Hey guys, gals, and old and new pals. I just want to take this moment and say that you’re the best ever and if there was a poll for best online communities I’d vote for ya’llz. That being said, someone just shot me this nomination sheet for the LA Web Awards going down now through December 31 and a lightbulb went off just over my head. If people vote for FMLY as LA’s Best Music Blog (which is #7 by the way) or as any of the other choices (or all of them) then maybe we could turn that momentum into getting some wider acknowledgment for our bff’s tunes and hopefully dub more tapes, press some vinyl, book more tours, revamp the website, bring in sponsors to pay fmly bands in phat bills, etc…
Now you don’t need to fill in all of the nomination slots, you can just drop the fmly website into one box (we suggest numbers 7, 15, 19, or 22) and click submit. Depending on the speed of your internet, you’re fine unless you’re on dial-up as that’s always the case, this takes less than 10seconds. And if you’re a REEAALL sweetheart we’d love you forevz if you posted on your fbook, myspace, twitter, out of los angeles blog, etc to spread the good word. Thank you so so so so so sooo much!
you can call this a fmly mixtape, or you can call it the folks we’re tryin’ to jam out to on an ipod commercial on the cw one day. just kidding…sort of.
Railcars – There Is Ice; It Is Blue
Evan Voytas – Getting Higher
Pizza! – Bird Dreams
Truman Peyote – New Wife, New Life
Professor Calculus – Stab Alley Remix
Ninjasonik – Art School Girls
Anamanaguchi – Danger Mountain
EASYBOY – Wrenchin’
cloud. – How It Is
Loudspeaker Speaker – To Tokyo
Total Slacker – These Condos Don’t Belong
Mistlefinger – Cardboard City
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Firing Missiles At Christmas And Easter Island
ps. fmly’s own philip seymour hoffman had his tape reviewed on cmj today. thanks rachael!
pps. i seriously hate the word best (unless you’re talking about zach best, that dude rocks). no album is the best, no website is the best, no fucking anything is the best. it’s awful enough that everything has to be developed as some sort of competition but does taste now need to be valued? i don’t understand the role of a tastemaker or what a tastemaker even is. does a tastemaker know they are a tastemaker and who follows these flavors so closely other than the tasteless? do the tasteless even exist? are we that shameless in our individual beliefs to put ourselves so rudely before others? c’mon, it’s so easy to just replace the word best with favorite and have a much more friendly environment. we love la record, the tape, aquarium drunkard, inflightatnight (rip) and the rest of the la scene. fuck “best,” lets just make one big superblog and show la weekly how we roll.
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