Archive for July, 2008

July 24th, 2008

Bands and sites

This Kid’s Not Supposed to Be in the Family Portrait: a Coeur d’Alene band with KUOI’s program director, Mike Siemens.

Beulah: the defunct San Francisco, Elephant 6 project. “If We Can Land on the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart” is available at Music is Art, and It’s Hard to Find a Friend’s Summer Mixtape includes “A Good Man Is Easy to Kill.”

Last.fm, the audio statistical thing, was mentioned in my article, as were allmusic (a hypertext music encyclopedia) and KUOI, my radio station.

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July 9th, 2008

The Best of 2008’s First Half

As promised in the Argonaut, here are links to some of my favorite tracks of 2008’s first 183 days.

Bad Dudes: Several MP3s are available for download on the official MySpace profile.

Destroyer: The MySpace profile has “Foam Hands” from Trouble in Dreams, but the Merge Records site has a free download, “Madame Butterflies,” available (look on the sidebar.)

Flight of the Conchords: The official Sub Pop site has MP3s of “Ladies of the World” and “Business Time” for free, along with a video for “Ladies” (also available for streaming on YouTube.)

HEALTH: Several wonderful MP3s are available at Stereogum.

Hot Chip: Ready for the Floor has a video on YouTube

Los Campesinos!: “You! Me! Dancing!,” available on YouTube.

The Magnetic Fields: Heartache with Hard Work has MP3s of “The Nun’s Litany” and “Drive On, Driver,” both from Distortion.

Matmos: The official album website offers “Rainbow Flag” for free download.

Neon Neon: “Raquel” and others can be heard on MySpace.

No Kids: “The Beaches All Closed,” “Old Iron Gate” and “For Halloween” are all wonderful tracks from the album, available for listening on their MySpace profile.

Okmoniks: Four tracks are up at MySpace.

Ratatat: The official MySpace profile has “Mirando,” from the new album, and others.

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down: Album highlight, and album title source, “Swimming Pools” is available for free download at the official Thao website (under “Listen”). I have previously featured a video, too, on this blog.

Throw Me the Statue: Check out “Lolita” here.

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