Harley Ford - Drunken Driver (2:54)Just in time to serve as a cautionary tale for New Year's Eve, here is an MP3 that is specially tailored to scare the shit out of you and persuade you not to reach for the car keys after hitting the bottle. Unless, of course, you're not particularly disturbed by the possibility that, while driving around drunk, you'll run over and kill two of your own c...
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The Drunken Driver (MP3)
Evan "Funk" Davies's Best of 2008
As is the case every year, this list is based first on a computerized analysis of my playlists from the past year, during which I note how frequently I played songs from the different releases that came out over the past 12 months; and second, on my subsequent re-arrangement of those computerized results based on how much I actually liked everything. This may appear contradictory, but sometimes...
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Top 10 Party Jams of 2008
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I don't think any of these came out in 2008 but they certainly made my 2008 sparkle more than any other songs that came out this year. There are some R ealA udio and mp3 links in here so watch out .Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) Khan Edison vs Pearl Jam - Jeremy (2008 Dub) Solange Knowles - Could've Been the One Fleetwood Mac - The Chain and Bone Thugs n' Harmony - Wind Blow [e...
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Lou Z's Top 10 Things I Heard in 2008
Mr. Lou Z (of the Push Bin and Tale of the Twelve podcast) checks in with his year-end list (all listen links point to real audio):As with any of the lists that I do this changed in my head immediately after I wrote it. I kept everything to a full length or the entire list would be filled with dubstep 12"s. 1. The Bug - London Zoo (Ninja Tune) Poison Dart says it all. Listen2. Future Of The...
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I am big. It's the bank accounts that got small
All around us year-end lists are summing up our collective experiences in an orderly fashion, reminding us of the things we missed or challenging us to change our minds about what we didn't. The last dark day of December is not radically different from the new gray light of January 1st. We wear the same clothing, eat the same out of season foods and continue to seek out places to put the ho...
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I am big. It's the bank accounts that got small
All around us year-end lists are summing up our collective experiences in an orderly fashion, reminding us of the things we missed or challenging us to change our minds about what we didn't. The last dark day of December is not radically different from the new gray light of January 1st. We wear the same clothing, eat the same out of season foods and continue to seek out places to put the ho...
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Recent Faves from the New Bin
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Modern day hardcore bands namedropping Void, Negative Approach and Die Kreuzen automatically throw down the money-where-your-mouth-is gauntlet, so when Austin's Total Abuse does all that and then the singer talks about how he likes to hide behind a wall of power electronics noise and intone to the audience dictator-like, I am skeptical. But with the new weed of HC bands like Fucked Up and Se...
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Wonderful and Obscure Christmas Stuff, Part One (MP3)
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Artist:The Krebs
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For the next four days, I'm going to post one rare Christmas track each day. In two of the four cases, including today, this will a unique recording. I will also continue to post some interesting Christmas material to my own blog .Today's track comes from a home recorded reel of tape, probably from about 1966, featuring a family identified on the box as "The Krebs". There is quite a lot of fami...
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Barnacled Live on WFMU (mp3s) (video)
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Last Tuesday's episode of Talk's Cheap featured Barnacled, an avant-jazz super-group from Providence RI. They have a new album on ESP-Disk called Charles , and played the following set before their record release party at the Bowery Poetry Club with Alan Sondheim and Septimania.Barnacled Live at WFMU on Talk's Cheap 12/16/08 [playlist ] engineered by Trent Wolbe 1. Title (mp3) opening track...
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Christmas Television Vegetation Part Two
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As promised, here is a massive collection of Christmas related television from days of yore. These episodes are culled from a variety of video sites including YouTube, Veoh, Guba, Archive.org and Hulu. Unfortunately the NBC/Universal run Hulu is America-centric and like AOLvideo and ComedyCentral.com is not actually available to people that live in the un-American countries of the world (like...
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Scott McDowell's Top 10 for 2008
Anthony Braxton Diamond Curtain Wall Trio/Quartet - It's fun to watch Anthony Braxton reinvent his group sound with such assurance. And - oh yeah - he continues to inspire a much younger generation of musicians to be relentless. Mary Halvorson Trio - Dragon's Head (Firehouse 12) / Mary Halvorson & Weasel Walter - Opulence (ugExplode) - As Peter Evans did last year, Mary Halvorson reaffirm...
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Happy Life Day, One and All.
Thought it would be a good time to polish off this old chestnut. Happy Holidays!
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Airborne Event's Dan Bodah's Year-end Faves
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Some records that interested Dan Bodah in 2008: Christina Kubisch Five Electrical Walks (listen to "Homage With Minimal Disinformation") Kubisch created headphones equipped to translate electromagnetic fields into audible sound. These recordings reveal the interwoven patterns of electrical fields that penetrate almost every aspect of our environment and are with us in every moment of our l...
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Some More WFMU DJ Top 10 (or so) Lists for 2008
JOE BELOCK (Three Chord Monte) Top 10 hot dogs or clams of 2008 1. Rutt's Hutt , Clifton NJ (hot dog) 2. DP's , Garfield, NJ (clams) 3. Circus Drive-In , Wall, NJ (hot dog) 4. Sawmill , Seaside Park, NJ (clams) 5. Ben's Chili Bowl , Washington DC (hot dog) 6. Spike's , Point Pleasant, NJ (clams) 7. Joe-Joe's , Toms River, NJ (hot dog) 8. Runners , Lavallette, NJ (clams) 9. Frank's Papaya ,...
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Terre T's Top 40
Terre T's Top 40 Best Faves of 2008 1. The GOLDEN BOYS Goodbye Country. Monofonus 2. The BLACK AND WHITES s/t. douche master 3. DENGUE FEVER venus on earth. m80 CD 4. MAGIC CHRISTIAN Evolver. Wizard's Den 5. The NIGHT MARCHERS See You In Magic. Vagrant/Swami 6. GENTLEMAN JESSE s/t. douchemaster 7. CHEAP TIME Cheap Time. In the Red 8. KING KHAN & THE SHRINES The Supreme Genius of.... Vi...
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Wooden Shjips for the Holidays
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Two freak-form MP3s from a newly issued cassette from Bay Area psychsters Wooden Shjips for your holiday pleasure, the analog-loving band's digital gift to all. It wasn't so long ago that WFMU broadcast from the big All Tomorrow's Parties up in the Catskills where the Shjips set many attendees and FMU listeners' minds adrift with their Kraut/Doors/Spacemen 3 flying carpet ride, and they've ...
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Christmas with the Crosby Brothers (MP3s)
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4-Star Fall & Christmas Campaign 1960 (4:30)It's just not Christmas without Bing Crosby crooning those holiday classics. But what about the rest of the Crosby clan? Here's Bing's sons swinging and talking their way through a campaign launch single for Triple S Blue Stamps.Before there were frequent flier miles, shoppers could collect trading stamps every time they shopped. For each dollar you...
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Vote Kennedy / Satan in '60!
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Artist:Bill Franklin
There've been a lot of Kennedys in the news lately, what with the Triborough Bridge being renamed for RFK, Teddy's ill health and now Caroline's gambit for Hillary's Senate seat. I know the bracing winds of change are all a-swirl, but the Hyannis Port horde sure do know how to hog the spotlight. Another Kennedy reference, and a rather bizarre one at that, came to my attention just the other da...
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Mary Halvorson Trio Live on WFMU
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To mark the release of her new recording, Dragon's Head , on Firehouse 12, Mary Halvorson brought her trio down to the WFMU studios to throw down a fire breathing live set for The Long Rally . The band features Ches Smith on drums (Xiu Xiu, Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog), John Hebert on bass (Uri Caine, the late Andrew Hill, his own band, Byzantine Monkey), and Mary Halvorson on guitar (People, ...
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Santa's A Hippie (MP3s)
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Is Santa Claus a hippie? The three recordings below offer testimony on this timely question. Only Linda Cassady votes "no" on the issue, but it's hard to overlook the fact that she provides pretty thin evidence to support her position.Homer & Jethro and Don Sneed, on the other hand, are far more persuasive in making the case that Santa is, in fact, a dirty hippie, what with his psych...
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