Videographer/new wave documentarian Romain Garvas and his Kourtrajmé crew are expanding our grasp of France's often overlooked socioeconomic struggles. A largely African artist collective bent on expressing the French minority experience via film, Kourtrajmé was a solid choice to raise pulses and questions with Justice's "Stress."
Punk Photo schooled us where this filming style - a combination of cinéma-vérité, post war neoitalian realism, Clockwork Orange and The Warriors - was born.
Including mixes and what not from The Teenagers, M83, Shout Out Louds, Black Ghosts, Dave P and our new favorite James Pants. Then get your pineapple and go lay down somewhere outside.
SoSB is a promising joint effort from Ben Curtis (formerly of Secret Machines) and hottie twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza (formerly of On! Air! Library!). Photo courtesy of grantthai.
The Presets drop their sophomore collection of pagan space bangers titled Apocalypso in just a week. You have until then (5/13) to win a special prize pack courtesy of the stylish/fetching folks from Modular.
A special Butter Team reader will win: 1 Apocalypso CD 1 autographed poster 1 t-shirt (M or W in S, M, L) Stickers for your locker/Dawson's Creek trapper keeper
To enter send us an email with your city/sate (US residents only) AND/OR sign up for updates on the right to be automatically entered in this contest and future ones too. This summer we'll likely have gear from The Virgins, Bumblebeez, Kings of Convenience and more, so.
Amazing how many filthy jamz are just floating about the internets, in this case tucked inside a proper mixtape from the wonder twin powers of Ghostly International and Adult Swim (which you should definitely dl).
Closing the whole joint out is a track by Minnesota's Mux Mool, new to us, new to you, but I'd go so far as to say this could be a b-side from Daft Punk's Discovery as they wake from alien dreams and drudge towards the chrome glitch of robot slavery in urban wastelands.
We're usually not strong advocates of pants, but this is different. This is likely the first of several posts about James Pants.
A long time ago, James Pants started playing drums and marching in bands. After hitting cymbals for a while, James Pants bought cheap turntables and learned to scratch with Steppenwolf. James Pants' turntables skipped so much that he lost many battles and was never a good DJ. Then James Pants started playing Cameo and his drums again and people danced a little.
Now James Pants plays his new album and a few girls like it. "Mystical and enchanting," is what people in Spokane say about it. Teenagers at the park like to dance and make out to the new James Pants sound. "What a kaleidoscope," said one lady with her dog. "I can feel the universe pulse."
Know this - if James Pants comes to Bmore we will break it down on the mike at Never on Sunday, the employees will let us. Watch this video for free awesome lessons.
Pre-order his debut album Welcome via Stones Throw.
MGMT have been popular for so long now (several months) that you might think it's no longer cool to discuss them, or Judge Reinhold. However this video for "Time to Pretend" is incredibly wig scrambling as it includes pixelated rainbow zebras, Lord of the Flies shenanigans, campfire chants, hipsters riding owls and cats et al. YouTube can't do it justice so check it hi def here.
K. Dexter over at Broken Bike hipped us onto a potential summer blockbuster debuting at this weekend's Maryland Film Festival called I Think We're Alone Now (trailer below). The basic premise is that 80s teen sensation Tiffany had, ah, exceptionally loyal and devoted fans, and that at the age of 18 she bought a mansion formerly owned by Chuck Norris (dare you to fact check that).
At this point there are two summer camps - one for those that love the The Teenagers' brand of nostalgic, 80s-movie referencing teen pop, and one for those that hate fun/making out. As senior counselors at the former, we're excited to welcome homies to the Ottobar next Tuesday along with Team Robespierre and Smart Growth.
If the video for TR's 88th Precinct makes you feel sweaty or uncomfortable, it's because Allen Cordell (Dan Deacon, Future Islands, Jimmy Joe Roche) put it together using crowd shots taken from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant area. They even borrowed the lucky green hype machine skull.
Do Bmore kids always think there's a video being filmed? Which buzz bin single below best encapsulates your awkward years?
Coldplay is ideal for work road trips because almost everyone in the car will know them, yet it also creates a platform for you to jointly ridicule the one person in the car who still doesn't. From there the convo can segway to more obscure indie music like The Shins or pivotal alternative films like Garden State. At the end of the ride, the old people will feel cool and more connected to the younger people, and that's what Coldplay's all about anyway, right? Viva la Vida is out June 17th.
Before CSS punches our backsides with Donkey on July 22 via Sub Pop we all get to sample "Rat Is Dead (Rage)" which is just as lovely as it sounds. Hope Lovefoxx gets drunk and films more videos dancing to the Bloodhound Gang soon.
Trax: 01 Jåger Yoga 02 Rat Is Dead (Rage) 03 Reggae All Night 04 Give Up 05 Left Behind 06 Beautiful Song 07 How I Became Paranoid 08 Move 09 I Fly 10 Believe Achieve 11 Air Painter
Our buttery hosting server is down but we're working on it and all mp3s should be back up tomorrow. Until then, spend your free time over at our favorite sites for shenanigans - The Triumph of Bullshit and Hipster Runoff.
North Kak represent! Durham's Dgenerate Nation are offering the tightest roller jam since De La's Saturdays - along with the rest of their album - for free son. This track's been banging in Loretta (Volvo station wagon) nonstop since cracking the Weekend Beats charts a few weeks back. Just not enough roller jamz these days.
Ever walk into your kitchen studio sans pants to cook some breakfast with no hog, and the water heater makes a hott sound? But then you just go with it? Tap fork + knife, beat on the breakfast bongo, slurp coffee, pick up the breakfast mike and lay it down for all the julies? Holla at your boy D. Ford.
A cougar unexpectedly crosses your path at the bar/grocery store. You think quickly on your feet, make a signature move, and she takes the bait. Even if things start to go downhill back at your place (you haven't exactly tidied up and there's only one bullet in the fridge) that's nothing a little Keith Sweat + Patrick Swayze + Rick Astley can't fix.
Tracy Jordan got us thinking this week - we need to leave a legacy that will live forever. Something so awesome that even fourth grade bloggers will blog about it. So after countless minutes of hard work, and with the help of some outside consultants, we're proud to unveil:
