playlist, dec. 15, 2008

Charlie Dore - "Pilot of the Airwaves"
Belle and Sebastian - "Sleep the Clock Around" [BBC Session]
Slow Dazzle - "Fleur de Lys"
Blake Jones & The Trike Shop - "Virginia Woolf"
David Bowie - "Future Island / Diamond Dogs"
Rachid Taha - "Rock El Casbah"
Radiohead - "Everything in Its Right Place"
Jonathan Coulton - "Sibling Rivalry"
K. McCarty - "Walking the Cow"
Sufjan Stevens - "That Was The Worst Christmas Ever"
Blitzen Trapper - "Furr"
Mother Mother - "Hayloft"
The Supersuckers - "Born with a Tail"
Junior Bloomsday - "My Perfect Gene"
Modest Mouse - "People As Places As People"
Kien Lim - "Silverstar"
Karen Marguth - "Marie Laveaux"
Ian McGlynn - "Mistaken for Strangers"
Anathallo - "Italo"
Ölaf Arnalds - "Klara"
MGMT - "Time to Pretend"
Hidden Cameras - "Lollipop"
Rademacher - "If U Got Some Magic"
Jürgen Paape - "So Weit Wie Noch Nie"
Harpers Bizarre - "Witchi Tai To"
The Smiths - "The Boy with a Thorn in His Side"
Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On?"
The Decemberists - "Summersong"
Petra Haden - "God Only Knows"
Barbara Morgenstern - "Alles Was Lebt Bewegt Sich"
The Submarines - "Brighter Discontent" (The Styrofoam Remix)
Nina Simone - "Sinnerman"
!!! - "Heart of Hearts"
Hot Chip - "Wrestlers"
Rufus Wainwright - "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk"
She & Him - "You Really Got a Hold on Me"
THe Velvet Underground - "I'm Sticking with You"

playlist, dec. 8, 2008

The Tallest Man on Earth - "Pistol Dreams"
Architecture in Helsinki - "That Beep"
Los Campesinos! - "Miserabilia"
The Ruby Suns - "Tane Mahuta"
Animal Collective - "Water Curses"
The Blue Hawaiians - "We Four Kings"
King Khan and the Shrines - "Torture"
The Raconteurs - "Salute Your Solution" [Live]
Blitzen Trapper - "Furr"
Horse Feathers - "Cur in the Weeds"
Super Lucky Catz - "
Digitalism - "Pogo"
Squarepusher - "Star Time 2"
The BPA - "Toe Jam" [feat. David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal]
Crystal Castles - "Knights"
Liz Phair - "Winter Wonderland"
Thomas Tantrum - "Rage Against the Tantrum"
Ladyhawke - "Magic"
The Raveonettes - "Hallucinations"
Crystal Stilts - "The Sinking"
Kat Jones - "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella"
Belle and Sebastian - "Slow Graffiti" [BBC Session]
Headlights - "Market Girl"
Final Fantasy - "Flare Gun"
Benoît Pioulard - "Ahn"
Beach House - "Home Again"
Low - "Just Like Christmas"
Common Market - "Slow Cure"
Amp Fiddler / Sly & Robbie - "I Fell on the Wagon"
Brett Dennen - "San Francisco"
Del the Funky Homosapien - "Hold Your Hand"
The YMD - "New Direction"
Easy Star All-Stars - "Paranoid Android" [feat. Kirsty Rock]
Leon Redbone & Zooey Deschanel - "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
The Last Shadow Puppets - "The Age of the Understatment"
The Futureheads - "The Beginning of the Twist"
Anathallo - "Italo"
British Sea Power - "All in It"
Snowden - "Christmas Time Is Here"
Rainbow Arabia - "Omar K"
The Bug - "Angry"
The Notwist - "Good Lies"

playlist, dec. 1, 2008

The Decemberists - "Valerie Plame"
Vampire Weekend - "Walcott"
Mother Mother - "Hayloft"
The Gossip - "Standing in the Way of Control" (Soulway Nite Version)
Logistics - "Call Me Back"
Blondie - "Dreaming"
Jaguar Love - "Highways of Gold"
Shout Out Louds - "Impossible" (Possible Version by Studio)
Lou Reed - "Andy's Chest"
Fight Bite - "Swissex Lover"
Belle and Sebastian - "The State That I Am In" (BBC Session)
Fleet Foxes - "Sun It Rises"
Guggenheim Grotto - "Portmarnock Beach Boy Blue"
Sufjan Stevens - "That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!"
Anathallo - "
Death Cab for Cutie - "Pictures in an Exhibition"
The Delgados - "The Night Before We Land"
Jenny Lewis - "Acid Tongue"
Laurie Anderson - "The Fifth Plague (The Death of Livestock)"
Does It Offend You Yeah? - "With a Heavy Heart"
Heartsrevolution - "Switchblade"
Santgold - "Lights Out"
Yelle - Ce Jeu"
Hot Chip - "Hold On" (Switch LDN Remix)
Rivers Cuomo - "Don't Worry Baby"
O'Death - "Fire on Peshtigo"
The Dodos - "Jodi"
Basia Bulat - "Before I Knew"
Otis Redding - "Satisfaction"
Steinski - "The Payoff Mix"
Quiet Village - "Circus of Horror"
Reefer - "Crony Island" [feat. Busdriver]
Amp Fiddler - "I Fell on the Wagon"
Carl Bradley - "Slipping Into Darkness"
Coco Freeman - "The Dark of the Matinee" (Spanish Version) [feat. Franz Ferdinand]
Maus Haus - "We Used Technology (But Technology Let Us Down)"
Her Space Holiday - "The Truth Hurts So This Should Be Painless"
Wintersleep - "Archaeologists"
The Dears - "Money Babies"

playlist, nov. 24, 2008

Vampire Weekend - "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance"
Lou Reed - "Intro / Berlin" [Live]
Circles & Circles - "I Can't Park This Car"
Fight Bite - "The Accident"
The Bug - "Angry"
El Guincho - "Kalise"
Neon Neon - "Steel Your Girl"
Rainbow Arabia - "Let Them Dance"
The Streets - "On the Edge of a Cliff"
Alias - "Well Water Black"
Matthew Dear - "Pom Pom"
Frank Sinatra - "Mood Indigo"
Department of Eagles - "No One Does It Like You"
Dale Watson & The Jordanaires - "In the Jailhouse Now"
Band of Horses - "Our Swords"
Kate Nash - "Mouthwash"
Asobis Seksu - "Taiyo"
Sons & Daughters - "Chains"
Rademacher - "If U Got Some Magic"
Crystal Stilts - "Graveyard Orbit"
Mother Mother - "Wrecking Ball"
The Dodos - "Red and Purple"
Okkervil River - "Calling and Not Calling My Ex"
Band Marino - "I Have a Dream"
Mobius Band - "Subterranean Homesick Alien"
Crystal Antlers - "Arcturus"
Black Mountain - "Queens Will Play"
Modest Mouse - "Invisible"
The Walkmen - "In the New Year"
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - "Cold Son"
Antony & The Johnsons - "Another World"
Passion Pit - "I've Got Your Number"
B. Fleischmann - "A Letter from Home"
Adem - "To Cure a Weakling Child + Boy/Girl Song"
Feist - "The Park"
Portishead - "Silence"
Of Montreal - "Mingusings"
Shogu Tokumaru - "Future Umbrella"
School of Seven Bells - "Face to Face on High Places"
Kaiser Chiefs - "Spanish Metal"

playlist, nov. 17, 2008

Brett Dennen - "San Francisco"
The Beatles - "Dig a Pony"
Eels - "Jelly Dancers"
Tam - "No Cars Go"
Her Space Holiday - "The Heartbreak Moment"
Rademacher - "Arkansas"
Vampire Weekend - "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance"
Mother Mother - "Wrecking Ball"
The Decemberists - "Days of Elaine"
Thomas Tantrum - "Shake It Shake It"
Van She - "Kelly"
The Cure - "The Reasons Why"
Cut Off Your Hands - "Happy as Can Be"
Crystal Stilts - "Dazzled"
The Cool Kids - "What Up Man"
Atmosphere - "You"
BPA [feat. David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal] - "Toe Jam"
Flight of the Conchords - "Inner City Pressure"
Donna Summer - "Our Love"
**Patrick Contreras Live in the KFSR Studios**
Radiohead - "The National Anthem"
My Morning Jacket - "Touch I'm Going to Scream Pt. 1"
AK-MOMO - "Women to Control"
Blonde Redhead - "Top Ranking"
School of Seven Bells - "Iamunderdisguise"
Poplord - "Change in Time for Monday"
Rollo Treadway - "Kidnapped"
Luxury - "Green Hearts"
Lou Reed - "Vicious"
TV on the Radio - "Family Tree"
**Patrick Contreras - Two New Untitled Tracks**
pc muñoz - "Family Matters"
Drencko - "No More"
The Streets - "Everything Is Borrowed"
Chester French - "She Loves Everybody"

playlist, nov. 10, 2008

Jesus and Mary Chain - "Rollercoaster"
Vampire Weekend - "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" (Chromeo Mix)
Stereolab - "Three Women"
School of Seven Bells - "Half Asleep"
Bloc Party - "Mercury"
TV on the Radio - "Dancing Choose"
R.E.M. - "Supernatural Superserious"
The Decemberists - "I'm Sticking with You"
Women - "Upstairs"
Crystal Stilts - "Graveyard Orbit"
Deer Tick - "Art Isn't Real (City of Sin)"
Mother Mother - "Hayloft"
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - "Beat (Health, Life, Fire)"
Cut Off Your Hands - "Happy as Can Be"
Arcade Fire - "(Antichrist Television Blues)"
Thomas Tantrum - "Shake It Shake It"
* The Wheels of Fortune - Live in the KFSR Studio *
Joy Division - "Disorder"
The Tough Alliance - "Something Special"
* Succulent - Live in the KFSR Studio *
Rainbow Arabia - "Omar K"
Donna Summer - "Lucky"
Dengue Fever - "Sober Driver"
Pixies - "Where Is My Mind" [Live]
Animal Collective - "Fireworks"
Blur - "Tender"
Nina Simone - "I Loves You Porgy" [Live]
Roxy Music - "To Turn You On"
Circles & Circles - "Daughters"
Samamidon - "Little Johnny Brown"
Carla Bruni - "Ta Tienne"
Beach House - "Holy Dances"
Shugo Tokumaru - "Clocca"
The Avett Brothers - "Tear Down the House"

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce, Bounce, Bounce

Adult Swim is offering yet another quality free album's worth of material. It's called African Swim, and you can download it here. If you like M.I.A., Spank Rock, and Dizzee Rascal, you might like this. Start with "No More" (Track 5), which is rife with rump-shaking goodness. Be warned: the dirty word can be heard.

