Toys and Tiny Instruments, a shambling goodtime rock band from Brooklyn, NY, are exactly as they sound. They play their sets with toys and tiny instruments. There is a whole mess of them – like six or eight humans are onstage when the Toys play – but they pull it off since their instruments are […]
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Toys & Tiny Instruments: what is going on?
Posted by Niina on January 3, 2011
http://www.girlpants.org/2011/01/toys-tiny-instruments-what-is-going-on/
Proud Sponsors of Pepsi
Mas y Mas were introduced to me by a certain ex-waitress-at-a-strip-club on a recent jaunt down to Richmond. Let me set the scene: walking to the gas station for cigarettes you might see a dude sitting on his porch blowing on his digeridoo (thusly named Digeridude), too many cute girls riding bikes to count, and […]
Posted by Mike on May 19, 2010
http://www.girlpants.org/2010/05/proud-sponsors-of-pepsi/
More Love, Less Paranoia—New Amerykah Part 2: Return of the Ankh
Well, it’s been several weeks since this album came out to mostly positive or even glowing reactions. So in the place of focusing on the already well-covered arc of New Amerykah Pt. II, I will don my Girlpants Track Glasses™ – recently recovered from Jason’s dangerous clutches (I had to crawl through a really long […]
Posted by Niina on April 20, 2010
http://www.girlpants.org/2010/04/more-love-less-paranoia-new-amerykah-part-2-return-of-the-ankh/
The Best Worst Record Review of All Time; 10.0, Best New Video
For those of us who are in the above-25 age bracket, it’s old news that Pitchfork, that venerable bastion of hipster trendsetting and mediocre prose, was once downright terrible. Unarguably, inexcusably so. Probably every homegrown publication has these embarrassing teething problems, but in Pitchfork’s case this Terrible Epoch coincides neatly with the time when Founder and […]
Posted by Ben on March 25, 2010
http://www.girlpants.org/2010/03/ryan-schreiber-the-best-worst-record-review-of-all-time-10-0-best-new-video/
Loscil – Endless Falls
Since 1999, Loscil (aka Scott Morgan) has been making the kind of dreamy, pleasantly rain-soaked ambient music that might draw immediate comparisons to genre greats like Eluvium, Biosphere, and Stars of the Lid. Drones, field recordings, and looped, nearly subliminal percussion all figure into Loscil’s soundscapes—an ideal mélange, I’ve found, for writing and writing, among […]
Posted by Ben on March 21, 2010
http://www.girlpants.org/2010/03/loscil-%e2%80%93-endless-falls/
Kate Miller-Heidke, Joe’s Pub 3-15-2010
On Monday, March 15th 2010, I found myself in the intimate front lobby of New York venue Joe’s Pub (4th Avenue between 7th and 8th Street, New York), standing around awkwardly bumping into patrons on the top tier of the jazz club-y space with my media juggernaut BFF Rohin. He did his best to remain […]
Posted by Niina on March 19, 2010
http://www.girlpants.org/2010/03/kate-miller-heidke-joes-pub-3-15-2010/
everything goes wrong
Free. I was finally free of these bloggers, their unrelenting rumination upon modern music and their endless clever metaphors. No longer would I have to act as one of them. I had seen my chance, and I had made a break for it. But they were not far behind. I fled down a crowded street, […]
Posted by Jason on March 14, 2010
http://www.girlpants.org/2010/03/everything-goes-wrong/
David W’s Top 20 Techno Traxxx of 2007 (Part Two: 01–10)
This is a much-delayed continuation of the previous post here on Girlpants. Sorry for the delay. I won’t waste any time getting to the tunes. –Ben 10. Carsten Jost — “Love” [Dial] “Carsten Jost actually co-runs the Dial label with Lawrence. To be honest, I wasn’t all that wise to this sound a few years […]
Posted by David W. on April 9, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/04/david-ws-top-20-techno-traxxx-of-2007-part-two-01-10/
David W’s Top 20 Techno Traxxx of 2007 (Part One: 11–20)
Though I know basically nothing about dance music, it seems that I’m the one who ends up posting about it most here at Gigglepants. Sure, most of it is indie-safe electronic (cf. Junior Boys, DJ Mehdi, Booka Shade) and ever-so-played out poppy IDM (Aarktica, Hrvatski). Sometimes we venture a little bit closer to the big, […]
Posted by David W. on March 11, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/03/megos-top-20-techno-traxxx-of-2007-part-one-11-20/
Halving The Compass
Helios
3d,13h and 22m ago
Bless This Morning Year
Helios
3d,13h and 28m ago
Endless Falls
Loscil
3d,13h and 36m ago
Prelude For Time Feelers
Eluvium
3d,13h and 42m ago
Suite For Violin And Piano: II.
Vivian Taylor
3d,13h and 47m ago
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