63 posts tagged “music”

I Heart Shatner

Aug 7, 2009
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Shatner Of The Mount by Fall On Your Sword

On the iPod

May 12, 2009
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These are the hits of today...and potentially tomorrow:

o+s

I'm really loving this album by O+S which features Azure Ray's Orenda Fink (and oh I love Azure Ray!). Beautiful, ethereal, haunting.

Star Club West

Really loving this one which has a feeling somewhat reminiscent of the Postal Service. Mellow yet still poppy and melodic. Every time I listen I like it that much more. Plus I just love the name--Star Club West.

Fantasies

Metric

I am LOVING the new Metric album. Great to listen to loud, or down a bit in the background. Sing-able, dance-able, stick-in-your head stuff. No wonder this was #1 on eMusic for a few weeks. Seriously great indie music. Their fourth and best record, IMHO. And I really loved the other three!

St. Jude

The Courteeners

Saw these Manchester blokes when they were on tour with Morrissey this last time round. And while I love Morrissey, it definitely wasn't his best tour. But FINALLY he managed to get a kickass opener. These guys were great, rocking, full of hipster charm, reminiscent of the Alarm, Oasis or the Kooks. This is an album that really grows on you the more you listen. My fave tracks are "No you didn't, No you don't" and "Not Ninteen Forever."

Colonia

A Camp

This is a side project of Nina Persson of the Cardigans, so if you love her voice, you'll love Colonia. It's a bit mellow, but again...it's all about her magnificent voice.

my loved links lately

Nov 5, 2008
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An Open Letter to George Lucas (Stop Raping My Childhood!)

Star Wars

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Cheese unlocks your wildest dreams
Dear Rest of the World (this is hilarious!!)
I want one of these!!!

iBangle

Error messages in Haiku form
Nature's Gates of Hell (seeing as my mom thinks I'm going there I better get familiar, eh?)
Elevator Moods
Time for GINGER CAKE! The best cake recipe ever. I make it in a loaf pan and slice it up. Amazing with softened cream cheese.

New Psapp!

Oct 9, 2008
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Psapp, the best quirky found-music band on the planet, is almost ready to release their new album (Oct. 27 in UK)! Here's the vid for the first single, "The Monster Song."

From the press release:
The Monster Song is a sad song about loss and depression; it’s the morning after the big night before, when the green eyed monster is lurking around every corner, just waiting to pounce. Despite its dark and uneasy lyrical content, The Monster Song has an uplifting and playful pop edge due to Psapp’s trademark use of found sounds and Galia’s harmonising vocals. The Monster Song is a taste of what to expect from The Camel’s Back, Psapp’s most starkly beautiful record to date.

byrne & eno together and out today

Aug 18, 2008
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New David Byrne & Brian Eno album is out today!

Doctor Whooooo

Jul 31, 2008
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I am SO looking forward to tomorrow night's season finale (I know I know, it's been all over the Nets since it ended in the UK already--DO NOT SPOIL IT FOR ME).

So for those of you who love Dr. Who and his beautiful blue Tardis, I give you these:

Dr Who And The Daleks Remix

Dr Who Music Video

Oh I do adore the character Rose:

And who can't love David Tennant in drag?

Doctor Who Spoof (David Tennant in drag)

peter murphy concert was the bomb!

Jun 29, 2008
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Peter Murphy

Last night Joe and I hit up the Roxy to see one of my all time favorites, Peter Murphy, play. The opening act, Ali Eskandarian, was, arguably, one of the worst I've ever seen, even more so than the woman who opened up for Morrisey last summer.

It was a short and early show because the Roxy has an annoying tendency to shut everything down by 10PM so that they can open it up as a club later. But WOW, what a great short show it was. There was so much energy and we were up pretty close. Overall, it was one of the best shows I'd seen (and I've seen hundreds, really).

He played "Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem," which is probably my all time favorite song. And "Huvola" was gorgeous and beautiful. The only thing missing from the night was "Cuts You Up," which was supposed to be an encore song but the Roxy was making them go fast. He did do "She's in Parties" as well as two Bauhaus songs from the new album.

I left feeling happy. Just plain, wonderfully happy. The music was wonderful. I had danced all night. Joe had a good time. The evening was oddly foggy but still warm. And we capped it off with a drink from the bar at Rialto, our favorite restaurant.

Yes, a good time really was had by all!

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Jun 10, 2008
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Okay, so this is going to be another one of my rambly update posts seeing as I'm not the best blogger lately...

37 on 5th
Kindle coming in my near future.
The price of gas, keeps on rising...nothing comes for free. ♫
Recently I was walking by some developers in my office and overheard them talking about "the Lords of Cobol" and was surprised to see such old guys talking about Battlestar Galactica...until they kept talking and I realized that he was meaning whoever is writing COBOL on the project they are on. I don't think the slip was intentional. It was then that I realized I am rather a bit of a geek. A geek because I assumed it was a BSG reference and a geek because I know what COBOL is.
Oh my Season 3 of BSG is turning out to be amazing, IMHO. I'm so so so addicted. And frustrated that they are going to drag it out into 2009.
Is anyone using Friendfeed?
Yet another blog is in my future, putting the total at three. This blog. My writing blog (on which I have not been writing, sigh). And soon to be...a professional blog about B2B digital media relations. Gah.
New job is good. Different. Still figuring things out in many ways. I relied a lot on the PR agencies at my previous jobs to handle pitching and getting the news out (imagine that)...this time around I'm realizing that I'm going to really have to get my hands dirty and do more direct outreach myself. I'm used to pulling teeth to get what I need, but this is more like yanking out the whole jaw. On the other hand I seem to be one of the only ones who really get the power of social media, so that's a good thing for visibility. Goes back to how women are the queens of it all.
I've been thinking a lot about trauma, tornadoes (unrelated but tragic in a similar way and I keep dreaming about them) and the preciousness of life. Someone I know recently lost a dear friend and the tragic story has hit home for me in the sense of the ongoing importance to never take the people in your life for granted.
I'm in love with Erin Tyner's photography. Recently bought (note the tornado):

Listening to:

lazy blogging=lots of linking=hours of your life lost

May 3, 2008
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I'm not sure why I never have anything to say anymore, on either of my blogs. I'm usually spewing some drivel or another so you might think it would end up here, but well, I have to chalk it up to laziness.

At least with a list like this it proves you can find pretty much anything you want on the Net. And that Stumbleupon rules. Here are a few of my favorites to keep you busy for hours.

And so, for your lazy link pleasure:

Candy by Joshua Hoffine

That should keep you busy for now. :)

almost as though we were there

Apr 11, 2008
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oh wait, we were...at this Jens Lekman show. In fact in watching this Joe realized that we were standing next to the guy filming. You can hear us laughing, my screaming and I can even pick out places where you can hear me singing along.

He's telling the story about the song, which is about a time when he went to Berlin to visit his lesbian friend who had lied to her father about him being her fiance--and the embarrassing dinner that ensues.