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Ned — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:03:15 +0000

This Patrick Watson video from the Close to Paradise album is pretty amazing. The Great Escape. Fireweed is definitely worth the time as well.

Chocolate Gabriel

Tobias — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:19:46 +0000

Music worth listening to this past month….

Carolina Chocolate Drops | Genuine Negro Jig

01 | Peace Behind the Bridge
02 | Trouble in Your Mind
03 | Cornbread and Butterbeans

Peter Gabriel | Scratch My Back

01 | Heroes
02 | Flume
03 | The Book of Love

OK Go, F*** Yeah!

Tobias — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:15:51 +0000

This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen, for those of you who haven’t seen it.

Every time they come out with a new video, I wonder how they’re going to top the old one. Same feeling with this one.

The Break

Tobias — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:48:55 +0000

Violent Oils? Midnight Femmes? No, it’s the Break.

Listen to Cylinders.

What do those who are fans of the Oils and/or the Femmes think?

Me, I wish I lived in Australia this February.

Effects of the Flood

Tobias — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:45:00 +0000

The Flood produced the newest showing from the Editors. It’s a lot more electronic, and it’s taken me a couple of listenings, but Editors still know how to write and craft great music.

Here are some of my favorites from In This Light & on This Evening.

01 In This Light And On This Evening
02 Papillon
03 Like Treasure
04 Walk the Fleet Road

Triple-T Music Thursday

Tobias — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:11:17 +0000

Beat Boxing is Fun

Ned — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:59:04 +0000

Matisyahu – One Day WNYC Studio with Beat Boxing

Extracurricular Music Thursday

Tobias — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:39:00 +0000

It’s not Thursday, but I’ve been meaning to post this for about a month.

I heard the following interview and performance with Patrick Watson and the Wooden Arms on NPR in early December. It was a fantastic piece, but for some reason I thought it would totally be up Ned’s Alley. Not that I’m all that interested in Ned’s Alley…if he enjoys this I’ll be happy.

I’ve been listening to their album Wooden Arms and been liking it quite a bit. If it would have come out sooner in the year, it might have made my Decade’s Top Ten or So.

This one’s for you, Ned.

Here’s an NPR page with links to other Patrick Watson videos and audio.

Elvis Ate America

Pete — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:28:22 +0000

"Overman would be proud," I mumbled to myself after hearing the second Elvis song in a row at 8:05 yesterday morning.

Yup, he would be ecstatic that if there was one thing carried over from my high school education, that I could recall Elvis Presley’s birthday with minimal prompting would be it. So I thought about Elvis, quite a bit, in fact. He was hard to escape yesterday, his music on the agency’s sound system all day. I think I may have been growing a bouffant hairdo during this barrage on my sanity.

I also found myself considering Michael Jackson and the similarities between the two. The wealth, the development of alternative realities, the loss of their essence, before dying, in unforeseen, unrespectable drug-induced manners. Ah, the drugs, a symptom I think of the whole loss of reality bit. A way to be in outer space, isolated, and not have to come back down.

I saw a really great PBS program this week- 6 hours of "This Emotional Life", with the net result being: Human Relationships Are THE Most Important variable in mental health and well-being. Elvis and MJ lost this. Their wealth and fame separated themselves out. They became obsessed with themselves, building their realities, suspicious of the intentions of others, partially out of real concerns. Other people want what wealthy people have.

Then a chilling thought occurred to me. Elvis and MJ are a pair of the most recognizable symbols of America to the world. Nay, it is worse, they are icons because they represent America to the world. America is the wealthy, build our own reality rock star whose fame keeps us from being truly aware of the rest of the worlds problems. this has partially been fed by the world’s grandiose view of us.

But now, I really hope at some point soon we develop a grounding, a reconnection, before we end up dried up and deceased of our own over-consumption. The analogy really goes deeper, because there are so many countries/companies willing to continue to to give us our prescription and illicit drugs as long as they can be hangers-on. These were my thoughts on Elvis Presley’s Birthday.

I heard someone say he would have been seventy-five this week.

Decade’s Music

Tobias — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:50:00 +0000

Alright, let’s hear of your choices for the best music of the decade.

Serious contenders? Personal favorites? Guilty pleasures?

Resolution Music Thursday

Tobias — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:27:00 +0000

This year, one of my resolutions is to be faithful in contributing to Music Thursday. Like most resolutions, I hope this one isn’t fashioned to be broken.

