Great new song and video from the always creative Chad Vangaalen
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Just put this album on after not listening for a long time. Forgot how much I like this guy.
Last weekend I went to a house party with really good bands. I didn’t know things like that happened around here. It made me feel really young and really old at the same time. #borngold #music #waterlight #tampa (at The Fun Gully)
Found this on the 99% Invisible playlist. If you haven’t heard the podcast you might wanna check it out. Really interesting, specifically this episode on where ideas and inspiration come from. It starts with fictional cavemen and ends with a raven who died from eating paint chips.
So strange. Almost surreal. I love this.
Powerful track by WU LYF ( World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation for those of you wondering). So much energy. I love it!
Via Flavorwire:
“YouTube inadvertently did singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, a great favor when it denied him the right to run the video for “Hood” (above) as an ad on the site. The clip, which shows gay porn star Arpad Miklos chastely embracing Hadreas, brushing his hair, and applying makeup to him, was judged “non family safe,” despite its lack of nudity or sex. When Perfume Genius went public about YouTube’s censorship, he sparked the outrage of the indie blogosphere and earned a defender in Michael Stipe. Of course, this says little about the music onPut Your Back N 2 It. From what we’ve heard so far, Hadreas’ second album is a delicate, soul-baring epic that demands ample attention on its own merits; fans of Antony and the Johnsons especially should keep an eye out for this one.”
Un Nombre de Mujer - Los Zafiros
I wish I could curl up and live inside of this song… Listening to it makes me want to find a time machine and travel back in time to Cuba in the 60s.
Linen guayabera shirts and hot sweaty nights rum drunk and electric gyrations in the low light and this wild sound mixing with the humidity. In my dreams…
Also, the little bit of story I could glean from the Wikipedia entry on Los Zafiros makes their story seem more interesting than anything Hollywood has vomited out in the last year.
“The group was highly successful from the start, with high record sales and popular tours at home and abroad. However, some members of the group were self-destructive and undisciplined, with heavy drinking and other activities. Two died young: Ignacio died in 1981 at the age of 37 from a brain hemorrhage. Kike died in 1983 from cirrhosis of the liver. El Chino, beset by vision, speech and drinking problems, lived alone in Cayo Hueso until his death on 8 August 1995 at age 56. Today only two members are alive, Manuel Galban and Miguel Cancio. Cancio lives in Miami.”