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Music For Robots
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James Wont Be Needing These

Yuck - Coconut Bible With time and hindsight, a band like Yuck can cherry pick the best elements of the last 20 years (and really only the last 20 years) of alternative music to make this incredible,...

15 feb 11

New tUnE-yArDs: "Bizness"

Shes back! tUnE-yArDs - Bizness. Man, Im so glad to hear Merrill Garbus again. I realize the whole "The records okay but youve gotta see em live, man!!" thing is the hoariest of rock cliches,...

15 feb 11

Hundreds and Thousands

Wreck Of The Zephyr - The Rolling Over Process - Live at the Hobbyshop. My friends have been doing some interesting work here in LA lately. Some of them are in the band, others are filming. Its all h...

04 feb 11

She is buried treasure

I understand that these fellas will never be everyones cup of tea, but I cant help it. They scratch a particular itch for me, musically speaking. This is one of their stronger compositions, less over...

04 feb 11

Where Brooklyn at?!

Full disclosure: Zach Sherwin, alias MC Mr. Napkins, is a good friend of mine. Ive known the dude since my improv comedy days, which also involved Robot Mark. Weird, right? Improv! Now lets never spe...

01 feb 11

Whys a girl like you messin with a boy like me?

The ACBs - Boy Like Me. Look, Im not making excuses. But theres so much going these days - Ive got a kid on the way, and January has been one big snowstorm - that listening to new music seems like bi...

27 jan 11

Stud

Like always, I am super, super late to the party. Like a slow motion Afghan Whigs, or a Mogwai that got laid once in a while, this will all sound familiar to you. Dredging the absolute bottom of the ...

19 jan 11

You Know Whats Been Done

As everyone braces their bodies for the quiet padding of snow on the east coast, and the sun sets in the west on a blandly cool day, and the folks in the middle snap and crack with frost, we all --to...

12 jan 11

I apologize - my lifes become an island.

Apex Manor - Under the Gun. I was sorry to hear that The Broken West broke up. They were one of those bands that didnt do anything flashy or innovative, they just played well-written songs, and playe...

10 jan 11

Bag Raiders

The Monkey is 2011.

03 jan 11

Happy holidays from the Internet.

Thao needs a shower curtain. Thao - Gift Card. One last Christmas song before we head off to see our families, open some presents, and drink some alcohol. This one is very practical, and gets to a ve...

24 dec 10

All the bells on earth shall ring.

Christmas music. Megafaun - I Saw Three Ships. Despite my excitement in the previous post, I have not done my musical job this Christmas season. Ive listened to A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spe...

22 dec 10

Next stop Wonderland

Christmas music! Im glad its that time of year again. I always make myself wait until the day after Thanksgiving to delve into the "Holiday" genre on my iPod, because of the risk of overexpos...

02 dec 10

Sleep in the middle of your bed.

Another entry from the Im Really Behind file. Fourth of July put out a record called Before Our Hearts Explode! back in August, and Im finally catching up with it. These guys have been putting out so...

19 nov 10

On Not Being Disappointed

There is something incredibly satisfying about watching talented people gracefully and earnestly grow up. The women here rock hard and with enough unforced urgency that we dont wish for what used to ...

16 nov 10

Fine collection, mine to show

While we were gone, stuff piled up. A lot of stuff. And with no relaunch date in sight, it was very hard to be motivated enough to check out the new music coming my way. But there are some bands I lo...

12 nov 10

Its Still Like a Secret

Watch my old friends Kristian and Tim splash around in the surf in slo-mo. Subversive comment on bullshit chill wave or just convenient because they live in SoCal? Either way Im glad theyre still at ...

11 nov 10

Dont call it a comeback!

On second thought, you should probably call it a comeback. Oh brother! Sorry for the extremely long delay, loyal Robots readers. We had some major server issues that we couldnt figure out. And after ...

11 nov 10

Goodbye, Spaghetti Western String Co.

Its rare that we here at Robots get to write about a band from the beginning to the end. Of course, wed rather bands we like dont break up, but I love the fact that Ive been enjoying Spaghetti Wester...

28 jul 10

Never Wanna Leave

Wolf People - Tiny Circle Its not every day that were blasted in the face with a flute solo. The jazz flute, once the powerhouse backbone in many a funk/psych bands arsenal has been relegated to ren-...

27 jul 10

And Mollys Sick

The Chap - We Work in Bars. Its rare to hear someone so excited about gainful employment. Are the Chap just victims of the poor economy and simply glad to have a place to work, even if its a mundane ...

22 jun 10

Break it down to basics.

The PDX Pop Now! Festival, to be held from July 30 to August 31, will raise money for PDX Pop Now!, a non-profit dedicated to supporting Portlands music scene. It looks like a pretty great organizati...

15 jun 10

Im the One Who Had Your Baby.

Tame Impala - Runway, Houses, City, Clouds. This is one the sound of getting lost in it. It starts in the middle, it ends in the middle. Its like eight different parts of middle. At first we find the...

10 jun 10

Im wasting my time waiting for myself.

Kathryn Calder - Slip Away. Kathryn Calders got a new record out soon, and its called Are You My Mother?. "Slip Away" is the first track from the album, and it may not sound like much at firs...

01 jun 10

Look away look away look away.

Miniature Tigers - Gold Skull. I was supposed to see Miniature Tigers open for Free Energy and Jukebox The Ghost the other night, but their van broke down and they never made it to Boston. Bummer. I ...

28 may 10

From your nerves

It took me a while to realize I like Animal Collective. Dada Trash Collage - In Season. Well, as is the case with many artists, it depends on the song. When they give us something we can grab onto - ...

20 may 10

From your nerves

It took me a while to realize I like Animal Collective. Dada Trash Collage - In Season. Well, as is the case with many artists, it depends on the song. When they give us something we can grab onto - ...

20 may 10

8 a.m LA time.

Phosphorescent - Mermaid Parade. We can walk the same streets each day and have it be different each time. The path we wear in the road will deepen, will wear in different spots, will reveal differen...

12 may 10

Write our names upon the walls.

Peter Wolf Crier - Hard As Nails. The music of Peter Wolf Crier came out of a single summer nights writing session. I havent heard the duos whole record, but I could see how "Hard As Nails" w...

27 apr 10

It dont matter what you find

Get up! Fang Island - Daisy. I should probably wake up to this song every day, because it would beat the hell out of the ringtone that currently tries to shove me out of bed in the morning. In fact, ...

21 apr 10

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