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First allow me to introduce myself. I am Friend, an extremely famous DJ from London, England. I am here to show you little city Minneapolites how we boogie it in a real city. You may think you are cool, you may think you are hip, but you just don’t match up to me. My posts will be far superior to any of the others’.

Now let’s get down to business shall we. This is Bobby Nunn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Nunn). But wait, born in 1925? That’s right folks - that’s not even him! Ha ha. Yes, he is so exclusive he doesn’t even have a wikipedia entry. I’m so great.

Bobby Nunn - Sexy Sassy

If you live in Winnipeg you should come party with us tonight here:

Then if you live in Minnesota you should welcome us home tomorrow night here:

Then if you can’t do either of those at least listen to this sweet track… I’m a sucker for weird poppy Tahiti 80 like shit.

Waldorf - You’re My Disco

I’ve been waiting a long time for this track to surface and it finally has! Big ups to http://robotsinheat.com/ for the file.

Night Moves - Transdance (New York Disco Mix)

Here is the special edition gold print t-shirt for Honeymoon this Friday. We thought it would be cool to have a t-shirt that just says “honeymoon.” We also are making this edition a V-NECK t-shirt because girls kept complaining that they don’t like regular necks. Well HERE YA GO. V-NECK. GOLD PRINT. NO BRAND NAMEZ LOL F*CK CORPORATIONS. AMERICAN MADE. GOLD. LIMITED EDITION. GOLD. AMERICA. GOLD. AMERICA. V-NECK. GOLD.

$10 ONLY AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR. Sweeeet.

Hi, I’m James and I basically make two kinds of posts. The kind where I talk about rap music and the kind where I talk about new bands. This is one of the ones where I talk about new bands.

Vivian Girls - Telepathic Love

This is a song by the Vivian Girls. The Vivian Girls are three girls from Brooklyn who play music. The genre tags on their Myspace Page are “Punk”, “Surf”, and “Shoegaze”, and I mean that’s actually sort of accurate I guess?

They have an album coming out on Mauled By Tigers, which I guess put out Matt and Kim at one point, but after the initial pressing by them, it’s going to be reissued by In The Red, which put out Black Lips and Jay Reatard and King Khan & The BBQ Show and The Dirtbombs and a bunch of other stuff I don’t really like that much. But I really like the Vivian Girls.

They were supposed to play a show here at Future Pasture in June, but a little over a week ago the city shut the venue down and all the shows were cancelled. It might be relocated or something, I don’t know. Hopefully the dudes that run the space get their entertainment license game correct or the show can be relocated to somewhere else, and hopefully wherever they end up playing doesn’t smell really bad and have fat bald peeps throwing elbows everywhere.

XYX - Anel and her Problem

This is a song by XYX, from Monterrey, Mexico. Their bio reads thusly:

It took the mathematicians 4 months and several acid trips to create this bizarre project with just a bass, a drum set and a lot of delay. Mou (from Bam Bam) and Señorita Anhelo (from Mamá Burger) gave birth to a whole album in just 2 days in the studio. SISTEMA DE TERMINACIÓN SEXUAL is the name of their first 4 track 7″ wich S-S RECORDS (Sacramento, CA) put out.

Obviously they are awesome.

Two nu-ish acquisitions.
“Morten is from a small Norwegian fishing village - He’s 22 - His Dad improbably spent many years in New York and the records that he brought back encouraged in Morten a love of American house and disco - The rest of his sonic pallette comes from his surroundings……”
This new one from the most excellent Tirk label gets the knees bouncing and the arms pumping. Is there some dub in there too?

Morten Sorenson — Visage

This second is the best contemporary caper car car chase for cunts I have heard. (Look at all those C’s!)

40 Thieves — Theme From Nutrider

Lastly, this ones for the moms (from de blog de turntables):

That new Annie song sucks.

If you don’t visit urban dictionary as much as I do, or you are not from Texas like Jonathan is, you do not know what “Lean” is. Here are the particulars:

To create Lean, a popular drink originated from Houston Texas, you require the following for the original formula:

-Promethazine w/Codeine VC < - Sizzurp (active ingredient)
-Original Sprite Soda <- Mixing ingredient (although different flavors of sprite are now used, such as sprite remix)
-Jolly rancher candy <- Flavor additive

Put it all in a styrofoam cup and enjoy. The codeine is mainly responsible for the euphoric feeling after drinking lean. Promethazine causes motor skill impairment, lethargy, extreme drowsiness, as well as a disassociative feeling from all other parts of the body, specifically the stomach and digestive system. If it doesn't have promethazine w/ Codeine, it isn't real sizzurp.

