music_you_should_hear
crOwl with headphones division day
bella parker
the very hush hush
bound stems
eagle seagull
great lake swimmers
the jolly rogers
oh no! oh my! 		060425
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crOwl the sound team 060426
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crOwl the brother kite 060922
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crOwl digging and loving the london apartments
trespassers william
sol seppy 		060922
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rt max richter 090822
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blather music promotor johnny_west
unhinged 		090824
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no reason ohbijou

"it's so silly for me to worry about situations that don't exist/we create these problems and try to solve them/why waste each passing moment?" 		090828
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rt lau nau 090830
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rt the big pink 090830
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no reason (and watch)

the dirty projectors tomorrow on letterman 		090830
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. Falcao and Monashee 090830
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rt the jealous girlfiends 090831
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dayvan cowboy boards of canada 090901
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unhinged thanks; my blues days have fallen by the wayside, but i was just listening to those recordings the other day. thinking how i grew cause of them and the people i recorded them with.

i am on a more classical path these days. i sat down at the piano yesterday and songs from tchaikovsky's album of the young that i had memorized but not played or been able to remember for a long while poured out. one of them i haven't played in probably a good six months at least. i have also been half seriously kicking the idea of a school audition around again. *shrugs*



if you like hip hop and marvel comics:

milwaukee 's house of m
the alternate reality of....

it is the funniest (in a good way) hip hop record i've heard in awhile 		090901
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rt cocorosie 090902
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nomenclature yeasayer
indian jewellery
here we go magic
aleks and the drummer
loney dear 		090902
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correction... indian jewelry 090902
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nomenclature efterklang 090902
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efterklang chairlift 090902
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nomenclature megafaun 090902
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oops i signed my name as efterklang! 090902
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nomenclature winter flowers 090902
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nomenclature ratatat 090903
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rt new radiohead 090904
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rt new zealand's ladyhawke 090905
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unhinged 'janine jansen's supercharged tchaikovsky' on npr

the second movement is one of my favorites ever
(and now i think i'm hooked on npr streaming audio) 		090908
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rt pela 090909
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rt volcano choir 090910
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unhinged the dead weather

they make me want to record blues music again 		090912
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unhinged life is a heist - element

i am on a serious milwaukee hip hop streak since it's the only scene in this town worth being involved in. thank goodness some of my friends started up a live band hip hop group ( fresh_cut_collective ) 		090912
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rt the xx 090920
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no reason polaris prize nominees (and gala)
canadian pride

radio3.cbc.ca 		090921
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past i've seen half of the finalists at least once in the last year (great lake swimmers, elliott brood, k'naan, hey rosetta!, joel plaskett).. I think I saw EB three times, and joel plaskett twice.. 090921
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no reason i've seen great lake swimmers, patrick watson, hey rosetta!, and chad vangaalen. also malajube a few years ago. 090921
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eatingstars amanda palmer - who killed amanda palmer 090921
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rt olafur arnulds 090922
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Isaou Slice Of Heaven - Dave Dobbyn 090928
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eatingstars ataxia 090928
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rt house of seven bells 091002
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no reason "i know" by sarah slean
so sad (for her too—she can't handle playing it live anymore) but so pretty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tn3X98c32M

(also, any of sarah slean's first few albums) 		091019
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rt karen o's soundtrack for the film, "where the wild things are." 091020
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nomadic Kings OF Leon 091021
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rt zbigniew preisner 091022
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unhinged the song 'hang you from the heavens' by the dead weather

it is the first mainstream song that has made me make the frank face in a really long time

or 'will there be enough water?' by the dead weather. it reminds me of the slide blues song me and anthony wrote in the basement on kansas. 		091022
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rt choir of young believers 091031
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flux it's been a year of new music, moreso than last year, which was "only listen to new music year", and perhaps even moreso than the year and a half i ran the radio out of berkeley.

patrick_sweany (them shoes)
end.
breathe_owl_breathe
mattress
finn_riggins
experimental_dental_school
entertainment_for_the_braindead
ambergris 		111129
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raze bill evans // "the complete village vanguard recordings, 1961"

for my money, possibly the best piano trio jazz ever played or recorded by anyone. even if you're not into jazz as a rule, you might dig it. there isn't a single wasted note, and there's a kind of telepathic musical communication going on here that leaves the studio albums this group recorded (as good as they are) in the dust. scott lafaro, the bassist in the group, died less than two weeks later in a car accident at the age of 25, lending even more poignancy and immediacy to what turned out to be the final music this particular trio made together. 		111130
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no reason half_moon_run 120604
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PeeT an awesome wave/alt j 130114
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no reason the wooden sky 130211
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no reason the tallest man on earth 130317
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raze lady lamb the beekeeper 130318
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no reason beirut 130529
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flux blather attuned:
murder by death - lost river
lynched - drinking song from the tomb
whitehorse - killing time is murder

but i've mostly been listening to soma.fm secret agent e.g.
thunderball - 12 mile high
lemon jelly - homage to patagonia
red snapper - hot flush
cobra killer - l.a. shaker
bitter:sweet - trouble
eat static - mondo a go go!
trentemøller - silver surfer, ghost rider go!!! 		140705
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epitome of incomprehensibility Mostly because of the strangeness of the context: Hieronymus Bosch's "600-year-old butt music from hell."

http://boingboing.net/2014/06/06/boschs-600-year-old-butt-mus.html 		150523
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raze k. (aka karla schickele)

this is what happens when a power trio loses the guitar and fills in the blanks with pedal steel. so pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uC7RteKWmY 		161004
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unhinged love - kid cudi 161005
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unhinged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVuD6Lvo1wY 161005
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raze big bonky tones:

https://tonebonk.bandcamp.com/album/big-bonky-tones

if you ever owned one of muchmusic's "big shiny tunes" cds, this one's for you.

toronto record label and collective tone bonk have curated a grab-bag of covers from the first five "big shiny tunes" compilations, as interpreted (and often *reinterpreted*) by a whole slew of artists. the results are weird and wonderful and sometimes kind of revelatory. it's a little like hearing a bunch of songs that are a part of your chemical makeup, but they're on the soundtrack of a dream, and someone else is singing them, and you've never heard them sound quite like this.

(i especially like the moody instrumental version of "otherside" by the red hot chili peppers.) 		211012
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tender_square i can't wait to check this out, thanks for the tip! i remember stumbling upon a torrent about a decade ago that had all the big shiny tunes discs on it and i downloaded the fuck out of that; i played the earlier compilations so much growing up. 211012
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unhinged spilligion - spillage village

kinfolk - mereba

string quartet no 8 - shostakovich 		211012
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