Blog: speed of dark

Notes on the Grammys

Feb 10, 2009, 3:00pm speed of dark
Radiohead 15 Step Grammy Award Performance 2009
I can't get too outraged about Robert Plant and Alison Krauss winning the Grammy's Album of the Year (as well as several other categories) for Raising Sand (full list of winners here . It was a very good album, and Uncle T reported that they were even better live when he saw them at ACL 2008 . If Radiohead didn't get that award, at least Coldplay didn't either. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss : Please Read the Letter from Raising Sand [ Buy ] [...]
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Artist:Kings Of Leon
Title:Sex On Fire
Link Text:Sex on Fire
File Name:KoL03sexonfire.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Radiohead
Title:15 Step (live @ Lollapalooza)
Link Text:15 Step
File Name:rhead-02-15step-lollapalooza.m p3
Bitrate:203 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Title:Please Read the Letter
Link Text:Please Read the Letter
File Name:plant-kraus-07-letter.mp3
Bitrate:237 kbps
Year:2008

Miss Alaska

Feb 10, 2009, 10:00am speed of dark
Miss Alaska Miss Alaska impressively sings and plays all the instruments in her January-released EP 100 Names for Snow . Although influenced by as wide-ranging artists as Velvet Underground, Regina Spektor, the Notwist, and Sigur Rös, she has forged her own sound, employing electronica along with gorgeous violin to accompany her ethereal vocals. This is a lady who believes a song should give you goosebumps, and "Lay Your Love On You" is an excellent example. "It's just a repetition" , she downplays in spoken word; yes, but it's a repetition as mesmerizing as [...]
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Artist:Miss Alaska
Title:Lay Your Love On You
Link Text:Lay Your Love On You
File Name:msalaska_02-layyourlove.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2009

The Marches Redefine Midnight

Feb 9, 2009, 10:15am speed of dark
The Marches Redefine Midnight With a dozen people listed as band members, it's not surprising that the tracks from North Hollywood ensemble the Marches ' 2008 debut CD, 4 A.M. Is the New Midnight display a dizzying array of vocals, instruments, and musical styles. The Marches playfully mix genres, sometimes within the same song, melding cold, robotic electronica ("4 A.M. Is the New Midnight") with glowing, warm Motown horns ("Bad Touch" and "Victoria"), throwing in a Latin beat in here ("So Ill"), a vocoder there ("4 A.M. Is the New Midnight," "Rudolf Valentino," and "Bobby Brown"), a [...]
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Artist:Marches
Title:Cold Hands Warm Heart
Link Text:Cold Hands Warm Heart
File Name:marches_09coldhandswarmheart.m p3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2008

Gavin Castleton's Home

Feb 8, 2009, 11:30am speed of dark
Gavin Castleton's Home Former Rhode Islander Gavin Castleton now lives and writes and engineers his own music in Portland, OR. "Coffeelocks" (with Lauren Coleman) is the happy beginning of an ill-fated love story told in the 14 songs on his brand-new album Home . The album apparently reflects the real-life arc of a six-year relationship that ended. The digital release is set for next Friday, with the physical release slated in April. Hear full versions of songs from his several older albums at LastFM . Gavin Castleton : Coffeelocks from [...]
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Artist:Gavin Castleton
Title:coffeelocks
Link Text:Coffeelocks
File Name:G-Castleton_02-Coffeelocks.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2009

Golem

Feb 7, 2009, 9:00am speed of dark
Golem There is no better way to describe New York's Golem! than with their own words: "Where Eastern Europe meets the Lower East Side." Klezmer/punk? Annette Ezekiel Kogan, who also plays accordion, and Aaron Diskin do the vocals while Alicia Jo Rabins saws the strings and Curt Hasselbring plies trombone. Taylor Bergren-Chrisman plays the stand-up bass, and Tim Monaghan is on drums. Golem! : Tucheses and Nenes from Citizen Boris to be released Feb 10 MySpace | Website [...]
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Artist:Golem!
Title:Tucheses And Nenes
Link Text:Tucheses and Nenes
File Name:golem_tuchesesandnenes.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2009

