!!!BOYFRIEND ALERT!!!!!BOYFRIEND ALERT!!!!BOYFRIEND ALERT!!!!

Uh, so Pictureplane has gotten some much-deserved press lately, and here it is.....


Pitchfork says "a huge, glittery, lurching groove, basically commanding you to fall into line behind it."

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Stereogum says "It may very well be the dance record of the summer for people who aren't used to dancing."



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p.s.- On the Lovepump tip (lolz), I ordered my HEALTH Fall 2009 Get Color goody pack last week. Thank god. It comes out the day before my birthday, September 8th! YESSSSSSSSSSSS


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In case you were wondering what TITWRENCH was all about...

JULY 24th: RHINO
JULY 25th: BLAST-O-MAT
JULY 26th: GLOB

is a D.I.Y. // ALL AGES // LADY-CENTERED

EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC AND ARTS FEST!
happening in

DENVER COLORADO U.S.A.


((LOCAL // NATIONAL // INTERNATIONAL // AVANT-GARDE // PUNK // VISUAL // HARSH NOISE // INTERACTIVE // // DANCE // AMBIENT // PERFORMANCE ART // BASEMENT POP // PSYCHEDELIC // FOLK // WEIRDO // OTHER //


MUSIC CURATED BY SARAH SLATER


LIVE PERFORMANCES by::::::::::

ASHLEY PAUL + ELI KESZLER (Improv from Providence,RI)

BAST (Dance from San Francisco,CA)

BECCA MHALEK (Experimental free jazz formerly of Nightshark and Aenka)

BURROW OWL (Harsh noise from Vancouver,BC)

CALDERA LAKES (Collab project of Married in Berdichev/​Kevin Shields from LA/Denver)

CHRISTIAN TEENAGE RUNAWAYS(Glam Post-Punk from Denton,TX)

CHRISTINA THE HUN (Drums/Vocals from Ft.Collins,CO)

DÖERSOVIT (Post-Riot Grrl from Denver,CO)

EMILY FREMBGEN (Folk from Denver,CO)

FANCIE (multi-media artist from Berlin,DE)

FROGHAT AND SOFAQUEEN (Electronic dissonance from Vancouver,BC)

HDOT (Video art from Denver,CO)

HELL-KITE (Dark experimental folk from Tempe,AZ)

KEVIN SHIELDS (Harsh noise from Los Angeles,CA)

LADY PARTS (Avant-chamber pop from Denver,CO)

LAST EYES (Experimental solo from Denver,CO)

LITTLE FOOT (Debut performance from Denver,CO)

MARLO EGGPLANT (Experimental noise from Seattle,WA)

MARRIED IN BERDICHEV! (Ambient vocals and textures from Denver,CO)

MILCH DE LA MAQUINA (Noise from Albuquerque,​NM)​

MUTATING MELTDOWN (Ex-Finally Punk! from Austin,TX)

NIGHT OF JOY (Dreamy No-Wave trio from Denver,CO)

ORIGAMI HANDS (Vocals-Lap Steel-synth duo from Fort Collins,CO)

RACHAEL POLLARD (Folk from Denver,CO)

ROMA X MANKILLER (aka Joy Von Spain-​industrial noise/vocals from Seattle,WA)

RUSALKA (Harsh noise from Vancouver,BC)

SYBIL VANE (​Avant-​Operatic Punk from Denver,CO)

TIT FOR TAT (Collective experimental from Denver,CO)

(VIA) (Experimental solo from Denver,CO)

YELLOW ELEPHANT (Sweet ambiance from Denver,CO)

ZAYANTE SPOILS (​Avant-​cello-​percussion-​vox from Boulder,CO)

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Had a fantasy about dark socks.

Check out my review of the Mika Miko show from last Friday here, at Decider, my new permanent home as Assistant Editor. And while you're there, read Adam Cayton-Holland's great piece on being a white person. (Pssst, I also wrote the pieces on Daughtry and Karaoke Host Jermaine Smith!)






Jennifer Clavin, Mika Mikooooooooooooo.


Photo by my friend Joe McCabe, and here's a review of The Strange Boys part of the set from my dear lady Alex Edgeworth via my old stomping ground, Reverb!


Hmm...there was something else. Oh yes, my friend Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion sent me the video for My First Earthquake's "Cool in the Cool Way" and I like it a lot. So watch.

Nothing Compares 2 U.

Stolen from Brittany (Video by Alicia Ordal):


Milton Melvin Croissant III redux:

Nothin Compares Tu Yew from Alicia Ordal on Vimeo.

