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Weekend Playlist: Vol. 3

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:55:00 +0300

Moody and driving are apparently the sonic motifs this week. I must be mad at the recent extra dose of the GOP’s craven, smug, self-righteous indignation. (Though it’s hard to have a bad time when you’re listening to Holy Ghost! or Har Mar Superstar.) Enjoy!

The National - “Sea of Love”

SULK - “The Big Blue”

Mirage - “Let’s Kiss”

Har Mar Superstar - “Lady, You Shot Me”

The oOohh Baby Gimme Mores - “Beat Up Kidz”

ASTR - “Operate”

Fossil Collective - “Under My Arrest”

Holy Ghost! - “Dumb Disco Ideas”

Track: Lake Isle - "Steel Rails"

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:07:20 +0300

<a href=”http://lakeisle.bandcamp.com/track/steel-rails-2” data-mce-href=”http://lakeisle.bandcamp.com/track/steel-rails-2”>Steel Rails by Lake Isle</a>

There wasn’t anyway to cross and so they waited for the freight train to pass. Home was still a long way across the blurred line of steel and commerce.

Weekend Playlist - Vol. 2

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:34:54 +0300

Whether you’re in need of a celebratory banger or something mopey because [s]he won’t return your calls and you’re going to die alone and in the company of cats and years-old newspapers, there’s something for whatever you’re feeling this weekend.

FWY! - “Garden Grove”

Houndmouth - “On the Road”

Mariah Carey x Miguel - “#Beautiful”

Du Tonc - “Surging Memories”

Shad - “Peace”

MONEY - “Bluebell Fields”

Thundercat - “Oh Sheit It’s X”

London Grammar - “Wasting My Young Years”

Sebastien Tellier x Caroline Polachek - “In The Crew Of Tea Time”

Track: Run The Jewels - "Get It"

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:21:52 +0300

The street was empty from Trinity Church to the East River. No suits spewing from the 1-2-3 and no sad-faced men chopping chicken and onions on street carts and no assault rifles dangling lazily from shoulders around the Stock Exchange. There was, as there had always been in some sense, only emptiness and the rustle of dollars in the wind as it funneled down the urban canyons.

Track: Merchandise - "Anxiety's Door"

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:28:24 +0300

He hasn’t left the house in days and even the pizza guy is starting to look at him warily, taking his tip slowly and with suspicion, backing away slowly and not turning his back until the door closes.

Weekend Playlist: Vol. 1

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:04:06 +0300

So the semester is finally over and the grading’s done and the fast food binge cycle is drawing to a close and I’m instituting a new, hopefully regular thing at Dohaha: the Weekend Playlist. Basically, it’s just a small collection of stuff that’s ready for the party or the drive or the dusk walkabout or whatever it is you’re up to this weekend.

This week’s playlist:

Buffalo Rodeo - “Treehouse”

<a href=”http://buffalorodeo.bandcamp.com/track/treehouse” data-mce-href=”http://buffalorodeo.bandcamp.com/track/treehouse”>Treehouse by Buffalo Rodeo</a>

Classixx - “All You’re Waiting For”

Pusha T - “Numbers on the Board”

Wild Nothing - “A Dancing Shell”

Camera Obscura - “Do It Again”

Annie - “Tube Stops and Lonely Hearts”

Deerhunter - “Monomania”

HAIM - “Falling (Duke Dumont Remix)”

Cass McCombs - “If You Loved Me Before …”

<a href=”http://famousclass.bandcamp.com/track/cass-mccombs-if-you-loved-me-before” data-mce-href=”http://famousclass.bandcamp.com/track/cass-mccombs-if-you-loved-me-before”>Cass McCombs - If You Loved Me Before… by Cass McCombs</a>

Track: The Knocks ft. St. Lucia - "Modern Hearts"

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:58:09 +0300

She thought back on the past couple years and when she envisioned it she saw one huge beach party, a desperate, endless expanse of cocktails and glowing bar tops and people in headphones spinning knobs for other semi-enthusiastic people in open shirts the color of boredom.

(It’s been a rough couple weeks and I’m heading to Muscat for the weekend. Back to regular posts on Sunday.)

Track: Moodie Black - "Complexion"

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:03:33 +0300

<a href=”http://fakefour.bandcamp.com/track/complexion” data-mce-href=”http://fakefour.bandcamp.com/track/complexion”>COMPLEXION by Moodie Black</a>

He always imagined he’d be driving a vintage drop top as he sped away from the flames into the wilderness and humid night. A white 1998 Toyota Tercel were less romantic, perhaps, but the goal, in the end, was not to be caught. And no one suspected a man in a Turcel of anything more dangerous than an accidental, self-inflicted cut from a can of tuna.

