It's colder than yesterday, far more seasonal at 38°, but I don't mind. Neither does Gracie. I think it's her favorite sort of day. She runs outside round and round the yard then comes in panting and walks over to me for a pat. I find her fur cold to the touch, especially her ears. Winter is the easiest season to see because the sun and sky have hues different from any other season. The blue is sharper and the sun looks far more muted. When I look out the window, I can see that cold and feel it [...]
Ho ho ho, assholes! With the Christmas holiday coming up this weekend and we're already two days deep up on the Hanukkah tip, it's very much time to drop the annual The Decibel Tolls Holiday Mixer . You know the deal - a carefully curated collection of skewed, brain-burning, monolithic Christmas gems that totally sleigh. Get it?! Sleigh? Slay? It's a homophone, you guys! Ugh... never mind. Tough crowd. Anyway, these yule-time canticles exalted on high can crush shopping malls and magically spike egg nog, true story. For this year's mixer, you'll recognize you'll recognize some jams from previous year's mixers, [...]
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Macy's Window [ purchase ] The Ventures: Sleigh Ride [ purchase ] Two Northwest rock'n'roll legends leave their mark on the holiday season. The Raiders' cut comes from one of the most bizarre Christmas albums of all time, 1967's A Christmas Present...And Past. While the kids are enchanted by the window decorations, Dad is getting hot and bothered by the elves in mini-skirts. [...]
Monsters are misunderstood - it's tough to frighten people and terrorize the countryside day in, and day out. Surely monsters have to unwind; as the magazine cover suggests, they may enjoy a little recreational hula-hoop activity. Or they may just like to rock out. MP3: "Cha-Cha With The Zombies" by the Upperclassmen MP3: "Zombie Walk" by the Magics MP3: "Do The Zombie" by the Symbols [...]
Budeaux - Afraid I'm (Venture Remix) by venture Alex Clare - Damn Your Eyes by Alex Clare Too Close by Alex Clare Acid Rain (ambient minimal deep dub....beer) by Fingers In The Noise BONSOIR by Young Montana? [...]
A Late Night Stroll by venture Brainbath - Eyes shut - Forthcoming on ADX Records by brainbath KeOSz & A-Negative - Incomer /unsigned/ Clip by KeOSz Subsid - Nostalgia (FREE DOWNLOAD) by Subsid Where did summer go!? by pete maddock [...]
Found by Googling "Nerd Beach" The rising trend of flip flops, seersucker and ice cream can only mean one thing: Memorial Day is upon us! As you're getting your beach bags prepared and packing up the van for this glorious sun-filled weekend, we invite you to jam with us. Today we present you with another installment of the FP Mixtape series. This Grooveshark hosted playlist will be your shimmering, dancing, woozy, embarrassing and nostalgia obsessed friend for the weekend. Featuring some new classics and old favorites, these 20 songs were carefully selected and sequenced [...]
Brian Setzer returns with a new instrumental album.
The story of Blue Moon — its transition from a movie song that was rewritten several times to jazz song and then pop hit — was told in The Originals Vol. 40 , which included the first version, The Bad In Every Man, sung on film by Shirley Ross. This collection of 38 versions covers all manner of approaches. There are the early jazz interpretations, most of them with vocals (though Gene Krupa, Django Reinhardt and in 1944 the Cozy Cole Allstars do it instrumentally). Then it became something of a torchsong number in the hands of [...]
I took this photo on Queen West in Toronto. Someone is getting coal in their stocking.... From the forum members at AtlCountryTab.ca . Merry Christmas, Dammit! Download the zipped comp for one week only or until I run out of bandwidth. 1. Brave Combo - Must Be Santa.mp3 Buy : It's Christmas, Man! (1992) (1992) Bob Dylan used Brave Combo's arrangement of this [...]
Well, what I really should say is that we are running out of things to say about Christmas. We already took our potshot at the right-wing TV pundits, and we already did our "tired of Christmas" thing and of course the good ol' commercialization of Christmas thing. We can still do the ol' Peace on Earth thing ... But we're not running out of Christmas tunes! MP3: "A Jordan Xmas" by Tracy Morgan MP3: "Christmas Time Is Here Again" by My Morning [...]
Ho ho ho, bitches, The Decibel Tolls Holiday Mixer 2010 is up in here making magic and explainin' magnets. Some of these jams have been featured on previous mixers, and some are new to the blog holiday celebration. Per usual, we offer both our traditional Xmas collection, as well as our DMXmas mix later in the month. However, it's proven difficult coordinating a time to meet between Lana, our cat Ike, DMX, and myself to get some shots at the Sears Portrait Studio, and if we don't have a nice photo to go with our holiday [...]
A nine-minute psychedelic blast through the surf instrumental…plus lyrics.
Monsters are misunderstood - it's tough to frighten people and terrorize the countryside day in, and day out. Surely monsters have to unwind; as the magazine cover suggests, they may enjoy a little recreational hula-hoop activity. Or they may just like to rock out. MP3: "Cha-Cha With The Zombies" by the Upperclassmen MP3: "Zombie Walk" by the Magics MP3: "Do The Zombie" by the Symbols [...]
Dungen by Sarah Morrison Just when you think summer's over, a heat wave comes to L.A. and Waved Out 2 comes to the Echoplex, to hose us down with the reverb-soaked sounds of teenage noise pop, chill wave, surf punk and psych-folk. I didn't know what to expect. The only bands listed on the bill whose names I recognized were the trippy headliners, the Entrance Band and Dungen, who were playing the first show of their US tour. Sponsored in conjunction by the Aquarium Drunkard music blog, KXLU and L.A. RECORD, the all-day event featured an [...]
Filed under: Video , The Hit List , Television Chances are, not too many people are humming the theme songs from 'The Mentalist' or 'Law & Order: SVU.' TV themes have so diminished in importance that many of them last only 15 seconds. Back when themes lasted closer to a minute, producers put more effort into procuring good songs. As a result, those songs [...]
We've arrived at the second to last mega-MP3 summer songs playlist/mixtape for 2010 as summer slips away, the days get shorter, the heat cools off, and people are planning fall activities; in the cafe, we refer to them as the Last Blasts mixes. Enjoy. "Moonlighting" - Navajo Bixby "Let's Go Surfing" (Raveonettes Remix) - The Drums "Jogging Gorgeous [...] Related posts:Summer 2010 Mixtape, Vol. IV: The Flaming Lips, Surfer Blood, Holiday Shores, Julian Casablancas, Admiral Radley, Fanfarlo, Princeton Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. IV: Evangelicals, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, Beck, Islands, Ramones, REM & More More... [...]
This song was one of the first to employ a fuzz distortion pedal on the electric guitar. This unique effect predates the 1963 hit "Zipadee-Do-Dah" by Bob B. Soxx, which featured a 'fuzz' guitar instrumental break, as well as the "King of Fuzz Guitar", Davie Allan (The Arrows).
And we're back. Apologies for the unannounced hiatus there. It just tells you how truly 'indie' this website is, since basically, there's only one person running it. And when that said person flies home because of a family emergency...everything stops. It's kind of hard going back to the swing of things after the death of my dad, but remembering how he turned me on to music at such an early age, and how much of a music junkie I am - I just couldn't stop right? My [...]
Welcome to the second installment of the Musical Pairings "history of pop music" series. As I mentioned with the first installment ( chillwave ), I plan to make this an ongoing series exploring the history of pop music. I plan to research various genres and sub-genres of pop music throughout modern history and summarize what I learn. These will tend to be relatively longer posts, so if you are not interested in reading about the history of pop music - you may just want to skip ahead to the mix at the bottom of the post. [...]
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