Yesterday, I promised a "Side B" to Radio Exile's mp3 Mixtape and here it is, featuring: Kanye West , Biffy Clyro , Motel Motel , Passion Pit , F@cked Up , Conor Oberst , The Kooks , Danielson and High Places . This is a tight little mix of all the stuff I started listening to just last week and haven't gotten a chance to say "Hey folks, you need to check this stuff out," and some other stuff that hit my radar [...]

Arranque la noche del sábado con buena música... simplemente sintonice su radio en Los Mochis hasta captar Galaxy 94.3 fm ... tenemos en rotación el playlist 97 , último de la lista... Biffy Clyro - Mountains .mp3 .
"Bands like Pearl Jam receive no part of the service charges collected by Ticketmaster. And let us make it quite clear that Pearl Jam seeks no portion of those service charges. As a result, a band like Pearl Jam, which is concerned about keeping the price of its tickets low, almost by necessity finds itself on the opposite side of Ticketmaster, which has every economic incentive to raise the price of the tickets it sells." - Prepared statement of Pearl Jam before the Information, Justice, Transportation and Agriculture Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government [...]

Holy shit, people. This one might be the holy grail. You all know how much I love terrible movies -- especially ones that achieve the so-called "triple crown of awfulsome", a term I've just now invented. That is, a movie that fails miserably on the three most important levels: writing, acting, and direction. House Of Wax and AntiTrust are both considered to be triple crown winners (although the latter is more of a sci-fi thriller than a horror movie). Well, this past week a film arrived at the store, and I tell you...it was love at [...]

SomaCow Media Network is proud to present Somacow , brought to you today by Semoran Skateway . If you're ever in the Orlando area, it's the only place left, really, for you to throw down and trip the lights on a fat four wheeled skate session. In this hour, we talked about Mickey's 35th birthday party , which The Chick That He Is Dating was kind enough to throw. It was... surreal, and J and I came to the terrifying realization that Mickey was [...]
May 21, 2008, 12:11am
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Mountain, Live: The Road Goes Ever On (Windfall 1972) You got that? Louder! Mountain - "Long Red"
I love robots. Anytime a music group decides to throw in the vocoder or talk box into a song, it ranks three points higher in my book. My favorite is when a rock band adds a robot to the band's line-up. As robots have been synonymous with ...

Today I had my first foray into the world of commercial real estate. I was scouting locations for a new laundromat. It wasn't something I up-and-volunteered for (okay, I guess it was), but I received two free meals for my dedication to the project, and got to visit Palm Springs, which I've dreamed of visiting ever since Bugs Bunny took a vacation there at the end of Daffy Duck's Quackbusters . The plan was simple. Wake up early, head east on Interstate-10 and stop at five or six potential properties that could potentially [...]

I am headed to Bear Trap Ranch tomorrow morning! Bear Trap Ranch is an InterVarsity Retreat and Outdoor Recreation Center located in the Rockies near Colorado Springs, CO. I will be head out tomorrow and return on Saturday night, performing and leading in times of worship. What an honor and privilege. Isn't this going to be fun?! I haven't been in the Rockies in quite a while. I love the mountains....my favorite place to be. Can you tell I am excited? t00-m0ch, Chris christophercarder.com song: You Came [...]
Comin' atcha first thing every Monday morning, it's The Pony Track, a super-fantastic short distance dedication to BadmintonStamps Collective founding member and internationally renowned symbol for musical excellence Aaron "Pony" Child. No fancy links, no clever write-ups, 'cause these awesome songs don't need no splainin'. So c'mon, ride the pony!

Bear Trap Ranch is an InterVarsity Retreat and Outdoor Recreation Center located in the Rockies near Colorado Springs, CO. Looks like I will be traveling to Bear Trap Ranch in April (17th-19th) to perform and lead in a time of worship. Isn't this going to be fun?! I haven't been in the Rockies in quite a while. I love the mountains....my favorite place to be. Can you tell I am excited? t00-m0ch, Chris christophercarder.com [...]
Mountaineer - You Pay No Mind Mountaineer - Morning Mist

I think there's a general consensus about town that Kanye West's latest album, Graduation , is consistent with the high calibre of his previous two efforts. Although, (in my humble opinion of course) it sags a little in the middle, I am in agreement with the prevailing reaction. But look, we all know that Kanye's work relies heavily on samples (not that I'm complaining like) , so here's a comprehensive breakdown of tracks that make up this great record. MP3: Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight [...]
You lend me words, but I recognize their reflection.

Photo: WorldFrank Radiohead - genchildren (Kid A / 2000) Mountains - blown glass typewriter (Mountains / 2005) Tape - sand dunes (rideau / 2005) Arve Henriksen - parallel action (Chiaroscuro / 2005) Gultskra Artikler - Votpsuk (Kasha iz topora / 2007) [...]

Photo credit: Elisa Tagliati To complete this trilogy we've now come to the ending of the sleep cycle. In the previous chapter Asleep Eternally there was all the time in world to wrap ourselves in the night's dark and serene setting, but now it's time to start a new day. Currently one of my favourite albums of this year (Sam Baker / Pretty World) features a wonderful song about the moments just before waking up. Before the sun Before the heat Before we untangle from our [...]
Woke up sweating in the American Garden Building on West 81st, peeled back cranberry sheets and an herbal mint facial mask under the slow, horrifying realization that it's the haties and no one has yet caught M.I.A.'s devastating danga dengue fever. For twenty years, no one will feel Junior Senior's sweaty hand claps brush against their cheek(s), master blast OCDJ's frenetic 16-bit Bmore beats down St. Paul, or dance the footloose in a moonlit robot factory with Midnight Juggernauts. Thankfully it was only a dream within a dream, because Good God man, if even one percent of [...]
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) Many of you from the UK will recognise this old soft proggy rock track from 'World in Action', the weekly news program, as the end of the track was used for its titles. For many many years I hadn't even considered that the theme had been knicked and that it was just recorded specially for the show, but having stumbled upon it by accident a good

Still from Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Andrei Rublev' (1969) Probably one of my favourite scenes in a motion picture comes from Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Andrei Rublev'. The film – a true masterpiece in itself – ends with a shot of several horses in the rain, a beautiful symbolic image. This is what Andrei Tarkovsky himself had to say about this scene: I'd like to point out the film ends with an image of horses in rain. It is a symbolic image as horse for me is a synonym of life. When I'm looking at a [...]

There was a period of time when Mountain completely rocked my world. They sortof still do. Self-described on their myspace as "one of the most ferociously crunching heavy metal bands of all times" (hmmmm....), Mountain - for those of you unfamiliar - included guitarist Leslie West, drummer Corky Laing, keyboardist Steve Knight and bassist and former Cream producer Felix Pappalardi. Mountain always had the reputation of being a junior-Cream, however Leslie West revered them and ultimately brought in Pappalardi to work with Mountain on their 1979 debut album Climbing! [...]