Monday, June 18, 2007
 
Sunday, June 17, 2007
I had planned to go home this week, likely very, very soon. You see, I am 4 hours away. I had work. Now I don't. I miss home. Especially when I'm broke. Unfortunately, my primary form of transportation has decided to break. I'm not sure what is wrong, but my Beloved struggles along sounding as if she has become a wheat mill.

In honor of Georgia, my car, I present this weeks mixtape:

1 Dr. Dog - Ain't it Strange
2 Dntel - Roll On (Feat. Jenny Lewis)
3 Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Summer_Wine
4 Red House Painters - Summer Dress
5 The Maccabees - About Your Dress
6 City and Colour - In The Water I Am Beautiful
7 Idaho - Down in the Waves
8 M83 - Unrecorded

9 Sufjan Stevens - For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti (thePunkGuy.com)
10 Devendra Banhart - At The Hop
11 Saturday Looks Good To Me - The Girl’s Distracted
12 Handsome Furs - What We Had
13
Pacha Massive - Drive
14 El Perro Del Mar - It’s All Good|

 
Friday, June 15, 2007
The following track comes from Kansas City band American Catastrophe's upcoming release, Excerpts From the Broken Bone Choir, and it's fairly representative of what the record is all about. Dark, haunting, and sparse, the song rumbles along beneath lyrics concerned with deeds equally shadowy. It's difficult not to make comparisons to other great American gothic artists such as Nick Cave, 16 Horsepower, and Michael Gira when listening to this Kansas City, MO outfit. It's nice to know that there's such cinematic, emotive soundscapes being created out in our heartlands. And while I'm not normally one to go on too long about packaging, this CDs digi-pak fits it like a glove. The cover, all black, with an image of a crow holding an axe in silver is perfect. On the back, the darn thing is sealed in red wax with an AmCat seal (where can I get one of those?). The final touch? A black feather inside the package. Ok, maybe that last bit with the feather is a little muchp, but you have to admit it fits in well with the overall aesthetic.

American Catastrophe - The Well

Here are two exclusive new tracks from the First Blood compilation released by OxBlood Records as well, one from KC masterpieces (haw haw) Ghosty and the other from KC royals (so funny!) The Republic Tigers, who used to be the Golden Republic.

The Republic Tigers - Made Concrete
Ghosty - Make It
 
Thursday, June 14, 2007
When a person experiences great change, the event often totally interrupts ones life, one is likely to turn to a variety of devices in an attempt to overcome the event (i.e. lots and lots of liqour, emo music, crack, whores, crack whores, etc). I turned to a variety of things. Here is a mixtape of emotionally invigorating music and other nonsense. I took a lot of these tracks from the blogosphere, many from this amazing blog: AM180 Thank them for the bandwidth, please.

This weeks playlist.

Pond PA - If you live
Frankel - Tooth decay
YACHT - Its coming to get you
Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
Pigeon Detectives - Left Alone
Ray Charles - Hallelujah I Love Her So
Honeymoon Killers - Laisse tomber les filles
Jil Caplan - Des Toutes Petites Choses
Elias diá Kimuezo - Salambinga
Ari Hest - Bird Never Flies
Meese - Taking the World On
Masta Ace feat. Koolade - Survival
Jason Isbell - Chicago Promenade
Thieves Like Us - Headlong Into Night
Bishop Allen - Flight 180
Sway - Sky is Falling
Apples in Stereo - The Rainbow
Dignan - They're Outnumbered
Schooner - There's Enough To Do
Iron & Wine - Boy With a Coin (an angry ogre came along)
Kristoffer Ragnstam - Dr Give the World a Smile
Bodies of Water - I Guess We'll Forget the Sound, I Guess, I Guess

Does anybody want to go to Louisiana with me? Or better yet, does anybody who lives in Louisiana want to let me sleep on their floor?