This afternoon I was treated to a tip by my friend Charlie about Mobile1 7 , a site that lets you create your own ringtones for free from your music. You upload a song and tell the site when you want your tone to start and how long you want it to be. All you have to pay for is the normal texting or data fees you might have for your cell phone, though if you decide not to pay a small amount, you have to wait a while for the tone to get loaded [...]

Photo: Look Mom . I couldn't breathe and spun around and around. Anyone who saw me must have thought I was dancing. It's not inconceivable that my eyes were open. It's possible I fell facing the city. – Wislawa Szymborska. Lot's Wife. Nite Jewel - What did he say? What did he say 123 (Italians do it better / 2008) Memory Cassette - Asleep at a party The hiss [...]
Nick Cave Live at the Crystal. Pic Heather Hanrahan The New Music Hour on Portland's 94.7FM rolls along. I'm on air with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM. This is the show from Thursday September 25th. For more local and Northwest music you can also tune in to 94.7 Too either on your [...]

Scrivo questo post giusto per dare un segnale di vita. Oggi non avevo proprio voglia di mettermi a navigare/leggere/ascoltare/far e e scrivere. Però giustamente capisco pure che tenere un blog significa anche faticare ed impegnarsi quindi butto giù 'ste cavolo di due righe e non ci penso più. Dicevo che oggi non avevo voglia di scrivere. Mi sono diviso tra lo studio, le telefonate di lavoro e qualche puntata delle mie serie tv preferite. Mi son visto Gossip Girl , Smallville e Heroes . Dopo cena mi vedrò la 5a di [...]

Im having a hard time getting any info on Memory Cassette . I know it's got something to do with New Jersey's Weird Tapes , but thats it. Anyone got any proper info on these soft, dreamy, lo-fi disco makers? MP3: Memory Cassette - Listen To The Vacuum MP3: Memory Cassette - Surfin The Hungry Ghosts on the other hand, I do know all about. I used to love these guys, [...]

I get a lot of my quality music listening time in at work on my iPod. And as much as I love traditional songs in rock and pop and folk formats, sometimes the lyrics and abrupt start-stop dynamics can be distracting when you're trying to focus on something important work-related. (Okay, you can stop laughing now.) Lately I've found myself drawn to a lot of ultra-vivid, repetitive electronic-type music that can turn the monotony of the work day into a pulsating, metronomic tick-tock of candy-coated deliciousness. Most of these songs tread along the same axis between hippie trippiness and polyester [...]

Flying Lotus - GNG BNG Nite Jewel - What Did He Say Memory Cassette - Asleep At A Party

beach house in dallas Last month , we told you about Beach House 's very first 7" single, which will be officially released October 21 . You can now stream the a-side, " Used to Be ," courtesy of the band and their label, Carpark Records . Take a listen below. The duo says of the new single: " Recorded over the summer of 2008 after many exhaustive months of touring, " Used To Be " contemplates the spiritual and physical effects of life on the everchanging road, love [...]
Memory Cassette - Surfin [mp3]

If memory serves, I think I might have grabbed both of these tracks at some point from Gorilla vs. Bear . and then filed them away, only for them to really grab me in recent days. So props to that guy for being perpetually ahead of the curve, as far as romantically warped pop music goes... Get Back Guinozzi ! - "Carpet Madness" Get Back Guinozzi ! is a French two-piece, as well as a cryptically specific command. "Carpet Madness" has a peculiar childishness [...]

Today let's talk folkpunk and O'Death . Listen to the first song of their next album: "Lowtide" (box.net mp3) Pretty kickass, no? Well, here is a still from the video to Lowtide: Dag, this is the first time I am excited for the release of a music video in a long long time. I will try to post the vid as soon as it is available for streaming. Now, the song itself makes me think of "A Good [...]

BELLE & SEBASTIAN RELEASE BBC LP An unequivocable favorite of our over here at Cannibal Cheerleader through the years has been the now sadly 'on-hiatus' group Belle & Sebastian . From their indie-pop masterpiece If You're Feeling Sinister to their subversively excellent b-sides and rareties (collected on Push Barman to Open Old Wounds ) we love it all. That's why we're so excited to hear that the band is officially releasing a collection of some of their lauded BBC Sessions. Included is the rare John Peel session that [...]

Stones Throw just posted up this new remix of James Pants ' " Ka$h ," reworked by the dynamic duo of XXXchange + A-Trak (aka Trizzy ). The remix can also be found on James Pants ' new Crystal Lite 12". mp3: james pants :: ka$h (trizzy + xxxchange remix) ****************************** ************ elsewhere : [...]

Behold the growing Authentic Disco/New Bloghouse/Post-Electro trend. I found some tunes that take a more melodic,organic route to dance music. The beat is slower, it is infused with awesome 70's keyboard sounds, and the vocals will stick in your head for days. Walter Meego-Forever(Escort Remix) [...]
Chromatics - Lady [MP3] Chromeo - Mamma's Boy [MP3] Digitalism - Pogo [MP3] Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (Hong Kong Blondes Mix) [MP3] Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (Sam La More 12" Remix) [MP3] Fan Death - The Constellations [MP3] Feral Children - Zyghost [MP3] Greg Camp - Cats Game [MP3] Handsome Furs - What We Had [MP3] [...]

I appreciate songs that take a while to get into and aren't very accessible to entry level alts. This song by Memory Cassette takes a while to get going, and is probably a bit too conceptual/lofi for entry-level bloghaus fans. If I had to make up a genre for this song, it would probably be conceptual-lofi-house-core-hau s. The song kind of reminds me of a more melodic, less dark version of the mangina song from Silence of the Lambs . [MP3] Memory Cassette Surfin [...]

new myspace message from weird tapes . " prince had vanity 6 , i've got memory cassette " - downloading. listening. lo-fi bedroom disco? twee discotronics? loving it! enjoy! memory cassette - sleep on the roof memory cassette - surfin memory cassette - listen to the vacuum memory cassette - milkey wave goodbye add weird tapes . read weird tapes .

More dreamy, wistful, authentic-ish " conceptual DiscoHouse " from the Weird Tapes/Hail Social camp that I mentioned the other day . Weird Tapes tells us: "Prince had Vanity 6 , I've got Memory Cassette ." Not sure who this girl is, or what the source material (if any) is, but I'm really digging this. Here are a couple tracks from Memory Cassette 's free Rewind While Sleeping EP, which you can download in its entirety here : mp3: memory [...]