I'm trying something new this week. Most of the readers who choose to e-mail me do so to complain about how I do not offer the Sunday Mix Tape as a cohesive downloadable file. Well, today is your lucky day, valued reader -- it's taken me 87 weeks, but your prayers have been answered. As of today, I'm going to start making compressed archives of the compilations available for you. Maybe now you can tell your friends about this website, and we can start to grow together. As friends. And lovers. I hope your weekends were fun and [...]
Brian Eno: The True Wheel featuring Phil Manzanera on guitar, bending both minds and strings at the 3:13 mark.
Nathan Nothin here... I've been barricaded in the vinyl room for four days now. I just now found out that it's Sunday night. So my Saturday Mix is a slight misnomer, well sue me. The hurricane curtains block out all light, all sound louder than my stereo. Four days of nothing but vinyl... What I have convinced myself that I believe that I remember that I heard, random pockets of memory left un-eroded by the torrential squall of drugs & alcohol, the following soundtrack from my latest lost weekend. Tracks: Baby's on Fire - Brian Eno [...]
7 Means of Movement: Flying Ray and Bob, Air Travel. Eddie Floyd, Big Bird. Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me. Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentley, sweeping round the cedar tree,
Yup I realize this is ages and ages late, but I haven't posted the playlists for the August 28 OR September 4 shows yet - mostly because I've been neck-deep in Next Big Nashville previewing and interviewing, and then the craziness of NBN itself. Time to play catch-up. First up, the August 28 show was the Summer of Guest DJs Finale , so I invited a whole crew in to hang out for the two hours. Jon Rogers from Hotpipes , Dave Paulson from [...]
After Bubbachups amazing introduction to Jackson C. Frank's music I decided to research and find out whatever I could about this immesely talented and underrated artist. This investigation led me to the last place on earth I would expect to find any information on him : A Daft Punk forum. Not only a Daft Punk forum but also a forum discussing a movie they premiered last year in Cannes, called Electroma. It seems everyone else but me was aware of the existence of this movie and I wonder how it went under my radar after all this months [...]
Argh, so many songs for this theme! I apologize if this is too many, but I managed to pare it down to....okay, I didn't pare it down much at all. CANINES New Wave pirate/highwayman/dandy Adam Ant 's Dog Eat Dog is typical of his early sound, especially the throbbing "Burundi beat" (African-derived drums). This is probably one of my favorites of his. [ Buy 'Kings of the Wild Frontier" ] Gyroscope 's [...]
Words: David McNamee Behind the myriad pop hooks of Marnie Stern's critically-adored debut album, there's a constantly shifting pattern of shimmering guitar glissando. She is finger-tapping, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://20jazzfunkgreats.blogsp ot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
7 Means of Movement: Sailing Fairport Convention, A Sailor's Life (alternate take). Clifford Jenkins, The Sailor's Alphabet. World Party, Ship of Fools. As dark night drew on, the sea roughened: larger waves swayed strong against the vessel's side. It was strange to reflect that blackness and water were round us, and to feel the ship ploughing straight on her pathless way, despite noise,
[MP3]: Brian Eno "Golden Hours" Actually, not quite, but close. Manhattanhenge is a biannual phenomenon when the sun sets with the centerline of every Manhattan cross street creating a dramatic backdrop against the iron, glass, steel, and stone faced buildings that line the city streets. Since the entire island (and grid) is rotated 30-degrees from geographic north, the sun aligns with the grid on May 28th and July 12th (mark your calendars). Last week as I crawled out from the dark [...]
Image: Mina Magee On Tuesday Chicago was Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Lakes. A late afternoon cloudburst (4 inches in 45 minutes) and our capricious sewers flipped the off switch and hit the picket line; viaducts turned into churning gray sludge pools and generally smooth east-west arteries were sudden stroke victims. I made it by diverted "express" bus as far north as Lake Shore Drive and Addison, then walked the rest of the three miles home. Which wouldn't have been dire if I'd been [...]
