May 26, 2017
eric dances, monica sings n spoons, jana plays kazoo, trip announces, math screams n shouts.
THE SUNS COMING UP ON THE POTOMAC RIVER
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Venezuela
seen from Canada
seen from China
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Ukraine
seen from Denmark
seen from United States
seen from United States
eric dances, monica sings n spoons, jana plays kazoo, trip announces, math screams n shouts.
THE SUNS COMING UP ON THE POTOMAC RIVER
It's Weird '90s Week on Stereogum. All week long we're looking at the strangest musical moments and trends of the decade. Check out more here. Every year, we at Stereogum hold a poll to decide our official Song Of The Summer. Every year, our readers vote and select a worthy jam like Jamie xx's "(I Know There's Gonna Be) Good Times" or Future Islands' "Seasons (Waiting On You)." And every year, it feels like a hollow exercise, eternally doomed to failure. Because there is only one true Song Of The Summer — the song of every summer, past, present, and future — and that song is Len's "Steal My Sunshine." I'm joking, of course. But the thing is, I'm only kind of joking. Because of all the nostalgia-bomb '90s pop hits in heavy rotation on karaoke machines across the nation, "Steal My Sunshine" holds the rare distinction of actually, you know, being a good song. Len were less a band than a revolving cast of characters centered on Marc Costanzo and his sister Sharon. They put out two
We had no idea this band had so much in common with our olde-school lo-fi dungeon rap aesthetic. This was an enlightening read and inspirational. Break out those samplers and mash some keys and mumble!
For example: "It was never really a band. Since I was probably 13 years old, I started getting gear, and I would record anything. I was trying to make music just to get it out. And [LIZ] comes downstairs and I’d be like, “You wanna sing on my track? Cause this could have a girl on it.” It was never, “Let’s sit down and write songs.” I mean, are they really songs, any of [NO SUNLITE'S DIP]? Everybody else, I put them in there just to say it was more than a basement project. But in reality it was just me."
it’s 2/19, no sunlite holiday! thee perfect antidote for when you ask, “will february ever end?”
we remind ourselves that we are not our machines ‘n’ saying a word can be a radical act.
a pic of some cd copies of /mt.Light.iv/ ready to have their leaves inserted. one of my favorite packages i’ve worked on.
get one: http://mtlight.bandcamp.com/merch
A call to arms for those of you hoarding memories and soaking up life...
don’t call me a hoarder just cos i love cd’s
don’t call me a hoarder just cos i read
books - that’s right - i read real dang books!
Someone in Fredericksburg is throwing their NSFTM LP’s onto the Bay with the out-there prospect of earning $50 for each rekkerd (+ shipping!). This incident is strange since we have a box or so of each of these albums left, and we sell ‘em for 10 bux apiece. However, it is rather wild to see the different copies, so I’ll break some of it down:
1. Pretty crisp copy of Hellgrammite, nothing special.
2. Original and very early copy of Psalms from a Dungeon including the garment and note on how to destroy it that were included with the first few dozen copies. This particular garment is notable for being an early silkscreened vest from Math’s Staff-in-Training days at camp with the MLR-slogan “a whole lot louder & a whole lot worse” imprinted in pink.
3. Notice the tree orientation is reversed on this Hellgrammite - from the second version of the printing when we remade the screen to go the opposite direction. Also the weird overprint with the band name. An extremely strange, rare, and ugly-looking variant.
It is so strange to think about all the copies of these LP’s that are floating around out there...sitting in racks out there...on shelves out there...and now packaged up expected to earn bucks out there.
our 2/19 gift to you is a digital upload of our 3 post-nsftm projects “maintain the light i, ii, and iii”
"the moon shines from a distance it’s desolate rock when yer on top the lights color the earth but i’m burning up when i get too close to the sun” the fang, the fang, the golden tooth by maintain the light
a lenten 2/19: for yr penance, listen to something without sunlite while you turn off yr (social) media!