ON REPEAT: HOMADE, Show Me The Body & Princess Nokia, Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt, TAGBOW, 12 RODS, Sex Week, Cannibal Ox, Bobbi Humphrey, Kassie Krut, Ahmed Malek, Kumo 99, Automatic, Xzibit

and Jimothy

Hello, it’s been a while since I’ve updated (been feeling whatever) which means I have so many songs I really like but they could have had a whole life cycle in this time period. I’ve been a bit checked out.

Been working hard on something I’m excited to share with people. If you’ve talked to me personally within the month I’ve probably mentioned it. It’s very dumb.

I keep this playlist updated here.

Automatic “Mercury”

I was super excited to book Automatic on The Best Show (check out the set here) a month or two ago and this song of theirs is my absolute fave of their newer stuff.

Cannibal Ox “Iron Galaxy”

Ok somehow I never got into Cannibal Ox in high school despite listening to everything around it but now I am. This song makes me excited to try weed for the first time.

Kassie Krut “Copycat”

Kassie Krut is one of my fave newer NYC acts that I’ve featured on here a few times. This one sounds like SOPHIE remixing Vampire Weekend with Kim Gordon doing her rap thing over it.

Show Me The Body & Princess Nokia “Spit”

I had a big Show Me The Body phase a while back before I was writing this thing and for whatever reason I seem to have missed their newer music last year including this SEXY (and a lil scummy) song collaborating with Princess Nokia, which is like a superhero team up for people who have gotten in fist fights late at night in Bushwick DIY venues. Both SMTB and Nokia are genre-fluid and do great collabs so it’s a great fit.

They Are Gutting a Body of Water “american food”

Did you see this NTS performance of TAGBOW in a garbage dump? If I had millions of dollars I would just put it towards making weird stuff like this.

HOMADE “Blue Fish”

This track is from a few years ago by rising NYC band HOMADE. This song was recorded after they won a contest which should be how more songs get made. I also like the name of the band.*

*I don’t know if the title is a joke (“ho made”) and I’m afraid to acknowledge.

12 RODS “Mexico”

This one has been on repeat for a while for me, after I heard it on one of Derrick Gee’s listening videos. 12 Rods, from Minneapolis, released this song in 1996 off the album gay?,(which is a great album title), and got a 10.0 on Pitchfork, which I guess existed then. The band was built up to be the “American Radiohead,” but sometimes things don’t happen. The silver lining is that people can discover it like a hidden treasure when they feel like they’ve heard it all.

Jimothy Lacoste “Subway System”

I was walking around Chicago with my good pal Kate Sweeney, who asked me “Do you know Jimothy?” I didn’t know this was a music question and I think I responded “I don’t want to know a Jimothy,” but turns out I like Jimothy. I even kinda like when he speaks in third person in this.

This song is from seven years ago.

Sex Week “Bluff”

Hm for me every week is sex week? This is a newer band from NYC currently touring for Acopia, a show I should have bought tickets for in LA but I didn’t and I missed it.

Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt “5”

This is a fun collab of mysterious weird Dean Blunt (who has a hand in so much shit I like), Elias from Iceage (still weird to me he’s dating Jenna Ortega), and producer Vegyn (who I’ve been listening to a lot in the morning to encourage me from bedrotting for hours). Another good morning song…

Bobbi Humphrey “Blacks and Blues”

I grew up watching Taxi and grooving my little child-ass to the intro every time, so this is great for me. Bobbi Humphrey is called the “First Lady of the Flute” which is a confusing title for me because it sounds like she married a flute.

Ahmed Malek “Bossa”

The heads know the best bossa nova is from Algeria.

Bad Bunny “NUEVAYoL”

You know this song but I’ve been listening to so much Bad Bunny just adding this here for posterity.

Kumo 99 “Ziplock”

This video—Jesus Christ, guys.

Alok & DENNIS “Mimosa (feat. Nyasia)”

You might have heard this on TikTok. It’s catchy and fun and to put it nicely doesn’t sound the way the video looks. It’s way more Webster Hall ‘89 than EDC 2011, but I don’t really keep an eye on that world. I’ve never even done any of the things shown in the video. Never been to a big electronic festival, never sprayed champagne on hot strangers while Erika Kirk fireworks go off, and I don’t really wear shorts unless I’m at a pool. But this might be the summer where that all changes…

THE GOLD STANDARD:

Xzibit “Paparazzi”

I’m not the biggest Xzibit fan but I feel bad that broadly culturally, he’s more known in like the genre of the Top Gear guys. But this song sounds like Mobb Deep or something.

This is a good ass beat. But do you KNOW? Do you know what it is? I’m gonna take a second and you try to guess and unless you know you’ll never get it.

Take a second and try to identify the voice.

Ok it’s this. Isn’t that crazy?