Ohmpark Mixtape #15: Forever Summer


All photos by Adrienne Claire Darnell. Check out her awesome blog here.

Emeralds : “Candy Shoppe”
Tame Impala : “Alter Ego”
Here We Go Magic : “Casual”
Local Natives : “Wide Eyes”
Beach House : “10 Mile Stereo”
Crystal Castles : “Celestica”
Broken Social Scene : “All To All”
Wolf Parade : “Ghost Pressure”
This Piano Plays Itself : “Where We Lived”
Best Coast : “Boyfriend”
Phantogram : “Mouthful Of Diamonds”
Of Montreal : “Coquet Coquette”
CocoRosie : “Lemonade”

My Favourite Songs of 2008: Ohmpark Mixtape #6

So here is a playlist comprised of many of my favourite songs from the year. Not all of my favs are here, but I think all of the essentials are in it. I tried my best to build this as a flowing playlist more than just a collection of songs, so the order and even some of the selections reflect that. I really need to do more mixtapes. Based on Hypemachine/elbow popularity, I know everyone loves that Fleet Foxes song, but I decided instead to treat you to a better song from one of the bands that FF is ripping off. Anyways, here is an hour and half of the best songs of 2008. Jam them hard while you can, because in about 3 days they aren’t hip anymore:

Islands : The Arm
Sigur Ros : Gobbledigook
Atlas Sound : Recent Bedroom
Kaki King : Life Being What it Is
MGMT : Weekend Wars
Department of Eagles : No One Does It Like You
Animal Collective : Water Curses
Antony And The Johnsons : Another World
Mount Eerie w/ Julie Doiron & Fred Squire : Voice In Headphones
My Morning Jacket : Touch Me I’m Going To Scream pt. 1
Beach House : Used To Be
Portishead : The Rip
Summerbirds In The Cellar : Now We Are Ugly Inside
Hot Chip : One Pure Thought
M83 : Kim & Jesse
Bon Iver : For Emma
Plants And Animals : Guru
Destroyer : Shooting Rockets (From The Desk Of Night’s Ape)
Deerhunter : Nothing Ever Happened
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead : The Betrayal Of Roger Casement And The Irish Brigade

The New New: Beach House, Deerhoof, Tobacco

You can listen to the A-side of Beach House‘s upcoming 7″ that drops October 21st here:

Deerhoof has a new vidoe for “Get Born” from thier upcoming album Offend Maggie:

A member of the Pennsylvania experimental group Black Moth Super Rainbow (who is a band you really need to check out if you haven’t yet) named Tobacco just released a single from his solo album Fucked Up Friends due out October 14th:

Tobacco : Truck Sweat

Post-Friday Free-Style

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HEALTH are doing a remix album of their debut album due out in May.

The newly reunited Stone Temple Pilots will be at the new Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park on August 23rd.

Prince has been added to the Coachella line-up.

Thurston Moore is narrating a documentary on the “Straight Edge” phenomenon.

RZA is releasing another Bobby Digital album this year.

It seems Natalie Portman and Devendra Banhart might be dating or something.

The Roots‘ new album comes out at the end of this month and they will be at The Fox Theater on May 23rd.

Kanye West is now a travel agent.

The Echo Lounge is about to reopen as the East Atlanta Icehouse.

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Photos: Beach House, Papercuts, The Meeks Family on 3-1-08 at The Earl in Atlanta, GA

The Meeks Family

Papercuts

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Video Of The Day: Beach House “Heart Of Chambers”

Beach House week continues as their newest video has been spreading through the Internets like wildfire. Tonight they are at The Earl. I’ll see you there.

Beach House: Album, Tour, Win Free Tickets!

Next week is officially Beach House week as their new album Devotion comes out on Tuesday and they will be playing at The Earl on Saturday with The Papercuts. I am pretty stoked about both as I loved their self-titled album and both times I saw them live they were awesome. You can win all sorts of prizes including tickets to the show, check it out:

Full Tour List:

02/28 Baltimore, MD Gspot
02/29 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
03/01 Atlanta, GA The Earl
03/02 Birmingham, AL BottleTree Cafe
03/03 Memphis, TN The Hi Tone Cafe
03/04 Hattiesburg, MS The Thirsty Hippo
03/05 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon
03/06 Houston, TX Walter’s on Washington
03/07 Austin, TX Emo’s
03/08 Denton, TX Hailey’s
03/10 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture
03/11 Phoenix, AZ Modified
03/12 San Diego, CA The Casbah
03/13 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
03/14 San Luis Obispo, CA Steynberg Gallery
03/15 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
03/17 Portland, OR Holocene
03/18 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
03/19 Vancouver, BC Media Club
03/21 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
03/22 Denver, CO Hi-Dive
03/24 Omaha, NE The Slowdown
03/25 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
03/26 Chicago, IL Schubas
03/27 Cleveland, OH The Grog Shop
03/28 Toronto, ON El Mocambo
03/29 Montreal, PQ Casa del Popolo
03/31 Cambridge, MA The Middle East
04/01 Middleton, CT. Wesleyan University
04/02 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
04/03 Philadelphia, PA The Barbery
04/04 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel

Video action in case you missed it:

Preorder Devotion Here

Beach House : Devotion : D.A.R.L.I.N.G.

photo by biggie c

Friday Free-Style

Last weekend I caught Nomem Novum (newest project from Moorish Idols) at ParkGrounds and it was pretty cool. Here’s a few pics and a vid:

Baroness will be at The Masquerade on March 20th. Even Pitchfork don’t know that.

Stone Temple Pilots are playing Wisconsin’s Rock Fest.

The new Gnarls Barkley album, The Odd Couple, comes out April 8th.

Chris Rock, one of my favourite comedians, has been added to the Bonnaroo line-up and will be performing on the main stage. Awesome. How about a music video:

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