No Song Post This Weekend

No blog post this weekend. My mother has been in and out of the hospital this weekend. She's better now, but I'm still upset and exhausted. I was going to try to do a short blog, but then I found out I got a DMCA take-down notice for a song I got from frikkin' Minnesota Public Radio. For crying out loud.

It turns out I was wrong about which band I got the take down notice on last time. They don't actually feel the need to inform me of which song is in question, so through process of elimination, I figured out that it's actually a band I thought was pretty cool. The sucky thing is it was a band I really liked, and their labels' tag line says something about real artists doing music their own way. Well, I guess it is their own way, huh?

I took the song down and I wrote a very expressive letter to the band manager and the internet marketing manager about why I thought this was an unfair action on their part. I can understand if I had ripped the song to mp3 myself, but I didn't. I linked to the song from an affiliate of National Public Radio. Have I already said for crying out loud?

Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By

Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By


Efterkling, "Modern Drift"

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(Download the 2009 4AD sampler here)


Steve Buscemi is surprised to find himself in a band, and he also adorns colorful neckwear to fit in


Polly Scattergood, "Please Don't Touch"

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It's prom night,
Courtney Love style!

Episode 86, Mr. Huberflu's Dargle

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The Alarmists, "Car Crashing"
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Tindersticks, "Black Smoke"
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Arms, "Whirring"
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EP Island, "Broken Social Smoker" (The artist gave me permission to use this in the podcast and post the MP3. The MP3 is only available for 7 days).
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Pop Fire, "Mr. Humberfloob" (Not a direct link)
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Icewagon Flu , "Waxie's Dargle"
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Ep Island, "Heart Fit"(The artist gave me permission to use this in the podcast and post the MP3. The MP3 is only available for 7 days).
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Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By

Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By


NOTE: Well, I put the band "The Swell Season" on my blog because I thought they were swell. I got a DMCA take notice, so I won't listen to their music anymore. I even removed the mention of them from this post because I don't want to promote them at all. All of the songs in this post, including The Swell Seasons, were gotten directly from Minnesota Public Radio. The notice doesn't bother to tell me which song, so I had to remove them all, but I'm sure it was The Swell Season. When I got the DMCA take down notice before, The Swell Season was included in the post (another legitimately found link), but I thought it certainly couldn't be them, because their label's tagline is something like real artists who do music their own way. They seemed to really understand the model of legitimate online promotion. It has to be them, though--they're the only band that appeared in both posts.

God Help The Girl, "Come Monday Night"
(Stuart Murdoch, the mastermind behind Belle and Sebastian, also put this group together).

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Stuart Murdoch is the less pretty one all the way on the left


Zee Avi, "Bitter Heart>"

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Zee Avi rubs her magic necklace, contemplating if you are indeed worthy of existence...

NOTE: Well, I put the band "The Swell Season" on my blog because I thought they were swell. I got a DMCA take notice, so I won't listen to their music anymore.

Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By

Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By

The podcast show notes are in the post before this one

Caitlin Rose (Live from Laundromatinee)
"Sinful Wishing Well" and "Shanghai Cigarettes"
(I posted a video of her live performance at the end of this post)

When I was growing up, the only country music I liked was the stuff my Uncle had in his record collection--Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Tanya Tucker, Hank Williams, Conway Twitty and Roy Orbison (that's what I can remember at this time, anyway). That style has remained the type of country music I like, and the newer artists whom I think capture that older style well are the country artists I like now. Sometimes I find some new gems who sing in old, old styles...

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"I know she gettin' me my pecan pie, er else I'll whoop her".


Neko Case, , "Magpie in the Morning"

And here's another gal with a sixties influence and a beautiful, heartwrenching voice...

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Neko will be on this show on Wednesday, December 16th on the Sundance Channel


Music collaborations come from the strangest of places...


Shout Out Louds, "Walls"

This has nothing to do with the theme I'd been developing...it's just an awesomely good song.

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The Shout Out Louds are no longer content with just Shouting Out Loud. Now, they must climb to the Highest of Heights to Shout Even Farther Out Loud.

Caitlin Rose - Sinful Wishing Well from LaundroMatinee on Vimeo.

This is another song that I found that I like

Episode 85, Lola is Mellow

Episode 85, Lola is Mellow

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Cold Cave, "Theme from Tomorrowland"
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Film Noir World, "Return"
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Jets Overhead, "I Should Be Born"
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Asobi Seksu, "Transparence"
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Snow Patrol, "New Sensation"
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Film Noir World (featuring Lisa Ryder), "Lost"
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Lissie, "Everywhere I Go"
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Final Fantasy: Cut From A Different Fur

Final Fantasy: Cut From A Different Fur

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