fucking Dodos. New Pornos are rumored to be terrible live, but I’ll probably stick around to at least decide that myself before taking off.
Event page from the Ogden, from which you can buy tickets, is here.
“Baseball Cards”, from Wavves’ newest, King of the Beach.
Say goodbye to the fuzzy, tape-hiss-dominated Wavves you once knew. KOTB is not only much cleaner than Wavvves — it’s much more innovative, too, featuring more loop-based tracks like “Baseball Cards” and Animal Collective-esque “Mickey Mouse” (which got a whole new, surfy “sha-na-na” added to the end of last summer’s version). Overall, the album sounds like Nathan Williams finally left the basement — you know, all that stuff about boredom — and got a little sun. Which is a good thing, in this case.
King of the Beach: amazon
— Pitchfork’s Stuart Berman on The Drums’ self-titled debut (amazon), released last week. Read the rest of the review here.
Throwback Thursday: Elliott Smith’s cover of Cat Stevens’ “Trouble”. Props to Rebecca for reminding me of this one the other day.
Read archived Throwback Thursday posts here.
— Wavves’ Nathan Williams on producer Dennis Herring (Counting Crows, Modest Mouse) in a Pitchfork interview. New song “Post Acid”, off upcoming King of the Beach, is available to stream and download here.
