It’s almost time to put on your frolicking boots and bust out your frisbees for our first-ever Bay Area Thank You, Come Again! We’ve got a sweet line-up for a beautiful day of jamming, hanging, playing, grubbing, and generally just living it up-ping. Many of these bands will be playing music specifically crafted for this semi-acoustic occasion, and it’ll be neat to see what creative things they come up with.
The purpose of this event is to strip a concert experience to its birthday suit. We have a performer in their most vulnerable state, an audience, and communal activities for all! Nothing will be handled but good vibes. Remember that when you come to a fmly event, you represent fmly. To those of you who do show up with substances please keep them to yourself, away from the group, and don’t be the one that ruins the day for everyone.
This is a FREE DAY SHOW in a public environment. Come on time because it gets chilly late in the day!
There will be group jamming throughout the day. Bring your instruments and/ or whatever you have lying around your house. Washboards and tambourines encouraged.
It’s always a pleasure to put a new DJDT tune on blast ’round these parts, but two!? Oh man, what’s a kid to do…
Dropping tunes as hot as KE$HA, Jamie and Robert have without doubt produced some kind of underground electropop hit. It’s like something you’d hear repeatedly on your local radio station, but in your friend’s garage or basement! After Jamie gets out all of the catchiest hooks you can fit into a standard pop song, Fitted Kid chimes in with the auto-tuned point of view, all complemented by Robert’s mastermind for dynamics and taste. Shit is nuts and production is on it! Peep more tunes on the Exes‘ page, make it a guilty pleasure.
Next jam is another premiere from a FMLY all-star, DJDT’s remix of Ludacris’ “How Low.” DJs, take note and press play. Man, I’m articulate when it comes to dance music.
I’m not usually the one for Norwegian death metal, but something about this song just did it for me. Check out Shining’s newest album (released Jan.25th) BlackJazz (here at Indie Recording’s myspace) for the rest of it’s dark beauty…
New tune from DJDT to celebrate the holidays and kick off the night. Hitting way different sounds than the beats we’ve become accustomed to, this DJDT bounce is def one for the clubs and deejay sets. Hit up FMLY FEST on Monday to catch DJDT in action, and peep the vid from FMLY’s Beach Dazed after the jump. Happy holidays.
Cloud. is at again with those smooth old school beats that make you slide right out of your clothes. His new head-bopping 15 track album is available for free here or you can support him by donating $5 ($10 if outside the US) and he’ll send you the CD. Just donate to beatsbycloud@gmail.com via PayPal.com.
“I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don’t quite know how to explain it but it’s there. These can’t be the only notes in the world, there’s got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks.”
-Marvin Gaye
Cop Magnet seriously keeps the juices flowing, the orange trees growing, and this site in a devastated mourning between tracks. Thrown out last night via the Cop Magnet MySpace is a new jam slash remix on my favorite tune of the decade, Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” feat Alicia Keys. However, this scenario brings us Cop Magnet’s “I’m Higher State of Mind” feat Philip Seymour Hoffman making this oversexed duo Philip Seymour Hoffmagnet…or Copffman? Let’s not get too Martin Scorsese right before Thanksgiving. This one brings together Boston and New York for a sweet lil’ collab that we’re happy to bring to you.
Here it is, the final portion of our chill sesh with Jeffrey Lewis in October sportin’ quite the history lesson. Thank you to Jeff and his brother and Schwervon! for being so accommodating and sweet. At the end of the video you can hear Jeff’s brother in the other room recording vocals on some way new and unheard tracks that we can’t even comprehend right now.
While laying down in the park one afternoon bubbles of watercolor rise from the grass, staining the blades as they pop. Their sounds echo between the valleys of impression and resonate in footprints, swirling around bodies and carried off into the air for universal enjoyment. A melody with a path is not predictable, especially when carrying the variables of Turtle Ambulance.
