cred: the lovely geoff geis
MillionYoung – Sunndreamm
Truman Peyote – Beantown
Pizza! – Be a Man
WAMPIRE – Orchards
Idiot Glee – I Want The Night To Stay
Magic Man – South Dakota
I Am The Dot – Love Song For Camus
Philip Seymour Hoffman – everything in my cupboards is moldy
Dead Gaze – You’ll Carry On Real Nice
Mistlefinger – Cardboard City
Big Whup – Yaaaay!
EASYBOY – Wrenchin’
see you there, babes.
If there’s an active cassette player in the house then EASYBOY’s Friends needs to be in that. Eric Farber, one-half of the already epic Truman Peyote, has been cranking out solid hits and remixes making sure to hold his own strongly up in Toronto. We’ve been flying the Easyboy flag good and strong for a while now, and are stoked to say that you can catch Easyboy at SXSW’s first taste of FMLY’s Thank You Come Again on the afternoon of March 20. He totally rawked it at our CMJ show in October. Spooky Town has been super rad to put Friends online for a free download, but I recommend purchasing it as well!
Thanks to everyone that tuned in. Thank you Diet Cola for always calling. We love you!
Big Whup – Cover My Eyes
Geneva Jacuzzi – The Asthma Song (w/ ariel pink)
Church – Happiness
Repeat Pattern – Afreaka
Men – Off Our Backs
Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky
Run DMT – Mad Weed
Speech Debelle – Bad Boy
Shad – Out of Love pt.II
Ebaahi – Oshit
Thee Oh Sees – Ghost in the Trees
Truman Peyote – Beantown
ALASKAS – Pronoun
EASYBOY – Chest Swimmers
Capybara – Soft
Kay Pettigrew – The Fresh of Bel Air
Last Order – Summertime (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Cover)
Former Ghosts – Mother
Salem – Sideways
Candy Claws – Snowflake Eel Wish
Julian Casablancas – River of Brakelights
Lesley Kernochan – Addiction
Jogger – Gorilla Meat
Beach Fossils – Daydream
So proud of Chaz (Toro y Moi), I’ve heard nothing but raves for his performances on this Islands tour! Going to go check him out tonight (haven’t seen him since August) and give him the Mirror Universe Tapes pound that I’m sure exists, right? If you haven’t been laying in dreams since Toro y Moi fell from heaven, here are a few tunes to rub those erogenous zones the right way. And speaking of Mirror Universe, they’re releasing a rad compilation on December 5 to raise money for an all ages venue in Charleston, South Carolina – but I’ll have more info on that in a couple of weeks. Expect to hear new tunes from FMLY favs EASYBOY, Tan Dollar and Philip Seymour Hoffman on the tape.
Toro y Moi – Blessa
Toro y Moi – 109
Washed Out – Feel It All Around (Toro y Moi remix)
Breakfast of Champs is a sweet new Jamaica Plains-based haven for bedroom players to release their tunes on 7″ and cassette tape; think Mexican Summer with less weed, Woodsist with more-fi and the kickass of Mirror Universe with the collectivity and bond of Underwater Peoples. Just wanted to give a heads up, expect to catch a Truman Peyote split 7″ with Turtle Ambulance in the near future as well as a cassette from Psychedelic Family. Other exciting news is that FMLY alumni Philip Seymour Hoffman and EASYBOY (among others) will also be dropping cassettes via Champs either late this year or early next – add the ChampSpace to keep up to date! This is so exciting, can’t wait to see what these dudes do with 2010.
Truman Peyote – New Wife, New Life
Turtle Ambulance – Bueno Pues (download plates)
EASYBOY – Chest Swimmers
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Spring Break 2011 (download fire island, 25MB)
FMLY PRSNTS: WTF, WE’RE IN NY! (part 1 of 3)
: Rumspringa
Rumspringa – Shake ‘em Loose Tonight
:: Seven Saturdays (ex-FIRS)
Firs – New Hope In Soft Light (Larvae Remix)
::: Height With Friends*
Height With Friends – Standing Up Asleep
Height with Friends – Baltimore Highlands (Tobacco remix)
:::: EASYBOY*
EASYBOY – Chest Swimmers
::::: Evan Voytas*
Evan Voytas – Getting Higher
:::::: Philip Seymour Hoffman*
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Firing Missiles At Christmas And Easter Island
&more!
