I had typed up this blog entry a few weeks ago, but hadn’t gotten around to posting it. On my way to work this morning, I was surprised to hear a clip of Big Star’s “Thirteen” on NPR followed by the sad news about Alex Chilton’s death yesterday… These albums never get old. Katie introduced [...]
Check out the playlist here! Systems Officer – Pacer The Whitefield Brothers – The Gift Balmorhea – Bowsprit The Plimsouls – Zero Hour Arms – Shitty Little Disco MillionYoung – Hammock Gang Starr – The Way It Iz Damien Jurado – Arkansas Peasant – Well Alright Typhoon – Starting Over ELZHi – Deep (prod. Black [...]
In my search for some new mp3 blogs, I stumbled upon this gem from 2009. I don’t know much about the band, but the music speaks for itself. Here are probably my two favorite songs from the album. The Love Language – Lalita The Love Language – Sparxxx
A few months ago I got a voicemail from a ‘Restricted’ caller As it turns out, I had never gotten around to cleaning my backpack after our trip to Mexico, and when we were burglarized in April, my luggage claim sticker went with the thief. Excited, I went to the precinct to see if there [...]
Owen Pallett is the type of artist I should have been into a long, long time ago. I’ve been casually listening to songs of his (released under the name “Final Fantasy”) for a few years now, but I never actually listened to a full album. I was intrigued by some of the pieces from his [...]
I thought I would start up what promises to be an irregular series of posts documenting some of the new music I’ve been listening to from the blogs I follow, mostly a repackaging of great content already out there. To make things simple, it is just a playlist (*.m3u) and a track list, in no [...]
Note, first off, that the way I organize my MP3′s is that I only copy my favorite songs from an album. So, for example, if I had the “4 Non Blondes” CD, I would obviously only have in my library “What’s Up” and not the 10 other songs. My goal, then, is to make it [...]
I was planning on posting my “Best of 2009″ lists for music, but kept on getting stalled by a daughter a lack of content. Musically, 2009 wasn’t a great year for me… there were only a few albums I really got excited about, and over half of them weren’t even released in 2009. Since the [...]
Among my favorite songs from last year was an old tune, “Hanging on the Telephone” from the band the Nerves. I had never heard of these guys before, I guess I just wasn’t that tuned in with the west coast pop/punk scene in 1978. It took me a while, but I finally purchased the 2008 [...]
There are a few common themes in music that I enjoy, and one of them must clearly be falsetto vocals (Danielson, anyone?). OK, there must be a little more to it because I don’t exactly own a bunch of Frankie Valli or Bee Gees. Here’s a few new ones that I’m really digging. The Chet [...]