Contrast Podcast's 2011 Festive 50 has been posted. Part 1 features Muruch's Vic introducing "Booty City" from Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybear's Scandalous and Part 2 has Brendan's poetic intro to "What The Water Gave Me" from Florence + The Machine's Ceremonials. Both albums were on Muruch's Top Albums of 2011 list. Contrast Podcast [...]
You can hear Muruch couple Victoria & Brendan in the new episode of Contrast Podcast . The theme is "My First Download," so we introduced "I Will Love You" from Fisher's True North album. Contrast Podcast - My First Download (mp3) Fisher - I Will Love You (mp3)* *mp3 is hosted by & offered as free, legal download on Fisher's site Buy Album @ Amazon
You can hear my voice in the new edition of Contrast Podcast , which has the theme "Best of 2010 (So Far)." My pick was Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown album (click title for my review) and I submitted the 100% legal, label-authorized mp3 "Flowers (Eurydice Song)." Hadestown will almost certainly still be my #1 album of 2010 at the end of the year. Contrast Podcast - Best of 2010 (So Far) Anaïs Mitchell - Flowers (Eurydice Song) (mp3) * *mp3 hosted by & posted w/ [...]
It's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah so the theme for the Contrast Podcast is laughter , and well... we can't have just any old laugh, now can we? It's got to be a deep, down, good old duuuuurrrrrtttty laugh! I knew I had one or two of those in my library. It took me a few hours to drag it out of my memory, but it was definitely in my collection of FUNK music. Nobody does that kind of thing like funk singers, ya know?!? This little selection is a "novelty" song from 1968, by Andre Williams and [...]
Oh my! I've been roused out of my torpor not only because Dearest Marcy and Dearest Tricia --two of the finest examples of female pulchritude and luminosity in the podcast/blogosphere firmament-- provided the ever titillating Contrast Podcast's most recent theme, but also because that theme happens to be: Naked!! I mean, if you can't get excited by the prospect of wodges of excellent choonz coupled with the heady, free rush of nudity, then your soul must be a dry, withered thing, indeed. Speaking of dry, withered things, this CP reminded me of [...]
Sorry I haven't been around much lately. I promised myself last year that I would no longer put blogging first in my life when there are other things to do. And there have been other things to do! When it rains here in So Cal-and it has rained a LOT-it's time to put native seeds in the ground. November is prime planting time so I am pushing it a bit, but I am always sorry that I didn't plant more so I'm going for it. And that brings me to the theme of this [...]
Hmm, one of the key points of the blogosphere is not that any one particular blog may or may not be good, or that individually one site might wield a lot of influence, it is that collectively blogs wield a lot of influence. This is at its most effective when bloggers cooperate and interact, and I've been doing a fair bit of that recently, but committing the cardinal sin of collaborative blogging: failing to cross-link. Apart from being really rather bad manners, it renders the whole scheme a little pointless if I go to all the effort of [...]
White Blank Page mp3 Mumford and Sons ..... buy it Well, I didn't really mean to abandon you for a week there! Ooops! But Happy New Year, darlings. And for your pressie, I bring you the Contrast Podcast's final installment of the Festive Fifty , wherein this Tart introduces the #11 song of the year: Mumford & Son's "White Blank Page" from their very popular album, Sigh No More Go over there and listen to all the [...]
Yes! The third and final part of the Contrast Podcast Festive Fifty is up, as voted by contributors and listeners of the Contrast Podcast! Head there now to listen to me gush on about Withered Hand - an introduction that was recorded when I was still deeply involved in those first few flushes of new music love. How high did it place though? You'll have to go visit to find out! You'll also be able to find out what came in at #1. I don't actually agree with the top track this year - it's by [...]
#42 Two mp3 The Antlers Hospice.... buy it! Contrast Podcast Festive Fifty 2009 (part one) Oh, so many lists this time of year! One of my favorite ones is over at the Contrast Podcast and you all should go check it out because it truly does reflect a very wide array of opinions from all over the bloggersphere and beyond. There were scores of folk who cast their votes, not just bloggers, listeners too. And Tim, [...]
Part 1 of 2009's Festive Fifty is up and running and it's a corker. Head here to check out songs 50-34, as voted by Contrast Podcast contributors and listeners. You will hear from a few of my favourites, including The Antlers and Meursault, and each track is introduced by a fellow blogger or contributor. What I love about the Contrast Podcast, and the Festive Fifty, is not only do you get to hear what songs and artists have done it for people this year, but you also get to hear what everybody sounds like. I'm quite partial to [...]
