Look at the split vinyl I got!

When I first read the Pitchfork item about Fader's split vinyl, I thought to myself, "Man I want that, but clearly I will never get it," you know - since the item's header was 'YACHT, Black Lips Split a 7" You Probably Won't Hear". Seriously - not for sale, limited to 500 copies, and only sent out to what Pitchfork made it seem like the elite. And then I got an email asking if I wanted one. Of course!!!

So what better time to showcase some stuff I've recently come across having to do with Portland's favorite son YACHT and the dirty south's Black Lips.
Remember that Bastille day event I went to, but never saw any live music? Well, apparently it got good, maybe even magical by the looks of this photo of Claire and Jona doing a duet of 'The Summer Song':


(care of Steve Schroeder)

Go here for 'The Summer Song'

Onto Black Lips. I won't see this band live because I'm scared to. It seems as though they've toned down their act to now include live chickens and assaulting the audience with a mass amount of feathers, but their previous reputation of making out with each other, vomiting, and peeing on each other really turned me off live-wise.
Pete Nema went and saw them.
So did Leia Jospe.

Makes all the sense in the world to me that they'd be signed to Vice. Ben Rayner did some publicity shots of them. God - remember when his stuff was EVERYWHERE in the UK? It was like I couldn't make a trip to Borders without spying one of his shots in a mag - from Dazed and Confused to Vice to some others I think and of course you couldn't go online without seeing his tour shots of Test Icicles. Anyway, back to Black Lips - I first heard of them when interviewing Be Your Own Pet back in the first month of 2006 - Nathan was raving about them as was Jemina.

'Cold Hands' Black Lips MP3

Now go download yourself Fader's diverse podcast mix!

Track listing:
Daft Punk "Harder Better Faster Stronger"
Kavinsky "Wayfarer"
Bonde do Role "Solta O Frango"
MIA "Boyz"
The Aliens "Setting Sun"
Collie Buddz "Blind To You"
Trae f Styles P and Jadakiss "Smile"
Lil Wayne "I Feel Like Dying"
Kanye West "Can't Tell Me Nothing"
The Fixxers "Can U Werk Wit Dat"
The Dirty Projectors "No More"
Blitzen Trapper "Wild Mountain Nation"
Jason Isbell "Dress Blues"

Go now!

I keep going back and back to that Dirty Projectors track.