Much as ever, Hope manages to capture the essence of what Los Angeles music sounds like, whether its in 1994 or 2009. This album IS what every great band in LA sounded like from 2007-2011, dreary and ambient, female vocals, sometimes edgy guitar, crafty drum work. Niceness!

Dazzling Killmen-Recuerda

Sea of Cowards Dead Weather




And I don't like it. The instrumentation is brilliant, the vocals shit. Its like too much of bad Jack White has rubbed off on her, Horehound was more Memphis Bluesy which suited her better. I can only take doses of Jack White, which are more appreciable for me. I enjoy them in fact, with moderation. Allison is hit or miss, most of the Kills is absolute shit too, but a few of their tracks and the entirety of Horehound are fantastic. The stageshow for the tour of that album was also epic, that chick's stage presence just kicked my ass!! It was like an authentic version of what Courtney Love was going for in the mid-1990s.

Baroque Bordello - No Killer, No Hunter

over and over again.

Cough Cool - 29
https://soundcloud.com/cough-cool/sets/29-1
http://batheticrecords.com/release/29/

Meh.

The lyrics are better than 99% of the music that pretends to be rap music these days, but I just don't really dig Kanye, neither his cadence or his approach, so I can tip my cap to albums like this, but I just ain't feelin it. I ain't feeling the beats, its not my steez, its that hyper-aggressive East-Coast style, more yelling than rapping. meh.

Here is what I want to know, why is the whole country jumping about this dude? I didn't get it when he blew up like 5 or 6 years ago, I don't get it today. I appreciate that the brotha brings some substance to pop err.. rap music, but really, that substance gets lost in translation across the millions of folks who really don't give a shit and just want to bump. If I want some pseudo-conscious political rap, I'll bump that DP y'all

Low - Do You Know How to Waltz?
live at Rock the Garden

ME too - thank YOU and Hipster for making it so easy to enjoy this!

Being home alone for most of the day, I'm playing things through the home DVD theater system......up first is the DVD from this box-set.

1. "Jenny Ondioline" – UK promo
2. "Ping Pong" – UK promo
3. "Wow and Flutter" – UK promo
4. "Cybele's Reverie" – UK promo
5. "Fluorescences" – UK promo
6. "Miss Modular" – UK promo
7. "The Free Design" – UK promo
8. "French Disko" – UK promo
9. "The Noise of Carpet" – US promo
10. "French Disko" – The Word
11. "Cybele's Reverie" – Later with Jools Holland
12. "Les Yper Sound" – Later with Jools Holland

same. This shit is so fucking killer.

Chrome - Alien Soundtracks

One of those albums that reminds me I'm alive again and again. Best band.

I will throw down significant money for a proper Raw Power mix

I listened to all of this early this morning while at work:

Cocteau Twins - Treasure