Songbird
Aug
9
‘When The River Runs Dry We Die’
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0898 Dave, When The River Runs Dry We Die
Wow, for some reason posting this evening was rather difficult…*I think I need to re-think my whole “possible post list” it is beginning to hinder things around here*So I know there is a track below from 0898 Dave, but since A Lily gets their own post…Plus 0898 Dave will surprise you throughout his album, it is the good surprise though…Dave is one more reason I wish I lived in the UK…So talented. Anyways check his space’s on the net here and here to learn more and listen to these two tracks…
0898 Dave, Ironside (mp3 expired)0898 Dave, Meet me in the summertime (mp3 expired)
Available here
Thanks guys for your comments yesterday I was smiling all day. :)
Good night…More like good morning…Geez I am freaking done.
Aug
7
Mid-State Orange, ‘Odds’
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Mid-State Orange, Odds
Today was one of those…days…*sigh* I wish I wouldn’t let things have such an impact on me, but they do. I won’t bore you with the details but it was regarding a client at work. That same client I had previously mentioned (and I am too tired to retrieve the past post). Anyways this client had come to be a rather difficult client and it was handed to me…Well because a co-worker didn’t want to deal with the person she would have to deal with, but I accepted it because I do love challenges (not really). I was doing just fine, had no problems, but this month after it left my hands we seemed to have some production issues. So I, being the little brown noser that I am…Well actually just to cover my ass because I didn’t want to get blamed for anything that was not my fault when the shit hit the fan. So I went to the boss and pointed out the date I sent the file to be printed, and she said she noticed and in no way thought I was the cause of the hold up. GREAT! You would think…But today the client called and informed us that they were going elsewhere.
What!!!????
But as if that wasn’t enough…The other boss calls me and my co-worker who previously worked with this client and basically just blames us for loosing the client!!! Are you serious? Because last time I checked I don’t make nearly enough money to actually be that detrimental and cause a client to go elsewhere. So I am not sure who’s check he is signing but it isn’t mine…Yeah so it might be time to start looking for a new job because that is quite honestly BS, he knows it, I know it, and the rest of the office knows it too.
Bah!!!
Ok now on to the music!!! Mid-State Orange recently came out with their first full length album, Odds, which was released in July 2006. The three gents who make up this band hail from Melbourne,Victoria, Australia. Their debut album was released on Candle Records and they certainly haven’t gotten a lot of attention which is such a shame, so here are a couple of my choice tracks for your listening pleasure…Good night, good morning, and to some good afternoon. :)
Mid-State Orange, The Casualties Of Casual Ties (mp3 expired)
Mid-State Orange, Pathways (mp3 expired)
Available here
Aug
6
A Lily, Wake Sleep
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A Lily, Wake:Sleep
I realize I might have been somewhat of a tease a post or two back with the I Am To You.mp3 off Wake Sleep, A Lily’s new album. So since I don’t like to be a tease, actually that is a lie I do like to be somewhat of a tease…But not now, not when music like this exists. A Lily creates beautiful ambient music that you loose yourself willingly in. Goodnight.
A Lily, My delicate sun is my sparklin’ s (mp3 expired)
A Lily, Aeriels quiet and death-defying (mp3 expired)
Aug
5
The Hard Tomorrows
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Yeah I have been sitting on this for quite sometime…My apologies. But perhaps I was waiting for something, like some news or an update of sorts…Such as their new album, Lights Out set to be released in September.
Good times…
Things that were not such good times? This week. It sucked.
Bring on the weekend and bring on the make-up sleep…Yeah for sleep!
Let’s see what else? I saw Woody Allen’s new film last weekend, Scoop. It was pretty good, Allen was quite funny…But it wasn’t one of his best, still better than the rest ;)
Tonight I saw In The Mood For Love (2000) directed by Wong Kar-Wai…This is an excellent film, if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend that you do. Also, the music is excellent.
Ok time for bed…Glorious sleep.
Quick note on one of the following tracks, Stay Cool carries on into a mini hidden track, just a heads-up (wow I just said heads-up) ok…
The Hard Tomorrows, Stay Cool (mp3 expired)
Buy 5 Songs
The Hard Tomorrows, There’s No Reason (mp3 expired)
Light’s Out info here
Aug
3
Falling Asleep While Sitting Up
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Handle-shaped Prominence (09.14.1999)
Tired, so very tired this evening. Long day, sick of summer…I wish I could just walk around all the time with my head phones on, tune in to the music and tune out the world around me. Am I a bad person for wanting this?
I guess my view of the world as of this moment is like watching a bad movie (for instance War of the Worlds, sorry to the fans) War of the Worlds was written terribly but whenever it is on the tele. I can’t seem to take my eyes off it…This is how I am in regards to the world right now…Anyways how did I get on this topic? Where am I? What am I? And who may I ask are you?
