"You moved in slow degrees/A sudden memory/You're a Leonard Cohen song" - Better Than Ezra, "Under You" "But I was caught, like a fleeting thought / Stuck inside Leonard Cohen's mind" - Mercury Rev, "A Drop In Time" "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld / So I can sigh eternally" - Nirvana, "Pennyroyal Tea" It's almost unbelievable now to think that we almost never heard Leonard Cohen , the singer. A well-regarded poet from the late [...]
Sometimes it helps to click the "Publish" button. But then again, when it's late and you've stumbled home after a night of drunk Philosophy with Thesy what feels like a blog post isn't always a blog post. Plus the "Save Draft" button isn't anywhere near the "Publish" button on the WordPress back-end... *** Quick mix [...]
Merry Christmas, Everybody. The pictures and video from last night's shenanigans are beginning to filter in, very slowly, so you'll have to wait to see the really good stuff. The night turned into a shit-show very early. There was me, the mouse. There was Tom, the lion. There were two pixies with LED lights and tiny stereo speakers on their wings. There was Zach in a cow hat, Pat in a rabbit mask, Ken, Katie, Arthur, Kelsie, Autumn, Shaun, Erin, and probably others I'm forgetting. We started our pub crawl in the Los Feliz neighborhood, at Ye Rustic Inn. My [...]
Did you see that Giants game tonight? Talk about a futile effort. Neither of those teams really seemed to comprehend the ideas behind the game of football. I'm happy the Giants won, of course, but that offense looked absurd at times. Every time the team's defense did something to put them in a position to score, the offense threatened to give the ball right back to the Bears. It was almost as if the two sides of the same team were playing against one another. Also, no Victor Cruz? What the fuck? I thought you play to win the game...that [...]
[ via ] Music News Hypebot reports the latest study results on teen's relationship with music and piracy, this time from the UK. Ben Hewitt has a chat with FRS hero Peter Hook . "That was the wonderful thing about Joy Division. From its inception to its demise, we never earned a single penny. We started it broke and finished it broke. There were no arguments about publishing, no arguments about money. It was very straightforward. It [...]
1. Denison Witmer - Is There A Ghost (Band Of Horses) 2. Løzninger - Toxic (Britney Spears) 3. Grant Lee Phillips - Boys Don't Cry (The Cure) 4. Stars - This Charming Man (The Smiths) 5. Marissa Nadler - Ballad To An Amber Lady (Pearls Before Swine) 6. Buffalo Tom - Heaven (Acoustic) (The [...]
Happy Fourth of July, everybody. Enjoy your day. Drink safely. Don't drink and drive. And if you do, make sure you call the local police and report other drivers as drunk drivers, so as to divert police attention from you. • A day or two after running one of the most unprofessional sports columns in the history of journalism, they've published an article about all the falsehoods of Independence Day. Like, for example, how it's not actually supposed to fall on July 4th, and how the Declaration of Independence wasn't signed until it had been copied - and [...]
I am most comfortable on the road. Something about the security of a car and the openness of highways calms my nerves. I am able to extricate myself from my own head and rest my inner monologue. Even if it's just for 30 minutes or an hour, I liken it to a good night of sleep. So today I ventured down to Princeton, New Jersey. I wasn't looking to spend much money at the Record Exchange, I just wanted to find a couple items I might be able to turn around and sell. Also, I'd get to be in my [...]
" Images of April " 01. Laura Gibson - All The Pretty Horses ( hp ) Six White Horses: Blues & Traditionals Vol I Presented by Laura Gibson and Friends (hush records, 2008) 02. Iron And Wine - Sodom, South Georgia Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop, 2004) 03. Karate - First Release ( hp ) Some Boots (Southern Records, 2002) 04. Pearls Before Swine [...]
Washington, DC blogger extraordinaire IntangibleArts DJ's this week's Tangible Ten: "And now, a taste of heavy space from the IntangibleArts archives. Most of these would be what Julian Cope would call 'head music' and encompasses bits of Krautrock, English space-rock, and American folk-psych. This material represents my birth as a record collector: When I was about 10 or 11 years old, a benevolent older relative took me by the ear and opened up his vast collection of dusty vinyl goodies. I was already buying my own records at that age, with [...]
The combination of politics with folk music has become almost a cliché. Folk was foremost among the musical voices that heralded ardent protest against the Vietnam War, conservative values and an oppressive mindset. Some of it was certainly overly preachy and some of it was downright bad; as if any yokel with a guitar and a left leaning ideal could be a folk singer. However sometimes the mix was much more effective, and the results were not only palatable, they were extraordinary. Pearls Before Swine [...]
Consequence Of Sound
Swan Fungus
Future Rocket Soul
Happy Days Are Here Again
motel de moka
The Vinyl District
Raven Sings The Blues
Shoepal
mp3: soko – i just want to make it new with you
Skrillex Uses Satanic and Homosexual Influence to Win Grammys
A-Trak - "Round of Applause" / "Where My Money At" (MP3 Download)
Video: Rhye – “Open”
Onra: “Perfect(ed) Match”