+ art installation by alex ito (pratt)
&
8mm film presentation by nate cummings during rumspringa
ALL AGES // 8PM // OCT20 // *ROUND ROBIN
Whaaaat, I guess it has already been a year since we partied last CMJ with DD/MM/YYYY, Rumspringa, The Hood Internet, Ninjasonik and more of our homies in Brooklyn…but we’re back and ready to kick some ass. This time, we’re doing shit a bit differently and showing the Lower East Side what’s up. Don’t worry Bushwick, we’ll be in you like swine flu and killin’ it the rest of the week!
This year we’re doing things a little different and bringing Los Angeles to New York as well as sprinkling the night with some good pals from Baltimore, Boston by way of Toronto and of course, Brooklyn.
This is night one, our official CMJ Showcase.
Part two are guerrilla shows throughout the week to be announced sporadically.
Night three is the raddest fucking duplex party of the fall.
WE ALSO HAVE A LIMITED AMOUNT OF FMLY SHIRTS FOR SALE. GET IN TOUCH IF YOU WANT ONE.
I’ve been consistently dropping some EASYBOY around the blog when I can so it gives me great pleasure to announce that you can now physically own Friends – how rad is that! EASYBOY is the good homie Eric Farber who some of you might know as one-half of the Boston (by way of Jamaica Plains) psych-pop outfit Truman Peyote. “Crafting a kind of crooked ferris wheel ride, somewhere between sound-collage and bedroom pop” Eric not only successfully manipulates sweet melodies reminiscent of 90s jams (“The Shakes” is totally copping Sugar Ray) but changes the game of dynamics, lyrical delivery, sampling and expectations as we know it. Words becoming instruments becoming sounds becoming my thoughts – it’s all so over my head! Stitching seams between bedroom techno, beach-crunk-blunt-pop, button pressing and couch potato’ing come way too easy for the dude, kinda makes me feel like he’s hiding Zach Condon or more realistically Zach Hill in his weed-growing closet or something (dear mothers and law enforcement: it’s legal in Toronto). Though encouraged to listen straight through, there are undoubtedly multiple story lines cycling through Friends. “Markers,” “Chest Swimmers” and “Wrenchin’” brew up a batch of the most desirable vocal affectations and phatheartbeats while a parallel – and more realized yearning – narrative is told through “The Shakes,” “Mr. Patella” and “Cactus.” But what about “Sunny Day Garbage Pile,” “Beebugs” and “Slick Nap”? These establish the environment, the color created by light and the foundation which the tape sets its paws upon. FMLY is all about Friends and EASYBOY has arranged a collection of memories, metaphors and images to express what I’ve tried so hard to put into words this past year. Oh, and I apologize ahead of time to whatever larger label eventually gets a handle on Eric for ‘leaking’ half of this album – lets just call it a FMLY exclusive and say that I’m doing what I can to get these sounds out from my heart to yours. Fucking patriotic!
Friends dropped on cassette yesterday via Spooky Town Artifacts. $4 right here, 100 99 left. If it encourages you to pick this up, with every listen Friends takes further strides in changing my life for the better. Eric, I fucking love this – you’re the man!
EASYBOY – Markers
EASYBOY – Beebugs
EASYBOY – Cactus
BNS
EASYBOY – Chest Swimmers
EASYBOY – Wrenchin’
Truman Peyote – Beantown
Truman Peyote – New Wife, New Life
@ school currently perusing: futuremilk, devotion, fuckyoudraculas & supertramp.
+ currently listening: EASYBOY – Chest Swimmers
With Light-Lightning out on Whitehaus Family Records and praise coming from P4k, My Old Kentucky Blog, Transparent, etc the buzz around Truman Peyote is getting pretty fucking exciting. While in Boston I caught FMLY’s Philip Seymour Hoffman playing a backyard show with Caleb’s other project Psychedelic Family and after returning to NY Eric emailed me his debut EASYBOY tape. Truman Peyote or not, I’m so stoked to see these dudes cause some wreckage in the next decade.
Heads up NY, Truman Peyote are playing their 100th show at Shea Stadium (moved from the Market Hotel) tomorrow night with Tayisha Busay, BLissed Out and more! See you there.
Truman Peyote – New Wife, New Life
Truman Peyote – Beantown
BNS
EASYBOY – Wrenchin’
EASYBOY – Chest Swimmers
