April 2011
8 posts
March 2011
12 posts
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
-oceanspray:
The Passion of the Weiss Spring Mixtape
My friends over at Passion of the Weiss have put together a spring mixtape to help combat the end-of-winter doldrums — and trust me, if you live where I do winter hasn’t loosened its grip on the weather yet. But there’s enough vitamin D in this mix to help make up for the lack of strong, vitality-infusing sunrays which are still a little too weak to counter the wilting effects of...
“White kid turn blue when they see me like a smurf.”
– Gucci Mane on “Contagious,” an excellent track with Mannie Fresh that’s finally been released. (via dalatu)
“Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (out April 15).
underneath the pine (toro y moi)
Edmonton Journal material, y’all:
What makes a wave chill? It’s not just a lot of reverb and a watery consistency, and it’s not simply a low-tech recording process. Since the term “chillwave” emerged to describe a strain of 80s nostalgic DIY indie music that’s developed over the last few years, no one’s agreed on exactly what it means. Toro Y Moi (born Chaz Bundick) has been hailed as one of...
