Back to musing format after a long and painful rant! Here are things in music that have helped to lift me out of my Aly and AJ-induced shame spiral as of three days ago (in chronological order).
1) Skye Sweetnam's cover of "Part of Your World." Did you listen to it yet?? Scroll to the end of the previous post and do so. Please. Like, now.
2) The new Annie DJ Kicks mix. I'm actually kind of ambivalent about it as a whole, but a few of the tracks are phenomenal. In particular, the Alan Braxe/Fred Falke remix of "Black History Month" by Death from Above 1979 marks the first time I've ever actually enjoyed listening to DFA79. Did I put them on my year-end list last year? If so, I was lying. Also of note: Bumblebee Unlimited's "Lady Bug" and a revamped "Wedding Song" among others.
3) Hank and Man Man Cornell Fanclub show at the Big Red Barn. This was my dream concert of 2004, and it proved to be great...Man Man are better live than I expected (dubbed wharf-rock and hobo- something by friends at the show), and Hank was...uh, different than I expected. The Hank Collective can dance! I think the crowd was afraid of them. Best costuming of the year so far, too, check the above link for a photo.
4) Lindsay Lohan!!!! SERIOUSLY! Speak is a great album (kind of drags in the second half, but whatever...no kidnapping!). I've been listening to it today non-stop. It takes Aly and AJ's Disney-fostered mope and puts a big bratty pink neon-lit teenpop boot through it...oh, I'm so happy listening to this album! The first five tracks are comparable to Noise from the Basement's high points. Well, not quite.
5) Hey, I think I finally kind of like this Wolf Parade album a lot, provided I'm in Becki's car and stop listening after the second track.
6) Do a Google blog search for teenpop (one word) and you'll get a pleasant surprise! I thought there'd be more of a blogging community for this stuff (admittedly, my search has been, uh, less than rigorous), but I guess it's mostly based on artist message boards, which I'm still kind of scared of in general (helps for the community to consist almost entirely of preteens, I guess...slightly less judgmental, though the level of discourse is probably about equal to "adult" ones...I kid!). I should take the David Berman route and block them from my computer altogether.
7) I'm in the library for the first time this semester to write a paper, which isn't going to happen. I'll post the mp3s below soon.
DFA79 - Black History Month (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke remix) (from DJ-Kicks)
Bumblebee Unlimited - Ladybug (from DJ-Kicks)
Hank - Forster Appeal
Man Man - 10lb Moustache
Lindsay Lohan - Symptoms of You
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