Must sleep now, good night, good morning, and to some good afternoon.
I leave you with new music from, A Lily & 0898 Dave.
A Lily, I Am To You (mp3 expired)Wake:Sleep available here
0898 Dave, Ballad of Henry (mp3 expired)
When The River Runs Dry We Die available here
Aug
2
Alexi Murdoch NPR In-Studio
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Alexi will be performing live at The Casbah, his final show before he departs the Souther California area on the rest of his tour. I came across a recent in-studio of his at MPR (Minnesota Public Radio). And I fell in love with this man all over again, he is wonderful, I mean, I am seriously blushing…It will be a lovely night.
The in-studio features a chat with Tony Lopez and 3 songs:
‘Breathe’, ‘Song For You’ & ‘Dream of Flying’
I am off to bed, good night.
Listen: Alexi Murdoch MPR In-Studio
Aug
1
Contrast Podcast #18
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The new Contrast Podcast is up and considering this weeks theme is a personal favorite of mine I direct everyone’s attention this way. The theme? Instrumentals with sung introductions, which is flipping awesome! And I have to give my respect to all who participated this week, because I totally didn’t have enough guts to sing an intro, also how difficult would it be for me to narrow down an instrumental of my choice!!! Geez near impossible…This week’s Contrast Podcast is excellent, you will definitely hear something new and you will get to hear some of my favorite people singing their hearts out.
So go now and come back here a little later for new music. :)
Jul
31
Steve Adey, All Things Real
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I seemed to have made a wrong turn today and ended up in a dark distant place, but that is really not the reason I come here tonight…I come here tonight to dedicate a song to someone who has been gone far too long and I honestly didn’t think I would miss his presence as much as I have for the last month? It seems like it has been far too long without you Colin ( Let’s kiss and make up… ) I miss you, hurry home.
The following selection is dedicated to you, a cover of Will Oldham’s, I See A Darkness
Steve Adey evokes more emotion into this song then previously thought possible, his new album, is out now on Grand Harmonium Records, All Things Real
Good night.
Steve Adey, I See A Darkness (Excerpt)
Jul
26
White Whale, WWI
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This Saturday July 29th is the 2006 Blogathon a 24 hour event for charity!
Blogathon: Blog-a-thon. “People update their websites every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. For this, they collect sponsorships. Pledges can be a flat donation, or a certain amount for every hour the blogger manages to stay awake.”
And that means some of the greatest Mp3 Blogs on the internet will be posting every 30 min!!!! And for charity at that!!!! I am so excited. I may be participating in a group effort for the Global Fund for Women
I will post more details later on that but please stop by and support those who are participating…Cheer them on and support their efforts to help bring about change.
I have missed the boat a bit it seems…Can’t believe it is already midnight…Time seems to go in slow motion in this part of the world, which is rather ironic considering LA is deemed to be this busy trend setting city. It is kind of difficult to be trend-setting much of anything when you are still living through Tuesday while places like Hong Kong are going on Wednesday late afternoon…
Anyways, sorry about the non-sense, and that was most certainly dribble drabble considering all the new music out. Seriously I don’t know what to post, I want to post them all but…but…I don’t even know where to begin…Well actually I started last night with the The Rosewood Thieves, which are just climbing up my Best Albums 2006 list, I might add…
But tonight…Tonight we celebrate the White Whale and their debut album, WWI (Merge Records) . It is awesome. The track Fidget and Fudge, which I have posted below is an epic song filled with mellow tones all the way to the full force sound of electric guitars, I highly recommend a listen…
White Whale, Fidget and Fudge (mp3 expired)
White Whale, Forgive The Forgiven (mp3 expired)
Album available at Insound
Jul
25
The Rosewood Thieves
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The Rosewood Thieves, From The Decker House
I nearly fell out of my chair after this EP was thrown at me (not literally thrown) but this 6 track release is really quite impressive. They put their all into writing these songs and gentlemen it shines, I applaud.
I am carrying on a bit but this band is lead by singer/songwriter Erick Jordan and From The Decker House was written while the band held themselves up in a house in Deposit, NY where they cut off their ties to the internet, television, and phone to sit down and collaborate together to create music and they did a damn fine job at that.
In other news around here, my car is still in the shop…Either that or it is currently being driven by a group of teens that decided to take it to Mexico where they are currently launching my car off of sand dunes…So yeah it is freaking amazing what running over a wooden board can do to a car…
I still feel like I am no longer living on earth but instead I take up residence on the sun because it really is that hot everywhere!!!
Anyways, now the music…
The Rosewood Thieves, Cold In The Country (mp3 expired)
The Rosewood Thieves, Los Angeles (mp3 expired)
Album available at Amazon & iTunes
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