the journalistic takeaway on this recent study of pop music from 1960-2010 offers a great example in the popular distortions of scientific
investigation. the study's authors admit they only sampled a tiny
fraction of American music: "Given that the Hot 100 is certainly a
biased subset of [new singles released in the USA], our conclusions
*cannot be extended to the population of all releases*"
(asterisk-emphasis ours). yet that
didn't stop editors from publishing headlines such as "Computer
scientists prove 80s pop music is boring" (PBS News) or "The Beatles and
Rolling Stones didn't revolutionize music" (NME). what the study
actually showed (not proved) was that the charts in the late 80s became
more homogenous ('boring' is subjective) and that the British Invasion
built on a dramatic but already on-going turn in musical tastes ...but
never mind these pesky details, newspaper readers. even more galling is
the soft bigotry of burying the lead: "The rise of RAP and related
genres appears, then, to be *the single most important event* that has
shaped the musical structure of the American charts in the period that
we studied". not even a plurality of the headlines I read trumpeted
this, and when mentioned, it was almost always presented as something
along the lines of "It's Official: Hip-Hop Is More Important Than the
Beatles" (Esquire) or "Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dog put the Beatles, Rolling
Stones in shade" (The Australian) - a comparison the study never
explicated! WHAT to the THE to the FUCK! to us, that's just quasi-racist
click-bait for the Bill O'Reillys of the world, meant to compel
crotchety white Baby Boomers to leave nasty comments on how
sophisticated Beatlemania was when juxtaposed with the downfall of
Western civilization that is hip-hop. what's more, if we can't even
trust the press to report accurately on entertainment news, how can we
trust them to get their facts straight on climate change or
international crises? same ol' song and dance.
"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free." - Jacques Yves Cousteau
1. Amnesiac by Radiohead 2. Discrete Music by Brian Eno 3. The Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles 4. Supermodified by Amon Tobin 5. The Decline by NOFX 6. Mezzanine by Massive Attack
7. The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner by Ben Folds Five 8. Endtroducing... by DJ Shadow 9. Tidal by Fiona Apple 10. If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian
11. Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan
12. Lush Life by John Coltrane 13. The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd 14. Ready To Die by Notorious B.I.G. 15. London Calling by The Clash
16. Odelay by Beck 17. Up by R.E.M.
18. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out by Yo La Tengo 19. Haha Sound by Broadcast 20. DrukQs by Aphex Twin
1. Vampire Weekend - "Hannah Hunt" 2. Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams - "Lose Yourself To Dance" 3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Sacrilege" 4. Big K.R.I.T. - "Bigger Picture" 5. Lisa Germano - "Ruminants" 6. !!! - "Get That Rhythm Right" 7. Atoms For Peace - "Ingenue" 8. Kid Cudi with A$AP Rocky & Kid Chip - "Brothers" 9. Everything Everything - "Choice Mountain" 10. Boards Of Canada - "New Seeds"
11. Tennis - "Cured Of Youth" R.J.D.2 - "Behold, Numbers!" James Blake - "Retrograde" Phosphorescent - "The Quotidian Beasts" Foxygen - "Shuggie" Grouper - "Being Her Shadow" Charles Bradley - "Victim Of Love" Colin Stetson - "To See More Light" Jim James - "State Of The Art (A.E.I.O.U.)"
