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Shownotes
Noctilucent Valleys, "Arms of the Mountain" (playing during the introduction)
Label Site
(No Myspace listed)
Vampire Weekend, "Walcott (Insane Mix 2)"
Website
Myspace
Good news--we finally got iTunes to recognize my podcast again. Finally! After almost two months! We're working on getting it to come up in the directory, also. We're thinking it may've worked; we're just waiting for iTunes to update.
Cloud Cult, "Pretty Voice" from KEXP
Website
Myspace
Black Moth Super Rainbow, "The Afternoon Turns Pink" from Fanatic Promotions (mp3 made available directly to podcasters)
Website
Myspace
The Little Ones, "Oh, MJ"
Website
Myspace
Tribeca, "Solitude"
Label Site
(No Myspace listed)
Maps, "Elouise"
Myspace
(no website listed)
Thanks for listening and have a great two weeks!
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By
Derek Webb, "This Too Shall Be Made Right" (live, courtesy of Relevant Media)
This song is a plea. A very forceful, very moving and very strong plea. It's not a mealy-mouthed, watered down, new age singer-songwriter-y plea, though. He's got a force behind him that only comes from true conviction. He's begging us to pay attention to the world around us. He doesn't let himself off the hook: he includes himself when he says "we're trading comfort for human lives. That's not just murder, it's suicide." His message gets through not only because it's a very real, very relevant message, but because it's also encased in a gorgeous song: a plaintive, desperate voice begs us to wake up and realize there's a world in pain around us. He unleashes his frustration through his music--not so much strumming his guitar as repeatedly striking it until his conviction is borne out through the music, as much as through his vocals.
Website
Myspace
Derek Webb looks so serene. His guitars, however, are cowering in the corner, and I don't blame them.
Future of Forestry, "Love Waits" (courtesy of Relevant Media)
Sometimes a song is so pretty I don't have words for it. It's too beautiful to try to condense into a paragraph. Maybe that's why I never pursued music journalism :) I obviously have limits. I'm not going to let my limitations degrade something as incredibly special as this song, though. This is the kind of song that becomes a description for the way you feel. When you think about the way love feels, you may start to think of this song.
Website
Myspace
Contemplating the Future of Forestry
Iron & Wine, "Boy With a Coin"
This song has every thing I've come to love about Iron and Wine's music--inventive music (in this case Spanish-style guitar with a bit of steel pedal) and gauzy, streaming vocals. There are even hand claps if you listen closely. Sam Beam, the person behind Iron and Wine, has always seemed like he could be the American version of Badly Drawn Boy, drawing his hazy melodies out of a Florida swamp instead of an English lake.
Website
Myspace
More songs on the Sub Pop media page
Sam Bean of Iron and Wine knows he looks like that guy from Sideways.
Podcast Saturday night or Sunday!
Bonus:
These are videos for songs I love that I couldn't find the mp3s for.
Remi Nicole, "Go Mr Sunshine" (video only)
Myspace
Website
Scott Matthews, "Elusive"
Website
Myspace
Derek Webb, "This Too Shall Be Made Right" (live, courtesy of Relevant Media)
This song is a plea. A very forceful, very moving and very strong plea. It's not a mealy-mouthed, watered down, new age singer-songwriter-y plea, though. He's got a force behind him that only comes from true conviction. He's begging us to pay attention to the world around us. He doesn't let himself off the hook: he includes himself when he says "we're trading comfort for human lives. That's not just murder, it's suicide." His message gets through not only because it's a very real, very relevant message, but because it's also encased in a gorgeous song: a plaintive, desperate voice begs us to wake up and realize there's a world in pain around us. He unleashes his frustration through his music--not so much strumming his guitar as repeatedly striking it until his conviction is borne out through the music, as much as through his vocals.
Website
Myspace
Derek Webb looks so serene. His guitars, however, are cowering in the corner, and I don't blame them.
Future of Forestry, "Love Waits" (courtesy of Relevant Media)
Sometimes a song is so pretty I don't have words for it. It's too beautiful to try to condense into a paragraph. Maybe that's why I never pursued music journalism :) I obviously have limits. I'm not going to let my limitations degrade something as incredibly special as this song, though. This is the kind of song that becomes a description for the way you feel. When you think about the way love feels, you may start to think of this song.
