Archive of Biscuits

Vampire Weekend vs Daft Punk

If you haven’t seen this gorgeous video yet or heard one of the prettiest songs of the year, then shit, my girl, step to it.

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Thank you to Bryan for posting a biscuited video for Daft Punk right below this. Cause the most interesting music conversation going on right now is how these two brand new and absolutely brilliant albums of 2013 relate to each other. The conversation’s as interesting as anything about Madmen, G.O.T, or the stupid IRS. Join the fun and download these albums immediately. And happy Memorial Day all my loved ones!!!

My favorite lyric of the year: “Wisdom’s a gift, but you’d trade it for youth.” Fuck Ezra Koenig for saying true things like that. But also thank you for my favorite expression of the year: “What you on about?”

Now go find a way to use it.

Daft funk

This may be the best thing you watch this week.

What do the axes represent, do you think?

“This is an algorithmically-generated map of the musical genre-space.”

Shteyngart blurbs

A funny little film. Don’t miss the last few minutes.

Descent into Hell

My review of Richard Hell’s new autobiography is up at The Rumpus.

Hey, LA: three more days to catch Guido van der Werve at Marc Foxx Gallery

“Nummer veertien, home,” a 54-minute video, will be screening every hour on the hour for the duration of the exhibition. Catch a clip plus some great images here.

Scout Niblett has butched it up since the last time I took notice

This is a great song from her new record.

Die young, halfling

I can’t get this version of this song out of my head. I’ll never not hear Treebeard saying “Young!” when I hear the original, either.

Jay Shells’ rap game

How beautiful is this?

Gay marriage at the Supreme Court this week

Tuesday and Wednesday, oral arguments in two big cases: Hollingsworth v. Perry, about the constitutionality of Proposition 8; and U.S. v. Windsor, about the constitutionality of Section 3 of DOMA (which defines marriage exclusively heterosexually for the purposes of all federal laws). My favorite of the briefs (I have not read nearly all of them) is this amicus brief from the National Women’s Law Center and the Williams Institute. Lots of coverage at SCOTUSblog, of course. Fingers crossed.