20. of Montreal - "Obsidian Currents" Gold Panda - "We Work Nights" Yo La Tengo - "Ohm" Islands - "Hushed Tones" Iron & Wine - "Low Light Buddy Of Mine" King Khan & The Shrines - "Darkness" Toro Y Moi - "Studies" Arctic Monkeys - "Mad Sounds" Autechre - "T ess xi" Devendra Banhart - "Für Hildegard von Bingen"
30. Dr. Dog - "Can't Remember" Bonobo - "Emkay" The National - "I Should Live In Salt" CHVRCHES - "Under The Tide" Janelle Monáe - "Dance Apocalyptic" Still Corners - "The Trip" Earl Sweatshirt - "Chum" Blood Orange - "Chosen" The Knife - "A Tooth For An Eye" Young Man - "School" 40. M.I.A. - "Bad Girls" Melt-Banana - "Infection Defective" Mount Kimbie - "Break Well" Pond - "O Dharma" Pusha T with Kendrick Lamar - "Nosetalgia" Beach Fossils - "Sleep Apnea" Elvis Costello & The Roots - "The Puppet Has Cut His Strings" Crystal Stilts - "Spirit In Front Of Me" The Range - "Hamiltonian" The Besnard Lakes - "The Specter"
50. Mutual Benefit - "Advanced Falconry" Ed Harcourt - "The Cusp & The Wane" Oneohtrix Point Never - "Problem Areas" Stornoway - "Farewell Appalachia" The Dodos - "Relief" Deerhunter - "T.H.M." Jagwar Ma - "The Throw" Julianna Barwick - "The Harbinger" Thee Oh Sees - "Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster" Cecile McLorin Salvant - "Baby Have Pity On Me"
60. Akron/Family - "Until The Morning" Wild Nothing - "Body In Rainfall" The Replacements - "Busted Up" Parquet Courts - "Stoned And Starving" Moderat - "This Time" Oblivians covering Paul Butterfield - "Loving Cup" These New Puritans - "This Guy's In Love With You" Cage The Elephant - "Telescope" Darkside - "Paper Trails" Harper Simon - "Just Like St. Teresa"
70. Boardwalk - "Crying" Grizzly Bear - "Everyone I Know (Marfa Demo)" Julia Holter - "Maxim's I" Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory - "Photon" Man Man - "Deep Cover" Drake with Jhene Aiko - "From Time" Youth Lagoon - "Attic Doctor" Phoenix - "Chloroform" The Men - "Open The Door" Classixx - "Holding On"
80. Kanye West - "On Sight" Caveman - "Where's The Time" Danny Brown - "Lonely" Haim - "Falling" The Octopus Project - "Pyramid Kosmos" Valerie June - "Workin' Woman Blues" Una - "Out Of The Dark" Arcade Fire - "We Exist" Bibio - "Look At Orion!" Rhye - "The Fall"
90. Nihls Frahm - "Hammers" Shannon & The Claims covering Del Shannon - "Runaway" Tim Hecker - "Prism" Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - "Holy Roller" The Joy Formidable - "Forest Serenade" Rouge Wave - "No Magnatone" Local Natives - "Mt. Washington" Russian Circles - "1777" Nightmares On Wax - "Tapestry" Wavves - "Beat Me Up"
110. Múm - "The Colorful Stabwound" The Haxan Cloak - "Dieu" Paul McCartney - "Get Me Out Of Here" Sigur Rós - "Var" Camera Obscura - "New Year's Resolution" My Bloody Valentine - "She Found Now" Disclosure - "When A Fire Starts To Burn" DJ Koze - "Royal Asscher Cut" Sonny & The Sunsets - "Natural Acts" Washed Out - "All I Know"
120. Franz Ferdinand - "Right Action" Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Dawn" Nicolas Jaar remixing Grizzly Bear - "Sleeping Ute" Ducktails - "International Date Line" Yuck - "Memorial Fields" White Fence - "Beat" King Krule - "Baby Blue" Jacuzzi Boys - "Double Vision" The FIeld - "A Guided Tour" Baths - "Inter"
130. Burial - "Come Down To Us" Childish Gambino with Chance The Rapper - "The Worst Guys" Quasimoto - "Youngblood" King Tuff - "Lady" Chelsea Light Moving - "Alighted" Eleanor Friedberger - "Stare At The Sun" Shearwater covering Jesca Hoop - "Our Only Sun" Best Coast - "I Don't Know How" M.G.M.T. - "Introspection" Kurt Vile - "Wakin' On A Pretty Day"
140.Christopher Owens - "Riviera Rock" Starlito & Don Trip with Singa B. - "Where Do We Go" Portugal. The Man - "Atomic Man" Midlake - "Vale" Major Lazer with Laidback Luke & Ms. Dynamite - "Sweat" Savages - "Strife" The Strokes - "80's Comedown Machine" Aloe Blacc - "Love Is The Answer" A$AP Ferg - "Dump Dump" Forest Swords - "Gathering"
150.DJ Rashad with Spinn & Taso - "Pass That Shit" C.S.S. - "Teenage Tiger Cat" Iceage - "Interlude".
all the spacier for being
classically-inspired, any craziness to your own stream-of-consciousness
will reveal itself and be suspended in time before the simplicity of Brian Eno's "Discreet Music", as if the trickling contemplations of millions - or,
say, of everybody currently bustling through an airport terminal somewhere - were
somehow imbricated in the glacially receding tones, peacefully frozen in
a slow-motion waltz, a blue whale rising for a gulp of Antarctic
air, before diving to rise again. one of Beck's songs off 'Sea Change'
goes: "I press my face up to the window / to see how warm it is inside" -
precisely what the chilly yet steamy windowpane of this piece accomplishes, compelling our awareness of our own warmth.
