It was snowing this morning, now the sun is beating beads of sweat and perspiration from the streets. It’s a Wolf bros kind of day… Why? in the morn and Josiah in the afternoon, trying to get rabbinical with their father tonight? If you missed the news a short time back, Josiah Wolf is releasing a record of his own, Jet Lag, on March 3. If anyone knows where I can cop The Josiah EP from way back when, shoot me an email thanks omar! More news from Josiah right here.
Thanks to everyone that listened and tuned in. The ‘best of’ show was a lot of fun. Thank you especially to those that told us their favorite music of 2009. Send me your favorite music of 2009 at publiceducation@thefmly.com and we’ll play it on next weeks show!
So without further ado, the play list for the ‘best of 2009′ show.
Evan Voytas – Getting Higher
Wildlife – Sea Dreamer
Noah And The Whale – 2 Atoms in a Molecule
David Bazan – Bless This Mess
What’s Up – Content Imagination
Kurt Vile – Freeway
Church – Happiness
Uuvvwwz – Castle
Passion Pit – Moth’s Wings
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Dark Bubbles
Bobby Birdman – Be Warned
Avi Buffalo – Whats it in For
Big Whup – Trim
Pizza! – Be a Man
Atlas Sound – Walk About
Animal Collective – Lion in a Coma
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream
Frightened Rabbit – Swim Till You Can’t See Land
Miike Snow – Animal
Real Estate – Fake Blues
Why? – January Twenty Something
Vetiver – Strictly Rule
Toro y Moi – Blessa
Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone feat. Dear Nora – Hot Boyz (Missy Elliot cover)
Thom Yorke – Lotus Flower (live)
The XX – Crystalised
Discovery – Osaka Loop Line
You can download the full show here
Pat Vamos has the midas touch and it’s very much appreciated when it ripples on over to our side of the pond. Taking Swimming In Speakers‘ adorably crafted “Serve Them Well” and pairing their sweet tooth for pop aesthetic with some lip-smacking “Apocalyptic inline skating fun in the tradition of Solarbabies, Prayer of the Rollerboys and those fucking scary things in Return to Oz,” aka rad shit that was probably in a public domain archive, we finally have the chance to experience one of our favorite bands in a whole new sense. So excited about this video, FMLY x SiS = BFFs4lyf3! Swimming In Speakers play their first show ever on September 26 at the Cameo Gallery in Brooklyn with Pet Ghost Project (flyer here)!
swimming in speakers – serve them well
swimming in speakers – in knowing
swimming in speakers – icarus
And a Vimeo video bonus…part two of the Why? promo featuring that chick from Epic Movie and that dude from It’s Always Sunny In Philidelphia! Hit it up after the jump.
With Alopecia came a slew of promo videos telling the story of a few stalkers and their quest to make it Yoni, so with Eskimo Snow just six days away from release it’s about time we get some visual stimulation from our boys in the Bay! Directed by Andre Hyland, Blond Chili and Why? this first of a ten-part series introduces the public to Why?’s new manager – for your own sake do not look too closely. Shout out to Shaun!
Why? is hitting the road in just over a week. Tour dates after the jump.
Why? – January Twenty Something
Serengeti & Polyphonic – My Patriotism (Why? Remix)
Why? – Waterfalls (Almost Live From Eli’s)
We had a great show this past Sunday with a live set by The Exes who touched our hearts with a special acoustic set.
If you want to hear your music on Public Education, email us some MP3’s at publiceducation@thefmly.com
and we’ll play it. It’s that easy! Listen for the new stuff on Indie1031.com’s new music show Public Education every Sunday from 6-8. What else do you have to do?
Playlist after the jump with downloads from Why?, Nude Beach, DJDT and more.
Folk-lore hip hop lovers Why? recently played at the Colors Music Estival in Paris and our buds at Grandcrew.com caught their whole set! You can move through from song to song too. Why? will be releasing their new album Eskimo Snow on September 22.
Whether they realize it or not, Serengeti & Polyphonic’s “My Patriotism” may be one of the most truthful songs to college students I’ve heard in some time. Who are we, what can we do, and how can we ever begin to apply our growing existence towards a larger picture? With anticon. label-mate Why? lending a hand to the remix, a rather obscure tune with great plucked strings, an accordion and plenty of other fun sounds has now developed a space left for the listener to fill with their presence, a gap to experience the speech between flows and beats. This piece can certainly draw comparison to the Boards of Canada remix of Why?’s “Good Friday” in terms of its spaciousness, but isn’t intended to reach those tribal-funk grooves.
Yeah, we love Why?, yeah, we love Black Moth Super Rainbow, and yeah, we love Broken Social Scene. The only thing that would really make this week a bit more rad is if Animal Collective released a new live tune or remix. Black Moth Super Rainbow have exposed their Grindhouse vid for “Twin Of Myself.” If you caught the group live (or will be in the near future) then you’ll recognize the latter half from their projected visuals. Peep that bloody mess above. Remember when we interviewed Tobacco?
