Razika — Why Have We To Wait

from Program 91 (2011)

This precious album of oh-so-catchy Norwegian pop easily made it onto my most-listened-to-in-2011 list. This particular track is a Pussycats cover, and the chorus will slay you (original here).

And now.. these vintage-1991 kids have landed in NYC. The girls have been cavorting around town, visiting the Apple Store and Coney Island too (good choice!).

I know what they’re doing tonight, too, if you’re curious. Playing at Glasslands! So come out and support them! And if you’re down in the Lone Star state right now, they are en route to SXSW.

previously on ydd

Dustin Wong @ La Sala. Monumental.

Lushlife — Big Sur

from Plateau Vision (Apr 2012)

Lushlife previews a plush, gorgeously produced track from the forthcoming album Plateau Vision. Hat tip to PopThatRocks, who says: “album is out April 17 on Western Vinyl. Don’t forget to grab Lushlife’s free mixtape from last year if you haven’t yet.”

Indeed. And this track is up for grabs at bandcamp. Record release party at Glasslands April 18th.

Trippple Nippples — Golden Road (Oli Chang Remix) (2012)

More beautiful sounds from the Tokyo dream team, Trippple Nippples, re-imagined by remix wizard Oli Chang. (you can hear the original on the Trippple Nippples soundcloud)

I was lucky enough to catch the girls’ Glasslands show last month, an audio freakout with a jaw-dropping stage show to match. Catch them if you can… (bring earplugs)

yvynyl:

In this past week the High Highs’ Oli Chang has dropped half a dozen amazing new remixes over on his Sndcld.  Don’t miss his redo of Empire of the Sun’s “Walking on the Sun” and Millionyoung “Replicants” - all stripped naked and repainted with piano and atmospherics.  Absolutely lovely.

Oh, and speaking of the women of Tokyo’s Trippple Nippples… I can’t wait to tell you about #MEGABLAAG SXSW 2012. Sayin’. Shhhh. Here. Shhhh.

Roberto Carlos Lange — Way

from Vesicle Pisces (2011)

Here’s a quiet, thrilling piece of drone from Robert Carlos Lange, aka Helado Negro. A sort of rumbling electro-acoustic odyssey, glued together with pipe organ, a subtle pleasure for your ears. It’s also free for the taking at his bandcamp.

Roberto performs this Friday 12/23 at The Stone in NYC, as part of the dublab/Luaka Bop night of programming.

Crazy interview with Sugar Pie DeSanto on WFMU’s “Fool’s Paradise” right now. This woman is something else! (And she plays the Bell House in Brooklyn on New Year’s Eve)

Happy Refugees at the Knitting Factory, Brooklyn

YACHT at Santos Party House. Never fail to impress.

Dinowalrus — Phone Home from the Edge (2010)

Spacy noise with some truly delightful guitar flurries and drum rolls, from Brooklyn’s very own Dinowalrus.

NYC folks: they play tonight (12/1) at Glasslands with Gauntlet Hair, or next Thursday 12/8 at 285 Kent. In lieu of that, check ‘em out at bandcamp.

unknown MCs and DJs, Richmond Auditorium, CA (1984)

This is nuts: a live recording of a rap show at the Richmond Auditorium, in the SF Bay Area, one night in May 1984. The audience tape is presented here in all its primitive glory, with plenty of drop-outs in the PA system and audience jeers.

This is part one of three; grab the other two at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, courtesy music collector Rob Wortman. The second part has a guy rapping in French over Chic’s ‘Good Times,’ a la Sugarhill Gang.

Trippple Nippples — LSD (2011)

Magic noise from Tokyo. These ladies are cooking up everything from glittery late-night ravers like this to cumbia-crunk dancefloor drops like ‘Drink the Haterade.’ So, so dirty.

They play Glasslands in Brooklyn 12/14 with Bermuda Bonnie, AIMES, and Knife City. Performances may include “water pistols, glitter bombs, fake blood and feathers.” You in?

soundcloud // facebook

yvynyl:

PREMIERE: Trippple Nippples - LSD

Seriously, this band.  They’re like walking explosions. That energy!  Can you imagine if they shared a stage with Born Gold? It’d be so heavy they’d cause a spontaneous black hole or a rip in the space-time continuum.  Let’s see if we can make it happen, doctor.

Also, you’re not going to want to miss the clip of them in Pharell Williams doc “Tokyo Rising”. Goodness! Lucky for us Yankees, they’re coming to America in December!  You’re not going to want to miss the action.

Previously: “M.I.A.M.I”

Psychic Ills — Mind Daze

from Hazed Dream (2011, Sacred Bone Records)

video directed by Harrison Owen

Brooklyn’s own Psychic Ills have put down the sensimilla for a second to record this hazy masterpiece of circa-1994 grungy glory, paired here with a psychedelic spectacle of oil-sheen colors. The scene at 2:25 is pure gold, and the ocean looks like lava.

The always-tuned-in Rose Kohl tells us Psychic Ills will be providing the soundtrack to the new film Dragonslayer at Williamsburg’s Public Assembly tonight. (free!) If you can’t make that, stream the new album at Soundcloud.

Street Gnar — Without Blue

from Poking The World With A Stick (2011)

Lovely lo-fi beercan rock from Case Mahan, a Brooklyn transplant from Lexington, Kentucky.

Check out his stuff for free at bandcamp… or IN PERSON! At Williamburg’s Bruar Falls this Sat 10/22 for a CMJ showcase. Set time 3pm.

His photoblog is also worth a gander.

Dominant Legs @ Mercury Lounge

Razika — Vondt I Hjertet (Pain in the Heart)

from Program 91 (Smalltown Supersound; 2011)

Razika is four Norwegian 20-year-olds who’ve known each other since age six, and have been playing music together for oh, a quarter of their lives.

These girls don’t growl. They don’t yell. What they excel at is Norwegian honey torture — dripping heart-melting pop into your ears until you want to scream “stop it! STOP IT!!!”

Regarding their ska-pop sound, FADER asked the girls earlier this year which ska bands they liked:

The Specials, Madness. But actually we listen most to Norwegian ska bands from the early ’80s. Friends of our parents played in this band Program 81 and we named our record after that band. They’re really great. They both sang in Norwegian and in English so when we discovered them we were like, Oh we can try that as well.

Norwegian ska bands from the early ’80s? The time is ripe for discovery, my friends.

Catch Razika at Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg this Friday night. Or visit them on soundcloud // myspace // facebook.