The Graveyard Shift's complete 7-hour July 4th broadcast of the best music of '013 (so far), the first hour of which is comprised solely of musicians from San Antonio, Texas.
the links below feature the music of five electronically-disposed music-makers residing in #SATX. please show them love by following their respective Soundclouds...
SXSW VI, reporting from Austin Texas. most every show below is free and some may offer free food/drink. click on names for event details.
early on TUESDAY, Fol Chen performs at Red 7 around 3 o'clock. Wavves at 10PM at Viceland, with Japandroids and Divine Fits to follow, promises to rank among the best closers of the week. Flying Lotus will also do a multi-media set at the Jones Center AMOA Arthouse.
WEDNESDAY, starting out at noon at Waterloo Records, we'll have to catch Thurston Moore's new project, Chelsea Light Moving, and we'll probably stay for Tegan & Sara at 2. then it's off to see either Peanut Butter Wolf at Red 7 or !!! at Lustre Pearl, with Dead Prez to end the evening early at Antone's (for $).
the Walkmen and Foxygen show at the Club De Ville on FRIDAY appears RSVP-ed out, but we'll try to get in anyway. earlier that day, Dosh performs at Holy Mountain around noon, Caveman and Phosphorescent perform at Red Eyed Fly around 3, and The Zombies (yes, Colin Blunstone's Zombies) perform at The Stage On 6th at 4. Divine Fits, Jim James (of My Morning Jacket) and the big bad Flaming Lips close Auditorium Shores, with Daedelus monoming an after-midnight set at Emo's East (for $).
on SATURDAY, Austin's own Balmorhea opens the day at Mohawk at noon, and we may stay for The Thermals at 3. ...unless we missed The Zombies, in which case they're playing Waterloo at noon or Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop at 2. and if we somehow missed the most ubiquitous band of the festival, Foxygen plays Jo's Coffee at 4, with Phosphorescent and Heartless Bastards to follow. or Toro y Moi plays the Hype Hotel at 5. or Talib Kweli the Lustre Pearl at 6, or Thee Oh Sees at Clive Bar same time. or we might just make this a hometown music day, as three bands from San Antonio will tear up Flat Top Burger Shop starting at noon - Deer Vibes, We Leave At Midnight, and Hawks of Holy Rosary - a party thrown by KRTU Indie Overnight's Music For Listeners. it all depends on the motion of the ocean.
and if we haven't swam away by ST. PATTY'S DAY SUNDAY, the best new band in Austin, Megafauna, plays the historic Hole In The Wall at 10PM.
we also compiled a list of the best worst band-names playing the fest, for the comedy pleasure of attendees and non-:
Fiona Apple - 'The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do'
The Bad Plus - 'Made Possible'
Tennis - 'Young & Old'
Here We Go Magic - 'A Different Ship'
Wild Nothing - 'Nocturne'
Nicolas Jaar with Various Artists - 'Don't Break My Love'
Lower Dens - 'Nootropics'
Dirty Projectors - 'Swing Lo Magellan'
Beach House - 'Bloom'
Nas - 'Life Is Good'
Blondes - 'Blondes'
Animal Collective - 'Centipede Hz'
Thee Oh Sees - 'Putrifiers II'
Ty Segall - 'Twins'
James Blackshaw - 'Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death'
Andrew Bird - 'Hands Of Glory'
Christian Fennesz - 'Aun: The Beginning & Ending of All Things'
Tame Impala - 'Lonerism'
Apollo Brown & O.C. - 'Trophies'
Black Moth Super Rainbow - 'Eating Us'
Beck - 'Song Reader'.
