Blog: My Life is a Stereo

"My Work Self is Suffocating My LIFE ME!"

Nov 14, 2008, 7:48pm My Life is a Stereo
30 Rock Clip OPRAH WINREY
Lately I've been feeling a lot like this Liz Lemon quote from last week's brilliant new episode of 30 Rock. Except, there's no comic relief and I don't get to meet Oprah. Not even a fake Oprah.
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It's a Beautiful World

Nov 6, 2008, 2:25am My Life is a Stereo
Tim Myers - A Beautiful World "It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America." -President-Elect Barack Obama
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Artist:Tim Myers
Title:A Beautiful World
Link Text:Tim Myers - A Beautiful World
File Name:01 A Beautiful World.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2003

Oh Darling

Nov 2, 2008, 4:14pm My Life is a Stereo
Portland's Oh Darling [pictured] may have the cutesy name and the cutesy dresses (seriously, CUTE!) but don't let the darling little details fool you. These cutey-pies came to rock. Oh Darling - Waking Up On A Train You can grab Oh Darling's new CD, Nice Nice, on iTunes and CD Baby.
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Artist:Oh Darling
Title:Waking Up On A Train
Link Text:Oh Darling - Waking Up On A Train
File Name:04 Waking Up On A Train.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2008

14,000 Things to be Happy About

Oct 31, 2008, 4:17pm My Life is a Stereo
14,000 Things To Be Happy About - Troubled Hubble
"14,000 Things to be Happy About," by Troubled Hubble: Well, I couldn't think of 14,000 things, but here are a few items that have recently brought me joy: 1. It's Halloweeeeen! 2. 30 Rock is back! And very funny! 3. There's news about the upcoming Metric album!!!!! 3. 4 MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4. Chris Otepka, the guy who sang the song featured in the video above, is hard at work on an album
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Artist:The Heligoats
Title:Been a Drill
Link Text:The Heligoats - Been a Drill
File Name:heligoats_beenadrill.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2008

Mixtape for Barack Obama

Oct 26, 2008, 6:18pm My Life is a Stereo
Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama on Meet the Press
A fellow who calls himself Logarhythmik has assembled a spiffy mashup of The Cool Kids' Bake Sale CD to help raise money for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The Cool Kids - A Party (Logarhythmix) You can donate monies or you can just download the mixtape, it's tres fun. But whatever you do, be sure to get yourself to the polls on Election day. Download The Bank Sale Mixtape Barack
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Artist:The Cool Kids
Title:A Party (For Everyone (Get Involved (Logarhythmix)))
Link Text:The Cool Kids - A Party (Logarhythmix)
File Name:The_Cool_Kids_-_09_-_A_Party_( For_Everyone_(Get_Involved_(Lo garhythmix))).mp3
Year:2008

Ask Ladyhawke

Oct 18, 2008, 3:24pm My Life is a Stereo
Ladyhawke - Dusk Till Dawn
Ladyhawke's Pip Brown will be taking your questions as NME's new resident advice columnist aka "Agony Aunt." You can email her your queries about inattentive boyfriends with pedicures that look better than yours until her tour ends. I didn't know that there was a video for "Dusk Till Dawn" until now. I'm not late, I'm right on time for Halloween: I'm actually getting some costume ideas for
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"Doesn't Mean I'll Stop"

Oct 16, 2008, 9:59pm My Life is a Stereo
Oh, my dearest Korto, We really thought you would win on last night's Project Runway Finale. You made two immaculate dresses in a day. And yet. We thought you had it in the bag. The judges said you knocked it out of the park. Alas. Alas, Alas, Alas. This won't be the last the world will see of Korto. No. You'll rise like a Phoenix, like a Jennifer Hudson out of a sea of American Idol
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Artist:Coldplay
Title:Lost! (Remix feat. Jay-Z)
Link Text:Coldplay - Lost! (Remix feat. Jay-Z)
File Name:Coldplay-Lost_(Remix_feat_Jay_ Z).mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

"Drive to Work to Pay for this Car."

Oct 11, 2008, 3:37pm My Life is a Stereo
Metric - Handshakes
Gawker suggests some music for your listening pleasure while our economy takes a nosedive into the new Great Depression. Their "Depression Playlist" is satisfactory (Bowie's "Always Crashing in the Same Car" is a fitting inclusion), but I think the commenters hit the mark even better, with songs by Jimi, Sam Cooke, and Gillian Welch that very may well have been about our addiction to consumerism/
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Artist:Metric
Title:Handshakes
Link Text:Metric - Handshakes
File Name:03 Handshakes.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2005

Fear and Convenience

Oct 9, 2008, 9:12pm My Life is a Stereo
Meet Linda Riss and Burt Pugach. In the 1950s, Linda began having an affair with the much older and married Pugach when she was 21 years old. When she tried to leave him for another man, Burt harassed Linda for six months before hiring two men to throw lye in her face. Linda was left permanently disfigured and nearly blinded from the attack. After Burt served a 14 year prison sentence, Linda
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Artist:Thao Nguyen
Title:Fear and Convenience
Link Text:Thao Nguyen - Fear and Convenience
File Name:04 Fear and Convenience.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2006

The Dead Trees

Oct 9, 2008, 12:28am My Life is a Stereo
Portland band The Dead Trees [not pictured, but their awesome album cover art is], recently came off tour with Albert Hammond Jr.'s band. The Dead Trees - Shelter After listening to this song, the pair strike me as a perfect fit for a tour. Their respective harder-edged takes on Americana would complement one another nicely. Those most have been some pretty darn cool shows. Because haven't
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Artist:The Dead Trees
Title:Track 02
Link Text:The Dead Trees - Shelter
File Name:TheDeadTrees_Shelter.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

Sleeping For All These Years.

Oct 7, 2008, 11:56pm My Life is a Stereo
I was chatting with a college friend on Monday. The subject settled on work eventually. She didn't have much to say about her job. I didn't have much to say about school. We fill our days with static, it seems. And then a guy named Nick Principe who records under the moniker LittleBear emailed me about a new EP that he recorded in upstate New York, and about how afterwards he went where the
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Link Text:LittleBear - Smaller Trees
File Name:04 Smaller Trees.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps

The Way He Sees It

Oct 6, 2008, 10:16pm My Life is a Stereo
The way Raphael Saadiq sees it on his latest album, Hitsville USA is the capital of the musical universe, and bouffant hairdos never went out of style. Saadiq has crafted a well-rounded survey of soul's golden era, channeling early Marvin Gaye, Stevie, and the O'Jays on what has become one of my favorite records of the year: Raphael Saadiq - Keep Marchin' and whoa! Letters to Cleo are
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Artist:Raphael Saadiq
Title:Keep Marchin'
Link Text:Raphael Saadiq - Keep Marchin'
File Name:03 Keep Marchin.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2008

I've heard this before.

Oct 5, 2008, 7:07pm My Life is a Stereo
BOYZ
On the way to lunch today, I had the misfortune of hearing that new Britney Spears song. Um, does it irk anyone else that it sounds like a sad "Boyz" knock-off? No one? Okay, maybe it's just me:
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One Crazy Night, One Crazy New York

Oct 3, 2008, 8:38pm My Life is a Stereo
In honor of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist's opening weekend, NYMag.com had a brills slide show up yesterday about the top ten One Crazy Night Movies. You know, there's usually an angsty brooding protagonist who harbors an unrequited love for a clueless interest, along with a conflict of seismic proportions -- and all of the above meets a happy or at least satisfactory end resolved in a neat
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The Un-Reckoning

Oct 1, 2008, 11:10pm My Life is a Stereo
I raced home to catch the end of Runway. I was all thinking, that Kenley, she is so going to get hers for being such a meanie. Well, she did... but then she kind of didn't. And then I thought, of course she wouldn't, because isn't that how it is? P.S. - I didn't think the dress she made was that bad? P.S.S. - Another Runway run-off, ooooh snap.
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The Happy Hollows

Sep 30, 2008, 10:44pm My Life is a Stereo
The Happy Hollows - Tambourine I think I like the riffs in this song the most, from an LA band called The Happy Hollows[pictured]. They're very Doolittle-esque. And such awesomeness was inspired by a "Billy Corgan video"... My gums hurt.
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Artist:The Happy Hollows
Title:Tambourine
Link Text:The Happy Hollows - Tambourine
File Name:thehappyhollows-tambourine.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps

Wisdom

Sep 25, 2008, 10:54pm My Life is a Stereo
I asked my dentist last week if I could wait until winter break to get my wisdom teeth removed and he practically screamed at me. "These should have been taken out five years ago!" he shouted. So, tomorrow they're being removed. These little pearls of wisdom have been there all along, and I absolutely had no clue. It's kind of funny when I think about it that way. India.Arie - Strength, Courage
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Link Text:India.Arie - Strength, Courage, and Wisdom
File Name:05 Strength, Courage, & Wisdom.mp3

New Soul

Sep 23, 2008, 3:40pm My Life is a Stereo
It's not "Neo-Soul," it's "New Soul." "New Soul" is the subject of the new Fader F2 issue that features the lovely Jazmine Sullivan [pictured], Keziah Jones, Plantlife both in the magazine and on a ridiculously good accompanying podcast. Download the "New Soul" mixtape It's so good, it's ridiculous. And it's going to be my studying soundtrack. Download the new "New Soul" F2 issue
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If You Like Kings of Convenience...

Sep 20, 2008, 10:21pm My Life is a Stereo
Anthony Rochester- I love you
I try not to do comparisons much, but singer Anthony Rochester's witty mellow pop rock really reminds me of Kings of Convenience. It really does. Which is good, because that new record the Kings were rumored to be working on, seems to not have been worked on so much. So, Anthony, it's nice to have you around: See Anthony play various instruments and sing "I Love You, Baby" Hear Anthony sing
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Link Text:Anthony Rochester - Mathematics
File Name:anthony_rochester-mathematics. mp3
Bitrate:80 kbps

Catch A Milli

Sep 18, 2008, 10:52pm My Life is a Stereo
To be quite honest, I am not a big fan of the Weezy F. Baby. And yet I've loved "A Milli" since the very first time I heard it. There's something very badass and genius about screaming, "MUTHAFUCKA, I'M ILL." Try it. It can even be a good self-affirmation. The fact that Brooklyn songbird Shae Fiol [pictured] has made a mashup to the tune makes me love it even more. Shae Fiol - Catch a
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Artist:Shae Fiol
Title:Catch A Milli (Remixed and Moshed Up by K.Life Walks)
Link Text:Shae Fiol - Catch a Milli (K. Life Walks Remix)
File Name:Catch_A_Milli__(Remixed_and_Mo shed_Up_by_K.Life_Walks).mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
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