Heading into gorgeous ‘everything is an instrument’ territory, this new Turtle Ambulance jam goes from observational recordings to tropical-electronic bliss. This three minute journey is an exclusive FMLY download and will appear on the Whitehaus Family Records double-12″ sampler. The chimes, ostinato and lyrical behavior all suggest qualities of youth making “Child” not only a playful jammer but also a tune that would like a little reaction back from the listener. Grab a washboard, bob or head or sing-a-long…just match the heart put into it!
DROPA is a beat menace out of Boston, as one of the initial releases I guess you could say he’s stirring the Breakfast of Champs crew’s brew. Shifting pitches like out of country bank accounts, the one-dude project has released a slew of free tapes online leading up to October’s Dunk Tank which features remixes of Easyboy, Max Alper, Lord Jeff, and BlackBox as well as an arsenal of heavy artillery and well thought out sampling. You can pick up the cassette here for just $4 (or 3 tapes for $10) and if you’re super into it DROPA will even sell you one of his tunes so that you and your friends can have your way with it. Feel free to hit up his MySpace to hear new tracks as well as download Medicine, Space Madness and Omeba for free! The tunes below are off Medicine.
If you have a sec, def check out the Psychedelic Family supergroup made up of DROPA, Caleb (Truman Peyote), Max Alper, a dude or two from Vitamin Seed and from there I lose track. I played a show with those guys in August and the cops came within fifteen minutes, it was like Black Dice with more man, more instruments and more pedals.
What the fuck, FMLY is releasing our frnds now? So rad.
Professor Calculus: Booty Wrap (FMLY002) NOVEMBER 17, 2009 FREE DOWNLOAD
Fighting the forces of public noise permit injustices since Nov ‘08, Professor Calculus have built a reputation through LA’s bike scene by wrecking parking lot nights and n00bz 34R dRumZ throughout the greater Los Angeles. Notorious for shooting the shit in back alleys, rooftops, house parties and some health code violating kitchens, Caleb Stone and the rest of the professors fill the voids of living spaces with their instrumental delay-ridden-tap-metal rock…if you’re confused now, they have two bassists. Basically, this is a free album digitally (available above) and you can pick up a physical copy at any FMLY or Professor Calculus show as of November 17. We’re all stoked!
Thank You Come Again
Lady Bird Lake Trail
March 20, 3PM
w/ dead gaze, easyboy, mistlefinger, big whup + pizza!, white fang, jonesin', tempo no tempo, dream panther
FMLY Group Hug
Dominican Joe, 515 South Congress
March 20, 8pm
w/ MillionYoung, Truman Peyote, Michael Parallax, Wampire, Idiot Glee, I Am The Dot, Magic Man, Philip Seymour Hoffman fbook event
Los Angeles
FMLY RIDE
WESTSIDE and EASTSIDE
March 13th 2010
The Entrance Band, Insects vs. Robots, Rumspringa, Las Cafeteras, The Light Rays, 60-Watt Kid, DJDT, Hiking, Neon Navajo fbook event
Thank you, Come Again
March 13th 2010
Romulus, Gabriela Maia, Stellaluna, Little Smoke, Good News Reporting, Presstones, More TBA fbook event
Drawlings
McWorld
March 24th Evan Voytas, WAMPIRE, Battlehooch, Pizza! + Afterparty for Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) and The Hood Internet
McWorld
March 25th Fbook event
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Dinowalrus, Tempo No Tempo
May 1
Santa Cruz
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Pacific and Water
Boston
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
PPALMM's Chinatown Loft
April 16
New York
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
April 18
Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) & Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Knitting Factory
April 24 fbook event
IcyDemons, Truman Peyote, Trouble Books
Glasslands
May 2
San Francisco
Thank you Come Again
The Neighbors, Wes Leslie, Shaw, Maus Haus, Mistlefinger, Goliath the Giver
March 21st
Dolores Park f book event
Questions? Comments? Want to play a FMLY event? Want to learn how you can play an integral role in your FMLY? Shoot us an email anytime, we're usually around. We also accept demos, songs you're into, songs you've made and bribes.
