the pipettes are coming back to dc! they played a quite crowded show at blackcat back a few months ago now, but this time they are doing it big at 9.30club. hopefully, unlike last time, the crowd will actually get into it. the pipettes have to much energy to be wasted on another dead dc audience. petrov is hoping for the best. They were just confirmed for October 10th.
The Pipettes - We are the Pipettes (SXSW)
those damn frenchies! actually petrov loves them (sorta) cuz they gots the tunes we all love that hit the dance floors . most recently petrov has fallen in love all over again over daft punk. a daft punk mix cd has made its way into petrov's new car and puts the premium audio system through its paces as he drives down the highway.
good news for petrov! Daft Punk is releasing a live cd of their June Paris show later this year (via NME). For a nice icing on the DP cake, expect a new video too for "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger".
petrov won't put you through another DP song, he may have already put too many DP entries into this blog.
not Miss South Carolina. (via Privacy is a Thing of the Past)
Pink - Stupid Girls
The District's Awake Music Festival (DAM! Fest) announced some of the main performers appearing at this year's festival. Most notably... Cat Power. Petrov loves Cat Power, but he is sad that he will be in Africa on her night on stage at the 9.30 club. oh wells, petrov hopes ya'll enjoy the show though. (and no petrov doesn't get the video either).
Cat Power - Living Proof
not to be confused with from petrov's post "from alt.country to porn star" (here). Rilo Kiley has released a new video. petrov may be developing a mild crush on Jenny Lewis, just an fyi.
Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
petrov has been very busy this week with the purchase of a new vehicle. sadly his car now has a better sound system than either sound system in his house. so to the car for new music!
anywho... here is a song for your listening pleasure. This is off Tunng's new cd "Bullets" which will be released Aug. 27th in the UK and Sept 25th in the US. Why can't they just release it everywhere at the same time? its not like its not the 21st century or anything. enjoy
Tunng - Bullets
Petrov has been a busy little beaver the past week. His car shopping has gone into full gear and has seemed to preoccupy any of his free time. However, last night Petrov thinks he found the car for him. So today it is off to the credit union and to await the lesbian's daddy's opinion on the car (he is a car dealer). If all goes as petrov would most like.... he'll have a new car by week's end. 
This past weekend Petrov went to a lakehouse in western maryland where the redhead's high school friend and husband had a lakehouse for a couple weeks. said couple also had a weiner dog. petrov is no big fan of small dogs, but a weekend of watching a 7inch tall and 2ft long puppy run around as fast as he can make one turn.
As such, it seems appropriate to play "The Underdog" today. Spoon is coming at the end of October to Merriweather as opposed to previously planned 9.30 Club. A slight downgrade in venue. Anywho, that means petrov will probably not go, though the Africa trip will likely interfere with going even if Petrov wanted to. petrov has babbled enough for one day.
Spoon - The Underdog
well, petrov is very excited about his fall concert line up. new porno, rilo kiley, editors, national.... going to be good. now the bad news, petrov is going to be gone for 1/2 of october to Africa to serve his country. yeah, not like that... just some fun work on shea butter, tropical fruit, and cotton. anywho, this means the new pornographers show may be a no-go for petrov. this makes petrov a sad bunny. aren't you sad for petrov too? awww, how sweet. here are some drag queens to make you happy.
New Pornographers - Sing Me SpanishTechno
as you know or may not now, lily allen was deported from the US after her visa was revoked (here). However, the man has not kept her down. lily has gone ahead and found a new and improved way tour. ok its not new, mildly Jessica Rabbit-on-tour-with the Gorillaz-esque.... but you get the general point below.
via Subway State (here)
Mark Ronson - Oh My God ft. Lily Allen
yes petrov had two songs selected for today's post. however, due to heavy drinking last night, petrov did not write his post. so here he is the next morning, unsure of what the second song was. DOH. anywho... the first song: Kaskade - Love Stoned (by his truly, Justin Timberlake).
petrov knows your judging but there is a reason to this madness. though the songs starts out a bit blah it picks up and carries a good beat after the first minute (and before the last). there is something about the fade in and fade out of this song that he doesn't like, it just seems way to standard for any song.
petrov will be honest, he has heard the original Love Stoned a limited number of times, so he's unsure of what the true base of this song is, but with the exception of the fade in and fade out the song keeps the vocals true and the mix builds off of what is inherently good about the song. There is no attempt to alter the beat, cuz we all knowz JT gotz da beat.
once petrov takes his memory medicine and remembers, he'll give you kiddies the second song he promised.
oh my goodness.... can petrov say that with it being in the third person or should it be "oh his goodness" or "oh petrov's goodness"??? petrov isn't sure. anywho... petrov found this quite hilarious.
petrov also promises to provide two fabulous songs in the next post, as petrov has tangented away from the normal musical goodness of late. however, one should prepare their subwoofer because nobody wants to hear these tracks on laptop speakers.
via brooklyn vegan (here)
not that petrov has a clue either but....
Petrov has long called what most americans call a "hat" a "toque". However, he had never really heard any canadians call it that either, but everyone from the region he grew up in did call it a "toque". Petrov never really understood it not having its own special name because a "hat" refers to anything that is designed to be put on your head and usually refer to a "top hat" though no one wears those so "baseball cap".
