For anyone in New York City right now, I hope you can see how perfect Amplive’s timing is on this one. With the whole city sogged up and dripping, its only fitting that Amplive picked today to get his Radiohead ‘In Rainbows’ Remix album, “Rainydayz” onto the internet for all to share.

He was originally slapped with a cease and desist from the band, but no doubt Radiohead sees the benefits of windowing their marketing plan, hopefully realizing that the release of this remix record will spit a little new life into the substructure that keeps this record moving long past the traditional release curve. So the cease and desist has ceased and desisted, and its a good thing, because everything I have heard on this is damn damn good.

ENJOY

Download Amplives ‘Rainydayz’ Radiohead Remix from Amplive’s website here.

EDIT: I wrote that before I heard most of it, and really, its amazing. If you’ve spent any considerable time with ‘In Rainbows’ (I’m sure many have…Ogre?) or if you have internalized any of the songs in any way, ‘Rainydayz’ is satisfying – its respectful enough to the original work that it makes you “re-love” elements of the source material (which is what remix albums should do in the first place) that you may have overlooked, while at the same time its easy to appreciate the new work that Amplive has created with the source material. Does that make sense? More simply. THIS=GOOD

Aw Shit, so I know this was last week, but I guess timeliness is not one of our tenets here at ol’ Name Drop Acid.

The show was fantastic, and it was a fine period to this weird ass run on sentence I’ve been writing about Hot Chip since before Christmas. I went with my good friend Miles, and Andrew, my current editor at MetroPop, also the guy who gave me my first internship out here.

After a whiskey or two, we made it in to Highline to check out Devlin and Darko warming everyone up. They threw Burial’s “Archangel” on and it was a definite highlight. If you haven’t heard Burial’s album “Untrue” yet, its a moody piece of dubstep cement. Awesome.

Before “the boys” were even on, Miles had already roped in two pretty girls with his ridiculous gift of gab. Seriously, the kid can TALK, non-fucking stop, and sometimes girls like that. I played straight man to his Jerry Lewis, playing the wall and throwing in an occasional comment so they knew I wasn’t mute.

Miles dances like all of my aunts put together, wiggly, white, and unashamed. By the first thwacks of “shake a fist”, he had them both dancing excitedly, while Andrew and friend made their way over to us to “bro-down” on some canned beer.

Check the ending…its the best, and look at Felix in the middle, I guess he was unbelievably ill that night, he looks like he is about to drop dead. I seriously have this whole damn album memorized, so much to the point that it was disorienting when they switched up minor things like phrasing. This album is hard wired into me, my strange friend Omnii once told me that he could cue up an entire Boards of Canada album in his head and play it from start to finish by memory. I now know what he was talking about.

By the time “Over and Over” came through, I was high-fiving Andrew, ranting “thank you’s” at him, for giving me the first and most important hook up out here, the one that led to exactly the last two years of madness that I have been proud to call “my life”.

“Wrestlers” (my least favorite track on the new album…sorry guys it had to be one of them) was a great cue to go fill my pockets with canned Rolling Rock. Yes, thats right, Rolling Fucking Rock.

“Touch Too Much” came on and I was stealing Miles’ dance partner, it wasn’t like he cared, he just continued to dance like a white woman, one drunk hand waving in the air, the only other guy in the room who knew all the words.

Beautiful, all of it. As I slammed down mini-burgers at Pop Burger I was so proud (and drunk) to have been a part of this whole wacky process. Now I need to find another band to go all “fan-boy” on. Rest assured, no more Hot Chip for awhile, I promise.

Have a great weekend.

So its Ash Wednesday and they are all walking around midtown with those crosses on their foreheads. It bizarre…the really interesting part is that one out of every five crosses was installed upside down. So brutal. I wonder if there are priests… rabbis? (I am spiritually well-rounded obviously) out there who just throw the upside down ones in as a joke..

“Eternal salvation for you, eternal salvation for you, and….BAM! Damnation!! Right there!!! The mark of the beast ladies and gentleman, now don’t skip those collection plates, I’ll be here all week.”

Maybe it means we are entering a time of change. Religion is personal, and I am too lazy to look up “Ash Wednesday” in Wikipedia, so I am going to take these ashy crosses as tiny signposts, each one reading, “flux”.

Good. The seasons drag on and people get antsy. Ant is moving out here to sleep on my couch for 3 weeks (and not a day more you freeloading maniac), former magazine employers are ready to jump their respective ships, relationships die, divorces happen, the sky opens up.

Or maybe its just a current fixation. If was fixated on continuity, I would only be interested in that which is consistent. I’m not though, and consistency is nowhere near my radar.

Change is a good one though. Upside down crosses and all, I have ideas. Being remotely untethered, my variety of options is pretty damn wide.

Thats really all. Sorry for the boring post, kids.