Finally Friday - We Will Rock You

Feb 6, 2009, 11:30am speed of dark
We Will Rock You - Queen vs Songsmith
Have you seen this video? I actually LIKE this mashup of Queen's classic rock anthm and the salsa Songsmith beat. Heck, I'd buy it. I am less coninced by the Songsmith remake of A-Ha's "Take On Me." I still love that video though. Hard To Find a Friend has some words about the upcoming cd by The Hold Steady, one of Uncle T's favorites of 2008, and who are also on the bill at the Coachella this year on the day we are considering going. Scroll [...]
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Link Text:Cry For Love
File Name:SONG.MP3
Artist:Chin Chin
Title:Some Like It Hot (Power Station cover)
Link Text:Some Like It Hot
File Name:chinchin_somelikeithot.mp3
Bitrate:112 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Miniature Tigers
Title:Cannibal Queen
Link Text:Cannibal Queen
File Name:min-tig_07C-queen.mp3
Year:2008
Artist:The Bicycles
Title:Walk Away (From A Good Thing)
Link Text:Walk Away (From a Good Thing)
File Name:Bicycles_08-walkaway.mp3
Year:2008
Artist:the Botticellis
Title:Here I Go Again (Whitesnake cover)
Link Text:Here I Go Again
File Name:botticellis_hereIgoagain.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2009

Andrew Bird's Noble Beast

Feb 5, 2009, 10:30am speed of dark
Andrew Bird's Noble Beast As I remarked in another post recently, I was hoping I would like Andrew Bird's new album Noble Beast better than his last one, 2007's Armchair Apochrypha . It's a terrible shame that in spite of Bird's unquestionable talents, I literally had to force myself to listen to that album. I found his violin-plucking irritating, and his whistling excellent but overused. I do like this one much better. As is his style, the songs shift in movements that sometimes make it difficult for the listener to determine where a different [...]
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Artist:Andrew Bird
Title:Nomenclature
Link Text:Nomenclature
File Name:abird_06-Nomen.mp3
Bitrate:238 kbps
Year:2009

Milk and the Crying Light

Feb 4, 2009, 11:00am speed of dark
Milk and the Crying Light I heard there was a big football game last Sunday. Oh, yeah, I know it was the Superbowl, but I am so lacking in sports interest that I don't know which teams played or who won. Those of us who are not into Superbowl weekend take advantage of the fact that the malls, parks, and movie theaters are nearly abandoned. Mr. Folkie and I went to the movies and saw probably the most unmacho selection, Milk , the story of Harvey Milk, the first gay individual to be [...]
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Artist:Antony and the Johnsons
Title:Epilepsy Is Dancing
Link Text:Epilepsy Is Dancing
File Name:A-tJ_02_Epilepsyis.mp3
Bitrate:218 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Hercules And Love Affair
Title:Blind
Link Text:Blind
File Name:H-LA-05-Blind.mp3
Bitrate:169 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Joan As Police Woman ft Antony Hegarty
Title:I Defy
Link Text:I Defy
File Name:JaPW_05_I Defy.mp3
Bitrate:183 kbps
Year:2006

Oren Lavie's Morning Elegance

Feb 1, 2009, 1:00pm speed of dark
Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
I don't usually write a blog post around a video, but this one for Oren Lavie's "Her Morning Elegance" is just too cute. The girl's gorgeous red hair reminds me of my sister's. Oren Lavie conceived of the idea for this video and was one of the directors. Oren Lavie: Her Morning Elegance from The Opposite Side of the Sea (2007) A playwright who is also a songwriter, Lavie was featured in December on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic , in fact he was the first [...]
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Artist:Oren Lavie
Title:Her Morning Elegance
Link Text:Her Morning Elegance
File Name:orenlavie-01-her-morning-eleg. mp3
Bitrate:193 kbps
Year:2007

Finally Friday - It's Love

Jan 30, 2009, 11:15am speed of dark
Finally Friday - It's Love Agnes at It All Started With Carbon Monoxide is complaining about the heat...What??? Yes, the heat, because it's the middle of summer Down Under. Read her stern warning about goat-ownership. Lost In Your Inbox also has a warning: about hallucinations caused by coffee. I'll take my hallucinations with cream, thanks. Check also the lovely song by Windmill she posted yesterday. Lonesome Music has a memoriam for John Martyn, who passed away at [...]
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Artist:evan voytas
Title:never my love (the association cover)
Link Text:Never My Love
File Name:evan voytas_nevermylove.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Artist:Merz
Title:Dangerous Heady Love Scheme
Link Text:Dangerous Heady Love Scheme
File Name:Merz_02-Love Scheme.mp3
Year:2005
Artist:Novi Split
Title:Crazy In Love (Beyonce cover)
Link Text:Crazy In Love
File Name:Novi Split_01-crazy.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2006
Artist:Sam Bennett
Title:I Love
Link Text:I Love
File Name:Sam Bennett_03-I Love.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Setting Sun
Title:You Got Lucky (Tom Petty cover)
Link Text:You Got Lucky
File Name:settingsun-yougotlucky.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:This Is Ivy League
Title:Crown of Love
Link Text:The Crown of Love
File Name:thisisivyleague-crownoflove.mp 3
Bitrate:128 kbps

