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In this world of mocha breves and soy chai lattes, Coca-Cola Blaks and shitty Red Bulls, you must dance. Dancing is essential to the survival of the species, people, and MSTRKRFT are prepared to serve. Featuring Jesse of the profoundly-spazzed-out Death From Above 1979, MSTRKRFT has a name that describes their immense body of remix work — its masterful electronic insanity that forces a decision on you every time one of their tracks is playing. After remixing stuff for everyone else, here comes their own master work, The Looks with a guarantee of madness. Watch as club-goers bounce around and into one another, bodies will writhe, public sex and denigrating debaucherous behaviours will be the order of the day. If you can’t get laid listening to MSTRKRFT, then at least you should try to shake some of the fat off of your ass by jiggling it into those drainpipe jeans that look terrible on you and hitting the parquet for a while. Imagine a painless injection of speed into your spinal chord causing jealous rage from those around you who can’t quite cut the rug like you can. MSTRKRFT is blatant and flagrant, and I am totally on board for anything they do.
Check out the title track from their album “The Looks” and get ready to work that body. YES.
Listen To MSTRKRFT - The Looks
You can order MSTRKRFT’s The Looks from Amazon by clicking on this spot repeatedly until you submit and purchase.
BONUS BEATS: Check out this video for “Easy Lover”
I am a sucker for handclaps. I am also a sucker for horns and silly pop songs. Therefore, it only makes sense for me to spin a song that I recently discovered for all of you. The band is called Monkey Swallows The Universe and their song “Jimmy Down The Well” is great. A fun song to dance around to on a summer night where the sun is still shining for the last half-hour of the day. And have I mentioned the handclaps and the horns? It makes this song go from twee-cute to awesomely mellow. (Yes, too many adjectives there. But, the adjectives are well-deserved. This song is great.) This fits right in for those of you who are into bands like the Decemberists that take the mellow indie rock and quirk it up. You won’t be disappointed. Those who love pop can love this as well. At least support these guys and buy some stuff.
My new obsession opened for She Wants Revenge at The Wiltern last week and here’s live video from that performance. Wow.
Hey kids, have you behaved and done what Bethanne told you to do? You should have. She knows her shit — recognize, bitchez. So, I’m sitting here in Los Angeles having a great time but remembering how much I hate it here. Every time someone walks into the room, it’s never normal — it’s a “grand entrance”. Yes, I actually am looking at you — and thinking what an idiot you are because you’re dying to be noticed. Now that I noticed you, I’m going to stare at the floor some more and dream of being someplace where I’m not jaded and uninterested in everything around me. Hope you don’t mind.
At least out of this trip, I’ve managed to get my hands on the new Yo La Tengo album due September 12th from Matador entitled I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (there are no MP3’s of Yo La Tengo in this post so if that’s why you’re here, I’m sorry to tease). The first 9 minutes are absolutely killing me — amazing psychedelic rock. I need to process the whole album before I jump out of the tree and say how effing brilliant it is. Oh wait, what’s this? It’s a quirky and totally different Yo La Tengo than the last song on the album — is this Ben Folds Five? Just kidding….oh hang on is this Prince? No…no, it’s Sufjan Stevens…wow. This new Yo La Tengo is more bipolar than Anna Nicole Smith when she’s off the Trimspa and the valiums. That’s not a bad thing, mind you. It’s embarassingly good if that’s possible. Ok, but this is not a post about the new Yo La Tengo record. Hang on, it’s Belle & Sebastian….no, nope that’s Yo La Tengo. Okay, anyways…
While on my escapades, I managed to end up at the Music Box where I was treated to a show from my darlings The Futureheads and French Kicks. I picked up a copy of their tour-only EP which contains three unreleased songs, one of which I’m told will never be released — French Kicks that is. From the Music Box, we traversed the 101 and ended up at Spaceland (me and my buddy Chris) where we managed to get completely blown away by the band Monsters Are Waiting. I don’t know what to say here…add The Divinyls to Blondie, subtract the blonde and add some psychedelic drugs and you’ve got Monsters Are Waiting. They are, without a doubt, one of the best new bands I’ve laid eyes and ears on recently. The lead singer is not only smokingly gorgeous, she’s charismatic, sexy, friendly, and downright amazing. Their cover of “I Wanna Be Adored” by The Stone Roses left me yearning for more. You pretty much can’t go wrong with them unless you have no pulse and, having never not had a pulse in my life, I can’t tell you how horrible that would be.