Website
Myspace
Contemplating the Future of Forestry
Iron & Wine, "Boy With a Coin"
This song has every thing I've come to love about Iron and Wine's music--inventive music (in this case Spanish-style guitar with a bit of steel pedal) and gauzy, streaming vocals. There are even hand claps if you listen closely. Sam Beam, the person behind Iron and Wine, has always seemed like he could be the American version of Badly Drawn Boy, drawing his hazy melodies out of a Florida swamp instead of an English lake.
Website
Myspace
More songs on the Sub Pop media page
Sam Bean of Iron and Wine knows he looks like that guy from Sideways.
Podcast Saturday night or Sunday!
Bonus:
These are videos for songs I love that I couldn't find the mp3s for.
Remi Nicole, "Go Mr Sunshine" (video only)
Myspace
Website
Scott Matthews, "Elusive"
Website
Myspace
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By: The Half-Ass Edition
This has been the most horrible day I've had in a few years.
Worse than when I found out my cat had cancer? Yes, because at least then I had love in my heart, mixed with fear--not absolute loathing and a deep urge to maim.
I just spent a very ill-advised 24 hours with my mother. It ended with me yelling at my mother that I wanted to go to bed and forget this horrible existence.
So, the point of me telling you this is I hope you understand why I just want to get drunk and watch Independence Day at 7 p.m.
I also forgot to buy cat food, and I don't have a car to go get some. I have enough for maybe a day.
This will be a short post; I don't have it in me to attempt to think of clever things to write, much less succeed in writing clever things.
The Mary Onettes "Lost" (Direct Link)
Their Website
Their Myspace
(Their label, Labrador has a 68-song sampler featuring various artists available for free download)
The Mary Onettes
The Broken West, "Down In The Valley"
Their Myspace
(Their website is under construction. It's broken-ha ha.)
The Broken West
Stephen Malkmus, "Us"
Website
Myspace
Why, no--I'm not a professor of ancient art. Why do you ask that? Stephen Malkmus in front of some dragon-looking statue.
It's time for Independence Day.
Mazel Tov. (I'm drinking Manischewitz wine because it's good, it's cheap, and it'll get meh drunk).
Okay, this made me laugh:
(Blogspot cuts it off: Here's the full picture)
This has been the most horrible day I've had in a few years.
Worse than when I found out my cat had cancer? Yes, because at least then I had love in my heart, mixed with fear--not absolute loathing and a deep urge to maim.
I just spent a very ill-advised 24 hours with my mother. It ended with me yelling at my mother that I wanted to go to bed and forget this horrible existence.
So, the point of me telling you this is I hope you understand why I just want to get drunk and watch Independence Day at 7 p.m.
I also forgot to buy cat food, and I don't have a car to go get some. I have enough for maybe a day.
This will be a short post; I don't have it in me to attempt to think of clever things to write, much less succeed in writing clever things.
The Mary Onettes "Lost" (Direct Link)
Their Website
Their Myspace
(Their label, Labrador has a 68-song sampler featuring various artists available for free download)
The Mary Onettes
The Broken West, "Down In The Valley"
Their Myspace
(Their website is under construction. It's broken-ha ha.)
The Broken West
Stephen Malkmus, "Us"
Website
Myspace
Why, no--I'm not a professor of ancient art. Why do you ask that? Stephen Malkmus in front of some dragon-looking statue.
It's time for Independence Day.
Mazel Tov. (I'm drinking Manischewitz wine because it's good, it's cheap, and it'll get meh drunk).
Okay, this made me laugh:
(Blogspot cuts it off: Here's the full picture)
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Podcast!!
Direct Download
Rss Feed
***Something's very wrong with my iTunes feed. I tried another podcatcher (Juice) and it downloaded just fine. I haven't been able to access my feed on iTunes for a month now, and I've even tried two different computers.
