As of tonight, if you add up all the Sunday Mix Tapes I've ever made, you get exactly five years worth of music. I don't go around boasting about how I was the first music blog to conceive of a weekly mix tape…but I sure go around thinking as much! Seriously, who the hell even [...]
Gleaned lovingly from the now-sadly-defunct Grown So Ugly blog: "Released by the Spirit of Orr label in a specially packaged, hand assembled Cd-r version in an edition of 300. Red Favorite is the name that Northampton's Jeremy Pisani uses in his exploring of fragile & personal guitar and vocal passages. The Red Favorite debut is a record that he had been crafting since 1998. Self described as '"A soundtrack for dreams, chemical endeavors, human afflictions and distant memories", Jeremy's muse and music is special, rare, and honest. "While so many new names keep popping [...]
Photo: Cover art from self titled Jack Rose LP. Jack Rose, (lap steel) guitarist and master of blues and folk, is always likely to receive plenty of airplay at my place around this time of the year. His fingerpicking and slide instrumentals being the perfect accompaniment for these early summer days. On his latest album Dr Ragtime & Pals he finds himself accompanied by fellow musicians Glenn Jones, Micah Blue Smaldone (also featured on this playlist with a solo track), Mike Gangloff, Sean Bowles and Harmonica Dan. Their addition of harmonica, banjo and washboard add [...]
What the shit is this ? The New York Times Magazine has broken down four of the hottest current "indie" bands by their individual fashion styles. I think it's absolutely sickening. If reading something like this doesn't make you rethink your dreams of being a musician, I don't know how more clearly you can be shown the being labeled with a word like "indie" should be taken as an insult. This stylized magazine spread, with its comparisons between different artists and fashion designers, is further proof that this scene isn't so cutting edge anymore. In fact it's [...]
...And here's post #2 for today. It's just a mix tape. No cool stories or updates to go along with it. Although, if anyone out there knows CSS and wants to tell me how I can align everything on this page so that it's always centered, and centered in every browser, that would be immensely helpful to me. And if you haven't already, please buy something from me on eBay ? I'd like to stay on the west coast for as long as possible, and your money can help ensure this. Thank you. Now for some music. [...]
Ex-Trenchmouth drummer, current weekly funnyman Fred Armisen contributed to last night's Tomorrow Show. Today I walked around town today, stopping at Sea Level to buy some half-priced albums before they close their doors. Tonight there was good home-cooking (or so I imagine, I ate a pizza while everyone else labored over the stove and oven) followed by an all-too-brief barbecue/party at a house in the Echo Park hills. Truly it was a good weekend. This is where I'd express dissatisfaction at tomorrow being Monday if I actually had a job...but I don't. So I can talk about anything! Unfortunately, I [...]
And as far as you eye demands another sun, see if there is behind you another sun. Sun to see, is understood, with another different celebration, another fragrance, another love more love. Virginia Astley - a summer since long passed (from gardens where we feel secure, 1983) Raro & Apenino - #6 (s/t, 2006) Ze Ramalho & Lula Cortes - harpa dos ares (Paebiru, 1975) The Kallikak Family - guitar 2 (may 23rd 2007, 2005) Red Favorite [...]
Swan Fungus
motel de moka
Motel de Moka :: Open since september '05
Bobby Womack ft. Lana Del Rey – “Dayglo Reflection”
Bears
Annie Mac // Sunshine Mix