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Twin of Myself
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Twin of Myself (Go! Team remix)
P4k is all over Yoni’s crotch, and I don’t know how I feel about it. I guess they’re building him up to be one of the great voices of our generation and I think the entire act is a bit conceited on their part. That’s not going to stop us from loving to fuck out of Why?, cLOUDDEAD, or Hymie’s Basement and it’s certainly not going to keep us from posting this gorgeous new Why? track, “This Blackest Purse.” More melodies, crooning and mustache fetishism, less getting pussy from disinterested bitches. I’m calling Eskimo Snow as album of the year right now…it’d certainly be appropriate as Alopecia was our number one from ‘08. Also, be careful when googling images for Yoni Wolf as the world’s ugliest vaginas can and will appear in ways you’d never want to see them. Remember when we interviewed Why??
Why? – This Blackest Purse (via P4k, ha)
In other news, the Broken Social Scene we know, love and miss with Emily (Metric), Leslie (Feist), Amy (Stars), Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning and the rest of the gang reunited in Toronto on Saturday. Here are Youtube videos for you to kill the rest of your day with. Welcome back homies. Saturday’s live video of “Almost Crimes” after the jump.
Title track off of the new album played during a Yoni Wolf solo set, everything he plays on a Rhodes is just captivating. There’s also a great takeaway session and more on Youtube and live tapes here and there if you don’t feel like waiting around until September.
In conjunction with Dublab’s Matthewdavid, Anticon’s Shaun Koplow (sodapop) hosts a free 21+ weekly music night on Fridays at the Hyperion Tavern in L.A., from 10 until 2 a.m. Two weeks ago, “Calling All Kids” featured special DJ sets from Doseone, Jel, Thanksgiving Brown and Pedestrian. Last week, Thavius Beck dropped by, and THIS FRIDAY, Yoni Wolf of WHY? stops in.
In other WHY? news, the band has contributed a new song, “Eskimo Snow (sock hop version),” to a limited CD/LP compilation benefiting Sudanese refugees. Tiny Mix Tapes Vol. 1: Darfur, released by the webzine of the same name, also includes contributions by good folk like Mount Eerie, Jim O’Rourke, Dan Deacon and Xiu Xiu. Cop it here. Album art above.
Finally, half of the lineup for ATP’s annual UK fest, “The Fans Strike Back,” is decided by votes from ticket-holders. Well, this year’s request list is in and WHY? came in at number five just below Bonnie Prince Billy and TV On The Radio. The band was voted in last year, so this bodes well.
Why? – Waterfalls (Almost Live From Eli’s)
Why? – Simeons Dilemma (Almost Live From Eli’s)
other news
anticon. signs serengeti & polyphonic
the onion interviews doseone here
download themselves’ theFREEhoudini mixtape here
odd nosdam and jel on xlr8r tv here
SXSW, live in the parking lot
Not like we have enough great stuff from Portland, OR (i.e. Menomena, the Decemberist, YACHT, etc.), I got the pleasure of coming across one of Obey Your Brain’s newer additions, What’s Up. At a first encounter in Austin’s SXSW, we got a little preview of this uncanny trio at an off-by thrift store show. There, they opened up for FMLY FRNDS dd/mm/yyyy and Reverse X-Rays plus more, but when they came on, Cameron and I got to groovin’. This is the experimental music that you so much need. It’s sort of the way you want to wake up in the morning and the way you want to live throughout the day. It keeps me up, like any upper cannot.
Being a short-lived band collectively (formed in early 2008), we see that they are already causing a riff in our music scene by joining a label alongside acts like WHY?, Dan Deacon, Dntel and more. The way they perform is also a sight to be seen. The bassist remains sturdy at his bass, while both the drummer and guitarist pull out arms from nowhere to play their synths. This only adds the best of textures to the sound, performing not only as a “rock group, but also a production entity.”
Lucky for us all, they’ve got a record on the way to debut titled Content Imagination which is due out on May 19th of this year. And here’s your sneak peak to the album!
I also wanted to give some info on Yoni’s solo set takin’ it back to the old school Why? days. Armed with his Rhodes piano and a chorus of an audience Yoni played some sing-a-long songs off of Alopecia, then introduced us to what he has been working on for his next album and closed with…I honestly don’t remember, but it was early, it was beautiful and you all should have been there.
Just for some personal feedback, I love cLOUDDEAD an immeasurable amount and have no words to express what seeing them was like. All I have to offer is that if you were there last night, something very special happened. Stories behind the mysterious group was revealed such as how songs adapted their titles and how certain lyrics came to be. I just want to throw out a huge thank you to anticon., the Knitting Factory and all who attended last night. You all were great, and if you attended and are reading this – I was the asshole yelling for cLOUDDEAD at the end of Odd Nosdam’s set. You all laughed at me and said it wouldn’t happen but what now muthafuckas!