The Bookhouse Boys - Artrocker Sessions

Jan 29, 2009, 11:45am speed of dark
The Bookhouse Boys - Artrocker Sessions Any Twin Peaks fans lurking out there? In this weird TV show of the 90s, the Bookhouse Boys were a secret do-gooder club headed by town sheriff Harry S. Truman and stoic gas-station owner Ed Hurley. London band the Bookhouse Boys have been inspired by the show's theme music, which was penned by Antonio Badalamente, who was in turn inspired in part by 60s surf music. The Bookhouse Boys expand on the same dark themes and twangy, Dick Dale guitar. Samples like "G-Surf" from recent live Artrocker session show this clearly, but the trumpets [...]
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Artist:The Bookhouse Boys
Title:G-Surf
Link Text:G-Surf
File Name:Bookhouse Boys_01-G-Surf.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:The Bookhouse Boys
Title:I Can't Help Myself
Link Text:I Cant Help Myself
File Name:Bookhouse Boys_03-i cant help myself.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:The Bookhouse Boys
Title:Yer Blue
Link Text:Yer Blue
File Name:Bookhouse Boys_04-Yer Blue.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009

Quitzow

Jan 28, 2009, 10:45am speed of dark
Quitzow I work on-call editing scientific reports, and when the work comes it usually arrives in big chunks on a short deadline. Then all other priorities get shoved aside until the job is done. The work requires so much attention and focus that I can't even listen to music while I'm doing it. When it's is over, I emerge to the wreckage of all I abandoned in the meantime-laundry, cleaning, shopping, blogging. These two songs by Quitzow , a one-woman project by amazing New York songwriter Erica Quitzow (photo below), have an eerie relevance. [...]
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Artist:Quitzow
Title:In the Land of Science
Link Text:In the Land of Science
File Name:quitzow-04-landofscience.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Quitzow
Title:What Time Is It?
Link Text:What Time Is It?
File Name:quitzow-01-whattime.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2008

Kyle Andrews Gets Real Blasty

Jan 25, 2009, 11:00am speed of dark
Kyle Andrews Gets Real Blasty
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Artist:Kyle Andrews
Title:Naked In New York
Link Text:Naked In New York
File Name:kandrews_02-nakedinNYk.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Kyle Andrews
Title:Sushi
Link Text:Sushi
File Name:kandrews_01-sushi.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2009

Finally Friday and Cloudy

Jan 23, 2009, 11:00am speed of dark
Finally Friday and Cloudy Being sick with a cold plus having an unusual amount of paying work (a good thing) this week has resulted in some blog neglect. With my head about to explode, I haven't felt much like listening to music, and my watery eyes couldn't stand much time on the computer, so I haven't been reading other blogs either. At least today, I feel like I'm going to live. Above, this is what happens when the afternoon sunset strikes a mountain covered with snow. This photo was taken from in front of our house last January [...]
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Artist:Here We Go Magic
Title:Tunnelvision
Link Text:Tunnelvision
File Name:HWGMagic-04-Tunnelvision.mp3
Year:2009
Artist:Red Light Company
Title:Arts & Crafts (School of Seven Bells Cathedral Cubs Cru-Gaze Mix)
Link Text:Arts  Crafts
File Name:RLC_Arts-and-Crafts (S7BCCCG Mix).mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Red Light Company
Title:Be The One (Live - ting tings cover)
Link Text:Be the One
File Name:RLC_betheone(live-ting-tings-c over).mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Ruby Isle
Title:The Rake's Song (The Decemberists Cover)
Link Text:The Rakes Song
File Name:ruby-isle-the-rakes.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2009

Alternative Inaugural Party

Jan 22, 2009, 9:00am speed of dark
Alternative Inaugural Party Are you down and depressed because you couldn't attend any of the 10 inaugural balls Tuesday night? If you are in the L.A. area, all hope is not lost. Death To Anders is holding an Alternative Inaugural Party at the American Legion Post 206 in Highland Park ( link to Google map ) tomorrow night, Friday the 23rd, so you can get with a whole bunch of happy people and celebrate President Obama's first days in office. You should also be aware that Death To Anders will be in [...]
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Artist:Death To Anders
Title:Doll
Link Text:Death To Anders
File Name:d2a_07 Doll.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Divisadero
Title:Undertand We Have No Understanding
Link Text:Understand We Have No Understanding
File Name:Divisadero_Understand WeHaveNoUnderstanding.mp3
Bitrate:96 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:The Hectors
Title:Cold Star
Link Text:Cold Star
File Name:thehectors_01_Cold Star.mp3
Bitrate:213 kbps
Year:2007

In With the New!

