“The Grizzly Man,” the latest leak from Kidz in the Hall sampling Veckatimest’s “Two Weeks,” is set for a free release due December 8 (in two weeks, heh heh) titled Professional Leisure Tour. The “EP” will feature 13 new tracks, including the Grizzly Bear sampler. It will be shortly followed by the band’s official 3rd [...]
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After hearing a few live recordings of Vampire Weekend’s “Cousins” and watching it performed in a movie theater in Long Beach earlier this month, I had quickly deemed it a new favorite from the band’s upcoming Contra. The video is vaguely reminiscent of the “A-Punk” clip (though I can’t remember any 10 foot penises drawn [...]
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Ernest Gonzales (AKA Mexicans With Guns), previously poprokking with a remix of AnCo’s “My Girls” earlier this year, has himself another bloggable track with his take on A Sunny Day in Glasgow’s “Shy.” The bi-continental experimental pop band recently released their beautiful watch-the-sunset-to-me sophomore record, Ashes Grammar, and Gonzales’ version brings out the songs best qual
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The first draft of this post, titled, “My Poproks 20 Best Songs Since 2000,” is from this past March. 8 months, 1,000 edits, and 3,000 miles later, it officially exits the abyss of blogFAIL that is My Poproks “drafts” section. Making lists is hard! I will never complain about another ‘Blank Songs of Blank’ list [...]
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Everyone is really excited about Clipse’s upcoming Til the Casket Drops. I remember getting excited when I first heard “Kinda Like a Big Deal” blasting on Hot97 New York ago…cause, the track is perfect. But that aside, everything else that has leaked from the record has been RoomTemperature97 (sorry).Even with The Neptures producing half the [...]
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Even though it’s still pretty unfunny in that special SNL brain-freezing sort of way (and Beyonce still should have won her VMA), Taylor Swift’s SNL monologue was actually kind of adorable. “We have a great show, Kanye West is not here.” Ouch.
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8Damn.Volcano Choir’s Unmap is more a listening experience than a pop record. Justin Vernon and Collections of Colonies of Bees’ odd and unexpected collaboration comes at the height of Bon Iver’s success (shortly before the band announced an indefinite hiatus), and is a complete change of direction from the melodic, acoustic ballads of his previous [...]
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I’m trying to figure out how Jay-Z managed to perform last night in Berlin with U2 for the MTV Europe Music Awards, and then got himself to Manhattan by this morning to ride in the Yankee parade and do “Empire State of Mind” at City Hall. Dude is everywhere.Anyway, the above performance was part of [...]
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They go we go, I want you to know what I did I did.
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Some background on why The Fiery Furnaces are idiots:The New York City indie band, whilst trying to create a buzz that never wuzz for their summer 2009 release, I’m Going Away (OK, perhaps there was a mini-buzz), have taken to familiar tactics amongst music world douchebags by nonsensically (or possibly sarcastically or ironically?) trashing Radiohead [...]
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Wanna grow up to be a debaser.Pixies kicked off their Doolittle 20th Anniversary Tour last night at the Hollywood Palladium in LA with a screening of Un chien andalou, a silent short film from the 20’s co-directed by Salvador Dalí, and the inspiration for the 1989 album’s lead-off track, “Debaser.” The 24 song set that [...]
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It’s been a slow week on My Poproks as I ease into a new apartment and deal with Verizon/Southern California Edison. I’ve also been busy working on my Best 50 (or possibly 64) Songs of the 2000’s. Get excited, kids. If I ever decide on an order, I just may post it up.Speaking of awesome [...]
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Vampire Weekend’s self titled debut marked the first time in recent memory that my Album of the Year was decided in January. After nearly two years of missing the band in NY (even having to give away a ticket to go to a company Christmas party), I managed my way to Long Beach last night [...]
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Long Beach’s Avi Buffalo and I found ourselves in the same place at the same time tonight. The newly signed Sub Pop band spent their Monday opening up for Vampire Weekend, who kicked off their Random California City Tour at an independent movie theater on East 4th Street in The LB (more on this later). [...]
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False parallelisms be damned.I have had Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog* on the mind for the past few weeks, between making two friends watch the entire Buffy series this summer and adding Dr. Horrible to my Halloween Weekend viewing list (never got around to it, what with having no electricity. I digress). Nathan Fillion (Captain Hammer), [...]
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Oh sh*t. There’s about to be some sh*t with these little f***in b*tches.Happy Halloween.
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Lots of costume ideas in the new appropriately timed Sea Wolf video for White Water White Bloom’s aptly titled, “Wicked Blood.” Hooded skeletons, devil cowboys, spaceman bears, zombie santas…my costume is gonna be way better than these.
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