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How To Pick Up Girls

Franklin Snarl — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:51:04 +0000

“Girls aren’t really that confusing…” First saw this on the most excellent VH1 Classic one late night and was instantly hooked. It took me over two years to track down a worn copy of the LP at the lamentably defunct Music Baron but damn was it time well spent. What an absolutely brilliant album. But it’s now [...]

Drink me

Battlestar Marktasstica — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:39:51 +0000

Some Alice in Wonderland “chill-out” from a guy named Pogo. There is another song which I like better and is great to mix with. Abstract vocals are so much more interesting. For a more interesting way to cats talk to each other on you tube, go here.

Here We Go Magic

Franklin Snarl — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:51:58 +0000

Yes, the bandwagon has already departed Brooklyn full-steam ahead with the brilliant Here We Go Magic it's never too late to hop onboard for a trip this aurally blissful, right? Check out "Tunnelvision" and "Fangela"

So Bored

Franklin Snarl — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:09:10 +0000

Wavves "So Bored" Music Video

La Mort? Petit. The Joy? Formidable!

Franklin Snarl — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:46:35 +0000

With this banned video for 'Austere', Welsh fuzz-poppers The Joy Formidable is already an early odds-on favorite for mtvU's Woodie of The Year Award ;)

Desolation Row is a Pretty Fun Place To Be

Franklin Snarl — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:23:19 +0000

In about 2 weeks, I might be kicking myself for admitting to enjoying a My Chemical Romance track. But til then, Desolation Row is the place to be.

Sick and Tyred of Times New Viking?

Franklin Snarl — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:51:06 +0000

Just about a year ago, I started up this here blog for the sole purpose of sharing my newfound crush on Times New Viking with a few pals. Since then, I’ve affectionately etched a well-worn groove into each of their proper LP’s Dig Yourself, The Paisley Reich and my own gateway drug to the euphoria [...]

OARS. (Don’t be up a creek without em.)

Franklin Snarl — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:09:55 +0000

The notorious Safetybear (aka David Bratton) — all-around swell dude and one of Tass Times’ most reliable sources for great new music to check out — also happens to comprise 50% of the rad electro-pop duo Oars. They were recently profiled over at Stay Thirsty Media and answer the question you know you’ve been dying [...]

Sexy Kids - “Sisters Are Forever”

Franklin Snarl — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:00:08 +0000

Sometimes, when the weather in NYC on a Sunday in February hands you a little tease of the springtime to come, makes you feel just like… a sexy kid.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - “Everything With You”

Franklin Snarl — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:40:36 +0000

You know how on some rare and exhilarating mornings you wake up to a “new favorite band”? Well dang if ol gal Pitchfork didn’t deliver just that today by way of its spot-on review of the new eponymous LP by fuzz-pop revivalist geniuses The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. I won’t bother trying to concoct a [...]

Crystal Stilts - “Prismatic Room”

Franklin Snarl — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:26:28 +0000

Crystal Stilts‘ US label Slumberland describes the band as “50s/early 60 rock thump meets Suicide buzz and post-punk chill. Essential garage-pop for these troubled times.” Right on. Check out the Alight of Night LP and fall in love with Crystal Stilts.

Better Trends, bro. 2009… it’s so on.

Franklin Snarl — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:00:18 +0000

Is it just me or does everything feel really good right now? Awesome new president (who can speak English — well! — and actually knows what a blog is!)… the last year we have to deal with not really knowing what to call this decade (naughts, or, something?)… and an economy that, despite its heinous effect [...]

Songs For a Chocolate Brown 1985 Westfalia As Heard Through an iPal Speaker

Kingpin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:55:56 +0000

For no good reason we recently bought a chocolate brown 1985 Westfalia. The purchase fell squarely into the category of vanity. This was before the gas spike this Summer and the financial meltdown of the Fall. In other words, simpler times. The question on everyone’s lips is: What constitutes the perfect road mix for this vehicle [...]

Vampire Weekend (w/Chromeo) @ The 2008 mtvU Woodie Awards

Franklin Snarl — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:19:42 +0000

Seems de rigueur in the blogosphere to hate on Vampire Weekend lately (guess their 15 minutes of indie-darling-immunity-challenge cred are officially up) but these 3 clips from this year’s mtvU Woodie Awards show them doing what they do best. Was lukewarm on the enjoyable, but not mindblowing, fun first album. After seeing them live, though, [...]

