Simmer Down Sundays: Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr

Happy Sunday. Lean back, relax, and try to forget that tomorrow is going to be awful. Hope this song helps with all three.

Simmerdown Sunday: Fancy Hat Edition

Musicians have so many expensive temptations these days- better and better recording equipment, high class prostitutes, gold-plated cocaine, and so on. Fortunately, members of England's Empire of the Sun remember their roots, and have taken their sun-soaked electronica back to the core essentials- batshit headgear.

Simmerdown Sunday: Cover Art

Lets break down some classics for this Simmerdown Sunday.

Whitley performing Abba's Dancing Queen on Triple J's Like a Version



CocoRosie (Dan, I give you credit for this awesome find) does a beautiful cover of The Beach Boys' Surfer Girl.



Barbara covering Kid Cudi's Pursuit of Happiness....




And finally, Elizabeth and the Catapult do Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows. (The drummer in this video looks like he wants to yawn).

Simmerdown Sundays, Ctd

Sometimes it's nice to let the robots take over. Peep this gorgeous cover by Randy George. Motherfucking theremin, goddamn.

Simmerdown Sundays

I'm loving 40s/50's style music this summer (See here and here) so I'm sticking with that theme today.

Gigi - Alone at the Pier (with Rose Melberg).

Simmerdown Sunday

Tennis - Marathon

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Captin Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbling the mountian?

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It's Sunday. And I'm not hungover! WIN. In order to support those people who - due to actually going out on Saturday night instead of passing out at midnight - are battling the deadly effects of alcohol induced dehydration, I am posting a truly inspirational video. Keep on climbing that mountain folks.

What the hell, here's some Kelis.

What has two thumbs and is going to request this song at the next gay dance party? This guy.






It is going to be awesome.

Simmerdown Sundays

The song: Adieu Mon Coeur

Goodbye My Heart. For some reason when I'm haungover pulling myself together on a Sunday morning Edith Piaf really speaks to me. And I just really, really love this song.

Edith Piaf - Adieu Mon Coeur



And Martha Wainwright's lovely take on the song. Stripped down and a live performance:



And because according to my weak internet sources, this is Edith's last great song. Plus, it helps me to remind myself to not regret my actions and behaviours of last night. Or ever.

Edith Piaf - Non Je ne regrette rien

Simmerdown late Sunday

Rosie and Me - Bird and Whale

From southern Brazil. Cute folk music.



Here is some other tracks from SoundCloud: Again, lots of cuteness.

Bonfires by Rosie and Me

Darkest Horse by Rosie and Me

(another) Simmerdown Sunday!

Love this song. Its been on repeat on my ipod for a couple of days now.

Danish duo.

Quadron - Pressure

Simmerdown Sundays

I've been sitting on this post for a while, clearly just too hungover/lazy to be posting on a Sunday.

Angus and Julia Stone - and the boys



Brother and sister duo from Australia. Lovely. Julia's voice has a very Joanna Newsom quality about it. I once saw them do a cover of that Chumbawamba song at a music festival and I loved it. Their music is perfect for nestling in on a Sunday.

Angus and Julia Stone - Mango Tree (live)

Simmerdown Saturday

It might not be Sunday, but it's definitely a good time for some mellow music to combat hangovers. If ambient pop music does the trick for you, take a gander at Flight Facilities.

Although frequently compared to Groove Armada and Air, FF has a pleasing sound all its own. My particular favorite is "Crave You" (ft. Giselle). Listen below.

Flight Facilities - Crave You (ft. Giselle).

You can also check out remixes from the C90s, Cassian, and Bxcentric here (though I prefer the original).

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Simmerdown Sundays

This video/song/group is not breaking news. However, I did learn recently that Monsters of Folk is composed of basically the coolest people on earth - Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes fame and M. Ward of She & Him (among other things). I'm also pretty sure they read electrobitches.

So here is their video for "Dear God," which is, in fact, an amazing song.

Relajate con Simmerdown Sundays

Since Dan creamed his pants over Hello Seahorse last Sunday, I thought we could post another of their songs to bring back pleasure to him and the masses.

Hello Seahorse - Criminal


I thought we could also enjoy some of the other Latin American artists I have come to know and love. Take, for instance, Teleradio Donoso. Perfect for a lazy Sunday. Especially if you're dreaming of a far away world with better weather.

Teleradio Donoso - Gran Santiago


A little less simmerdown and a little more upbeat, Babasonicos bring Argentine pop fun to the fore. This song's older, but still good.

Babasonicos - Carismatico

Simmerdown Sundays: Hello Seahorse!

Today is a little cold and dreary around these parts. I just want to curl up and enjoy a hot cup of tea and maybe write an electrobitches' blog post. Done and done. Hello Seahorse!'s "Despues" fits nicely with my Sunday decompression.

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Simmerdown Monday?

Yes, this post came a day late. Deal with it.

SEJA is from Brisbane, Australia, and has been known to play the keys in some good Aussie bands such as Regurgitator (the song I linked to is my favourite song from the 90's. No Joke), and now SEJA has released her own work.

So thanks, again, to Triple J for introducing me to this jem.

Simmerdown Sundays

For today's Simmerdown Sunday post I thought we enjoy the new She and Him album Volume Two - you can stream the full album (releasing this week) from NPR.

Its perfect Spring Sunday recovery music. So take some time off from electrobitching and enjoy Zooey's soulful voice.

Simmerdown Sundays

This might be late to the game, seeing as there's only 1.5 hours left until it's no longer Sunday. However, this song only takes 3 minutes and 29 seconds to listen to and it will definitely simmer you down. Kick back, relax, maybe lay in bed and dream with the Spinto Band.

Spinto Band - Oh Mandy

Simmerdown Sundays

Another cute, breezy song for a beautifully weathered Sunday.

Rabbit! - Fall Into Love.