Destroyer // Libby’s First Sunrise [live for City of Music]
Aug 05, 2012 | Categories:music, video | Tags: city of music, dan bejar, destroyer, favorite music, filmmaking, libby's first sunrise, live video, music, pitchfork, song, stream, streaming, video | Comments Off
Destroyer // Leave Me Alone [New Order cover] :
Jan 03, 2012 | Categories:music | Tags: cover, dan bejar, destroyer, favorite music, leave me alone, music, new order, new song, song, stream, streaming | Comments Off
favorite songs favorite 20 albums top 5 albums top 10 eps favorite official videos favorite live videos favorite concerts
Dec 31, 2011 | Categories:music, video | Tags: 2011, 3, a silent planet, active child, album, alex, ancient eye, arcade blues, atlas sound, battles, beach fossils, believer, best albums, best coast, best songs, best videos, beth/rest, black up, blouse, bon iver, carter tanton, cass mccombs, caveman, celebrate by singing, channel pressure, christopher owens, circulation, claudia lewis, colin stetson, come to the city, county line, craft spells, cruel, crystal stilts, cults, dan bejar, demolished thoughts, destroyer, doe bay, dominant legs, dum dum girls, easy peesy, end of year list, Era Extraña, eric d. johnson, fail forever, fake pretend, far away, father, father son holy ghost, favorite albums, favorite music, favorite songs, favorite videos, fleet foxes, ford & lopatin, freaking out, freecloud, friends, fruit bats, games, gardens & villa, gary numan, geoffrey o'connor, girls, great life, gross magic, he gets me high, helplessness blues, here we go magic, holy ghost!, hoop of love, horrors, huichica, humor risk, hurry up, i'm his girl, idle labor, in heaven, in love with oblivion, inc, into black, invitation, january, joel ford, john maus, john pena, kaputt, karl blau, kelli schaefer, kelly, king krule, kurt vile, light black, live video, lopatin, m83, midnight city, millionairess, moving further away, music, my machine, neon indian, orange blossom, our deal, parallax, ponytail, proud, radiant door, ryan lynch, savage night at the opera, shabazz palaces, skying, slave ambient, smoke ring for my halo, son, song, st vincent, stop, strange mercy, stream, streaming, te amo, teen daze, teen jamz, the babies, the horrors, the paramount, the shrine / an argument, the space, the stars in his head, the war on drugs, thurston moore, top albums, top songs, top videos, toro y moi, tractor tavern, tripper, twelve roses, twin sister, underneath the pine, video, wall street, war on drugs, warehouse, washed out, we bros, we must become the pitiless censors, we're dreaming, when saints go machine, wu lyf, you are all i see, young dreams, zachary cole smith | Comments Off
Currently on tour with War on Drugs and Purling Hiss, Carter Tanton exudes inventive singer-songwriterness in his own rich veign similar to (but oh so different from) Cass McCombs, Dan Bejar, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen…you know. His new album “Freecloud“—a Bowie nod—is an exciting patchwork narrative of fuzzy guitar, late summer sun, big ideas, small [...]
Oct 29, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: bowie, bruce springsteen, carter tanton, cass mccombs, dan bejar, david bowie, fake pretend, favorite music, freecloud, marisa nadler, murderous joy, music, new music, new song, paul mccartney, purling hiss, song, war on drugs | Comments Off
Destroyer // “Kaputt” : 2011.01.25 : Merge genre soft glam pop sounds like ice skating at night. sipping vodka under a streetlight. Tonal rainbows in the mists of Avalon. Shafts of sunrise dragging across the interior of a Concord. notes an evolution of the tones and textures and songs on his beloved Your Blues. verdict [...]
Jan 25, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: album, dan bejar, destroyer, favorite music, kaputt, new favorite album | Comments Off
Peter doesn’t just like Destroyer. Peter reveres him. This album has taken that reverance to a stratospheric new height. Destroyer // Kaputt : 2011.01.25 : Merge Records : stream in its entirety here.
Jan 18, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: album, coming soon, dan bejar, destroyer, favorite music, kaputt, listen party, merge, new album, stream | Comments Off
[vodpod id=Video.5291829&w=590&h=332&fv=mediaId%3Ddde5c47d7207438a82c9cc9e0f9bae71%26amp%3BadConfigurationChannelId%3D6d7d028115b1474b8f3202e5ef184771%26amp%3BplayerForm%3D88a26316a62d4655a806dda0da4e95ca%26amp%3BautoplayNextClip%3Dtrue%26amp%3BdefaultQuality%3DHD] Destroyer playing one of the songs Peter likes most from the Destroyer album Peter likes best.
Jan 09, 2011 | Categories:music, video | Tags: dan bejar, destroyer, favorite music, live video, painter in your pocket, pitchfork, rubies, song, video | Comments Off
Destroyer // Kaputt : Kaputt : 2010.01.25 : Merge Don’t get fooled by the first 45 seconds. Or the next 90 seconds. In fact, just don’t get fooled by anything.
