I've been making mix CDs, and going through some albums of old country and jazz. This has reacquainted me with the worst music ever: those "Indian Maiden" songs on old country records. The fake war drum rhythm, the indistinguishable choruses, the racist lyrics. Worst thing ever. When I rip old country albums, I delete anything with "Cherokee" in the title the same way I delete rap skits. That is a
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:http://www.underexposed.org.uk/cameraobscura/obscura1.htmI'm going to Scotland on Sunday, until Halloween. Whee! I've spotted a number of bands on tour in the UK, but so far I'm likely to just miss them all on my personal tour (the Bonding With My Mum Tour, 2006). Still, I am compiling a list in case the stars align.Anybody know some local, up-and-coming bands in Edinburgh, Glasgow, or smaller...
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530nm's post about "MOG crushes":http://mog.com/530nm/blog_post/16212 has me in a trashy kind of mood (edit: in a good way!), so here is my contribution. I am greasing the slippery slope towards mySpace2, with this poorly exposed photo of myself making eyes at you (you are 9 feet tall, naturally), showing off my tshirt. I can't be the only person who secretly loves this kind of silly online sho...
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!http://static.flickr.com/59/221426168_543f7d7428.jpg?v=0!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/bandeapart/221426168/I just added "hrdvsion":http://hrdvsion.com to my list of local bands you should check out. Hrdvsion is a friendly guy named Nathan Johnson, who makes really great experimental electronic music. I think of hrdvsion as a perfect balance of dancey grooves (sometimes it's the bass, sometime...
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Got a rock dad? Old friend in a far-off town? New neighbour of unknown tastes?What albums do you give to these people as gifts?Maybe you know what I mean. I know and love many people who like music, but whose tastes are not very similar to my own, so whenever a gift occasion comes up I find myself making a mental list of universally appealing music to try on them.(I think gift-giving was part of t
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After you've all played the mix tapes you made for the road trip; after you've made fun of the radio; after you've played various guessing and trivia games and made a long list of songs that start with the last letter of other songs or share a word or whatever... the game that never lets me down is this:*Name a perfect album with one unlistenable song*.The example that everyone usually recogniz...
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You know what is cooler than a girl playing bass? A girl *singing* bass.I have a healthy collection of low-voiced women singers (and high-voiced men, naturally), but this morning I am listening to doo-wop and pining for a lady to sing a nice, rumbly bom-sha-bump for me.I don't expect there is a secret underworld of low-voiced women singing doo-wop that one of you can turn me onto, but I wonder if
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I went to a release show for local band "Himalayan Bear":http://myspace.com/himalayanbear on Friday, and I've been listening to the new album over and over since then. It's very summery and relaxing, like being in a hammock. Lazy percussion, quiet guitars, meandering vocal melodies, and usually some other flourish, all apparently inspired by old Hawaii.Try "I'm on Sorrow" or "I Swam With Turtles"
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