Blog: Sound On The Sound

Leeni Covers Lana Del Rey's "Video Games" with Real Video Games

Feb 16, 9:51am Sound On The Sound
LEENI: VIDEO GAMES (Gameboy Lana Del Rey cover)
The Valentines day arrival of Prom Queen Leeni's "Game Boy Cover" of Lana Del Rey's "Video Games" is about the only positive homage to Del Rey is likely to see any time soon the way things have been going for her on national TV. It was only a matter of time before a chip tune [...]
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Y La Bamba's "Squawk" is quintesenntial Portlandia-cana

Feb 15, 12:21pm Sound On The Sound
Soaring but playful multi-part harmonies. Lot's of percussion but nary a simple rock backbeat in sight. Handclaps and tambo' abound! All fronted by a beautifully tattooed lead. No hate intended, but yes, the first single from Y La Bamba's new record Court the Storm certainly does fall in line with some of Portland's latest pop [...]
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The Daily Choice: Lilacs & Champagne - Sensations

Feb 15, 10:51am Sound On The Sound
Lilacs & Champagne may have failed in crafting a traditionally narrative song with "Sensations" but if anyone ever believed that The Daily Choice was about championing traditional values, you might be at the wrong party. "Sensations" isn't a song so much as it is a moment in a day, or an atmosphere that lasts just [...]
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Artist:Lilacs/Champagne
Title:Sensations
Link Text:Lilacs & Champagne - Sensations
File Name:sensations.mp3
Bitrate:260 kbps
Genre:Pop/Rock
Year:2012

Sweet Sounds from Hey Marseilles, Modest Mouse & Kaylee Cole for Valentine's Day

Feb 14, 5:25pm Sound On The Sound
Kaylee Cole - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Whether you're celebrating with a sweetheart, you're single and shaking your fist at the holiday or today's just a Tuesday, I think we can all agree that free music and sweet-sad cover songs are a good thing. And thanks to Valentine's Day, we've got a few to choose from. In honor of the holiday Hey [...]
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Valentine's Day Mail Bag

Feb 14, 3:20pm Sound On The Sound
Love makes us do crazy things It's the most wonderful marketable consumer-friendly romantic "holiday" of the year. Happy Valentine's Day! For those who didn't want to hear that from me, I'm so sorry. Can I get you a moist toilette to sop up the salty streaks that are cascading down your face? Don't you hate when your [...]
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North of Northwest: Bahamas - Barchords

Feb 14, 12:52pm Sound On The Sound
Bahamas - Lost in the Light (LIVE on Exclaim! TV)
Valentine's Day is kind of a schizophrenic holiday. One one hand, you have all the mush. Teddy bears, vases of pink flowers, cheap candy in expensive boxes, love songs upon love songs, and heart-themed lingerie. The other side is the dark side: the sad sacks and loneliness, the Hallmark-induced bitterness and binge drinking and the occasional [...]
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The Daily Choice: The Caretaker - when the dog days were drawing to an end

Feb 14, 10:55am Sound On The Sound
I've been feeling particularly bored by modern music as of late and the steady stream of garage rock-turned-70s-ass-rock-turne d-mid-90s-power-pop is starting grate on me. It's going to be one of those weeks where you turn to Sound on the Sound for catchy tunes and you stumble across The Daily Choice and instead you get sonically kicked [...]
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Artist:The Caretaker
Title:When the dog days were drawing to an end
Link Text:The Caretaker - when the dog days are drawing to an end
File Name:dogdays.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Genre:Memories
Year:2011

The Daily Choice: Hot & Cold - Uighur Pop

Feb 13, 1:27pm Sound On The Sound
Hot & Cold's "Uighur Pop" sounds like the revolutionary anthem of the future. A group of trench-coat wearing street kids gather in a warehouse to discuss the downfall of the mega-government that's peering at them through their state-issued ID Watches. A speaker steps on stage to rally the youthful mob. As his speech gets louder [...]
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Artist:Hot & Cold
Title:Uighur Pop
Link Text:Hot & Cold - Uighur Pop
File Name:uighur.mp3
Year:2010

The Head and The Heart - "Down in the Valley" [video]

Feb 13, 11:35am Sound On The Sound
The Head and the Heart - Down In The Valley [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
Still love this song, this band and now, this video. The video features tour footage lovingly stitched together by the talented Ryan McMackin, who's also responsible for Quiet Life's gorgeous "Big Green" video and keeping the beat for The Maldives. The video gives a behind the scenes look at life on the road with The [...]
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The Last Spurm Show Tonight at Black Lodge

Feb 10, 3:02pm Sound On The Sound
Breaking up is hard to do. Everyone is doing it. Russell Brand and Katy Perry. A famous professional athlete and a woman millions of other men would like to get to know intimately. Will and Jada. Ike and Tina Turner. Unfortunately for my tender heart, many Seattle bands are breaking up as well. Spurm is not the only one who [...]
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The Daily Choice: Skeets McDonald - I'd Hate To Be Him