I screwed up something :( I e-mailed Libsyn, but so far nothing they've suggested to me has helped. If anyone has any ideas, please e-mail me at ceruleanlobster@gmail.com***
Brad Sucks, Making Me Nervous (from his site)
He also has a Myspace
Voom Blooms, "Thoughts of Rena" (from KEXP)
Voom Bloom's Myspace and their Website
Chris and Thomas, "Take These Thoughts"
(IODA Promonet asks that I include the following information in exchange for posting the mp3)
More On This Album
Jenny Toomey, "Inarticulate Boyfriend" (from her label's site) She has a website, but no Myspace is listed.
Stars, "The Night Starts Here"
IODA information:
More On This Album
Ballboy, "I Hate Scotland" (from their website) They also have a Myspace.
Direct Download
Rss Feed
***Something's very wrong with my iTunes feed. I tried another podcatcher (Juice) and it downloaded just fine. I haven't been able to access my feed on iTunes for a month now, and I've even tried two different computers.
I screwed up something :( I e-mailed Libsyn, but so far nothing they've suggested to me has helped. If anyone has any ideas, please e-mail me at ceruleanlobster@gmail.com***
Brad Sucks, Making Me Nervous (from his site)
He also has a Myspace
Voom Blooms, "Thoughts of Rena" (from KEXP)
Voom Bloom's Myspace and their Website
Chris and Thomas, "Take These Thoughts"
(IODA Promonet asks that I include the following information in exchange for posting the mp3)
Download "Take These
Thoughts" (mp3)
from "Land of Sea"
by chris and thomas
Defend
Music Inc.
Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at
eMusic
Buy at
Napster
Buy at
Rhapsody- Stream from
Rhapsody
More On This AlbumJenny Toomey, "Inarticulate Boyfriend" (from her label's site) She has a website, but no Myspace is listed.
Stars, "The Night Starts Here"
IODA information:
Download "The Night Starts
Here" (mp3)
from "In Our Bedroom After the War"
by Stars
Arts &
Crafts
More On This AlbumBallboy, "I Hate Scotland" (from their website) They also have a Myspace.
Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By
**Before I begin, I wanted to let y'all know that regarding my podcast, I've been having issues with my iTunes feed for the last month. I've been e-mailing Libsyn, where I host my podcast, but so far no solution. If anyone is familiar with accessing podcast RSS feeds through iTunes, I would sure appreciate some help**
The Raveonettes,"Dead Sound" (Direct link. I originally got the link from In House With Jeremy Petersen).
The Raveonettes always come in fast and furiously. They purposefully limit the number of chords they use, and the vocals stringently stay within the same guidelines. It's like a pop version of the punk motif, though they're limiting themselves as a style choice, not because..cough cough...they only know three chords, like some punk bands (I love the punk, but it be a true a statement.)
The Raveonettes goal with the quick and dirty approach to is to knock us over and leave us with something branded on our memory; we know something hit us, but we're not really sure what.
Myspace
Website
The Raveonettes
The Radio Dept., "The Worst Taste In Music " (Direct Link)
I've been listening to The Radio Dept. for years--I posted one of their songs somewhere around the time I first started this blog. Their music is overlaid with fuzzy feedbackness (which I love), but underneath is always a top-notch rock song, complete with dramatic piano and amplified guitar. The singer's voice glides over the dramatic music as if he's trying to blend his voice in with the fuzz, as if he knows that there's already so much going in the song that he needs to pick a side and go with it, rather than trying to add another layer to a song that's already close to becoming a "wall of sound".
Myspace
Label Site
The cover for the Radio Dept.'s Pet Grief
<Elk City, "Los Cruzados" (Direct link. I originally got the link from In House With Jeremy Petersen).
There's something very timeless, as in outside-of-time, about the singer's vocals. Is it Patti Smith from the 1970s? The song could easily be from this era; it could come on the radio right after a Fleetwood Mac song. Her voice is as smooth and as slick as the singer's from 80's band, The Motels. Where The Motels were gorgeously and richly harkening back to the romanticism of the 40s (especially with the singer's attire), I get the sense that the singer for Elk City is letting her vocal style fall where it's destined to fall; whether she's aware of any anachronistic qualities or not. The song even has a little spaghetti-western guitar in it, which means if it had been released a few years ago, it would've been a great candidate for one of the Kill Bill movies.
