Truth be told, I’m not entirely certain why Pains… always strikes a chord with me. There’s a ton of bands making arty, slightly shoegazey indie rock, but something about their guitar tones and vocals always hits a nice, fuzzy, warm spot in my brain. “Kelly” is one of the finest examples of what they do well.
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Wow. Wow wow wow. This is some absolutely wonderful jammy psych that wraps around the listener like a warm blanket. Perfect autumn listening. The Silver Globe is out now on Finders Keepers Records.
In my head, Ought exist in an alternate universe where an adolescent Jarvis Cocker started a pop-punk band in high school, then spent an entire summer in exile getting real deep into the Pavement discography. “New Calm, Pt. 2” is on the group’s forthcoming Once More With Feeling… EP, due out tomorrow.
This song is much more enjoyable once the listener is in on the joke. Taken from the band’s 1995 album The Pastoral-Not Rustic-World of Their Greatest Hits, which was not actually a greatest hits album, but rather their debut.
You’ve all already picked up the new surprise Panda Bear EP, right? It includes the “Mr Noah” single (which will also be on Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, out early next year) and three b-sides from the Grim Reaper sessions.
For those of you keeping track at home, Parkay Quarts is not an unfortunate typo of Parquet Courts, but rather a side project of sorts featuring a few members of the original band and a rotating cast of supporting players. Here, Andrew Savage channels his inner Reed/Malkmus and has himself a good ramble over the track’s 6+ minute run time.
Dronin’ Thurston is the best Thurston.
Grizzlebees… It’s got to be funkyyyy.
Apologies to Buffalo Tooth for me posting this the same day the new Sleater Kinney song sees release.
I could stretch and make the claim that this is vaguely music related, since Interpol’s Paul Banks is one of the guests on this episode of Scott Aukerman’s Comedy Bang Bang podcast, but the real reason I’m posting it is Horatio Sanz, of SNL fame. He makes me laugh out loud to myself at least a half dozen times over the course of his appearance. He shows up (as Aaron Neville) around the 36 minute mark, though a “sound proofer” who sounds suspiciously like Sanz makes a brief appearance around 22 minutes in, too.