Ghostly International is giving away Syntaks’ Mistral Moon EP for free!
Download HERE.

It’s a great way to sample the Danish duo’s ambient pop sound.
If you are digging it, check out the full length, Ylajali also available on Ghostly HERE.

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The video for “Blue Sunshine” by Syntaks.

Jasper Gahunia is a force to be reckoned with.  Under the alias Lil Jaz, he has battled his way to the top of the DMC World DJ Championships, tours the world as DJ and keyboard player with the power house emcee known as KOS and recently decided to reinvent himself.  After exploring an entirely new angle of turntablism through scoring music for The Rubber Band Dance Company, he kept going.  He crafted an entire album of beautiful and interesting music under the alias El Jay II. This record, as was the score he masterminded for The Rubber Band Dance Company, was made using only classical music manipulated with his hands and his turntables in his home studio in downtown Toronto.  Explore Jaspers amazing brainchild here. Listen to samples of it here. He is presently working on new music for the The Rubber Band Dance Company.

Spike Jonze has a new 30 minute short entitled I’m Here that will debut some time in March. The film is a love story about the relationship between two robots living in L.A.

Find out more about the film HERE.
(ps. this is the website where the film will debut)

2010 is starting off pretty good I think musically.

I’m really loving the new Beach House record Teen Dream.
And I just got the new Midlake album The Courage of Others which is really great as well.

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Some other albums I’m looking forward to this year are releases by Liars, Broken Social Scene, Panda Bear, No Age, Sleigh Bells and LCD Soundsystem.
Stereogum compiled a whole list HERE.

What about you? Anything awesome you are listening to? Anything you are looking forward to?
You can leave comments here, you know?! Let’s fucking do this!

Leanne Shapton and  Jason Fulford founded the not for profit New York / Atlanta based book company in 2000 and their catalogue keeps growing. I once had the honor of being published in one of their books. They’re adding a few new titles come Spring 2010. Check out everything else J and L here. Below is a video of Leanne discussing one of her books.

Check out our friends The Dahls. These two sisters have a sweet country/folk sound that takes cue from the likes of Joni Mitchell and The Mamas and The Papas.

If you are in LA, you can catch them live at Crane’s Tavern on March 3.

Their self-titled EP is now available on iTunes.
And you can see their video for “Lie To Me” below.

I finally made it over to Vacation today. It’s a really great little record shop with a nice selection of indie records mixed in with some classics. I think I saw a few cds but it’s mostly vinyl and cassette tapes. Guess I’m going to have to get a USB cassette deck so I can listen to some of this stuff.

Check out Vacation’s site HERE.

click HERE to read all about it on Pitchfork! Then come back to us…

Kevin from BSS sent us this link.

This is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.

http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com/page/1

One day I’ll get my shit together and go to Sundance. This year would have a good one because I could have seen ODDSAC, the “visual album” by Danny Perez and Animal Collective and Exit Through The Gift Shop by famed street artist Banksy.

There will be screenings of ODDSAC coming up in other cities, but as of right now there are only one each in New York and Chicago. Let’s cross our fingers that they make it Los Angeles.

More info HERE.

Here’s the trailer.

And Banksy premiered his film Exit Through The Gift Shop at Sundance 2010 as well. I don’t know much about this film but here’s some cell phone pics of Banksy’s work in Park City, UT courtesy of DM via Holly Palmer.

And here’s a trailer at banksyfilm.com.

Free Stuff from Craigslist.org is a book compiled by LA based photographer Jimmy Collins. There’s some crazy shit that people are willing to give you for free on Craiglist. Jimmy has done his research and found such shit. Why pay when you can get it for free?

Download a PDF copy of the book for free HERE.
Check out Jimmy’s other photography books HERE.

The Story of Anvil is a documentary about the Toronto metal band that you’ve probably never heard of. They were around in the 80’s and well…. they’re still around today. These guys are the epitome of persistence.

Buy an autographed copy of the DVD HERE.
Visit the official Anvil website HERE.

Davida is an awesome photographer with great ideas and an amazing mind. She’s an old Toronto friend of mine. We used to exchange our thoughts of everything via phone call, daily.  Our busy lives caused us to lose touch. I’ve been told she’s spending time in LA these days. I should really reach out to her. She fucking rules.

Check out her site HERE.

If you are in LA, check out the group show that Davida is in. click HERE for more info.

u dont no what pain is is a split screen video piece featuring Silence of The Lambs and Screwed. It was on display in the bathroom at Whitney’s Bi, August 2009

I’m partial to the Washed Out Remix of Small Black’s “Despicable Dogs”.

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Get the EP on emusic or iTunes.

What a great way to start off 2010 with a new Beach House record! Teen Dream is out now via Sub Pop.

Here’s the video for “Silver Soul”.

New series of work by LA photographer Alex Prager.

Musical guests The Petrojvic Blasting Company will play some sweet Baltic music at the after party.

You can stream the upcoming release Black Noise by Pantha du Prince in the box below.

You can download “The Splendour” from this album HERE.

Every month you can follow along with Claire Sloan’s photographic diary.

Nice idea. And always nice pics.

Click the image to download!

We went up to The Trails today and had a snakedog.

Represent.

Bitch you breakfast

Ou et la hos?

Here’s a bad ass video edit brought to you by RUN DMT.

The more SUN ARAW i hear the more i like it.
You can download the b-side Live Mind from SUN ARAW’s new 7″ for free at GVB.
The 7″ is called Sun Ark.
Available for purchase at NOT NOT FUN along with lots of other lo-fi goodness.