“The Grateful Dead would be a quite different band without Owsley Stanley. When you ingest psychoactive chemicals and play as a group and go to places that aren’t accessible in a normal waking state, that’s a place musicians dream of and sometimes can’t find. He released that kind of energy in the music.”
—Mickey Hart, Dead Drummer
March 2011
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A Mix for the Mrs.
Tracklist:
1. I Didn’t See It Coming - Belle & Sebastian
2. Black Cab - Jens Lekman
3. You Remember The Good Times But The Good Times Don’t Remember You - Joel Alme
4. When Will You Go Home - The Dodos
5. While We’re Young - Department of Eagles
6. Lady Daydream - Twin Sister
7. Arbuckle’s Swan Song - Ambulance LTD
8. Our Get - White Denim
9. Love Is All - The Tallest Man on Earth
10. Change of Time - Josh Ritter
11. She Smiled Sweetly - Rolling Stones
12. 100 Days, 100 Nights - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
13. Thirteen - Big Star
14. Matchstick Murder - Tristen
15. Retired - Carl Broemel
16. Portland - Middle Brother
17. For You - Bruce Springsteen
Stream on my 8Tracks page.
Fluxtumblr: Hot Wings (I Wanna Party) →
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On March 31st, Will.i.am and Jamie Foxx will debut a new song called “Hot Wings (I Wanna Party)” on American Idol. Seriously, I am not making that up. What I did make up, though, was a few lines from the “song” and encouraged other people on Twitter to join in. Here are some highlights.
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The 7 best musical moments of Mad Men: http://bit.ly/eN0JV4
Why Bon Iver Had To Relearn Everything He Knows. http://bit.ly/gRRlmt
Why do Radiohead fans insist there will be a King of Limbs part two? http://bit.ly/e7T6DZ
Set List: John Grant at Central Presbyterian
Last night, I went to see John Grant at Central Presbyterian - a venue well suited for both him and backing band Midlake. The thing that jumped out the entire show was John’s voice, which is stronger live than I’d expected. Even after a handful of SXSW shows, it was soaring. Midlake was right there with him.
Below is the setlist. The big highlights were “Where Dreams Go To Die,” “Marz” (which he described as “snapshots from my childhood”) and “Jesus Hates Faggots.” Listening to that last one while sitting in a pew was a rare moment.
“It’s funny to be playing this song in a church,” Grant said, “But it’s really one of the most Christian songs, if you think about it.” He went on to talk about how he was raised in the church and how it shaped him. Then added that he’d reached 40 and was “finally starting to love myself again.”
Sigourney Weaver
Paint the Moon (Czars)
Where Dreams Go to Die
TC & the Honey Bear
Marz
Chicken Bones
Jesus Hates Faggots
Queen of Denmark
Solid Gold at Mohawk Patio. #sxsw http://plixi.com/p/84835051
Up in the Dark
Ted Leo
Ted Leo performs the New Pornographers’ “Up in the Dark” on this Tuesday’s special marathon episode of the Best Show on WFMU. If you haven’t pledged to WFMU yet, please do! The drive will run through this weekend.
New Kate Bush Album Details →
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Kate Bush has announced that she will be releasing Director’s Cut, her first album in six years, on May 16th. The record will be comprised of rerecorded, reworked and otherwise altered versions of songs from two previous albums, 1989’s The Sensual World and 1993’s The Red Shoes. Details about these new tracks have not been revealed, but Bush’s statement says that the Director’s Cut versions keep “the best musical performances of each song.”
Today's vinyl haul...
Found a new record store in the neighborhood! Glory be.
Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind
Silkworm - Firewater
Fresh & Onlys - Grey-Eyed Girls
“When the moon goes super extreme, chaos will ensue.”
—Richard Nolle, Astronomer
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A Mix: Heavy Carpentry
Though the title and cover suggest a hammer-themed mix, this is actually just a straight up rock mix made in honor of my friend and NATN brother in arms Troy Carpenter. To know and love Carpent, is to know and love this mix. Maybe…
Track List:
1. Touch Me in the Righ Place At The Right Time - Robert Pollard
2. Under Cover Of Darkness - The Strokes
3. Evil City Music - Archers
4. Teenage Blood - Apex Manor
5. Silva & Grimes - Holy Fuck
6. Politicians In My Eyes - Death
7. 8:00 AM, Seattle, Washington - Coop
8. New York City - Demics
9. Blow Dumb - Nobunny
10. Daily Bread - The Shoestrung
11. Digging For Something - Superchunk
12. Tin Soldiers - Stiff Little Fingers
13. Civilian - Wye Oak
14. Glitter - No Age
15. Breathless - Todd Rundgren
16. Strawberry Letter 23 - Shuggie Otis
17. Blue & Silver - Lower Dens
18. Me And My Arrow - Harry Nilsson
19. Sink/Let It Sway - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Stream on my 8Tracks page.
Band to Watch: Telekinesis →
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A rock trio led by Michael Benjamin Lerner, a 24-year-old songwriter from Seattle, Washington who specializes in sunny, dynamic power pop.
