Kottke-esque infodrizzle for your mid-week ebb

Since roughly one quarter of all my posts involve Chairlift because I'm too lazy to compose original long-form content, and Drew's too lazy to even look at the blog... here we go with a C-lift b-side. The year has still got two solid months left in it but it doesn't look like much good shit is gonna get written, so if Chairlift EVER decides to release their album, it will surely appear on my best-of list.

Here's a jimmy jam with a sinuous new jack beat that sounds like Paula Abdul remixed the song beneath it. This will grow on you like 5 o'clock shadow...


Best played loud

Were they listening to this when they wrote the intro?



I'm not sure, I think I've heard those bells somewhere else. Like I fell asleep at the roller rink and hypnagogically recalled a Tony! Toni! Tone! song. That ever happen to you?

Is Drew gonna (Psycho)Kill It at Tijuana Flats?

Drew just obtained what I guess will be a paid 'residency' at Tijuana Flats, a whimsical taqueria in Cary. Their nachos are quite good, as were moments of the last Drutones performance. Is he gonna push the envelope this time, though? Will he challenge people while they eat their burrito supremes with their kids after soccer practice? Will he amaze with audacious histrionics in an 'essential' solo performance that will be covered by the Cary News?

Will he show off his technical chops and diverse collection of guitars?


Drew likely has one of these instruments

Will he play an inspired set of seldom-heard classics?


This is rock 'n' roll, in case you were wondering

Or will we get another unnecessary double encore of 'Psychokiller', even though I repeatedly ask him not to play it?


The anticlimax of the previous show at Tijuana Flats.

As you can see, Drew has A LOT to live up to (or live down). Tomorrow's performance may determine whether he will ever escape the chlorinated confines of the Aquatics Center and get on the accelerated track to blog coverage, music festival bookings, and groupies out the wazoo.

Deep down, I know he can do it. It's not a matter of if- but when? Find out tomorrow, by going here HERE around 7 p.m. (and don't forget to leave a tip).

Buried in Buzz

If I start a band called 'Laserdiscs', and release a cassingle with some artwork of Urkel and a faded palm tree, with songs that I recorded while twisting knobs at Guitar Center and crooning indecipherably, that sound vaguely like 'minimal disco', what are the odds I will get a glowing write-up in all the coolest music blogs? (95 - 99.5%)?


Can I get more faded palm tree in here?