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!

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

MGMT

with: Black Moth Super Rainbow, Ting Tings


McCarren Pool


July 27th


2:00 pm


$ ZERO


see you there!

give it a try

Love them or hate them, MGMT - straight out of Brooklyn - are my favorite listen these days. Formerly known as The Magangement, members Andrew and Ben attended college together at Wesleyan and had no intentions of starting a band. They were just a couple of friends who always chilled and showed each other their favorite music of the moment. This lead to them messing around with electronica and "noise rock" which now are a part of their signature sound. MGMT had been a favorite of mags like Spin and Rolling Stone back in 2007, who both named them "a band to watch".

Their first CD - Oracular Spectacular - was released this past October digitally, and again, in CD form in January. They are often compared to Muse - but I find them to be 2 very different bands. Prefix Mag has described MGMT music as "sounds like a college-dorm experiment gone horribly right" - pretty damn accurate.

My favorite track is "Electric Feel". Sounds so 90's it hurts. In my car the other day, after a couple Blue Moons and a plate o' nachos, I had Oracular Spectacular playing low beneath mine and Emily's conversation. However, when track 5, Kids, came on, Em's superpower ears recognized the song and turned it up after yelling "WHO IS THIS I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS SONG FOREVER!" Yes, you may enjoy it too if you give it a try.

I definitely recommend Electric Feel, their single Time to Pretend (featured in the movie 21), and Pieces of What.

The video for Kids: