Temporary Obsession | Mining Cultural Ephemera since 2009
Track of the Day – Donna Summer, “MacArthur Park”
RIP Donna Summer. We’ll never have that recipe again.
Bloom
Bloom is such an apt title for the latest Beach House album. It’s all the group’s done since their first self-titled album and all they seem to continue doing, even when that seems impossible. Beach House’s last album, Teen Dream, was so perfect; by upping their tempos just a bit and brightening their organ-and-guitar sound ever [...]
Eurovision 2012 – Making Your Mind Up (pt. 7)
It’s been quite a ride, you guys. We’re finally through all 42 entries in this year’s Eurovision contest – and not a minute too soon, since the official contest starts next week. I pulled the oldest easily recognized clip I could find, in this case “Nel blu dipinto di blu” (better known by most as [...]
Track of the Day: Oneohtrix Point Never, “I Only Have Eyes For You”
I Only Have Eyes for You by Oneohtrix Point Never There’s remixing a song, there’s reinterpreting a song, and then there’s full-on deconstructing a song. That’s what Daniel Lopatin (alias Oneohtrix Point Never) has done with his take on the classic “I Only Have Eyes for You” for artist Don Aitken’s Song 1 project. [...]
Eurovision 2012 – Making Your Mind Up (pt. 6)
Sometimes in the course of writing your weekly Eurovision writeup, you realize one of the songs you had to do an in-class exercise on in Spanish class years ago was actually a Eurovision song. Will any of today’s entries have that longevity? We may never know (although let’s be honest – probably not). Here’s the [...]
Track of the Day: Metric, “Youth Without Youth”
“Youth Without Youth” by Metric I remember Metric’s 2009 album, Fantasies, coming into our college radio station and getting a lot of play, but it was never something that ended up a lot on the shows I was running. Listening to their new single, “Youth Without Youth”, I may have to go back to that [...]
Track of the Day: Twin Shadow, “Five Seconds”
I’m so excited about this new Twin Shadow track, you guys. Seriously. I’ve been sitting on it all week waiting to share it with you all. True, at first when I read on twitter that I could hear Five Seconds off of the new Twin Shadow album I was all “that’s a horrible gimmick. 4AD [...]
You Know You Like It
Alunageorge – Just A Touch by TriAngleRecords Indie music tends to delight in finding something that’s gone out of style, refashioning it in its own image, and mining it for interesting results (at least until the mainstream gets a hold of it again. Then it’s back to square one.) A big sound that’s had a [...]
Eurovision 2012 – Making Your Mind Up (pt. 5)
Ding-a-dong, everybody! It’s already the fifth week of our Eurovision coverage and it’s time to look at the next six entrants of the second semi-final before they perform in 3 weeks. Let’s go!