playlist, nov. 3, 2008

Blake Jones & The Trike Shop - "Virginia Woolf"
Shogu Tokumaru - "Parachute"
El Guincho - "Kalise"
Of Montreal - "Id Engager"
Why? - "Rubber Traits"
Conor Oberst - "Sausalito"
The Guggenheim Grotto - "Pontmarnock Beach"
Yo La Tengo - "Stay Away from Heaven"
Adem - "Invisible Man"
Antony & The Johnsons - "Shake That Devil"
Gui Boratto - "Scene 1"
The Orb - "Little Fluffy Clouds" (Cumulonimbus Mix)
Alias - "Well Water Black"
Easy Star All-Stars - "Electioneering" [feat. Morgan Heritage]
Sunset Rubdown - "They Took a Vote and Said No"
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - "This Land Is Your Land"
Samamidon - "Wild Bill Jones"
pc Muñoz - "Disappear" [feat. Ingrid Chavez]
Carla Bruni - "You Belong to Me"
James Brittain-Gore - "Sing You to Sleep"
Lampbchop - "Slipped Dissolved and Loosed"
The Cure - The Only One"
Crystal Stilts - "Graveyard Orbit"
The Dears - "Disclaimer"
Kaiser Chiefs - "Spanish Metal"
Shoes - "Like I Told You"
Neon Neon - "I Told Her on Alderaan"
M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" (DFA Remix)
Electric Six - "Danger! High Voltage"
The Faint - "The Geeks Were Right"
The B-52's - "Hot Corner"
Animal Collective - "For Reverend Green"
Mercury Rev - "Senses on Fire"

playlist, oct. 27, 2008

The Helio Sequence - '"Keep Your Eyes Ahead"
YACHT [feat. Bobby Birdman] - "Platinum"
I'm from Barcelona - "Paper Planes"
Mobius Band - "Starts Off with a Bang"
Bjork - "Pagan Poetry" [Live]
Beirut - "Cliquot"
Of Montreal - "An Eluardian Instance"
Yo La Tengo - "Little Eyes"
The Shaky Hands - "A New Parade"
The Kills - "Last Day of Magic"
Future Islands - "Follow You"
TV on the Radio - "Stork & Owl"
Blitzen Trapper - "Gold for Bread"
My Morning Jacket - "Heartbreakin Man"
Mavis Staples - "Eyes on the Prize"
Raphael Saadiq - "Big Easy"
B.B. King - "How Blue Can You Get?" [Live]
The Sleepover Disaster - "Over the Top"
The National - "Apartment Story"
Emiliana Torrini - "Me and Armini"
Takka Takka - "Everybody Say"
Juana Molina - "Rio Seco"
Deer Tick - "Art Isn't Real (City of Sin)"
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - "Rise Up with Fists!!!"
Steinski - "Lesson 3 (History of Hip Hop)"
GZA / Genius - "0% Finance"
Belle and Sebastian - "Expectations"
Joy Division - "Transmission"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Cheated Hearts"
Horse Feathers - "Curs in the Weeds"
Department of Eagles - "No One Does It Like You"
Death Vessel - "Jitterakadie"
Patsy Cline - "Lovesick Blues"
Rocky Votolato - White Daisy Passing"
Bishop Allen - "Middle Management"
Neon Neon - "Raquel"
Modest Mouse - "Ocean Breathes Salty"
Portugal. The Man - "Lay Me Back Down"
Deerhoof - "The Tears and Music of Love"
Tobacco - "Truck Sweat"

another mixplace

Today I discovered the blog of Atlas Sound / Deerhunter / Lotus Plaza (aka Bradford Cox), and posts MANY, MANY free tracks there, so visit it. I'm currently listening to his October Micromix, which is verah naice. Check it out here.

playlist, oct. 20, 2008

The Panics - "Get Us Home"
Department of Eagles - "No One Does It Like You"
Joan as Police Woman - "To Be Loved"
Flying Lotus - "Orbit Brazil"
Dead Can Dance - "Ullyses"
Stereolab - "Silver Sands"
Matthew Dear - "Don and Sherri"
Stars - "Set Yourself on Fire" (Final Fantasy Remix)
Vivian Girls - "Where Do You Run To"
Throw Me the Statue - "Young Sensualists"
Jenny Lewis - "Jack Killed Mom"
Samamidon - "Wedding Dress"
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - "Geography"
Raine Maida - "Yellow Brick Road"
Elastica - "I Want You"
My Teenage Stride - "Theme from Teenage Suicide"
Future Islands - "Pretty Riffy"
The Kills - "Last Day of Magic"
Women - "Shaking Hand"
TV on the Radio - "Dancing Choose"
Common Market [feat. Funklove] - "Nina Sing"
Roots Manuva - "Kick Up Ya Foot"
Subtle - "The No"
Amp Fiddler / Sly & Robbie - "Crazy Day"
Augustus Pablo - "Keep on Dubbing"
Thievery Corporation - "33º"
Tobacco - "Street Trash"
Deastro - "Michael, the Lone Archer of the Shore"
Starfucker - "Florida"
Prints - "Easy Magic"
Hot Lava - "Apple + Option + Fire"
Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground"
Caribou - "Melody Day"
The Knife - "Marble House"
Pixies - "Where Is My Mind?" [Live]
Marnie Stern - "Prime"
Crystal Antlers - "Vexation"
Battles - "Atlas"

playlist, oct. 13, 2008

Black Keys - "All You Ever Wanted"
Jaguar Love - "Highways of Gold"
Jaguar Love - "Jaguar Pirates"
Sparklejet - "Emilio"
Portishead - "Silence"
Bjork - "The Dull Flame of Desire"
Samamidon - "Wedding Dress"
Marvin Gaye - "Inner City Blues" [Live]
Santogold - "L.E.S. Artistes"
Adem - "To Cure a Weakling Child / Boy/Girl Song"
Antony and the Johnsons - "Another World"
Elton John - "Daniel"
pc muñoz - "Family Matters"
Steinski - "Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix)
Feist - "So Sorry"
Department of Eagles - "In Ear Park"
Beck - "Chemtrails"
TV on the Radio - "Dancing Choose"
The Who - "5:15"
Elastica - "2:1"
Blake Jones & The Trike Shop - "Snapshots"
Brian Kenney Fresno - "Bobby Salazar"
The Neptunes - "Full Color Mojo"
Rademacher - "MAGIC MTN PKWY"
Okkervil River - "Lost Coastlines"
Why? - "A Sky for Shoeing"
Vivian Girls - All the Time"
Blondie - "Dreaming"
Future Islands - "Changing Your Life"
The Tough Alliance - "Miami"
Doveman - "Footloose"
Hercules and Love Affair- "Theme from Hercules"
Van She - "Kelly"
Sparks - "I Thought I Told You to Wait in the Car"
The High Decibels - "Miss Cindy"
M.I.A. - "Bucky Done Gun"
Stereolab - "One Finger Symphony"
Portugal. The Man - "And I"

playlist, oct. 6, 2008

Okkervil River - "Lost Coastlines"
Rocky Votolato - "White Daisy Passing"
Jenny Lewis - "Bad Man's World"
Final Fantasy - "This Is the Dream of Win and Regine"
Noah and the Whale - "Atoms in a Molecule"
The Aluminum Group - "Chocolates"
Mercury Rev - "Senses on Fire"
Stereolab - Lo Boob Oscillator [BBC Session]
Belle & Sebastian - "Expectations"
TV on the Radio - "Dancing Choose"
Beck - "Gamma Ray"
M83 - "You, Disappearing"
Common Market - "40 Furrows"
The High Decibels - "Duke Gonna Get Em"
My Teenage Stride - "Theme from Teenage Suicide"
Vampire Weekend - "Campus"
Asobi Seksu - "I'm Happy But You Don't Like Me"
Jonquil - "Putting Names to Faces"
Deerhoof - "Offend Maggie"
The Orb - "The Truth Is..."
Neon Neon - "Dream Cars"
Alias - "I Heart Drum Machines"
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - "Dawn of the Dead"
40 Watt Hype - "Controversy"
Rademacher - "Today Is Different"
Bright Eyes - "First Day of My Life" [Live at KCRW]
Big Star - "Give Me Another Chance"
Mia Doi Todd - "Sleepless Nights"
Lambchop - "OH (Ohio)"
Joan as Police Woman - "To Be Loved"
Dungen - "Sätt Att Se"
Crystal Antlers - "Vexation"
Women - "Black Rice"
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - "Elmo Delmo"
The Walkmen - "In the New Year"
Kings of Leon - "Closer"
Ra Ra Riot - "Each Year"

playlist, sept. 29, 2008

The Who - "Dancing in the Street"
Morrissey - "The Loop"
Luxury - "Green Hearts"
Future Islands - "Follow You"
Daedelus - "Get Off Your Hi-Hats"
DJ Bitman - "La Raza" [feat. Juan Sativo]
Terry Lynn - "Kingstonlogic"
Daft Punk - "Around the World / Harder Better Faster Stronger" [Live]
Sonic Youth - "Superstar"
The Cave Singers - "Seeds of the Night"
Fleet Foxes - "Blue Ridge Mountains"
Jenny Lewis - "Acid Tongue"
American Football - "Honestly?"
TV on the Radio - "Golden Age"
Prints - "Easy Magic"
The Tough Alliance - "Miami"
Ra Ra Riot - "Ghost Under Rocks"
The Faint - "The Geeks Were Right"
B.B. King - "How Blue Can You Get?" [Live]
Raphael Saadiq - "Sure Hope You Mean It"
pc muñoz - "Family Matters"
Cadence Weapon - "Unsuccessful Club Nights"
High Decibels - "Crash with No Cushion"
Bappi Lahiri, Usha Uthup - "Auva Auva Koi Yahan"
Of Montreal - "Jimmy"
Starfucker - "Florida"
Fujiya & Miyagi - "Uh"
Lali Puna - "Nin-Com-Pop"
Lambchop - "Ohio"
Rademacher - "Not My Home"
Tiger Lillies - "Roll Up"
Hot Chip - "Hold On"
Rafter - "Noise"
Why? - "Song of the Sad Assassin"
The Orb - "A Beautiful Day"

playlist, sept. 22, 2008

Noah and the Whale - "Shape of My Heart"
Human Highway - "The Sound"
Rufus Wainwright - "Across the Universe"
Common Market - "Back Home (The Return)"
Céu - "Malemolência"
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - "Northern Whale"
Daedelus - "My Beau" (feat. Paperboy & Erika Rose)
The Monitors - "Greetings (This Is Uncle Sam)"
Ra Ra Riot - "Ghost Under Rocks"
The Walkmen - "The New Year"
Future Islands - "Changing Your Life"
The Smiths - "Rusholme Ruffians"
Vampire Weekend - "Oxford Comma"
The High Decibels - "Miss Cindy"
King Khan and the Shrines - "Torture"
Terry Lynn - "Kingstonlogic"
Chemical Brothers - "Block Rockin' Beats"
Moby - "Alice"
The London Suede - "New Generation"
The Dalloways - "Dirty Money and Filthy Love"
Lackthereof - "Choir Practice"
Parenthetical Girls - "Four Words"
Shugo Tokumaru - "Clocca"
Final Fantasy - "The Arctic Circle"
Stereolab - "Self Portrait with 'eclectric brain'"
Portugal. The Man - "Colors"
Conor Oberst - "Souled Out!!!"
The DIrty Projectors - "Hyperballad"
Beck - "Walls"
The Rumble Strips - "No Soul"
El Guincho - "Palmitos Park"
pc muñoz - "Chatter & Buzz" (feat. Micropixie)
Alias - "Well Water Black" (feat. Why?)
The Notwist - "Where in This World"
Sinead O'Connor - "Jerusalem"
Hot Chip - "Wrestlers"
Starfucker - "German Love"
Crystal Castles - "Courtship Dating"
Styrofoam - "No Happy Endings" (feat. Erica Driscoll)

playlist, sept. 15, 2008

Okkervil River - "Singer Songwriter"
Fleet Foxes - "Oliver James"
Damien Jurado - "Caskets"
Glen Mansard & Markéta Irglová - "Lies"
She & Him - "You Really Got a Hold on Me"
Joan as Police Woman - "To America"
Subtle - "Hollow Hollered"
Deastro - "Michael, the Lone Archer of the Shore"
The Presets - "Kicking & Screaming"
The Faint - "The Geeks Were Right"
Black Kids - "I Wanna Be Your Limousine"
Patsy Cline - "She's Got You"
Gretchen Phillips - "Hello, Darling"
Jonquil - "Whistle Low"
Beck - "Gamma Ray"
Stereolab- "Chemical Chords"
Luciano Bahia - "Queda"
King Khan & The Shrines - "Took My Lady to Dinner"
Pink Floyd - "Pow R. Toc H."
Takka Takka - "Monkey Forest Road"
Spoon - "The Ghost of You Lingers"
The Helio Sequence - "Keep Your Eyes Ahead"
Hercules and Love Affair - "Time Will"
White Williams - "New Violence"
The Roots (feat. Jill Scott and Eve) - "You Got Me"
pc muñoz (feat. Micropixie) - "Chatter & Buzz"
Aesop Rock - "Gun for the Whole Family"
Lykke Li - "Melodies & Desires"
High Places - "The Modern Things"
Radiohead - "Everything in Its Right Place"
Fujiya & Miyagi - "Uh"
Passion Pit - "Sleepyhead"
The Chemical Brothers - "The Golden Path"
Dr. Dog - "Hang On"
Delta Spirit - "People C'mon"
Starfucker - "Florida"
The Walkmen - "In the New Year"

I ♥ fresno

"Burglar victims wake to spice rub, sausage attack"

By Louis Galvan / The Fresno Bee

A burglar who broke into a home just east of Fresno rubbed spices over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to whack the other man on the face and head before running out of the house, Fresno County sheriff's deputies said Saturday.

Lt. Ian Burrimond, describing the crime as one of the strangest he's ever heard of, said a suspect was found hiding in a nearby field a few minutes later and taken into custody on suspicion of residential robbery.

Deputies, he said, had no problem linking the suspect to the crime.

"It seems the guy ran out of the house wearing only a T-shirt, boxer shorts and socks, leaving behind his wallet with his ID," Burrimond said.

Arrested was Antonio Vasquez, 22, of Fresno.

Burrimond said deputies headed to the victims' home in the 300 block of South Thompson Avenue near Kings Canyon Road shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday regarding a burglary in progress.

The victims, both farmworkers, told deputies they were awakened by a stranger applying spices to one of them and striking the other with a sausage.

Both the spices and the sausage, Burrimond said, reportedly were obtained from the victims' kitchen.

After the man fled, the victims discovered the home had been ransacked and that some money was taken, Burrimond said.

Burrimond said the money was recovered, but that the piece of sausage used in the attack was discarded by the suspect and eaten by a dog.

"That's right, the dog ate the weapon," Burrimond said.

"I tell you, this was one weird case."

playlist, sept. 1, 2008

Marching Band - "Gorgeous Behavior"
The Dutchess and the Duke - "Reservoir Park"
Delta Spirit - "Strange Vine"
Fujiya & Miyagi - "Knickerbocker"
Lykke Li - "Breaking It Up"
Matthew Dear - "Neighborhoods"
Neon Neon - "I Told Her on Alderaan"
The Tough Alliance - "Something Special"
Stereolab - "Three Women"
Luna - "Lovedust"
Jonquil - "Whistle Low"
Sunny Day Set Fire
Alias - "Well Water Black" [feat. Why?]
Modeselektor - "Let Your Love Grow"
Neneh Cherry - "I've Got U Under My Skin"
pc muñoz - "Disappear" [feat. Ingrid Chavez]
Bitter:Sweet - "Come Along with Me"
The Watson Twins - "How Am I to Be"
Amy Ray - "Bus Bus"
Holly Golightly - "I Hear You"
Dolly Parton - "Drives Me Crazy"
Laura Cantrell - "Trains and Boats and Planes"
Carla Bruni - "Ta Tienne"
Blake Jones & The Trike Shop - "Clever Things"
Rademacher - "What Yr Used to Back at Home"
Poplord - "What's Beneath"
James Brittain-Gore - "Rustle in the Leaves"
TV on the Radio - "Dancing Choose"
Sons & Daughters - "Chains"
The Dandy Warhols - "Wasp in the Lotus"
Takka Takka - "Silence"
Wolf Parade - "Soldier's Grin"
Hercules and Love Affair - "Athene"
King Khan & The Shrines - "Torture"
The Faint - "The Geeks Were Right"
Architecture in Helsinki - "Like It or Not" (El Guincho Remix)
Beck - "Gamma Ray"
M.I.A. - "Hombre"
Rafter - "Magic"
Ladytron - "Kletva"

cherry tomato salad

I subscribe to Cook's Illustrated magazine, and even though there aren't many vegetarian repices featured in their publications, what few they include are usually very good. Last night I made the Greek Cherry Tomato Salad that was featured in the July/August 2008 issue. It turned out well, so I thought I'd share the goodness:

Greek Cherry Tomato Salad

2 pints ripe cherry tomatoes, quartered (about 4 cups)
Table salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar
2 medium garlic cloves , minced or pressed through garlic press (about 2 teaspoons)
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1 medium shallot, minced (about 3 tablespoons)
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Ground black pepper
1 small cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut into 1/2-inch dice
1/2 cup chopped pitted kalamata olives
4 ounces feta cheese, crumbled (about 1 cup)
3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves

1. Toss tomatoes, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and sugar in medium bowl; let stand for 30 minutes. Transfer tomatoes to salad spinner and spin until seeds and excess liquid have been removed, 45 to 60 seconds, stirring to redistribute tomatoes several times during spinning. Return tomatoes to bowl and set aside. Strain tomato liquid through fine-mesh strainer into liquid measuring cup, pressing on solids to extract as much liquid as possible.
2. Bring 1/2 cup tomato liquid (discard any extra), garlic, oregano, shallot, and vinegar to simmer in small saucepan over medium heat. Simmer until reduced to 3 tablespoons, 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer mixture to small bowl and cool to room temperature, about 5 minutes. Whisk in oil and pepper to taste until combined. Taste and season with up to 1/8 teaspoon table salt.
3. Add cucumber, olives, feta, dressing, and parsley to bowl with tomatoes; toss gently and serve.

You can find the recipe with illustrations and a video here, although you may need to be a subscriber to the Cook's Illustrated site to access these.

The trick here is to salt and spin the tomatoes so as to get rid of the excess liquid, but then to use the strained liquid for the tomato vinaigrette. It may sound like extra work, but it's not really, and it's worth the effort to keep the salad from getting waterlogged.

The tomatoes I used were a mixture of green, red, and yellow heirlooms, which were both tasty and attractive.

here's another one

I made another 8tracks mix yesterday. This one is comprised mainly of abstract/left-field/kinda hip-hop.

PR, episode 7

1.) Keith is out. I can't say I'm wholly surprised, but I am a little sad to see him go, especially because he was so obviously sad to go. (His uncontrolled weeping at the end of the episode was, in my opinion, sincere and touching.) I liked Keith for a couple of reasons. One, he was obviously very easy on the eyes. But also, as a gay ex-Mormon who lived in Salt Lake City, I identified with Keith, and I wanted to see him succeed. I also don't think he was as nasty as the show made him out to be. There were moments when he was not only polite to his fellow contestants, but truly helpful. He even broke down when Daniel was aufed.
2.) All that said, Keith was just not making it as a PR contestant. His ego and his defensiveness got in the way of his ability to absorb criticism and improve his work, and at this stage in his career, he is simply was not as good a designer as he thinks he is. This last episode demonstrated his central problem: he hasn't demonstrated that he could step outside his world of fashion-as-conceptual-art and create a chic, well-tailored, wearable garment (although he went some way to doing this in the Brooke Shields challenge). He has been hiding behind all those strips and swatches and poofs, and when he finally decided to throw them to the wind, it became clear that he has a long way to go before he can claim to be a truly accomplished, versatile designer.
3.) The car parts challenge was good, and, for the most part, the contestants stepped right up to it. I did find it surprising that nearly everyone pulled what appeared to be bright yellow airbags from the cars, and yet there wasn't a sign of these on any of the outfits. What are airbags made of that they seem to be such limiting choices of material? Maybe it was the color.
4.) I'm glad Leanne won. I think she is turning out to be the dark horse of the season. Now that the other mousy girls have gone, it's easier to distinguish who she is, appreciate her personality, and zero in on her aesthetic. Her dress was interesting, clearly well made, and she was one of the few to manage some softness (the seat belt fringe) out of the largely unforgiving and rigid fabrics. I loved the seams, loved the shape, and it just looked flawlessly executed.
5.) Korto's was also good, but there were so many seat-belt dresses, and I quickly got tired of that color and that sheen. Still, she worked the seat-belts in an original manner, and she made a beautiful, well-made, and intriguing garment.
6.) Jerrell's was good, too, and I'm glad he finally got some love. He'd been making these ridiculous get-ups for too long, and this one was sophisticated, interesting, and innovative. If he can keep moving in this direction (and away from his Olympics monstrosity), he might have a chance.
7.) Blayne's car wash dress was a mess. Even though Keith's was ugly, poorly made, and falling to pieces, I kinda wanted Blayne to get the boot, because his designs are consistently bad, and he persists at being an annoying idiot. And Blayne's was only better than Keith's by a stitch.
8.) Kenley's meltdown over having to use a different model was ridiculous. I mean, look at those models--they're all basically the same height, and they pretty much all wear the same size. They're essentially interchangeable--that's why they're fashion models! Kenley was just trying to get the cameras on her, and it worked. Her dress was OK. It helps when she isn't allowed to choose ugly prints. (But notice how she was still determined to make one with her sharpie.) She should have dyed that frill or something.
9.) Suede made the same ballerina/cheerleader dress he's been making all along. It seems to me that he's making up for his lack of ideas by getting overklempt and weeping over his dead forebears (last week grandpa, this week dad). I find it pretty silly. Both "wackadoodle" Suede and "miss you so much, papa!" Suede are equally annoying. He's a bad designer, he looks terrible, and he makes bad clothes. He's pathetic. He needs to go.
10.) Mercifully, we saw little of Joe in action this time. Was that a brand name on his model's chest? He's such a brown-noser...
11.) I have to say that I'm warming up to Stella, but her outfit this time was pretty much garbage. At least from the waist down. She fell into the same trap Keith did: she tried too hard to give the judges what she felt they wanted. At least unlike Keith, she only did this from the waist down. Her top was OK, but it was dull. It looked a lot like Kenley's.
12.) Everybody better watch for Terri, and I don't mean because she's so great. She's good, but this last outfit was just fine, nothing more. No, they need to watch out for her claws. Still, she's entertaining. I liked watching her roll around giggling on the floor. She's talented, and it's just a matter of time before the judges finally acknowledge her. If I had to predict who's going to fashion week, I'd say Terri, Korto, and Leanne.

all mixed up

I was kinda bummed to hear that muxtape got the axe from the rotten RIAA, but there's a new kid in town, and he's called 8tracks. The folks at 8tracks claim to be legal, and from what I've read, it sounds like they are. I hope they make it. You can create any number of mixes by uploading tracks, organizing your mix (it must include at least eight tracks), and sharing it with other 8tracksters. Here's my first. Tell me what you think:



Now go make your own mix.

playlist, aug. 25, 2008

Horse Feathers - "Curs in the Weeds"
My Morning Jacket - "Evil Urges"
Jonquil - "Whistle Low"
Nimat Davis - "Number Two"
pc muñoz - "Disappear" (feat. Ingrid Chavez)
Duffy - "Mercy"
The Cool Kids - "Mikey Rocks"
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - "Bonnie and Clyde"
Stereolab - "Valley Hi!"
The B-52's - "Hot Corner"
Marching Band - "Make No Plans"
Big Star - "September Gurls"
Beck - "Walls"
Baskervilles - "John Riley and the Housewives Who Love Him"
Astronautalis - "Something for the Kids"
Why? - "Fatalist Palmistry"
Nimat Davis - "Number Two"
Theresa Andersson - "Birds Fly Away"
Herbaliser - "On Your Knees" (feat. Jessica Darling)
Daedelus - "My Beau" (feat. Paperboy & Erika Rose)
Poplord - "Change in Time for Monday"
Pixies - "Wave of Mutilation" (UK Surf) [Live] (Indianapolis, IN - 6/7/2005)
Radiohead - "Just"
Dwight Yoakum - "I Want You to Want Me"
Frightened Rabbit - "The Twist"
The Ruby Suns - "Tane Mahuta"
El Guincho - "Palmitos Park"
Isaac Hayes - "Never Can Say Goodbye"
Basia Bulat - "Before I Knew"
Takka Takka - Monkey Forest Road"
Cat Power - "New York / Ramblin' Woman"
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - "Nobody's Baby"
Johnny Cash - "Legend in My Time"
The Mountain Goats - "Sax Rohmer, Pt. 1"
Bon Iver - "Creature Fear"
Johnny Cash - "If You Could Read My Mind"
Yo La Tengo - "I Feel Like Going Home"
This Mortal Coil - "You and Your Sister"
The Faint - "The Geeks Were Right"
Cornelius - "Gum"
Hercules and Love Affair - "Hercules Theme"
Santogold - "Creator"

piece of...

