May 2011: Month in review

Jens Lekman / by David Greenwald

Fun:
* Guest mixtape: Thunder & Lightning’s Brent Katz
* Elliott Smith – Performances from a Basement on the Hill

Jams/Reviews:
* Premiere: Gabe Hascall – “Love It All”
* The Hood Internet – “Kaputting It Up” (Destroyer x Raekwon)
* Swimclub – Funhouse for Friends
* Tyler, the Creator – Goblin
* Dream Diary – You Are The Beat
* Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
* Elephant Parade – Home
* Rose Melberg – Homemade Ship (Remix)
* Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “In This Home On Ice” (2005)
* The Middle East – “Hunger Song”
* Bos Angeles – “Beach Slalom”
* Amanda Mair – “House”
* Wake Up Lucid – “Sugar”

Bootlegs:
* Bootlegs: Beulah at KCRW, 9.25.01

Videos:
* Michael Showalter, the indie-est of all rockers
* Kreayshawn – “Gucci Gucci”
* Sondre Lerche – “Private Caller”
* Frank Ocean – “Acura Integurl”
* St. Vincent covers Big Black’s ‘Kerosene’
* tUnE-yArDs – “You Yes You” (Yours Truly session)
* Lia Ices – “Grown Unknown”
* Herman Dune – “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”
* Priscilla Ahn and Charlie Wadhams – ‘I Don’t Have Time To Be In Love’

News:
* Jens Lekman’s new album: mixed, maybe?
* Clap Your Hands Say Yeah announce Hysterical
* Foreign Leisure Records is reissuing Maritime’s We, the Vehicles
* Meet Sally Seltmann’s new band, Seeker Lover Keeper
* Searching for Elliott Smith debuts in L.A. this week

RawkTumblr:
* Odd Future: Enough already