indie song about dancing gets a beat: the twelves put down the synth on that antipedantic black kids’ song.

Black Kids - I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You (Twelves Remix)

Spring beckons and TMYLM follows eagerly, abandoning multiday posting for whoa-whoa-whoa multistage-hidden identity assistant-magician tricks, school, family and friends experiences. Yes, the buds are out on the tree and you know what that calls for: some of the tweest shit you’ve heard in a while. So decalcify your espresso machine and listen to our songs (if you can avoid the various sex scandals)

Plants and Animals - Bye Bye Bye
White Rabbits - While We Go Dancing
Marianne Faithfull - Working Class Hero

Listen, we at TMYLM are quite lazy, but it doesn’t mean that we can’t appreciate when others are not lazy.  So (So) it comes as no surprise that we had to link to a double-plus-ungood unlazy link.  Its a page of covers of Leonard Cohen’s incredible Hallelujah.

My Old Kentucky Blog - Hallelujah Covers (Updated)

If bands these days aren’t named after wolves and deer and lambs, they’re named after water and rocks and whales and bodies. The latter usually involving female harmonies, epic choruses, country fiddles, and a stomping back-beat.

Noah & The Whale - Rocks and Daggers (fixed link!!)

So Dubai arrests some guy for having weed stuck to the soles of his shoes. Brooklyn charm-poppers Vampire Weekends release a song that echoes Paul Simon’s Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes. Hilarious skinny-jean wearing Max Gogarty gets demolished for privileged, promiscous traveling through India and Thailand. Gender-neutral pronouns emerge in Baltimore. The TSA travelog goes unmentioned in a long presidential weekend of crazy weather. Soulful world - soulful world music. Sorry haters but its what I am.

Maria Daniela y su Sonido Lasser - Miedo
The Exciters - Yo Que Nada Tengo

We never thought we’d post a Scout Niblett song on this blog–it reminds us too much of former roommates and the heady days when we thought deerhoof might be listenable–but this little pairing with redeemer of redeemers Bonny Billy saves our soul a tiny bit more every time we listen.

Scout Niblett & Will Oldham - Kiss

Whether SAD means Seasonal Affective Disorder or Social Anxiety Disorder or just plain old sad sad, we’d be glad to inject some melatonin, xanax, or other endorphin stimulants into your bloodstream. But since we’re all virtual, and shit, here’s some music:

Bat for Lashes - What’s a Girl to Do?

Dri - Free Tonight

Juvelen - Summer Spring

Here’s to coming together! To parties with proletarian stomping and lamb balls and boring biddies in blue dresses! Here’s to parties and their aftermaths that are slightly less traumatizing than Katrina but up there with a category 3 hurricane. Here’s to hordes of friends, flushed face in a coke haze making your downstairs neighbors’ lives a living hell. To dozens of hirsute young hipsters pouring Tall Boys down each others’ throats and choking the hallway like 205 Bar on Hollertronix night. Hate ‘em or leave ‘em, cuz democracy ain’t dead and neither is John McCain. The Mac is back!!

Low - Hatchet (Optimimi version)

Substantially less hated than the TSA (that recently started a fucking blog, with humor no less!), local brownstone band Professor Murder seems nevertheless to be buying into paranoid theories about their incidental relationship to the SoCa scene. We at TMYLM are never ones to shy away from controversies, and since we’d rather devote our love to Professor Murder instead of blog whipping boys the NYPD, we’ll go ahead and post a little remix that just came our way… And to prove that PM may or may not be so late on the bandwagon its like local positivist philolsopher gone wrong, compare it to the old Dutch Hex which kicked major fucking ass.

Professor Murder - Dutch Hex (Max Pask Murdub Mix) removed by request of someone
Professor Murder -Hutch Dex

Today TMYLM continues our tour of aural worldly delights, after a brief respite in honor of plagiarism and death surrounding the blogosphere in these darkened times. Yes, you’ll have to put on your famous sunglasses for these ones, both picked up, sans venereal disease, in a hostel somewhere in the southern hemisphere. First up we have rootsrock band Kultiration bringing in a dancehallish rhythm over some weird-ass Swedish mixing. Sounds lame until ya hear it, don’t ya know… Next up is Colombian band Aterciopelados notspinning out some cool ass cumbia but without the beats so prevalent in, well, these darkened times. Next time you’re waiting in some cold ass line to hear Diplo at your local shithole, you’ll appreciate these in your mind.

Kultiration - Sparkar Och Slag
Aterciopelados - Baracunatana