Jan 20, 2009, 6:00pm speed of dark
In With the New! The miracle of democracy is that although for a time we are misled down a path away from the design of our founding fathers, it is only a temporary detour. We can, and do when we choose, return to the basic tenants of truth, equality, and opportunity for all citizens. Once again, we have a President we can quote with pride. We have a President who encourages us to embrace our differences and come together for our common good instead of creating divisions between us. He showed that today by using his middle name, that the [...]
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Artist:Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Title:(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?
Link Text:(Whats So Funny Bout) Peace Love and Understanding?
File Name:ECostello-Peacelove-.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:1993
Artist:Mavis Staples
Title:Waiting For My Child
Link Text:Waiting For My Child
File Name:mstaples-05-waitingformychild. mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Thom Yorke
Title:Atoms For Peace (Fourtet Remix)
Link Text:Atoms For Peace (Fourtet remix)
File Name:TY-atoms4peace-(4tet).mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2007

Out With the Old

Jan 20, 2009, 12:00pm speed of dark
Out With the Old Thank heavens, the day has finally come that I have dreamed of for the last eight years. Yes, I want to look ahead and do what I can to help repair the brokeness, but allow me this one last potshot at the hero of the tiny-minded on the day his power passes to a new and better man. For those in the same frame of mind, there is good reading in the latest issue of Rolling Stone . Matt Taibbi imagines in great detail the apology that Bush is either too stupid or too evil [...]
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Artist:Ghosty
Title:Like A Bad Lie
Link Text:Like a Bad Lie
File Name:ghosty-09-likeabadlie.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Meridene
Title:Kill The Memory
Link Text:Kill the Memory
File Name:meridene_07-killthememory.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Phil and the Osophers
Title:They Threw a Shoe at You
Link Text:They Threw a Shoe at You
File Name:philando_theythrewashoe.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009

Friends

Jan 18, 2009, 10:00am speed of dark
Friends This is for my two friends who called me unexpectedly yesterday. We have known each other for decades, and neither the years, nor distance, nor age, or not acting our age, or drunk dialing from the other side of the country can change how we feel about each other. Thanks, guys. I love you too. The Pretenders: You Know Who Your Friends Are from Loose Screw (2002) Website | Buy Low Stars: Calling All Friends from Low Stars (2007) [...]
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Artist:Better Than Ezra
Title:Circle of Friends
Link Text:Circle of Friends
File Name:BTE-07-circleoffriends.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1995
Artist:Low Stars
Title:Calling All Friends
Link Text:Calling All Friends
File Name:Low Stars_Calling All Friends.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:The Pretenders
Title:You Know Who Your Friends Are
Link Text:You Know Who Your Friends Are
File Name:Pretenders_03-youknowwho.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2002

Ruby Isle Remixes

Jan 17, 2009, 9:00am speed of dark
Ruby Isle Remixes I hear that some parts of the U.S. are experiencing record cold. Here, however, we've had beautiful, warm days that have brought a few blooms out. Nothing says spring like bulb flowers. I don't know exactly what these are above; the neighbor lady threw some bulbs out last year into the gutter of the road that leads to our houses. I rescued some and planted them, and here they are! Even here in So Cal we can't expect the balmy weather to last much longer. The temps are headed down. I do [...]
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Artist:Ruby Isle
Title:Skinny Love (Bon Iver Cover)
Link Text:Skinny Love
File Name:ruby-isle_skinny-love.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Ruby Isle
Title:White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes Cover)
Link Text:White Winter Hymnal
File Name:ruby-isle_ww-hymnal.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2009

Finally Friday Acoustic

Jan 16, 2009, 11:30am speed of dark
Finally Friday Acoustic Above is one of my favorite concert photos from last year, Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade at the Henry Fonda Music Box last July. Welcome to our new blog buddy, Sean at Battery In Your Leg , whose latest discusses the musical differences between Morrissey and Marr, who are both big favorites of ours. I didn't know that Ryan Adams was blogging again, but Hard To Find a Friend reports that Adams now says he's quitting music. Hopefully, that would be only [...]
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Artist:Editors
Title:Road To Nowhere (Live, Talking Heads cover)
Link Text:Road to Nowhere
File Name:Editors-roadtonowhere-coustic. mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2006
Artist:Joseph Arthur
Title:There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (acoustic Smiths cover)
Link Text:There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
File Name:JA_There is a Light-acoustic.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Thom Yorke
Title:Analyse (Acoustic XFM)
Link Text:Analyse
File Name:thomyorke_Analyse-acoustic.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2006
Artist:Wolf Parade
Title:I'll Believe Anything (piano)
Link Text:Ill Believe In Anything
File Name:WP_Ill Believe-piano.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
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