Thursday, January 27, 2011

coming down the mountain.



Julian Lynch - Space Mountain Mix Volume 7

•“Cake” by Fire Party
•“Love In Outer Space” by Sun Ra
•“Like A Sparrow” by The Godz
•“Amusement Parks” from Music Boxes, Carousels, and Hand Organ
•“Goin’ Nowhere Fast” by Beck
•“A New Kind Of Water” by This Heat
•“Fúsi Hreindyr” by Björk Gudmundsdóttir
•“Glass Menagerie Fantasies” by Bobb Trimble
•“Death of a Friend” by Double-O
•“The Great Molasses Flood of 1919” by Dame Darcy
•“Aaj Rapat Jaayen To” by Bappi Lahiri (Asha Bhosle & Kishore Kumar)
•“Please Remember” by Rivers Cuomo
•“My Friend RAIN” by Sun City Girls
•“Freight Train” by Elizabeth Cotten
•“Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord” by Pharoah Sanders


these mixes seriously get better the higher the number gets.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

she waits for the summer to find a lover.



Dirty Gold - California Sunrise

it's like you can almost feel a warm california breeze run through your veins when you listen to this track from west coast natives, dirty gold.

Friday, January 14, 2011

you are so young, a flame left from the sun.



i literally stopped making out with my boyfriend (at the time) the first time i heard this song. honestly one the best goddamn bands ever. very surreal to know she's gone.


r.i.p. trish keenan.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

cause being a mistress is better than being a wife.



1. yellow ostrich is alex schaaf, a one man band living in nyc via wisconsin.

2. yellow ostrich likes to play his live shows with former we are scientists member and current bishop allen drummer, michael tapper.

3. yellow ostrich doesn't believe you have to spend all your hard earned money that hasn't been raped by the economy on his music.

DOWNLOAD ALL THE GOODNESS HERE FOR THE ENTIRE PRICE OF NOTHING!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

last night I saved $1.80 on ice cream at safeway...



Akron/Family - So It Goes


now this is how you get a damn album released:

blow your deadline & ignore the numerous emails/text messages sent from your record label with pleas to finish an album. then out of nowhere send them a large brown box with the words "SHINJU TNT" scrawled across the bottom of it in black magic marker & the only return address being "AK, Detroit." then inside the box you put toy astronauts/dinosaurs, three pictures, a tracklist written in crayon & four blown out song fragments on a TDK CDR in a ziplock bag. a post-it on the bag declares that you refuse to send the full album to anyone but the vinyl pressing plant.

despite the numerous leaked versions of it on the internet as of late, akron/family's "S/T II:The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT" will be out february 8th on dead oceans.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

this must be what heaven looks like.



The Paper Boat - Smokers Can't Tell With Smell

The Paper Boat - We'll Write In Cursive With Satellites

No-Way Sweden - Sparks & Fireworks

No-Way Sweden - Streets of Catalonia

i had the pleasure of hosting a lovely aussie at my apartment a few months back who upon departing left behind some cd's of his for my listening enjoyment. one was of his solo work under the paper boat & one of of his band no-way sweden, both of which were released on the brilliant concept project 500 Dollar Limit.

i seriously wish i could create a "nofussmuss" music genre cause this is what i would tuck this under. nothing over the top or out of control, just blissful songs that make you feel....well.... blissful.

guys like this are what musical soulmates are made out of.