POP ETC // Running in Circles
Jan 04, 2015 | Categories:music | Tags: chris chu, favorite music, morning benders, music, new song, pop etc, running in circles, song, stream, streaming, the morning benders | Comments Off on new song // POP ETC : “Running in Circles”
favorite 30 songs // listen to the playlist on Spotify or on 8tracks [above] favorite 20 albums // top 5 albums favorite 10 eps favorite 10 videos favorite new artists
Dec 31, 2012 | Categories:film, music, video | Tags: 2012, a great design, album, albums, amanda marsalis, amber coffman, andrea estrella, animal collective, ariel pink, ariel pink's haunted graffiti, artists, autre ne veut, avey tare, backseat kissers, beach house, becky & joe, becky and joe, becky sloan, believe, best of, black marble, bloom, brains, brian weitz, candy bar creep show, carnation, cass mccombs, century by century, chad valley, chairlift, child actor, chris chu, chris cohen, chris taylor, christopher owens, confess, counting, craft spells, d'eon, damien jurado, daniel oh, danielle haim, david carriere, david portner, deakin, dev hynes, doctor dog, dr. dog, dreams, easy as all that, ekstasis, emily kai bock, empty promises, end of the year, end of the year list, ep, everything's embarrasing, favorite, favorite music, favorites, feels like we only go backwards, filmmaking, flying lotus, forever, foxygen, frank ocean, friends, gallery, geologist, get free, goddess eyes, grimes, haim, heavenly beat, how to dress well, ice choir, illusion, inc, inspector norse, io echo, joe pelling, Joshua Dibb, julia holter, kahlil joseph, kristoffer borgli, kurt feldman, lemonade, list, live it up, live video, lonerism, losing you, lower dens, luke temple, mac demarco, major lazer, maraqopa, melina matsoukas, melody's echo chamber, messiah, miniature tigers, ms mr, music, new life, nightlife, noah lennox, nocturne, nootropics, nowhere, oblivion, only real, pacific blue, panda bear, poor moon, pop etc, port st willow, pretend you love me, pure bathing culture, remix, run my heart, running back, runningback, sebastian schuller, shuggie, silver shore's lake, sky ferreira, softkiss, solange, song, songs, sonny, sonny & the sunsets, sonny and the sunsets, sonny smith, stream, streaming, sweet life, take the kids off broadway, taken by trees, tame impala, teletrips, the place, the sunsets, todd terje, tops, twin shadow, twin sister, until the quiet comes, video, why won't they talk to me, wild, wild nothing, wild race, world tour, wrong opinion, yelena zhelezov, young hunger | Comments Off on favorite music // 2012
POP ETC // How Will I Know [Whitney Houston cover]
Dec 26, 2012 | Categories:music | Tags: cover, favorite music, how will i know, morning benders, music, pop etc, song, streaming, video, whitney, whitney houston | Comments Off on cover // POP ETC. x Whitney Houston : “How Will I Know”
An eloquent statement of the artistic ideal from Chris Chu followed by a pristine live version of deep album cut Keep It For Your Own. POP ETC // Keep It For Your Own [live for Yours Truly]
Jun 23, 2012 | Categories:music, video | Tags: chris chu, favorite music, keep it for your own, live video, morning benders, music, pop etc, song, stream, streaming, video, yours truly, yourstru.ly, yourstruly | Comments Off on live video // POP ETC : “Keep It For Your Own”
POP ETC (fka The Morning Benders) // “POP ETC” : 2012. 06.12 : Rough Trade : streaming in its entirety below via MTV :
Jun 04, 2012 | Categories:music | Tags: album, chris chu, coming soon, favorite music, listen party, morning benders, music, new song, pop etc, song, stream, streaming | Comments Off on listen party // POP ETC : “POP ETC”
Peter’s grandfather regularly remarks that he believes music continues to get better and better. Peter has to agree. Peter liked a lot of things in 2010. Mostly he liked the music. let me count the reasons: favorite songs favorite 20 albums top 5 albums top 5 eps favorite official videos favorite live videos favorite concerts […]
Jan 02, 2011 | Categories:music, video | Tags: 2010, 6669, abe vigoda, all around and away we go, archy marshal, archy marshall, ariel pink, astro coast, at&t park, avi buffalo, avi buffaly, beach house, before today, best, best coast, best of 2010, big echo, bradford cox, broken bells, broken dreams club, bruce haack, casual, causers of this, chris chu, chris taylor, christopher owens, color your life, congratulations, crocodiles, crush, deerhunter, don't look down, dr, dr. dog, drums, end of year list, excuses, expo 86, favorite, favorite albums, favorite concerts, favorite music, favorite songs, favorite videos, fever dreaming, fight softly, ford & lopatin, ford and lopatin, forget, fortress, games, gamh, gemini, girls, great american music hall, halcyon digest, haunted grafitti, hauschka, here we go magic, hidden cameras, independent, innerspeaker, joel ford, king of the beach, live, lockett pundt, lopatin, luke temple, macca, mgmt, mia dai todd, michel gondry, miniature tigers, morning benders, neon indian, new chain, no age, npr, odd blood, open your heart, out getting ribs, party machine, paul mccartney, pearl harbor, pigeons, pitchfork, play it strange, pop etc, puro instinct, put the day away, rickshaw stop, round the moon, royksopp, ruby suns, shame, sleep forever, small black, solitude is bliss, something about the chaparrals, spencer krug, summer camp, sun airways, surfer blood, tame impala, teen dream, that we can play, the drug, the fresh & onlys, toro y moi, twin shadow, twin sister, underage, wavves, what's in it for, wild beasts, wild nothing, wolf parade, yeasayer, you hid, yours truly, yourstru.ly, yourstruly, zoo kid | Comments Off on peter likes music // 2010
Something about this Morning Benders cover of Macca‘s Ram On makes me think of what Brian Wilson‘s music might have sounded like if he were born in 1980. Morning Benders // Ram On (Paul and Linda McCartney cover) :
Sep 15, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: chris chu, cover, favorite music, macca, morning benders, paul mccartney, pop etc, ram on, song | Comments Off on Morning Benders x Paul McCartney = Beach Boys 2012?
Listen to the awesome, new, Morning-Bender-ish (produced by Chris Chu) album by Miniature Tigers here. Miniature Tigers // Fortress : “Gold Skull” :
Jul 28, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: album, chris chu, favorite music, fortress, gold skull, listen party, miniature tigers, morning benders, pop etc, song | Comments Off on listen party // Miniature Tigers : "Fortress"
The Morning Benders // “Big Echo” : 2010.03.09 : Rough Trade genre power baroque sounds like wall of Roccoco. air conditioning and soft carpet. calling for the captain ashore. tea kettle whistles, water glass percussion and kitchen sink acoustics. a platter of ripe fruit. notes I don’t feel I’m being over the top when I […]
Mar 23, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: album, big echo, chris chu, chris taylor, cold war, favorite music, from the headphones, grizzly bear, morning benders, new favorite album, pop etc, rough trade, song, yourstru.ly | Comments Off on new favorite album // Morning Benders : “Big Echo”