It's only Monday afternoon and I'm already prepared to write this week off as a total loss. Emergency vet visits, having to play catch-up for the lost days at work (at deadline time, to boot), and a pending and unskippable family gathering have all conspired to lock up my precious store of unobligated time for the next seven days. It's as good excuse as any for me to gear down into low content mode until things settle down again. It will also give me the opportunity (I hope) to change the filters in my creative engine, as it's [...]
Darling Daughter informed me yesterday that her school will shortly be holding its annual air band competition. Apparently each year this event is assigned a theme and a list of eligible songs is furnished to all the wannabee axe heroes/heroines. And the theme this year? The eighties. I just about withered and died of old age when I heard that. After recovering from my sudden and rapid decrepitude, I discovered that my street cred with Darling Daughter was increasing as I recognized and provided both artist and useless facts [...]
To balance out last week's rather happy-go-lucky mix, I decided to swing down into the depths of despair this week. And honestly, the first thing that came to mind when I thought of self-indulgent gloom was...Beetlejuice's Prince Vince of the Neitherworld. For those of you that remember the old Beetlejuice animated television series, you'll probably recall the episode in which Beetlejuice and Lydia meet Prince Vince, a monarch so gloomy that a cloud of rain follows him everywhere he goes. He does a lot of moaning and sighing, hand drawn dramatically across his pointy brow. And I absolutely [...]
The best laid plans of mice and music bloggers oft come to shit. I've spent the lion's share of the past few days up in the attic, flipping through Maura's and my record collections to take stock of what exactly we have and to select worthy candidates for digital transfer. It was during this process that I came across Disco Gold #2 , featuring the "top tunes of today" as performed by "Dimensional Sound," in a crate of records Maura brought home from an estate sale last fall. (Besides being the Queen of Animals, Maura also happens [...]
I'm pretty sure that no one will want to read this review. But before I start berating you, I should start at the beginning. This story is really about ... yarn. Now, I know what you're thinking, I can hear you all the way over here. "Cindy Hotpoint has jumped the shark for reals this time. I mean, we tolerated her moving to NYC and no longer providing us with the best remixes in the known universe and her incessant rantings about The Mountain Goats, Shearwater and the Bellmer Dolls. But ... yarn?" (It's [...]
It's easy to laugh at a lot of music that dominated the airwaves in the eighties. Synthesizers and crappy drum machines ruled supreme and looks were far more important than the actual music. Every decade has his truely gruesome acts and in the eighties we were served with Kajagoogoo and Spandau Ballet. Thankfully these acts are not included on a new 3CD set called The Edge Of The Eighties , a collection that goes beyond the usual suspects and pays tribute to acts like Propaganda , Laurie Anderson and even the Cocteau [...]
Calico Horse Genre: Indie / Experimental / Psychedelic From: San Diego, California United States I choked on my cornflakes when I read on the My Old Kentucky Home that Calico Horse, the band formerly known as The Clock Work Army , are "what [...]
APRIL 3, 2008 Captured by Mitte Schwuppe "Overflow" is a list of music that I have found. Some songs are good, some are not, but I'll leave that descision to you, Enjoy! Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (Trentemoller Remix A Side) [...]
أغنية لفرقة البوست- بانك" Post-Punk " البريطانية " سوزي أند ذا بانشيز " - Siouxsie And The Banshees - طرحت كعمل منفصل في عام ١٩٨٢ ميلادي بعد صدور ألبومهم الرابع " Juju " ، تظهر الأغنية بوادر التغيرات التي طرأت على نهج الفرقة و بدايات خروجها عن أسلوبها الذي عرفت به و خوضها في حقل الموسيقى التجريبية الذي اتخذته كمرجع لعملها التالي " A Kiss in the Dreamhouse " [...]
