MP3: Twin Sister - "Lady Daydream" + Live Video

"It Could All Be A Dream"
Lately I can't stop listening to this lovely Twin Sister song "Lady Daydream" off of their Color Your Life EP:

Twin Sister - "Lady Daydream"

Next week, after I've compulsively listened to this song on repeat a gazillion times, I will surely move onto another track off the album and develop a private obsession with that one. Just as it went down with Vampires With Dreaming Kids.

And I know I'm not alone on this! I remember at one point I heard from a few friends when we were all having this experience with "I Want A House," and soon after, another friend told me she too was listening to "Nectarine" on repeat for hours that morning. Which is great, because I felt like less of a freak, but it begs one question...

What is it about Twin Sister's songs that allures you into developing intense, obsessive crushes with each individual tune? Is it... the charmingly heartbreaking lyrics? The honey and smoke combination of Andrea and Eric's vocal harmonies backed by a gentle yet powerful driving rhythm section? By the time you've crushed heavily on each song, you've fallen so very in love with the entire album, you haven't had a chance to realize it.

Color Your Life was made available for free digital download by the band on March 30th. This warrants some explaining. The record's release, via Infinite Best Recordings, was originally slated for this date, March 30th, but was pushed to May 25th. However, a certain taste-makin' music site pre-emptively posted a lovely and praising album review on the 30th. Oops! Who's the goose! Thus the band - who are not only very talented and skilled musicians but wonderful people, each of them - graciously offered the free download. It will only be up there for less than a week longer now, so hurry up and start falling in love.

Whooaaa it's totally Kismet -- just as I was ruminating on my love for this song, Vistation Rites' Resident-Video-Chick-and-All-Around-Rad-Mamma-Jamma Sam Cornwell sent over this short and sweet video of Twin Sister performing "Lady Daydream" at the MICRO-PIXEL-RITES Unofficial SXSW Backyard Showcase Party:

Yum.

So buy Twin Sister's Color Your Life EP from Infinite Best Recordings. Personally, we have pre-ordered the vinyl are verrry anxious for our copy to arrive.

'Til then, we will be waitin'.

PHOTOS: MICRO-PIXEL-RITES' Pre-SXSW Pump-Up Party, 03/06

Keepin' It in the Fam
Picture if you will, an industrial wasteland, devoid of all forms of life but filled with the remnants of desecration and destruction. Cigarettes lay smoldering in puddles of urine and beer. Lining the halls are what appear to be balls of feces carefully rolled by human-size dung beetles, but are really (miraculously) fully intact falafel balls. PBR cans lie shredded to pieces, still spurting and spewing and shaking about in restless disillusion.

This is what my building looks like after the MICRO-PIXEL-RITES party Saturday night where Real Estate, Family Portrait, and Alex Bleeker and the Freaks played the most wonderful, kick-ass weed party house show ever to live and die in Brooklyn. The evening included fantastic sets by the above bands, tunes by DJ Jon Williams, projections of Wong Kar-Wai flicks and Seinfeld eps, and a shit ton of weed, ecstasy, keg beer, whiskey, hookers, midget acrobats...

Despite most of the show info being tweeted that day with the wrong address by multiple people, we still had to turn people away at the door. We do apologize for this. Even though you may hate us now, please know that we love you anyway.

My personal highlight of the night was not when the cops came, nor was it my Oscar-worthy apology performance to my batshit crazy bitch of a neighbor which involved me crying on cue. Nor was it when Hunter and the bros from Twin Sister (love these guys!) showed up to finish off the keg, because I pretty much blacked out by then. No, my favorite part of the night came after I, in a seeeriously drunken state of excitement, ran to ask each RE bro to sing Happy B-day to our bud Emilie (of Visitation Rites, who turned 25 at midnight!) my co-host and fave lady. And they obliged, along with the entire crowd who turned around to sing to her, before diving into "Snow Days," our current fave Real Estate live jam. Needless to say, they were fucking great. Pretty rad b-day moment, if you ask me.

View photos of the magic below.


Real Estate:
















Family Portrait:















Alex Bleeker and the Freaks:










(All photos by Rhiannon Marino)

Check out more coverage of the night by Chocolate Bobka, New York Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, and Pitchfork.

Who cares if the building wants to see me evicted and hung by my neck from the tracks of the JMZ?? While the PIXELHORSE Headquarters at 59 Jefferson may be closed to more shows for a while, this is definitely not the last party to come from us. Oh what's that?? You've HEARD of our incredibly exciting unofficial SXSW backyard showcase? Of course you have! Because, like your momma says, you are SOMEBODY!


I'll see y'all fuckers in Austin!


P.S. - Congrats to Real Estate on their new music video (their first), directed by Rich Law, which premiered today. The next one is in the works already, and it sounds awesome...

VIDEO: MICRO-PIXEL-RITES PRESENTS: AN UNOFFICIAL SXSW HOUSE PARTY

"Beer, BBQ, and Babes"

Chick-blogger tour-de-force MICRO-PIXEL-RITES (the ladies of PIXELHORSE, Visitation Rites, and Microphone Memory Emotion) presents you with the best house party of your life. Located at the same awesome spot as the After the Jump Fest house party in 2008 and 2009, the showcase will include beer, BBQ vegan fare, and (so far) the following babes:

Campfires
Cloud Nothings
Rangers
Alex Bleeker and the Freaks
Twin Sister
Big Troubles
Family Portrait
Pill Wonder
Coasting
Pure Ecstasy

1204 Salina St
Thursday 03/18/10
1-8pm