Tag Archives: Hot Chip

Ur Filthy Cute & Baby U Know It

After two posts in a row discussing the merger of acoustic instrumentation, electronically-generated sounds, heartfelt human emotions and mechanical bio-rhythms I wondered whether I was developing some sort of unintentional theme for the week. So after clicking “post” on yesterday’s entry I made a conscious decision to approach today’s post from a different […]

Short Piers and Space Travelers

Last week one of my absolute favorite bands in the world — Athens, Georgia-based Indie-Pop sextet of Montreal — released “Id Engager,” the first single from their forthcoming ninth full-length album Skeletal Lamping. That album, which doesn’t hit stores until October 7th, is one of, if not the most anticipated release of the year […]

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: Girl Talk Feed the Animals

I live in an apartment that doubles as an office, a recording studio, a storage space for all manner of media, an art studio and a textiles workshop. As you might imagine this doesn’t make it the most opportune location to entertain visitors. For this reason m. Cody and I only rarely invite […]

Records MP3’s at Random Vol. 57 - Sparks No. 1 In Heaven

Does Records at Random look a little weird to you today? Well, if it does it’s ’cause I kinda got thrown a curveball this morning. As usual, I rolled out of bed, grabbed a stack of records and walked them over to the desk where my computer and record player sit. I […]

Easy Like Sunday Monday Morning

Although the week might technically begin on Sunday, for most working people the week starts on Monday. If the material of pretty much every stand-up comic ever is to be believed very few of these people actually like their jobs. In my estimation it’s quite likely that this is the reason why nobody’s […]