You can get your hands on their new album, Fascination probably by clicking on this link right here. And just to prove I’m not talking a bunch of hogwash and gobbledygook, I’m gonna lay the song “Last Goodbye” on you to freak out over. Monsters Are Waiting is clearly one of the best new bands and now I can admit to having witnessed the future first-hand. P.S. this is not a Jeff Buckley cover, get off my blog now, i love you or at least 38% of everything about you.
A long time ago, E.J. turned me on to Polyrock and I fell head over heels in love with the record that I have. A solid, weird mix of post-punk and spazz rock, this is probably the band that should have influenced many contemporaries (The Dismemberment Plan, Beep Beep, etc.) and probably did. Regardless, the songs are quirky at best, yet with repeated listening, they start to make sense, and that is what I love about Polyrock. I am sure that E.J. will probably mention a lot more information from what I can give you today - seeing as he is the expert in all things Polyrock - but I am here to share songs, and I will share my two favorites off of their self-titled release: (both are right-click, save as)
Hello! As E.J. has stated before, I’m Bethanne from Clever Titles Are So Last Summer and I am watching over this blog with lots of love for the next few days. I won’t break anything (I promise), but I do have some good songs lined up for consumption here and hopefully it’ll make E.J. proud. 
First up is a band that is getting ready to tour with Cursive in the next few weeks: LaSalle. Hailing from my hometown of Lansing, MI, this three-piece combines alternating boy-girl vocals amid hard-tinged indie rock. You might recognize a few faces as Mike (guitars/vocals) and Dan (drums/keyboard) used to play in Small Brown Bike. Alongside with Katy (bass/vocals), their sound is raw and emotional and very grand coming from three people. Their album Expedition Songs is an amazing release that deserves a listen. Lucky for you guys, I have one of the tracks you can listen to and then do yourself a favor and buy the album.
LaSalle - Oasis In The Sun (right-click, save as)
I’m on business for a few days, so I’ve turned the Loudersoft reins over to Clever Titles Are So Last Summer’s Bethanne while I galavant around the nation. You kids be good and eat your Weetabix and do what Bethanne says while I’m gone, k?
You know, I haven’t updated since Friday, and my boy Pretty Tony posted this totally old video in a bulletin. It’s been a long time since I saw it, and I about fell out of my chair laughing to see it again. So, welcome back to 1998 again. Here’s the classic “Barney Meets Tupac” video. Watch it again for the first time and I’ll update in the morning, mmkay?
The FADER Magazine, considered by many to be the definitive music magazine for the discerning music fan, is now about to meet yet another first: the first magazine to be distributed through iTunes for purchase. I think this is really cool, I’m downloading it right now myself and I’ll post a review later. For now, I’ll just copy and paste this press release because I have work to do!
The FADER’s annual summer issue, one of the most anticipated issues of the year and featuring the best of what the season in music has to offer, will be the first full magazine posted on iTunes. The issue will also be featured in iTunes’ “New and Notable” podcast section, and is available at http://www.thefader.com/podcasts.
“We’re about bringing attention to the emerging artists and musicians that we love, and are always looking for a way to get the word out,” said Andy Cohn, publisher of The FADER. “The print magazine will always be our focus, but this is an incredibly unique opportunity to reach a whole new audience and bring additional attention to the artists that we’re covering.” Cohn added, “By partnering with us on the project, Southern Comfort continues to show its support for emerging artists and its forward-thinking approach to unique marketing streams.”
Big ups to Rob and Jon (btw, Jon, are we ever gonna do that hip-hop show??) and be sure to let me know what you think about this idea.
What can I say about a woman with album titles like Fatherfucker? The teaches of Peaches are about to heat up the summer skies with the release of her latest album, Impeach My Bush, and it’s gonna make you go downtown and eat it like a vult-cha. She wants to show you her thing, she wants you to rock the shocker, loves some slippery dick and guys, listen up: Peaches wants to take you home for drugged out sex but only if you agree to fuck your male companion in the ass. Well, ok then. This record, its….I mean, it’s dirty, nasty, funky, punk-rock-electro-metal and I think I am in love with this album. Does that make me Vito? Check out the song “Downtown” from the album, and get ready to have an orgy at your house while you “feed the clam”. If you’ll try anything once, Peaches Impeach My Bush may be just the album for your “experimental phase” of your life.
Side note: my roommate walked in while I was listening to this and mentioned, “Did you know that she and Leslie Feist used to be roommates? Can you imagine what that house was like?” We both looked at each other and laughed so loud we scared our crazy neighbors.
You can order Peaches newest perversion Impeach My Bush by clicking on this g-spot right here, ooh that feels good.