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top february tracks

hey y’all, first off let me thank our friend The Music Ninja for his help in cleaning up and organizing and coolifying our sidebar. My mind is much more at ease now that the chaos has subsided. Now, I thought it would be fun each month to just recap the top posts from the previous month. A “best of” of sorts, in case you haven’t been following along, so you can see what everyone else enjoyed so much the month before. I was able to determine this using a series of top-secret complicated algorithms that you probably wouldn’t understand anyway. You can listen to each track below or click to view the original post. Here’s the list! …read more and hear the song…

miike snow – billie holiday

if you read this blog, it should come as no surprise to you that im one of the biggest miike snow fluffers on the web. but i feel that its completely justified. so imagine my surprise when i found out that there was actually a miike snow song i hadnt heard before. how could this have happened? …read more and hear the song…

peter bjorn and john – it dont move me (miike snow remix)

since i kicked it down a notch last friday, ill kick it up two notches this friday. today features one of my favorite tracks from the most recent peter bjorn and john album “living thing”, entitled “it dont move me”. i just never could get into “nothing to worry about” with all the kids screaming in the beginning, but this song does really hits the spot. and how do you take a great song and make it even better? mix in one of my favorite new acts of the year, miike snow, to remix the song. …read more and hear the song…

jack penate and miike snow @ the empty bottle 9.25.09

last weekend i headed out to chicago for danny c’s bachelor party weekend. whenever i go to chicago, i always see if anyone is going to be playing in town that id want to go see, and my timing has always been pretty awful. this time, however, was much different. fortunately for me, two of my new favorites, former dailybeatz artists jack penate and miike snow, were playing together at the empty bottle friday night (coincidentally only about a block away from the excellent condo we rented when we were in town for pitchfork fest), so i knew i had to make it happen. after finding 4 $20 tix to the sold out show, i knew we were in for a great time. …read more and hear the song…

the antlers – sylvia

ive pretty much been obsessed with the antlers album “hospice” the last few weeks. once i got over my miike snow fix, “hospice” became the new album that i had to listen to at least once a day. and with the low lows and high highs of the album, its tricky to get the volume just right to listen to the album at work and hear all the quiet parts without disrupting half the floor when the louder parts kick in. ive kind of been avoiding posting about this album because theres just so many good things to say about it. im not even really sure how i settled on one song to post because the album is so great from start to finish. i think what i like about it is how the lyrics are so sad and depressing but a lot of the time the music is just the opposite. listening to this whole album is kind of like being in some sort of dreamlike state. a big, beautiful, soft, loud, passive and bold dreamlike state. …read more and hear the song…

miike snow – silvia

i know that i already included a song by miike snow (pictured above, another one of the few pics on this site that i actually took) in my lollapalooza recap earlier this week, but ive been rockin out to their self-titled album so much this week that i physically had no choice other than to post another track off the album while im still all about it. pretty much the exact same thing happened after last years lollapalooza too, but with mgmt. i got their album “oracular spectacular” after the fest and listened to it over and over and over again and told everyone i knew about it. i still remember sitting at my desk at work til 830pm the night before i got my wisdom teeth out (the week following last years lolla) listening to that mgmt album (which everyone else pretty much already obsessed over by that point) for the 8th or 9th time that day. …read more and hear the song…

lollapalooza day 3 recap

after a fun night out in wicker park and sleeping in a nice and air conditioned apartment, i was a little weary about getting to the festival at 1230 pm, knowing i would be in the hot sun for 8 or 9 hours that day, but thanks to nick dropping me off downtown, i was able to get there and be in place 3 or 4 people from the stage at about 1215 to meet up with karen, louis and nikki. even those first 15 minutes were completely unbearable but we sort of forgot about it once friendly fires started. …read more and hear the song…

lollapalooza day 2 recap

unfortunately, i dont really have many pictures and/or memories from day 2, just because it was so stinkin hot and miserable. but lets go ahead and see what we can remember, but be prepared for a slightly less robust recap than yesterday. i think the saddest part of my pictures from the weekend is that i forgot to take pictures of me and my friends for the most part.

i arrived at the festival at around 1 45 pm, which is the earliest ive ever gotten there, making for an extra long day. i headed straight to the vitaminwater stage to meet up with karen and to check out miike snow. …read more and hear the song…

vampire weekend vs miike snow

well after 4 days of temperatures well below normal for mid summer and complete overcast skies, the weather has finally broken and just in time for the long holiday weekend. im prewriting again, and not even making any effort to hide the fact, because i know that i get to be in the sun for the next three days on a lake, which is pretty sweet. in honor of that, i wanted to bring a song today thats completely fun and interesting to listen to. regardless of peoples various opinions of vampire weekend (seems like most people either think they are the coolest things ever or the most overrated things ever), i think everyone both young and old will enjoy this remix with its too-fast-to-comprehend background layers. after much searching, i finally found this remix as the one i heard on hipster runoff blog radio a month or two ago. …read more and hear the song…