184 TRACKS
Dum Dum Girls covering Strawberry Switchblade - "Trees And Flowers" {End Of Daze}
Santigold - "Disparate Youth" {Master Of My Make-Believe}
Animal Collective - "New Town Burnout" {Centipede Hz}
Dirty Projectors - "Gun Has No Trigger" {Swing Lo Magellan}
Bats For Lashes - "Laura" {The Haunted Man}
Tame Impala - "Apocalypse Dreams" {Lonerism}
Sharon Van Etten - "All I Can" {Tramp}
Kendrick Lamar - "Good Kid" {Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City}
Daniel Rossen - "Saint Nothing" {Silent Hour/Golden Mile}
Tennis - "High Road" {Young & Old}
Grizzly Bear - "Yet Again" {Shields}
Fiona Apple - "Anything We Want" {The Idler Wheel...}
Lower Dens - "Brains / Stem" {Nootropics}
The Bad Plus - "Pound For Pound" {Made Possible}
Nas - "The Black Bond" {Life Is Good}
Regina Spektor - "Firewood" {What We Saw From The Cheap Seats}
James Blackshaw - "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" {Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death}
Beach House - "On The Sea" {Bloom}
Raekwon with J.D. Era - "Soldier Story" {Unexpected Victory}
20. Thee Oh Sees - "Flood's New Light" {Putrifiers II}
Hilary Hahn & Hauschka - "Krakow" {Silfra}
Wild Nothing - "Paradise" {Nocturne}
Spiritualized - "Headin' For The Top Now" {Sweet Heart Sweet Light}
Lee Fields & The Expressions - "Still Hanging On" {Faithful Man}
Of Montreal - "Malefic Dowery" {Paralytic Stalks}
Here We Go Magic - "Make Up Your Mind" {A Different Ship}
White Rabbits - "Danny Come Inside" {Milk Famous}
Vijay Iyer Trio covering Michael Jackson - "Human Nature (Trio Extension)" {Accelerando}
Just Friends - "Avalanche" {Don't Break My Life}
Air - "Sonic Armada" {Le Voyage Dans La Lune}
Frank Ocean with Earl Sweatshirt - "Super Rich Kids" {Channel ORANGE}
The Antlers - "Zelda" {Undersea}
Dan Deacon - "Prettyboy" {America}
Ty Segall - "Thank God For Sinners" {Twins}
Andrew Bird - "Three White Horses" {Hands Of Glory}
St. Vincent and David Byrne - "The Forest Awakes" {Love This Giant}
Brian Eno - "Lux 2" {Lux}
The Walkmen - "Line By Line" {Heaven}
Heartless Bastards - "Only For You" {Arrow}
OC with Apollo Brown - "Caught Up" {Trophies}
Rufus Wainwright - "Montauk" {Out Of The Game}
Nathan Fake - "Rue" {Steam Days}
Patrick Watson - "Quiet Crowd" {Adventures In Your Own Backyard}
Get The Blessing - "Adagio In Wot Minor" {OC DC}
Divine Fits - "Shivers" {A Thing Called Divine Fits}
Micachu And The Shapes - "Fall" {Never}
Bumpy Knuckles with DJ Premier - "OwNiT" {KoleXXXion}
Leonard Cohen - "Anyhow" {Old Ideas}
Lotus Plaza - "Jet Out Of The Tundra" {Spooky Action At A Distance}
50. Father John Misty - "Funtimes In Babylon" {Fear Fun}
Gift Of Gab - "Market & 8th" {The Next Logical Progression}
Best Coast - "No One Like You" {The Only Place}
Antibalas - "Dirty Money" {Antibalas}
Beats Antique - "The Allure" {Contraption Vol. II}
Kimbra - "Good Intent" {Good Intent}
M. Ward - "The First Time I Ran Away" {A Wasteland Companion}
Chet Faker - "Cigarettes And Chocolate" {Thinking In Textures}
Lupe Fiasco - "Put Em Up" {Food & Liquor: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1}
Lambchop - "Gar" {Mr. M}
Cat Power - "Manhattan" {Sun}
Pond - "Allergies" {Beard, Wives, Denim}
Peach Fish - "So Crazy" {Suicide Girl}
B.o.B. - "Where Are You (B.o.B. Vs Bobby Ray)" {Strange Clouds}
Sleep Party People - "A Dark God Heart" {We Were Drifting On A Sad Song}
Titus Andronicus - "In A Big City" {Local Business}
Oposssom - "Girl" {Electric Hawaii}
Bowerbirds - "Walk The Furrows" {The Clearing}
Debo Band - "Akale Wube" {Debo Band}
Sigur Rós - "Fjögur pÃanó" {Valtari}
Rick Ross with Elijah Blake - "Presidential" {God Forgives, I Don't}
