Matthew Dear - “In The Middle (I Met You There) [ft. Jonny Pierce of The Drums]” (by Ghostly International)
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January 24, 2012
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January 23, 2012
“I counted all the clickable visual artifacts in this little bit of screen and got 46; I’d be amazed if anyone else got the same count.”
January 15, 2012
#889: elizabeth cotten - washington blues & a jig (1969)
ms. cotten was jimi hendrix in a turtleneck, but a finer guitarist. and she would say, “i have a little jig i like to play. i don’t know how it came about. i play, then i ask people to name it. some said, ‘name it the birdcall.’ some said, ‘name it the waterfall,’ and somebody told me yesterday—a little something, i don’t know,” instead of lighting her instrument on fire.
January 12, 2012
Justin Townes Earle: “Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now”
The title track to JTE’s fourth album, Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, arrived today, replete with a raw, live-recorded feel befitting of such a surrendered morning after cut. Looking forward to hearing more of the set’s “Memphis-soul direction” soon, but in the meantime, give this promising preview a spin above and/or grab a free download over at RS.
January 12, 2012
"Debuting in 1993, the VCD was the answer to a film pirate’s prayers. VHS bootlegs degraded with each generation of copying, but digital video enabled every copy to be identical to the source disc. The pressing plants that manufactured music CDs could pump out VCDs en masse. By 1998 China had over 500 VCD companies and produced twenty million players per year. By 2000, players were in about a third of urban households. It became identified with low-end, Asia-centered piracy."
January 4, 2012
December 30, 2011
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Wow, completely missed this excellent track last year from Owen Pallett and Shara Worden.
December 28, 2011
Charlie Parker laughing at Coleman Hawkins’s attempt to do playback on his own recorded improvisation
This is the coolest thing ever. In one of two known pieces of footage of Bird performing, the music is pre-recorded and the band is supposed to be pantomiming along. But he clearly thinks it’s stupid and starts to laugh until someone off-camera tells him to stop and then just look at his face. Bird was too cool for this world.
December 26, 2011
December 24, 2011
#886: tom waits - silent night & christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis (1978)
the trick to happy holidays is remembering that one december tom waits met a nun from johnsburg illinois whose convent let her out to celebrate new year’s eve. he found a wedding chapel for them in the yellow pages next to “massage,” and a registrar named watermelon called them mr. tom and ms. kathleen watts. they spent their honeymoon in william blake’s old irish house, where the radio was broken. the man at the front desk they called for assistance had gone out, looking for radio parts, and came back four days later. it was that or they met at a hollywood party while roy brown played. but friends, either way, may a little bit of some kind of heavenly peace be yours, too, this holiday season. see you in 2012.
December 23, 2011
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December 19, 2011
James Blake - A Case of You (by jamesblakeproduction). h/t Paul Miller
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#889: elizabeth cotten - washington blues & a jig (1969)
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#886: tom waits - silent night & christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis (1978)
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