I think ur a dickey, I think ur an ascot
Say what you will about Bret Easton and the Ellises Bret Eater Ellis Islands Dudes and the Ivy League Bros Vampire Weekend, I forgive the fact that they booked lit/music events with me TWICE and then had to cancel to be superfamous, because they rock.
These guys worship at the alter of the Yamaha…or the Casio…wtfev…and for that they are respected. Also they like Peter Gabriel-or, more importantly, Peter Gabriel likes them.
They have a new song, released today after a lengthy countdown on a landing page (that’s media marketing terminology for “dumb page that counts the visits to inflate the egos behind it”), called “Horchata”, and it is awesome.
And you can bet your popped collar we’ll be calling U A Contra very soon, to the sound of paradise in the background.
VW, Vampire Weekend soldout
Hi, this is Russ, and I’d like to introduce you to soldout-another music blog in the endless stream of them. Maybe soldout will be funnier than your favorite music blog, maybe it will be more cutting-edge, maybe it will just discuss fewer bands with animals for names. Maybe it’ll just pop across your radar once, like that Britney Spears song.
(No, not that one: the one about being on your radar. Yeah, that one.)
Either way, a very, very talented team of people who I pay in candycakes full of snowdreams will be augmenting the brilliance here with their own words, pictures, and sounds, and other stuff that’s good for your eyes and ears, too.
And that, as they say, is that.
<3 from Russ (and Team)
introduction 