The mixed drink combination known as "lean", is normally the color purple, due the added ingredient sizzurp, which is originally a dark purple syrup. There are other colors of sizzurp which can be added to create lean, but the purple is the true sizzurp

Lean does not contain ANY form of alcohol, crushed pills, or other liquids in general.

Lean is also known as Sizzurp, also known as Purple Drank. It has claimed the lives of Texas rap luminaries DJ Screw and Pimp C, and Lil’ Wayne has made no secret of the fact that he’s addicted to the shit. Since going public with that information, he’s been under all kinds of pressure to quit - his conflicted relationship with his drank has now become the subject of an auto-tune love ballad that is totally, totally awesome.

Lil’ Wayne - Me and My Drank

So let me first say this content is credited to the wonderful blog Winnie Cooper but I figured its Friday and we just want to see bros dancing to Justice mashups.

The part I don’t get is that this bro looks like he lives out in a really small rural town. You know… he’s the bro with the transformer belt buckle and new era cap. He’s the “class clown” in his graduating class of 97 kids. I mean all these things paired with his “robot” are key components to being the underground funny popular kid in a small high school, right? However, then I look out the window and see what looks to be a decent form of civilization… ouch.

0verthruster - Closer Vocals

0verthruster knows what’s goin on. He knows how to make a mean salmon dip too.

0verthruster Myspace

So we’ve been cooking up some stuff with DJ Neoteric and Dubsided. I can’t give away too many details but all I am going to say is this summer will be offfffff the chain if things work out. Stay tuned.

In the meantime enjoy this re-edit track
because I got CHEEESEEE TOWN TWIRLING THROuuuGH MY MIIIINDDDD.

The Bucketheads - The Bomb (Armand Van Helden Re-Edit) 320KBPS

So, you probably know this band No Age by now. Pitchfork loves them, MTV loves them, and maybe you love them, too. One of the blogs in my RSS feed actually authored a long, passionate diatribe about how the Ed Banger thing is over and we all need to move on to real punk rock shit now.

I mean I laughed, but this shit is probably going to happen. I wasn’t paying attention really, because you know, like, I like D.A.N.C.E., but there’s a bunch of small labels in the South and on the West Coast that have been putting out fuzzy lo-fi throwback shit for years now and not caring if anyone in New York gives a fuck. If you like No Age or Times New Viking or Jay Reatard then all of their friends have bands that you’re going to be hearing about, too.

I’m not like, totally psyched on this shit. I bought White Light/White Heat and Sister when I was in high school too but I guess I was too worried about waking my parents up to play my guitar that loud. Whatever. I’ve listened to a bunch of stuff like this over the past couple of years and I can’t claim any authority but out of all this stuff this is the shit I like:

Home Blitz - Stupid Street

Home Blitz is from Princeton, NJ. This song was apparently recorded on the street, outside their house, with battery powered amps.

Finally Punk - Boyfriend Application

Finally Punk is a bunch of cute girls from Austin. If you read blogs you might have heard “What the fuck, Missle?” show up on some of them last year. I get kind of scowly whenever I hear people talk about punk coming back, because to me punk is like, smelly assholes with bad tattoos moshing. The whole reason people started calling it “indie rock” instead of “punk” was because girls couldn’t go to punk shows without getting groped or worse by macho assholes in mosh pits. There are YouTube videos of Finally Punk shows where no one moshes at all and the singer wanders around in the crowd harmlessly so this seems OK right now but I’m keeping an eye on it.

Mika Miko - Too Cute To Puke

Mika Miko is a band of girls from Los Angeles. So sayeth their wikipedia entry: “In 2004 they gained local popularity for their frenetic live performances which emulate being at a party and often take place at parties.”

Man what do you even say to that?

Tonight at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis. Anyone going?

I woke up Sunday morning still drunk only to find this Polaroid in the back pocket of my neon paint covered jeans. I think it sums up the weekend pretty well. You have me with my head down looking sick as fuck after ten shots of patron, Jonathan reaching for the computer to prevent me from trainwrecking, and then a random space girl putting more paint on all of us, something everyone can relate to. What would you do if you found this picture out of context?

Truth of the matter is I don’t actually remember much of Saturday. I wish I didn’t get so reckless because the space party looked like it went off. Asher from The Glamour joined us at the end of the night and I see a bottle of whiskey in his hands. That is probably what put me over the edge. Anyway these photos clue me in to how it went though. Thanks to WI for partying with us and don’t forget to check out the party photos if you went! Link on the top right.

Also photos from Hotel and our recent trip to California have been uploaded as well.

Wow, so next level. Probably blogged 1 million times in one week:

If the video cuts out, go here.

And from the same director, Romain Gavras: