New week's releases are up at http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/ - just choose a genre from left and click "magic mix" to stream excerpts from the new releases.
Apparently my Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-12) are ?
Just got back from London, where I picked up Madness's new album, "The Liberty of Norton Folgate" - a ska opera loveletter to Whitechapel/Spitalfields. Mixing that in with new Moby and old Front 242, for some reason. It means something nice to my pleasure center, this week, I guess.
Recently I've been playing Iron & Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days, which is wonderful for cross-city treks. Also I've been playing the new Future of the Left, the new Mars Volta, the new Alexisonfire and King Geedorah's Take Me To Your Leader. All of which are wonderful things.
my top 21 most-listened to songs from last week, accordin' to the thingies what looks at my stuff like that:
1) Leonard Cohen – Anthem 2) PJ Harvey – Rid of Me 3) The Beatles – Hey Jude 4) PJ Harvey – Sheela-Na-Gig 5) Wilco – Kingpin 6) The Beta Band – Dry the Rain 7) The Heartstring Stranglers – la llorona 8) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook – Longing 9) Lori McKenna – In Your Eyes 10) Amanda Palmer – I Will Follow You Into The Dark 11) The Last Dinosaur – Beat It [Michael Jackson cover] 12) PJ Harvey – Lying in the Sun 13) Hush Arbors – Rue Hollow 14) Lift to Experience – Falling From Cloud 9 15) Lift to Experience – With Crippled Wings 16) The Stills – Still in Love Song 17) The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps 18) PJ Harvey – A Perfect Day Elise 19) Laura Marling – Failure 20) The Heartstring Stranglers – la boucherie de henri 21) PJ Harvey – Somebody's Down, Somebody's Name
well, not counting the two bands that i mention too much and everyone is sick of hearing about (you know, HS and DL?) ive been listening to LAWRENCE ARMS-apathy and exhaustion (which, lets be honest, kind of falls apart halfway through the b side. the first 9 tracks are so good though...eagerly awaiting the new 5 song ep!) J CHURCH-society is a carnivorous flower 12" REALICIDE/CAPITAL HEMORRHAGE-split 7"(digital hardcore fuck everything) BEAR VS SHARK- first lp (with the really long name) THE OATH-korperkulture 9" FAILURES-s/t lp (<^mark mccoy much? jeez.)
Lots of Minus 5 and Young Fresh Fellows. Scott McCaughey released records for both last week (and is still happily able to make them sound genuinely like two different bands), and the Minus 5 are coming to T-town on Friday.
Also some old Dylan... recently acquired Blonde On Blonde, Blood On The Tracks and Freewheelin'.
Currently listening to Korallreven - Loved Up through Gorilla vs Bear. Been listening to Miarches by Forest Swords, which is sort of a swampy, darker version of Burial and still free-basing on the Major Lazer LP. Also got the first "The Art of Noise" LP, and it's not as awesome as I was led to believe, the 80's studio technology really throws me off.
Oh and there's a really great record by Phaseone you can download for free, it's called "Thanks But No Thanks". It's got fat beats and really warm synths, I kind of find it similar to Flying Lotus but it's a bit more accessible.
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July 12, 2009
DakhaBrakha - Divka Marusechka Katzen Kapell - Ipek Fanfara Kalashnikov - A Russian Man In Athens
David Crowell Ensemble - Long Goodbye Wayne Horvitz - I'm a Fool Steve Lehman Octet - No Neighborhood Rough Enough Ed Palermo Big Band - Night School Steuart Liebig & The Mentones - Locustland Matt Wilson - Shoostabuster Led Bib - Yes, Again
Varttina - Mataleena Dead Can Dance - Yulunga Outlaw Dervish - Loopophonic Sabah Habas Mustapha - So La Li Holger Czukay - Persian Love Song Jah Wobble - Samsara
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Dubbin Fi Life Adrian Sherwood - Two Versions of The Future Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Kinna Sohna (Bally Sagoo mix) DJ Krush/Toshinori Kondo - Mu-Getsu JG Thirlwell - Assclamp! Ben Neill - Goldbug Loop Guru - Shrine of Sringar
Jaga Jazzist - Animal Chin Hatfield & The North - Son Of "There's No Place Like Homerton" Sleepmakeswaves - We Sing The Body Electric Friends of Dean Martinez - Spoonie Miriodor - Meeting Point The President - Clear The Bridge Laurie Anderson - Blue Lagoon
PJ HARVEY - White Chalk ERIC B & RAKIM - Paid in Full FRIDA HYVÖNEN - Silence is Wild NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - No More Shall We Part DR. DRE - The Chronic KHONNOR - Handwriting ... Plus a healthy amount of BLIND BLAKE!
Listening to Julian Cope's new "Black Sheep" band project, which I can best describe as like his acid campfire Skellington project crossed with the Rite instrumental albums. Good fun, but you have to be in the mood for that kind of repetition. The album's called KISS MY SWEET APOCALYPSE and its already vanished from his webshop, but its available elsewhere. Note that the vinyl and cd editions have slightly different tracklistings.
Then I switched to Bonnie "Prince" Billy's ho-hum BEWARE album and while browsing his record label's site I noticed that Domino have teamed up with faber to produce a new journal about Music:
Looks quite good fun - Simon Reynolds, Jon Savage, and an extract from the new Nick Cave novel. It has an ISBN so I presume it'll be available from most online bookshops.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTuo1sSxCM4">I really like this song.</a> I think the guy I learned it from was a piece of shit, but the song itself is still good.
Listening to a lot of Nouvelle Vague, Pentaphobe, Man Man, and Ella Fitzgerald for the past few days. I never know what to look for in new music, so I rarely do. =/ Going to write down a few of the names you all have listed and check out some new music.