Archive for March, 2008

Top Ten Spins for week of March 24th, 2008

Dodos Visiter
Dodos - Visiter

  1. Dodos - “The Season” - Album: Visiter
  2. Dead Can Dance - “How Unfortunate the Man With None”
  3. Jose Gonzales - “Down the Line”
  4. Bloc Party - “Flux”
  5. Magnetic Fields - “The Nun’s Litany” - Album: Distortion
  6. Fuck Buttons - “Race You To My Bedroom/Spirit Rise” - Album: Street Horrrsing
  7. The Birthday Party - “Mutiny in Heaven” - Album: Mutiny / The Bad Seed E.p.
  8. Air Supply - “Lost In Love”
  9. Tom Waits - “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up” - Album: Bone Machine
  10. Philip Glass - Album: Solo Piano

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Top Ten Spins for Week of March 17th, 2008

Mark Hollis
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

  1. Mark Hollis - “Inside Looking Out” - Album: Mark Hollis
    After a decade and a half with Talk Talk, frontman Mark Hollis comes out with a hyper-minimalist effort that explores even further the silence that “Laughing Stock” was approaching. Piano, clarinets, upright, acoustic guitar, strings all convene in as gentle a matter as can be, married together in a way that would make Van Morrison circa “Astral Weeks” proud.
  2. Antony and the Johnsons - “I Am A Bird Now” - Album: I Am A Bird Now
  3. Kathleen Yearwood - “Who Killed Phillip?” - Album: The Book of Hate
  4. A Fine Frenzy - “Ashes and Wine” - Album: One Cell in the Sea
  5. KT Tunstall - “Paper Aeroplane” - Album: Drastic Fanstastic
  6. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - “The Snake and the Lotus (the pond)
  7. Charles Ives - “Central Park in the Dark” - Album: The Unanswered Question
  8. James Blunt - I’m just fuckin kiddin.
  9. Gnarls Barkley - Album: The Odd Couple (checkin it out)
  10. The Black Keys - Album: Attack and Release (checkin it out)

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Rattle and Hum HD-DVD

U2 - from Rattle and HumI was too young to recognize when I saw U2’s Rattle and Hum in theaters back in the early 90’s that it is shot by Jordan Cronenweth (the DP of Blade Runner fame), but revisiting it on HD-DVD - it is an amazing thing to behold. I consider this to be U2’s golden period - when they immersed themselves in roots American music and produced amazing tracks like Angel of Harlem, recorded at Sun Studios or employed a gospel choir to revisit With or Without You. A landmark music doc that merits at least one more look.

Oh btw, HD-DVD R.I.P.

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Eskimo Hunter plays last LA show before returning to the studio

A note from one of the band members:

This Thursday will see the return of Eskimohunter to the stage for the first time in several months. We’re…debuting material from our upcoming long-player. In all liklihood, we will go “dark” again after this show until the record is done…

The Official Line:
Eskimohunter

Thursday, March 20th
ESKIMOHUNTER

at THE TROUBADOUR
9081 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

This show is ALL AGES.

line up:
DOORS OPEN at 8pm
ESKIMOHUNTER at 9 pm
LOW vs DIAMOND at 10 pm

Advance tickets available at ticketmaster HERE.

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Top Ten Spins for Week of March 10th, 2008

Robert Plant | Alison Krauss - Raising Sands
Robert Plant | Alison Krauss: Raising Sands

  1. Robert Plant | Alison Krauss - “Through the Morning, Through the Night” - Album: Raising Sands
    Produced by T Bone Burnette, this record encapsulates an unbeleivable marriage between the unlikely duo that is Led Zeppelin’s former screamer and one of Country music’s beloved traditionalists. This is one of the musical moments that startles and immediately takes hold of the imagination, controlling the room like Omar Sharif in a drunken tirade. The last time I heard something like this it was Joni Mitchell’s ragged smoky voice returning from obscurity on “Both Sides Now.” Instant add.
  2. Talk Talk - “Ascension Day” - Album: Laughing Stock
  3. Cornelius - “Gum”
  4. Beta Band - “Assessment” - Album: Heroes to Zeroes
  5. Black Heart Procession - “A truth quietly told” - Album: A 3 song recording
  6. Bob Dylan - “Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues” - Album: The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 [BOX SET]
  7. Bonny “Prince” Billy - “I’ve Seen It All” - Album: Ask Forgiveness [EP]
  8. Bows - “King Deluxe” - Album: Blush
  9. Deerfhoof - “You, Dog (A.K.A. Kids Are So Small”
  10. Dinosaur Jr. - “Feel the Pain”

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Top Ten Spins For Week of March 3rd, 2008

Keram - Box
Keram - “Box”

  1. Keram - “Forget It, Kid” - Album: Box
  2. Joanna Newsom - “The Book of Right On” - Album: Milk-Eyed Mender
  3. Universal Hall Pass - “Dragonfly”
  4. Jeremy Enigk - “Return of the Frog Queen” - Album: Return of the Frog Queen
  5. Joseph Arthur - “Speed of Light” - Album: Come To Where I’m From
  6. PJ Harvey - “Taut” - Album: dance hall At Louise Point
  7. Black Moth Super Rainbow - “Sun Lips” - Album: Dandelion Gum
  8. Rogue Wave - “Publish My Love” - Album: Descended Like Vultures
  9. Milla Jovovich - “Gentlemen Who Fell” - Album: The Divine Comedy
  10. Swell - “Something to Do” - Album: For All the Beautiful People


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Top Ten Spins For the Week of Feb 29th, 2008

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

  1. Ryan Adams - “To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)”
  2. Pale Young Gentlemen - “Fraulein”
  3. Black Kids - “Hit the Heartbrakes”
  4. Cities - “So Cold This Christmas”
  5. Jesus Lizard - “Too Bad About the Fire”
  6. William Shatner - “Common People”
  7. The Hives - “Square One Here I Come” - Album:
  8. MGMT - “Time To Pretend” - Album: Oracular Spectacular
  9. St. Vincent - “Now, Now”
  10. The Hood Internet - “Absorb the Lip Gloss”


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