I’ve been listening to this song by Imogen Heap like crazy for the past couple of weeks. I thought I’d share. On the deluxe version of the album, I really like the instrumental version. It doesn’t have the emotional tenor of the vocal version, but it really converys a mood to me. For some reason this song really makes me think of being in England and living in the 80’s. At the same time. It’s kind of a strange sensation — this song causes two deeply nostalgic periods of my life to overlap that I never would have thought compatible.

I’ll let you listen now….

01 | First Train Home
02 | First Train Home (Instrumental)

Music Christmas Eve Thursday

J.E. — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:57:55 +0000

Recorded live at KUT studios in Austin.

kat-edmonson-christmas-time-is-here

NYT: Senegal

J.E. — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:06:09 +0000

I’d love to visit some day. Be sure to scroll down and watch the video.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/travel/06senegalmusic.html

One Day

Ned — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:25:27 +0000

So this guy has been gaining popularity for a while. When I first heard about a Hassid Jewish rapper, I thought “What next”. But the truth is, this song is pretty catchy.

One Day – Matisyahu.

Back in the Saddle Again

Tobias — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:18:13 +0000

Trying to get the ball rolling with Music Thursdays, here are a few tracks I’ve been listening to in the past month. Let me know if you enjoy them….

01 Chris Garneau | Music for Tourists | Saturday
02 Chris Garneau | Music for Tourists | Not Nice

Protected: Darth Becker

Tobias — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:16:19 +0000

No Line On The Horizon

Tobias — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:43:40 +0000

Get On Your Boots, compliments of Bono and Gang.

More about the new album on Amazon.

Music in the Second Monday

Tobias — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:21:56 +0000

Thought I’d share a few tracks from the Fleet Foxes album that came out recently. J.E. came to my mind when I saw the Bruegel image used on the cover. Speaking of J.E., hope your busy season goes well, sir!

01 | White Winter Hymnal
02 | Quiet Houses
03 | Your Protector
04 | Blue Ridge Mountains

Have a fantastic autumnal week!

End of September Listening

Tobias — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:21:26 +0000

01 Sigur Ros | Gobbledigook
02 David Byrne & Brian Eno | Home

Playlist in Black

Tobias — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:19:17 +0000

What I’ve been listening to this week…

Protected: Remix Revenge

Tobias — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:50:02 +0000

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Ned is Right…

Tobias — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:43:57 +0000

…this new Devotchka album is fantastic, amongst many of Ned’s rightnesses. Here’s three tracks I enjoyed in the time I’ve had to listen.

01 Devotchka | The Clockwise Witness
02 Devotchka | Transliterator
03 Devotchka | New World

On with the Ned theme. Here’s another artist I heard this week and it totally sounded like an artist Ned would enjoy the most of all of us. I enjoy it quite a bit too, but Ned can surpass us and all of our enthusiasms….

04 Akron/Family | Ed Is A Portal
05 Akron/Family | Lake Song/New Ceremonial Music For Moms
06 Akron/Family | There’s So Many Colors

Remerge Music Thursday

Tobias — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:12:27 +0000

Good afternoon, gents (and ladies). Hope all is going well for everyone and that Spring is finally arriving. Maybe Summer for Texas? Work has been really busy for me in the month of March, and I anticipate it continuing through May. I think about you all often….

Here’s a few tunes that have accompanied me during the long hours the past week. As I was listening I thought about jumping back into Music Thursday and sharing these with everyone.

Next stop, Devotkcha. Which I haven’t grabbed yet — thanks for the heads-up, Ned!

U2-3D

Shotts — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:36:28 +0000

If you haven’t yet seen U2-3D, I highly recommend getting to your closest IMAX theater to take it in. It gives a whole new experience to “Vertigo.” There are some amazing shots, and the 3D quality of it is such that you feel you could reach out and take Bono’s glasses right off his face. It also gives you some of the little details of what goes on up on stage–Larry Mullen’s orange Fanta, for example. The set list is very good, and while it can’t quite capture actually being at the concert, it’s the closest thing available. Even just some of the shots over the crowd are remarkable, and the whole film gives you the virtual experience of what it must be like to be walking out on those catwalks in front of thousands of people. I think the film is in limited release now, but supposed to be wider in the next few weeks. I’m not sure it will be coming to the Hutchinson Cosmosphere, however…