Purity Ring - “Ungirthed” (2011)
We’ve already conversed about Purity Ring, bb.
If I may, though: their live performance was a humble dive into a dwelling of club-hopping, clean-shaven mountain men.
Note to self: Make backpacking more glamorous.
Note to readers: C’est fini pour la Bumbershoot preview. Merci. Au revoir.
xxxLilli
Bumbershoot 2K11 - Sweet Threads
Adorable. Duh.
Floaty, over-sized tops are fun to dance in. Keep it breezy, babe.
Let’s be as cute as those hot indie chicks with the microphones/guitars. Let’s wear jean jackets and floral patterns. Let’s remember this festival forever.
Sheer tops. Flatter me. Why must summer end?
Heyyo! We wear Toms in the NW, bro.
Warpaint - “Warpaint” (2010)
I felt nothing but awe and inspiration while watching Warpaint’s dark and brooding set. An all girl indie rock band with super-human coordination! No stereotypes here, please. Have you met my generation? We’re inspired! Women are powerful and radiant!
Note to self: Have an underwater tea-party with girlfriends. Wear colorful linen. Share heart ache, cry diamonds. Make plans for an open-minded future.
Tennis - “Marathon” (2010)
Who knew kids from Colorado would capture the essence of the ocean in such harmonious fashion?
Note to self: Marry philosopher. Sail around for eight months. Sell tons of albums documenting a most romantic journey. (Set hair to perm!)
Das Racist (2011)
These guys are almost as hiLArious as Nick Cannon. At least that’s what I thought until they started making fun of all we Deerhunter-listening-white-kids. (Sad face.)
Note to self: These bros are seriously not meant to be taken seriously. DR’s latest album Relax should not be missed.
Broken Social Scene - “7/4 Shoreline” (2005)
(Insert something the critics haven’t already said about BSS.)
See them live. Never too hyped. Never too lively.
Minus the Bear - “Hold Me Down” (2010)
MTB, how I love thee. You are technically advanced, professionally rockalicious, and your close-knit chemistry is inspiring. Here’s a Bumby for Best Performance of the weekend. You’ve earned it, bb.
Note to Readers: Pachuca Sunrise (2006). Dig it.
Starfucker - “Mona Vegas” (2011)
You’ve heard Starfucker. (No, not the Rolling Stones song.) They used “Ranwald Gregory Erickson the Second” in a Target ad. Major bummer for those who believe soul selling became irrelevant after Warhol.
Yet I’m still plugged in. What they do when they’re not trying to catch the ears of either Don Draper or drunken Greek kids is what makes their art interesting. ”The Professor” has inhabited many tracks on both full-length “STRFKR” albums, offering profound statements and affixing a conceptual backbone to their rainbow-cape-wearing jams:
If you are aware of a state which you call ‘is’, or ‘reality’, or ‘life’,/
This implies another state called ‘isn’t’, or ‘illusion’, or ‘unreality’, or ‘nothingness’, or ‘death’./
There it is. You can’t have one without the other./
And so as to make life poignant, it’s always going to come to an end./
That is exactly (don’t you see?) what makes it life!
Starfucker as shallow dance pop? Do girls in Manolos read Hemingway?
Vetiver - “Wonder Why” (2011)
Take an urban stroll on a brilliant afternoon. Don’t take life so seriously. Hope for cartoons.
