[MP3] "The Holiday Song" by The Pixies, as Performed by Hosey

The Holiday Song by Hosey

Hosey performing "The Holiday Song", originally written and performed by The Pixies. Click the little arrow on the right of the player if you deem this worthy of downloading. Song info and babbling after the jump...

[Video] "Distance = Rate Times Time" (Pixies Cover)

This is a quick little video of Goodbye Bikini Island performing a few weeks ago at Otto's Shrunken Head for the Copycat night. The theme this time around was The Pixies and here we are covering one of my favorite songs "Distance Equals Rate Times Time" from the album Trompe Le Monde. Singing back up with us is Amy Carrigan. She is wonderful.

You might notice that this is not the first video of a Pixies cover that we've posted. This is no accident. We were asked to play a set of Pixies songs after the promoter for Copycat caught us playing "Cactus" in that older video. What can I say? We love us some Pixies.

More exciting GBI / Pixies news on the way...

[Video] "Cactus" (Pixies cover)

This is a quick little video shot by a friend who came out to the first Goodbye Bikini Island show last Friday (12/10/10). In this clip we're playing "Cactus" by The Pixies. There's some more footage from the show I'll probably post sometime down the line. Enjoy!

Goodbye Bikini Island Logo Idea #01

Working on ideas for a Goodbye Bikini Island logo... wait, I don't think I've discussed the other new band, named after the album. Oh well, I'll talk about that later. For now, I'm heading to Copycat at Otto's Shrunken Head. Where you at?

Well, this Friday night, you should be at our 1st official show as Goodbye Bikini Island. Info in a post below this one. See you there.

Goodbye Bikini Island show on Fri Dec 10th

Hughes and I have been lying low for a minute on the live performance front, but now we're getting back out there with our new project, Goodbye Bikini Island. You might recognize that as the title of our most recent Hosey release, and I guess I should explain...

_Goodbye Bikini Island_ Album Review

The super cool website TheSilentBallet.com ran an awesome review of Goodbye Bikini Island. You can read it at their site...

...or check it out here, reposted from TheSilentBallet:

HOSEY - Goodbye Bikini Island  (7.5/10)

Fans of instrumental hip hop have had it tough going these past few years. The genre seems to have hit a rough patch. Many of its heroes have deserted it: DJ Shadow went hyphy, then dropped off the grid after his middling third album; The Avalanches vanished into the Australian mists from whence they came after 2000's epic Since I Left You; RJD2 jumped ship and started singing indie rock; J Dilla passed away in 2006. Only Prefuse 73, Flying Lotus, and a handful of skilled auteurs are still doing anything listenable with the form. Add New York duo Hosey to that list. Their latest album, Goodbye Bikini Island, is a love letter to the seemingly bygone era of break beat infused, sample crazed, rhyme-free boom bap.

Archive Post: _Goodbye Bikini Island_ Album Notes

Here are some brief notes about the songs on Goodbye Bikini Island. I will expand on them in the future.

Archive Post: _Goodbye Bikini Island_ "Lyrics"

Some people ask me what some of our samples are "saying", so I like to write all of them out for everybody. I know for those who aren't scratch nerds that it can be a little tricky to follow the words sometimes.

Anyway, here they are: