Part 1 of Contrast Podcast‘s 2012 Festive 50 has finally been posted. It features Muruch‘s Vic introducing the title track from Anaïs Mitchell's Young Man in America and Brendan intros "Better Now" from The Vesper's The Fourth Wall. The two albums were #1 and #2 on Muruch’s Top Albums of 2012 list. Contrast Podcast - [...]
Alright everyone! Here's the shortlist for the 2012 Contrast Podcast Festive 50. If you look through the list you can probably find the 2 songs of mine (cough... The Psyched , cough... Metz ... cough) that made it on to the list. Let's get them up high on the list. This activity combines your love of music, list making, and voting. Here's what you need to do: 1. From the list below, pick your 10 favorite songs 2. Arrange them in order from 1-10 [...]
In case you're interested, following are the songs I submitted to Contrast Podcast's Festive 50 (click link to vote for your Top 10!)... 1 Anaïs Mitchell: Young Man in America 2 The Vespers: Better Now 3 Kate Miller-Heidke: Sarah 4 Amanda Palmer: The Killing Type 5 The Mynabirds: Generals 6 J.D. McPherson: Scratching Circles 7 [...]
It's that time of year again! Contrast Podcast asked several of us bloggers to submit our favorite songs of the year for their annual Festive 50 podcast. They've compiled the results and narrowed it down, now it's time for you to vote for your 10 favorites. I've bolded my top 10 choices. I especially hope [...]
These are my 50 favorite songs released in 2012 I submitted them for this year's Contrast Podcast Festive Fifty. We'll see how many show up in the final vote! In spite of the numbering, I like everything from about #15 to the end of the list about equally. This was an excellent music year for me. One of the reasons I stopped blogging was that I no longer wanted to risk legal action by uploading mp3s. Unfortunately, the WordPress version on our poor, neglected site is now too old to [...]
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 [...]
Muruch
GIMME Tumblr
speed of dark
Love Shack, Baby
pogo a go-go
Song, by Toad
It All Started With Carbon Monoxide
Knox Road
How to Dress Well
The Weeknd - Kiss Land
Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action - Album Trailer
Action Bronson - "Strictly 4 My Jeeps" (Official Video)
She & Him- I Could've Been Your Girl
Kanye West - New Slaves
[Listen] Daft Punk - "Horizon" (Japanese Bonus Track)
Coma Cinema: Burn a Church
MP3: Daft Punk – “Horizons” (RAM Japanese Bonus Track)