Myspace
Website
Huh...instead of bed head, we now have the term "Elk Head".
Bonus: Jamming in the Middle East
Cool video from The Chemical Brothers, "Do It Again" (Ok, well the first five seconds are more distressing than cool, but the rest of it is great).
**Before I begin, I wanted to let y'all know that regarding my podcast, I've been having issues with my iTunes feed for the last month. I've been e-mailing Libsyn, where I host my podcast, but so far no solution. If anyone is familiar with accessing podcast RSS feeds through iTunes, I would sure appreciate some help**
The Raveonettes,"Dead Sound" (Direct link. I originally got the link from In House With Jeremy Petersen).
The Raveonettes always come in fast and furiously. They purposefully limit the number of chords they use, and the vocals stringently stay within the same guidelines. It's like a pop version of the punk motif, though they're limiting themselves as a style choice, not because..cough cough...they only know three chords, like some punk bands (I love the punk, but it be a true a statement.)
The Raveonettes goal with the quick and dirty approach to is to knock us over and leave us with something branded on our memory; we know something hit us, but we're not really sure what.
Myspace
Website
The Raveonettes
The Radio Dept., "The Worst Taste In Music " (Direct Link)
I've been listening to The Radio Dept. for years--I posted one of their songs somewhere around the time I first started this blog. Their music is overlaid with fuzzy feedbackness (which I love), but underneath is always a top-notch rock song, complete with dramatic piano and amplified guitar. The singer's voice glides over the dramatic music as if he's trying to blend his voice in with the fuzz, as if he knows that there's already so much going in the song that he needs to pick a side and go with it, rather than trying to add another layer to a song that's already close to becoming a "wall of sound".
Myspace
Label Site
The cover for the Radio Dept.'s Pet Grief
<Elk City, "Los Cruzados" (Direct link. I originally got the link from In House With Jeremy Petersen).
There's something very timeless, as in outside-of-time, about the singer's vocals. Is it Patti Smith from the 1970s? The song could easily be from this era; it could come on the radio right after a Fleetwood Mac song. Her voice is as smooth and as slick as the singer's from 80's band, The Motels. Where The Motels were gorgeously and richly harkening back to the romanticism of the 40s (especially with the singer's attire), I get the sense that the singer for Elk City is letting her vocal style fall where it's destined to fall; whether she's aware of any anachronistic qualities or not. The song even has a little spaghetti-western guitar in it, which means if it had been released a few years ago, it would've been a great candidate for one of the Kill Bill movies.
Myspace
Website
Huh...instead of bed head, we now have the term "Elk Head".
Bonus: Jamming in the Middle East
Cool video from The Chemical Brothers, "Do It Again" (Ok, well the first five seconds are more distressing than cool, but the rest of it is great).
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By
St. Vincent, "Now Now"
This song is an interesting, incongruous (but very clever) mix of assured, mature, emotionally engaging vocals and lyrics and very nursery-rhymish, child-like instrumentation and backing vocals. It's almost like the adult is having a conversation with her "inner child" (sorry for the new age reference.) The music fades in on a few simple, very twinkling notes. Then, what sounds like a children's chorus comes in like a sub-conscious Greek Chorus, echoing the singers very mature, very assured assertations that comprise the lyrics. The singer (Annie Clark, who's really the whole band) says she's not "the carpet you walk on...the feather at your feet..the pawn to your king...", and more. The chorus agrees, until it breaks in with "You don't mean that, say you're sorry". Ow! Rough having your inner children discounting every positive statement you say! Despite the dichotomy, though, I know I'm going to have the Greek Chorus running through my head all day, in addition to the part where she says "I'm not any, any, any, anything". I hope that line doesn't seed in my head or something. I might end up having some problems with my inner children.
