so i’ve just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list — which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list — and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i’ve [...]
i’ve slowly begun working on the third revision of my personal top 100 albums list. as planned, this year i am making the transition to a one album per artist limit… which has automatically disqualified twenty excellent albums from last year’s list (see below). this has been a hard step for me to take, but [...]
destroyer’s bay of pigs 12″ showed up in my mailbox last night. thankfully, it includes a digital download code as my turntable is still refusing to move any slower or faster than ~38.5 rpm.
“bay of pigs” is a real experience. my first listen just happened to be late in the evening, in a room lit [...]
mp3: iran – tee hee
i meant to post this a week ago, but i guess did not quite push publish hard enough…
a week later, the feeling still stands though… iran was a huge disappointment… i am only a modest fan of the band having just gotten into them recently, but i had some real expectations. [...]
video: destroyer – the chosen few
and foam hands.
black cat tomorrow! with iran (mp3: iran – baby let’s get high one last time together)! should be sweet. bay of pigs preorder is open also…
update: painter in your pocket!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrYrqRL4gsU&feature=channel
mp3: destroyer – song for acuarela
i included this video in a post of several recent live destroyer clips but its good enough to bring it back again as an excuse to share the mp3. “song for acuarela” was in fact just that, a song written for the spanish indie label acuarela discos, who distributed a [...]
dan played a handful of solo shows out on the west coast over the past two weeks and tucked into what look like some incredible set lists…. are a couple new songs! here’s one of them that’s being called “it ain’t easy being a baby” from the swedish american hall on may 9. there’s a [...]
mp3: destroyer – the temple
mp3: destroyer – loves a gnostic (band mix)
[both from the temple 7"]
the catbirdseat wrote about this a month ago, but i missed it until this morning. nominal records has reissued destroyer’s city of daughters and thief as a double lp set in a gatefold printed with both sets of cover art. [...]
it’s record store day! i’m about to head out shopping… records i am hoping to pick up include, in order of want:
the flaming lips / black keys split 7″ (mp3s here)
sonic youth / beck split 7″ (mp3s here)
lykke li / el perro del mar split 7″ (mp3s here)
will update later on what i got. here’s [...]
mp3: lavender diamond – new ways of livingmp3: destroyer – new ways of living …. [buy]mp3: destroyer – new ways of living [notorious lightning version] …. [buy]
i’m usually fairly critical of destroyer covers… so far, dan appears to be inimitable… that remains the case with lavender diamond’s cover of “new ways of [...]
