We're beginning to obsess....

..over Black Kids.



Straight outta jacksonville, fl - Black Kids are the new sweetest thing to hit our ears. Kinda mellow, kinda pop-ish, 90's beaths, really fun. Boys AND Girls. Black AND White. Perfection!

Their debut album - partie traumatic - came out just last Tuesday. You may have heard their single "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You" on airwaves since this past April. I would describe this song as sweet/though not unique voices over a beyond catchy beat that you will be tapping at your desk all day while you hum over and over "I'm not gonna teach him how to dance with you". The song is not one of their best - but it is an undeniable hit. They areMGMT-ish in the sense that even if you do not want to like them, you will. And you will a lot.

Peep "Hurricane Jane" - one of my favs. The beat is so 90's you will picture your mom snapping to it as she drives you and your friends who are in the backseat to the pool when you were 8. Which makes it that much more awesome.


Owen, Kevin, Dawn, Ali and Reggie are currently touring both the US and UK. However - unless you're willing to travel out of the NJ/NY - then you won't be seeing them for a while. However you can catch them in Philly at the end of September. Which is cool, gives you more time to grow to love them.

Black Kids recently toured with Kate Nash and I found a vid of a live collaboration of "I'm Not Gonna Teach...." Check it!

where are your friends tonight?

lcd soundsystem
"all my friends"

watch it all.

well i tried....

to see mgmt at mccarren this past sunrday.
after some drinks and lots of having to pee..we approached the park only to follow the line for blocks and find it stretching from mccarren to basically under the bqe.
and for anyone who knows this distance - feel free to gag right about now.
being at the end of the line in a downpour..my love for mgmt began to be pushed to the side by my yearning for shelter and a couch and/or toilet.

i must say i was looking forward to this all summer but sometimes it's better to just hear glimpses of the soundcheck while you walk to the bar rather then stand in the hipster line from hell. check it out:




oh and eff this being the only good video from that afternoon with the most annoying biddy singing over Ben and Andrew.

Wuddeva. Check it

love is a mix tape

"But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy human bodies."

Rob Sheffield

Never will you appreciate a cassette tape as much as after this book. We are let in on a series of mix tapes from Scheffield's life and how closely related they are to his journies. We are intimately let into his marriage, and then further into the unexpected death of his wife. He clearly states how his life is lead by music, whether it be in a good way or a bad way. All music lovers, readers, and humans will like this book. Read it.

for all of us

who were stuck in an air conditioned building, either at a cubicle or typing away....while this glory was taking place in bryant partk....

most emotional review. ever.

I swear the first time I heard this album the chills on my arms and legs lasted about 45 minutes. With my hand over my heart I listend as the notes and lyrics touched my heart like I have never ever have experienced.

Bon Iver.

I am about to get so woman. (so please be prepared). While retreating to a cabin deep into Wisconsin, Justin Vernon recorded most of what we know as For Emma, Forever Ago. I was creeping along the daytrotter website when I came across a project by a name I was unfamiliar with. With my never ending search for new tunes to fill my room with I searched this band on itunes...and instantly purchased it. I listened to the album 3 times in a row as I simply sat on my bed. I sat there whole heartedly and it felt like the world had stopped. It was everything I wanted at this moment in my life, it filled me up and made me feel whole.

Lyrics and melody will cause your heart to skip a beat and you won't have any qualms with it. Please do check it out. Key tracks you ask? Skinny love, Blindsided, The Wolves, Flume...

enjoy. please.

kid rock anyone?

recently obsessed and not afraid to show it.....



SeeqPod - Playable Search

enjoy. drink some white wine with your friends and do a little step touch. you wont be sorry.