Mouse On Mars - "Wienuss" {Parastrophics}
Andrew Bird - "Lazy Projector" {Break It Yourself}
Mystery Jets - "The Nothing" {Radlands}
Oren Ambarchi - "Knots" {Audience Of One}
Diiv - "How Long Have You Known" {Oshin}
Actress - "Holy Water" {R.I.P.}
Shearwater - "Run The Banner Down" {Animal Joy}
Liars - "A Ring On Every Fingers" {WIXIW}
Jack White - "Hypocritical Kiss" {Blunderbuss}
Japandroids - "Younger Us" {Celebration Rock}
Metric - "Lost Kitten" {Synthetica}
Big K.R.I.T. with 8ball, MJG & 2 Chainz - "Money On The Floor" {Live From The Underground}
Luke Abbott - "Ovals" {Modern Driveway}
Ty Segall - "The Tongue" {Slaughterhouse}
Cody Chesnutt - "Where Is All The Money Going" {Landing On A Hundred}
Tame Impala covering Fleetwood Mac - "That's All For Everyone" {Just Tell Me That You Want Me}
School Of Seven Bells - "Low Times" {Ghostory}
Dandy Warhols - "Don't Shoot She Cried" {This Machine}
El-P - "Drones Over Bklyn" {Cancer 4 Cure}
Advance Base - "Summer Music" {A Shut-In's Prayer}
Earlimart - "I'm A Safe Inside" {System Preferences}
Rusko - "Love No More" {Songs}
Mission Of Burma - "This Is Hi-Fi" {Unsound}
Ty Segall & White Fence - "Tongues" {Hair}
Calexico - "Algiers" {Algiers}
King Tuff - "Loser's Wall" {King Tuff}
J Dilla - "Requiem With Allan Barnes (Blackbyrds)" {Rebirth Of Detroit}
Chris Cohen - "Heart Beat" {Overgrown Path}
Múm - "0,000orð" {Early Birds}
100. Jaill - "Perfect Ten" {Traps}
Islands - "Hallways" {A Sleep & A Forgetting}
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Mladic" {Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!}
Masta Ace with Pav Bundy - "Home Sweet Home" {MA_DOOM: Son Of Yvonne}
Clinic - "For The Season" {Free Reign}
The Shins - "For A Fool" {Port Of Morrow}
Clark - "Tooth Moves" {Iradelphic}
Miguel - "Pussy Is Mine" {Kaleidoscope Dream}
Antony & The Johnsons - "I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy" {Cut The World}
Voices From The Lake - "Circe / ST (VFTL Rework)" {Voices From The Lake}
Killer Mike - "Reagan" {R.A.P. Music}
Hot Chip - "Flutes" {In Our Heads}
Toy - "Motoring" {Toy}
Jason Lytle - "Matterhorn" {Dept. Of Disappearance}
Alabama Shakes - "I Found You" {Boys & Girls}
Pinback - "Diminished" {Information Retrieved}
Deerhoof - "Bad Kids To The Front" {Breakup Song}
Fanfarlo - "Tunguska" {Rooms Filled With Light}
Laurel Halo - "Wow" {Quarantine}
Grass Widow - "Disappearing Industries" {Internal Logic}
Krizz Kaliko with Tech N9ne - "Can't Be The Only One" {Kickin' & Screamin'}
Yppah with Anomie Belle - "Film Burn" {Eighty One}
Passion Pit - "Where We Belong" {Gossamer}
Au - "Epic" {Both Lights}
Errors - "Pleasure Palaces" {Have Some Faith In Magic}
Schoolboy Q - "Gangsta In Designer (No Concept)" {Habits & Contradictions}
Here We Go Magic - "People In The Darkness" {A Different Ship: Bonus Disc}
Mount Eerie - "(synthesizer)" {Clean Moon}
Dirty Projectors - "Here Til It Says I'm Not" {About To Die}
Burial - "Loner" {Kindred}
Sic Alps - "Rock Races" {Sic Alps}
Grimes - "Oblivion" {Visions}
Raw Poetic with Damu The Fudgemunk - "Hole Up" {Kilawatt V1.5}
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - "Major" {Out Of Frequency}
Surgeon remixing Oneohtrix Point Never - "Remember" {Dog In The Fog}
Of Montreal - "Georgie's Lament" {Daughter Of Cloud}
Twin Shadow - "Run My Heart" {Confess}
Qluster remixing Battles - "Dominican Fade" {Dross Glop}
Hiatus Kaiyote - "The World It Softly Lulls" {Tawk Tomahawk}
Ab-Soul - "Bohemian Grove" {Control System}
The Cribs - "Come On, Be A No-One" {In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull}
