If anybody wants to be like... e-famous and cool, I know just the way. Collective Music... me... I... need a nifty graphic to display my not so trendy title on. I could offer... like maybe.. a pencil pouch or a stolen Cafeteria bowl or something, but not much else. I think the ad s made me like 23 cents over the past year. Go me.

Who's down for making trendy graphics? I'll give you a hella-good link spot. (3,000 hits this week) E-mail me (blalock.matt@gmail.com)

-Matt

I really am forgetful.

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Now that comment has had time to settle, please, please, please, please do not expect regularity with my blog. Regularity is defined as posts everyday. I can post a couple times a week depending on my work-load and partying-load (yes, I am a terrible person).

So I'm still laughing at George W. Bush talking about "the google" and "the internets" but that aside, I have some... real stuff.

"Crazy Dreams"
"Springtime Can Kill You"
"Old Fashion Morphine"
"Black Stars"
"I Wanna Die"
"Black Hand Blues"

Micah P Hinson - Jackeyed
Micah P Hinson - The Leading Guy
Oakley Hall - Lazy Susan
Oakley Hall - Landlord
The Slip - Even Rats
The Slip - If One Of Us Should Fall

Deathcab For Cutie - World Shut Your Mouth (Julian Cope cover)
The Apples in Stereo - Same Old Drag (Via PreFix Mag)

[more] Lady Sovereign [mp3's]

Love Me or Hate Me
Random
Tango

And a little Halloween interest for your ears.
Man Man - Banana Ghost
Third Eye Foundation- Ghosts
White Stripes - Walking With A Ghost
John Zorn - Ghosts Of Thelema
David Bowie - Scary Monsters

Enjoy. I stayed up until 2:15am working on this post; I have class at 8am. Happy Halloween!

So I'm rushing this one out to go see Alice in Wonderless Land in a few minutes, but not to worry, plenty of wholesome goodness here.

I keep hearing about some "Asian shit" from my musically inclined friends. Lullatone, a Japansese duo who play with toys. Yeah, sounds good huh? Same thing I though. See, the music is comprised mostly of those little Playskool keyboards and xylophones - which sounds corny, but I find it to be very soothing, in a kids running around your room kind of way. The music is surprisingly structured, and actually very, very, very enjoyable. Check them out.

[mp3's]

Lullatone Untitled
Lullatone Wake Up Wake Up
Lullatone Bushman's Samba
Lullatone Music For Apartments

Check out their website here.

San Francisco band Scissors For Lefty have been actively touring the US with bands like The Arctic Monkeys and Panic! At The Disco. No plans for a US release of their new album Bruno yet, but here is what we got for now. I'm really liking them, and I really hope you already know about them, but I found not too many people do. They deserve better! Check 'em out on MySpace.

[mp3's]

Ghetto Ways
Save It Cory
Next To Argyle

Here are some other [mp3's] I have been listening to lately! Enjoy them all!

Ben Gibbard Complicated (Avril Cover)
TV On The Radio Playhouses
Wolf Eyes The Driller
Guillemots Trains To Brazil
Apparat Montreal
Klaxons Horsemen of 2012
Maria Taylor Song Beneath The Song
Menomena E Is Stable
Cansei De Ser Sexy Alala
Kinski Semaphore
The Mission District All I Ever Wanted
Evangelicals The Halloween Song
Asobi Seksu Strawberries
Asobi Seksu Thursday

About six months ago, I strayed from the path of writing this blog. I weaned myself off quite quickly, and within... oh say... an hour, I was finished and felt alright about my decision.

I had built a nice team of 20 or so writers. Then we all departed ways at the end of the academic year. We had all planned to continue, but it proved so difficult, and I wanted to simply just lie in the sun, pretending I didn't exist. Whe time came to head back to the campus we werent heading the same way. Last year, most of us were going to UNC-Greensboro. Naveed, who held a short position as co-editor, ended up at Chapel Hill; many "withdrew;" some are now on the missing persons list; and I transferred over to Guilford College, a little bity private Quaker school. It is certainly more my style - more challenging and definitely more community oriented.

Happy and now pretty well adjusted, I find myself a bit bored late at night (insomnia). I thought maybe I should give blogging another shot, eh, theres only about 8 million music blogs now anyway, so why not join em'?

Here I am. Here we go.

This go-round I plan to be a bit more personal, I plan to more flexible about what I write.
Tomorrow I will have my first real post, but for now, heres to many more, enjoy these mp3's I dug up around the net for your pleasure. (Expect MANY more mp3's with each post.)


[mp3's]
Deerhoof - L'amour Stories
Thee More Shallows - Freshman Thesis
Joan Of Arc - Fleshy Jeffery
Groove Collective - Sabrosona
The Winks - Snakes!
The Clientele - An Hour Before The Light
Explosions In The Sky - Look Into The Air
Graves - Val K
Norfolk & Western - The Longest Stare
Shelley Short - Like Anything Its Small
Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
Boize Noize - Le Disko Remix
Lady Sovereign - Love Me Or Hate Me (Missy Elliott Remix)
Whitey - A Walk In The Dark
Tom Waits - Bottom Of The World
The Panda Band - Eyelashes
The Rosebuds - Hold On To This Coat
Soul Wax - Miserable Girl
Barton Carroll - Scorched Earth
Barton Carroll - Cat on a Beach
Paul Brill - Paris is On

Peace,
Matt

P.S. - Check out Motel de Moka, where I picked up a few of these songs, its my favorite blog around right now (its in English... sometimes.)