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I’m hungry and the hunger will linger…

May 30, 2012 by MD

You want dark? Check out Sixteen Saltines by Jack White. The lyrics seem pretty innocuous until you start to get the innuendo, and the video is all just kids misbehaving until you realize what the fuck is going on and you’re like “how far are they going to push this?” Evidently the only shot MTV gave as reason for refusing to put it on the air was the  plastic bag over the head…? It was directed by AG Rojas, who […]

Categories: So Rockstar • Tags: CYOA, dark, Jack White, music video, NSFW, rock out, Spiritualized, The Dead Weather, twisted

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Pause.

May 30, 2012 by MD

So for those of you still stuck having straight sex, you might be interested to know that many of us who made it over to the dark side had our first “oh shit, I think I’m a homo” moment when we saw someone of the same sex and became completely confused by the thought “I don’t know if I want to be him or make out with him?!?” I had this moment watching tv after middle school in my own […]

Categories: Time Capsule • Tags: nostalgia, throwback

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I need you to be rough…

May 30, 2012 by MD

Check out Poliça. I love the way this Amongster rises and falls so much that it didn’t even bother me that I could barely make out a goddam word she was singing for most of it because she has this sort of female Thom Yorke thing going on with her vocals and the video is sort of like Planet Earth meets soft porn. Something about the way that snail is raising it’s nonexistent eyebrows tells you a boner (or clit […]

Categories: Heart Kickstart • Tags: ambient, Beautiful, cool video, moving, Poliça

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build the fires around my heart…

May 24, 2012 by MD

Check out School of Seven Bells. My favorites songs on the new album are When You Sing (the video above starts at about 1:30 of the .mp3), Scavenger, and Love Play. Windstorm is a little more on the lighter pop end of the spectrum. The whole album is subtly powerful, and I think it’s best experienced by listening to it in its entirety. School of Seven Bells – When You Sing School of Seven Bells – Love Play School of […]

Categories: Flash in a Pan, Music • Tags: dark, dreampop, School of Seven Bells, shoegaze

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Baby it’ s a sweet life, sing it like a song…

May 23, 2012 by MD

I can’t seem to take this off repeat. Just believe, come on. Lana Del Rey – Never Let Me Go

Categories: Audio Benzo, Flash in a Pan • Tags: Beautiful, Lana Del Rey, love

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may the God of me protect my soul…

March 28, 2012 by MD

I had all but given up on this blog after a brutal round of finals and a winter break full of hospital visits, but after watching these videos I am sufficiently inspired to give it another go. iamamiwhoami is the best thing I’ve seen in years. Take the Knife, Bjork, and Roisin Murphy, and give them all a whopping dose of the hallucinogenic mandrake root, and this is what they might come up with. The videos are totally mesmerizing. Even calling them […]

Categories: Audio Benzo, Dance Party, Heart Kickstart • Tags: brilliant, dance party, iamamiwhoami, moving

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Oh the night is my world…

November 6, 2011 by MD

Sunday Girl is probably in the same vein as a lot of what you’ll find on stronglikemusic. Taking her name from the 1979 Blondie song, former model Jade Williams offers ethereal vocals over an indie pop sound, and puts out a good cover here and there. Well, actually, mostly covers. Whatever, this boy knows what he likes. Her trance-y cover of Love You More (which I thiiiink was originally by Steps?) is good… and while I’m sort of partial to the piano and […]

Categories: Audio Benzo, Run for Cover • Tags: Blondie, Blur, cover, dance party, Diplo, Laura Branigan, lusty, MGMT, RAC, remix, Sunday Girl, Villa

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Worth a thousand words…

October 23, 2011 by MD

Or frequent flyer miles? Listen, just because I couldn’t come up with a decent title for this post, doesn’t mean you aren’t obligated to check out Pictureplane. I first heard his track Goth Star one day in Opening Ceremony and was like HARK?! What sound…?!? Anyway yea so I’ve been wildly into the song ever since (it’s fantastic when you need to get in the right state of mind as you’re on your way to a party). But I always […]

Categories: Dance Party, Flash in a Pan, Heart Kickstart • Tags: dance party, electro, Fleetwood Mac, parties, Pictureplane, rock out, Stevie Nicks

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Hope my words keep us together…

October 23, 2011 by MD

WHEIRD! I had been looking for Tracey Thorn on hype machine lately, and then this week she puts out this awesome XX cover. Maybe she has ESPN or something? She has one of my favorite voices ever. And isn’t Five Fathoms such a feel-good video? I remember hearing Grand Canyon one night at Le Pulp in Paris. The party was called Androgyny, the crowd was this perfect pansexual mix (which was pretty awesome, because at the time, if asked to […]

Categories: Music • Tags: cover, feelgood, nostalgia, parties, Tracey Thorn, XX

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