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Hot Headed Belieber

A few months back I was head over heels in love with Luke LaLonde’s spare, brilliant nu jazz-ish cover of Beyonce’s Countdown. (Update: Oh! And Undone! Swoon. I forgot how best he is...) LaLonde’s band Born Ruffians is back with the album Birthmarks that came out last month.

Consequence of Sound has this great concise review o’ da album and LaLonde’s changing priorities as he ages

In pre-release interviews, frontman Luke Lalonde claimed that much of the inspiration for Birthmarks came from his feelings of “moving through your mid-twenties and not doing what a lot of people my age feel like they should be doing - like a PhD, buying a house, having a real job with a salary and benefits.” Needless to say, this is a far cry from 2006, when he was a 14 year old boy who had just seen his first bra and squealed, "I need to get laid immediately."

Now, heavy lines like “We get so lost sometimes, filling holes that don’t need fixing,” and “I’m not scared to die, I’m scared to be replaced” are peppered throughout Birthmarks, giving it a backbone worth revisiting.

So many holes in need of filling these days! Someone call Cal Trans.

 

SunSay

I don't have much to say about this song other than that it's stunningly chill and gorgeous. Well that, and wanted to repost the confusion in the comment section, verbatim...just because the variety/confusion is what I love about the comments sections of You Tube.

• нна Миронова 5 days ago

  Russian)

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  SweetandFitting 1 week ago

  Closer to Norwegian and Swedish and Danish I think

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  Игорь Ильяшенко 1 week ago

  nope

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  MsKLJames 1 week ago

  I absolutely love his music. I have epilepsy and take medicine that makes me feel really ill. I listen to Sunsay and am always soothed. It's amazing! Love the Russian language. Thank you Sunsay for being awesome!

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  Sainted187 1 week ago

  I think ukrainian and russian are like english and american english

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  blankiyta5 1 week ago

  i dont know a word they are saying but its good

   

Tried To Sleep Alone, Couldn't Do It

 

Will be listening to this Doves track from '09ers today. Hearing it for the first time but it's one of those ones that feels nostalgic, like it's attached to a sunsoaked memory that never really happened, namean?

The YouTubers say Thomthom Yorke's a fan, which is about right....

Ooh the deliberate finality of the plucking at the very end. Yes.

Gang Related

 

++Oof na na, do yourself a favor and wallow in this pristine track, Iodine, by When Saints Go Machine. As Ellen Pompeo might say, Seriously!:

++What isn't RZA doing these days? Busy guy. He's probably even up late at night calling Jake from State Farm.

++Oh LeeAnn Rimes, always stirrin' stuff up with people! When will you learn? (Yes I know that's not LeeAnn Rimes.) Travis' new album gets its official relearsse on August 19th.

Rimshots During the Vows

Today's pick is by Dead Sara who have been opening for Muse here and there.

That's a pretty good fit.. would be a whole of keening and yelling. They'd also marry well with known egress enterer Melissa Etheridge.

I think Demi Moore just went to see them in concert recently which also makes sense because people tend to listen to people voices similar to their own. Woah that Kinisonian yell at the end. Go on girl.

Clicksy here for an interview with Emily Armstrong.

Yes Boss

 

 

++From the inbox, Hess is More will play Webster Hall with The Drums this coming June 10th.

So which is it? Idle hands are the devils workshop, or creation keeps the devil away or potato, potah-to?

++25,000 views. That's a travesty.

Stitching's Coming Loose

Gee whiz, Lucius. Where have you been all my life?

Viceroy

So continuing on with following up on some bands from the past two years, I peeked in to see what Laura Meyerratken, AKA El May is up to..and yay for new stuff. She was just at Hotel Cafe and her song Thrills was used on Pretty Little Liars. This bouncy duet she did with Tim Myers was also used by both Target and Olive Garden. No one does sprightly quite like El May.

++If classic screen actress Mary Pickford were around today she could totally be a Best Coasty-ish indie objet d'affection.

++ Portland's Wampire pal around with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, stopped playing house parties in 2011 and look to Mac DeMarco as an influence. Wow, hang on til the near end when he noodles around, a great unexpected turn of events. More noodling in music, plz!:

Now You See Me

++Don't know how this movie will turn out but the preview is pretty fascinating. Criminal gang/heist movies have to hit just the right sweet spot in the scale between: boring<------->overly convoluted. Good casting wrt the coolness/star Klout score though. Who could have ever guessed that Woody Harrelson would have this kind of career longevity.

Update: I saw a longer trailer for Now You See Me in the theater today and lol, it is way on the convulated side. Now these on the other hand, looked kinda fun/promising.

++Perfect.

++And this sentence pretty much sums up the attitude of being a fan of anyone or any band for a long time. I mean, rilly.

++Ok, so today's final pick of the week is by Jamie Cullum.. a rainy day kind of song, like Steely Dan or Benny Mardones. Kind of grey and jazzy.

Heard that Benny Mardones song on the radio yesterday and the first line, "She's just 16 years old," always reminds me of this now, one of my favorite scenes in movie history.