exalt and illuminate

Ghetto Love- Spinnerette
FUN VIDEO! FUNKY SONG! i love the faces coming out of her head. and the top hat. and that electric guitar. those crazy fucking psychedelic backgrounds courtesy of Liam Lynch (Mr. United States of Whatever himself...damn i love that song too).
i am screaming HEYs and doing karake kicks around my room to this, is so fun right now! try it.
seriously, go try it.


you sold your heart for the primal experience.

summer lovin'

Nylon Summer Playlist 2009
free on itunes right now.
i love nylon magazine.
but how i love passion pit, lissy trullie, crystal antlers, and the pains of being pure at heart.
oh yeah and i love things that are free.
especially MUSIC!
go dl it now!

time after time

lying in my bed, i hear the clock tick and think of you
caught up in circles, confusion is nothing new

flashback-warm nights-almost left behind
suitcases of memories, time after...

sometimes you picture me-i'm walking too far ahead
you're callng to me, i can't hear what you've said

then you say- go slow- i fall behind
the second hand unwinds

after my picture fades and darkness has turned to gray
watching through windows- you're wondering if i'm ok....

free music isn't always illegal

Insound- the indie rock informers
http://www.insound.com/mp3/mp3s.php

Insound rocks. its my new favourite stop for free new music to decide what music i'm going to buy, dl illegally, check out locally at shows. please bookmark and check back frequently for new music as it emerges to see what you like and what you don't. thats all. just a helpful cool music tip from me. (they have band info, gear, shows, etc. on their kick ass site too)

if wishes were horses...

i wish i owned this to wear to the park right now and lay out in.
i love the retro high waisted shorts-skirt? and the bra top.
and that lovely gray Prada bag for a picnic (aka a bottle of wine)....
such a lovely day outside in nyc...and such a lovely outfit i wish i had.

i know you'll fade in time

Faster- Rachel Yamagata

this is a little more acoustic than the version from her album i've been jamming to on my iPod on many a subway ride this week.
i love the tone of her crackly voice and these lyrics. the song really just captures how i have been feeling lately. i am just going faster than i have ever before. i commend ms. yamagata for this story she paints with this song. so grungy edge, angry alt grrl rock. my fav. its funny i never understood her huge cult like appeal for a long time, but anthems like this really proved me wrong. so yeah i totally dig now. enjoy!


i feel what i'm feeling, i should've been feeling it all along

what's black and white and grey all over?

'an emotive label on a non-linear path'

so stunning, stolen from a susie bubble post a few days ago
it literally made me drool. no joke, the salivary glands in my mouth started to over produce.
my mouth was watering over this look. the dress. the necklace. the hair. the shoes. the makeup. the stance. the lighting. le sigh.
Gail Sorronda
from her Spring/Summer 2010 'Invasive Exotics' Collection

oh how the exotic is erotic......

how do i feel for thee?

crystal castles
courtship dating

eyes roll
beat by beat
shake your shoulders
how can you not dance to these guys?

eyes roll back around
they're blowing up right now
and with the awesome tunes to back the success up
just on the bandwagon kids
people will notice
you will instantly be cooler
yes they live up to the hype
start listening to the album now
it'll be played at all the cool kids parties this summer

make you participate
(show them to my friends)

i'm haunted by your eyes...

Au Revior Simone- Shadows
first single off of Still Night, Still Bright
out today
the new album is very electro. more so than their former albums. but its classic ARS. sweet and indie female vocals. albums on sale on itunes now or 7" vinyl at most indie record stores worth their weight.
i need to go one of their shows. soon. i haven't seen them live yet, and i wish i had been at this union pool show. le sigh.
damn they are a delight.

...don't blame it on your shadow....

another stand out for me, Trace a Line.

