Good morning! Today is the first post in a new series called "Mayor's Mixes". Every Friday, or some similar time frame, I will select my favorite songs from the previous week (in today's case, two weeks) and post them in a "mix". The only thing is I won't post more than one song from a given post. Sooo, if you like the song, follow the "originally posted here" link to hear the rest of the post. Words aside, let's get started. Katy on a Mission - Katy B - Captain Planet Remix [...]
![Matthew Dear – Headcage [Preview]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3930476_lg.jpg)
Matthew Dear is set for Australian shores at the start of 2012. The NYC producer is rumored to release his fifth studio album in the same year, and the teasers and previews of the said record, are already floating about. The Headcage EP is a delightfully refreshing take on electronic influenced pop music, reminiscent of Talking Heads in both musicality, and David Byrne'esque vocals. It's a slightly more cheerful approach for Dear, with hardly any deep influence in aural sight... The video teaser by Morgan Beringer sums up the track perfectly. Looking forward to hearing the rest of [...]
5 Songs is a weekly series where we point out the strange, the grand, and the unique connections between our favorite songs. Let's get weird. Words by Chris A great cover in my opinion is one that alters the meaning of the song via the covering-band's performance. A really great cover is one that takes the place of the original in your mind. There are more than 5 examples of this for sure. Below [...]
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Fans of Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Talking Heads, and David Bowie will want to have a listen and grab "Murder 1" from Australian-born, now NYC-based duo Wazu . The track combines elements of glam, grunge, electronic, pop and goth to create a dark, danceable atmosphere and comes from their upcoming self-titled EP, which drops on January 10th, courtesy of Anti-Language Recordings. Wazu is comprised of Matt and Rizz, who wrote and performed together in several influential Syndey bands (Open The Gates, Captains) before they decided to venture out on their own as a duo and see what [...]
This installment of Cover Wars was penned by Pete Mason of PhanArt.net fame. Pete wrote the book on PhanArt , literally, and also co-authored the PhanFood Cookbook . Life During Wartime by The Talking Heads (not to be confused with the Pinhead Gunpowder punk song, or the 2009 movie from Todd Solondz) provides a view of NYC living in the late 19702s as a metaphor for those who were living in the Big Apple during the Second World War. Lines such as "The sound of gunfire, off in the distance, [...]
Groupe mythique et influant, le quatuor David Byrne , Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth et Jerry Harrison sortent leur premier album en 1977 Talking Heads '77 . Révélation musicale du style post-punk et new-wave avec pour étendard le hit " Psycho Killer ". Ces 11 titres ne sont que le début d'une dizaine d'années marquants l'histoire de la musique à jamais. La suite donnera lieu à une longue collaboration avec Brian Eno en tant que producteur du groupe, une entrée au Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , une [...]
The Talking Heads are one of the most talented/creative bands to ever have done music. Led by frontman/musical genius David Byrne, they created some of the best songs of the past 50 years. Here's a cool remix of their song, Road to Nowhere, done by Soul Clap. Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads - Soul Clap Edit
We couldn't have been more excited when Eagle Rock Entertainment announced they had put together a DVD called Chronology featuring live Talking Heads performances ranging from the group's start to the last time they played together at the 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The tracklist didn't just focus on the band's best known material and contained a number of songs that didn't make Jonathan Demme's epic 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense . Chronology is finally out and [...]
There are a few nice Talking Heads edits around. One that immediately springs to mind is Greg Wilson 's Psycho Killer edit, which really adds a certain something to what is essentially an entry-level Talking Heads record. I vote against the inclusion of audience noise, although in this case it is accepted as the original samples are referenced from a live performance. Nevertheless, only on this guilty pleasure can I tolerate audience noise. I digress. Soul Clap 's edit of Road To Nowhere is lovely. [...]
As a kid, the family usually made at least one trek annually to visit relatives in Western Pennsylvania. To mitigate the need to navigate traffic, we would often set off on these trips in the wee hours of the night, getting the first couple hours in before the sunrise. It was thrilling to be up in the middle of the night, at an hour whose existence was wholly unknown to me at the time. As my younger brother and our mother would be asleep in the backseat, I was accorded shotgun, road atlas [...]
In this edition of Audiography, we go backstage at the Seminole Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, FL with Consequence of Sound 's Art Director Cap Blackard, who sat down with Chris Frantz of the Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads. Listen in as they discuss album artwork, Heads' videos, and future Tom Tom Club releases, as well as Chris and wife, fellow Head and Clubber, Tina Weymouth's latest project, Chris und Tina. You can follow Frantz' online radio program , airing once a month on WPKN. Featured Music: 01. [...]
This Must Be The Place is the new movie where Sean Penn, seriously, plays an aging Robert-Smith-lookalike Nazi-hunter rock star. Obviously, we're all going to watch the shit out of this movie. But if we needed any more reason to get amped, the soundtrack album features a pretty fascinating collaboration that involves both David Byrne and Will Oldham. The soundtrack album has six songs credited to the Pieces Of Shit. The group, which isn't a real actual group, features Oldham writing the lyrics, Byrne writing the music, and the Irish singer Michael Brunnock doing all the [...]
Hero Worship Vol. I: Eno [...]
Title: "unCOVERED" (Free and legal download HERE ) Artist: Jared Evan Label: Presented by DJ Booth Released: 11/01/11 What to know: "unCOVERED" is the second free mixtape Jared Evan has released in partnership with DJ Booth to fuel the buzz leading up to his forthcoming major label debut album (Interscope Records). The release is a genre-bending collection of covers, ranging from Nine Inch Nails to Outkast, and was entirely self-produced by Evans. [...]
Prior to the January 1 release of the new Guided By Voices full-length, Let's Go Eat The Factory (Guided By Voices Inc.), the band will be releasing three seven-inch singles. The first, "The Unsinkable Fats Domino"/"We Won't Apologize For The Human Race," will be out November 22 via Matador ... Delmore Records is celebrating the life [...]
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Neon Gold 's Party Supplies takes on Talking Heads classic Once In A Lifetime - talk about expectations! He pulls it off perfectly. Recorded during the new album sessions (due out in 2012) Same As It Ever Was is a complete re-production of the David Byrne fronted classic. DOWNLOAD Same As It Ever Was (Talking Heads cover) Party Supplies: Same As It Ever Was (Talking Heads cover) by [...]
I'd heard rumors of a Bronze side-project show where half-naked men with tridents poked at another half-naked man caged between them. Without hearing Bronze's music I assumed they'd be pretty strange. And sure, strangeness hovers on the edge of "The Rouge Became" but not the strangeness of unlistenable noise or dark basements that smell like [...]
More Songs About Building & Food promo item, Sire Records, 1978. Originally published at Stupefaction
I'd party to this playlist. And it'd be the hippest party around. Part 1 below, parts 2-4 to follow sometime, maybe today. Or tomorrow maybe. Probably. Definitely by Sunday... evening. Marvin Gaye: Medley (You/Grapevine/Your Precious Love) (5/11/1972 Live In Washington D.C.) Phish: Tube (1997/10/29 Live At Madison Square Garden) Celtic C ross: Hicksville ( Hicksville ) [...]
Mayor Marwan
In The Deep End
Draw Us Lines
Some Kind of Awesome
Hidden Track
Le Mellotron
Order & Progress
Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas
Consequence Of Sound
Stereogum
Earbuddy
I Think I Love It
MAGNET
owl and bear
Hard.Candy.Music.
Sound On The Sound
Bedazzled!
Ivy League Spins
Bobby Womack & Lana Del Rey
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