12 Songs: Val(i)entine
The dust is finally clearing after an eventful week.
On Friday, we held our first installment in the Inherent Bummer Live series, which was a complete barn burner. Read more about that and check out photos here. Expect more to come on that end of things.
In other news: looks like the aliens are finally here. And just in time for V-Day! Thousands across the nation are currently busy fashioning tin-foil hats out of Ferrero Rocher wrappers.
All this has left us feeling a bit scatterbrained, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing; at the very least, it makes for interesting and erratic playlists as is the case with this week’s. Featuring:
Spacemen 3, whose whole vibe centers around the question: “what if Lou Reed had been abducted by aliens in the seventies?” or perhaps more accurately, “what if Lou Reed was an alien?”
“Tubeway Army,” the kings of space-punk.
Angel Olsen, one of the finest soft-rock soothsayers out there right now.
Anika. A recommendation from our friend Mike of the Mystery Lights. Produced by Geoff Barrows, her self-titled debut is essentially a Beak> album in disguise. —Jackson Todd
[above artwork: The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch]