Sinead Originale:




Conclusion: MMCIII RULES THE HARDEST.

No, seriously. I will give it to you.

New video I like (Harlem Shakes):





Not-so-new video I like (Starfucker):





Old video I looooooooove (that dog.):

TONIGHT!!! MY BAND'S FIRST SHOW!!! A BENEFIT FOR TITWRENCH 2009!!!!

Come to Night of Joy's(my band, duh!) FIRST SHOW EVER TONIGHT, June 26th, and support TITWRENCH 2009 at the OFFICIAL MIKA MIKO AFTER-PARTY!!










I'll be at Mika Miko first at the Hi-Dive, and then heading directly over to Rhinoceropolis for our show/dance-party/benefit and have a blast!!!!

Share posi vibes, dance your ass off, and support your community!!!!

We need you and we love you!!!!

xo b

Throwbacks Tuesday- DGC RARITIES

I found this album in my room this morning, forgetting how much I loved it. A Nirvana alternate, a Weezer song about their Lawyer, and my favorite Teenage Fan Club song ever, "Mad Dog 20/20" are all housed within this little compilation from my youth.

If you don't own this, shoot me an email (breecdavies@gmail.com) and I will be happy to zip file you a copy. It's a generous mix of some great 120 Minutes-era bands, singing about 90s stuff (well, in particular, that dog.'s "Grunge Couple" which lovingly admires the hiking boots, flannel shirts, and coffee shop status of a couple.)

In other news, I'm sunburned from Waterworld yesterday, and bug bitten from a night at the Botanic Gardens seeing the amazing B-52s. I LOVE FRED SCHNEIDER!!!!

Hi, dad.








Anyone else excited for this on Friday?????::::






I know I am.

Where the sun sets into the earth.

So, if These Are Powers were to read my mind and say, "Hey, Bree. what do you feel like when you listen to us?"

I would be all, "Well, dudes, I feel like I'm walking on a plastic earth when I hear you. Like, I look around and everything is accentuated, rubberized versions of the real thing...elastic tree limbs, brightly colored cut-outs of plant life and the sky is toilet-cleaner blue. Pure trippy, tribal shit (what isn't those two adjectives that I listen to these days anyway.)"

I saw their new video for "Easy Answers," one of my favorite songs off of All Aboard Future and thought, well, this is it. This is how I feel. Creepy awesome like when I watch Dr. Who. And then they set it all on fire.

Courtney, brush your hair. Please.

I don't know if I can still love you, Courtney.



Dear '90s,


Thanks for coming back. It was the best time in my life, so far. I mean, I know I'm only 28, but 1994 was a pretty fucking awesome year.

Courtney rebuilds Hole from the ground up. (Thanks to Robin E. for the link!)

Kill Rock Stars' re-pressing of Bikini Kill New Radio 7-inch!

Love, Bree

p.s.-


And speaking of girls, here's a video from Other Girls that just came out that I happen to really like:::

Other Girls: "Hey Fella, Ya Fell" from Theodore Mallison on Vimeo.

I feel weird about this photo.

Boulder Goes Hard.

Monday is boyfriend day.

So, I basically stole this whole post from Gorilla VS Bear, but I am so excited. My not-so-secret crush, Travis Egedy, aka Pictureplane, is releasing an album AUGUST 4TH on my other not-so-secret crush Mookie Singerman's label, Lovepump United. Oh, then Pictureplane goes on tour this fall with my once-crush John Famiglietti's band HEALTH.

Check out the Teengirl Fantasy edit of Pictureplane's "New Mind."

HAPPY MONDAY!

p.s.- Valerie's got me all up on this shizzzzz:::::






And Alejandro has me vibin' hard on thisssss:::::::







SLEEP and THE BLOODS FOR EVERRRRRRRR

Cape Girls.

Dum Dum Girls = Vivian Girls?

Either way, I kinda like them both a lot.

I'm at my sister Birdy's house right now, watching her and her cool bf Ean design my cape. Yes, I am having a cape custom made for me by these two talented cuties, and then I'm going to tie-dye it. I met a girl at the Paul Oakenfold/Disco Biscuits show at Red Rocks recently who was wearing an epic, hooded cape and I had to have one.

I'm a little inspired by Alice's look in the CC "Courtship Dating" video--




And I can't find a perfect picture, but Lizzy from Gang Gang Dance has been bouncing around my head all week too, as I thought about the perfect shape of my cape, and her drapey style and the awesome side braid she was sporting when they played here last year--





CAPES AWAY!!!!!!!

Two dudes SEXTING you.

I'm all video-stoked this week. So, here is an interview with The Thermals with my old fave, John Norris.




And if you're on Twitter, follow The Thermals' adventures looking for weed on tour @thethermals. They are always trying to get, as they say, "baked like a cake," no matter what city they're in. I'm serious. They love weed. And I love them. (Read my review of their show this past April at the Marquis Theater, and my blog on Hutch's rad thank you back at my old home, Illiterate.)

On the hella radical Mika Miko tip...

A cute ad for their new album, We Be Xuxa, out on PPM NOW!





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(((Pssst....catch my interview with Jennifer Clavin of Mika Miko at Decider.com)))


Mika Miko plays The Hi-Dive in Denver, Friday, June 26th annnnnnnnd, they will be DJing a TIT WRENCH benefit after-party annnnd, that will also be my band Night of Joy's first show!!! SRSLY, this is really exciting!!!!



SO, come out and see Mika Miko, then come to our after-party and help raise some funds for TIT WRENCH FEST 2009 happening July 24th-26th!!

OW OW.

p.s.- I made the flier from an old Spin cover with Corts on it! Yay! 90s!

Get a load of this.

TOTALLY//RADDD








++NO WAY:: Directed by Lana Kim and RANDY RANDALL

Double Ds. Ick.

New 3OH!3 video for Starstrukk was released today. Hmmm...Did Pictureplane's performance on Saturday at Denver Does Denver really change my feelings toward them so much that I'm questioning my every possibly-former 3OH!3-devoted move these days?


3OH!3 - STARSTRUKK (Official Video)




After seeing this video, I may have to say yes. Yes, Pictureplane may have snuffed out a little of my devotion.

I'm begging you now.

It's no longer shocking when bands I like sell their songs to weird companies, because that's just the way of the music world now. Since mainstream radio operates like an airwaved McDonald's only offering three things and they are all mostly bad for you, commercials are definitely a viable highway to mainstream exposure. But I do find it strange that in the latest Bacardi commercial that utilizes Matt and Kim's "Daylight", there's essentially a fake band playing along.




It seems kinda dumb in concept. Just sayin'. The real band is way cooler.

Where did May go?

So much rad stuff has happened in the last month and I haven't blogged about any of it!!! In the past month I've seen:

Pictureplane
Ed Shrader
Ian Cooke
Third Eye Blind
Slight Harp
Ladytron
The Faint
Married in Berdichev
Animal Collective
Paul Oakenfold (I know, right?)
The Disco Biscuits
No Doubt
Peaches
Fischerspooner
SSION
Del Tha Funky Homosapien
Millennium Child
Paramore

And probably a few bands I totally forgot about. I am trying to get better at updating this blog, but it's tough. I also worked the Illiterate Street Games Party and Yuzo Nieto's Denver Does Denver Fest, which turned out to be one of the best Denver-centric musical experiences I think I've ever had. Denver bands covered each other's songs, and it was just magical. Here's a bit of Pictureplane doing 3OH!3 at Bar Bar after he was kicked out of the Marquis Theater earlier in the evening:::







Did I also mention that former Governor BILL OWENS was at Michael Trundle's Hipster Fucks after-party after DDD? Because he was. And he was in a peach shirt doing shots. So random.


Soooo, I got a job! I'm now the Assistant Editor at Decider Denver!! Dudes, this is huge. This is my first staff position ever. I have been freelancing for Decider for the last month, and when the position came up, I never ever thought I would get it. But I did. So yay!

One of my most favorite assignments of the last month for Decider was an interview with Jennifer Clavin from Mika Miko. I love this band, I love everything they do, and I loved getting to chat with her. Below is the cover of their latest and most excellent album We Be Xuxa (out now on PPM!), which we talked about in the interview that went up on Austin's version of Decider this week. You can read the MM chat here.





Now that I've got a "real" job, it does mean that I have to step down from Illiterate and I can no longer write for The Denver Post or Colorado Music Buzz. This bums me out eternally, but I had to take this great opportunity when it came to me. You will still hear me on the Music Buzz Minute on Indie 101.5 every week, and I will still be present at Illiterate events, but my writing will happen exclusively on Decider (and this blog, duh.) So visit Decider often please please and sign up and COMMENT!!!!

My 90th (yes, I did 90 reviews for the Denver Post in one year! SO CRAZY!) and final review for the Denver Post went up today. It was a piece on the Third Eye Blind show Friday night at the Paramount Theater. It was horrible. Read here!



(Photo by my friend Joe McCabe!)

Like I said, this last month has been crazy. Below are some links to just some of the stuff I've written!::::

How Rad is Mike Watt? Ta-da!

