Michael Zapruder 's most recent record, mouthfully entitled Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope , provides pleasure on multiple levels. Most striking at first, at least to the ears of an engineer, is the abundance of successful production ideas. Zapruder and co-producer Scott Solter (John Vanderslice, The Mountain Goats) provide many juicy moments for the headphone set, but always in service of the song at hand. The stylistic eclecticism of the record appeals greatly to the ADD in me, but somehow the record still seems grounded and whole - Zapruder's voice is strong and expressive, and provides the necessary thread between [...]
1. Das Rascist - "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" (Wallpaper. remix)2. Michael Zapruder - "Ads For Feelings"3. Kermit Ruffins - "Holy Cow"4. Charlamagne - "New Train"5. Major Lazor - "Lazor Boom 1" (zshare download)6. Zee Avi - "Darling" (audio stream)7. The Sounds - "Dorchester Hotel"8. Deastro - "Spritle"9. Andrew Ripp - "Dresden Wine" (sendspace file)10. The Enemy UK - "No Time for Tears"
Filed under: Free MP3 of the Day Artist: Michael Zapruder's Rain of Frogs Songs: 'Ads for Feelings' Album: 'Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope' [ iTunes ] Sounds Like : Eels , Beck , Download: 'Ads for Feelings' (MP3) [Get Winamp] [Download Help] [...]
Download: Michael Zapruder - "Ads for Feelings"Like an electro-pop Leonard Cohen, but with prog-rock breakdowns, Michael Zapruder combines a mellow, almost sing-speak vocal with a whole host of other nifty production and songwriting tricks to create an engaging, crisp song about the implications of consumerism. Listen to it at the top of the post. Michael Zapruder MySpace Page
FREE MP3s!!! To which you say "yeah yeah, those are everywhere." Ah, but these free MP3s are ones you can download without any regret, they've been approved for posting: they're legal! Yay. So let's get to it, shall we? Below is a selection of MP3s that have come our way in the past week. Some are EAR FARM favorites, some might be more your bag than ours, all are free for you to enjoy... just click the band name for the band's site and the song name for the MP3. EAR FARM: giving you [...]
California singer/instrumentalist Michael Zapruder is an odd duck. His music is sophisticated, yet slightly off-kilter at the same time.Mellow and moody, Zapruder's new album Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope immediately submerges you in a hypnotic whir of effects and loops. Top these off with well placed woodwinds ("Ads For Feelings") and tribal rhythms ("Bang On a Drum") and you get a pretty
Song Michael Zapruder ~ " Happy New Year " myspace plays: 1,124 mp3 download (via sidecho records ) Michael Zapruder is possibly best known for releasing a song a week in 1999 . Since then, he has been recording and releasing solo albums. His latest album, Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope is going to be released next week (3/24) on SideCho Records . I [...]
Michael Zapruder knows mix tapes. Back in 1999, his composition-a-week 52 Songs project kickstarted a whole universe of ideas about how to disseminate music online. As curator for customizable internet radio site Pandora, he gets exposed to all sorts of highly analyzed genres. This month, Zapruder is releasing Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope (Sidecho), his latest [...]
Remember that guy who wrote 52 songs in 1999? When I received this promo email last week I thought I recognized the name. Well, Michael Zapruder has moved on from that monumental project to even more bigger and beautiful things, my darlings! Not only is he one of the masterminds behind Pandora music service, (which I absolutely adore, by the way) Michael is releasing this beautiful album on March 24th. Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope is a smooth, syrupy album. It goes down easy, and it often leaves a memorable and sweet taste in [...]
Some fine tunes that have either graced my inbox lately, or simply been stumbled across in a pleasantly serendipitous fashion. I love this, all jaunty & Andrew Bird'ish, gotta get a listen to the album. ♫ Ads for Feelings - Michael Zapruder's Rain of Frogs Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope (released 24 March on SideCho Records) buy | myspace ♫ 18 Wheels - Evening Magazine The Ride Across Lake Constance (2009) buy [...]
Michael Zapruder - Ads for Feelings MP3 Sounds cool... Album on Sidecho .
gestern habe ich mich unheimlich über diesen drecksack pfeiffer von der nachrückertruppe der cdu aufgeregt. der freak meinte, dass mit einer erhöhung der harz IV- bezüge gewinne der tabak- und alkoholindustrie einhergingen. solcherart zynismus gehörte öffentlich mittels steinigung bestraft. die pfeife äußerte sich nicht erstmals so. leider kann man auf seiner homepage keine (für alle sichtbare) nachricht hinterlassen. tu ich es eben hier. zur entspannung gibts das neueste vom musikmarkt. neues gibts endlich widder von badman recordings , der "la lamentor" nachfolger liegt nun vor, "breaks in the sun": [...]
Michael Zapruder's newest album, Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope , gets an official release on SideCho Records March 24. Bay Area readers are highly recommended to catch Zapruder live this Sunday at the Bottom of the Hill (along with Tim Williams and San Francisco's own Mist and Mast and Jon Bernson . SD: The music industry seems to be moving back towards singles (and away from albums), but [...]
This month's mixtape is Part Two of our "Best of the Bay Area" mix that we started last month (find Part One here). We had set out to make a single mix that encapsulated the local scene, but there's just too much depth of talent in San Francisco to reduce down to an 80-minute primer. While last month's mix featured the best of the local indie-rock and indie-pop scene, this month's installment focuses mostly on slower, more folk-influenced choices. This batch features several mainstays of the San Francisco scene — including Mark Kozelek [...]
mp3: michael zapruder's rain of frogs - happy new year mp3: regina spektor - my dear acquaintance (a happy new year) mp3: the breeders - new year mp3: firekites - new year has spoken mp3: jimi hendrix - auld lang syne mp3: vandaveer - auld lang syne
Sigh...okay, well, instead of doing a full post this weekend, I decided just to make a podcast. Not to diminish my podcasts. I love my podcasts. They're actually the most fun part of this here blog. It's not overtly taxing, either, which is why I did a podcast today instead of a blog post. I've had a crappy weekend. You know how sometimes you're already tired and someone says something to you that sends you over the edge, and next thing you know you're throwing a fit, crying, etc. Okay, so maybe you don't know that. I do. That was [...]
In support of the recently released Town Topic EP , Casiotone for the Painfully alone is hitting the road with Portland-based ambient group Concern on a tour of the rust belt. It probably bears mentioning that the two men behind the groups, Owen Ashworth (CFTPA) and Gordon Wilson Ashworth (Concern) are brothers and have collaborated in the past including on a limited release single put out by People In A Position To Know earlier this year. The two also plan to tour Europe together in the Spring of 2009. Owen Ashworth's [...]
went to an event at 111 minna last night for pandora , the online radio of the music genome project, and saw local trio michael zapruder's rain of frogs perform. the music genome project, for those of you unacquainted, maps various characteristics of songs, both singular and by genre, in order to help people discover new music similar to what they already like & listen to. at the event last night, one of the pandora analysts demonstrated on stage, by breaking down "shepherd's purse" by zapruder et al, just how this process works, [...]
Best Fwends : one downloadable track [mp3] @myspace | other music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Buddy Wakefield : several tracks [mp3] "Convenience Stores" [mp3] from Run On Anything @myspace | other music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Grace Potter : 2007-05-04, Ithaca [mp3,ogg,flac] "Joey" [mp3] [...]
Michael Zapruder's Rain Of Frogs is new to me, but you very well may have read about his LP, New Ways of Letting Go, last Summer upon it's release via the SF based Howell's Transmitter label. Not sure how I missed this one, as it's exactly the brand of smart, '70s styled pop balladry [...]
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