SHE WAS WALKING THROUGH THE TABLES IN THE GLASS HOUSE

I know their album came out 1,000 blog years ago (3.5 months in real time), but I am currently falling hard for The Last Shadow Puppets debut album The Age of The Understatement. I don't know why my love for this album didn't sink in until just now, because it seems like an album that would catch you by the collar and immediately win you over. Alex Turner and Miles Kane's voices melt together perfectly. They both have heavily accented vocals that I wouldn't really ever have thought could deal with such heavy harmonies but it works beautifully. The title track is currently my favorite. Turner has got to be one of the most talented lyricists today. Anyone can fit insight into slow acoustic jams, but it takes a lot of talent to put them into faster songs that need to rhyme, goddamnit. My current favorite, the title track, illustrates this perfectly. I love how it maintains that fast paced feeling of running while still managing to sound huge. So kind of like a stampede of elephants I guess :). It really reminds me a lot of the Reverend and the Makers album "The State of Things" (which got hardly ANY press here but I thought it was amazing) which combined the profound lyrics with the quick musical movements. The other track that I love "My Mistakes Were Made For You" sounds like it could have come out of an old movie. With wistful-sounding words and strings abound.

I am SO excited to see them when they play at Manhattan Center with a FULL BACKING ORCHESTRA. Which is why I now know the tix are running like 35 bucks :( but I just might have to spring for it. AND a little birdy told me that yours and my favorite band, CHIEF might be supporting them!!!! Yay! Anyways, here are some lovely Puppets tracks for you to download, courtesy of Hype.

Standing Next To Me
I Dont Like You Anymore


And PS: I am going to be back in NYC tomorrow so hopefully my posts will become more reflective of what Im doing aka going out and losing my shit...hopefully.xxxx

THE FIRST OF THE GANG TO DIE

Gawker. We love it, we hate it, we scorn it, but if you can take the time to slog through all the inane "Gawker Stalkers" and "Snap Judgments" you can find some genuinely interesting and hilarious stories. Like this one I found about intern horror stories. As a former and current intern, I must admit I have never heard of anyone doing anything this outrageous, but maybe interning at Dunder-Mifflin wasn't the most exciting career choice I could have made. Just kidding. Interning at Dunder-Mifflin WOULD be the most exciting career choice I could make right now. The main story they tell though is just kind of weird. How do people get so involved with their bitches? See if you can figure it out

What Not To Do When Anna Wintour Falls On Her Face

TANGERINE AND LIME GREEN, THE SICKLY SWEET COLORS OF THE DEVIL IN MY DREAMS

The big bands are rolling out new music left and right and giving us street urchins a chance to listen in. First up:


The new Franz Ferdinand track that is quote "not a single" is quite catchy. But not as out of the box as I would have hoped for. Its called Lucid Dreams and its only available to stream on their site for a "limited time".


This track, an unreleased song from the recording session of their debut album Hold On Now Youngster! called "How I Taught Myself to Scream". Its a kind of dark and rough. Just the way I like it. It reflects more the live nature of the band that I think was lost in overpolishing some of the LP tracks. Look for their sophomore album due out this year (fast I know!) We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed. Download or stream it on imeem




Lastly but not leastly, Oasis has a new song off their upcoming 35th album, Dig Out Your Soul and its called "Falling Down". Not a huge fan of Oasis' later work, but I am definitely a fan of this song. Very rhythmic and hooky, not all fuzzy and wandering. I only have a youtube non-video but here ya go.

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Now playing: My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said
via FoxyTunes

I RUN FROM THE DUST AND GLOOM WITH ONLY MY SECRETS TO KEEP ME WARM

Its been far too long since I've done a Libertines related post, so here are two lovely surprises to all you libz lovurz (which should be everyone on this good green earth if I had it my way). The first is an interview with Dirty Pretty Things from musicnews.com. Personally I love reading DPT interviews if only because I don't have to translate Carl's often unintelligible mumbling. The downside of course, is that I can't see his godlike visage. But you can't always get what you want. If you were wondering, yes Boyz is a gay lifestyle magazine. However all of the members claim to be straight (We all know, of course, that this is a gross fabrication).



The second goodie is a mix of Libs B-Sides and rarities. Now, usually B-sides are lo-fi and deemed too mediocre to be put on any actual album. The former could certainly be argued for these tracks but in no way are they mediocre. The sources for these tracks are the singles b-sides, an EP or 2, the unreleased demo album (Legs 11), the legendary Babyshambles sessions, and maybe 1 more I am forgetting. I especially recommend listening to the ones I have starred, because they reflect a very different sound than the romantic punk that everyone expects. It is romantic yes, but the sound is much more mod than punk, you'll have to hear it to really understand, but the Legs 11 album is something I listen to more often than their traditionally released ones. Yes, it is that good. And I don't feel too back about uploading these tracks, bc most of them were given away b the band anyways. Here are the tracks included (not necessarily in order). Enjoy! PS I can tell the above pic is an early one, because their leather jackets look all squeaky and new and Pete hasn't got electrical tape on his jeans.


Music When the Lights Go Out (Legs 11 version)
Half-Cocked Boy*
Hooray For the 21st Century
I Got Sweets
Never Never
Love on the Dole*
Bucket Shop*
Dilly Boys
Through the Looking Glass
Sister Sister*(with John Hassall on lead vocals!)
Skag and Bone Man
Anything But Love*
France (Legs 11 version)
Mayday
7 Deadly Sins (instrumental)
Lust of the Libertines*
The Delaney (THIS HAS THE BEST RIFF KNOWN TO MAN)
Back From the Dead
Death on the Stairs (Bernard Butler version)
Lazy Sunday Afternoon* (Small Faces Cover)
Who's Got the Crack (Moldy Peaches cover)
Breck Road Lover*
You're My Waterloo*

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Now playing: The Cure - Just Say Yes
via FoxyTunes

I LIKE YOU SO MUCH BETTER WHEN YOU'RE NAKED

HAI INTERNET. ITs me. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you my favorite new blog of the moment. HIPSTER RUNOFF or HRO for cool kids in the know. As HRO says, they are a blog worth blogging about, and that is certainly true. It truly a pioneer of a new frontier in blogging. Post-alt satire. HRO makes fun of "alt bro's and ho's". Which is basically anyone who thinks they are cool by shopping at American Apparel (or Mer Per and my semi alt friend Amanda like to call it) or Urban Outfitters. Or liking a band based on who's blogging about it. He spends mos of the time trying to classify the "alt" as a poser, an entry level alt, or some other classification he pulls from his brain he even makes diagrams like this one.



Not to say that I haven't been guilty of these transgressions from time to time, but sometimes you get the biggest laugh out of laughing at yourself and people you know. My two favorite article so far have been in two very separate arenas. The first has to do with clothing, the second with music. This shows you my versatility. The funny thing about this blog is that you can't quite tell the opinion of the author. Is he really just making fun of "alts" or is he such an "alt himself the only way he can authenticate and legitimize his status is by mocking all the other hipsters.

Here, HRO makes fun of the NME's "coolest USA bands of the moment. As much as I love the NME, I think I take HRO's side on this one. CHECK



And here he ponders what the world would be like if everyone who owned Sambas were required to register for an indoor soccer league. I play indoor soccer. But I don't own Sambas. What does that make me?



Lastly, I would like to introduce you to my favorite song o' da moment, "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked" by Ida Maria. Its fun. Its chanty. You get to shout "NAKED" when you dance to it. What's not to like? DL HERE (Mixtape Maestro) She looks like a feisty chickadee.