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Black Knights | theblackknights.com

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Portlandia: Around The World In 80 Plates from Season 2, Episode 1

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Following up their well received debut “Dances” e.p. last summer, Warm Weather swing back with 4 new sweet slices of pop for some Wintertime easy listening.

They pretty much nail it again for about eleven perfect minutes. Best harmonies & arrangements in town maturing nicely, stretching the dynamics out a bit more this time out, with an always welcome bit of weirdness and rock electricity–think a more under-control Olivia Tremor Control–and maybe a touch more folk & country, to go with some 60′s psych & 70′s AOR flavor.

It’s out today on a name-your-own-price download on their Bandcamp.

They play Silverlake Lounge with Fawn Spots on 1/25.

New Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming album commentary by Anthony on Spotify

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PHOTO: Blurry pizza.

Obsessive foodies in general can be insufferable, with the best pizza snob subset maybe among the most annoying. (You know who you are–56 Yelp takes after just couple of weeks of being open.) I don’t mean the regionalists–Chicago vs. NYC vs. California argument–but the gourmand types who wax poetic about this or that particular pizza, about how transcendent this particular triangle of cheese and flour is over all other triangles of cheese and flour. It’s pizza, people. Apart from a public school lunch or a supermarket freezer box it’s usually fine even when it’s “bad”, as the saying goes. Enter 800 Degrees into the fray, toeing the lines between fast, affordable and quality ingredients with au courant Neapolitan-style pies in a new spot in the retail roulette wheel that is Westwood Village.

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Arctic Monkeys | Photo from 2011 Outside Lands Festival, San Francisco
 

Black Star | Photo from Club Nokia, December 15, 2011
 

CSS | Photo from 2011 Filter Culture Collide Festival
 

Peter Hook & The Light | Photo from El Rey Theatre, September 16, 2011
 

Wanda Jackson and The Third Man House Band | Photo from El Rey Theatre, January 23, 2011
 

See the next 5 below.

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The Antlers | Burst Apart | Frenchkiss

Atlas Sound | Parallax | 4AD

Bill Callahan | Apocalypse | Drag City

Destroyer | Kaputt | Merge Records

Girls | Father, Son, Holy Ghost | 4AD

Five more picks below.

»continue reading Favorite Albums of 2011

Battles | “Ice Cream” | Warp Records
 

James Blake | “The Wilhelm Scream” | Universal
 

Eleanor Friedberger | “I Won’t Fall Apart on You Tonight” | Merge
 

Half Man Half Biscuit | “Tommy Walsh’s Eco House” | Probe Plus
 

Lana Del Rey | “Video Games” | Stranger
 

Charlotte Gainsbourg | “Got to Let Go” | Because Music
 

Gruff Rhys | Take a Sentence | Wichita
 

Purity Ring | “Ungirthed” | Transparent
 

Patti Smith | “Words of Love” (Buddy Holly cover | Conchord Music Group
 

Wild Beasts | “Albatross” | Domino Records

*In alphabetical order and only from albums not on the Favorite Albums list.

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