Myspace
Website
Teri Hatcher gone wild (no, really it's Annie Clark of St. Vincent)
Jenny Toomey, "Charm City"
This is from her 2001 album Antidote (though I'm planning on putting one of the songs from her 2002 album Tempting on my podcast next week). I realize 2001 isn't exactly new, but I just heard these songs and I think they're awesome. The one rule for getting into Cerulean's Love of Music: Awesomeness*. This song has a bluesy quality that I love, but that I expect more from Bonnie Raitt--someone who came from a roots-music perspective. Y'know, though, I'm not really surprised. The music I love (the "indie" music, the eclectic music) delves into all genres. I'll post a straight-up country song sung by a girl with tatoos all over her (yes, The Duhnks, I'm referring to you). That's one of the things I hate about the label "indie". It means nothing regarding the style of music. It could be any style, but some people think it means "Bright Eyes". And I hate those people.
Anyways, I've gone way off track. The point is, this is its own song; categorization isn't easy, and so it shouldn't be. She's got a gorgeous, very plaintive voice and the song moves along with speed and the ease of knowing it's doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing--rocking (yes, I said it). Also, the ending is awesome--violin seems to collide with violin. It's violin on violin violence. I love it.
*speaking of which: Barney from How I Met Your Mother totally got nominated for an Emmy, totally due to awesomeness and rockitude!
Website
Good (but older) article on Jenny Toomey
Label she co-created (and co-ended) in the 90s, Simple Machines.
(No Myspace listed)
Jenny Toomey and friend
Kicksville, "Sansun" (see below)
Trying to find information about this band is daunting. Their website has very little but a few links, most of which lead to a record label that they're not listed on under "artists". Then there's a link to their page on a social networking site that I can't decipher because for some reason my computer mangles some social networking pages. There are also links to other mp3s.
It's appropriate that the band is enigmatic, because their song "Sansun" is so flowing and at ease that's it's almost intangible. When I finish listening to it, the only thing I'm aware of is complete relaxation, and the memory of a melody sung fluidly in a completely (to me) foreign language. I'm completely ignorant when it comes to African languages, but the vocals in this song remind me of the African vocals in Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes", so I'm just going to display my unlearnedness and claim that the language seems to be of African origin. Of course, I will be completely embarrassed if someone says "Lola, he's singing in English". Then I will profess to not being able to understand spoken English, though I am quite proficient in written English. Not understanding the lyrics at all doesn't harm my appreciation of the song. It's hard for me to listen to this just song once; I want to put it on repeat and recline in a hammock somewhere reading the new Harry Potter book I got yesterday. I don't have a hammock, though, or anywhere to hang a hammock.
Kicksville's Myspace is no help in understanding their origin. In fact, I feel more like they're from another planet. The Citizenry of Kicksville has a Myspace. I know--I don't understand anymore, either. Even the guy from their label can't put it into words. They're an experience.
(I found this page through the magic of googling. It has credits for all the songs and mp3s. I still don't know what language "Sansan" is in, though).
More On This Album
St. Vincent, "Now Now"
This song is an interesting, incongruous (but very clever) mix of assured, mature, emotionally engaging vocals and lyrics and very nursery-rhymish, child-like instrumentation and backing vocals. It's almost like the adult is having a conversation with her "inner child" (sorry for the new age reference.) The music fades in on a few simple, very twinkling notes. Then, what sounds like a children's chorus comes in like a sub-conscious Greek Chorus, echoing the singers very mature, very assured assertations that comprise the lyrics. The singer (Annie Clark, who's really the whole band) says she's not "the carpet you walk on...the feather at your feet..the pawn to your king...", and more. The chorus agrees, until it breaks in with "You don't mean that, say you're sorry". Ow! Rough having your inner children discounting every positive statement you say! Despite the dichotomy, though, I know I'm going to have the Greek Chorus running through my head all day, in addition to the part where she says "I'm not any, any, any, anything". I hope that line doesn't seed in my head or something. I might end up having some problems with my inner children.
