So my first thing is
'Set the Boy Free,' the new Johnny Marr autobiography
We were on tour, we were driving through the middle of nowhere
I got it on audiobook but his voice is really soothing.
It was summer 1968
and every day we would walk past Emily's corner shop
my mother would have to stop and wait while I stared up intently through the window
at the little wooden guitar leaning on the shelf between the mops, buckets, and brooms.
When we were in the van, I'd be trying to listen to it, laying down in the van on a long drive
and I'd keep falling asleep.
Hopefully you won't fall asleep.
Right, yeah, exactly.
This is pretty cool. I got Austra's 'Future Politics'
Our friend Nick Steinhardt, who does most of our design, designed this record.
He got a bunch of comps for this and he was like, y'know, help me out
so we were going over all the different typefaces and
she had a ton of amazing photography done for this record.
It's cool the one that they went with, that's kind of a story connecting it
and I haven't jammed it yet but I like her
older stuff, I'm sure this will fall right in line.
My first record I got here is the first A Silver Mt. Zion record
I'm pretty sure the background behind this record is that
it's somewhat dedicated to Ephram's dog that died
but it's just a hauntingly dark and sad
and beautiful and kind of abstract instrumental rock record.
The song called '13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round The Side Of Your Bed' that
when I was 18, I used to get super blown and just zone out and listen to it.
I couldn't find the vinyl but I did find the CD version of the new Drab Majesty
'The Demonstration,' which Dais just put out
Everyone I know is talking about this record right now and it's awesome.
It's like a perfectly encapsulated new wave/80s goth record
Like a weirder Duran Duran. It's good, it's really good.
I got another book here. Even if you don't like
the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which I do like them, I like two of their records
or two and a half I guess
this is still like an amazing autobiography
it's one of the best autobiographies I've read.
Chapter 1. Me, I'm from Michigan
I'd been shooting coke for three days straight with my Mexican drug dealer Mario
when I remembered the Arizona show
by then, my band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, had one album out
Lindy, our manager, had booked us a gig in a steak house disco in Arizona
It's like, a lot of people, when I try and tell them about how good this book is they kind of laugh at me.
It's a really entertaining book, and you kind of get to see who
Anthony Kiedis, the human being, is.
I'm going to keep it rolling with friends, I'm going to keep that theme.
Again, another Dais release. Youth Code 'Complication.'
It's really killer, it's like industrial done properly
they're just good people, great music
Ryan is one of the best programmers that I've ever seen work.
I also got this repress of 'Definitely Maybe.'
A surprising amount of people that I know who like Oasis have not really heard this record.
Some amazing songs
my friend Merrick always talked about the audacity of writing a song
called 'Rock n Roll Star' when you are not a rock n roll star.
And there's all sorts of T. Rex riffs
there's just a million... obviously it's an Oasis record, it's great.
I got 'Salem's Lot.' I just did. I just saw it.
I don't have cable or internet right now, I just moved into a new apartment.
I do have a DVD player, so I'm going to watch this probably right after this.
Even though it's a blu-ray?
I have a blu-ray.
Oh you have a blu-ray? Ok.
C'mon dawg.
Yeah and I also wanted to get this Morrissey 'Vauxhall and I'
It's pretty much Morrissey's Brit-pop record, essentially.
This is tied with 'Viva Hate,' for me, for his two best records.
Literally front to back, it's amazing, if you like Morrissey.
This is the record where I started when I got into him.
his solo stuff so, yeah, can't recommend this one enough.
'Kodama,' the new Alcest record.
It's sort of a return to form, I guess, like their older records.
Their record before this, 'Shelter,' was sort of like a straightforward shoegazer album
and this kind of goes back to more of it's metal beginnings.
This band's phenomenal. We were lucky enough to tour with them in early 2012.
Good people, good album and deserve all the support in the world.
The Minor Victories record, self-titled.
It's a new side project of Stewart from Mogwai and Rachel from Slowdive.
It's really cinematic, reminiscent, sort of, of Mogwai's later material
It's weird when you have Rachel singing over something
it just instantly brings you back to the Slowdive vibe.
Insanely good record and, yeah, I can't wait to see what they do next.
I wish I could call these guys friends.
I got Crowbar's 'Sonic Excess In Its Purest Form'
Before we moved here we lived on 24th and Vermont
sort of where the Mission meets Potrero Hill in San Francisco
One of my good friends, Mikey Sax
loves this band
and we spent many a drunken night and many a stoned morning jamming this record
and I don't think I've listened to it as heavily since then, as I did in that time period.
I saw it and I was like, oh, one for the shelf.
Yeah, that's a classic Mikey record.
I picked up this Grave Miasma record.
Pretty amazing UK death metal.
My friend Chris Bruni runs with this label Profound Lore
and he's pretty much an encyclopedia of death metal so
if he's putting it out, usually safe to say it's going to be pretty good.
Jenny Hval's 'Blood Bitch'
Cool subject matter, like menstrual vampirism
Can't go wrong
Yeah I guess this is pretty much my last record
I got the 'Live in Leipzig' Mayhem record.
The first time we played Leipzig, we were backstage at the show
drinking to get over the jet lag
and someone brought up the infamous Dead quote
'Come on, Leipzig, join us.'
Come on, Leipzig, join us
Pure fucking armageddon.
So we just were yelling that for an hour straight back there.
It's even got the tribute to Dead on the back. RIP Dead.
Thanks guys.
Cool. Thank you.
Yeah, appreciate it.