Jan 06, 2011 | Categories:music, video | Tags: coming soon, dan bejar, destroyer, favorite music, kaputt, merge, music, new favorite video, new music, new song, song, video | Comments Off
Destroyer // “Kaputt” : 2011.01.25 : Merge : Chinatown :
Nov 24, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: chinatown, coming soon, dan bejar, destroyer, favorite music, kaputt, merge, new music, new song, song | Comments Off
New Pornographers Together To be released May 4—until then you can stream it in its entirety on NPR. New Pornographers // Together : Your Hands (Together) :
Apr 26, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: a.c. newman, ac newman, album, coming soon, dan bejar, favorite music, neko case, new pornographers, npr, song | Comments Off
Terrorism, war, recession . . . whatever. This was a terrific decade for music. These were the albums that gripped me and never let go and remain head-and-shoulders above the rest.
Dec 31, 2009 | Categories:music | Tags: album, animal collective, arcade fire, blonde redhead, carey mercer, chris taylor, christopher owens, clinic, daft punk, dan bejar, daniel rossen, destroyer, end of year list, favorite music, girls, grizzly bear, interpol, karin dreijer, karin dreijer andersonn, knife, m.i.a., modest mouse, of montreal, radiohead, silent shout, spencer krug, sufjan stevens, swan lake, the dodos, the knife, the strokes, white stripes, wolf parade | 6 Comments »
swan lake enemy mine genre death folk glam metal sounds like angels riding a thunderstorm. peaceful venom. splatter painting the cosmos. seasick wormholes. wounded soldiers in an alternate history montmartre. a drunken barn-raising. birds of paradise fluttering within a rambling glass conservatory. notes song title warlock psychiatrist most aptly describes the album. verdict just short [...]
Apr 01, 2009 | Categories:music | Tags: album, carey mercer, dan bejar, favorite music, from the headphones, spencer krug, swan lake | Comments Off
These are albums I love listening to from beginning to end and have a magical appeal no matter the time, place or mood. These are not necessarily the albums I respect the most. In other words: this is a list of what I consider to be my favorite albums—but not, in all cases, what I [...]
Mar 18, 2009 | Categories:music | Tags: abbey road, animal collective, b.a.d., b.a.d. ii, bad, bang, beast moans, beatles, belle & sebastian, big audio dynamite, bjork, black francis, bossanova, bowie, brian eno, bryan ferry, buzzcocks, carey mercer, chairs missing, chameleons, clinic, daft punk, dan bejar, david bowie, debut, destroyer, discovery, echo & the bunnymen, eno, eureka farm, favorite music, frank black, green, hall & oates, his 'n' hers, i should coco, iii, kid a, led zeppelin, love bites, loveless, m.i.a., macca, magazine, mbv, mccartney, mia, michael jackson, my bloody valentine, of montreal, omd, paul mccartney, pink floyd, pixies, pulp, r.e.m., radiohead, real life, rem, roxy music, sonic youth, supergrass, swan lake, teenager of the year, the cars, the globe, the very best of, the view, thriller, velvet underground, walking with thee, walkmen, what does anything mean? basically, what does anything mean? basicaly, white stripes, wire, wolf parade, world party | 5 Comments »
I need to rate and sort and organize and, apparently, report back. I can’t help it. after the jump, I’ve listed my favorite albums of 2008 along with some other musical tidbits: favorite albums of 2008 top five albums of 2008 favorite songs of 2008 favorite live shows of 2008 favorite 2008 discoveries of old [...]
Mar 18, 2009 | Categories:music | Tags: a hundred things keep me up at night, abe vigoda, acid tongue, an eluardian distance, at mount zoomer, beach house, black francis, black kids, black mountain, blind, brewis brothers, british sea power, bsp, cape cod kwassa, castro, cut copy, dan bejar, daniel rossen, dear science, deerhunter, dennis wilson, department of eagles, der golem, destroyer, devotion, dexy's midnight runners, do you like rock music?, dodos, end of year list, evangelicals, favorite music, felt, fleet foxes, genesis, gila, golden age, graveyard girl, hawkwind, heartless, hemlock, hercules & love affair, hercules and love affair, i'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you, in ear park, in ghost colors, in the new year, independent, jay reatard, jenny lewis, jodi, joy ride, kanye west, killers, l.e.s. artistes, lindstrom, lockett pundt, lords of the new church, love is all, lust, m83, man man, marnie stern, matador singles 08, mbv, mezzanine, mgmt, microcastle, my bloody valentine, my favorite year, nancy & lee, neon neon, no age, no one does it like you, nouns, of montreal, oracular spectacular, out there on the ice, phil collins, portishead, rabbit habits, raveonettes, rostam batmanglij, santogold, saturdays=youth, seasick, sf design concourse, simple minds, skeletal lamping, skeleton, stainless style, stoned again, talk talk, the dodos, the evening descends, the week that was, third, this is it and i am it, time to pretend, trouble in dreams, tv on the radio, vampire weekend, visiter, walkmen, walkment, where you go i go too, white winter hymnal, wolf parade, wucan, you & me | 1 Comment »
