Deerhunter "Monomania" - 2013 LP

Before you go to LACMA there's a couple things to do.  The first thing is to avoid the internet and televsion all day prior to your visit.  The second is go to Molly Malone's and have a Jameson neat with a Black and Tan back.  Once you've walked through the current exhibition showing make your way to the second floor of the Ahmanson Building.  On the east wall is a painting titled "The Room".  The painting is by master, Philip Guston.  It's a large painting and it is spectacular.  At first glance the painting looks simple.  Then colors begin to unfold.  Shapes and motions from a palette knife begin to test the viewer.  The painting is subtle but aggressive.  It has great violence.  Deerhunter's "Monomania" is their most provocative album to date.  Bradford Cox confronts the listener.  Shoves him a bit in a great way.  After a few listens you might want to repeat the second step a few times:

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Deerhunter "Neon Junkyard" mp3

Deerhunter "T.H.M." mp3

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Kurt Vile "Wakin On A Pretty Daze" - 2013 LP

My 15yr old self stretches out his left arm.  I am not making a move in a movie theater or trying to catch a football.  I am reaching for a spliff.  An Alabama green grass hog leg.  Wesley Pipes.  A left-handed cigarette.  And wait just a goddamn minute....I have a ripped flannel shirt on, shaggy hair, and I should be in school.  Dinosaur Jr. is blaring and the whiskers on my chin look like catfish barbels .  Well, Jesus H......I'm a burnout.  Happens to the best of us....but sometimes burnouts get a fire under their ass.  Kurt Vile did.  J. Mascis did.  And even I did.  Kurt Vile's new album is mature.  Blissful stoner sonic waves carrying you off on a pillow of smoke......one of the best of 2013:

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Kurt Vile "Wakin On A Pretty Day" - mp3

Kurt Vile "Too Hard" - mp3

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Boogarins "As Plantas Que Curam" - 2013 EP

Olá meus amigos americanos. Eu sou o "wino-strut Português". Moro em São Paulo e mastiga perfeitamente barbeado caixa allday. Eu crio arte também. Meu meio é goo e pinto no queixo.  Estou aqui para falar sobre a "Tame Impala brasileira". Uma banda chamada "Boogarins". Eles são rad e o "wino-strut americano" adoraria que você escavá-los também. Ciao para agora:

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Boogarins "Lucifernandis" mp3

Boogarins "Infinu" mp3

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Lasso "Real Lasso" - 2013 EP

And this track....oh man:

Lasso "_!_" mp3

Surly Gates "March of the Fur Creatures" - Video

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