Hmm, some scrappy bits of news to add this week, and no better place to do it, so here it goes. Firstly, some quick podcasty things, and then some new award stuff. The Contrast Podcast have begun their Festive Fifty countdown, with this week's episode announcing 34-50 in the list, and you may notice a couple of familiar names in there - namely, Aidan Moffat and Meursault. Keep an eye on the forthcoming episodes as they count down to number one. The Contrast Podcast is so called because it is assembled from intros and [...]
Hey guys, Just wanted to point you in a couple different directions today. We contributed a piece to Slowcoustic 's "Bests" of 2009 Blogger Series where we lightened things up around there...discussing the best song of 2009 to secretly be the theme of a 90's sitcom! Head here to find out what we chose, and read the other blogger entries as well! Smansmith has got a whole slew of excellent contributors. Also, I introduced The Antlers' song "Two", which clocked in at #42 on this year's Festive Fifty - the top songs of [...]
You can hear the voices of both Muruch writers Brendan and Vic in the first installment of Contrast Podcast's Festive Fifty . Brendan introduces "King of the Dogs" from Iggy Pop's Préliminaires and Vic intros "Nice Very Nice" by Kurt Vonnegut & Dave Soldier from Ice-9 Ballads , which is on both her 2009 Top Albums and Best Albums of the Decade lists. Click the link below to download the podcast... Contrast Podcast - Festive Fifty (mp3) * *mp3 [...]
Say you like stuff like the Dead Weather and Them Crooked Vultures, but you need a current-year example of near-ambient beauty for that perfect gift for a friend or relative with gentler tastes. Look no further than Australian City of Satellites' new album Machine Is My Animal . I listed "Victor" among my Festive 50 songs. You can find the Festive 50 shortlist and vote: here From Machine Is My Animal (2009) City of Satellites - Narrow Bend in Time [...]
Yes indeed, I don't care about your actual opinions, all I want you to do is vote for my friends, thank you very much. It is time for the Contrast Podcast 's annual Festive Fifty vote, and you have until the end of Monday to get your votes in, and there are a couple of local gentlemen who you might want to assist in scoring as highly as possible: Withered Hand and Meursault, both of whom are nominated more than once. Music bloggers from around the world have nominated songs, from which Tim has created [...]
I posted the beautiful and somber "Pharaoh's Chariot" from Soulsaver's third album, Broken , in my Creepy Halloween Mix and liked it so much I decided to look up more songs. I ended up with all of it and a brand-new respect for this joint project of Rich Machin (above, right) and Mark Lanegan (left, of Screaming Trees), who wrote lyrics and provided vocals on most of the songs. Songs are primarily dark and reflective, powered by Lanegan's ominous growl, although "All the Way Down" provides some welcome uplift. The album includes two instrumentals, [...]
Contrast Podcast recently asked music bloggers like myself to submit our favorite 50 songs of the year for their annual "Festive 503 podcast. Our selections were then compiled into a shortlist and now we've been asked to recruit votes to narrow it down. For the curious, I've bolded the 10 songs I personally voted for. I really, really want "Nice Very Nice" by Kurt Vonnegut & Dave Soldier (from their album Ice-9 Ballads ) to make the final list. Not only because it's my favorite song of the year, from my favorite album of the year, [...]
Matter of Time mp3 The Leisure Society The Sleeper ..... ..... buy it Well, now this is getting interesting... Over at the Contrast Podcast , Tim's solicited everyone for their favorite 50 songs of 2009, remember? From all the responses he's compiled the top 155. I'm very impressed with the list! If you didn't submit your faves yet, you've still got a chance to get in the game at this point! Help us out, eh? (I"ve highlighted my top 10 in blue) Here's [...]
Recently Tim at Contrast Podcast called for our favorite 50 songs of the year in preparation for the annual Festive 50, which will be one great list compiled from the current year favorites of CP's contributors, including yours truly. You have 50 favorite songs of 2009, don't you? And no doubt, you can come up with that list on short notice, right? I had to include on my list a song that I have waited literally years to see released: "Clean Coloured Wire" by Engineers, which appears on Three Fact Fader , [...]
Muruch
Love Shack, Baby
pogo a go-go
speed of dark
Song, by Toad
It All Started With Carbon Monoxide
Knox Road
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit)
CHROMATICS "INTO THE BLACK"
Crystalfilm
Childish Gambino - Heartbeat
Chiddy Bang - "By Your Side"
Skrillex Uses Satanic and Homosexual Influence to Win Grammys
A-Trak - "Round of Applause" / "Where My Money At" (MP3 Download)
Diplo & Usher “Climax”
Diplo x Usher: ‘Climax’
MIXTAPE: 10ILLE – CANDY JAMS
