tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20162111926293768972024-03-13T07:46:04.725-07:00The Ticker TaperieWhitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-30699890972821727802014-04-19T13:41:00.001-07:002014-04-19T13:44:59.350-07:00Crocodiles + Youth Lagoon<center>
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Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-65789926028719215382014-04-15T18:34:00.002-07:002014-04-15T18:36:39.221-07:00Bad Books - Tiny Shoes<div style="text-align: center;">
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Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-81716304178730899522014-02-07T09:53:00.002-08:002014-02-07T11:49:57.701-08:00I Won't Hold it Against YouYour Friday Playlist.<br />
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Hi, class. Let's talk about St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica:</div>
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Home to Trench Town. Birthplace of reggae, the Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, Beenie Man etc. etc.<br />
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Home to Kingston's Tuff Gong International record label founded by The Wailers in 1965 and recording location for a sometimes shocking roster of musicians, many simply hoping to tie their name to the legendary studio. You can scope <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuff_Gong">Wikipedia</a> or go straight to <a href="http://tuffgong.com/">Tuff Gong</a> to learn more but - spoiler alert - Sinead O'Conner makes an appearance.<br />
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Home to Gyptian. Born in St. Andrew's Parish. Reborn daily as he's blasted from the windows of many a car in Brooklyn since "Hold Yuh" released (and subsequent billboard climb) in 2010. Not a song to play your mother if she's got a knack for deciphering a thick Jamaican accent. Dad might be into it, though.<br />
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Lastly, meeting place of Major Lazer, the collaboration of DJs Diplo and Switch (American and British, respectively) whose first album <i>Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do</i> was recorded Tuff Gong Studios. Clearly, Major Lazer didn't exactly start from nothing. Introduced while working with MIA, the list of guest appearances on their first album is an absurdly powerful list of people. Even then, by the time Diplo met MIA and Switch, he'd made more than a name for himself in dance music. Today, Diplo's liner notes are like a quiet (or not-so-quiet) music takeover. He's co-written, produced and otherwise collaborated with a some of the biggest performers to date (MIA, Kid Cudi, Britney Spears, the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg). </div>
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I'll be first one to say that Major Lazer's videos can be boring (oh, SICK! hot chicks in cheekies blowing SMOKE! - Look out, Terry Richardson!). But this video, shot in Kingston, is perfect. Just try to tell me I'm wrong:</div>
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Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-44200751879204224032014-01-16T17:54:00.003-08:002014-01-22T21:05:49.122-08:00Honey, I'm Home!<div style="text-align: justify;">
I wrote out all of the opening lines that start with "The last time I-" and end with names of places used to live. I thought that I might tell you where I've been, about Ladysmith Black Mambazo in Prospect Park or how I've been writing lately but still find that a little embarrassing to say out loud. I guess I wanted to ask you where you've been, too.<br />
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But then I thought, forget it.<i> Forget it!</i> Who cares that it's been two years? I made this playlist for you. Let's get beautiful. </div>
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Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-49713557619883011582011-04-21T14:47:00.000-07:002014-01-22T21:04:06.221-08:00Timber Tibre : Creep On Creepin' On<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.timbertimbre.com/index.php">Timber Timbre</a>'s new album, <b>Creep On Creepin' On </b>was released 3 days ago on the famed Canadian label <a href="http://www.arts-crafts.ca/">Arts & Crafts</a>. Founded with the 2002 release of Broken Social Scene's <b>You Forget It In People, A&C </b>has basically been a goldmine ever since: Fiest, Stars, Los Campesinos!, M Ward, Phoenix, and on and on. I say this in almost every post, but good grief. Canada kills it again.</div>
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There's a lot of talk of blues influences in Timber Timbre's music. Kirk tends to back out of the suggestion with modesty instead of denial. When I first heard the track "Like A Mountain" I immediately thought of <b>Cab Calloway</b>'s 1933 "Old Man of the Mountain" (as seen/heard in the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJkxNa6v14">Betty Boop</a> film of that year). It is, in my opinion, an enormous compliment to any musician today to hear an honest influence from someone like Cab. Especially because Taylor Kirk <a href="http://radiofreecanuckistan.blogspot.com/2008/09/timber-timbre.html">probably knows it.</a></div>
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<i>"When I listen to blues-era recordings, it sounds to me like the purest form of musical expression. I couldn't even tell you about any current blues musicians. I'm mostly listening to the old recordings now, like Son House, Leroy Carr and various <b style="background-color: #99ff99; color: black;">Blind Willies</b>.'' </i></div>
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<b>Timber Timbre</b> is mainly the project of Taylor Kirk, with the help of Mika Posen, and Simon Trottier . Kirk and Trottier sometimes produce other artist's music, including the two tracks for <b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/ghostbees">Tasseomancy</a></b> (formerly <b>Ghost Bees</b>) on their Myspace. Also: I highly recommend checking out the Take Away Show video posted on the same site. </div>
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Conclusions: Creepy music is underrated, and has a tendency to come in the form of siblings (I'm looking at you, <b>CocoRosie</b>). </div>
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Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-57178123986762346602011-04-20T16:51:00.000-07:002014-01-22T21:00:31.111-08:00Alan Jensen. No - Ghostclatter. No - Airglow Picture Show. Whatever you call it, you're going to like it.<div style="text-align: justify;">
Guys, a few days ago I knew next to nothing about Alan Jensen. If Alan Jensen and What I Know About Him had been walking down the street, they would have been walking in opposite directions and never spoken. What I Know About Him would have gone home feeling unfulfilled and a bit stupid for not trying. So What I Know About Him and I got to talking and decided to go for it. </div>
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a) Alan Jensen has three names<br />
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2. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/airglowpictureshow">http://www.facebook.com/airglowpictureshow</a> (<a href="http://airglowcinema.blogspot.com/">http://airglowcinema.blogspot.com/</a>)<br />
3. <a href="http://www.alanjensen.tv/">http://www.alanjensen.tv/</a> <br />
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b) the man with three names is an Undergraduate filmmaker (and part time graphic designer) at University of New Mexico. <br />
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d) that is all this humble publication knows, however, we feel the below video will be enough to convince you to root for and follow him right into Pitchfork's (or whatever the measure of success is these days) arms.<br />
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Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-22435347316728762032011-04-13T17:10:00.000-07:002014-01-22T21:04:54.175-08:00Elvis Perkins In Dearland : Chains, Chains, Chains<div style="text-align: center;">
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I tried to think of something else to say but only wound up saying it reminds me of us, the way that something will remind you of a place you lived or a person you knew. Something already gone. Something so far off, now, that you need to be reminded and are taken aback when it happens. A smell, a feeling that used to be everything and but now just seems like recalling a time when you were very hungry.</div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/19193030">James Irwin | Blue Dust</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/astorytoldwell">A Story Told Well</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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<i>"James</i> <i>writes twice a day—songs, poems and stories, first thing in the morning and late in the afternoon, always with a coffee. He is working on a book of poems, and a book of stories. He goes on stage after a whiskey, in a red sweater, with a freshly shaven face. He sings sadly and speaks funny" </i> </div>
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<a href="http://www.myspace.com/mamatschimusic">James Irwin</a> is Canadian of course (this is fast becoming a blog about Canadian music with no small emphasis on Montreal). He has previously played with the Montreal band <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mypeoplesleeping">My People Sleeping,</a> Coal Choir from 2007-2009, co-wrote the folk opera Olivia and toured "playing piano and getting drunk in The Milwaukee's Best Band". </div>
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Can I just ask you a rhetorical question, internet? Thanks. Does <a href="http://www.astorytoldwell.com/?p=413">A Story Told Well </a>ever let us down?</div>
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They do not. ASTW have more beautiful videos from James Irwin and pretty much everyone else you ever wanted to see testing physics on a broken down pier or nesting like a deer in the middle of the woods. Which brings me to another question : to be a respected folk musician, do you have to know <i>just the right spot</i> to bring roving, blogging camera crews when they come knocking? </div>
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Mission #1 for the summer: find one such spot in each state I visit while crossing the country (just in case).<br />
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Oh Oh! And please check out <a href="http://badpandarecords.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/badpanda075/">Bad Panda</a> for a nice write up and interview with Mr. Irwin. </div>
Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-58403983221065789962011-03-12T11:40:00.000-08:002014-01-22T21:00:48.516-08:00Dry the River: Updates!<a href="http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=23708&a=1277383&g=11703474&epi=newceremonyDwnldSnglartistsite&url=http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/new-ceremony/id418555583?i=418555587?partnerId=2003"><img alt="" border="0" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-294" src="http://www.drytheriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/banner.jpg" height="184" title="" width="540" /></a>Hi Friends. <br />
I haven't posted in a while and I'm feeling lazy but wanted to share some new<a href="http://www.drytheriver.com/music/"> Dry the River</a> tracks and some album versions I didn't post with the videos <a href="http://ticker-taperie.blogspot.com/search/label/dry%20the%20river">last time.</a> I will get motivated again soon, I promise.<br />
In the mean time, enjoy!<br />
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It's one of those bruise-knuckle, sink-stomach kind of weeks. For reasons heard and rocked and put to rest. Sometimes it is best to let the echos drift until the voices no longer sound raised , take a deep breath and move forward. Sometimes, though, in a lonely moment, you might listen for that echo. Hear how low and soft. You might, just for a minute, tap your foot to it. If you are lucky you might find a song to suit that rhythm. You might then gratefully permit yourself a few moments of the kind of healing calm that only grows from sudden, welcome quiet. You might let the warmth from your mug fill your hands, and you might bob your head.<br />
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(thank you <a href="http://juan-and-only.blogspot.com/">Juan and Only</a>)<br />
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Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-23424794976800025552011-02-08T13:52:00.000-08:002014-01-22T21:01:18.143-08:00Guys guys guys! Are you J Tillman fans? Now you can be Son Tillman fans, too!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Read more <a href="http://mostlyhypotheticalmountains.blogspot.com/">here</a>. P.S. if you know more about this than I do please fill me in!Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-21634214766583485362011-02-04T10:23:00.000-08:002014-01-22T21:01:26.364-08:00Christopher Dean Hayes : Fireside pt. II<a href="https://www.blogger.com/christopherdeanhayes/photos/17207642#mssrc=SitesPhotos_PP_ViewPhoto"><img alt="" src="http://hotlink.myspacecdn.com/images02/151/47b2b10c5f754b6a9dec27a48453c201/m.png" /></a><br />
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I've decided to try something new today and include the latest project of a musician who happens to be a friend of mine. You may be familiar with <b>Christopher Dean Hayes</b> through <b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thenewsufferjets">The New Suffer Jets</a></b>, a previous band Mike Swanberg, Steve Minogue, and Vincent Elliott. I am just getting to know Chris but I do know that this latest edition of an ongoing series of recordings (think <a href="http://learningmusicmonthly.com/archives/">Learning Music Monthly</a>, the album-a-month project founded by John Clement Wood) called <b>Fireside</b> is a really exciting one. What I like about <b>Fireside II</b> is that Chris took a completely new course from his usual acoustic recordings and didn't hold back. He plays with making beats, layering harmonies, and blending sounds from both old work, new work, field recordings and even the work of other musicians (you'll hear a <a href="http://www.dragcity.com/artists/joanna-newsom">Joanna Newsom</a> melody paired with 'Amazing Grace' in the last track). Chris describes it as an experiment and I guess he would probably want you to listen to it that way. I want you to listen to it however you feel inclined, so long as you listen to it. </div>
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So if you are getting ready for work, and if any part of you would really rather be asleep right now, and if you live in the Midwest and you're wishing the stupid blizzard would come already so you could just stay home, this will set you right. At the very least, it will make you glad you're awake.</div>
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More information can be found <a href="http://www.myspace.com/toroymoi">here</a> and <a href="http://toroymoi.blogspot.com/">here</a>!<br />
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<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">You may know Kim Hiorthøy from this remix of the Mice Parade song "Milton Road":<br />
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You may know him as a Graphic designer, <a href="http://www.nieves.ch/catalogue/kimhinside.html">illustrator</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/kimhiorthoy">musician</a> (with 8 albums!), Norwegian, handsome fellow, and otherwise talented and interesting person. <br />
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You can find more information at the <a href="http://www.smalltownsupersound.com/">Smalltown Supersound</a> label, this <a href="http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/khiorthoyiw.htm">MilkFactory Interview</a> and <a href="http://standardoslo.no/v1/k.hiorthoy.bio.php">his gallery</a>.Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-50803952754550621062011-01-27T21:12:00.000-08:002011-01-27T21:17:22.934-08:00Cults, or, Beardo Wins Again<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/137/l_38f3b5cf372f408e853782cfa154912b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="332" src="http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/137/l_38f3b5cf372f408e853782cfa154912b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Another glorious recommendation from the very bearded <a href="http://www.benclarkpoetry.com/">Ben Clark</a>. My best guess about how Ben heard about Cults is that somewhere deep in Nebraska, while touring through farmland performing his poetry to stalks of wheat and corn who swayed and bobbed enthusiastically, Ben was approached by a man with the garb of a Quaker and the gait of Patrick Bateman. Attracted to both the beard and body, Ben exchanged information and the promise of a later meeting with this man and promptly returned home to read up about Cults and how to get in for the ceremonial sex but out before the sacrifices. I imagine that since the whole world fell in love with the three tracks of two very surprised and unprepared musicians after they put them on their <a href="http://cults.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a>, Ben saw this link and missed his meeting with the man for passing along the link to everyone he knew. So here they are, everyone! Don't forget to read the interview with <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/38113-rising-cults/">Pitchfork</a> and groan with irritation when they remind that they interviewed the band mere weeks after the tracks were posted. Please don't hold it against the musicians, as we have every reason to believe that their forthcoming album is going to be nothing short of fantastic.</div>Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-39285729169568537422011-01-26T11:23:00.000-08:002011-01-26T11:33:57.730-08:00Hidden Words : The Bab According to The Unicorns<div style="text-align: justify;">Remember <b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/theunicornsband">The Unicorns</a>?</b> According to <a href="http://www.prefixmag.com/features/the-unicorns/we-spent-an-hour-with-these-dudes-and-didnt-find-o/12354/">the most absurd interview I've ever read</a>, they were once called "The Best Band in the World" by Vice Magazine. The Montreal-based "three-headed beast", was made up of Alden Penner (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/cclluueess" target="_blank">Clues</a>), Jamie Thompson (<a href="http://islandsareforever.com/" target="_blank">Islands</a>), and Nicholas Thorburn (<a href="http://islandsareforever.com/" target="_blank">Islands</a>). They sounded a lot like this:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>"In the interim years, Alden had experienced a spiritual reawakening as a member of the Bahá'í Faith. Upon immersing himself in its scriptural tradition, he recognized an implicit musicality to the Writings and began composing melodies that would elucidate this lyricism. It seemed only natural to include his friend and collaborator Jamie in this experiment." </i></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">The songs are adapted from the original text of the holy Bahá'í text, the <i>Báb,</i> which, as Sean of <a href="http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bahai_how_are_you.php">Said the Gramophone</a> cleverly pointed out, kind of makes them a <i>Báb </i>cover-band. Here's the best part - the result is not only beautiful, its actually kind of fun. It's still a little hard for me to take the Tallest Band In The World <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(see ^ linked <a href="http://www.prefixmag.com/features/the-unicorns/we-spent-an-hour-with-these-dudes-and-didnt-find-o/12354/">interview</a>) <span style="font-size: small;">seriously</span></span>, but the more I hear the more it grows on me and I am certainly looking forward to the release of their first album due out this Spring. In addition to Alden and Penner and Thompson (Thorburn is not involved), <b>Hidden Words</b> includes Eric and James Farr (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/honeyfarr" target="_blank">Honeyman and the Brothers Farr</a>), Neah Kelly, and Marie-Claire Saindon. </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Its easy to think that music is more made by some intangible energy in a place than by the artists who just happen to live there. That's the kind of logic that leads you to decide that to escape the memory of one person you have to leave the geographic region. When you finally sit still long enough you realize that there is a lesson to be learned from the emotional, short-sited conclusions you came to when you were young. You were right. Maybe Olympia wasn't reveling in its own weirdness until one weirdie moved there and called his/her friends to say "this is the place!". But music does have this remarkable way of acting as a summons. And when it really speaks to us it doesn't have to invite us in because we've already invited ourselves. We want to introduce it to our friends, to know everyone involved, and to be a part of it. If you are like me, this is why breakups with partners often lead to breakups with bands; the music is too tied to a memory and you have to let it go. Fortunately for the world, <a href="http://www.krecs.com/">K Records</a> shows no signs of closing its arms to the weirdies who follow it's bleating all the way up to the Northwest. And if you, like me, are still filling the void left by bands you had to say goodbye to long ago, try to find comfort in <a href="http://www.laketheband.com/LAKE_Home/LAKE.html">Lake</a>'s latest 7", You Are Alone, <span style="font-size: x-small;">(purchase <a href="http://www.krecs.com/Shop/product_info.php?products_id=4634">here</a>)</span> while you eagerly await the April 12th release of their newest record Giving and Receiving. You will find Eli Moore's simple solution on Side A: "You are alone", and there's nothing wrong with that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Image: "No Title (yellow grass)" by Phil Elverum, print available <a href="http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/artstore">here</a>.] </span></span></div>Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-83626334009333663752011-01-18T05:05:00.000-08:002011-01-18T05:05:04.577-08:00Kellen and Me<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WgyaqkAFXlA?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WgyaqkAFXlA?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Kellen says he started making music when he found a guitar in the trash somewhere in Fox River Grove, IL, where he grew up. He says that before the experience awakened him to his musical future, it made him realize that you can find some pretty sweet stuff in the trash. Without making it sound lonely, the project Kellen & Me is just Kellen, a guitar, and a bunch of electronics. All of his recordings are done on a reel to reel tape machine which is what gives it that feeling like you want to rattle it in your hands and then push-click it into your car stereo and drive around the city. Kellen & Me does not yet have an album, but he does have a million songs on his Myspace that I highly recommend checking out - especially the "Hum-bolt [Park] Tribute Song" for my fellow Chicagoans. Push-click it, everybody!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I heard <a href="http://kellenandme.com/">Kellen & Me</a> with the founders of <a href="http://audiotreemusic.com/">Audiotree</a> on <a href="http://vocalo.org/blogs/archive/201101/if-you-were-tree-would-you-be-audio-tree">Vocalo Radio</a> </div>Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-37956048988095987952011-01-17T08:13:00.000-08:002014-01-16T17:55:02.857-08:00Onra : The Anthem<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jJBI4ckmB2M?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jJBI4ckmB2M?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Onra is a French beat-maker based out of Paris - this song is from his 2006 album <i>Chinoiseries, </i>produced with the help of a few dozen old Chinese and Vietnamese records he brought back from a trip to Vietnam. In 2010 he released the LP <i>Long Distance</i> which, to be honest, I'm not all that crazy about. But hey! If you like this jam, you may be into the rest. Anyway you might recognize this song because (as I just learned) it was in the Coca Cola commercials for the Beijing Olympics. Sigh. </div>Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-37873324011806997462011-01-16T17:14:00.000-08:002014-01-16T17:14:50.792-08:00A quick break for The PausesPart Alkaline Trio, part Rilo Kiley, part Hush Sound. You'll remember it, even though you've never heard it before.<br />
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(get it!<b>: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thepauses">The Pauses</a></b>: <a href="http://newgranada.com/songs/ThePauses_Go_North.mp3">"Go North"</a> [mp3] from <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004I9AQZI/ref=nosim/largeheartedb-20">A Cautionary Tale</a></i> (out March 8th)<br />
<br />Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-55707276504750725642011-01-07T13:30:00.000-08:002011-01-07T13:30:09.681-08:00The Good Ones : Sara<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-yYPmgYmUqQ?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-yYPmgYmUqQ?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016211192629376897.post-4376395667162922102011-01-04T07:23:00.000-08:002011-01-04T07:29:14.279-08:00Hollerado : Americanarama<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I should preface this post by admitting this video was forwarded to me by my mother. Who before you start steppin - (you heard me) - is a woman to be admired. For starters, after more than forty years of smoking at a pace that would give most people a reason to write their will, my mom just quit smoking cold turkey. Second - she started <a href="http://www.radiomavens.com/indexFF.html">this business</a> on her own (if you have a band and you want someone to track your radio plays, click that shit!). Third, she thinks videos like this one are cool. Anyway, most people don't have the patience to do any of these things, so let's hear it for quitters, entrepreneurs, and all the people with sore arms after shooting this video :</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Another one-take video, but a really sweet one. I am partial to the minesweeper suquence. eat your heart out, OkGO. Hollerado just re-released their album Record In a Bag and it is, quite literally, in a bag. They had to start their own label to pull it off but every album comes in a ziplock bag full of treats and prizes! yay! Anyway their </span><a href="http://www.hollerado.com/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">website</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> is hilarious, their </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/hollerado" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">myspace</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> has some music to listen to, and they are Canadian! Go nuts, kids.</span></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Coincidentally, I think this next song may be about someone's mom?</span></div><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JYFR9lDwS9Q?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JYFR9lDwS9Q?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Whitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346446999853107914noreply@blogger.com0