Sunday, December 18, 2005
Today I got a book Top 10 CD from Willem, with everything from Radiohead to Sum 41, with somewhat inexplicably, Queen's Bicycle Race thrown in. What's with the Queen song?
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Have been grooving, or rather, chilling in the most imperceptible way, to Susumu Yokota & Rothko's Waters Edge. Not exactly a hot off the press release, but it sandwiches itself nicely between the new Sigur Ros and the much older Music for Airports. Yup, it's ambient month around here.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
A couple of new CDs in the past month:
Sigar Ros - Takk
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
My Morning Jacket - Z
Broken Social Scene
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Still not 100% sure about the new Death Cab for Cutie CD. Have listened to it a billion time and like it enough, but not chomping away to sell others on its virtues.
Friday, June 03, 2005
The never visited Virgin store near the office is shutting down, and by virtue of it's 50% off sale across the board, their prices are actually, well, just OK. Caribou's The Milk of Human Kindness was originally in there at a ludicrous £14.99.
Other purchases today were...
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
... and from iTunes this week
Stephen Malkmus -
Saturday, April 30, 2005
After seeing Rufus a few weeks ago (great show, less of a drone-fest than the CDs), one of his covers inpired a Hallelujah showdown. Playing for the title were versions by Mr. Cohen himself, pitted against Bob Dylan, Rufus, k.d. lang, U2 and the ultimate winner, Jeff Buckley.
Other recent additions to the library are Bright Eye's I'm Wide Awake It's Morning and the a couple from the Wainwright clan, Martha's self-titled record and Rufus's Want Two.
Sunday, April 10, 2005
The first quarter of 2005 is ending on a music bang, with new CDs from
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Beck - Guero
The Mars Volta - Francis the Mute
LCD Soundsystem
Adding to the Montreal collection...
Dumas - Le Cours des Jours
The Dears - No Cities Left
And a few other recent discs
Antony and the Johnsons- I Am a Bird Now Ex Galaxie 500 Damon & Naomi - The Earth is BlueLemon Jelly - '64 - '95
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Heroes to Zeros - Beta Band
Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
American Whip - Joy Zipper
Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
Figure 8 - Elliott Smith
Bows + Arrows - The Walkmen
From the more-expensive-then-it-need-be-but-still-better-than-high-street iTunes:
Bam Thwok - The Pixies
Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn
Blackheart Man - Bunny Wailer
...and a great Wilco show at the Astoria last week.
Monday, May 31, 2004
Iron & Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days
Sufjen Stevens - Seven Swans
Easing into summer with some Sizzla
Red Music? I recently made an arbitrary play list - all songs on the computer with "red" in the title, resulting in:
Red Vines - Aimee Mann
Red-Eyed And Blue - Wilco
Red Angel Dragnet - The Clash
Red Right Ankle - The Decemberists
Red Metal Doors - The Mendoza Line
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - Elvis Costello
Red Red Wine - The Replacements
(Red) - Califone
Red Dust - Zero 7
The Red Light - Joel Plaskett
Sunday, April 18, 2004
Lots of great new (at least to me) stuff...
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People; probably the most listened to album of the year so far
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Josh Rouse - 1972
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemberists
Electrelane - The Power Out
Elliott Smith - XO
Lost In Translation Soundtrack
The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Alternative Music, NPR News - KCRW.com
Saturday, October 04, 2003
New CDs in the house and in the little iPod bundle of musical joy include:
The Rapture - Echoes
The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
Joseph Arthur - Redemption's Son
A new CD and not on the iPod is My Morning Jacket's It Still Moves, thanks to the idiotic Copy Control block the brains at BMG have put on. Thanks for blocking me from listening to the CD I bought, good strategy.
Thursday, September 04, 2003
2manydjs - as heard on radio soulwax pt.2
Tuesday, December 03, 2002
Grandaddy - Sumday
Brokeback - Looks at the Bird
The Sea and Cake - one bedroom
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - L'Avventura
New Pornographers - Electric Version
Songs Ohia - The Magnolia Electric Co
Macy Gray - The Trouble of Being Myself
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
Manitoba - Up in Flames
The Jayhawks - Smile
Notwist - Neon Golden
Beck - Sea Change
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Beth Orton - Daybreaker
Mendoza Line - Lost in Revelry
Vancouver's Be Good Tanyas
Strokes- Is This It
White Stripes
Detroit Cobras
Four Corners - Say You're a Scream
Hooverphonics - The Magnificent Tree
Mojave 3 - Excuses for Travellers
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Tricky - Blowback
Godspeed You Black Emperor - lift yr. skinny fists...
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