Murals seem to have found just the right amount of nostalgia in their psychedelia, the kind that made The Clientele so revered but often inimitable. Let this one massage your brain for a few minutes.
Music
Hung toys are better than those that are just lying around doing nothing. Maybe that’s the premise but I like this raw, sometimes wanting garage punk. It’s got sufficient anger, random 80s hair metal guitar solos, and some nice lilting.
After hearing the unfortunate news about Steve Mackay, it only seems right to put up an obnoxiously loud song with prominent screeching saxophone today.
Laura Stevenson with a great new song off her new lp.
Here’s a way to get your week started off weird. Progress is out this week on Paper Bag Records.
The New Zealand indie pop stylings of coolport. Enjoy. And don’t forget who sent you.
Jim’s Downtown Boys post from last Sunday was a reminder that this Priests performance from the Chris Gethard show should be up on the blog somewhere.
Wake up slowly. Then engulf yourself with some live Town Portal. Then have brunch or whatever you like to do and get ready for the Interstellar Radio shower. Tonight. 9pm. WRCT. 88.3 FM Pittsburgh.
Now here’s some music that’s pretty much made for the fall weather. Florist have a sort of “timeless guitar strummer” vibe going on that reminds me of a lower-fi, more analog version of the wonderful kind of indie rock Mutual Benefit and Foxes in Fiction both put out last year.
I’m not huge on electronica. A lot of electronica sounds just rub me wrong. But this I really like. From Athens, the Greek one. This song is particularly neat but certainly forlorn.