Video: The National - "Demons"

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:32:00 +0300

“I want to exorcise you,” he said, getting up from the table and buttoning his jacket. “Think about it.”

Track: City Society - "Riot Blooms"

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:55:00 +0300

They spent the day digging for desert roses, eyes focused on each of their own patches of the wind-beaten expanse. The sunlight encased each of them until everything but heat and sweat and thirst and the repetition of the task became forgotten, mere abstractions.

Also:

Track: Slow Warm Death - "Alone"

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:43:00 +0300

<a href=”http://slowwarmdeath.bandcamp.com/track/alone” data-mce-href=”http://slowwarmdeath.bandcamp.com/track/alone”>ALONE by Slow Warm Death</a>

Det. O’Reilly gave one last, long look over the crime scene, the shattered glass on the pavement, the dried blood on the asphalt near the chalk outline. He didn’t envy the coroner on this one. Though, to be fair, one didn’t typically envy coroners in general.

Track: Saskatchewan - "Possession"

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:30:17 +0300

Speeding down the highway with bad memories and dusk in the rearview mirror, he drove back toward the city that was just coming to life.

Track: Majical Cloudz - "Childhood's End"

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:54:46 +0300

The family prayed, as they always did, in a rough half-circle around the face of the tombstone. They said the Lord’s Prayer together, though the boy always just mouthed the words. Even at ten years old, he didn’t really buy it, and anyhow, the sight of his remaining family chanting in unison struck him as fairly ludicrous, but then again, he knew there were a lot of things he didn’t understand about the world. That feeling never really left him.

Track: Wildlife Control - "Ages Places"

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:20:00 +0300

The cabin vibrates as the engines kick and the plane hurdles forward and he tries not to think of the last person he saw before turning down the corridor to his gate. But one day it will be the last thing he ever thinks of as the heart monitor calls in the nurse staff.

Video: Mooro - "M66R6"

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:50:35 +0300

“Who are you talking to?”

“My friend.”

“Where is he?”

“Right next to me. Duh.”

“I see. And what’s your friend’s name?”

“Mr. Patmore.”

“And what do you and, um, Mr. Patmore talk about?”

“Oh, this and that. The weather, the NIKKEI, grilling, the Clippers, whether or not this is a good time to set up an IRA or a Roth IRA. That sort of thing.”

“——”

Track: Light Heat - "And the Birds"

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:46:00 +0300

Dawn swept over the shore town, as if the ocean were gleefully lurring the people to wake and face up to their sins.

Track: SWIM - "Creeper"

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:23:07 +0300

He is nude, crouching on the floor of the shower that is blackened with mold and time. The shower head is off. The only water is the water that flows down his face. He always knew it would lead to this.

Track: The Black and White Years - "Just Like Old Times"

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:44:18 +0300

Scrolling through the pictures on Facebook wasn’t quite the same as flipping through old photos, like people did a decade ago, though it might as well have been another age altogether. There were no worn edges on the ones she liked; there was no smudged ilfochrome where her fingers would frequently touch his face—only the brief resettling of liquid crystal and the reestablishment of a very clear picture of everything that had gone wrong.

Track: Junior Prom - "Sheila Put the Knife Down"

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:14:00 +0300

<a href=”http://juniorprom.bandcamp.com/track/sheila-put-the-knife-down” data-mce-href=”http://juniorprom.bandcamp.com/track/sheila-put-the-knife-down”>Sheila Put The Knife Down by Junior Prom</a>

“Darling, you oughtn’t to frown like that. It’s only these damn gossip rags. Don’t put any stock in it. She was having car trouble and I gave her a ride.” He put down the morning edition and pushed back the strands of hair that had fallen over his brow, then smoothed out a crease on his shirtsleeve. “And besides, frowning will give you face lines, if you keep it up. Now come here and let’s not fight about it.”

The frown did fall from her face, but only so she could better see what was around to bludgeon him with. The bread box wouldn’t do the trick and the ashtray had been a gift from her dear aunt. She would have to think on it and revisit the issue.

Video: Duke Dumont ft. AME - "Need U (100%)"

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:00:00 +0300

and all the kids came to Strasbourg because it was 1518 and they didn’t want to stop partying.