Myspace
Website
Teri Hatcher gone wild (no, really it's Annie Clark of St. Vincent)
Jenny Toomey, "Charm City"
This is from her 2001 album Antidote (though I'm planning on putting one of the songs from her 2002 album Tempting on my podcast next week). I realize 2001 isn't exactly new, but I just heard these songs and I think they're awesome. The one rule for getting into Cerulean's Love of Music: Awesomeness*. This song has a bluesy quality that I love, but that I expect more from Bonnie Raitt--someone who came from a roots-music perspective. Y'know, though, I'm not really surprised. The music I love (the "indie" music, the eclectic music) delves into all genres. I'll post a straight-up country song sung by a girl with tatoos all over her (yes, The Duhnks, I'm referring to you). That's one of the things I hate about the label "indie". It means nothing regarding the style of music. It could be any style, but some people think it means "Bright Eyes". And I hate those people.
Anyways, I've gone way off track. The point is, this is its own song; categorization isn't easy, and so it shouldn't be. She's got a gorgeous, very plaintive voice and the song moves along with speed and the ease of knowing it's doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing--rocking (yes, I said it). Also, the ending is awesome--violin seems to collide with violin. It's violin on violin violence. I love it.
*speaking of which: Barney from How I Met Your Mother totally got nominated for an Emmy, totally due to awesomeness and rockitude!
Website
Good (but older) article on Jenny Toomey
Label she co-created (and co-ended) in the 90s, Simple Machines.
(No Myspace listed)
Jenny Toomey and friend
Kicksville, "Sansun" (see below)
Trying to find information about this band is daunting. Their website has very little but a few links, most of which lead to a record label that they're not listed on under "artists". Then there's a link to their page on a social networking site that I can't decipher because for some reason my computer mangles some social networking pages. There are also links to other mp3s.
It's appropriate that the band is enigmatic, because their song "Sansun" is so flowing and at ease that's it's almost intangible. When I finish listening to it, the only thing I'm aware of is complete relaxation, and the memory of a melody sung fluidly in a completely (to me) foreign language. I'm completely ignorant when it comes to African languages, but the vocals in this song remind me of the African vocals in Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes", so I'm just going to display my unlearnedness and claim that the language seems to be of African origin. Of course, I will be completely embarrassed if someone says "Lola, he's singing in English". Then I will profess to not being able to understand spoken English, though I am quite proficient in written English. Not understanding the lyrics at all doesn't harm my appreciation of the song. It's hard for me to listen to this just song once; I want to put it on repeat and recline in a hammock somewhere reading the new Harry Potter book I got yesterday. I don't have a hammock, though, or anywhere to hang a hammock.
Kicksville's Myspace is no help in understanding their origin. In fact, I feel more like they're from another planet. The Citizenry of Kicksville has a Myspace. I know--I don't understand anymore, either. Even the guy from their label can't put it into words. They're an experience.
(I found this page through the magic of googling. It has credits for all the songs and mp3s. I still don't know what language "Sansan" is in, though).
Download "Sansan" (mp3)
from "Enter The Flavor Hut"
by Kicksville
Ropeadope Digital
- Buy at iTunes Music Store
More On This Album
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Podcast shownotes (better late than never)!
(By the way--I forgot to change the date on it. It's supposed to be July 16th, 2007.
I'm annoyed b/c my podcast isn't downloading in iTunes (yes, I subscribe to my own podcast. How else will I know it's (not) working?) I e-mailed Libsyn. We'll see what happens. I've never gotten my podcast to be searchable on iTunes; I had to manually subscribe. I'm really perturbed that it's not downloading, though.
Augustus Sweetheart, "Eagle Dad" (from their Myspace)
Their Label Site (a lot of people in that there band).
**Coincidence alert! One of their many influences is Aden, who's coming up**
**Disclaimer alert. Oh, and, er, according to their website the band members all play in other bands now. Oops. Hope you didn't get too excited. Serrry...**
Through The Sparks, "Falling Out of Favor With The Neighbors" (from their label site)
Okay! This band is still around! Let's give them a hand for that! (I've been burned so many times by finding a band and finding out they're kaput. Anyhoos, yay for bands that are still together).