The Mountain Goats - "Cry For Judas" {Transcendental Youth}
Cloud Nothings - "No Future/No Part" {Attack On Memory}
Alt-J - "Something Good" {An Awesome Wave}
Matthew Dear - "Get The Rhyme Right" {Beams}
Julia Holter - "Goddess Eyes I" {Ekstasis}
Murder By Death - "Queen Mab (Instrumental)" {Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon}
The Evens - "I Do Myself" {The Odds}
Big Boi with Little Dragon and Killer Mike - "Thom Pettie" {Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors}
The Magnetic Fields - "All She Cares About Is Mariachi" {Love At The Bottom Of The Sea}
Andy Stott - "Expecting" {Luxury Problems}
151. Purity Ring with Young Magic - "Grandloves" {Shrines}
Ben Folds Five - "Sky High" {The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind}
Dr. Dog - "These Days" {Be The Void}
Crystal Castles - "Plague" {(III)}
Guided By Voices - "White Flag" {The Bears For Lunch}
Kool Keith - "New York" {Love And Danger}
Milo Greene - "Orpheus" {Milo Greene}
Jens Lekman - "The World Moves On" {I Know What Love Isn't}
Pop Etc - "Everything Is Gone" {POP ETC}
Tanlines - "Brothers" {Mixed Emotions}
Bassnectar - "Hologram" {Freestyle}
Aesop Rock - "Racing Stripes" {Skelethon}
Daphni - "Ye Ye" {Jiaolong}
Band Of Skulls - "You're Not Pretty But You Got It Goin' On" {Sweet Sour}
Esperanza Spalding - "Vague Suspicions" {Radio Music Society}
Ben Gibbard - "Something's Rattling (Cowpoke)" {Former Lives}
Plants And Animals - "Song For Love" {The End Of That}
Orbital - "Beelzedub" {Wonky}
Gonjasufi - "The Blame" {MU.ZZ.LE}
JJ - "Times" {High Summer}
Taken By Trees - "Your Place Or Mine" {Other Worlds}
Dom Kennedy = " "P + H" {Yellow Album}
Paul Van Dyk with Austin Leeds - "Verano" {Evolution}
Anais Mitchell - "Coming Down" {Young Man In America}
Beth Orton - "Call Me The Breeze" {Sugaring Season}
Marsen Jules - "Swans Reflecting Elephants" {Kompakt: Pop Ambient 2012}
Moonface - "Teary Eyes And Bloody Lips" {With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery}
Swearin' - "Fat Chance" {Swearin'}
Maps & Atlases - "Bugs" {Beware And Be Grateful}
Lilacs & Champagne - "Morrocan Handjob" {Lilacs & Champagne}
Woods - "Cali In A Cup" {Bend Beyond}
The Lumineers - "The Dead Sea" {The Lumineers}
Squarepusher - "Stadium Ice" {Ufabulum}
Hunx - "Let Me In" {Hairdresser Blues}
...& 1 to grow on:
Ende Scneafliet - "Animals From Outer Space" {The Minimal Waves Tapes: Volume Two}
here's to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap
and to your(in my arms flowering so new)
self whose eyes smell of the sound of rain
and here's to silent certainly mountains;and to
a disappearing poet of always,snow
and to morning;and to morning's beautiful friend
twilight(and a first dream called ocean)and
let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid
down with ought with because with every brain
which thinks it thinks,nor dares to feel(but up
with joy;and up with laughing and drunkenness)
here's to one undiscoverable guess
of whose mad skill each world of blood is made
(whose fatal songs are moving in the moon
please listen below to The Graveyard Shift's submissions to the International Radio Festival's Search for the Best US College Radio Show. and if you like what you hear, go over to Mixcloud and say so. take all the time you need; you have until December 1st.
listen to this currently lyric-less composition called "Lost Pigs Of The Moon", then write down any feelings which arise as you're listening: any imagery or thoughts, fantasy-scenarios or poetic-sounding sentences, that come to mind. AWwD will write a song using your comments and upload it to their YouTube account once finished.