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Last weekend in the Southern California desert, Coachella, one of the best festivals in the US for true music fans went down. I've been to the festival a few times and while fantastic and fun, it's brutally hot during the day. I didn't go this year, but a friend drove out there on a whim with only jeans and a dress shirt and I'm told literally traded a complete stranger a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice for the strangers' extra pair of shorts in his backpack. The negotiations went back and forth for five minutes. Tough trade...now "that's hot". What's amazing is that almost instantly, photos and videos were coming in from the festival via the internet, as well as live blogging.
While I knew of a lot of the newer bands on the line-up this year, there were equally as many I did not. One of these newer bands did seem to ring a bell however and it turns out it was here at FDL in the "comments" section that I was first introduced to what is now by all accounts a worldwide underground sensation out of Brazil, (the band) CSS. The reason why they were brought to my attention here a few months ago was because a fan had a video up on YouTube of a cover CSS are doing of a song that I wrote and performed with my band, L7.
At the time, I thought the band and video were fun and clever, but I had no idea that CSS would explode to this level so quickly! There they are, critic's picks from all over the planet, virtually unknown outside of Brazil until about six months ago and packin' em in at Coachella.
I repeat: Paris Hilton danced to CSS covering L7. You could not possibly invent a more flabbergasting third-wave feminist mindfuck...
CSS's songs are strangely infectious, and thanks to fan documentation postings on YouTube, their live shows look like a blast. Just the way I like it. Their tour of the USA starts on June 1st in NYC. When they swing through LA again I'll definitely go check them out. But CSS had better watch out, I have far better dance moves than Paris.
Playlist after the flip.
The Spin I'm In: From Sao Paulo to Paris
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Hey, Donita!
“Kevin Federline, yeah, mm hmm”
TGIF! Party on!
Spin me baby!
Bil @ 3
WOOOOOOO! PARTY! PARTY HEARTY! Or don’t and just sit nicely in the corner sipping a nice chai with a good book, however you relax at the end of the week.
heat stroke
Damn, missed spinning the Zed by that much…
My foreign exchange daughter is from Sau Paulo! She loves everything LA and Orange County, but I’ll bet she’s proud of this band.
SOS 554!
This week on the hip hop tip.
Over the Counterculture
download the entire album for free:
http://www.timfite.com/
S.O.S. from MA @ 7
That Frappr map is cool, I just added myself to it. I’m the first Hoosier added, yay me!
FiniFiniTOOBZ! @ 11
all the others are wandering
Loo Hoo @ 8
Oy vey, yet another spelling of that city’s name. Donita and I were confounded a bit by the spelling. I had spelled it in the original Portugese as Sao Paolo, she found it spelled Sao Paulo, and now you used Sau Paulo which I think I’ve seen others use before too. How can a city have so many spellings? Fuggit, I’m calling it Saint Paul from now on.
Hey, Donita, you foxy lady.
What’s shakin?
I’d like to have gone to Coachella just to see Crowded House perform again.
The fact that about a dozen more of my favourite artists were there would just be icing on the cake.
And now, I have to check out these CSS people.
I love Yo Majesty and Static Static. Rock the Bells………great playlist Donita.
Sid
Mack @ 12
Oh no…you remember that? Wander Indiana was a tourism campaign the state used in either the late 80s or early 90s that was so freaking embarassing. Made us look like a bunch of mouth breathing idiots like we just wander around this place all the time.
Donita –
The SF Chronicle’s Datebook section has a little column “Date Lines: news, notes, and updates from the Bay Area arts and culture scene.” On Wednesday, the lead item was a two-fer on Jane Wiedlin. It started like this:
But it didn’t end there.
Sao Paulo to Paris? Try Trannyshack to Disney!
TRex @ 14
Foxy Lady!!! Me likey!
Loved the Debbie and Iggy video. I’d heard it before, but never saw it.
New York back in the day.
Trex
left you a comment way downstairs in late late nite (early morning here)
Check out The Good The Bad & The Queen
You’ll only be a month or so behind P-Rex.
Camouflage is hot this season
My favorite line:
“This French
Champagne…”
Iggy: Domestic.
Peterr @ 18
Indeed.
TRex @ 21
Caught that, great.
2 1/2 hours until Friday night news dump…
S.O.S. from MA @ 7
I could not make it work, and I think Oz needs a pin. Can you point me to the help page?
That was cool.
