I've gone high concept this week, and that is not a reference to this week's cover art which is by my friend Davie Kaufmann. No, I mean there's a gimmick: all the songs on Summer Fridays 4.10 are less than two minutes long. All 33 of them (maybe even 34). With this kind of criteria, we don't really have much in the way of new music (two songs by my count) but quality remains high of course. I've tried to vary it up as much as possible because the bulk of the two-minutes-or-less songs in my collection are of the [...]
This series has noted a couple of hundred musicians' deaths. Not many have caused me so much sadness as that of Gil Scott-Heron. Never mind that the man was a drug addict, and that he once wrote a homophobic song. He was a poet, and he set his poetry to glorious music. He was the Bob Dylan of the ghetto. I hope that with his dying breath, Scott-Heron appreciated the fact that astronauts were just then making a final journey and the US president has introcuded health care reform he was demanding in Whitey On The Moon). As [...]
Happy Super Bowl Sunday, you super people! I hope your team won, if you're a sports guy who likes a certain sports team. Otherwise, as we say in New York (about the Mets) better luck next year! Speaking of which, pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training soon. I don't have anything else to say really, so I guess I'll stop stalling and get to this week's mix tape. RULES for uninitiated noobs : I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever [...]
Oki-ni , la tienda de ropa y accesorios, hizo un espacio en su página para que a DJs, grupos musicales y productores pudieran elegir sus canciones favoritas y con ese material armar un playlist. Lo particular de la iniciativa, es que cada uno de las mezclas es acompañada de una polera estampada edición limitada (fotografía) que busca representar "el espíritu del mix". The Go! Team es el nuevo invitado a colaborar en este proyecto. Uno de sus integrantes, y fundador, Ian Parton, comenta que este mix acerca a las fuentes de inspiración del [...]
This list of musicians who we lost this year is by no means definitive, and is entirely dependent on my faulty memory (other than birth and death dates, which came from Wikipedia - I'm not that good). Any exclusions are unintentional. Jay Reatard (May 1, 1980 – January 13, 2010) [See post to listen to audio] Jay Reatard - Night Of Broken Glass Robert "Squirrel" Lester (August 16, 1942 – January 21, 2010) [See post to listen to audio] The Chi Lites - Are You [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive UK garage-funk band the Go! Team have a new album on the horizon and to preview it, they gave Spinner an exclusive trailer that features a few choice song snippets. Due Feb. 1, 'Rolling Blackouts' is the group's third full-length and features vocal contributions from Deerhoof 's Satomi Matsuzaki and Best Coast 's Bethany Cosentino as well as another bevy of sample-infused pop. "I have a [...]
After a hyperactive beginning of the year, the Grim Reaper took it mercifully easy on the world of music in February. So featured this month are some musicians who left us during the month past (and one of them died on the last day of January). As always, I don't claim that this list is complete. * * * Herman Dunham , 73, doo wop singer with The Solitaires, the Vocaleers and The Blenders, on January 31 The Solitaires [...]
Former Smashing Pumpkins producer and current Billy Corgan collaborator Kerry "Studio Dog" Brown announced via a post on his blog that he and Corgan would soon be starting their own record label. The label does not have an official name just yet, as some legal issues need to be cleared up before putting anything in ink. The new venture will handle the release of the experimental, multi-release, 44 song, free album project " Teargarden By Kaleidyscope " as well as a number of already signed bands. [...]
Sep 1, 2009, 2:00am
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Jalad muidugi. Las veri liigub. Ja siis tee midagi ilusat tõesti. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Barefoot In Baltimore
Suddenly a new super group emerged on stage, with Djin Aquarian and Billy Corgan on bass! This was "YaHoWha 33" and suddenly the calm, meditative breather from before must have recharged his chakras! Djin rocked and cooed and smiled from behind his beard like nothing I've seen since the Soggy Bottom Boys appeared on screen a few years back. No hippie love jam this, unless by "jams," you meant things to Kick Out. There was rock and sweat and vitality, screaming dudes in robes, and man, I just could not believe Sky Saxon was dead, because I felt so alive!