Playlist du 20 mars au 27 mars... Des groupes à tête de femmes et des femmes de tête, d'esprit, de corps.... la "RIOT RADIO" leur est dédiée. Deux heures avec elles, c'est bien trop peu, alors, volontairement, il n'y aura ni Beth Ditto (des GOSSIP) ni VV (des THE KILLS) qui prennent déjà beaucoup de place et de lumière (méritées) ces derniers temps. Il y aura donc des jeunes femmes seules (Alela Diane, Adele...) ou entre elles (Electrelane, The Organ, Tegan&Sara, Au revoir Simone...), des femmes accompagnées de quelques hommes (Siouxsie, Portishead, Stereolab...), des femmes [...]
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This week doesn't seem to have (m)any releases I really feel like writing about. I didn't really check the indie stuff out but will say that the entire back catalog of Mission of Burma is being re-released soon. But I did watch Doomsday. This movie was an ambitious undertaking from the beginning, so I can see how it had the chance to fall apart. Doomsday was a trainwreck. Throughout the duration of the film, I was certain this was a giant homage to dystopian films, with low budgets. There was some cool shots and [...]
Though it came and went in the blink of an eye, of all the musical movements, punk tends to live on in the imaginations of people. Just look at the number of documentaries, books, academic studies, magazine cover stories, compilation albums, and fashion aesthetics that still draw on punk. Whether it really was as revolutionary as it seemed, punk has definitely become iconic and continues to influence new bands with its sneering nihilism and DIY-learn-three-chords-and-for m-a-band approach. My personal connection to punk is one that actually started relatively later in life than for most. I was about [...]
Pe Devotchka i-am descoperit pe soundtrack-ul unuia dintre cele mai bune filme pe care le-am vazut in 2006: Little Miss Sunshine . Abia apoi am aflat ca melodia lor, How It Ends poate fi auzita si in trailerul de la Everything's Illuminated desi pe coloana sonora a peliculei, lipseste. De ce i-am ales pe ei la 10 Days Of Covers? Pentru ca ultimul lor EP ce dateaza din 2006 - Curse Your Little Heart - contine niste coveruri magnifice la piese de-ale lui Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie And The Banshees si bineinteles, The Velvet Underground. [...]
Because it's sad... Britney's 16-year old little sister is pregnant . And this is my first post of the week. Yep, sad. MP3: Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Little Sister" - Cecilia
If you haven't figured it out already every MP3 on 24 Hour Party Pooper , save the ones in this post and the Bear Hunter ones posted just below, are dead . Hopefully, not permanently. I'll have to either migrate them or get my current file server to be more cooperative but you should be able to get your Gang of Four and Talking Heads rarities again soon enough. ------------------------------ ------------------- This always happens. I do a huge post about a single album and then I'm creatively spent for a [...]
Below you will find mix number five out of five that has come about as a result of EAR FARM's Thanksgiving Mix Contest . Well, there are ten mixes actually, but five that I'm posting on EAR FARM this week. If you're someone who entered the contest and won (and I've been in contact with you about a mix) who hasn't yet received your very own mix, you'll get yours shortly. In fact, it might just show up here on EF in the near future. Patience. [...]
Dear friends, Today's selection came from one of the many records I inherited from my cousin Pam who was a Goth for a few years and now listens to Celine Dion. No, I don't get it either. But I digress...Peek-A-Boo is an oddly funky song. I say oddly, because on visuals alone, you don't expect Siouxsie and The Banshees to be so rhythm-based* but they are. Their songs are as driven by Budgie's
I spent my holiday engaged in a lopsided battle to root out the forces of entropy from their subterranean lair, or in less florid terms, "I cleaned the basement." It's a project I had been meaning (however reluctantly) to tackle for some time now, though a stream of convenient distractions ( read: videogames and weak excuses) made it possible to postpone the inevitable longer than I ever dreamed possible. My idle leisure's stay of execution ended last Thursday, however, when a representative from the natural gas company came knocking at my front door in order to inform [...]
Armagideon Time
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D E M I A N - 6 6 6
The Rich Girls are Weeping
Here Comes The Flood
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DODA GAGA
I Predict a Riot
Under the Dog
Get Weird Turn Pro
clover's anthem
Rock Sellout
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Sleeve: “1991″ by Azealia Banks
