Apr 06 2009

Media Monday – 04/06/2009

Category: Media & More,Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 12:00

Whew! Is it really April already?!?

1) Music:
a. “Mechanical Thoughts”Darla Farmer
b. “Desert Music”Clock Hands Strangle
c. “The Sun Goes West”The Faraway Places
d. “Cherry Tulips” (TJ Lipple Remix)Headlights
e. “Blue Tears”Cryptacize
f. “One Block Wonders”Cryptacize
g. “Tail And Mane”Cryptacize
h. “Saturated Phat Impact” – The Phantom’s Revenge
i. “Zombie City Shakes”Black Hat Brigade
j. “Elephant Fight” (by Christian Martin)Worthy’s Trumpets and Tusks Remix
k. “My Eyes” (by Emerson Todd)Worthy’s Blurry Cornea Remix
l. Station Grape MixtapeWorthy
m. “Shooting Stars”Bag Raiders
n. “Turbo Love”Bag Raiders
o. “Death Before Unemployment” (with related remix tracks)Sicknote (Visit the Flapsandiwch site to vote on your favorite remix track.)
p. “Lady In The Water”Cobra
q. “Uh Oh!”Cobra
r. “Wild World”Cobra
s. “Mercury Said 65″Dazy Head Mazy
t. “Pretty In Pink” (by The Psychedelic Furs)Ariel Aparicio (A portion of the proceeds from the sales of this single on iTunes during the month of April go to fund the Greater NYC branch of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Society. Visit Ariel’s Think Pink: Download For A Cause website for more information.)

2) Video:
a. A live setDarla Farmer
b. A live setClock Hands Strangle
c. “Desert Music”Clock Hands Strangle
d. “Blue Tears” (directed by Weston Curie) – Cryptacize
e. “From The Hips” (directed by Michael Grodner) – Cursive.
f. “Who Do We Care For” (directed by Graydon Shepperd) – Sebastien Grainger
g. “It’s A Living” (directed by Sebastien Grainger) – Sebastien Grainger


Apr 06 2009

tUnE-yArDs – BiRd-BrAiNs

Category: Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 07:00

tUnE-yArDs
BiRd-BrAiNs
Marriage; 2009

The supremely DIY effort that is BiRd-BrAiNs should stand as a testament to all that is pure and holy in music. Recorded by one Merrill Garbus over the course of two-and-a-half years on a hand-held voice recorder, these eleven songs find freak-folk vocal warblings pared with electronic beats (that are often quite minimalist and not too shabby in construction), all while being led by a ukulele that’s plucking and/or strumming some fairly typical chord progressions. Alongside all of this, whether introducing or concluding a track, Garbus has placed snippets of conversations and events from her time as a nanny, producing a result that is akin to sneaking into her room to read her journal – it’s very personal and private, but you can tell that she left it out on her desk for you to find.
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