For a few eagerly anticipated days of rest and relaxation with my girlfriend, who I haven’t been able to see nearly often enough lately. And away from the laptop, about which I feel the exact opposite. Chicago’s the place, which brings up a lingering issue. I’ve received more e-mails about one particular song than any [...]
Here are the last two:
marathonpacks year-end mix, vol. 3 (128k mp3, 68.4MB) (expired)
1. Black & White Town–Doves
2. A Little Bit More–Jamie Lidell
3. Gone (f. Cam’ron & Consequence)–Kanye West
4. Trouble With Dreams–Eels
5. All We Are–Fischerspooner
6. Gideon–My Morning Jacket
7. Like A Honeycomb–British Sea Power
8. There Goes the Sun–The Pernice Brothers
9. I Was A Teenage Rainphase–Stereolab
10. So Begins [...]
Two things I really like about the end of the year–making comprehensive mixes of the music of the last 12 months, and giving cheap presents. This is a way for me to do both. Well, here they are–the first two products of about two weeks (off and on, mind you) of narrowing my year-end favorites [...]
Since I’m a godless heathen, I’m going with a distinctly anti-FOX “holiday” theme. I’ll be back on Monday and Tuesday with 4 podcasts of my favorite music from 2005. Thanks for reading, and have a great whatever-it-is-you-do.
Old 97s “Lonely Holiday“
Television Personalities “Psychedelic Holiday“
The Pixies “The Holiday Song” (live WERS studios 1987)
Frank Black and [...]
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If there’s ever been a style of pop music that lent itself to Christmas music, it’s got to be 60’s Motown. Maybe Phil Spector’s girl groups/wall of sound would be up there too, but for my sake, I’m going all Berry Gordy. Think about it: Motown’s assembly line style of music production cranked out hit [...]
Residing somewhere in the same area code as the neo-druidic revelry of Animal Collective, the cold squawk of Frog Eyes, Asylum Street Spankers’ homegrown hootenanny and those old chestnuts Waits and Beefheart is Philly-based Man Man. Their 2004 debut The Man in a Blue Turban With a Face both bemused and irritated listeners, drawing [...]
One of today’s videos you all have probably seen already, and the other may have completely missed the radar of those of you not inclined to seek it out. There are, however, some interesting similarities between the two, and while I plan comments in that direction, I’d like to know what you think of ‘em [...]
Each year when driving to my mom’s house for Christmas, I force myself to get in the spirit by playing this song in my car. It always works. Andy and Colin allow themselves to get caught up in the celebratory spirit–which is enough of a shock from these oft-curmudgeonly souls–but not enough to reduce the [...]
The music of artists like Fugu (Mehdi Zannad) problematize the ever-nebulous definition of “indie pop”. A strict interpretation of the term would seem to include him. He’s not connected with a multi-national promotion/distribution force and his music adheres to the time-tested structures of Western popular music. But a looser take on indie pop would exclude [...]