New York, I love You. A blog about how much I do.

Steaks n' Strip Clubs.

Animal Collective...not so much.

A blog about my love for the word DUDE.

No Doubt! No doubt.

The biggest crush I've developed on a sort-of star in a long time...Josh Young of Flosstradamus. SWOON.



And then there's Peaches. One of the coolest looking shows of the year (next to SSION's set before the grossly over-rated Fischerspooner performance.) Check out my review, if only to see my friend Tina's AMAZING photos of the Cream Feeler.

So from here on out, I will attempt to update this with more music-related thought processes instead of just side notes. You know what I mean? Life is crazy.

p.s.- Check out Tit Wrench Fest, for an idea of what I've been planning with my home girls for the last three months.

SUMMER=EPIC

TONIGHT!!!! ALL-NIGHTER DANCE PARTY TO BENEFIT TIT WRENCH 2009!!!!

TONIGHT! MAY 9th!
it's
a
DANCE PARTY!!!!

*COME DRESSED AS YOUR FAVE LADY ROCKER or GROUPIE!*

ALL AGES!
FOOD by BEETBOX!
5 DJs!
photobooth!
BYOB!
starts at 10 goes LATE


this is the main fundraiser for TITWRENCH 2009!
TITWRENCH
is a women-centered underground music and art festival happening
in DENVER COLORADO
JULY 24/25/26

INFO:
http://www.myspace.com/titwrenchfest
email:
titwrench@gmail.com
w/questions!





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FREE SAFE RIDES HOME COURTESY OF ME,
RESIDENT SOBER SALLY!!!!!!!


My van is bike-friendly for you pedal-pushers who
need your wheels given a safe ride home too!!!


COME HAVE FUN + Help us raise some madd cash to pay the
excellent bands coming through in JULY!!!!!!


xo b

Second Date. Or First Date, rather, with Vivian Girls.

It felt like I waited a million years to see Vivian Girls. When they played Rhino (at least I think they did?) I must have been living in NYC. And when I was in NYC, I wasn't into them yet. So seeing them live for the first time on Sunday night at the hi-dive was so great.

I met them in the "green" room in the basement of the Hi-Dive, because my good friend Sarah Slater text me and said, Hey! Psst! Come downstairs and meet Vivian Girls! I wandered down to the familiar room and awkwardly said something to the effect of Hi, I love you guys, I write about you all the time, blah blah, embarrassing blah. Cassie and Ali were so kind and sweet, but I left them alone after that to do their thing.

Their show blew me away. I was apprehensive at first, feeling from the videos I've seen of them live that they, well, that they weren't that exciting. I was totally fucking wrong. Totally wrong. Blown away wrong. I would go into more detail, but I've already written so much about them, you can see below for details!:::

* Review for the Denver Post of Vivian girls show at the Hi-Dive, May 3rd 2009 with Pseudo-Dates and Eyes and Ears.

* Piece I did for Decider Denver (The Onion's thingy) on Vivian Girls and a bunch of other "girl" bands. Similar to a thought process I had last summer with GIRLS! in my old blog.

* Profile of Vivian Girls I wrote for this month's Colorado Music Buzz!

* And finally, a little mention I did for my second home, Illiterate Magazine, pre-show.


p.s.- The photo featured in this blog is by my friend Joe McCabe. He is an excellent photographer who I get to work with on a regular basis, strictly due to the fact that our music taste is identical. Check out his Flickr for more of his incredible work!

p.p.s- A very good friend of mine bought me a ticket to The Faint/Ladytron show last night loooooooong before Ponytail's date was posted for their show the same night at the Hi-Dive. I was eternally bummed I missed them, but The Faint was good, as always. I think I decided that if I'm ever a stripper (read: NEVER) I will dance to "Worked-Up So Sexual" by the Faint, and T. Rex's "Get it On". Naturally. Because my T. Rex obsession is now well into MONTH Five. Yikes.

But back to Ponytail. I did a profile of them in this month's Colorado Music Buzz as well, and you can read it here! (Annnnnnd while I'm at it, I also wrote a profile of Fischerspooner, who play at the Ogden on May 18th.) I heard the Ptail show was off the hook, and I also heard my friends/fellow bandmates Slight Harp who opened FUCKING KILLED IT! Yay for Denver!!!!

p.p.p.s- I didn't go see Totally Ripped tonight at Rhino (Don't worry, in six months I'll still be regretting it. I can feel that it's going to be one of those shows), even though my bandmate highly advised it. I decided to stay home and write so I could party all weekend loooooooooooooooong. But I hope you are there and I hope it's awesome!!