
Today's Christmas offering comes courtesy Damien Jurado. He's been waking up since October with a specific number in his head that corresponds to the days left until December 25th. It's with that spirit and devotion that Damien recorded his own version of Vince Guaraldi Trio's "Christmas Time Is Here," the beloved holiday classic from A Charlie Brown Christmas . Download it after the jump. Read more » http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ ping
Damien Jurado takes on Vince Guaraldi's yuletide classic, "Christmas Time Is Here." Culled from 90% of your social circle's favorite Christmas album, it's a brave choice met with spirited results. Jurado's next full-length, Maraqopa - a collaboration with Richard Swift - is due out in February. (via) MP3: Damien Jurado :: Christmas Time Is Here [...]

Damien Jurado - "Christmas Time Is Here" This charming rendition of Christmas Time Is Here , was recorded in Seattle by Steven Aguilar at Red House and Bearhead Studio, produced by Kyle Zantos and performed by Damien Jurado , the Aki Kurose Middle School Academy Glee Club, Joe Ruppert, Cole Mauro, Kyle Zantos and Dave Hall. Premiered on Hit Flix
Only recently we posted the lovely taster track from Damien Jurado's forthcoming album Maraqopa. He isn't relaxing though, because now he too has recorded a reverent and devoted cover of Christmas Time Is Here , the Vince Guaraldi classic from A Charlie Brown Christmas . So grab it below, enjoy and compare with the the version we posted by Woods just a few days ago here . Download Damien Jurado - [...]

Maraqopa will see daylight shortly. Damien Jurado recently dropped by NPR. Purchase Damien Jurado items via Insound. MP3: Damien Jurado - Christmas Time Is Here

If you have clicked through to read the rest of this post, then you should consider yourself in the upper echelon of human beings. Ok, that was a bit much, but Damien Jurado is the man and now we have a brand new single to prove it. Jurado released a sampling of his upcoming album Maraqopa called "Nothing is News" that you can take for a spin below, but be careful because although it starts slow by the end there is an excessive amount of guitar crushing. Also, why not check out the trailer for [...]
Prolific Seattle songwriter Damien Jurado seems to always get lost in the shuffle, but the road tested troubadour has consistently put out solid recordings. Over the years, Jurado has expanded his folk sound by experimenting with different forms of tape, found sounds, and field recordings. His latest single, "Nothing Is News," takes some psychedelic twists and turns and shows Jurado continuing to evolve. Stream and download the track below and look for his latest album Maraqopa February 21st via Secretly Canadian .

SIDE A 1. Bowerbirds - Tuck The Darkness In.mp3 2. Sharon Van Etten - Serpents.mp3 3. Damien Jurado - Nothing Is The News.mp3 4. Elvis Depressedly - Cry Babies.mp3 5. J Mascis - Ive Been Thinking.mp3 6. Laura Gibson - La Grande.mp3 7. The Dodos - So Cold.mp3 SIDE B 1. Luke Roberts - Unspotted Clothes.mp3 2. Heartless [...]
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Damien Jurado's last album, Saint Bartlett , has slowly become my favorite in his 15 year discography. That album was produced by Richard Swift and the collaboration was magical. Jurado and Swift have been sweating it out in the studio and will release Damien's new album, Maraqopa , in February. Don't expect a simple folk record. Maraqopa promises to find team Jurado/Swift forging into new territory. "Nothing is News" is the first glimpse of the record and with jazzy percussion, bluesy guitar and an addictive, dark quirkiness. A promising start for 2012? [...]

"First came the scream and blood on the floor, the alcohol and the magazines…" I have been chilled, haunted and intrigued ever since hearing the opening lines of Damien Jurado 's amazing Where Shall You Take Me. One listen to Jurado's songs is akin to eavesdropping on a conversation you know you shouldn't hear, but have heard too much to tune it out. It causes you to lean forward, intent to hear the details of the infidelity, knowing full well the pleasure of the sin will never outweigh the pain it creates. Damien's songcraft [...]

In February Damien Jurado releases his latest album 'Maraqopa' and you can grab the psychedelic Americana of 'Nothing Is The News' below.
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Here is another collection of tunes we've gathered from our in-box and the internet - we'd like to have more time to do them justice, but nevertheless a cornucopia of pleasures awaits you we promise! First up is the consistently wonderful Damien Jurado with some authentic, strummed desert blues. Nothing Is The News is the first taste of his forthcoming album Maraqopa . Download Damien Jurado - Nothing Is The News mp3 (from Maraqopa) Indie-folksters The Dodos have made a previously unreleased track, So Cold [...]
Closer to 20 years of making music than 10 years, Damien Jurado's guitar tone is a signature one. But the first few seconds of that recognizable strum is about the only familiar element to the first single and opening track to his 10th LP Maraqopa, his second collaboration with producer Richard Swift. The song brings [...]
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Neal Morgan – Fathers Day [mp3] (from In the Yard , out Jan 24 th ) From Portland, OR comes music for drums & voice – excellent. Neal Morgan: Dead Confederate – Run from the Gun [mp3] (from Wounded Warrior Charity Compilation , out now – entire album downloadable for any donation to the Wounded Warrior Project ) [...]

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Como habitual, fica por cá o resumo do que de mais importante se passou na minha página alternativa do Facebook. A semana musical começou com uma remistura formidável para um tema delicioso: "Secret Weapon" dos The Whip num remix de Alex Metric. O tema consta do mais recente álbum da banda britânica, 'Wired Together' e faz parte do mais recente PodKraak, "Beating heads Against the Wall".

There's a rhythm in all of our bodies the Japanese call... something or another (I promise it's in a book I have somewhere). It's the universal impulse to speed up a rhythm until you "destroy" it, and it exists actually (e.g. a giant crowd trying to clap in unison at sports and concerts) and philosophically (e.g. your life). Anyhow, I always remember this because music often fights this impulse to crescendo to a climax, and that natural order of things becomes stifled and transforms into something different. And the fact that my tastes tend to lean towards droning psychedelic stuff makes me question if [...]
Tweetvaso link Damien Jurado has been around a while; his career started back in the mid 19902s when he started releasing lo-fi recordings of his music on his own cassette-only label before attracting attention from Sub Pop. He's since relocated labels to Secretly Canadian, but his personal, affecting music hasn't changed much over the years....