Instrumental Tuesday is back again!! Yet again we are here to bring you the instrumental classics of the day, and today is no exception. Two nights ago I caught the last forty-five minutes of 28 Days Later, a film that I had always slaughtered really (even though I had never watched it, sad I know!). I hate to say it but I was really quite surprised even coming into it that late in the film. It was really quite sublime and, always the first thing I notice, the soundtrack was ace to boot. The first little [...]
2/1 Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music for Airports Astralwerks : 2004 (originally released 1978) [Buy It] PRELUDE FOR TIME FEELERS Eluvium Copia Temporary Residence : 2007 [Buy It] A HOUSE FINCH Feltbattery It Had Wings Migration Media : 2007 [Buy It] For quite a while now, I've longed for a place of my own-- just a small apartment, sparsely appointed, [...]
Nomo I have about two and a half more weeks of classes, and then I'm done for a while. It's kind of weird when the last day of school comes around, because every student--subconciously or willingly--waits for this day every day of every school year, and when it finally comes around, it's just...weird. Like when you were five years old and you couldn't wait till Christmas day--and when all your presents are unwrapped, you'll say, "well, 365 more days till next Christmas." (Except that I'm pretty sure people don't say, "Oh man! [...]
This month's Spin has a feature on the team-up of Johnny Marr with Modest Mouse and in support of that, lists the 25 greatest team-ups in popular music history. Starting chronologically with the Million Dollar Quartet ( Elvis Presley , Jerry Lee Lewis , Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins ) and ending with Modest Mouse's latest , the list is full of great albums that prove egos can mesh. Playlist: Spin Magazine's 25 Greatest Team-Ups [...]
mp3 Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go The Pogues - Red Roses for Me mp3 Down In Here Longwave - There's a Fire mp3 Been Here Before Jeremy Enigk - World Waits mp3 Here Alone Again [...]
Fast perfekte Bilder von fast perfekten Landschaften. Tolle Sache. Die Sache hat bei Sonja Braas einen kleinen Haken. Sie inszeniert ihre fast wuchtigen Oden an die Natur. Vor diesem Hintergrund bekommen sie dann nochmal eine andere Wendung. Interessant. Foto Sonja Braas - Forces #1, (Forces, 2000) // see more at the tanit gallery . Musik Aphes Twin - Polynomial-C (Xylem Tube EP, 1992) // virtual [...]
Calvin DeForest, better known as Larry "Bud" Melman, died after a long illness. Some of my favorite memories of television in the 80's involve Melman's appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman . When he was found by producers of the show, he was working as a file clerk at a drug rehabilitation center. Next thing you know he's interviewing and delivering hot towels to bus patrons for Letterman . As far as music goes, [...]
Today begins (continues?) the push to make LCD Soundsystem a top 40 band... if for only one week. Earlier this year, frontman James Murphy implored fans that if they planned on buying the album, please do so in the first week , to push them higher on the Billboard charts . Now folks who weren't sure they were going to buy the album have a chance to join in the fun as well, as you can hear it streaming for free (via AOL) and know first hand that it's a [...]
Jonathan Shipper - Raining Blood (2006) Jonathan Shipper translated Slayer's "Raining Blood" to a player piano reel and connected it to a kinetic sculpture so the form moves according to the song's musical structure [video available at his website ]. The resulting flail lands somewhere between a piece of DNA encoding musical taste and a rave-induced seizure. Brian Eno's name is irrevocably tied the grandeur of David [...]
Swan Fungus
Art Decade
Nothin' Sez Somethin'
Locust St.
out the other...
motel de moka
Audiography: Stop. Pause. Play.
20JazzFunkGreats
Friction NYC
Shake Your Fist
Freddy Krueger's Bidet
Moistworks
indiechristoph
thus spake drake
Songs in Space
Bhlogiston
I'm Just Sayin Is All...
Sound of Summer (v. 3.1)
When Florence danced with Calvin
The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
[REMIX] Dragonette – “Let it Go (Faustix Imanos Remix)”
