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'Behind The Counter Culture' Zulu Staff Blog!

Light Duty Filing for Diaphanous Supply
This month on the Zulu art wall is Light Duty Filing for Diaphanous Supply Small wall sculptures by Tegan Moore! Take a look at our art wall on the 1976 side by the roots section.

Fun With Trail Mix
Saelan: If Mark didn't want us to touch his nuts, he shouldn't leave them hanging out like this. Jill: They're salty! Saelan: But also sweet, because of the Smarties he puts in here.

Are you ready for the (Vampire) Weekend?
I had an interesting discussion this morning about the way a band functions when under the microscope of media attention. Navigating the high wires of success Vampire Weekend (this week's Zulu Top Seller) have 3 months to balance the hype before the show rolls into Vancouver's Richards on Richards. Regardless on where you stand on these guys, it is nice to see music as the cultural thermometer of the times.

Saturday Looks Okay to Me, I Guess
Crawled into work after last night's double-header of Yeasayer at the Bourbon and Victoria, Victoria! at the Cambrian Hall (both great). Feeling the effects and the vacuum isn't working. We've got Phosphorescent on the stereo. LOTS of new titles going in the listening booths today. Melanie's trying to persuade me to go see the monster truck show tonight. I dunno. Sword of Doom is playing at the Cinematheque.

 

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ZULU STAFF TOP TENS OF 2007 In no particular order here’s what rocked our year!

VICKI
• SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS- 100 Days 100 Nights
• LEVON HELM- Dirt Farmer
• BETTY DAVIS- They Say I’m Different (reissue)
• DAVE ALVIN- Live From Austin TX
• THE SADIES- New Seasons
• MANU CHAO- La Radiolina
• THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW- s/t
• MOBY GRAPE- wow (reissue)
• BETTE LAVETTE & DRIVE BY TRUCKERS- The Scene of the Crime
• OST I’m Not There

MARK E.
• LIARS- Liars
• PJ HARVEY- White Chalk
• CIRCLE- Katapult
• BISON- Earthbound
• BLACK LIPS- Good Bad Not Evil
• PISSED JEANS- Hope For Men
• WOODEN SHIPS- s/t
• THE BESNARD LAKES- Are the Dark Horse
• NO AGE- Weirdo Rippers
• RICK WHITE- Memoreaper

MARK R.
• FACTUMS-Alien Native
• A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW- Scribble Mural Comic Journal
• RACCOO-OO-OON - Behold Secret Kingdom
• MUTATORS-self titled 7inch
• LAMPS- Lamps
• THE GO-Howl On The Haunted Beat You Ride
• ROBEDOOR + POCAHAUNTED-Hunted Gathering
• PJ HARVEY-White Chalk
• STARS OF THE LID- …And Their Refinement Of the Decline
• DALEK-Abandoned Language

DANIEL
• FROG EYES - Tears Of The Valedictorian
• PANDA BEAR - Person Pitch
• BLUES CONTROL - Blues Control
• SIR RICHARD BISHOP - Polytheistic Fragments
• NO AGE - Weirdo Rippers
• BILL CALLAHAN - Woke On A Whaleheart
• STARS OF THE LID - ...And Their Refinement Of The Decline
• ROBERT WYATT - Comicopera
• WHITE RAINBOW - Prism Of Eternal Now
• LABRADFORD – Prazision LP

JOHNNY
• NICK LOWE- At My Age
• THE FIERY FURNACES- Widow City
• ROBERT WYATT- Comicopera
• M.I.A. – Kala
• NEIL YOUNG- Live at Massey Hall
• THE BOOK OF LISTS- s/t
• YOKO ONO- Yes, I’m A Witch
• HOT HOT HEAT- Happiness Ltd.
• JAY Z - American Gangster
• ELLIOTT SMITH– New Moon

JOSH
• PISSED JEANS- Hope For Men
• M.I.A.- Kala
• THIS HEAT- Deceit (reissue)
• PORTAL- Outre
• PETER BJORN & JOHN- Writer’s Block
• SPOON- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• JUSTICE- †
• PJ HARVEY- White Chalk
• TIMES NEW VIKING- Presents The Paisley Reich
• V/A - Broken Flag: A Retrospective 1982-1985 5LP

NICOLAS
• SPOON- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• BILL CALLAHAN- Woke on A Whale Heart
• FROG EYES- Tears of the Valedictorian
• ANEMONES- Come Down Like A Cloud
• IRON AND WINE- The Shepard’s Dog
• THE NATIONAL- Boxer
• ROBERT WYATT- Comicopera
• THE BESNARD LAKES- Are the Dark Horse
• THE CLIENTELE- God Save The Clientele
• SUNSET RUBDOWN- Random Spirit Lover

BRADY
• AETHENOR- Deep in Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light
• BATTLES- Mirrored
• SIR RICHARD BISHOP- Polytheistic Fragments
• THE FIELD- From Here We Go Sublime
• LCD SOUNDSYSTEM- Sound of Silver
• LEE SCRATCH PERRY- Super Ape/Return of the Super Ape (Reissue)
• PISSED JEANS- Hope For Men
• PORTAL- Outre
• SPOON - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• JOHN WIESE - Soft Punk

MELANIE
• TIMES NEW VIKING- Present the Paisley Reich
• NO AGE- Weirdo Rippers
• ELECTRELANE- No Shouts No Calls
• PARTS & LABOR- Mapmaker
• SPOON- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• WILCO- Sky Blue Sky
• THE DETROIT COBRAS- Tied & True
• JULIE DOIRON- I Woke Myself Up
• BILL CALLAHAN - Woke on a Whaleheart
• THE LONG BLONDES- Someone to Drive You Home

SAELAN
• LEE PERRY & THE UPSETTERS- Ape-ology
• V/A - Brazil 70 - After Tropicalia: new directions in Brazilian music in • the 1970's
• BILL CALLAHAN- Woke on a Whaleheart
• DIRTY PROJECTORS- Rise Above
• THE FIERY FURNACES- Widow City
• M.I.A. - Kala
• PANDA BEAR- Person Pitch
• J DILLA- Ruff Draft
• JENS LEKMAN- Nights Falls Over Kortedala
• NO AGE- Weirdo Rippers

ERIN
• CIRCLE- Katapult
• ANGELS OF LIGHT- We Are Him
• MICHAEL YONKERS- Grimwood
• BISON- s/t
• PISSED JEANS- Hope for Men
• OUT OF FOCUS- Wake Up
• OST- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
• ROBERT WYATT- Comicopera
• OM- Pilgrimage
• GHOST- In Stormy Nights

JILL
• SERGE GAINSBOURG- Bonnie & Clyde (vinyl replica reissue)
• CARIBOU- Andorra
• GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS- Ongiara
• JULIE DOIRON- Woke Myself Up
• THE FIERY FURNACES- Widow City
• IRON AND WINE- The Shepherd's Dog
• JENS LEKMAN- Nights Falls Over Kortedala
• YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS- Colossal Youth (expanded reissue)
• LAVENDER DIAMOND- Imagine Our Love
• VAMPIRE WEEKEND- Mansard Roof 7-inch

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