Music Monday: Black Lips

 

This weekend left me exhausted on so many levels!  

I will say our Saturday night (and early morning) 

was spent with some old favorites: the Black Lips!

It was a high-energy show and we had some amazing spots in the crowd to see the band up-close!  I didn't get kicked in the head or pushed down like past performances, but I did get drenched with beer!  Needless to say, the show was insane!

This is a long little clip that includes some great songs, as well as some great interview questions with the band.  The show on Saturday was about 1000x louder than this!

Hope you have a good week.

xo. 

Music Monday: The Do

 

This clip is pretty crazy, 

but don't let it deter you from the sweetness of this song!

The Do is from Paris, with their lead singer hailing from Finland.

I love their late nineties sound and sequin eyebrows!

Hope you have a lovely week.

xo.

Goldteef's Best Songs of 2010

I know we're already almost a month into 2011, 

but I wanted to share a mixtape of what I thought to be 

the most lovely and interesting songs of 2010!  

You can download it for free here.

Here's the tracklist:

1~All Eyes - Gauntlet Hair

2~Locust Valley - Women

3~Mickey Mouse - Wavves

4~Born Free - M.I.A.

5~The Overachievers - Liars

6~Expectations - Tame Impala

7~In the Trees - Moon Duo

8~Slow Motion - Panda Bear

9~Tall Grass -Toro y Moi

10~Set Your Arms Down - Warpaint

11~Amsterdam - White Hinterland

12~Pleasure Sighs - Morning Benders

13~Harmonix - Surfer Blood

14~California Shakedown - Pearl Harbor

15~Round and Round - Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti

16~Blood Dries Darker - Woods

17~Gay Human Bones - Harlem

18~Crazy for You - Best Coast

19~Lost in the World - Kanye West featuring Bon Iver

20~Sir Greendown - Janelle Monae

21~Hocus Pocus - Woodsman

22~Untitled - Atlas Sound

23~Oliver Twist - Avey Tare

24~Helicopter - Deerhunter

25~Screens - Animal Collective

26~It's a Trap - Power Animal

27~Lady Daydream - Twin Sister

28~Silver Soul - Beach House

Here's Goldteef's favorites of 2009, if you're interested!

Have a lovely weekend!

xo.

Memomena in Salt Lake City

I think I'm getting the idea that nostalgia can be a dangerous thing.  

Menomena played a show at Urban Lounge a couple weekends ago at the Urban Lounge.  Shug and I have had the pleasure of seeing these talented musicians play in Chicago, Boise, and a little old venue I adore here in Salt Lake City, Kilby Court.  Needless to say, Shug and I are SUPERfans of Menomena.  We have embarrassed ourselves (and our friends) countless times with our shameless adoration and need to be in the front row.  SO when we saw Menomena was booked to play SLC just a week after our return from our travels, Shug and I decided it was kismet!

While we weren't completely sold on their new album, it was Memomena!  We HAD to go.  This was a band that played in the background when the shackles of love were being soldered around both Shug's and my hearts.  This was a band that was playing when I decided to pursue a career completely outside of my educational background.  This was the band that blasted in the speakers of my car when I drove Shug to meet my sweet Grandparents for the first, nerve-wracking time.  This band kinda means a lot to us.

And this is where nostalgia can get a little tricky.  The performance at Urban was just, well, bland.  I'm blaming Salt Lake being the second-to-last stop on a loooong tour with Tu Fawning and the addition of another guitarist.  Three's company and four's a crowd, right?  The energy and snap these musicians used to convey so effortlessly was just absent from this performance.

And you know what?  Shug and I were totally ok with that.  Because this band has a few songs that are a part of our mixtape.  No matter what kind of so-so albums they create, they are already a part of what I consider to be the best album I will ever hear: the music I fell in love to.