Give the Drummer Some's 10 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere (see Comments, below, for helpful info about downloading) I'm baaack! Yes, big mama bird is ready to regurgitate another jawful of sonic worms into your gaping ears. (Ew!) And with the WFMU Marathon set to swoop down upon us, now is a good time to remind yourself just how much you've come to depend on us for musical nourishment... Done reminding? Good, let's get snacking. Highlights this week: lovely, unadorned solo home-taping sessions (Jimi Hendrix), [...]
Kidnapped Friday's Child If you were to open a music box, expecting to find a ballerina spinning to Mozart or Bach, but instead found the Beach Boys, tripping and playing the entirety of Pet Sounds, then that would be what The Rollo Treadway sounds like—but darker. Their first album, The Rollo Treadway, switches it up between the American West Coast '60s sound of the Beach Boys and the English Psychedelic '60s sound of the Strawberry Alarm Clock. In this case, however, the overuse of layered harmonies and intricate compositions comes [...]
I really, really, like this album. It's both kitschy and pleasant to listen to. Some of you might know the name Strawberry Alarm Clock , but all of you, I'm sure, have heard their most famous song 'Incense and Peppermints', either from the Austin Powers soundtracks or virtually any (i'm not kidding) compilation of hits from the 1960's. But, you might be astounded, given their usual status as a 'one hit wonder band', to know that the Strawberry Alarm Clock released OTHER albums, and they were actually quite good. [...]
Photo: Neil Krug . Domenic Priore: We were trying to figure out what separates the British Invasion groups from the '60s Garage Punk bands in America that followed, and when you said "they warped it with Chili Dogs" that pretty much says it all. Shelly Kidd: Well, because that was part of the pop food of the time. See, you could make a complete study of the era by tying in so many different factors: food, fashion, style and music. It's all inter-related. And that's why even though the British may have been "better" [...]
Forget the Hammond B3 and her clunky brethren, the organ of choice for the discerning (and touring) 60s rock band was bound to be colorful, compact, and a scorcher in sound. The suitcase style combo organs, revered for their "cheezy" timbre, defined a classic sound for many well-known outfits and devoured the churchy sound from the organs of yore, paving the way to the synthesizer age. Welcome to the wonderful reedy world of combo organs. The Vox Continental (1962) Lord and master of all things combo, this line [...]
Drawing inspiration from classic folk-pop ( Strawberry Alarm Clock , The Mamas & the Papas ), neo-psych/chamber pop ( Belle & Sebastian , The Polyphonic Spree ) and experimental/indie-rock ( Broken Social Scene , Please Quiet Ourselves ), Vancouver CA's The Greenbelt Collective is a quirky mix of old and new. Tracks such as Aerotropolis and Our Homes from the album, Our Homes [ buy ], are playful yet sophisticated at the same time. Enjoy. [...]
Before I get into the details of the night's events I want to set the background of the whole weekend's festivities by painting a picture of the venue for those that haven't been. The Warsaw is located in the Polish National building in Brooklyn and is indeed run by an all Polish staff. The Main Room is a classic ballroom complete with chandaliers, large paintings and a really old "disco-ball" that looks more like a weird piece of antique costume jewelry than anything else due to it's irregular shape (Imagine a giant earplug hanging from the ceiling. [...]
"How can they be brothers if their names are so different?" -- A caller questioning the fraternal status of Charles Sheen and Emilio Estevez "Wow, they’re really rallying around me." -- Mel Gibson on Patrick Swayze, Patrick Swayze, and then Patrick Swayze coming to his defense "Those animals back in coach deserve what they get." -- Tom, flying for free in First Class+ "It’s not my fault you can’t do math." -- Tom, responding to a caller who stubbornly insisted that 62 + 43 = 105 [...]
Totally posted Rob on the wrong day guys. "Whoa." The Fiery Furnaces - "Benton Harbor Blues": mp3 I've been listening to this record once a day all week, and every time it gets more amazing. It's kind of a genius album - the farther into you get into it, the less idiosyncratic and annoying it gets and the pop songs get better and better. As track 12, this song, all seven minutes of it, really carries the album to that next level. Buy and [...]
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