Thanks to my friend Donald for drawing my attention to this blog dedicated to cake catastrophes in all their myriad manifestations. Cakeypal? Are you paying attention?

PR, episodes 5 & 6

I missed episode 5, so I got caught up this past week and watched 5 and 6 back to back.

Observations:

1.) I'm surprised to be saying this, but Kenley and Joe have trumped Suede and Blayne at being the most annoying contestants.
2.) Brooke Shields looked great, and she was a good client and a good judge. I liked that she was by turns sweet and bitchy. Still, she never did quite articulate what she wanted.
3.) Even though she headed the team that produced the losing outfit, Kelli shouldn't have gotten the boot. It should have been that lazy whiner, Daniel. Kelli was fun, and she wasn't a terrible designer. But she sure made some bad choices with that leopard-print eyes-for-tits dress.
4.) Boy did Terri turn out to have claws. I don't think Suede deserved all that abuse. I mean, why on earth did she make him responsible for that blouse to begin with? He seemed absolutely sincere when he expressed reservations about being able to do it properly, and Terri just kept ripping into him. And what was she doing while Suede was working? Those slacks could not have been that hard to do. Notice how once Tim thought the top was good, Terri fell in love with it. Quote of the evening: "I don't know what he's packing, balls or vajayjay, but he needs to work that out 'cause I ain't got no babies, ain't nobody sucking on my titties. So please, man up."
5.) Kenley's giggling at Daniel was just outright mean. Yes, he's laughable, but pointing and laughing is the audience's job. And in the following episode and in his exit interview, he still seemed to consider her a friend. With friends like those...
6.) I'm really glad that Keith was able to quash Kenley's slew of bad ideas. I loved the look on Tim's face when he picked up Kenley's floral print. I'm not convinced theirs was the best dress, however. In fact, none of those dresses impressed me.
7.) I'm absolutely sick of Joe. I'm tired of him parading his heteronormalcy, his paternity, and his discomfort with queens at every opportunity. His open-mouthed fake perma-smile is nearly as irritating as Kenley's cackle. And he should not have thrown Korto under the bus in front of Tim. I have two words for you, Joe: Wendy. Pepper.
8.) That said, I can see why he won the drag queen challenge. He produced a very appropriate outfit for Varla Jean Merman, and he made her ass look great. I hope this is the only challenge he wins, however. He wins the award for most-annoying-straight-guy contestant on PR.
9.) The guys over at Project RunGay are right: Varla Jean Merman-as-a-man is really hot.
10.) Terri's drag queen outfit was also good--I mean, you have to pull out all the stops for a drag queen whose name is Betty Acid. But Korto's was my favorite. It had glitz, flames, volume, and it was a completely appropriate and flattering look for a big girl like Sweetie.
11.) Blayne's number was boring and poorly constructed. Did the judges not see that broken airplane wing--or whatever it was? It's just a matter of time before Blayne gets the boot. His designs are consistently bad, and he has exhausted his two-note shtick.
12.) It was great to see Chris March again. His feedback in the sewing room was spot on. I still feel he was robbed last season, as I think his outfits were much more interesting than Rami's. I just about laughed myself off the sofa when he and Heidi marched off the runway for German food, and she said, "Pretzels and Be-ah" in a dead-on Schwarzenegger imitation.

playlist, aug. 18, 2008

Mirah - "Lone Star"
The Avett Brothers - "Souls Like Wheels"
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - "Bookworm"
Fleet Foxes - "Blue Ridge Mountains"
Yo La Tengo - "Sometimes I Don't Get You"
The Notwist - "Good Lies"
Duffy - "Stepping Stone"
She & Him - "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?"
Black Kids - "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You"
Hercules & Love Affair - "Hercules Theme"
Flight of the Conchords - "Hiphopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros (feat. Rhymenocerous and the Hiphopotamus)
Barry Louis Polar - "All I Want Is You"
The Raconteurs - "Five on the Five"
The Go! Team - "Ladyflash"
LCD Soundsystem - "North American Scum"
Sereolab - "Three Women"
The Kills - "M.E.X.I.C.O."
The Cure - "Close to Me"
No Kids - "For Halloween"
pc muñoz - "Disappear" (feat. Ingrid Chavez)
Billie Holliday - "Glad to Be Unhappy" (DJ Logic Remix)
Bitter:Sweet - "Come Along with Me"
Daedelus - "Make It So" (feat. Michael Johnson)
Beck - "Walls"
David Dondero - "Mighty Mississippi!"
Poplord - "Rent One from Jane"
James Brittain-Gore - "Rustle in the Leaves"
The Who - Odorono"
Dr. Dog - "The Breeze"
Karen Marguth - "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing"
The Octopus Project - "Bay vs. Leonard"
Black Mountain - "Queens Will Pay"
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - "Cold Son"
Marching Band - "Gorgeous Behavior"
Theresa Andersson - "Birds Fly Away"
Man Man - "The Ballad of Butter Beans"
The Black Keys - "The Wicked Messenger"
Delta Spirit - "People C'mon"
Beach House - "Gila"
Horse Feathers - "Albina"
HEALTH//DISCO - "Crimewave" (Crystal Castles vs. HEALTH)

playlist, aug. 11, 2008

The Avett Brothers - "St. Joseph's"
Cat Power - "Lord, Help the Poor & Needy"
James Brittain-Gore - "I Know a Soul"
Takka Takka - "The Takers"
Kelley Stoltz - "Everything Begins"
Dr. Dog - "The Breeze"
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - "Bag of Hammers"
Dengue Fever - "Sober Driver"
Architecture in Helsinki - "Like It or Not" (El Guincho Remix)
Beck - "Gamma Ray"
DJ Bitman - "El Diablo" (feat. Jimmy Fernandez)
El Lele de Los Van Van - "High and Dry" (feat. Radiohead)
Jens Lekman - "A Postcard to Nina"
The Cool Kids - "A Little Bit Cooler"
Why? - "Fatalist Palmistry"
Presto - "What's What" (feat. Fatlip & Kim Hill)
CSS - "Rat Is Dead (Rage)"
The Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Get What You Want ) (Remixed and Re-edited by Soulwax)
Brian Eno / David Byrne - "Help Me Somebody"
Hercules and Love Affair - "Blind"
The Orb - "DDD (Dirty Disco Dub)"
Mylo - "In My Arms"
Calvin Harris - "Acceptable in the 80s"
Carla Bruni - "Ta Tienne"
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - "Daytripper"
Patti Smith - "Redondo Beach"
Cocteau Twins - "Carolyn's Fingers"
Essie Jain - "You"
Lavender Diamond - "Open Your Heart"
The Octopus Project - "An Evening with Rthrha"
Sparklejet - "Emilio"
Mudhoney - "I'm Now"
The Raconteurs - "Five on the Five"
Albert Hammond, Jr. - "Gfc"
Fiery Furnaces - "Sweet Spot"
Fleet Foxes - "White Winter Hymnal"
Subtle - "Hollow Hollered"
Ratatat - "Flynn"
Dosh - "Don't Wait for the Needle to Drop"
Radiohead - "How to Disappear Completely"
Portishead - "Machine Gun"

PR, episode 4

Observations about last week's show:

1.) Suede and Blayne weren't as annoying as they've been, but I still haven't warmed up to them. The best thing that could happen to Blayne would be his being prevented from entering another tanning salon. Ever. Again.
2.) Daniel probably should have gone home for that sad cocktail dress, but it was only a matter of time before Jennifer got the boot. And she still keeps yammering on about her "surrealism"!?!? Someone needs to sit her down for a little Art History 101. Cutsey-wootsey is not surreal, Jennifer. And your insisting upon that point will never make it so.
3.) Joe revealed himself to be a real manbitch: first he got strangely territorial about the sewing machines, and then he complained about all the "queens" he had to work with. Joe, on this show, homophobia is the quickest way to alienate the judges, your fellow contestants and your viewers, so if that's what you're after, keep it up.
4.) However, Joe's skort was OK. It's true that it had a length problem as Michael Kors noted, and I thought writing "USA" on the front was overkill. Plus the lettering was in an ugly font. I'm glad he didn't win because all of his "Oh, I do sportswear," and "Only I understand sportswear," and "Sportswear is my middle name," and "Bring it on!" was getting really irritating.
5.) Jerrell: wtf???
6.) Kelli: wtf???
7.) Bettie Page: she's going to work every last nerve with that loathsome giggle.
8.) Korto's outfit was good, but not stunning. It was fine, and it probably deserved to win. Then again, nobody produced a stunning number for this challenge. I'm glad she won because I like her: I think she's both entertaining and talented.
9.) There was a tantalizing flare up between Terry and Keith, but it went nowhere. I have a feeling that much of this season's "drama" is going to work along those lines.
10.) It's really time the contestants stop saying "I have no idea where we're going!" at the outset of each challenge. It's like that person at the movie theater who sits behind you and observes, "Oh look! Now he's got a gun!" Stating the obvious makes you look stupid. Then again, I'll bet the show's producers insist on that, asking the contestants, "So, where do you think you're going?"
11.) Nina was right on last night. I love it when the camera first catches her and she has this look on her face that says, "You're all going down."
12.) Apolo Ohno was cute.

did someone say drag queen cow print jacket?

Recently we were in London, and we were staying not too far from a gay bar called The Stag. One evening we dropped by, and a drag queen named Bette Rinse (I don't get it either) was hosting a country-western variety show. I was happily watching the show and drinking my Hoegaarden, when Miss Rinse pulled out a black-and-white cow print leather-and-suede woman's jacket. She explained that this was from her own collection, and that she would be auctioning it off that evening for charity. I've never participated in an auction before, and I was a little sad that no one was stepping up to make an initial bid, so I started things off. Well, I got the bug, and my hand just kept flying up, as I suddenly and inexplicably became determined to win this thing. And--£45 later--I did win this thing. So there you have it: my first auction, and I win a London drag queen's leather cow print jacket, which I then get to haul around with me to Cambridge, Paris, and then back home. Here I am trying to work it like Bono might. My only consolation is that either I've supported a cancer research in London or a drag queen's speed habit; either way, I feel it amounts to a good cause.

And, no, that's not a sweater. I really am that hairy. Feast your eyes now, for I vow not to reveal any more of my bear-rug chest on this blog.

PR5, episodes 1-3

OK, so last Saturday I finally got caught up on the fifth season of Project Runway. Here were the observations I made following the show. Don't read ahead if you are behind in your PR viewing and you don't want spoilers:

1) Heidi still looks fabulous. I wish I had her pelvic thrust.
2) Sandra Bernhard (whom I love) wasn't looking so good, but I'm glad to hear that she's touring Without You I'm Nothing again. I saw I'm Still Here ... Damn It! on Broadway. That was where Meg Ryan kicked my friend's butt, and I don't mean figuratively--she really did.
3) I continue to have utter faith in Nina Garcia and Michael Kors as judges, and I love Heidi's bluntness, as well. With most reality shows, I don't at all respect the judges (So You Think You Can Dance? is a good example) but these are the real deal. Even when I disagree with them, I respect them.
4) I despise tan-guy (I guess his name is Blayne). He's trying to be Christian (of season four) with the -licious thing, but it's so obviously derivative of Christian's shtick. Christian could be annoying, but he was also talented and entertaining. Tan-dude is neither, as far as I can tell. That diaper outfit was hideous.
5) Suede has got to stop talking about himself in third person. It is going to get real old, real fast. His striped cocktail dress was good, but I wanted tree-grate-woman to win.
6) I was impressed with that dress of coffee filters and vacuum cleaner bags. I'm glad she won.
7) Emily shouldn't have lost the third challenge. Her dress was better than that matronly black number.
8) Holly Golightly goes to a Dali exhibit my ass.
9) I'm fascinated with the gay guy from SLC. His wet magazine dress needed more color, but it was a daring choice. He's going to need to watch his ego, though. He's not as good a designer as he thinks. He is, however, very easy on the eyes. We definitely need some shots of him brushing his teeth in his underwear.
10) Tim Gunn seems a little meaner this time, which is good. He's often too supportive and vague, but I still love and want to be him.
11) Is rocker chick going to be this season's Sweet Pea? The other contestants had no business being annoyed because she was pounding rivets. If you need to pound rivets, you need to pound rivets. Get a set of earplugs if you don't like it. That said, I'm surprised she survived the first challenge. I think it can only be because shower-curtain guy had no evident personality.
12) Champagne makes for a terrific accompaniment to Project Runway. I think I'm going to make this a tradition.

Meanwhile I discovered this wickedly funny and astute blog devoted to Project Runway. Do yourself a favor and spend a few hours reading through it.

playlist, aug. 4, 2008

Radiohead - "The National Anthem"
The Notwist - "Gloomy Planets"
M83 - "You,0 Appearing"
The Orb - "DDD (Dirty Disco Dub)"
The Orb - "The Truth Is..."
Ozomatli - "La Temperatura"
Beck - "Gamma Ray"
Santogold - "L.E.S. Artistes"
The Tough Alliance - "Miami"
Modeselektor - "Let Your Love Grow"
Neon Neon - "Dream Cars"
Sexton Blake - "Making Love Out of Nothing At All"
Sufjan Stevens - "Come on! Feel the Illinoise!"
Dolly Parton - "The Tracks of My Tears"
The Avett Brothers - "Murder in the City"
The Geraldine Fibbers - "You Doo Right"
N.E.R.D. - "Spaz"
Cornelius - "Gum"
Subtle - "Sick Soft Perfection"
Atmosphere - "You"
Del the Funky Homosapien - "Situations"
Suede - "Animal Lover"
The Breeders - "German Studies"
The Loveseats - "Best Friend Forever"
The National - "Squalor Victoria"
Wolf Parade - "Soldier's Grin"
The Crystal Castles - "Courtship Dating"
Gorillaz - "Dirty Harry"
Crystal Castles - "Untrust Us"
Of Montreal - "Jimmy"
Hercules and Love Affair - "Raise Me Up"
Cibo Matto - "Spoon"
Duffy - "Mercy"
Ike & Tina Turner - "River Deep - Mountain High"
Flight of the Conchords - "Ladies of the World"

same as it never was

playlist, jul. 28, 2008

The Avett Brothers - "Tear Down the House"
Fleet Foxes - "Blue Ridge Mountains"
My Morning Jacket - "Evil Urges"
Duffy - "Rockferry"
Hortense Ellis - "Secretly"
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - "Tell Me"
Hercules and Love Affair - "Raise Me Up"
Beck - "Modern Guilt"
Spiritualized - "Soul on Fire"
The Futureheads - "Think Tonight"
Bloc Party - "Hunting for Witches"
Rademacher - "Arkansas"
Flight of the Conchords - "Foux da Fafa"
N.E.R.D. - "Spaz"
Atmosphere - "You"
Portishead - "Silence"
Burial - "Archangel"
Wolf Parade - "California Dreamer"
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "You Remind Me of Something (The Glory Goes)"
Mates of State - "The Re-arranger"
The Silver Jews - "Strange Victory, Strange Defeat"
Grant Lee Phillips - "The Killing Moon"
Why? - "Fatalist Palmistry"
Hot Chip - "Wrestlers"
The Black Ghosts - "Some Way Through This"
Cadence Weapon - "House Music"
Novalima Regresa - "Con La Capilla"
The Watson Twins - "Just Like Heaven"
Blake Jones and the Trike Shop - "I Roped the Moon Out of the Sky"
Mirah - "Lone Star"
Kien Lim - "T Baby"
Architecture in Helsinki - "Hold Music" (Max Tundra Remix)
HEALTH - "Heaven" (Pink Skull RMX)
The Notwist - "On Planet Off"
Eurythmics - "Who's That Girl?"
The Orb - "DDD (Dirty Disco Dub)"
Black Kids - "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You"
The Hold Steady - "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"
The Republic Tigers - "Buildings & Mountains"

fluxcast!

One of my favorite music blogs for some years now has been Matthew Perpetua's Fluxblog. Perpetua has perpetually good taste in music, and he's a good writer to boot. Now he has begun a podcast called fluxcast. I'm listening to fluxcast #1, and it's very good. Get your copy here, and flux along. (There are two more so far.) I know I will be.

playlist, jun. 30, 2008

Joan as Police Woman - "Honor Wishes"
Mates of State - "Get Better"
The Watson Twins - "Bar Woman Blues"
Vampire Weekend - "Oxford Comma"
The Raconteurs - "Top Yourself"
Aesop Rock - "39 Thieves"
Odd Nosdam - "Untitled Three" (JB's OG Mix)
Why? - "By Torpedos or Crohn's"
Booka Shade - "Dusty Boots"
Kompis & Erlend Øye - "All Ears"
Pixies - "Where Is My Mind" [Live]
The Futureheads - "The Beginning of the Twist"
Cake - "Wheels"
TV on the Radio - "Staring at the Sun"
Anna Ternheim - "China Girl"
The Breeders - "Overglazed"
The Orb - "Lost & Found"
The Jay Tees - "Buck Town Corner"
Willie Nelson - "Sitting in Limbo"
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - "Beat (Health, Life and Fire)"
The Notwist - "Good Lies"
The Loveseats - "I Could Be Something"
Cat Power - "Song to Bobby"
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "For Every Field There's a Mole"
Shearwater - "Leviathan, Bound"
Earlimart - "Face Down in the Right Town"
Jimmy Reed - "Honest I Do"
The Same Shape - "Obvious Solutions"
Coldplay - "Lost!"
Wolf Parade - "Call It a Ritual"
Spiritualized - "Yeah yeah"
No Age - "Ripped Knees"
Styrofoam - "After Sunset"
Serge Gainsbourg - "Mickey Maousse"
Sister Carol - "Black Cinderella"
Easy Star All-Stars [feat. Toots and the Maytals] - "Let Down"
Sugar Minott - "The Dang Dang Song"
HEALTH//DISCO - "Crimewave" (Crystal Castles vs. HEALTH)
Portishead - "Machine Gun"
Cut Copy - "Out There on the Ice"
N.E.R.D. - "Spaz"

playlist, jun. 16, 2008

Stars - "Ageless Beauty" (Most Serene Repubic Remix)
Datarock - "I Used to Dance with My Daddy"
Ladytron - "Ghosts"
Enon - "Colette"
Subtle - "Day Dangerous"
Dalek - "Stagnant Waters"
Mylo - "In My Arms"
!!! - Heart of Hearts"
The Who - "Baba O'Reilly"
The Kills - "Cheap and Cheerful"
Hot Chip - "Shake a Fist"
Xiu Xiu - "I Do What I Want, When I Want"
Animal Collective - "Water Curses"
Fiery Furnaces - "Ex-Guru"
Ike & Tina Turner - "River Deep, Mountain High"
Santogold - "Creator"
Black Mountain - "Stormy High"
Asobi Seksu - "New Years" [Live]
Mark Ronson [feat. Maximo Park] - "Apply Some Pressure"
The Staple Singers - "Everyday People"
Vampire Weekend - "M79"
Spiritualized - "Sweet Talk"
Portishead - "We Carry On"
Norman Palm - "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
The Avett Brothers - "Shame"
Sun Kil Moon - "Moorestown"
Flight of the Conchords - "Foux da Fafa"
Duffy - "Warwick Avenue"
The Cool Kids - "Mikey Rocks"
Atmosphere - "Guarantees"
Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves - "(Am I Just) Fooling Myself"
The Loveseats - "I Could Be Something"
Radiohead - "2+2=5"
DeVotchKa - "Transliterator"
Radmacher - "Argument"
Talking Heads - "I Wish You Wouldn't Say That"
Death Cab for Cutie - "Cath..."
The Herbaliser [feat. Jessica Darling] - "You're Not All That"

playlist, jun. 2, 2008

Radiohead - "Fake Plastic Trees"
Death Cab for Cutie - "Long Division"
Super Furry Animals - "Pan Ddaw'r Wawr"
M83 - "Kim & Jessie"
Lali Puna - "Micronomic"
Radiohead - "Idioteque"
LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends"
Tiefschwarz - "Warning Sign"
Bo Diddley - "Diddley Daddy"
Maureen Tucker - "Bo Diddley"
The Clash - "Janie Jones"
Bo Diddley - "Who Do You Love?"
Cornelius - "Gum"
Atmosphere - "Shoulda Known"
The Cure - "A Forest"
The Flaming Lips - "Free Radicals"
Malcolm Middleton - "A Happy Medium"
Morrissey - "The Closer You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get"
My Morning Jacket - "It Beats 4 U" [Live]
Tam - "No Cars Go"
Eagle and Talon - "Dropped Down"
Radmacher - "Today Is Different"
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - "Fear and Convenience"
This Mortal Coil - "Song to the Siren"
Hölderlin - "Peter"
The Fiery Furnaces - "Sweet Spots"
Asobi Seksu - "New Years" [Live]
The Breeders - "Bang On"
Colourbox - "Just Give 'Em Whiskey"
Elbow - "Mirrorball"
Why? - "The Hollows"
Subtle - "Exiting Arm"
Portishead - "Silence"
The Roots - "Don't Say Nuthin'" (Remix)
Busdriver - "Casting Agents and Cowgirls"
P.O.S. - "Living Slightly Larger"
Herbaliser [feat. Jessica Darling] - "On Your Knees"
Flight of the Conchords - "Inner City Pressure"

playlist, may 26, 2008

Kate Nash - "We Get On"
Jim Noir - "Look Around You"
The Kinks - "Do You Remember Walter?"
Spoon - "Don't You Evah"
The Dalloways - "Dirty Money and Filthy Love"
The Fiery Furnaces - "Ex-Guru"
Port O'Brien - "I Woke Up Today"
Mavis Staples - "99 1/2"
Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves - "It's Easier"
Mark Ronson [feat. Kasabian] - "L.S.F."
Neon Neon - "Raquel"
Hercules and Love Affair - "Hercules Theme"
The Presets - "My People"
MGMT - "Time to Pretend"
Super Furry Animals - "Lazer Beam" (Dangermouse Remix)
Ibid - "Pesticides"
Atmosphere - "Puppets"
Subtle - "Exiting Arm"
Dizzee Rascal [feat.UGK] - "Where's Da G's"
pc muñoz and the amen corner - "Skin City"
Patti Smith - "Redondo Beach"
Electrelane - "Bells"
Les Savy Fav - "What Would Wolves Do?"
The Hold Steady - "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"
The Mountain Goats - "Get Lonely"
M83 - "Up!"
Final Fantasy & Ed Droste - "Possibly Maybe"
Why? - "Song of the Sad Assassin"
Portishead - "We Carry On"
No Age - "Things I Did When I Was Dead"
This Mortal Coil - "Kangaroo"
The Submarines - "Brighter Discontent" (Styrofoam Remix)
Kudu - "Playing House"
Santogold - "Unstoppable"
Cut Copy - "So Haunted"
Stellastarr* - "Sweet Troubled Soul"
James Pants [feat. Deon Davis] - "Crystal Lite"

playlist, may 19, 2008

James Pants - "Dragonslayer"
Death Cab for Cutie - "Long Division"
Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"
Port O'Brien - "I Woke Up Today"
Animal Collective - "Water Curses"
Kirsty MacColl - "Innocence"
Portishead - "Silence"
Billie Holiday - "I'm a Fool to Love You"
Mia Doi Todd - "In the End"
Bon Iver - "Re:Stacks"
Lady & Bird - "Suicide Is Painless"
Sonic Youth - "Superstar"
Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves - "Take My Love with You"
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - "Let Them Knock"
Gnarls Barkley - "Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)"
James Lidell - "Hurricane"
The Kingston Trio - "The Tijuana Jail"
Dizzee Rascal - "Hard Back (Industry)"
Santogold - "Creator"
Atmosphere - "Shoulda Known"
Flight of the Conchords - "Inner City Pressure"
Subtle - "The No"
The Ramones - "Beat on the Brat"
The Who - "Tattoo"
Sexton Blake - "Making Love Out of Nothing at All"
She & Him - "Take It Back"
Elvis Costello & The Imposters - "American Gangster Time"
Poplord - "Celia Somewhere"
M83 - "Couleurs"
Moby - "Alice"
Beck - "Strange Apparition"
T. Rex - "Mambo Sun"
No Age - "Miner"
The Afghan Whigs - "Debonair"
Yo La Tengo - "Shaker"
The Devil Makes Three - "Shades"
The Ruby Suns - "Oh, Mojave"
Elbow - "Grounds for Divorce"
Liars - "Army of Me"
Mudhoney - "The Lucky Ones"
The Flaming Lips - "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
My Morning Jacket - "Wordless Chorus"
Sun Kil Moon - "Heron Blue"
Spoon - "The Ghost of You Lingers"

playlist, may 12, 2008

Bush Chemists - "Rubber Dub"
Atmosphere - "Puppets"
Portishead - "We Carry On"
Subtle - "Day Dangerous"
M83 - "You, Appearing"
Animal Collective - "Water Curses"
Xiu Xiu - "I Do What I Want, When I Want"
Islands - "J'aime Vous Voir Quitter"
Belle and Sebastian - "Expectations"
Elvis Costello and The Imposters - "No Hiding Place"
The Black Keys - "I Got Mine"
Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves - "The Satisfier"
Scarlett Johansson - "Anywhere I Lay My Head"
The Spinners - "The Rubberband Man"
Mark Ronson [feat. Amy Winehouse] - "Valerie"
Dizzee Rascal - "Bubbles"
The Kills - "Cheap and Cheerful"
Yo La Tengo - "A House Is Not a Motel"
No Age - "Sleeper Hold"
Mudhoney - "I'm Now"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Phenomena"
Santogold - "Unstoppable"
M.I.A. - "Hombre"
Sally Shapiro - "Find My Soul" (Holy Fuck Remix)
The Go! Team [feat. Chuck D] - "Flashlight Fight"
Gorillaz - "Dare" (Soulwax Remix)
Shelby Lynne - "The Look of Love"
Jim Noir - "Day by Day by Day"
Elbow - "Grounds for Divorce"
Iron and Wine - "White Tooth Man"
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - "Aspidistra"
The Libertines - "Don't Look Back into the Sun"
Wye Oak - "Please Concrete"
Tickley Feather - "Sorry Party"
Nat Baldwin - "Lake Erie"
Radiohead - "Bodysnatchers"
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - "Baltimore"
The Dalloways - "Thomas Hardy and Me"
Sparklejet - "Emilio"
Son Lux - "Wither"
Flight of the Conchords - "Think about It"

playlist, may 5, 2008

Peter Bjorn and John - "Young Folks"
Portishead - "Silence"
Son Lux - "Break"
St. Vincent - "Jesus Saves, I Spend"
Battles - "Leyendecker"
Santogold - "Shove It"
Neon Neon - "Dream Cars"
The Danielson Famille - "We Don't Say Shut Up"
The Kinks - "Phenomenal Cat"
Supersuckers - "Hey Ya!" [Live]
The Who - "Armenia City in the Sky"
Jim Noir - "Ships and Clouds"
Shelby Lynne - "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
Sun Kil Moon - "Lost Verses"
New Buffalo - "Cheer Me Up Thank You"
Blake Jones and the Trike Shop - "Sun Up"
Islands - "Creeper"
Nicole Atkins - "The Way It Is"
Bis - "The Powerpuff Girls (End Theme)"
The B-52s - "Funplex" (CSS Remix)
Vampire Weekend - "M79"
No Age - "Miner"
Pixies - "Wild Honey Pie"
The Black Keys - "So He Won't Break"
Blake Jones and the Trike Shop - "Song for KFSR's Evening Eclectic"
David Bowie - "1984 / Dodo"
El "Paperboy" Reed & the True Loves - "It's Easier"
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - "100 Days, 100 Nights"
Cat Power - "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"
Mexican Institute of Sound - "Dub-A El Tiempo Es Muy Largo"
Calexico - "Roka"
Nortec Collective - "Olvidela Compa"
Ozomatli - "La Temperatura"
R.E.M. - "Supernatural Superserious"
The Breeders - "Overglazed"
The Raconteurs - "The Switch and the Spur"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Today's Lesson"

playlist, apr. 28, 2007

Nancy Sinatra - "Day Tripper"
Colin Meloy - "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect" [Live]
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - "Swimming Pools"
Sexton Blake - "Bette Davis Eyes"
M83 - "Kim & Jessie"
Neon Neon - "Raquel"
Hot Chip - "We're Looking for a Lot of Love"
Rademacher - "Machines"
El Olio Wolof - "The Tedious Task - A Fire Breathing Dragon"
The Dalloways - "Dirty Money and Filthy Love"
MGMT - "Time to Pretend"
Simian Mobile Disco - "Hot Dog"
The Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (Re-mixed and Re-edited by Soulwax)
Dengue Fever - "Tiger Phone Card"
Karen Marguth - "Marie Laveaux"
Dolly Parton - "Drive Me Crazy"
Cat Power - "New York / Ramblin' Woman"
Basia Bulat - "The Pilgriming Vine"
Nik Freitas - "Sun Down"
Akron / Family - "Ed Is a Portal"
The Bad Plus - "Tom Sawyer"
Sonic Youth - "Incinerate"
The Breeders - "Regalame Esta Noche"
The Kills - "U.R.A. Fever"
The Gossip - "Standing in the Way of Control"
Dizzee Rascal - "Wanna Be" [feat. Lily Allen]
!!! - "Heart of Hearts"
Yelle - "Jogging"
Jamie Lidell - "Another Day"
Flight of the Conchords - "Inner City Pressure"

Dizzee Rascal - "Sirens"
The Black Keys - "Strange Times"
The Kills - "Cheap and Cheerful"
The Gossip - "Yr Mangled Heart"
The Raveonettes - "Aly, Walk with Me"
Bats for Lashes - "Horse and I"
Islands - "Pieces of You"
Animal Collective - "Water Curses"
No Kids - "The Beaches All Closed"
Jim Noir - "All Right"
John Lee Hooker - "Chillen' Boogie"
Aretha Franklin - "Do Right Woman - Do Right Man"
Andre Williams - "Bacon Fat"
Parliament - "Chocolate City"
Marshall Crenshaw - "Someday, Someway"
The Detroit Cobras - "As Long As I Have You"
Shelby Lynne - "I Only Want to Be with You"
Colin Meloy - "We Both Go Down Together" (Evoking a Campfire Singalong) [Live]
The Breeders - "Bang On"
R.E.M. - "Man-Sized Wreath"
Editors - "French Disko"
Ladyhawk - "Night You're Beautiful"
Rademacher - "If U Got Some Magic"
Moby - "I Love to Move in"
Cut Copy - "Out There on the Ice"
The B-52's - "Funplex"
Edwin Starr - "War"
MC5 - "Motor City Burning"
The Stooges - "T.V. Eye"
Claude Young - "Detroit by Night"
DJ Axel - "Without Billie Jean" (Michael Jackson vs Eminem)
The White Stripes - "Hotel Yoruba"
Yelle - "Ce Jeu"
Neon Neon - "I Told Her on Alderaan"
Hot Chip - "Ready for the Floor"
MGMT - "Time to Pretend"
Fuck Buttons - "Bright Tomorrow"
El Olio Wolof - "Apathetic Apple"

apr. 17, 2008

The Cloud Room - "Hey Now Now"
Gorillaz - "Hongkongaton"
Th Gossip - "Are You That Somebody?" [Live]
R.E.M. - "Horse to Water"
Pixies - "Head On"
The Black Keys - "Strange Times"
Andrew W.K. - "Party Party Party"
Flight of the Conchords - "Inner City Pressure"
Hercules and Love Affair - "Hercules Theme"
Cut Copy - "Feel the Love"
The Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (Soulwax Remix)
Sunny Day Set Fire - "Stranger" (CSS "Wilderness" Mix)
Robert Plant & Allison Krauss - "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)"
Kelley Stoltz - "Everything Begins"
Sleater-Kinney - "Oh!"
Trollyvox - "Our Love Was"
El Olio Wolof - "The Tedious Task: A Fire Breathing Dragon"
The Ruby Suns - "Kenya Dig It?"
Rings - "Mom Dance"
The Kingston Trio - "Greenback Dollar"
Peter Bjorn and John - "Me and Julio Down by the School Yard" [Live]
She & Him - "Take It Back"
Belle and Sebastian - "The Blues Are Still Blue"
Nouvelle Vague - "Ever Fallen in Love"
ESG - "Six Pack" (Original Version)
The Orb - "S.A.L.T."
Stereolab - "Motoroller Scalatron"
Saint Etienne - "Avenue" (Gordon King Mix)
Bon Iver - "The Wolves (Act I and II)"
The Avett Brothers - "Paranoia in B-Flat Major"
Neko Case - "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - "Geography"
Aretha Franklin - "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)"
Jamie LIdell - "Figured Me Out"
The Kills - "Goodnight Bad Morning"
Colin Meloy - "On the Bus Mall" [Live]
Elliott Smith - "Thirteen"
Malcolm McLaren - "Love Will..."
DeVotchKa - "Transliterator"

