GIMME TINNITUS

Demitri, Chris and Kurt of Young Adults sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series.

q: What is the last song you (really) heard?

d: No Life (youtube) by Milk Music

c: Last song I really felt was February Fourteenth (mp3) by the Lilys. Goddamn.

k: Caught in a Hustle (youtube) by Immortal Technique

q: What is your favorite beverage?

d: Tie between Whiskey and Water

c: Coffee

k: Gin + Tonic/Coffee

q: What is your favorite band to see live?

d: Abe Vigoda when they were performing Skeleton. I think that mostly has to do with the fact that I was seeing one of my favorite bands in a smaller venue. If I got to see Sonic Youth at Great Scott or the Glasslands instead of Prospect Park I might have went with them.

c: Doomstar! is impressive every time I see them. Skimask is another local beast. Last time we played with them I was mesmerized and taken over by their energy. They make me grin from ear-to-ear. I had a ‘Sister Ray’ moment when I last saw MMOSS at Zuzu. They were possessed; I was possessed. I’m also REALLY looking forward to seeing The Feelies for the 4th time in a couple of weeks. Tightest band.

k: Doomstar! and Thee Oh Sees for sure!

Downloadables:
World Heart (mp3) by Abe Vigoda
The Diamond Sea (Edit) (mp3) by Sonic Youth
Night at the Movies (mp3) by Doomstar!
Wander (mp3) by MMOSS
Should Be Gone (mp3) by The Feelies
I Need Seed (mp3) by Thee Oh Sees

q: What is your favorite venue in NYC (if applicable)?

d: Judging from my limited experience with playing NYC with Young Adults I would have to say Death by Audio. I recently moved back so we should be playing here more frequently and get more venues under our belt. Ask us that again in 4-6 months.

c: Not too familiar with NYC but I love seeing bands at the Cake Shop. Death by Audio was fun to play. I’m looking forward to checking out Pianos this weekend and the cool jellyfish stage at Cameo.

k: Bruar Falls and Death by Audio where we played with Shark?.

Downloadable: I Got Friends (mp3) by Shark?

q: What piece(s) of culture are you really really excited about right now?

d: It’s impossible to ignore the phenomenon that is Odd Future. The kids can really write and produce some serious shit. I would prefer if the songs contained lyrics with significantly less rape content, but that aside, they are the freshest group to emerge from the hip hop scene in years. Like Wu-Tang bangin in your system.

Editor’s Note: There are nine free albums of the various Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All projects @ oddfuture.com/musics.

c: The Underground Summit we played in February was a fascinating local culture phenomenon. As for other phenomena, the internet’s cultural dominance continues to frighten and impress me. It’s something I think about and talk to people about all the time. Remember when growing up didn’t include a global social pedestal? Weird times.

k: I am always excited when something gets rehashed like music or fashion. It amuses me to see where people pull inspiration from next.

q: Anything we should know about your latest project (whatever that might be)?

d: It’s to early too make conclusive statements concerning our next project, but we are working on some new material that happens to feed off of our more aggressive sonic impulses. I’m not sure if the rest of the songs we write will follow this pattern, but come check some of it out this weekend and see for yourself.

c: We’ve got some noise babies in the womb right now. They’re gonna be scary babies.

Downloadables:
Let Us Out (mp3)
Campfires (mp3)
Bummer Summer (Demo) (mp3)

Streamables:

Black Hole (bandcamp)

Let Us Out (vimeo) by Young Adults (sxsw)

You can always purchase the digital version of Black Hole over @ the Young Adults’ Bandcamp.

If you like, you can still grab the whole of the Young Adults’ demo @ Mediafire.

Upcoming NYC shows:

• April 30th @ Pianos w/ Mr. Dream + YVETTE
• May 1st @ Cameo Gallery w/ Shark? + Strange Shapes + Ben Lear

And be sure to check out the rest of the q and also a series… here.

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Julian, Chuck and Sarah of Quilty sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series.

q: What is the last song you (really) heard?

j: Strangelight (youtube) by Fugazi

c: I Am A Scientist (youtube) by Dandy Warhols

s: Greenville by Grass is Green. This is a Boston band who slept on our floor last week and gave us some of their CDs in exchange. Sounds like Polvo and Chavez. Great.