Website
Myspace
Yo La Tengo, "Detouring America With Horns"
IODA, where I got the mp3, asks I include this information:
More On This Album
Aden, "Scooby-Doo" (from Last.fm)
Website
Label Site
Okay, I loved them. It appears they're not together anymore, though. This has not been a banner musical week! I'm sleepy. I need to go to sleep.
A Sunny Day In Glasgow, "5:15" (from KEXP)
Website
Myspace
One more:
The National, "Fake Empire" (from Salon's Audiofile)
They are still around. They just had an album recently.
Website
Myspace
Time for bed now.
(By the way--I forgot to change the date on it. It's supposed to be July 16th, 2007.
I'm annoyed b/c my podcast isn't downloading in iTunes (yes, I subscribe to my own podcast. How else will I know it's (not) working?) I e-mailed Libsyn. We'll see what happens. I've never gotten my podcast to be searchable on iTunes; I had to manually subscribe. I'm really perturbed that it's not downloading, though.
Augustus Sweetheart, "Eagle Dad" (from their Myspace)
Their Label Site (a lot of people in that there band).
**Coincidence alert! One of their many influences is Aden, who's coming up**
**Disclaimer alert. Oh, and, er, according to their website the band members all play in other bands now. Oops. Hope you didn't get too excited. Serrry...**
Through The Sparks, "Falling Out of Favor With The Neighbors" (from their label site)
Okay! This band is still around! Let's give them a hand for that! (I've been burned so many times by finding a band and finding out they're kaput. Anyhoos, yay for bands that are still together).
Website
Myspace
Yo La Tengo, "Detouring America With Horns"
IODA, where I got the mp3, asks I include this information:
Download "Detouring America With Horns" (mp3)
from "May I Sing With Me"
by Yo La Tengo
Alias
More On This AlbumAden, "Scooby-Doo" (from Last.fm)
Website
Label Site
Okay, I loved them. It appears they're not together anymore, though. This has not been a banner musical week! I'm sleepy. I need to go to sleep.
A Sunny Day In Glasgow, "5:15" (from KEXP)
Website
Myspace
One more:
The National, "Fake Empire" (from Salon's Audiofile)
They are still around. They just had an album recently.
Website
Myspace
Time for bed now.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Podcast!!!
Direct Download
Rss Feed
(Oh, and I was wrong about that song being from that album. Oops.)
I'll post the show notes tomorrow night. I'm just too gorram tired.
Direct Download
Rss Feed
(Oh, and I was wrong about that song being from that album. Oops.)
I'll post the show notes tomorrow night. I'm just too gorram tired.
Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By
Okay, so today was a horrible day at work. They put me on the phones for the first time, and the phone calls were constant. I don't really feel comfortable doing what I'm doing yet, and I'm very slow at it, and here's person after person wanting to know something quickly or wanting something done quickly. So, I'm very tired and my brain feels mushy (more so than usual). All this means is that this post might not be as well-developed as usual. I apologize before hand, and then I attempt to stop the leaking from my brain.
Palomar, "Our Haunt"
I featured this band a few months ago. "The Planiac", on SXSW's '05 site, is still a great song and one of my favorites I've heard from them. I'm hoping to get permission to put their song "Bury Me Closer" on my podcast, but I'm not sure I will. This week, though, I'm posting another great song of theirs-- this one available on their label's site--"Our Haunt". The vocals are purposefully a little off-kilter and acerbic, bringing to mind a strange, un-thought of combination of the sunniness of the Aisler's Set and the rawness of Hole. The music is definitely played hard; the piano and guitar funnel an intensity that explodes during the chorus.
Myspace
Website
Palomar, breaking bread
Through The Sparks, "Mexico (Every Last Buffalo)" (Direct Link)
I'm not biased because they're from my first adopted hometown, Birmingham, Alabama. That is not a criterium for getting into my good graces. Okay, so it helps get my attention, that's for sure. Then after that, the quality of the music determines if they get a hallowed, glorious spot on this webpage. This song is just completely engaging. The singer eerily sounds like David Bowie from the 70's, and honestly, this song wouldn't have been out of place in Ziggy Stardust's repetoire--early 70's. Very Velvet Goldmine. The lyrics even contain the phrase "space age" and mention the 70's. Unrelated, the singer also mentions "polymer" which sounds like "palomar" which is just weirdly coincidental. The music is playful: a keyboard plays slightly spacy organ music and the bass guitar punches each break between the vocals with a cute succession of notes. Towards the end, they add several more instruments which fills out the song a bit more, but the song still retains it's great space oddity-ness.