10Four designs (here) has finally offered up written proof that petrov is not crazy as apparently some portion of canadians due in fact call a "hat" a "toque". It is quite sad that many classic canadian icons such as the ones to the left remind petrov heavily of childhood.... well except gay marriage, health care, and oil. But Terry Fox and poppies make petrov smile just a teeny bit for the good old days.
jenny lewis-- fresh of her album with the Watson Twins--a.k.a. rilo kiley is set to release a new album and petrov is ready to see her at the end of september at the 9.30 club. for those who don't know.... jenny lewis and the watson twins serve up some nice alt.country that makes you think of big poof dresses and men in plaid shirts on a faux farm stage at the Grand Old Opery. Rilo Kiley, however, serves up some poppy rock shite. however, the new single off the forthcoming "Under the Blacklight" album is a bit more risque. The actors in the video are real porn stars who thought they were interviewing for a real porn... little did they know they would be rocking it with Rilo Kiley.
enjoy "The Moneymaker"
petrov has updated the blog header/logo/title to represent dc more accurately for the sweltering heat that we are currently enduring.
or maybe petrov just wanted you to all see he is sticking his tongue out at you...
Colonel K Speaks wrote a little diddy on the downfall of DJing (here) due to "amateur night" at a various assortment of bars throughout DC. So petrov had not really thought about this topic before as he can only think of one instance where he has attended a music-focused bar and heard non-DJs "spinning" aka dropping songs with no djing skills required. Its probably safe to assume that one instance was out of petrov's normal circle of outings, but it was indeed quite a sad experience. Petrov remembers trying to dance...only to find himself having to stop every 4-6minutes and readjust for a new beat (the fading and fading out of two songs simultaneously does not count as mixing).
anywho, petrov could go on, but this is just reason #34 why you should find petrov someone to teach him how to dj.
Well.... Petrov made it to the Saturday half of the Virgin Music Festival up in Maryland.. and in petrov style he arrived with his mischievous crew at 3pm as apposed to the planned 2pm arrival for crazy-bitch-but-i-still-love-you Amy Winehouse. Damn the traffic and the idiots who get in accidents.
Anywho petrov did hear 3 songs while walking into the festival by AW, but unfortunately she sounded sober and on key... a slight disappointment in petrov's book. Petrov & Co. made their way to the far end of the grounds to catch Paolo Nutini who petrov enjoyed with mild enthusiasm. He made him bounce a little, but the heat kept that to a minimum. This was cut short by a desire to catch Felix da Housecat, which suprising turned out to be one of the best shows of the day for Petrov (see third picture). With the completion of Felix, petrov ran back across the grounds to catch Peter Bjorn and John, which rocked (see fourth picture). Petrov unfortunately missed their 9.30 club show, but apparently this show was far superior, so nothing lost there. whew.
This was followed up with running back to the Dance Tent to catch Danny Tengalia who also rocked. In summary of the day, it was quite surprising to see that the most rocking DJs were in the middle of the day and crowds were their thickest then also. Petrov would have expected the homosexuals to crawl out of the woodwork come darkness in the Dance Tent. This did not hold true. After rocking to Tengalia for half an hour, Petrov again rain across the grounds to catch LCD Soundsystem. LCDS rocked, but either they rocked double hard at 9.30club or Petrov is a music whore that doesn't sleep with the same band twice very often.
Before completing that set Petrov was required across the grounds at the Beastie Boys concert. (en route petrov was nearly hit by a number of corn tortillas being thrown in preparation for "extremely weird wrestling".... petrov was mildly interested for like 2 minutes with that and moved on. Petrov and the redhead worked their way threw the crowd after the beastie boys set had already began. petrov got as close as he needed to be as he placed himseld relatively close to the stage (see first picture) among one gi-normous crowd (see second picture) and between some very nice eye candy for between song entertainment.
This was followed up with some Sasha, which was a huge dissappointment. Petrov loves him some Sasha grooves, but Petrov just wasn't feeling it, even though he tried. Petrov and redhead then decided to move towards The Police, where upon getting out of the thumping range of Sander van Doorm, they high tailed it back to van Doorm. Finally Petrov collected his compatriots at modest mouse where two songs were endured which were a "meh" as would be suspected. Petrov never really got Modest Mouse after the first cd.
...it just rolls right off your tongue.
Straight from DCBLOGS this morning:
Sometime ago Roosh V., aka DC Bachelor, penned a hilarious and memorable post about his plan for a DC Puppy Rental Service as a way to meet women. Well, guess what? In surfing some NYC blogs this weekend, we came across Janeism, an upper Manhattan-based blogger, who has a report about a real dog rental service in NY that’s coming to DC. It’s called Flexpetz and you can rent a dog for a few hours to a number of days. Janeism writes: … now, in exchange for some cash, I can buy something close to that love and drop it off when I’m done. It’s puppy prostitution, in a sense. But like a lonely sailor in a new port, I might be tempted. Others commenting. Harlem Fur: the idea of leasing a pet strikes me as a bit strange.
Petrov's Virgin Music Festival round up from Saturday is coming.... its just puppy prostitution has side tracked him in the most profound way.
Petrov loves pie charts... he guesses that is an unfortunate side effect of having an economics degree. (don't get him started on graphs). Anywho, this seems to fit petrov to a "T". However, it is quite fair to say any video game name would do quite well in there.
if you need a handy little printout of the schedule to keep your ears as happy as can be.... here you go. petrov however warns you that your little mind may blow up when forced to choose between tv on the radio, sasha, and beastie boys.
on a side note, petrov has scored himself an $80 ticket for one day. ticketmaster fees be damned.
