Hey Philly and D.C. peoples, Dinowalrus is headed down your way with real soon, this weekend in fact. They are playing Friday, June 18 @ Danger Danger Gallery in Philly, and Saturday June 19 @ Everlasting Life in D.C.. Also on this mini-tour are the drum and electronics freaks Aa, who sound like this.
And if you haven’t done it already, make sure you check out the other monthly mixes.
Also, If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.
Just in case you have not heard, the 1000th (non-spammy) follower of @GIMMETINNITUS is going to receive a bunch of prizes. If you are the lucky follower you will get…
We have not actually received the prizes marked with a * yet, but they have been sent (or will be once we get the winner’s t-shirt size).
Actual delivery of prizes may be delayed. Allow a bunch of weeks for delivery.
Finally, you the reader of this post have already “won” an album’s worth of music in the post above. You can grab all the mp3s above at once using the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.
a: The last song I (really) heard was The Galaxist (mp3) by Deerhoof…we were jamming really hard to the last four Deerhoof records on our Oregon tour. I had lost my copy of Friend Opportunity, so we spent a lot of time revisiting that record and Milk Man. We all love that band a lot.
a: Either the Dirty Projectors or LCD Soundsystem. It used to be The Juan MacLean, before their drummer Jerry Fuchs died. I think, actually, that’s the first time that the death of a musician I didn’t know personally really affected me. When I heard that he died, it really brought into focus how special the shows I had seen him play were. They were amazing.
q: What is your favorite venue in NYC (if applicable)?
a: We love the Cake Shop, and Death By Audio. I’ve seen a lot of shows in NY, but Tempo No Tempo has only played a handful. The Cake Shop is just awesome because the staff is rad and the room is the perfect amount of tiny and dingy.
q: OK, President Obama appoints you as the first Secretary of Culture, to whom do you give your first grant?
a: Gotta be the Numero Group folks. They consistently release the most beautiful collections of rare tracks, documented and packaged brilliantly. They’re like a funky Alan Lomax.
q: Anything we should know about your latest project (whatever that might be)?
a: Yeah, we put out a record on our own in October, Waking Heat. We wrote it in six months, after our keyboardist left for law school, and then recorded and mixed it in five days.
We’ve been having this crazy transformation, since the songs have finally settled in, where the parts are opening up and the dynamics and dialogue between our instruments are totally changing. It’s exciting, but also puts the album into perspective as this snapshot when all the songs were really fresh.
We want to make an EP and some videos soon…so stay tuned for the latest latest projects I guess.
…And here is one of the videos Tempo No Tempo said they wanted to make.
Upcoming Shows: Tempo No Tempo will be touring around California with GT favs Dinowalrus at the end of the month. You can check dates and places… here. It is sure to be mind-expanding.
Is it time to start listing the best tracks of year already? Why yes, yes it is. Now, a lot of these tracks have been available for a while (e.g. last year or in the GT 2010 preview), but they either had their official release this year or I just thought they should be on this list for some other reason or another. Without further ado, I give you the first volume of the Best Downloadables of 2010.
Also, If you want to download all (or most of) the tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.
And now a new feature here at GIMME TINNITUS, q and also a, where I chat/email with bands and they answer some questions. To kick off the feature I met up with Pete from Dinowalrus. Here we go…
a: The album was “informed by the liberation of moving to NYC in 2006 and finding that, at the time, there was an audience for pretty crazy and mutant music.” DINOWALRUS didn’t know at first whether it would fall into the “indie” scene or the “art noise” scene, though now they have found themselves to be the weirdest band on the indie scene rather than the poppiest band on the noise scene. There were a bunch of especially inspring bands around in 2006 that were “challenging” their listeners to, sonically, go places they had never been before, including Parts & Labor, Dirty Projectors, Psychic Ills, and Gang Gang Dance…and I think our approach was informed by that more than anything else. Ironically, earnest and classic indie rock appears to be all the rage now, and I’ve been pretty bored with that!
“If you are serious about music, when you make an album you have to take 45 years of pop/rock history in account, and I think this album was informed as much by trying to find a unique place in music history as it was by current happenings around town,” and Dinowalrus wanted to put out something that was “mind blowing.” % doesn’t really have “a direct pop sensibility,” but it will “keep on your toes” and “make you feel free.”
So, if you are bored with present form of lofipoppunk that seems to be everywhere now, check out some DINOWALRUS:
In the future, they will probably narrow their focus a bit, and not cram as many ideas into their next album. Pete is currently working on two recording side projects, one is an album of stadium metal and the other one is a baggy Madchester acid house record.
There will be no trek to SXSW this year for Dinowalrus, but they are doing a small mid-Atlantic tour, and a New England tour Plus, they are working on setting up a tour in April of California with Tempo No Tempo. They are playing a show tomorrow (1/30) and also next Thursday (2/4)…
Dinowalrus is on Myspace.
Dinowalrus is on Facebook.
Kanine Records is here.
igetrvng is here.
IMPOSE Records is here.
Insound page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.
UPDATE: Buke And Gass is working on a new album right now
UPDATE: I totally forgot about that EP of reworked The Forms songs that was announced last year. We heard there are a lot of awesome guests on it. Matt Berninger of little band known as The National is one name that was thrown around. I suppose the EP is being meticulously tweaked in the band’s recording studio. I assume the EP will be released this year.
Oh, and I’m sure no one will notice a new release from LCD Soundsystem.
NOTE: you can click on the album names for pre-ordering/more album info.
If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should think about installing the DownThemAll! Firefox extension.
BJ Rubin’s blog of his audio archiving activities is just flat out awesome. Furthermore, we look forward to more interesting releases from his record label, Dick Move. This years’ releases include recordings by Knyfe Hyts and Teengirl Fantasy plus let’s not forget the sandwich.
UPDATE: totally forgot to add an honorable mention for these fine blogs.
So this post contains (pretty much) all of my favorite mp3s from 2009. I have not put them in any sort of preferential order. These are sorted by artist in alphabetical order.
Take your time, scroll slowly, there are some real gems here. You may notice some big names missing here. Well, you know you can find those mp3s elsewhere (right?).
I will be putting up best of 2009 posts all week, so make sure you check back here soon. Also, if you haven’t already, you should check out largehearted boy’s 2009 Year-End Online Music Lists. Good stuff.
Without any further ado, I present the Top 109 Downloadables of 2009.
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