deadgirlfriends.com/artists/should/be/friends
ok so elite gymnastics, aka james brooks, aka dead girlfriends, aka claire boucher’s best friend, aka that guy in the steven buscemi short with claire (link at the end). you may have seen his albums or singles floating around on tumblr or pitchfork like parachute or slime crown. pop, dreary, happy, he does it all. there is a great thing happening, and if you follow the right people you can see it. most of these artists have been making music for a couple years and a lot of them started just because their friends also made music.
at the end we will have a list of people who are connected and in love like james and claire.
back to dead girlfriends. this actually surprised me. i had no idea he was putting out more music which is a rare thing for this community. purity ring always is featured on at least 3 websites when they put out a remix (i said, link at the end). the album cover features art from claire that was then later tampered by james and is fully acknowledged on the the bandcamp site website titled “deadgirlfriend.com”. as i write this i am wearing my elite gymnastics shirt that only had XL as a size option, seriously there really are no other options and there never will be. it’s also the same one grimes wore at THE ROOTS FEST in Philly. who knows if he’ll fully switch over to this new DEAD GIRLFRIENDS phase.
this shit is ethereal.
you can get lost for hours, or fifteen minutes since it has four tracks. quality over quantity. you can get it for $7.79 USD or $8 CAD if you like it, eh? it’s refreshing to see artists collaborating in more ways than just music. to quote Jane from Daria, “i don’t really think artists should compete with each other, i believe in a community of creativity.”
yo i feel you girl.
that is where most of today’s music came from, communities of creativity. there are landmarks around canada and western us that harbor confluent ecosystems. purity with that edmonton flavor as nardwuar would say (more links at the end). and we can even see that in the shitshow that is new brunswick. rutgers new brunswick is at a time where a lot of people are leaving, naturally those that finished in four years unlike my ass. so please keep the community up. contribute to something like the rutgers review.
so what’s next?
what is next year going to be like.
guess we’ll know soon.
check out stop pretending by dead girlfriends @ deadgirlfriends.com
steve buscemi + claire boucher + james brook @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ApBFuwe5E
ruin by elite gymanstics @ http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15779-r-u-i-n-1-2/
belispeak II by purity ring feat. danny brown @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpdyGFmct78
twitters
brooke candy @ https://twitter.com/BR00KECANDY
claire boucher aka grimes @ https://twitter.com/Grimezsz
james brook @ https://twitter.com/elite_gz
blood diamonds @ https://twitter.com/BLOOD_DIAMOND5
BATHS @ https://twitter.com/BATHSmusic
ellie goulding @ https://twitter.com/elliegoulding