Attention, Phoenix: Matt and Kim will be touching down tomorrow evening for a street party between Dos Gringos and Upper Deck, hosted by Bud Light Golden Wheat and FM/103.9. The band will play with two local, as-yet-unnamed groups, and beers will be in abundance. Ditto that for opportunities to make out with total strangers or something—just be careful/judicious, please!
We’re not going to lie. We’ve never actually seen the MTVU Woodie Awards. But then again, we don’t live in a dorm, so it sort of makes sense. We do remember the channel incessantly playing My Morning Jacket and E-40 back in the day, so they’re OK by us. And it seems logical enough MTV’s college version would get its own little baby VMAs. MTV just announced the nominations, and it seems Asher Roth is finally being rewarded for recording a generic (edit: offensive) song replicating the college experience. About damn time. But more in our lane, Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective have been nominated for a Breaking Woodie and a Performing Woodie respectively. Matt & Kim are up for a Best Video Woodie. And Jay Reatard (along with the likes of Major Lazer, Janelle Monae & Tech N9ne) are up for a Left Field Woodie, which we have yet to Wikipedia but would seem the only qualification might involve being inherently bizarre and happening to make incredible music. So we’re for it. Put those four in a room and film it and we’ll watch it over whatever replaced TRL any day. Done and done. The show takes place December 4th. Hopefully Matt (or Kim) will storm the stage (naked?) and grab the mic from Wale or someone in a fit of Brooklyn pride and demand a recount for Grizzly Bear. Full nominations here. (Via: MTV)
Photography by Treeboy Pictures
Haiku by Meiyee Apple
Adorable Matt
He is a little off key
No one seems to care
It’s raining in New York. Matt and Kim could make a dead guy smile. They played Jimmy Kimmel in LA about 36 hours ago and video thereof is exactly what we need right about now. Haiku Review of their El Rey Theater show forthcoming!
The needles on our record players haven’t stopped spinning from this past weekend of vinyl indulgence — both purchased and listened to on Record Store Day this past Saturday. So, instead of keeping all the greatness that is vinyl to ourselves, we thought it might be nice to give away some free records from our friends at Green Label Sound. And while we’re at it you can have a tote bag as well. After all, the best things in life come in 7″ and 12″ packages.
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