All or Nothing from the album as well. lalalalala

everywhere is somewhere baby

italian nostaglia

some vintage prada for you to feast on. the deep jewel tone colours, the ethnic prints. sheen of the fabrics, the box shift dress shape, strappy interesting shoes, the hot pants (short shorts?), cinched belted waists, turbans. all so now, so relevant. so retro. so easy to re-interpret and make your own. this summer is all about those legs. i am so inspired by these images...more from this collection. it really was phenomenal. it moves me. (unfortunately in the shopping direction, fortunately into some new styles)

saturday morning cartoons

you're pain's gigantic but it's not as big as your ego

whats up:
Peaches tonight! can't wait to fuck the pain away...
Bjork review half written...but the village voice one was out-of this-world!
loving the new Camera Obscura album-My Maudlin Career, i have been playing the title track on repeat all week.

i am hoarding tons of fashion for your eyes to feast on...keep your eyes open for the Tracy Feith for Target line it goes on sale in the next few days-some pieces are SO CUTE(having issues uploading the pics to blogger, the colours go x-ray...wtf oops)

sing the city's lullaby

Music Hall of Williamsburg
Bat for Lashes, opener: Lewis & Clarke
May 2, 2009

i went with my dear friend, AM, who not as well versed in ms. khan's greatness as i but i believe she is now a convert. i was eagerly awaiting this show. the new album has enchanted me from the get go. many of my friends went to her manhattan show, where she was dressed up and brought them to tears. well this show, in her former hometown& where her ex still does, i believe this to have made it a bit more low-key, she came out bare foot in her optical illusion, black&white striped jumper with black sheer madonna-esque fingerless gloves (another of khan's new trademarks). the stage was embezzled, as at all the shows on this tour, with rows of virgin mary statues on the monitors and other light-up religious figurines on speakers and amps, fringed lamps and tapestries surrounded the keyboard. we sat in the balcony at stage left, audience right, we had a perfect peeking view of the keyboard. her voice was haunting, magical and as close to perfect as i can guess, as transportative as the tapestry of stories her lyrics weave. she sounded just like the album (not in the bad way, the good way, that her album has captured her pure tone and performance quality) with that added live show charm. i couldn't have asked for more...other than an even longer set. she did an encore of Daniel (repeated) but more grand and lengthier than the first, perhaps to send a message to the the ex who was obviously in the audience? she opened with my new personal favourite Glass, which had less of an impact as i had hoped as the show truly built speed and strength as it continued. overall great show, can't wait for the next album and tour. below are more pics and a video from NYLON about the new album, her and natasha's aesthetic taste. its rull good, watch it. i love her.

build a ladder to the sky
sit up there and say oh my
does looking down make a me a queen


more pictures from musicsnobbery.com

concert hunting..

i have been looking at summer line-ups and feeling at a loss. i have very few tickets right now, it makes me antsy. i wonder if i am starting to get that jaded New York City been there done that attitude...sigh. Here are some of the shows that are getting me excited, stirring my soul, large groups of my friends will be in attendence at or i am vaguely interested in AND LOOKING FOR CONCERT GOING BUDDIES PRONTO.

5/16 Peaches at Terminal 7 (with half of the world and my sister)
5/20 St. Vincent at Webster Hall (have tickets)
5/29 or (6/27 @Bowery)Au Revior Simone at Music Hall of Williamsburg (i don't have tickets, but really want to go to one, who's down?)
[its the same night as Grizzly Bear, so its not sold out, because the hipsters will be elsewhere hah]
6/1-6/3 Art Brut at Merc Lounge, isn't sold out yet...(no tix yet, and how i love the brits)
6/12 School of Seven Bells at Bowery
6/13 Asobi Seksu at Music Hall of Williamsburg
6/17 Metric at Terminal 7
6/24 Camera Obscura at Webster hall(have tix,going with a friend)
6/26 Blonde Redhead at Prospect Park
7/4 Conor Oberst & Jenny Lewis (free show, i think i am so there this year)
7/8 Juana Molina at SummerStage
7/10 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart at the Seaport
7/12 DJ Lance Rock&Brobee (from YO GABBA GABBA! eeek) at SummerStage
8/1 M. Ward at SummerStage
8/7 The Wave Picture, Casiokids, Slow Club at the Seaport
8/13 Friendly Fires at Music Hall
9/28 or 9/29 FEVER RAY at Webster (HOLY COW BATMAN, if this is ANYTHING like the Knife show, EEK)