Streamable: Greenville (bandcamp)

For comparison purposes…

Downloadables:
Beggars Bowl (mp3) by Polvo
The Guard Attacks (mp3) by Chavez

q: What is your favorite beverage?

s: Hell’s Belle belgian blond from Raleigh is the best beer I’ve ever tasted. Had it at The Cave in Chapel Hill, NC last time we went on tour. Wish they sold it in Brooklyn! I also drink a lot of tea–homemade ginger/lemon/cayenne/honey, or iced peppermint, or jasmine green tea, or… I’m a grandma. Oh, and Whippersnapper whiskey is a new fave.

c: I love when Brooklyn Brewery’s Post Road Pumpkin Ale appears on the shelves. Pumpkin beer is possibly the second greatest invention of all time, after guacamole.

j: Arizona Diet Raspberry iced tea in a 99 cent can. Tough to find.

q: What is your favorite band to see live?

s: We played with Space Ghost Cowboys and Ramona Cordova at Silent Barn in December. Both of them were incredible.

c: Still thinking about the Autolux show I saw last year in Philly.

j: This band from Danbury called Ovlov. They’re pals of ours and we actually once skipped an Autolux show to play with them. It was worth it. We’ve also seen Young Adults dismantle a couple of rooms now. They’re from Boston…so many good bands from Boston.

Downloadables:
Time Goes By, Whatever (mp3) by Space Ghost Cowboys
Giver’s Reply (mp3) by Ramona Cordova
Audience No. 2 (mp3) by Autolux
ahhehuhah (mp3) by Ovlov
Drifting (mp3) by Young Adults

q: What is your favorite venue in NYC (if applicable)?

s: Some of our friends ran a house show space in the Bronx that we’ve played a few times. It was called Paul Shaffer’s House. The shows were basically organized around touring bands who wanna play a night in between Boston and New York. In the words of my friend Jesse Carsten, seeing a band there made you say, “Yo, last night you guys re-associated my brain with my body in an unprecedented fashion, it was also very un-American, and now I am bisexual, thanks for that–I need to reaccess my personality, and get a new haircut–you were so good, wow, really man.” Unfortunately, it has been shut down by the cops, RIP Paul Shaffer’s House.

j: To play, definitely Silent Barn. We all liked the Showpaper 42nd St. Gallery when it was around.

q: What piece(s) of culture are you really really excited about right now?

c: http://poophaikus.blogspot.com

s: The second season of Archer! Also Big Sausage Pizza. Google it.

j: The approval matrix in New York magazine.

q: Anything we should know about your latest project (whatever that might be)?

j: Quilty‘s been working on our second album for almost six months now. It’s called Masonic and it’s a concept album with a concept that only Sarah seems to be able to understand. We’re going to release it with a companion comic book as well. The thing is, we self-released our first album and while it was a good experience, I think we’re hoping to find someone to work with us and help us put this one out. In the mean time, we want to drum up some interest by releasing a steady stream of tracks for free on our Bandcamp. We did two in October and we’ve got a bunch more in the works.

c: That album is so secret even I don’t know much. Anything I should know about it?

s: I’m playing Stephen Malkmus in an all-female Pavement cover band called Babement. This is not a joke. It is insanely awesome.

Downloadable:
In The Guts (mp3)
Lizard Queen (mp3)
Chris on the Beach (mp3)

You can download the Quilty Sampler @ soundcloud.com/coolingpierecords.

You can purchase Quilty merch @ quilty.bigcartel.com.

And here are the deets for the FORBIDDEN BABE TOUR ‘11…

• 5/6 – Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands w/ Spacer Ace, Lost Boy, Doldrums, The Library Is On Fire
• 5/7 – Boston, MA (TBA)
• 5/9 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie w/Creepoid, Ancient Creatures, The Love Dimension
• 5/10 – Baltimore, MD (TBA…help?!)
• 5/11 – Charlottesville, VA @ Magnolia w/The Fire Tapes
• 5/13 – Atlanta, GA @ The Highland Inn
• 5/14 – Nashville, TN @ The FooBar
• 5/15 – Louisville, KY @ Derby City Espresso w/The Blind Shades + tba
• 5/16 – Bloomington, IN
• 5/17 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vollrath w/Learner Dancer, John Rambo & the Vietnam Wars
• 5/18 – Columbus, OH @ Rumba Cafe w/Narrow & the Brights, Love Culture
• 5/19 – Chicago, IL @ The Honky Tonk
• 5/20 – Royal Oak, MI @ UHF Records (in-store, all ages)
• 5/20 – Detroit, MI @ Northern Lights Lounge
• 5/21 – ???
• 5/22 – New York, NY

And be sure to check out the rest of the q and also a series… here.