For anyone interested, I have organized most of Donita’s YouTube picks from The Spin I’m In into a playlist on YouTube. I say most because having gone through all of the videos she has posted on here, some of them have been removed by YouTube so it’s not a complete list of every video she’s used but it’s got about 90% of them.
I saw this Brazilian guy Silverio Pessoa at the Rainforest Music Festival in Sarawak two years ago. He plays a style called which is a mixture of African rhythms, Northern Portuguese (Celtic) and hip-hop. Fantastic raucous dance music! And if you understand Portuguese QUITE POLITICAL!
http://www.silveriopessoa.com.br/dvd/index.htm
f4k iTunes… just say’n
Thanks for the shout out of CSS. Their sound reminds me of the early eighties, Blondie in particular.
I looked at the Coachella site. Quite the lineup. For a music festival, my personal preference is Bonnaroo. Linky
you all out linked me today… I just can’t keep up so i r just chill now
Ok everyone, I’ve got a doozy for you. Please watch and listen to the entire song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cAChVVVZaM
tw3k @ 29
I hear ya, but I’m not as opposed to them as I once was. They’re the first US service to start offering downloads without a friggin DRM lock on the tracks.
They’re trying to pull the music business into reality, give em some time. Keep in mind the pinheaded stuff the iTunes folks do is usually dreamed up by some record company pinhead first.
Donita Sparks @ 32
just not my genre
dumb regex
howdy donita!
i love CSS! they are cute, quirky, & fun!
i just watched their “pretend we’re dead” video—sweet!
as usual, thanks for the fab playlist.
nora
tw3k @ 34
Did it somehow fly over your head???
Donita Sparks @ 36
nope
Donita Sparks @ 32
I’m in lurv! Gettin freaky like in Abu Ghraib! That woman is going to be a star I tells ya.
FiniFiniTOOBZ! @ 38
spot on
Donita, you should save that video for a future Spin post. “I got a cell phone in my underwear” - you got to love a song with a line like that in it!
Donita Sparks @ 39
i dunno, might have it’s place. Just does not resonate here.
My previous comment had a less-than char. i tied to edit; thus my reference to regex :p
cinnamonape @ 28
Here are some faster Silverio Pessoa samples
http://www.cuberoots.com/sound/ob/OB5206145013.mp3
http://www.cuberoots.com/sound/ob/OB5206145008.mp3
http://www.cuberoots.com/sound/ob/OB5206145001.mp3
Very different from what a lot of folks consider “Brazilian”…Pessoa says that “Forro is the sound of the streets, while samba is the sounds of the elites”
cinnamonape@28 i luv me some Silvrio Pessoa
cinnamonape @ 42
cinnamonape @ 28
:D
but needs longer tracks :)
cinnamonape @ 42
This is some fun music! I’d get stoned and dance to this. I have no clue what he’s singing about but hell, I love Rammstein and can’t speak German so I don’t need to know what the lyrics mean to have a good time.
music is open and free
tw3k @ 46
The clip is A JOKE. It is not a real country singer. Comedy Peace.
Donita Sparks @ 47
yeah i got it.
i dunno maybe i’m an ass but i got no humor outta itFiniFiniTOOBZ! @ 49
I didn’t pay for this.
tw3k @ 46
Not to the musician who creates it and needs to pay rent and eat it’s not. If your employer decided your labor wasn’t worth paying you for anymore but still expected you to work for free would you go to your job anymore? Music must be paid for, anything less is stealing. Stop starving the musicians.
Donita
hilarious. I have to start thinking of these viral videos more. the director will probably get a three picture deal out of this and as Fini says the singer will become as famous as Brookers. lol
Donita Sparks @ 32
Do ya think Jenna and Not-Jenna sing this one to their old man? LMAO as an ol’ country boy, semi dfh.
Jane is upstairs.
OT: So when will Henry Waxman send the Sargent at Arms to arrest Condi? It looks like he is getting close. he just about comes out and accuses here of Obstruction of Congress here.
Apparently she (or someone working for her) has forbidden folks in State to talk to Henry because he’s not being nice.
Send the Sargent at arms!
Hi, Donita! The musics in playlist are great!
I’m Brazilian, but I don’t live in Sao Paulo, hehe! I’m from Fortaleza!
I’ve to say… Most of the music that plays in the radio are foreign… Unhappily, the national bands are losing “space”, because the Brazilian industry music is in decadence… The internet and the falsified CDs contributed to that, in certain way.
