Here’s some good stuff that Pitchfork has given up recently on their Forkcast:
• Erykah Badu and the Roots: “I Wanna Be Where You Are” (Michael Jackson cover)
• Fleet Foxes: “Blue Spotted Tail” (Live on BBC 6 Music)
• Spiral Stairs: “Maltese Terrier” from The Real Feel, out October 20 on Matador
• Circulatory System: “Overjoyed” from Signal Morning, out September 8 on Cloud Recordings
• Sally Shapiro: “Miracle (Bogdan Irkük Remix)” original version on My Guilty Pleasure
More after the jump…
You can’t see everything, and with 130 bands over three days, you wouldn’t want to. I wasn’t very excited about this year’s lineup. In fact, there were less than 25 bands that I was even vaguely interested in, and that’s being liberal with my definition of “interested.” So there was no way that I could spend every waking hour for an entire weekend there. Not this year. Not for three whole days.
I devised a plan which I called “Hit it and quit it.” Get in, see some bands, and get out before I got bored or sunburned or too wasted. I ended up getting sunburned anyway. But I saw some great sets and had a few pleasant surprises, which is all you can really ask for.
Not really, of course. There’s a lot more you can ask for… like good sound and short beer lines, both of which were handled very professionally this year.
“My Favorite Mutiny” by the Coup (with the Roots’ Black Thought and Talib Kweli) from Pick A Bigger Weapon out now on Anti. Great hip-hop backed by a live funk band.