Feb 10, 10:53am Sound On The Sound
One more country tune to end the week with a slow drawl of heartbreak and misery. Skeets McDonald "I'd Hate To Be Him" is lounge-country. You pull up to the local saloon after a long day at work, or maybe you've had knock-down drag-out with your partner, or maybe the wearies of the world are [...]
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Artist:Skeets McDonald
Title:I’d Hate To Be Him
Link Text:Skeets McDonald - I’d Hate To Be Him
File Name:idhate.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Genre:255

The Daily Choice: George Morgan - All Right

Feb 9, 10:52am Sound On The Sound
Let's just keep it coming country this week. I just recently discovered, thanks to the amazing website Uncle Gil, The Best of Country Western which is a treasure chest of gleaming country gold and four of the five Daily Choices will be culled from that amazing album or at least from an artist discovered on [...]
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Artist:George Morgan
Title:All Right
Link Text:George Morgan - All Right
File Name:allright.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Genre:255

The Daily Choice: Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch - Concerning The Entrance In To Eternity

Feb 8, 10:53am Sound On The Sound
I can honestly say that featuring a Dutch lutist on The Daily Choices is a first for us. I'm not usually drawn to songs that feature descriptions like "Baroque spirituals" or "experimental" but the fact that it was a collaboration between filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (a favorite of mine) and the aforementioned lutist Jozef Van Wissem [...]
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Artist:Josef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch
Title:02-Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity 4
Link Text:Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch - Concerning The Entrance In To Eternity
File Name:concerningeternity.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2012

Win Tickets to Pickwick and Fly Moon Royalty at the Neptune

Feb 7, 3:03pm Sound On The Sound
December of 2010 was my first proper introduction to both Pickwick and Fly Moon Royalty, playing the same night at Columbia City Theater. Just a year on now, both bands are resizing their aspirations for bigger stages and with good reason. Both were announced for this year's Sasquatch!, so with blackout dates surrounding that and [...]
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24 More Unmissable Records from the Pacific Northwest in 2011

Feb 7, 12:58pm Sound On The Sound
Live @ Jooniors - S03E05 - Monogamy Party - 02 - Drunk or Dying (Live)
Remember when we said we'd share our list of 25 other unmissable records the first week of January? Whoops. Thing is, the first month of this new year, we were still listening to and falling in (and out) of love with records from 2011. Discovering albums we should've shared months ago and finding out what [...]
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North of Northwest: Rococode - Guns, Sex, & Glory

Feb 7, 11:59am Sound On The Sound
In 1995, Madison, Wisconson band Garbage catapulted Shirley Manson into the universes of teenage girls across America. Delivering the gospel of bad attitude and copious eyeshadow made palatable by a fresh and irresistible mix of industrial, electronic, and pop music, Manson led a generation of girls in a catchy, apocalyptic chorus of "I came to [...]
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The Daily Choice: Billy Walker - Matamoros

Feb 7, 10:53am Sound On The Sound
Billy Walker is my kind of country crooner. "Matamoros", a 1964 hit that played perfectly to Walker's silky, smooth tenor, is the tale of love lost on the high plains. It's a big Western soap opera with gunslingers and casinos and broken hearts. Walker was known for these sort of lilting tales of The West [...]
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Artist:Matamoros
Title:Billy Walker
Link Text:Billy Walker - Matamoros
File Name:matamoros.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Genre:255

On Repeat: "You Go Running" by Deep Sea Diver

Feb 6, 8:14pm Sound On The Sound
Deep Sea Diver has a new record on the docket this month, and their just released single "You Go Running" was one of the songs that bowled me over during an opening set at the Neptune last December. Lead singer Jessica Dobson's attitude escapes from her fingers on guitar as much as through her voice, [...]
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The Daily Choice: Stonewall Jackson - Waterloo

Feb 6, 3:07pm Sound On The Sound
Stonewall Jackson is one of the reasons why honky-tonk country music exists to this day. Alongside Ray Price, Lefty Frizzell and Hank Williams, Mr. Jackson helped define the hard-driving sound that became so popular in the 50s and 60s. I stumbled across Mr. Jackson on some patched together best of country tape, and was blown [...]
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Artist:Stonewall Jackson
Title:Waterloo
Link Text:Stonewall Jackson - Waterloo
File Name:waterloo.mp3
Bitrate:308 kbps
Genre:Country
Year:2002

Exclusive: Stream The Pharmacy's Excellent EP Dig Your Grave

Feb 3, 12:30pm Sound On The Sound
I already told you I was giddy for the grainy grotesque new video and punchy pop of the title track from The Pharmacy's Dig Your Grave EP. So imagine my excitement that we get to share the full EP exclusively with you today. In four short songs The Pharmacy cover a lot of ground [...]
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