But I like national bands a lot, some deserved larger prominence! Hehe, my band also plays songs of L7, we like the L7’s songs a lot. Unhappily, the true rock bands don’t make more success in Brazil… I’m sad for that, because my band will still have to wait a lot to be recognized. Hahahaa!!! Well, whenever you can, post some news about the bands of Brazil that you liked!
Yeah, I agree with you, the CSS’s are really great! The underground music of Brazil has many promising bands, that really do a great sound. Greetings from Brazil!! ;-)Donita Sparks @ 58
Thanks, lady! I’ve to say, Brazil doesn’t have fame of doing heavy and death metal (besides other rock and metal styles), but here we’ve a lot of bands that would really frighten and scare out of the country. Wahaha!! I’ll select some videos of this bands and make a playlist. Then, I’ll post here for you hear and comment. ;-)
new thread and-the-winner-is
new thread upstairs
tw3k
left you a comment at 83 in step it up thread—after you left comment, new one……..
good luck to you!
Jandira Ferreira @ 54
Greetings from USA!
I was amazed with this festival where I saw Sylverio Pessoa. It’s located on a clearing on the mountainside right on the South China Sea. The mountain behind and all around is rainforest, and there is a lagoon and longhouses of all the different local styles there where the bands hold music and dance workshops. The bring in groups from all over the world…only a few that I’d heard of before like Tarika (from Madagascar), Shooglenifty (from Scotland) or Nahawa Doumbia (Mali). This is their 10th Anniversary and their bringing back a lot of the “big” groups from prior years. Usually they get all new acts so the festival is fresh every year…but the bands always want to come back to the place because its just magic.
Sometimes there are flying lemurs (sort of a giant flying squirrel) or fruit bats that glide around over the audience! Or monkeys that come down and watch in the trees at all the crazy dancing people (rather than run away). Weird and amazing stuff!
Normally reserved Malay Muslims getting into it with punkish Chinese Singaporean kids, Indian and Sri lankans, orang asli (local indigenous peoples of Borneo) who really know how to party and dance, as well as a few hundred Western ex pats and tourists like myself! Great fun! Some people stay all night with someone DJ’ing well into the early morning, and just crawl off to sleep in one of the longhouses.
http://www.rainforestmusic-bor...../index.htm
I’m going back this year for my 5th festival! Love it! And Sarawak is a pretty cool place at other times, too!
D’oh bad quote srry
tw3k @ 44
Yeah, he doesn’t want people to download his stuff, though. For him it’s a big problem. So he just offers snippets.
dmac @ 57
thx man :) Yeah I do goto Tioesta for the public library. If you get to the area give a shout to tw3k dot net at gmail soon.
cinnamonape @ 59
This sounds like a hell of a good time to me. If only I could get to it but alas, finances and an inability to fly commercial airlines prevents me. Does that site have a webcam feed from it?
Donita, for who likes of a heavier sound (and you too), here in Brazil don’t lack bands that terrify and frighten at the stages. Heavy metal, death, doom, punk… and many other styles… Dark Avenger, Harlequin, Tuatha De Danamm, Burning In Hell, Korzus, Torture Squad… They’re some of those bands that I can mention. Yeah, they really rocks!!! o/
In this site, http://www.rockshowbrasil.com/ have a lot of news about national bands.
Then, I’ll also post some videos of my band on YouTube, and I’ll post here for you to watch and to say if you’ll like! ^^
tw3k @ 48
I am going to “flip-flop.”
Our issue is really about “framing”.
My definition of “music” is different than yours.
My definition of “music” is something that you share or produce. “music” is a cultural phenomena than you may or may-not control.
By my definition “music” is a spiritual thing: a living thing..
FiniFiniTOOBZ! @ 63
I wish! They do have a video that was produced, but it only gives snippets of the music. It’s mainly something to promote attendance at the festival. I’m going to see if they can podcast it this year, maybe linking it up through an alternative stations website. But they didn’t even have internet connections out there until recently. But things move fast in Sarawak so who knows. I’ll post something if they can podcast it!
Uh huh.
Donita Sparks @ 39
…pure genius. pure countree stampede… and a sign of intelligence from somewhere in america. thanx 4 sharing, donita. lmao…
CSS is cool. goth rap song;) if i were in LA i’d certainly cut the rug with you at their gig… next 2 you, paris would look a stik figure:)