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Streamable: Let Us Out (vimeo) by Young Adults (sxsw)

Downloadable: Let Us Out (mp3)
 
 
Streamable: Not Like Any Other Feeling (vimeo) (as seen) by The Thermals

Downloadable: Not Like Any Other Feeling (mp3)
 
 
Streamable: Texas Stampede by EULA

Downloadable: Texas Stampede (mp3)

 
 
Streamable: King of the Beach (feat. Snacks the cat) (youtube) by WAVVES

Downloadable: King of the Beach (mp3)
 
 
 

It’s time again to look back, reflect, and contemplate… what were we listening to one year ago?

Listen to the February 2010 Mix and find out.

Downloadables:

1. Years (Five – Eight) (mp3) by Starscream
2. Danger Mountain (Training Montage Remix by Makeup and Vanity Set) (mp3) by Anamanaguchi
3. Napping Captain (Dark Party Remix) (mp3) by Jogger
4. The History of Time Travel (mp3) by Back to the Future the Ride
   (d/l the Back to Back to the Future the Ride EP @ deathbombarc.com)
5. (live @ WFMU 1/5/2010 part 3) (mp3) by GDFX
   (d/l more GDFX @ FMA)
6. Kim ILL (mp3) by Foot Village
7. Scissor (mp3) by Liars
8. Shark’s Tooth (mp3) by Archie Bronson Outfit
9. Bummer Summer (mp3) by Young Adults
   (d/l the Demo 2010 @ Mediafire)
10. Clean Vs. Dirty (mp3) by SUSU
11. The Awkward Circuit Boards (Or: Look Out! I Think I’m Going To FEEL!) (mp3) by THE FIELD RECORDINGS
    (d/l The Sad Cataloguers @ tfrjournal.wordpress.com)
12. Art Czars (mp3) by Japandroids
13. Crying Underwater (mp3) by Cloud Nothings
14. The Monk (mp3) by True Womanhood
15. Rustic Arcadia (mp3) by Campfires
16. A Dream (mp3) by Magnetic Island
17. Teenage Whore (mp3) by Dinosaur Feathers

You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. You have many choices ahead of you. Listen.

If you haven’t done it already, make sure you check out the other monthly mixes.

And if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers:

Insound | Amazon MP3 | eMusic | Other Music

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.

On Friday night, you will have the chance to checkout the band that put out Black Hole, one of our favorite albums of last year. The band is called Young Adults. They hail from Allston, Mass. They look something like this:

Young Adults are playing Death by Audio along with Shark? and Slow Animal this Friday evening. It is so worth trekking out to South 2nd Street for this one.

I went and compiled some of their mp3s that are readily available on the internet. Turn the volume on your computer speakers up and enjoy this Young Adults Mixtape. Listen.

Downloadables:
Drifting (mp3)
Bummer Summer (mp3)
Rip It Up (Demo) (mp3)
Campfires (mp3)
Annulation (Demo) (mp3)
Wasting Time (mp3)

Or you could just stream the whole album using the bandcamp widget below.

Streamable: Black Hole (bandcamp)

You can buy Black Hole from the band at their upcoming shows, though from what I hear the band is looking to repress the record so supplies may be limited.

You can always purchase the digital version of Black Hole over @ the Young Adults’ Bandcamp.

If you like, you can still grab the whole of the Young Adults demo @ Mediafire.

Upcoming NYC shows:

• January 21st @ Death by Audio w/ Shark? + Slow Animal
• February 19th @ Bruar Falls w/ Sweet Bulbs + White Laces + Arches

Update: Looks like the Bruar Falls show fell through.

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Editor’s Note: I should also give a shout out to Kohwi who is playing @ Cameo Gallery tomorrow. If maybe you can split your time between shows, that would probably be ideal. Oh, and Kohwi did put out Hidden Trees… one of my favorite free albums last year. You can preorder the cassette tape of Hidden Trees @ WONDER BEARD and you can d/l it @ Mediafire.