I think that is the lot. Any one have anything that is MORE EXCITING to add that i haven't found yet?
[i am contemplating All Points West, but festival shows don't do it for me like intimate small shows do now..sigh]

feathered friends

from my older prada browsing. i so love the details photos that style.com posts. they are like pieces of art in their own right.
this waist-line is divine, one shoulder and those colours, layers, textures-KNITS for spring!...and my weakness, peacock feathers. i suggest you buy one at the dollar store or craft store and add it to an outfit. to your hair, in your belt...make the feather part of you showy aviary-self this spring.

you're a liar and thats the truth

An Actor Out of Work- St. Vincent
from Annie Clark's new sophomoric album Actor
due out tomorrow, may 5th
its seems like such a rush after her 2007 first solo album, Marry Me, that i was absolutely obsessed with only last summer, but that album was a bit of a sleeper hit.
if you are in Austin tomorrow, go to the listening party with Camera Obscura @the Mohawk, i bet it will be major
this video is from the sxsw sessions from npr, i like it more than the refined video. i like her raw, her voice is so pure and sugar sweet and mixed with those groovy guitar rifts...you know i am sucker for that with a sprinkle of whimsically back beats. i have also heard The Strangers from the album...its great too [paint the black hole, blacker...] this is a delightful, light, not too in your face, but highly enjoyable album to start the summer's slew of indie hits.

i think i love you, i think i am mad
www.ilovestvincent.com

***UPDATE 5/9 Last night at the Bjork/Dirty Projectors show, I had the pleasure of meeting Annie. She was so sweet, she enjoyed the show as much as I. She was so cute and pretty. I definitely will be checking out her show at Webster hall on May 20, tickets aren't sold out yet, PLEASE JOIN ME!

i'd rather follow you...

Heavy Water (I'd Rather Be Sleeping)~Grouper
from their album-Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

heard this on a friend's myspace page and was completely taken aback. its stunning. of course they are from portland. just as Au and the other hidden gem bands are hiding up there-cultivating the genius, all making haunting synthy indie folk. they are unsigned but touring, no current NYC dates boo! (apparently they were here in december, of course i discovered them too late) but check out their myspace.com/grouperrepuorg for shows near you, even europe. i will be scouring record stores to attain a hard copy of their vinyls. Grouper's harmonies and melodies are like someone repetitively stroking your hair because they just love you or you are sad, comforting, relaxing, affectionate, subtly plucking at your heart strings and giving you peace.

.....where the deepest currents flow

let your body be your sacrifice...

Yellow Moon-Marius De Vries of the Revolution (featuring Roisin Murphy)
umm yeah I didn't even know Roisin was involved with the cuban young musician group called The Revolution. but of course she would be so ahead and be involved with this unique collaboration. this is so dance-haunting (distinct latin flavour with the gem of techno dance pop) and sooooo lovely, distinctly roisin but with a fun spicy twist that is unexpected to the ears. its got a more ethnic dance beat, but still has roisin's funky soulful lyrics. a delicious contradiction of sound. i heart the unexpected. can't wait until they make an official video as i suspect this is a youtube leak...from the forthcoming album entitled "The Revolution presents Revolution".

come with me into this secret world....let your precious bodies be unfurled
the angels are whispering

exposed zippahs

so my roomie, the now-becoming-infamous A, influences my fashion and outfits FREQUENTLY if not always, even when he isn't present, he's on my shoulder as my fashion conscience. hehe and he loves exposed zippers. then much to my surprise my mother sent me a lovely spring dress that she got on sale at Target ( i think it was miss marked, the website still says its full price). I am going to follow up this post with MORE on Target because I HAVE BEEN LOVING THEM LATELY. McQueen, and now Tracy Feith. I have much to report and discuss. But here is the surprise dress from mommy, front view.

