NovemberNov 11 Wednesday 09
Music: Listen to new Four Tet track “Love Cry”
Two years after the release of his fabulous minimal, dance drugged out Ringer EP Keiren Hebden has released a new 12″ single prior to a brand spanking new Four Tet LP due out next year. “Love Cry” is a song that seems to touch on all Hebden’s favorite elements …
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NovemberNov 5 Thursday 09
Video: Pick-a-Piper (Caribou side project) “Rooms”
Brad Weber is the drummer for famous band Caribou. I owe him more than I can give for his unfortunate fall off of a ladder. That incident gave my the opportunity to play drums in Caribou and other famous indie rock bands. Brad’s a very talented guy. He also composes …
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OctoberOct 25 Sunday 09
Current Musical Obsessions
Bear in Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Helado Negro: Awe Owe
The Sa-Ra Creative Partners: Sonic Seduction Volume 2
Little Dragon: Machine Dreams
Gorillaz: Demon Days
Lemonade
Purchase all these records. Everyone of these records is on wax. You will be happy.
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OctoberOct 17 Saturday 09
Cool Band: Plastic Crimewave Sound
Suzy Poling
I posted about Plastic Crimewave earlier but I feel like this band deserves more than just a blip. PCWS is seriously good. I mean what more can I say about this stuff? It’s simple music: loud, spazzy, solid goodness spanning from cavern-aged punk to …
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OctoberOct 8 Thursday 09
Cool Band: Tambouri
Evan Richards is one of my best friends in the entire world. He has been my partner in crime since middle school and together we’ve discovered a lot about our musical voices. Evan is honestly one of the most creative human beings living on this planet. The way he can …
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OctoberOct 3 Saturday 09
Listen to Caribou Vibration Ensemble ATP NY Performance
You can download a few MP3’s from the Caribou Vibration Ensemble (featuring Marshall Allen) set at ATP NY here.
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SeptemberSep 27 Sunday 09
Swami Land: J.K. & Co. – Suddenly One Summer
To know that Jay Kaye was 15 years old when he crafted this amazing piece of psychedelia blows my mind. It blows your mind too. Outstanding Beatles influenced Baroque-Pop Psychedelic music record in Vancouver by Las Vegas native Kaye. I don’t care to say anything …
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SeptemberSep 18 Friday 09
Swami Land: Mice Parade – Mokoondi
We could discuss all day how Tortoise are amazing innovators and progressively took post-rock to another level. But what many people have failed to understand is genius that is Mice Parade. Moreover, the genius that is Mice Parade’s Mokoondi. Such an amazing balance …
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SeptemberSep 16 Wednesday 09
Swami Land: Alain Goraguer – La Planète Sauvage
Soundtracks tend to be some of my favorite records. This Alain Goraguer record for the 1973 French animated film La Planète Sauvage is no exception. Beautifully crafted tunes, perfectly melding the worlds of psychedelia, blaxsploitation funk & soul and classical …
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SeptemberSep 12 Saturday 09
Erykah Badu at The Paramount
Still anticipating New Amerykah Part. 2.
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SeptemberSep 3 Thursday 09
Swami Land: Faust – IV
Classic. Just download it. That’s it.
Faust – IV
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AugustAug 31 Monday 09
Plastic Crimewave, Caribou Vibration Ensemble
visit this site and listen to this music all the time. It’s my new favorite spot on the ‘net thanks to Ryan Smith (of famous band Caribou) Sickening.
Speaking of Caribou I will be performing with them in about two weeks as a part of the extremely exciting Caribou …
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AugustAug 30 Sunday 09
Top Ranking: This Heat – This Heat
In a previous post I enlightening you with the music of Lifetones. The solo musical adventure of This Heat’s Charles Dullen. Here I would like to further enlighten you with Dullen’s musical genius. This Heat’s first record is a cosmic adventure in dub, drone, …
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AugustAug 13 Thursday 09
Revisiting Michael Vallera
You guys might remember when I blogged about my good friend Michael Vallera a while back. Michael recently started a blog that showcases his visual and sonic art. Please head over and check out some of his photography (it kind of creates an alternate universe in your …
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R.I.P. Rashied Ali
“Rashied Ali is a progenitor and leading exponent of multidirectional rhythms/polytonal percussion. A student of Philly Joe Jones and an admirer of Art Blakey, Ali developed the style known as “free jazz” drumming, which liberates the percussionist from the role …
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AugustAug 10 Monday 09
More Sudanese Music
Gnarly keyboard solo from Ayman AlRubo at some party.
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AugustAug 7 Friday 09
Marvin Gaye being a dick about it
Ok seriously…. what?! This is pretty unreal, dudes. Look at that guy just sitting around in a sweat suit out-singing anyone of his time (and mine for that matter).
Actual steez. Aint nobody got it like this no more.
Also, drummer wearing an OSU shirt. Awes.
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AugustAug 6 Thursday 09
Cool Band: The Compressions
Mark Himmel is somewhat of an amazing character. Outstanding drummer, great song writer, hauntingly powerful vision and, probably, the most powerful used car salesman smile in rock n roll music. Don’t believe me? Just talk to him for 10 minutes.
Mark was the drummer …
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Swami Land: Pharoah Sanders – Karma
This is the daddy of ‘em all. Karma was the record that set me off on an epic journey through space and time. It was my gateway drug to world of Impulse! Records and beyond. It helped me discover Alice Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry and Lonnie Liston Smith. It …
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AugustAug 5 Wednesday 09
Swami Land: The Move – Message From the Country
Pre ELO Jeff Lynne classic rock from England. Don’t ask me why I didn’t know about this record till recently. I wont know what to say to you. Oh well. Lynne sure does like The Beatles: this record was the last from The Move (released in 1971 on EMI’s Harvest …
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