Playlist August 4th

Feist - Sea Lion remix
Dragonette - Easy remix
Yadi - Guillotine
Amanda Palmer - Idioteque
Sally Seltmann - Harmony to my Heartbeat
Lisa Damato - Sextape
Priscilla Ahn - I'll Never Smile Again
First Aid Kit - Your Not Coming Home
Joanna Newsome - The Book of Right On (w the Roots)
Moneypenny - Cool & the Gang
M.I.A. - Stepping Up remix
Shunda K feat Cindy Wonderful - Here I am to Save the World
St Vincent (Beck et all) - Never Tear Us Apart
April Smith & the Great Picture Show - Movie
Pomplamoose - Single Ladies
Rasputina - Halocaust of Giants
Kirsten Price - With or Without You
Antigone Rising - Breaking Me
Sunday Girl - Self Control
Quitzow - Talk to Me
Kaito - The Marshalls Are Dead
The Breeders - Walk it Off
Imogen Heap - I am in Love with You
Kaki King - 2 O'Clock
Samantha Crain - Lions
Essential Logic - Wake up
Laura Viers - I can See Your Tracks
Erase Errata - Delivery

I Feel Peaches and Cream

As many o friend is packing their bags en route to Bonnaroo at this hour, i'm currently awake for much different reasons: There is still wine in the bottle and a new Peaches cd to listen to! Yes, the reigning electro queen is back with more sexual chocolate than Brownie Troop 605 knows what to do with (i think it may be buried in the thin mints this year). The new disc I Feel Cream features her belting out R&B style vocals over retro electro hollowed out tracks as on the song "Talk to Me", bringing back the industrial baseline on "Show Stopper", rocking the new wave ballad on "Lose You" and bustin' out the gate with more rap spittin' on "Mommy Complex" and "Billionaire". In some ways its more of the same. Don't expect Peaches to have 'matured' lyrically. I've often had conversations with friends about female artists, such as Peaches, that are sexually explicit with their lyrics and if that innately makes them less feminist, or furthermore, does it make them female chauvinists or sexist? I think a lot of it has to do with context. Peaches? I think she is a free spirit, sexual being who is trying to have a bit of fun and doesn't take herself that seriously. If that makes you uncomfortable, then skip to the next blog. If not, check out I Feel Cream with the volume on 11 and dance around the house in your underwear, or less, Peaches would approve:)

Here is Peaches with guest Shunda K (formerly of Yo Majesty) performing "Billionaire" live in Germany: