All posts tagged music
All posts tagged music
If you attended Cupcake Camp today in San Francisco (and let’s face it, you should have done; it was delicious) you may have wondered between mouthfuls of cake and icing “Just what are these splendid and eclectic tunes accompanying my noshing?”—or a thought transcript to that effect.
I’m glad you asked. I’ve uploaded a PDF, printed out of iTunes. You can see it here. Remember when WinAMP used to have an export as HTML button? Yeah. Those days are gone.
I submitted it as an iTunes iMix too You can view it here, but only about 60% of the music is in iTunes, so it’s not complete.
Fun stats time!
I shall play your meme game, because this is a really interesting game of stats. It is certainly flawed, since ratings and playcounts don’t penetrate my entire iTunes library right now (I did a library reset a few years ago), but, all the same:
This is of course is influenced by resetting play counts a few years ago, but next up in my ‘Lost Songs’ play list:
Done!
timoni via mrgan, via gordonshumway
New single from Doves, ‘Kingdom of Rust’. It’s been a long time. (via Pitchfork TV)
It’s 1:30 am on a mild but damp San Francisco winter night. Friday. It’s dark and I’ve just walked the streets of Hayes Valley and Mission Dolores, heading home after a night with great friends. On my iPod plays the final (fifth) mix from Eric Kleptone’s review of 2008. The set list is below, but I urge you to play it. It’s a set of sublime, truly moving beautiful music. It touches you and, should you be playing it in isolation as you wander the streets of a city you love, you’ll find it enhances everything around you.
Something about this mix, at this moment, defines what it is to love music. To love a place. To love people near to you. It’s just right. Perfect, somehow. Mixed seamlessly, and yet not a dance beat to be heard.
If you have the time to be absorbed into something, or even if you don’t, I urge you to listen to this. It’s a fragment of last year’s music presented in a way that’s simply timeless.
- Pacific UV - Alarmist
- Shearwater - Rooks
- Bon Iver - Blindsided
- Evangelista - The Blue Room
- Thomas Brinkmann - Words
- Portishead - The Rip
- Peter Broderick - Stopping On The Broadway Bridge
- James Blackshaw - Echo And Abyss
- The Caretaker - Long Term (Remote)
Florence is a twenty one year-old art college drop-out from Camberwell, South London, a long pretty pale girl who makes up songs and sings them. The Machine is whoever’s standing nearby playing an instrument at the time. It’s a bit harder to define, the machine part. It’s just not exactly a person. It’s a sort of a machine. She’s been singing since pretty much forever. She was in the school choir, a few dodgy bands, had vocal lessons and such. She has all the necessary paperwork if you want to see it.
If you see her sing live you’ll forget paperwork and forget your name and maybe forget to breathe for a little while. Florence has a voice hewn from the rock and stamped in the gravel and shot out of a cannon into the middle of your chest. It cuts right into you and thrums. She also has almost as much stage presence as Hitler. She’s like a funny sexy popstar Hitler without the despotism and with more beautiful songs and the utmost love and respect for Jews and gays and gypsies.
Eat Your Own Ears email description of Florence and the Machine.
I ♥ Florence. She’s playing a headline show in London in May, you should go see if you can!
Florence & The Machine at Bloomsbury Ballroom, Victoria House, 37–63 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1B, 2009-05-27.
Tickets are on sale tomorrow. Despite being in America, I’m almost tempted to buy some anyway, just in case I can coincide a trip home or a conference or something.
Song of the Day: Beck - ‘Cellphone’s Dead’
Filed under underlistened goes Beck’s ‘The Information’ record, which is really rather sublime. Loads of worthwhile tracks to pick out: ‘Elevator Music’, ‘I think I’m love’, ‘Soldier Jane’… An excellent afternoon record.
— In supplement, the title track — ‘The Information’ — is also excellent: http://www.last.fm/music/Beck/The+Information/The+Information
‘Leaving Here’, Eric Kleptone’s Hectic City podcast #6.
This has been out for a while, but it’s a mix crammed full of glorious 60’s pop. I ♥ The Kleptones at the best of times, and whislt this isn’t a set of their usual mash-ups, it’s eclectic and summery and never ceases to make me smile.
In his words:
Here’s a solid hour of fresh, exciting old shit :) - A good dig through the realms of 60s garage punk, proto rock and pumping mod. Most of the tracks date from round 1964-66, with a couple of later ones, and they’re mostly from the UK”
‘Electric Dirt’, a Foals vs. The Chain Gang remix of Foal’s Electric Bloom. Hot.
Franz Ferdinand - ‘Do You Want To (Metronomy Remix)’
File under ‘songs I got bored of but am now totally aroused by thanks to total remix transformations’.
More synths. They’re ‘in’, apparently.
First track played at me from Underpangs’ (David Singleton) Loved Tracks on Last.FM. This radio station is vital to my musical survival in San Francisco.
I guess they will need to support OEmbed too…
Awesome piece of music of the day: The Hill, The View & The Lights by Cajun Dance Party.
The guitar shift halfway through makes me smile greatly.
