Listen to a celebratory birthday mix from Digits , "Check My Machine" , featuring everyone from Phèdre to Eleanor Friedberger . This really says it all about Digits : it's his birthday, but he's giving us the present. I'm not complaining. Specifically, he's putting out a mix of tracks that have been "following him around" during his travels in the UK and Europe, and a fine collection it is too. Alongside better-known names (you've heard of [...]
These pages are normally devoted exclusively to the latest band, artist or release that is bubbling under and on the cusp of breaking if the music appreciating world knew what was good for it. We're a new music blog here at The Blue Walrus, and are proud of staying true to that format, and we reference other music blogs all the time when they find a gem before us (and there's a big list of other awesome music blogs here). But there is more to discovering music that just following your favourite blogs, so I thought I should bring to [...]
The Waiting Room is, generally speaking, an unenviable place to linger: shuddering gusts pass through its poorly hinged doors incessantly and irksomely; the floor is scarcely discernible beyond a crusty gloss of crud; malingerers squirm atop sticky benches to the left, to the left and to the right. Field Day's newly acquired Stoke Newington haunt of the same name is, however, a rather more inviting environ, its walls embellished with faded tiles and incongruous planks of floorboard. Factor in the fiddler in the basement, of Montreal's unsung superlative Kishi Bashi , and you've suddenly got something the hordes may [...]
Ahead of next Fridays party at The Waiting Room , We've asked all the DJ's playing for their favourite 10 tracks of all time and why... First up, Daruma Visions own Figaro. Earth, Wind & Fire – September The first tune that my sister showed it to me when I was really young and lived in Japan. I play this tune on January, February, March, April and of course on May too. [...]
saummos : FUGAZI - WAITING ROOM live recording from sept 3rd, 1987: the first ever fugazi show the public debut of this song is undoubtely one of the most important moments in music history. this version has joe on backing vocals (guy picciotto was in the audience but not yet the band) and is played at a significantly slower tempo "Movement is a big part of life".
I don't know if you've listened to the "Top 403 type radio much of late, but there is some really unfortunate hip hop on there right now. I mean, if you had come to me in the late 902s and told me that one day I'd be pining for the bling & beat-jacking era presided over by Puff Dirt-Diddly-Dee Combs, I'd have told you in no un-certain terms that you were crazy. We're talking Randy & Evi Quaid vs the Star Whackers-level crazy. But it seems like this is now the case. I say this because today's [...]
Meursault - One Day This'll All Be Fields "I'm torn," Aspin sighed. "Torn, huh?" quizzed Manila, halfheartedly, as she thumbed through the National Geographic sitting on an angle to the neatly stacked pile beneath it on the plywood table of the cramped waiting room slipping into the corridor that lead to their general practitioner's office. It wasn't the most recent edition. It was the one that required nothing of her. No sifting through the months, years, searching for the photograph that met best the magazine's signature yellow frame. She never found [...]
Meursault - One Day This'll All Be Fields "I'm torn," Aspin sighed. "Torn, huh?" quizzed Manila, halfheartedly, as she thumbed through the National Geographic sitting on an angle to the neatly stacked pile beneath it on the plywood table of the cramped waiting room slipping into the corridor that lead to their general practitioner's office. It wasn't the most recent edition. It was the one that required nothing of her. No sifting through the months, years, searching for the photograph that met best the magazine's signature yellow frame. She never found [...]
After educating the masses with his unauthorized biographies and dropping off a random track every blue moon, Shaun is finally dropping off his full length project Waiting Room . The Toronto native is in good company as the likes of Talib Kweli, Kardinal Offishall, CyHi Da Prynce, STS, Amanda Diva and others join him in wait for the good doctor. Download - Shaun Boothe - Waiting Room Mixtape | Alt. Link
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Toronto emcee Shaum Boothe releases Waiting Room . A 18 track mixtape backed by production from Shaun Booth himself, Nineteen85, Rio Notes, Lee Bannon and a few others. Guest appearances from Cyhi Da Prince, Amanda Diva, Kardinal Offishall, Talib Kweli, STS and more. Track list and download link after the jump. DOWNLOAD| Shaun Boothe - Waiting Room [MIXTAPE]
Dear STS Newcomer, As a literary scholar, gentleman and soul mic controller, Sugar Tongue Slim wants you know exactly who you are dealing with. This kind of geniality doesn't come too often in Hip-Hop, seeing the bigger the facade, the bigger the payoff rule stays in effect. However, gimmicks are for those who skills aren't up to snuff to get their point across and STS definitely isn't lacking in that department. Over a ruminative instrumental provided by Alan The Chemist , you can easily direct any others curious about the mentality of Mr. Slim to [...]
Fugazi sure is coming up in the räwkosphere a lot lately (see the Wu-Tang Wugazi project and news of their digital live archive ), but this performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival may take the cake. If anyone has a link to a better audio version of this pretty-please send my way. • • • • RELATED: WTF MP3: Fugazi + Wu-Tang Clan = Wugazi SXSW: [...]
Album of the summer ...Maybe the year. If you haven't picked this up. Do it. Now MP3 // MT DIABLO
Well, as you all know I try and avoid spamming you with label stuff during the week - generally leaving that to Sunday if at all possible - but this week you are going to get spammed off your tits, sorry. I blame the fact that we have just been on holiday for a fortnight, so I am horribly behind with pretty much everything as a result. Meursault Waiting Room Session. So, first up, whilst on their recent tour with Sparrow & the Workshop , Meursault dropped in to see DC from The Waiting [...]
When word came down that Oprah Winfrey was gracefully bowing out this year, to say I was indifferent would definitely be an understatement since I never actually watched her show aside from rainy days growing up or instances beyond my control. Even still, I have to give respect where it's due and Ms. Winfrey deserves it in spades for all she's accomplished to this point. Thankfully, Shaun Boothe has returned from a pretty lengthy hiatus to sing her praises from the mountaintops by making Oprah the latest subject of his "Unauthorized Biography Series." [...]
I find that when you talk to people on the phone, you can tell whether they are smiling or not. It makes a massive difference to people who are working in sales. Having a positive demeanour is paramount. It increases sales. When listening to the new album by We Are The Ocean, the energy they [...] Continue..
This poem by Elizabeth Bishop is one of the darkest and most affecting poems I know. It reminds me of lurching existential terrors I experienced before I was a teenager. Like the fright that my mam, my dad, and I, existed - at the same time. And the fright that my parents will die (maybe before me). And the fright that clocks go forward because time is not a friend of humans. And the fright that we are all separate things with brains - things with brains that know what death is. We don't know the length [...]
Two cool things happened this week: I got a job (well, two jobs really) and this little blog got recognized by some really cool people in the music blogging world. Well, this was a really lovely surprise! Love Shack, Baby has been made SoundCloud's Blog of the Week over on their Tumblr. I had exchanged a few emails with Michelle , describing how I used the free service and how bands had reached out to me with their music using SoundCloud. Little did I know that I was in the running for their Blog of the Week [...]
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