Teh Internets Killed the Video Star

Franklin Snarl — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:23:53 +0000

MTV’s got a pretty rad new site up that makes finding non crappy-ripped-from-that-VHS-tape-circa-1987-quality (coughcoughyoutube) music videos easy - and kind of fun (love the search by label and director feature.) So, in honor of the channel that once killed the radio star (yes, I AM looking at you Boston,) please press play and enjoy. Then share [...]

Mellifluous Marnie

Franklin Snarl — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:02:23 +0000

Ms Stern may have fallen a bit short of the world record for longest album title but it’s probably no contest that This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That will [...]

Weddoe Shreddoe

Franklin Snarl — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:19:19 +0000

Tass Times’ very own, and unambiguously charming, Tinto Puerco shall be joining the obliquely infamous Franklin Snarl, Esq. to celebrate their 1-year of togetherhood pseudonomically, and otherwise, at Bowery Ballroom’s presentation of the eternally entertaining Wedding Present this October. And so, for your pre-vicarious viewing pleasure, we hereby present a solid example of the unparalleled [...]

Keep feeling….

Battlestar Marktasstica — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:26:30 +0000

I’m still feeling the fascination from this song. It is, as other posters will say, “the perfect pop song”. And then the conversation turned. And many fantasies were learned. On that, and future, days. The synth link is so good and difficult to recreate today due to wanna-be technology. If I remember correctly, some former members of [...]

Nortec Collective

Franklin Snarl — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:56:41 +0000

According to their Myspace page, “Nortec Collective emerged from the burgeoning Tijuana electronic scene, performing a style of music that they invented called Nortec - a fusion of Norteño (”from the North”) and Techno, documenting the collision between the style and culture of electronica music, characterized by hard dance beats, and samples from traditional forms [...]

TRS-80

Franklin Snarl — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:28:53 +0000

You could get TRS-80’s “The New You” on limited edition blue vinyl or just save up the cash for one of these. Either would be money well spent…

Je Veux Te Voir

Franklin Snarl — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:04:30 +0000

’nuff said.

Welcome …back

Franklin Snarl — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:00:35 +0000

Last year SafteyBear introduced us to the supremely catchy Seattle-based band Welcome. Somehow stumbled upon this super-cool vid at work today (wow, Vimeo is still in business?! Take that YouTube!) and have got them back in heavy iTunes rotation once again. Enjoy… Go buy Sirs. Seriously. Come on, you know you haven’t bought any music [...]

Six Post-1970s Eno Vocal Treatments

Lance — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:05:02 +0000

“And Then So Clear” (from the 2005 album Another Day On Earth) very well may be my favorite thing he’s ever done. In the video below, Eno discusses the process he used to distort his voice for this and other tracks on that album.

Saturdays = Youth

Franklin Snarl — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:41:28 +0000

Is it just this spring weather messing with my head or has M83 figured out what happened with Duckie and Andie that summer after the prom…? You couldn’t buy her, though, that’s what’s killing you, isn’t it? Stef?

Portishead Studio Performance

Battlestar Marktasstica — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:31:25 +0000

“Third” is out soon too.

My Remix of Nude

Battlestar Marktasstica — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:17:18 +0000

It’s humbling to see that so many people are capable of creating truly moving music. The Radiohead Remix competition Radiohead Remix is filled with some pretty great interpretations of their recent track ‘Nude’. I made an interpretation of my own and posted it today. For your enjoyment: Nude - Battlestar Remix

Selections From “The Copulatin’ Blues Compact Disk”

Lance — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:14:38 +0000

From Alan Greenberg’s editorial review on Amazon.com: “For the last century and more, the only place in a black American’s world safe from the bossman’s grasp has been the bedroom. A sense of this freedom in all its audacious raunch and hilarity fairly leaps from this brilliant anthology of bawdy blues recordings from the late 1920s [...]

No Age

Franklin Snarl — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:56:09 +0000

Ever since our pal The Daniel Arnold turned us onto No Age’s album Weirdo Rippers, we’ve been hooked on the noisy guitar/drums/vocal punch of LA dynamic duo Dean Spunt and Randy Randall. Recently, Battlestar Marktasstica noticed they will be at Bowery on May 6th (conveniently timed to the same day as their new SubPop LP ‘Nouns’ [...]

Hey Man, What’s Your Style?

Senor Pulpo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:44:29 +0000

The late, great Lou Reed.

how did anyone not KNOW?

Battlestar Marktasstica — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:37:53 +0000

Club Tropicana