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Posted on 12.10.12 by Widge @ 11:55 pm
Comments on this: 2 so far. 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. We begin with Modestep, whose debut album, Evolution Theory, is apparently out in January. Here, they enter the BBC Live Lounge last year to cover some Coldplay with excellent results: Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 12.03.12 by Widge @ 11:55 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Monday, curated by Rob & 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. Rob: The Haunted Man, this deep new third album from the Mercury Prize-Nominated Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) highlights her growth as a songwriter who is not afraid to speak her mind. She got there by drawing and illustrating her thoughts, resulting in songs that are dark, sparse and filled with resonance and emotion. The album's two singles, "Laura" and "All Your Gold" show just how good she can be at making her point and framing it in melody and vibrant instrumentation. Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 11.26.12 by Widge @ 11:30 pm
Comments on this: just one. 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. Oh, Metric. You with your Emily Haines and your devastating cover versions. And your cover of the Tom Waits-penned Marianne Faithfull classic, "Strange Weather," makes me want to drink almost as much as the two better known cited versions. Just perhaps a lighter whisky. Just keep covering the songs and killing us softly. No, we're fine, thanks. Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 11.12.12 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. We open with a cover that I stumbled upon--it's Dana Leong taking the lead on a fantastic and wild version of Firewater's "Another Perfect Catastrophe." And I don't normally post two versions of the same song, but when you have an opportunity to hear somebody (in this case, Edmar Castaneda) accompanying a trombone with a harp on a Firewater song? You just, you know, go for it. That kicks us off after the break. (Image by Mat Szwajkos, taken from the Glide Magazine interview with Leong.) Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 11.05.12 by Widge @ 11:45 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Monday, co-curated by Rob & 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. Just note: any prices we quote are accurate as of when this post goes up. First up, we have from Ontario (as David Letterman is about to explain), Diamond Rings and their new album Free Dimensional. Rob says, "You are best off to not deny this is a dance record. Just embrace it and groove to its off-kilter quirkiness." As for me, I'm trying to figure out what two or three musicians from the 80s had their DNA spliced together by a mad scientist. I want to say Billy Idol is one. Give me some time, I'll come up with the others. The track here is "Runaway Love." Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 10.29.12 by Widge @ 12:00 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. Just note: any prices we quote are accurate as of when this post goes up. We kick off with a Halloweenish music video for The Clutters, a rock band from Nashville. Friend of Need Coffee (and Solve This panelist) Jay Wade Edwards directed the video. Here's what he has to say for himself: Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 10.22.12 by Widge @ 11:00 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Monday, with an assist from Rob. 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. Just note: any prices we quote are accurate as of when this post goes up. First up, a band I heard of via one of the few music blogs I still have time to peruse, Aurgasm--it's The Staves, a trio of sisters from England who sound absolutely amazing. And trust me--I've been looking through a lot of music for this post--so nice to hear people who can pull their stuff off live. Granted, they're not trying to speed around on Segways or fly through the air on a harness...but it's just nice. Speaking of live, here's "Icarus" from their Mexico EP. Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 10.15.12 by Widge @ 11:00 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Monday, co-curated by Rob & 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. Just note: any prices we quote are accurate as of when this post goes up. First up, a band I heard in some WOMAD coverage from 2010--World of Music Arts & Dance, Peter Gabriel's world music festival that tried to tour here and nobody "got it"--it's Orchestre National de Barbès, which gives you the biggest gumbo of musical styles you've heard in a while, I would guess. They are based out of France. This is a live acoustic performance of "Chorfa": Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 10.08.12 by Widge @ 11:30 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. Just note: any prices we quote are accurate as of when this post goes up. And you know I can't turn down Fishbone...especially when it's "new to me" Fishbone. How in the world did they collaborate with Los Fabulosos Cadillacs fifteen years ago for a Red Hot compilation and I missed it? Covering Tom Jones, no less? And yes, I know, we didn't have crazy internet tracking abilities then--but I still managed to collect a formidable array of Fishbone rarities. So I'm sort of surprised at myself. Regardless, the Redux/reissue version is cheaper and the MP3 of that particular song can be found here. It's a hoot. Categorized as: Music Monday
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Posted on 10.01.12 by Rob Levy @ 11:54 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  More music picks for your Monday with Rob taking the lead. 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. Just note: any prices we quote are accurate as of when this post goes up. First up, a bit of fantastic live Laurie Anderson, "Language is a Virus," based on a fine mindgrope from your friend, Uncle Bill. This is taken from Home of the Brave, but the version Rob was throwing your way was from the four CD set United States Live from 1984. As Rob says, "Not for the faint of heart, an intense project form her early career." Indeed. But sort of retro-futuristic awesome: Categorized as: Music Monday
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