Please Pass The Tardy Sauce

Dear upstairs neighbor:
Congratulations on discovering Peter Bjorn & John.
It's admirable that you're working to catch up for lost time by playing their 2006 international smash hit "Young Folks" at least once a night, every night.
Victoria Bergsman is a dear, no?

The thud sounds you hear are a broomstick handle striking my ceiling/your floor.
Perhaps you might consider sampling other cuts from their fine catalogue.
Failing that, maybe you mix it up a bit by playing different variations of the song each night.


Shugo Tokumaru - Young Folks


The Kooks - Young Folks


Kanye West - Young Folks


Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks (beyond the wizard's sleeve re-animation)

You may also be interested to know that Peter Morén (the P of PB&J) has an excellent solo LP titled The Last Tycoon arriving on 4/8 via Touch and Go. It's very melodic and soothing, hardly any deep bass, think you'd dig it.


Peter Morén - Social Competence

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Photos and What Not From Lolla, Bonus Daft

You probably don't need anyone else telling you that the Daft Punk show was the best of all time and you missed it - but it was, and you did. We can't even talk about it without getting misty. So instead enjoy a few photos from the rest of the weekend:

Key:
1. PB&J's Björn Yttling vogues the crowd with Swedish robotics
2. Lead BT correspondent Trent Steele waxes Foucault with Tokyo Police Club
3. Unsupervised child terrorizes lawn with portable water distribution device
4. The Rapture's Gabriel Andruzzi pauses mid-cowbell to examine whether Tony Micelli's decision to move his daughter Samantha from Brooklyn to upscale Fairfield, Connecticut to serve as a live-in housekeeper created a role reversal between Tony and divorced advertising executive Angela Bower, where a woman was the breadwinner while he stayed at home and took care of the house, thus raising the question of who the "boss" really was.
5. PB&J a la Writer's Block album cover
6. Los Campesinos! on the stage
7. Los Campesinos! in the crowd
8. Kings of Leon get haircuts, rok
9. The Grant Park area (thanks Mason Fry)



















































































































































We asked Los Campesinos! lead singer and glockenspieler Gareth about covering Pavement's Watery, Domestic EP classic Frontwards:


Los Campesinos! - Frontwards (Pavement cover)
Pavement - Frontwards (live)
Buy LC's Sticking Fingers Into Sockets EP
Seriously, buy Pavement's Watery, Domestic EP

And just a quick snippet of Daft Punk to rub it in:

Daft didn't play Digital Love unfortunately so here's a few extras from their 2001 Japan-only single, because you're a completist:
Daft Punk - Digital Love (instrumental version)
Daft Punk - Aerodynamite

For more techno created by robots, we recommend Covert Curiosity for a few tunes by Hexstatic (and others).

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Flight of the Conchords - Fake Robot Rock (Butter Team masher)
Daft Punk - Something About Us (Brass Mix)
Peter Bjorn & John - The Traps My Trip

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Quite A Fiasco: Kanye Punks Thom York, Daft Punk, Peter Bjorn and John

Please excuse me but I got to ask, are you f-ing kidding? Kids, no beats are sacred from the diabolical digis of Lupe Fiasco and his crescenfresh crew. Spine Magazine posted the track below with Lupe, Kanye and Pharrell flowing steadily over the previously soothing piano drone of Yorke's "The Eraser." Now look, you've upset Thom.

Lupe Fiasco - US Placers (featuring Pharrell and Kanye West)

Evidently the magical hip hop sample well's run dry as a bone, as Kanye is voraciously copping indie rock staples for his upcoming album Graduation and a new mixtape. But nothing boosts bootleg sales n' street cred like the cheery Swedish whistlings of Peter Bjorn & John; Vegas had better odds on this ending up in a Tampax commercial.

The Butter Team crew also takes slight offense at the Daft Punk sample, as it's überweak. Hopefully they kick his ass in the video (just a news link).

Just a snippet, you can't handle the whole thing:
Kanye West - Stronger (Daft Punk sample)
Kanye West - Young Folks (PB&J sample)

Props to our DC counterparts All Things Go for the samples. The good news from all this is that according to Kanye's Mom, "Graduation is his best album ever - musically as well as lyrically," so. We see why.

And while we're listening to bad mashups, please to enjoy this Butter Team exclusive from THE pop culture event of April 2007:
Alec Baldwin - 99 Baldwins (Straighten Your Ass Out)
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Peter Björn & John Live 4/30/07

The Butter Team hosting server is still under the knife so it looks like there will be no weekend beats (and we had some good ones too). Instead, please to enjoy the indie kid tested, model approved Peter Björn & John as they kick off their first full US tour at the 9:30 Club. Audio, photos and general badassness courtesy of NPR.

The quality of this show only confirms our earlier notion that Stockholm is indeed the new Cleveland.

Peter Björn & John - Live at the 9:30 Club 4/30/07

And this is worth another spin. Look for the zombie in the background* during the bus scene.



*not really

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Elementary school lunchtime

Kids in E-school have PB&J for lunch, for whatever reason. These days they may be moving more into the Lunchables pre-prepared arena, but in my day we rocked the P to the B to the J. And that still happens, this time in the form of Swedish rockers Peter Bjorn and John:

Peter Bjorn & John - Up Against the Wall
Peter Bjorn & John - Objects Of My Affection

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