I reviewed Traxman’s (aka Cornelius Ferguson) album, Da Mind of Traxman. It’s crazy good, and if you haven’t listened to footwork before, it’s the perfect gateway into this mind-melting music from Chicago.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/traxman-da-mind-traxman
Jogging, smoothies, nudity, oil painting, motivational speech, and the back of my head, all in one video thanks to Let’s Paint TV’s amazing performance at The Smell back on April 6. Here’s my blurb:
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/watch-lets-paint-tv-live-smell-april-6-2012
Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez!, the third film from VHS crate-diggers Everything is Terrible, is a recreation of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s trippy-ass The Holy Mountain made entirely of clips from dog movies 80s and 90s. It’s also fucking mind-blowing. I reviewed it at Tiny Mix Tapes.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/film/doggiewoggiez-poochiewoochiez
Here are some 2011 music honorable mentions that were only posted on Tiny Mix Tapes’ twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/tinymixtapes
V/A - Bangs and Works Vol 2 (I love this one)
Cass McCombs- Witt’s End
Radu Malfatti/Keith Rowe -Φ
Kangding Ray - Or
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of Sounds I Can Not Erase
Atlas Sound - Parallax
Belong - Common Era
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
Also, I liked these even though they didn’t make the list:
Abner Jay - Last Ol’ Minstrel Man
Tines New Viking - Dancer Equired
Hertta Lussu Assa - Hertta Lussu Assa
Tara Jane O’Neil and Nikaido Kazumi - s/t
AIDS Wolf - Ma Vie Banale Avant-Garde
Ponytail - Do Whatever You Want All the Time
Alvarius B - Baroque Primitiva
Maria Minerva - Cabaret Cixous
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum
Windowspeak - Windowspeak
Here’s the best year-end music list that’s been published this year. I did some blurbage for it. Aren’t convinced it’s the best? I will convince you: Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver aren’t anywhere on it.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2011-favorite-50-albums-2011
This thing is the Tiny Mix Tapes Chocolate Grinder Mix 2011. What the hell is that? It’s a two 40-minute sides of a bunch of tracks put together by a bunch of people of music they liked in 2011. It’s pretty random. I wrote one of the blurbs, but like you’ll really be reading those things when there’s music this good playing.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2011-chocolate-grinder-mix-2011
Here is an article I wrote for TinyMixTapes.com’s year-end shebang. It’s called The Year’s Greatest Cuts: Slices of Filmic Violence. It’s pretty long long, weird, maybe a little disturbing, and hopefully fun to read.
I reviewed the new Pedro Almodovar movie here. The whole film is one big ball of insane plot twists, so it was pretty hard to write about without giving anything away, but I did it, spoiler free. Anyway, it’s the best he’s been since Talk to Her, and I’m really excited that all the old folks who love “artistic foreign drama” are going to leave the theater horrified after this brutal thing.
I reviewed this really good indie film called Weekend at Tinymixtapes, and probably didn’t do it justice. It’s a sweet, smart movie, and it’s cool to have such a non-epic gay film (that is, “not Brokeback Mountain”) get so much attention.
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