I will be home again soon, thank goodness.
from Winterizing - Various Artists (2008)
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Beautiful unreleased cover by L.A.’s Jump Clubb, creators of the “no dance” genre.
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OK, how many of you knew that “Julian Plenti” is Paul Banks of Interpol, and didn’t tell me?
from Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper (2009)
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Stratton [...]
from Sagarmatha (2009)
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from In Sea (2009)
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from Ad Explorata (2009)
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Photo by alt-gramma: actual photograph downtown in my hometown, watercolorized with Corel Photopaint.
Say you like stuff like the Dead Weather and Them Crooked Vultures, but you need a current-year example of near-ambient beauty for that perfect gift for a friend or relative with gentler tastes. Look no further than Australian City of Satellites’ new album Machine Is My Animal. I listed “Victor” among my Festive [...]
I will be out of town and offline for the coming week during my annual visit with family in the southeastern U.S. I love seeing my family, but I don’t feel the same about my old hometown, a place where I never felt at home. Some of today’s songs reflect those feelings.
Thanksgiving week, [...]
I posted the beautiful and somber “Pharaoh’s Chariot” from Soulsaver’s third album, Broken, in my Creepy Halloween Mix and liked it so much I decided to look up more songs. I ended up with all of it and a brand-new respect for this joint project of Rich Machin (above, right) and Mark Lanegan (left, [...]
One of the best things about making mixes based on a theme is discovering songs in your own collection. In making my Halloween mix, I came across this promo mp3 from the Horrors second album, Primary Colours, which was released in May. If you went only by a 30-second sample, you might dismiss [...]
Recently Tim at Contrast Podcast called for our favorite 50 songs of the year in preparation for the annual Festive 50, which will be one great list compiled from the current year favorites of CP’s contributors, including yours truly. You have 50 favorite songs of 2009, don’t you? And no doubt, you can [...]
