My good friend Demitri Swan has a new music project called Young Adults…He just sent over their demo which is available for free and it sounds good! Have a listen on their myspace or download the 5 track demo for free!

Nice album design too! Get some!

Whoa! That was my first reaction when playing with Bb 2.0. Described as a a collaborative music and spoken word project allows any viewer to play video/audio samples simultaneously. Amazingly the soundtracks work together and using the youtube volume controls you can actual mix them in real time. I recited a T.S. Eliot piece entitled ‘Hysteria’ while trying to mix the clips. Listen to the recording (done with my phone) below. Check out Bb for yourself and make some noise!

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Second off, Ty Williams introduced me to the music of Toro Y Moi…I picked up their EP called Blessa and the track by the same name has been looping all day – Its quite odd how the Bb project and Toro Y Moi kind of compliment each other…

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My buddy Addison Post put this together for The Phoenix (Boston based weekly) – It really is inspiring and great and I love it…It doesn’t hurt that I’ve had the privilege of calling all these kids friends! Happy New Years! 2010! Inspired! Positive Change! Check out The Toothaches or listen below!

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Yo La Tengo – Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House

Yo La Tengo – Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House & Manipulated Found Image (Google Search ‘Ocean’)

You Can Be A Wesley will be playing at the Khyber on January 9th at 9PM Sharp! (They open so dont be late!) – I threw together the poster above to promote the show a bit around town

I saw this video when it dropped a few weeks back but it wasn’t until revisiting it that I really became fond of it. There has been a lot of make-up / goo / dripping paint and plenty of psychedelics in videos the past couple of years that it becomes boring or un-interesting. However, Yeasayer’s Ambling Alp uses a little bit of everything to create a captivating video, using beautiful footage that feels at home with their sound…I’m really looking forward to their album and their Philly show this spring

A little Hockney-esque colage of a make-believe pool on this hot July day…Summertime in the city. The public pool is calling my name…until then I’ll be listening to Neon Indian on loop.
Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer

I’ve obviously been a little slow on updating this here blog of mine, partly because things have been crazy & partly because when I stumble upon something cool I don’t feel as though me re-posting (poaching) is really the thing to do…but then again I guess re-posting and finding the cool is what blogging is all about (unless you are writing/creating original material, in which case I’d like to congratulate you) – Speaking of ORIGINAL (not completely) check out this really f*cking cool music video from a band called ‘We Have Band’ – Think ‘Blu’ but on Humans!

I posted a while back about Sean Bones’s small boutique label S/S Friends and while checking out some of Sean’s new music I stumbled upon this trailer for ‘Wah Do Dem’. The new indie film, in which Sean plays the lead role, follows a hapless guy named Max (Sean) who wins two cruise tickets, but gets dumped and has to go on the trip alone. Max spends a week on a Senior Citizen’s cruise before getting robbed and lost in Jamaica during his day trip there. Somewhere along the way, he gets taken in and sees the ‘real Jamaica’. The trailer looks beautiful and feels refreshing, partly because of the beautiful Jamaican landscape & the underlying theme of discovery. The film ‘Wah Do Dem’ premieres at the LA Film Festival on June 20th & 24th so if you are in the area don’t miss it! Additionally Sean Bone’s first full length album is set to release July 21st on French Kiss Records and I don’t doubt that it’ll become a late summer staple for beach days and BBQs.

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SXSW Interactive & Film are just about wrapping up and musicians from around the globe are dragging their guitar cases and stage egos into Austin, Texas this week. I’ve enjoyed following quite a number of Twitter friends this past week, all of whom have been traipsing around Austin attending countless panel discussions, film screenings, conversations, happy hours & parties (All part of the interactive/film sectors of SXSW) ! Its actually been an exhausting task to try and keep up with their hourly (sometimes more frequently) tweets which included brilliant quotes, drunken rants, photos & over heard conversations…Truly entertaining in the strangest way. I wish I would have been there! At any rate…while most of the film and tech geeks recharge their phones, pack their luggage & find their way home, the indie kids are just getting ready to light fire to Austin…or so I’ve heard…A number of friends will be playing this week so if you happen to be in Texas or are just looking for some new music, please check them out!

Magic Magic
Pretty & Nice
Shunda K
DJ Orion
Sean Bones
DJ Count Rockula & DJ Cassette

Via RCRDLBL.com – This is when the video camera shines…capturing special moments so we can re-live them over and over again, even if we weren’t there in the first place. Here is a GEM and very appropriate for 12 years and one day after B.I.G. perished…