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Posted on 05.20.13 by Widge @ 11:50 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Monday. If you like what you hear, use the links provided to snag it for yourself from Amazon. Doing so through us gives us kickbacks, and those help pay for stuff like more bandwidth. And also so we can buy more music. Alice in Chains was a band that I enjoyed after picking up Dirt in the wake of digging the absolute shit out of "Would?" from the Singles soundtrack. And then I enjoyed the hell out of it...and to a certain extent everything that came after...especially their "Let's try something slightly different" EPs like Jar of Flies and Sap. And then as they fell apart during and after the loss of vocalist Layne Staley, I sort of lost touch. Seemed like whenever I caught them, there was something about it that just wasn't...them. But now, having heard the new single "Stone" from the upcoming The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, I feel like I'm getting a suitable successor to Staley and yet the band just isn't Alice in Chains Again. And while trying to find a live performance of "Stone," I stumbled across this: and thus, witness William DuVall nailing the shit out of "Kashmir," back by the rest of AIC and a freaking orchestra, recorded in 2009 (I think). Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 05.14.13 by Widge @ 11:57 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Tuesday. If you like what you hear, use the links provided to snag it for yourself from Amazon. Doing so through us gives us kickbacks, and those help pay for stuff like more bandwidth. And also so we can buy more music. We open first with NYC's Vampire Weekend--their Modern Vampires of the City hits this week, their third album. Here's a recent performance, after the jump, of "Unbelievers" live on KCRW. (Amazon: CD/MP3; MP3; Vinyl.) Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 05.07.13 by Widge @ 5:59 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Tuesday. If you like what you hear, use the links provided to snag it for yourself from Amazon. Doing so through us gives us kickbacks, and those help pay for stuff like more bandwidth. And also so we can buy more music. First up we have Savages, coming up after the jump with a variation on their opening track from Silence Yourself: "Shut Up." It has what is probably my favorite opening monologue since Timothy Leary's extended sample on the live Salival version of Tool's "Third Eye." Their album hits this week and it's caffeinated rock with a medium grind. We like it. (Amazon: CD; MP3; Vinyl.) Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 04.30.13 by Widge @ 11:44 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Tuesday, co-curated this week by Rob and Widge. If you like what you hear, use the links provided to snag it for yourself from Amazon. Doing so through us gives us kickbacks, and those help pay for stuff like more bandwidth. And also so we can buy more music. First up, a pick from Rob: it's Karl Hyde of Underworld fame, with his first solo album, Edgeland. From Rob: "Half Of Underworld's solo debut is a record of blips, bleeps, expansive sounds and grooves." Indeed. The album is already out, though the MP3 version is, according to Amazon, not available until May 7th for some reason. After the jump we have "Sleepless," live in Tokyo from this year. (Amazon: CD; Vinyl.) Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 04.29.13 by Widge @ 5:05 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  As we grind the machine that eventually will produce a shiny new Music Monday (or Tuesday...the machine isn't new anymore, and sometimes takes a while), please note: there are some offsite music resources that you can take advantage of. Prof. Tuffley has Randomizer, his series of playlists where I discover 50% of my new music. (The other 50% comes from Rob, of course.) So whatever Tuffley's got cooking is worthy and must be checked out. While I'm working on the music posts, those songs plus other things I can't find embeds for plus just random stuff that I like and amuses me goes into Volume Zero. You can find the most recent (the companion piece to last week's Music Tuesday), "I Dreamt the Sunlight Carried Us Back Home," here. Or, hey, the embeds for the latest playlists of both are below the jump. Enjoy. Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 04.23.13 by Widge @ 3:47 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Tuesday. If you like what you hear, use the links provided to snag it for yourself from Amazon. Doing so through us gives us kickbacks, and those help pay for stuff like more bandwidth. And also so we can buy more music. With new Depeche Mode, I was actually surprised at how much I enjoyed "Angel" off of Delta Machine. In fact, when it first came on my iPod on shuffle, I didn't even recognize it as Depeche Mode. I have no idea why--in retrospect, Dave Gahan certainly sounds like himself. But sometimes the coffee just isn't working as well as it should. This is them Live on Letterman, but somehow they've skipped the awkward Dave intro and outro. Note: for about $2 more, you can get CD and MP3 both. So. (Amazon: CD/MP3; MP3.) Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 04.16.13 by Widge @ 11:54 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Tuesday. If you like what you hear, use the links provided to snag it for yourself from Amazon. Doing so through us gives us kickbacks, and those help pay for stuff like more bandwidth. And also so we can buy more music. We start off with the new album (out today) from Iron & Wine, Ghost on Ghost. The song in question is "Low Light Buddy of Mine" and this was recorded at SXSW this year. Enjoy. (Amazon: CD; CD/Vinyl; MP3.) Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 04.09.13 by Widge @ 11:01 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Tuesday. If you like what you hear, use the links provided to snag it for yourself from Amazon. Doing so through us gives us kickbacks, and those help pay for stuff like more bandwidth. And also so we can buy more music. So we had posted "Sacrilege" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs previously. And it was tasty then. But then the band went on Letterman along with the choir known as Broadway Inspirational Voices and did something that always makes me happy: they sounded just as good--if not better--live as they do in the studio. Some bands are studio bands and you accept that and move on. But a nice, tight, rock-your-face-off able-to-do-it-live band? Those bring a smile to my face. And choirs help. The album, Mosquito, is due out next week. (Amazon: "Sacrilege" MP3 Single; Mosquito: CD, Deluxe CD, Vinyl.) Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 04.02.13 by Widge @ 6:55 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Tuesday. If you like what you hear, use the links provided to snag it for yourself from Amazon. Doing so through us gives us kickbacks, and those help pay for stuff like more bandwidth. And also so we can buy more music. First up, we go with Clutch, who we hold near and dear to our hearts. We feel that way not just because they allowed us to use their song "Promoter (Of Earthbound Causes)" as the theme for Weekend Justice, and not even just because Neil Fallon's beard is Mighty--but because they can pretty much rock your face off your skull. Be warned--Neil is somewhat frightening in this live performance of the title track from their new album, Earth Rocker. (Amazon: CD; MP3; Vinyl.) Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 03.25.13 by Widge @ 11:51 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Monday. If you like what you hear, use the links provided to snag it for yourself from Amazon. Doing so through us gives us kickbacks, and those help pay for stuff like more bandwidth. And also so we can buy more music. First up, while trawling through music I missed in 2012, I came across the latest release from the Branford Marsalis Quartet. And it has one of my favorite album titles of last year: Four MFs Playin' Tunes. And it's a very apt title as well: here's them performing the track "The Mighty Sword" from the album live. These guys are so good it's just ridiculous. (Amazon: CD, MP3.) Categorized as: Music Monday
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