(part 63 in a 1001 part series)
This song is by a guy named Nick Harte who records under the name Shocking Pinks. He is also the drummer for the New Zealand band The Brunettes, who I saw a long time ago opened for the Shins (2005) and whom I wrote about last year.
(part 58 in a 1001 part series)
Certainly not the most inventive or original at all, but damn its catchy as hell. Like most things plugged on Pitchfork, I doubt we’ll remember much about this band in 3 months but who cares right? You can download their only EP at their site.
I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote about Medeski Martin & Wood, this time it’s about “Where’s The Music?,” a song from it’s new children’s album, Let’s Go Everywhere for NPR’s Song of the Day series. To read the full review and hear the song go here.
Continue reading NPR Song Of The Day: Medeski Martin & Wood, ‘Where’s the Music?’
One year (and change) after setting out to complete 12 mini albums in 12 months we’ve come to the end. It’s been an interesting challenge to keep up with, and we think we did pretty well despite not completing a single one by the end of its respective month. It was an exercise to see if we could expand our musicality beyond what we’ve done in the past. It was a way to keep up the momentum over the years despite ever increasing busy-ness between jobs, relationships, house cleaning, and laziness.
I’m not sure what the next year will bring, but I do hope that we can keep up this upward arch and continue to create, collaborate, remix, and produce our own music in our conquest of the internets. Thanks for the memories listeners. — Aryn Crowley, December 2007
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Take a listen for yourself here. Or right click here to DOWNLOAD the entire album.
You can always take us with you via the podcast. And please enjoy the fruits of our MySpace and our Facebook Group.
And most important… leave comments on the blog or via email at decemberEP@hellocomein.com. Enjoy!!
Tracklist:
1. The Last Duel (Crowley)
[audio:https://hellocomein.com/ep/decemberEP/TheLastDuel/01_LastDuel.mp3]
2. Crushed (Johnson\Crowley)
[audio:https://hellocomein.com/ep/decemberEP/TheLastDuel/02_Crushed.mp3]
3. Blood Red Skies (Katzif)
[audio:https://hellocomein.com/ep/decemberEP/TheLastDuel/03_BloodRedSkies.mp3]
4. After Hours (Crowley)
[audio:https://hellocomein.com/ep/decemberEP/TheLastDuel/04_AfterHours.mp3]
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Temporary Setback :: January 2007
Clouded Spaces, Falling Skies :: February 2007
First Pull Up, Second Pull Down, Third Take Away :: March 2007
Ancient Telephones :: April 2007
The Cavalry Arrived Again :: May 2007
Designed In Anticipation Of His Centennial Years :: June 2007
The Rundown :: July 2007
The Ninth Great Fire :: August 2007
Empty Bottles And Dog-Eared Books :: September 2007
I Can Fix Things In The Morning :: October 2007
We Are Full Of Useful Noise :: November 2007
The Last Duel :: December 2007
Check out this nice little performance of “Big Kid Table” by Thao.
Here’s an updated version of this song with some trackings I did this evening. I think it’s an improvement, particularly in the vocal department. I might try toning down the distortedness a bit, but I like them double tracked. Also some empty space left still for a guitar/glock/whistle solo. Anyone? Anyone? Aryn- how would this sound with upright bass?
Okay gents… here is a little change in direction for the song I had been working on… Originally planning for this to be more straight forward and folky but somehow ended up with this. Sort of a combination of the piano sounds on “We Are Abandoned…” mixed with drum stylings of “Autographs” but hopefully its a bit less repetitive and derivative. Vocals coming…once I finish my lyrics.
Thoughts?
[audio:https://hellocomein.com/soundbox/hellomusic_mike/BloodRedSkies_v2b.mp3]
The New York Times has a report this morning about an emerging scandal within the hip-hop sector as Timbaland, 50 Cent and Wyclef Jean are implicated in a steroids investigation. The article explains of the unlikely (yet not shocking) news:
“The spectacle of hip-hop now is so much greater than it’s ever been,” said Jeff Chang, the author of the hip-hop history “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop.” “There’s always the battle aesthetic at work, this idea that you’re going to go up there and show that you’re badder than everybody else. It’s part of the swagger that hip-hop carries.”
While obviously used for gratuitous aesthetic purposes, I do wonder what 50 would sound like without performance enhancing drugs. It certainly didn’t help him outsell Kanye last fall.
Here’s a new song I’ve been working on. I was messing around the other night with some really low, raspy tunings. Listen first to the original scratch track (on nylon) and then the updated one (on steel) with some lyrics. I did fill in the progression a bit from the original, which I do like. Sorry for the sucky off key vocals- apparently I kind of forgot the original verse melody I had going. Any thoughts? How’s the chorus?
Watching end of Packers\Seahawks game tonight and during some stats segment I heard a pretty familiar funky tune that I instantly recognized as a Sesame Street song. I remember Sesame Street always having really great guests and musicians drop by as well as pretty cool songs (and educational too!). Check it out below.
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