February 2012
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This week’s animal: THE BIRD. Tunes with great melodies, the kind you can’t help but sing along to.
Ólöf Arnalds: Vinur Minn
Dirty Projecters: Two Doves
The Low Anthem: Charlie Darwin
Joanna Newsom: Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
Ólöf Arnalds: Náttsöngur
My Brightest Diamond: We Added It Up
Joanna Newsom: In California
Patrick Watson: Big Bird in a Small Cage
Sufjan Stevens: The...
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This week’s animal: THE MONKEY. Lots of loud, fast, crazy tunes
Melt-Banana: Shield for Your Eyes, a Beast in the Well on Your Hand
Boris: Ibitsu
About Tess: Violence Freak
Adebisi Shank: Masa
Fang Island: Welcome Wagon/Daisy
Joanna Newsom: Monkey and Bear (the one lyrical one- the lyrics are in a style kinda like a fable about a monkey and a bear who live together in captivity as...
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FELINE EQUINE BOVINE URSINE: FRIDAYS 5-6PM WSPN...
New show! Every week brings a different animal and music that relates to it, either musically or lyrically. This week’s animal: THE WHALE.
Joanna Newsom: Colleen (about a whale that turns into a girl, see here)
Sunn O))) & Boris: The Sinking Belle (slow, atmospheric)
Mono: Halcyon (Beautiful Days) (big, slow post-rock)
Red Sparowes: Finally, As That Blazing Sun Shone Down upon Us,...
January 2012
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BEST
LP (2011): Battles, Gloss Drop; honorable mention - Braids, Native Speaker
LPs (pre-2011): The Low Anthem, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (2009) / What the Crow Brings (2007); MGMT, Congratulations (2010); Maps and Atlases, Perch Patchwork (2010); The Format, Dog Problems (2006); Ólöf Arnalds, Við Og Við (2007)
EP (2011): Between the Buried and Me, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
EPs...
December 2011
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Another music break because I’ve taken a liking to submitting photographs I’ve taken of pretty things to blogs.
icelandpictures:
Submission from: KeithListensToMusic
Took this photo while driving a section of Ring Road this past April. I only had the car for a day, but it was one of the best days of my life. Came across this abandoned little barn by a cave full of seagulls...
November 2011
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When you get down to it, I’m really just a...
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Most Scandinavian singers tend to avoid singing in...
October 2011
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AFTERMATH: WSPN 91.1 FM, 1-2PM:
Foals : Jizue : Piglet : Ahleuchatistas : Battles : This Town Needs Guns : Rooftops : Mouse on the Keys : Don Caballero : The Speed of Sound in Seawater : The Redneck Manifesto : Volta do Mar : Toe : Slim Charles
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My earliest memory of Skidmore’s math rock...
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AFTERMATH: WSPN 91.1 FM, 1-2PM:
Battles : The Redneck Manifesto : Maps and Atlases : Volta do Mar : Slim Charles : Battles : Foals : Toe : Colour : Rooftops : Pretend : Piglet : Gallops
It would do you well to download (Skidmore’s own!) Slim Charles’ pre-release here.
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Things noticed
This portion of “In...
September 2011
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AFTERMATH: WSPN 91.1 FM, 1-2pm:
Gallops : Battles : Lite : Ahleuchatistas : Maps and Atlases : The Redneck Manifesto : Rooftops : Murder by Death : American Football : Toe : Volta do Mar : Mouse on the Keys : This Town Needs Guns : The Redneck Manifesto
I take the one hour time limit very seriously.
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August 2011
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Fibonacci sequence spotted in...
July 2011
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Insert joke about math rock here
I have found the best application ever made (not really). I’ve always wished that iTunes had some kind of feature to better track listening information and view more than only play count, last listened, etc. I didn’t think until today to google “iTunes statistics,” and up came Super Analyzer. You can analyze your entire library or individual playlists for a bunch of...
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WSPN 91.1, 8-9pm
Battles : MGMT : Dosh : Them, Roaring Twenties : Venetian Snares : Björk : Lykke Li : Orion Rigel Dommisse : The Speed of Sound in Seawater : Yuck : The Redneck Manifesto : The Low Anthem : O’Death : William Elliott Whitmore : Murder by Death
WSPN 91.1, 8-9pm
Nujabes : Battles : Joanna Newsom : Lykke Li : Björk : MGMT : Yuck : Joanna Newsom : The Low Anthem : Aphex Twin : Toe : The Antlers
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Why did no one tell me that Björk is like, really...
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When I first heard Black Swan’s LP Black...
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Excerpt from “Gibbon” by This Town...
June 2011
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Excerpt from Battles’ “Hi-Lo”
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Excerpt from “Nag Champa” by Enemies.
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May 2011
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April 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
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This is why I love Opeth. “How should we...
Best of 2010 (kind of)
As the end of 2010 approaches, friend’s blogs begin recounting their top albums of the year. “Gee, I guess I had better follow suit.” After some poking around in iTunes, I learned that I amassed a total of sixty-four new albums over the course of the year. But, only twelve of them were released in that time.
So here’s my Top Fifteen Albums Acquired in 2010 (in no...
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Omens and Portents I: The Driver by Earth
From...
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This Prokofiev (flashback) toccata sounds about...
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Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp minor....
November 2010
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Let's do this
New playlist, “Finals”:
Two Earth albums, Liszt sonata in Bm (Argerich), Helios, four Chopin ballades, six Joanna Newsom albums (and bootlegs), Shostakovich piano trio, soundtrack to Amélie, Phil Glass’s Koyaanisqatsi and Glassworks, two Murder by Death albums, Steve Reich’s Music for Eighteen Musicians, Patrick Watson, Mahler’s fifth, ten Brahms Intermezzi (Gould),...