momma did good (she rarely does but maybe she's finally learning my style and edginess. (p.s. i HATE HATE HATE the girl smiling in these pictures from the target site. i will hopefully have some of me up in the dress soon.)
i completed the look with black leggings (it was raining), a black sequined sweater, black velvet circular vintage headpieces placed perfectly asymmetrically on my head, red lips and some high strappy snakeskin platform sandals. i will attempt to remember to take pictures before i go out. i am just trying to get the hang out this blogging thing that i have been obsessed with reading and am now trying to pick up 'doing' on my own. the dress is a brushed cotton, fits like a dream in the bust except after last night, i realized needs a hook&eye at the top of the AMAZING exposed zipper because it doesn't have a lock and it kept slipping a bit which was distracting when one is mingling at a party. the volume at the bottom is not too much, and yet still just enough. the fabric is funky too, my fashion designer friend called it a 'tie-dye' print that we have been seeing so much of, but i'd almost say its like smudgy spilled inky. inkily fab. hah.

so more loveliness from the target Go International collection at stores now. similar shape and that GREAT exposed zipper.


its a play on the Leger bandage dress up top and a fraction of the price. i also see hints of Theory in this, maybe i saw some gray and black dress blocking at Bergdorfs like this, again a steal. that is recession deliciousness.

i've got so much wickedness and sin

so tonight is the night
i've been waiting for this show from feb/march was difficult but i was patient and tonight i am going to see Bat for Lashes at the at the music hall of williamsburg
Natasha Khan is kinda legendary to me, even as a newcomer on only her second album.
If you haven't already read the article about her new album, Two Suns, from FADER do it now please:

My favourite excerpt (i've entitled Glass:Interpreted; about my fav song by far on the album but honestly i really love them all a great deal at this point)

She invites the listener to float into the middle distance and picture a castle made of crystal where watchmen in the towers point to a glass knight whose heart burns bright as the sun. "Every time I get close, his heart vibrates, gets stronger and we get blinded by it," Khan says. "So I try and make him a cloak made of rainbow colors to refract the light so we can be close, but every time we do, the suns in our chests set fire to everything. In the end, the two suns burning so hotly creates a third thing, a perfect white diamond that flings into space and we become two planets constantly orbiting, basking in each others light, always separated, but there is that diamond that remains."

~From Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes' interview in FADER magazine about her new album Two Suns. This is the story behind Glass, the first track from which the album title came. She is brilliant. I can't stop praising this album and her imagery and whimsical storytelling, i am a suck for beautiful lyrics and she gets its right EVERYTIME. Everyday a new song has been speaking to me, or one of old (weeks-long) loves evolves to mean something else entirely. i think natasha and i have been through some similar life experiences lately...hmm

ALSO just found this on youtube from the later show from britain...if this is even a fraction of tonight. i will be half dead at this show. watch the magnificence.


the first single: Daniel, in all its brillance as well. (for good measure and education purposes if you haven't heard the album yet...and i know Bat for Lashes is SO underrated, so sadly there is much doubt in my heart that you haven't heard it so, thus enjoy!)

this song breaks my heart. literally. le sigh.

i don't like my hair neat

Tiga-Shoes
from the Ciao! album
so delicious...how do you not dance and sing along? i may try to go to their nyc show, even though i am broke.
this video is soo brills too. right!?!? i want to spend a day in it or have a party at it.
and I WANT HER headpiece...now. (clock&balls hehe)and THAT dress, it puts lady gaga's thierry mugler copies TO SHAME. its crystallizing all over the room..amazing. her hair and make-up is divine as well, i must try to copy that eye make-up soon. and of course...THOSE shoes. (i recognize them but i am not sure who they're by..)

what's that sound? i like that sound. i love that sound.
it's the sound of my shoes.