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MGMT on KCRW (9/17/08)
Posted on Saturday 27 September 2008
Last week MGMT played a great set on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic in preparation for their show at The Hollywood Bowl the following evening. Much as with their performance at the Bowl, opening for Spoon and Beck, the songs translate very well live. I have to think this is because the majority of the instrumentation is pre-recorded synthesized, but there is a whole lot of guitar-solo-ness going on here too. And even if the glam rock wanna-be solo on “Weekend Wars” had my fingers on the digital radio dial, it is worth sticking it out to hear “Electric Feel” and “The Handshake.” This is pretty much the selection of songs I remember from the Bowl, with the exception of the goof ball Laid Back cover in place of the crowd favorite, “Kids.” But then, nobody every accused them of being too prolific for their own good.
people say freed is the brains behind team hearsay
Posted on Wednesday 17 September 2008
So what does that make me? The hearsay.
Freed has come through with a whole bunch of good recommendations in the past few weeks… namely The War On Drugs and Sunset, though I take full credit for The Lord Dog Bird – even if I’m generally embarrassed to claim it because the name is so ridiculous. He also pointed out Grouper, which may be sort of mellow/slowcore for me, but is still pretty smurfing good.
september 2008 mix
Posted on Monday 1 September 2008
For a while now, I’ve been aware that the sister labels of Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar, were a goldmine of good music. I keep noticing their logos on the back of albums that I enjoy, but it wasn’t until this past month when picking up The War On Drugs and The Lord Dog Bird, that I really had to take a moment to wonder how they put out so many good bands. Two labels with attitude coming straight out of Bloomington, Indiana, they seem to pick up on bands from all over rather than being an insular “scene” of music. My only guess is that they have great taste and are good at weeding through demos.