The crack team at Serious Eats conducted a grape soda taste test involving nine different variations of carbonated beverages ranging from craft sodas to hood staples. "Anyone who drinks a lot of grape soda knows by now that most of the stuff tastes about as much like actual grapes as Coors Light tastes like actual beer. The combination of artificial grape flavoring and sodium benzoate is such a common base for grape sodas—and has been for years—that most manufacturers don't bother deviating from the popular, [...]
Once again we will post the same Chanukah songs as we have done in previous years (although apparently I missed last year...oops). Thankfully I've picked up a few more along the way because it seems few Jews out there want to do any new covers for us. If you know of anything post it here or send it my way. Happy Chanukah to all my Jews! So on this 6th night of Chanukah I give you some tunes to keep you warm ( just like on the first year of this blog ). [...]
La disquera Kindercore Records (famosa no sólo por haber editado el primer disco de Kings of Convenience sino por todo el drama que vivieron sus dueños cuando otra compañía les quitó el negocio ) está ofreciendo como cada año un álbum navideño a través de su sitio oficial. Este año los dueños de la disquera han compilado un EP llamado XMAS IV and Hanukkah! , el cual contiene 4 canciones de bandas como Grape Soda y The Sad Cobras y por supuesto es gratuito. [...]
Kindercore has been gracious enough this year to offer up this years volume of their annual Christmas EP titled "XMAS IV and… Hanukkah!" for free!!!!! This year's compilation includes tracks from groups Grape Soda (with members of The Buddy System and two songs about Hanukkah!) and The Young Sinclairs plus a song from Deidre of the Sad Cobras with the Magic Twig Family Band (members of The Young Sinclairs, SUNKING!, Sad Cobras and Boys Lie). Feel free to listen to the tracks from the compilation below. Also to show appreciation to the label for offering up some great tunes for [...]
More holiday-themed MP3s to wet your appetite before Christmas, this time a free EP from Athens label Kindercore . Here's an excerpt from the folks explaining what kind of goodies you can expect from this four-track EP: To celebrate our ongoing obsession with the winter holidays, I give you "XMAS IV and... Hanukkah!" a free MP3 holiday EP from '09 Kindercore groups Grape Soda (with members of The Buddy System and two whole songs about something called Hanukkah!) and The Young Sinclairs plus an absolutely amazing song from Deidre of the Sad Cobras with the [...]
The Smoking Section
blowin your cover
Cuchara Sónica
Raised on Indie
The Yellow Stereo
The Bee Gees – Tragedy (Equateur Remix)
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Reptile Youth – Black Swan Born White
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