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RIP Doc Watson. He’s now pickin’ in heaven

One of the best guitarists ever.

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May. 29, 2012 // Source: yvynyl

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DC. This Thursday. May 31st. 2012. Head to the beautiful Sixth & I Historic Synagogue to check out my buds Secret Mountains open up for a fantastic band by the name of River City Extension. It’s a short week so you can’t chalk it up to the fact you’ve got places to see and people to be.

This musical track comes via a Converse Rubber Tracks session that the band did this winter. Be on the look out for another session done by some great folks in Philly that this band is currently recording with.

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May. 29, 2012

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Grizzly Bear - Central and Remote

You ever revisit an amazing album that you haven’t listen to in a long while? It’s the best when you revisit and reignite your love for it. My bud Caleb IM’d me this morning to talk music. He mentioned Grizzly Bear’s album Yellow House came up in a conversation he had last night and the different between it and Veckatimest. Comparing their densities, complexities and other oddities, trying to distinguish whether something was over-[fill in the blank]. You know, music nerd talk. The best kind of talks.

This prompted me to revisit Yellow House, to which I kind of “forgot” about. In the constant search for music it’s great to revisit an album I haven’t listened to in a while, and listened to it different then I have before.

What album have you revisited after a long time apart that recently that re-blew-your-mind?

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May. 25, 2012

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No Joy - Junior

This new No Joy song is ridiculously good. Don’t sleep on it. Be on the look out June 19th, 2012 from Mexican Summer for the new album. That’s all I have to say.

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May. 24, 2012

Love this label’s logo design (Taken with instagram)

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May. 22, 2012

Google Japan’s homepage features a fully functioning synthesizer today to celebrate Robert Moog’s birthday.

via katbeee

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May. 22, 2012 // Source: katbeee

Shout out to the Crash Symbols gang for the beautiful tapes (Taken with instagram)

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May. 22, 2012

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Kindness - House

There is a slow-tender-minimalistic side to this song that really hits the inner’eds more so than vibin’ next to a large speaker during a song that could posses “drops”. The tones that come from the piano and the syncopated synth that comes in seem to hit my ears and travel to my toes tingling everything along the way.

The album Cyan has been out for a while in the UK but doesn’t ship in the US till June 5th. So obviously if you live in the UK you should already have or be on your way to picking it up. Everywhere else, mark your calendar. In the mean time watch the video for this track as well, it’s worth sticking around for.

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May. 18, 2012

St. Vincent - Cheerleader [4AD Session]

And then there was this.

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May. 18, 2012

DOPEWAVE IS REAL // MIXTAPE

Flashlight Tag // Smoke Don’t Smoke // Head Underwater present…

DOPEWAVE IS REAL.

Some words from Tim of SDS:

Talking about music is a much different experience than listening to music. Genres at once confine, and define a musical endeavor. They can be offensive to some, and clarifying for others. Most recently genres grow like parasites, dividing into sub-genres, and even further into sub-sub-genres. Artists may always be disappointed with the genres they are inadvertently placed in by music writers, bloggers, and critics. But the fact that we have the luxury, not only of listening to more music than has ever been available, but to converse about it, is one I hope I never take for granted.

Genre creation will always be a fascinating process to watch. It happens everyday as the evolution of music outruns our ability to describe it.

Dopewave is an experiment in genre creation. Birthed out of a new group of young producers creating electronic sounds, that are simultaneously like nothing, and like everything you’ve ever heard. They reside primarily on SoundCloud, forcing us to become foragers among the clouds in constant search for that perfectly shaped sound. They are sounds that could attract several genres, from disco to trap, ambient to hip-hop, shoegaze to post-dub, and on and on. New sounds need new identifiers.

Flashlight Tag, Smoke Don’t Smoke, and Head Underwater have pooled their resources to gather a sample test for our great Dopewave experiment. We each foraged three producers of our choosing and asked for an exclusive track. Whether our findings were conclusive or not, may never be known in this world of constant evolution. Take a listen, and see for yourself if our hypothesis stands true ~ DOPEWAVE IS REAL.

Tracklist:

1. Windslo - “It’s Too Late”

2. Peh Per Ghost - “When It’s For You”

3. Taquwami - “Λlieɳs”

4. MedicineHat - “Garden Child”

5. warui kettei - “Eden”

6. Trap Arnold - “||KingCup||”

7. thirtycenturyman - “October”

8. The Beach Boys - “I Know There’s An Answer (BeachesBeaches Remix)”

9. StewRat - “Freeze”

You can stream/download DOPEWAVE IS REAL for free @ Bandcamp.

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