Myspace
Website
Through The Sparks
Rose Melberg, "Time Has Come " (Direct Link)
Her music is as lovely as she is. Light vocals overlay a slightly alt-country acoustic lament. If I didn't know otherwise, I might think this is a long-lost Cowboy Junkies or Mazzy Star (Oh God--I miss Mazzy Star so much) song. Mazzy Star would be the best comparison--the music isn't as prone to twang as Cowboy Junkies (no disrepect to twang--I love twangy country, too) and her voice is heart-chillingly sad. Her voice echoes, like she's in the most acoustically hollow space ever. It's simply gorgeous, and if I weren't so fond of the indoors and unhappy with insects in general, it might make me want to sleep under the stars in a New Mexican desert (which I've done before, and would love to do again.) Never mind that she's Canadian and further from the desert than I am.
Myspace
Unofficial Website
Rose Melberg
Podcast later
Okay, so today was a horrible day at work. They put me on the phones for the first time, and the phone calls were constant. I don't really feel comfortable doing what I'm doing yet, and I'm very slow at it, and here's person after person wanting to know something quickly or wanting something done quickly. So, I'm very tired and my brain feels mushy (more so than usual). All this means is that this post might not be as well-developed as usual. I apologize before hand, and then I attempt to stop the leaking from my brain.
Palomar, "Our Haunt"
I featured this band a few months ago. "The Planiac", on SXSW's '05 site, is still a great song and one of my favorites I've heard from them. I'm hoping to get permission to put their song "Bury Me Closer" on my podcast, but I'm not sure I will. This week, though, I'm posting another great song of theirs-- this one available on their label's site--"Our Haunt". The vocals are purposefully a little off-kilter and acerbic, bringing to mind a strange, un-thought of combination of the sunniness of the Aisler's Set and the rawness of Hole. The music is definitely played hard; the piano and guitar funnel an intensity that explodes during the chorus.
Myspace
Website
Palomar, breaking bread
Through The Sparks, "Mexico (Every Last Buffalo)" (Direct Link)
I'm not biased because they're from my first adopted hometown, Birmingham, Alabama. That is not a criterium for getting into my good graces. Okay, so it helps get my attention, that's for sure. Then after that, the quality of the music determines if they get a hallowed, glorious spot on this webpage. This song is just completely engaging. The singer eerily sounds like David Bowie from the 70's, and honestly, this song wouldn't have been out of place in Ziggy Stardust's repetoire--early 70's. Very Velvet Goldmine. The lyrics even contain the phrase "space age" and mention the 70's. Unrelated, the singer also mentions "polymer" which sounds like "palomar" which is just weirdly coincidental. The music is playful: a keyboard plays slightly spacy organ music and the bass guitar punches each break between the vocals with a cute succession of notes. Towards the end, they add several more instruments which fills out the song a bit more, but the song still retains it's great space oddity-ness.
Myspace
Website
Through The Sparks
Rose Melberg, "Time Has Come " (Direct Link)
Her music is as lovely as she is. Light vocals overlay a slightly alt-country acoustic lament. If I didn't know otherwise, I might think this is a long-lost Cowboy Junkies or Mazzy Star (Oh God--I miss Mazzy Star so much) song. Mazzy Star would be the best comparison--the music isn't as prone to twang as Cowboy Junkies (no disrepect to twang--I love twangy country, too) and her voice is heart-chillingly sad. Her voice echoes, like she's in the most acoustically hollow space ever. It's simply gorgeous, and if I weren't so fond of the indoors and unhappy with insects in general, it might make me want to sleep under the stars in a New Mexican desert (which I've done before, and would love to do again.) Never mind that she's Canadian and further from the desert than I am.
Myspace
Unofficial Website
Rose Melberg
Podcast later
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