playlist, apr. 14, 2008

Apr. 14, 2008

Colin Meloy - "Barbara Allen"
The Black Keys - "So He Won't Break"
Cadence Weapon - "In Search of the Youth Crew"
Thom Yorke - "Skip Divided" (Modeselektor Remix)
White Hinterland - "I Miss You"
DeVotchKa - "The Clockwise Witness"
New Buffalo - "Stay with Us"
Bats for Lashes - "What's a Girl to Do?"
She & Him - "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?"
The Mountain Goats - "Sax Rohmer, Pt. 1"
Why? - "Song of the Sad Assassin"
Lyrics Born - "Differences"
Blackalicious - "My Pen and Pad"
Macromantics - "Scorch"
The Argyle Pimps - "Handsome"
The Streets - "Two Nations"
Kimya Dawson - "Anyone Else But You"
Spoon - "Don't You Evah"
R.E.M. - "Horse to Water"
Black Mountain - "Queens Will Play"
The Raveonettes - "Dead Sound"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Today's Lesson"
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - "Cold Son"
Crystals Castles - "Courtship Dating"
Foals Antidotes - "Cassius"
The Kills - "Cheap and Cheerful"
Kelley Stoltz - "Your Reverie"
Tubeway Army - "Me! I Disconnect from You"
Clinic - "Memories"
Xiu Xiu - "You Are Pregnant You, You Are Dead!"
The Fiery Furnaces - "The Philadelphia Grand Jury"
Shout Out Louds - "Impossible"
Vampire Weekend - "M79"
Billy Bragg - "O Freedom"
The Raconteurs - "Five on the Five"
The Ruby Suns - "Tane Mahuta"
3 Na Massa [feat. Thalma De Freitas] - "Enladeirada"
Maps - "So Low, So High"
Justice - "Stress"
Matthew Dear - "Neighborhoods"
The Knife - "Na Na Na"

playlist, mar. 31, 2008

Joe Henry - "Civilians"
Yeasayer - "Sunrise"
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Am I Demon?"
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - "Beat (Health, Life and Fire)"
Son Volt - "The Picture"
White Hinterland - "Dreaming of the Plum Trees"
Magnetic Fields - "Drive on, Driver"
Stars - "The Ghost of Genova Heights"
Goldfrapp - "A & E"
The Kinks - "Picture Book"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!"
Fosforo - "Esto Es Califas"
Supreme Beings of Leisure - "The Light"
Mia Doi Todd - "In the End"
The Black Keys - "Strange Times"
Joy Denalane - "Soweto '76-'06"
Cadence Weapon - "Real Estate"
Dj Bitman - "Blackbossa"
Santogold - "L.E.S. Artistes"
Invisible Conga People - "Cable Again"
Los Campesinos -
Super Furry Animals - "Suckers!"
British Sea Power - "Down on the Ground"
Kate Nash - "Mouthwash"
Poplord - "Your Favorite Weapon"
A Frames - "Black Forest I"
Black Mountain - "Wucan"
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - "Cold Son"
Beach House - "Wedding Bell"
The Raconteurs - "Salute Your Solution"
The Kills - "M.E.X.I.C.O."
The Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (Re-mixed and Re-edited by Soulwax)
Xiu Xiu - "I Do What I Want, When I Want"
Animal Collective - "Derek"
Foal Antidotes - "Olympic Airways"

mar. 24, 2008

No Kids - "For Halloween"
R.E.M. - "Perfect Circle"
Destroyer - "Dark Leaves Form a Thread"
The Fiery Furnaces - "Ex-Guru"
The Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (Re-mixed and Re-Edited by Soulwax)
Hot Chip - "Shake a Fist"
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full (Derek B's Urban Respray)
Basia Bulat - "Before I Knew"
Sonic Youth - "Incinerate"
Dungen - "Familij"
Mott the Hoople - "All the Young Dudes"
Bon Iver - "Creature Fear"
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - "Hopscotch Willie"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Rockers to Swallow"
My Morning Jacket - "Anytime" [Live]
No Age - "Every Artist Needs a Tragedy"
DJ Shadow - "The Number Song" [Live]
P.O.S. - "Bush League Psyche-Out Stuff"
Vampire Weekend - "M79"
Billy Bragg - "You Make Me Brave"
Cat Power - "Lost Someone"
Xiu Xiu [feat. Michael Gira] - "Under Pressure"
Why? - "The Vowels Pt. 2"
Kevin Drew - "Broke Me Up"
Big Star - "The India Song"
CSS - "Knife"
MGMT - "Time to Pretend"
The Kills - "U.R.A. Fever"
Neon Neon - "Raquel"
Quando Quango - "Love Tempo" (Remix)
LCD Soundsystem - "Big Ideas"
New Buffalo - "Cheer Me Up, Thank You"
Of Montreal - "Jimmy"
Gomez - "How We Operate"
Gorillaz- "We Are Happy Landfill"
The Raveonettes - "Blush"
Murder by Death - "Fuego!"

playlist, mar. 17, 2008

Vampire Weekend - "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
No Kids - "The Beaches All Closed"
Manu Chao - "Rainin in Paradize"
Neon Neon - "Trick for Treat"
Cadence Weapon - "Unsuccessful Club Nights"
Science for Girls - "You'll Never Know"
Thao - Swimming Pools"
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - "Herculean"
Gretchen Phillips - "Hello, Darling"
New Buffalo - "It's True"
The Mountain Goats - "Sax Rohmer #1"
DeVotchka - "The Clockwise Witness"
Basia Bulat - "The Pilgriming Vine"
Bon Iver - "Creature Fear"
Lou Reed - "Perfect Day"
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - "Elmo Delmo"
Eagle and Talon - "Dropped Down"
The Skatalites - "Freedom Sounds"
The Clash - "Janie Jones"
40 Watt Hype - "Strong Feet on the Concrete"
Dengue Fever - "Oceans of Venus"
40 Watt Hype - "Animated World"
The Aquabats - "Ska Boss (Ska Ba)"
Headlights - "Cherry Tulips"
Destroyer - "Foam Hands"
The Raveonettes - "Dead Hands"
The Grand Archives - "Miniature Birds"
DJ Axel - "Push It Fergasonic" (Salt 'N Pepa vs Fergie vs JJ Fad)
Rob Sonic - "Dyslexia"
Aesop Rock - "39 Thieves"
Amon Tobin [feat. MC Decimal] - "Verbal"
Why? - The Hollows"
Radiohead - "Bodysnatchers"
Burial - "Untitled / Archangel"
Del the Funky Homosapien - "Situations"
Hot Chip - "Shake a Fist"
Material - "Don't Lose Control"
Calvin Harris - "Certified"
Simian Mobile Disco - "I Got This Down"
M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" (DFA Remix)

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playlist, mar. 10, 2008

Del the Funky Homosapien - "Bubble Pop"
Billie Holiday - "Spreadin' Rhythm Around" (Lady Bug vs. Lady Day RR Remix)
Why? - "These Few Presidents"
Sleater-Kinney - "You're No Rock n' Roll Fun"
Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"
Of Montreal - "Heimsdalgate Like a Promethean Curse"
Yeasayer - "Sunrise"
Jarvis Cocker - "Black Magic"
Mia Doi Todd - "Sleepless Nights"
DJ Axel - "Stand Up Fever" (Peggy Lee vs. Ludacris)
Nina Simone - "Sinner Man"
The Submarines - "Brighter Discontent" (Console of the Notwist Remix)
Mark Ronson [feat. Amy Winehouse] - "Valerie"
Subtle - "The Mercury Craze"
P.O.S. - "Living Slightly Larger"
St. VIncent - "Now Now"
The Go-Go's - "This Town"
Modeselektor - "Let Your Love Grow"
Burial - "Archangel"
Mylo - "Sunworshipper"
Björk - "Isobel"
Dump - "1999"
The Bee Gees - "Holiday"
Thom Yorke - "The Clock" (Surgeon Remix)
Matthew Dear - "Deserter"
Hot Chip - "The Warning"
diskJokke - "Some Signs Are Good"
David Bowie - "The Jean Genie"
Snowden - "Anti-Anti"
Tubeway Army - "Positive Thinking" [Live]
M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" (Scottie B. Remix)
Daft Punk - "Around the World / Harder Better Faster Stronger" [Live]
Super Lucky Catz - "Semi-Unconditional"
Bon Iver - "Skinny Love"
Beirut - "Nantes"
Destroyer - "Blue Flower / Blue Flame"

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playlist, mar. 3, 2008

New Buffalo - "Cheer Me Up Thank You"
Dusty Springfield - "Just a Little Lovin'"
Kien Lim - "If Only"
Kien Lim - "Moonshine Girl" [Live in the KFSR studio]
Kien Lim - "No Question of a Sin" [Live in the KFSR studio]
Kien Lim - "Savior of the Skies" [Live in the KFSR studio]
The Avett Brothers - "Paranoia in B-Flat Minor"
Xiu Xiu - "I Do What I Want, When I Want"
Beirut - "In the Mausoleum"
Modeselektor [feat. Thom Yorke] - "The White Flash"
Dolly Parton - "Drives Me Crazy"
DeVotchKa - "Along the Way"
Vampire Weekend - "M79"
Why? - "A Sky for Shoeing"
M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" (Scottie B. Remix)
Hot Chip - "Ready for the Floor"
Bon Iver - "Skinny Love"
Cat Power - "New York / Ramblin' Woman"
Beach House - "Wedding Bell"
The Roots - "Don't Say Nuthin'" (Remix)
Aesop Rock - "Getaway Car"
Akron/Family - "Ed Is a Portal"
The YMD - "New Direction"
Belle & Sebastian - "String Bean Jean"
Elf Power - "Paralyzed"
Earl J. Rivard - "Mercedes"
Blake Jones & the Trike Shop - "Snapshots"
Karen Marguth - "Marie Laveaux"
Annette Ash - "Brown Eyes and Blue Hair"
Diskjokke - "Som Signs Are Good"
Snowden - "Anti-Anti"
Glass Candy - "Rolling Down Hills"
LCD Soundsystem - "North American Scum"
DJ Bitman - "Blackbossa"

playlist, feb. 25, 2008

Mia Doi Todd - "Sleepless Nights"
Bon Iver - "Skinny Love"
The Helio Sequence - "Shed Your Love"
Thao - "Beat (Health, Lie, and Fire)"
The National - "Mistaken for Strangers"
Cat Power - "Song to Bobby"
Grizzly Bear - "Shift" (Alternate Version)
M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" (DFA Remix)
Hot Chip - "Ready for the Floor"
Shriekback - "My Spine Is the Baseline" (1982 1212" Edit)
Cadence Weapon - "In Search of the Youth Crew"
Blake Jones & the Trike Shop - "Parade"
Kien Lim - "Theresa Baby"
Basia Bulat - "In the Night"
The Replacements - "Little Mascara"
The Raveonettes - "Aly, Walk with Me"
The Magnetic Fields - "Please Stop Dancing"
New Buffalo - "Cheer Me Up and Thank You"
Kelley Stoltz - "Everything Begins"
Vampire Weekend - "M79"
Jens Lekman - "Arms Around Me"
Ssion - "Clown"
Mahjongg - "Problems"
The YMD - "Drown Yr Hamster in Nail Polish Removal"
Mike Ladd - "Learn to Fall"
Karen Marguth - "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"
Abigail Nolte - "Take Me Home"
Andrew Bird - "Heretics"
Kate Nash - "Mouthwash"
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Kiss Them for Me"
pc muñoz & the amen corner - "Skin City"
Kien Lim - "If Only"
Liam Finn - "Second Chance"
British Sea Power - "All in It"
Super Furry Animals - "Run-Away"
Modeselektor [feat. Thom Yorke] - "The White Flash"
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - "Dragonfly Pie"
Beach House - "Gila"

playlist, feb. 18, 2007

The Velvet Underground - "I'm Sticking With You"
Spoon - "The Ghost of You Lingers"
Black Mountain - "Queens Will Play"
Was (Not Was) - "Wheel Me Out"
M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" (DFA Remix)
diskJokke - "Some Signs Are Good"
Blondie - "Heart of Glass"
Kien Lim - "Only If"
The Avett Brothers - "Paranoia in B-Flat Major"
Jnny Lewis with the Watson Twins - "Run Devil Run / The Big Guns"
Cat Power - "Lost Someone"
Kelley Stoltz - "Your Reverie"
Modeselektor - "Let Your Love Grow"
Beirut - "Nantes"
Jens Lekman - "Your Arms Around Me"
Belle & Sebastian - "Sleep the Clock Around"
The Smiths - "The Headmaster Ritual"
British Sea Power - "Down on the Ground"
Blake Jones & the Trike Shop - "Virginia Woolf"
David Byrne - "Ex-Guru"
Snowden - "Like Bullets"
Sunny Day Set Fire - "Stranger" (CSS "Wilderness" Remix)
Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Seoul Music"
Neneh Cherry - "I've Got U Under My Skin"
William Shatner - "Common People"
Vampire Weekend - "M79"
Born Ruffians - "Red Yellow & Blue"
Xiu Xiu [feat. Michael Gira] - "Under Pressure"
Helio Sequence - "Keep Your Eyes Ahead"
P.O.S. [feat. Craig Finn] - "Safety in Speed (Heavy Metal)"
Common - "Be"
Odd Nosdam - "The Kill Tone Two"
DJ Bitman [feat. Juan Sativo] - "La Raza"
The Raveonettes - "Lust"
Beach House - "Wedding Bell"

playlist, feb. 11, 2007

Nancy Sinatra - "Day Tripper"
Chris Joss - "Magic Tubes"
Luxury - "Green Hearts"
Rancid - "Time Bomb"
Bonde do Rolê - "Geremia"
CSS - "Knife"
Justice - "Stress"
The Hold Steady - "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"
Les Savy Fav - "Pots&Pans"
Sleater-Kinney - "Wilderness"
Xiu Xiu - "I Do What I Want, When I Want"
Magnetic Fields - "Three-Way"
Abigail Nolte - "Leftover Light"
Jason Collett - "Out of Time"
Cat Power - "New York" / "Ramblin' (Wo)man"
The Avett Brothers - "Paranoia in B-Flat Major"
Amy Winehouse - "Wake Up Alone"
James Brown - "I Lost Someone"
Big Star - "Feel"
Black Mountain - "Wucan"
Sonic Youth - "Superstar"
Supersuckers - "Sail On" [Live]
The Whigs - "Right Hand on My Heart"
Joanna Newsom - "Emily"
Panda Bear - "Bros."
Band of Horses - "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands"
Architecture in Helsinki - "Underwater"
The Dalloways - "Tiffy"
Beirut - "In the Mausoleum"
Feist - "Mushaboom" (Postal Service Remix)
Teddybears [feat. Neneh Cherry] - "Yours to Keep"
!!! - "Heart of Hearts"
Hot Chip - "Ready for the Floor"
Aesop Rock - "Bring Back Pluto"
Atmosphere - "YGM"
Cibo Matto - "Spoon"
Gary Numan - "Cars" (Flood Mix)
The Knife - "Neverland"
Battles - "Ddiamondd"
Daft Punk - "Da Funk / Daftendirekt" [Live]
White Williams - "New Violence"
Calvin Harris - "Colours"
Digitalism - "Home Zone"
Glass Candy - "Candy Castles"
The Raveonettes - "Aly, Walk with Me"
British Sea Power - "Waving Flags"
Kelley Stoltz - "Put My Troubles to Sleep"

playlist, jan. 28, 2007

Kelley Stoltz - "Put My Troubles to Sleep"
Supersuckers - "Sail On" [Live]
Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"
Dengue Fever - "Seeing Hands"
Xiu Xiu [feat. Michael Gira] - "Under Pressure"
The Beatles - "Tomorrow Never Knows"
Animal Collective - "Derek"
The Magnetic Fields - "Three-Way"
Black Mountain - "Angels"
Aesop Rock - "Bring Back Pluto"
Radiohead - "Bodysnatchers"
White Williams - "Headlines"
The B-52's - "Dance This Mess Around"
British Sea Power - "Down on the Ground"
Belle & Sebastian - "Expectations"
Bob Dylan - "I Want You"
The Fiery Furnaces - "Ex-Guru"
Public Enemy - "Shut Em Down" (100dBs Mix)
Busdriver - "Kill Your Employer (Recreational Paranoia Is the Sport of Now)"
Basement Jaxx - "Where's Your Head At?"
Mika - "Grace Kelly"
Nina Simone - "Sinnerman"
Sleater-Kinney - "Words and Guitar"
The Whigs - "Like a Vibration"
Pinback - "Barnes"
The Boggs - "Melanie in the White Coat"
Bee Gees - "New York Mining Disaster 1941"
Cat Power - "I Believe in You"
Bright Eyes - "Four Winds"
Mark Ronson [feat. Lily Allen] - "Oh My God"
Hot Chip - "Shake a Fist"
Mike Ladd - "Learn to Fall"
The Smiths - "How Soon Is Now?"
Supersuckers - "Hey Ya!"
Interpol - "Not Even Jail"
Delta 5 - "Mind Your Own Business"
Daft Punk - "Around the World / Harder Better Faster Stronger"
Say Hi - "Northwestern Girls"

playlist, jan. 21, 2007

Wilco - "Sky Blue Sky"
King of Prussia - "Spain in the Summertime"
Jens Lekman - "A Postcard for Nina"
The Decemberists - "Yankee Baronet (I Will Be Home Then)"
The Beach Boys - "Hang on to Your Ego"
Iron & Wine - "Lovesong of the Buzzard"
Joan as Police Woman - "Eternal Flame"
Nino Moschella - "Better Off"
Gorillaz - "Hongkongaton"
Fiery Furnaces - "The Philadelphia Grand Jury"
Yeasayer - "2080"
Mike Ladd - "Housewives at Play"
Apparat - "Hailin from the Edge"
Una - "Fading in C# Minor"
40 Watt Hype - "On and On"
U2 - "Pride"
Mavis Staples - "Eyes on the Prize"
Common [feat.The Last Poets] - "The Corner"
Michael Franti - "Love'll Set Me Free" (Acoustic Version)
John Lennon - "Give Peace a Chance"
Bob Marley & the Wailers - "One Love" (Cordovan Remix)
The Moldy Peaches - "Anyone Else But You"
Dengue Fever - "Tiger Phone Card"
Burial - "Archangel"
Saint Etienne - "Avenue" (Gordon King Remix)
Glass Candy - "Rolling Down Hills"
Vivian Goldman - "Launderette"
The Cure - "The Walk"
White Blue Yellow & Clouds - "Seeing Stars"
The Crystals - "Uptown"
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - "Let Them Knock"
Tone-Loc - "Wild Thing" (Peaches RMX)
Radioactive Cauliflower - "Monster Pedals"
Black Mountain - "Stormy High"
Les Savy Fav - "Pots&Pans"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Isis"
Pinback - "Off by 50"
Jesus and the Mary Chain - "April Skies"
Tender Forever - "How Many"

googling sex

So I'm teaching a graduate level seminar on Queer Theory (for the first time), and I'm beginning the course with Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. Last night as I was reading through the first essay, on the "aberrations," I ran across a reference to the tertiary sexual characteristics. I'm familiar enough with the distinction between the primary (those features related to the genitals and to reproduction) and secondary sexual characteristics (those that are not directly related to reproduction--such as bodily hair and pitch of the voice), but I hadn't recalled reading about tertiary sexual characteristics.

So I did what I often tell my students not to do, and I googled the phrase. The second hit was a reference to a work by Albert Moll from 1909, called The Sexual Life of the Child. (Freud references this work in the Three Essays.)

When I clicked on the link, I was taken to an facsimile image of a page from a 1912 English translation of Moll's book, and the relevant passage appeared before my eyes. (Click here to see what I mean.) Is that neat or what?

Apparently I'm a little late in discovering the magic that is Google Books, but I'm pretty stoked to some more exploring. I guess I'll need to rethink my mandate to my students that they not google topics that they are researching.

playlist, jan. 14, 2007

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - "Tell Me"
Thom Yorke - "The Eraser"
Charlie Louvin [feat. Jeff Tweedy] - "That Great Atomic Power"
Joan Baez - "Silver Dagger"
Saint Etienne - "Like a Motorway"
Dengue Fever - "Seeing Hands"
Mexican Institute of Sound - "Hip Hop No Pares"
The Flaming Lips - "Free Radicals"
Gang of Four - "Damaged Goods"
The Go! Team - "The Power Is On"
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy"
CSS - "Let's Make Love to Death from Above"
The Avett Brothers - "Shame"
Nick Lowe - "Hope For Us All"
Mark Ronson [feat. Lily Allen] - "Oh My God"
Pulp - "Common People"
Rademacher - "If U Got Some Magic"
The Bad Plus - "Tom Sawyer"
Radiohead - "Bodysnatchers"
Karen O & the Million Dollar Bashers - "Highway 61 Revisited"
Blake Jones & the Trike Shop - "Snapshot"
Feist - "Sealion"
Beirut - "In the Mausoleum"
Bebel Gilberto - "Caçada"
Vampire Weekend - "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
DJ Bitman [feat. Jimmy Fernandez] - "El Diablo"
Aesop Rock - "None Shall Pass"
Morcheeba - "Wonders Never Cease"
Glass Candy - "Rolling Down the Hills" (Spring Demo)
Matthew Dear - "Deserter"
Junior Bloomsday - "Nervous Habitats"
Yeasayer - "Sunrise"
Sonic Youth - "Reena"
Sparklejet - "The Heart Will Lift You"
Band of Horses - "No One's Gonna Love You"
Blonde Redhead - "Top Ranking"
LCD Soundsystem - "New York I Love You But..."
Burial - "Endorphin"
Daft Punk - "Da Funk / Daftendirekt"

oh wait, one more

The videocast for Radiohead's "Jigsaw Falling into Place":

best music video of 2007?

I think it's got to be this one for Animal Collective's "Peacebone":



Next best? My vote goes to the vid for Battles' "Atlas":

playlist, jan. 7, 2008

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - "How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?" (Ticklah Remix)
Vampire Weekend - "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
Yeasayer - "2080"
King Tubby & Friends - "Satta Dread Dub"
The Libertines - "Can't Stand Me Now"
The Dalloways - "Cotty's House"
Anna Ternheim - "China Girl"
Sara Valenzuela - "Ya No"
Rilo Kiley - "Give a Little Love"
Bas for Lashes - "What's a Girl to Do?"
Modeselektor - "2000007"
Material, Nona Hendryx - "Bustin' Out"
Chromatics - "Hands in the Dark"
Hot Chip - "Over and Over" [iTunes Session]
Man Man - [Live at The Cellar Door]
El Olio Wolof - "Earthworms Can't Dig This"
TV on the Radio - "Province"
Akron/Family - "Ed Is a Portal"
The Avett Brothers - "Paranoia in B-Flat Major"
Burial - "Ghost Hardware"
Neon Neon - "Raquel" (Radio)
CSS - "Knife"
Radmacher - "What Yr Used to Back at Home"
The Shins - "Sealegs"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Rockers to Swallow"
The Long Blondes - "Giddy Stratospheres"
The Hold Steady - "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"
The National - "Squalor Victoria"
Aesop Rock - "None Shall Pass"
El-P - "Smithereens"
Busdriver - "Kill Your Employer (Recreational Paranoia Is the Sport of Today)"
DJ Bitman - "Shine"
Radiohead - "Nude"
Arcade Fire - "Keep the Car Running"