Whatcha listening to?

Urge Overkill - Exit The Dragon (what a fuckin' great record!)

Various old soul/mod stuff : Drifters, Chris Farlowe, Billy Stewart...

Betty Davis - s/t, Nasty Gal (hard to trust anyone who doesn't find something to like about these)
Joji Yuasa - Obscure Tape Music of Japan Volume 4

in the changer:

Gary Allan Living Hard (MCA)
Aqua De Annique Air (The End) [rough mixes, apparently -- just put this in, and haven't heard any songs off of it yet)
Bobby Bowens The Rump Shakers (T.S.)
Warfare Metal Anarchy (Neat/Castle Music reissue)
Witchcraft The Alchemist (Rise Above)

this local band from mpls called the blackthorns. i guess they are breaking up.

http://www.myspace.com/blackthornsdeath

Dolly Parton: Coat of Many Colors
John Stewart: California Bloodlines
Pet Shop Boys: Very
Handraizer

Betty Davis - s/t, Nasty Gal (hard to trust anyone who doesn't find something to like about these)

true!

Warfare Metal Anarchy (Neat/Castle Music reissue)

i was so excited about that until i realized i have most of it on that 2cd anthology that castle did in 2002 or so. i fucking love warfare.

the past 24 hours:
various - soft sounds for gentle people 4
various - who needs tomorrow?
wizard - the original wizard
ya ho wha 13 - the operetta
moses - changes
the contortions - buy
bunch of mp3s (old hip-hop, funky stuff, traffic sound)
new trolls - new trolls atomic system
ibis - ibis, sun supreme, canti d'innocenza...
rudimentary peni - cacophony
throbbin gristle - in the shadow of the sun OST
sharon tandy anthology i can't remember the title of

right now: spk - auto da fe mixed with the sound of fireworks from the park a couple of blocks away. and kinda pissed i'm going to have to re-buy auto da fe on CD cause my lp only has 8 tracks.

Nelly Furtado w)K'naan, "Going Away" samba/Carribean-cruise-ship-informed r&b, with her suburban hip-hop nasality returning for a whiff of raunch (little early-Van-Morrison outbursts): not great but nice like Italian ice, on MTV dot com. Also, forthcoming EPs: Bear Hands' Golden with four tracks, at least two of which ("Sickly Brunette" and "Bad Blood")find their own way through some familiar Minnesota fallen rock zones. And Gang Gang Dance's Rawwar only has three tracks, and they've gone wilder, but this zigzagzick marks the spot, must admit.

I made a salsa practice mix (with several unusual slowly-tempoed tracks clustered in the first half) for someone at work who is going to start taking lessons, so I've been listening to that, and then other mixes, uhm, the usual stuff.

Konono No. 1, Congotronics
Daft Punk, The Official Album of ILM
The Best of E-40: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Camp Lo, Black Hollywood
TLC, CrazySexyCool
The Rapture, Echoes
M.I.A., Kala
Kanye West, Late Registration
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life

what dp album? ;)

sunday morning:
Franz Schubert - Die Schöne Müllerin (Werner Güra/Jan Schultsz)
afternoon:
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
Fleetwood Mac - Mirage

Human After All ; D

a grifters singles mix I made. singles takes sound different than the album takes

death in june - operation hummingbird
robert wyatt - comicopera (fantastic)

I'm still testing out the new Pinback and semi-new Rob Crow albums. They are a dissapointment so far; just like how Nautical Antiques was quite a boring album.

I keep forgetting to listen to Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel Like You (the first few songs on it sounded great -- even if he kinda has a country voice)

Uni, Kosmikud II

Matt Berry's "Opium". Yes, that Matt Berry. It's a trip!

Bohannon - Keep On Dancin'
Twinkeyz - Cartoonland
Jim Shepard Plays the songs of Kim Fowley
Tyvek - Summer Burns

Pumice's "Pebbles" has sunk in and is for sure the best thing I've heard in ages.
Plus it's got a cuet cover

http://www.softabuse.com/images/SAB022.jpg

Kanye West, Graduation
Dr. Dre, The Chronic
Chromeo, Fancy Footwork

Yeah, that Pumice cover is great.

Tim Gane & Sean O'Hagan, La Vie D'Artiste (a sweet retro candy of a soundtrack, or samthung -- and i like it, quite)

Antonio Adolfo - Destiny (smoof-groof galore)

VNV Nation, Judgment. You know, this is going to be my album of the year. Nothing else has come close when it comes to replays.

fugu 'as found'--finally! it's so beautiful
seabear

Bobby Timmons - Easy Does It
Bobby Timmons - This Here is Bobby Timmons

I forgot how great this stuff is.

Baroness, Drudkh, Mono, Botch, Grails, Kinski, M83, Zoroaster, Go! Team, Witchcraft, Torche

davie scott on thank you for the music.

HORSE the band - A Natural Death

Four Sail, Love

some trunk boiz singles on their myspace page, all good. hyphy lives!

Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp
Had to turn it off halfway through, as this easy-listening take on NWOBHM gets pretty dull (they're basically slower, with a less abrasive production, and the screaming singer replaced with a dude mumble-growling a bit)

Van Der Graaf Generator - The Aerosol Grey Machine
Fairly decent stuff, but they haven't really gotten the hang of it yet. I think I even prefer Vital Live to this one.

I am listening to Con by Conrad Schnitzler. Zoned!

so far today

schumann string quartets 1 & 3
lightning bolt - wonderful rainbow (x2)

now i'm going to listen to this popul vuh - coeur de verre i just got and clean up my room.

Canon Blue, Colonies (rather good to pretty good one-man-record)
Albin Janoska, Le Grand Baheux (dance, dance, dance - inna klein records kind of vienna vein)
3 Pead, Ilusaim heli (lovin it more from day to day)

robert wyatt - comicopera (fantastic)

^^^ This.

Flipper - Blow'n Chunks
The Kinks - Preservation Act 1
Thou - This Is Not A Record(part 1)
Magic Dirt - Beast
Smashing Orange - No Return in the End

All interesting, none perfect.

Bill Evans - Explorations

cooling weather = time for piano trios

i do like soft machine and some solo Wyatt, but comicopera, so far, is boring me, except for a few interesting "instrument treatments" by you-know-who.... can anyone tell me what i am "missing"?
i pretty much love the new Springsteen though

T.E.C.K. String Quartet (=Tomas Ulrich, Elliott Sharp, Carlos "Zingaro", Ken Filiano) [2007, Clean Feed]
Henry Miller's Isipingo, Which Way Now (20 November 1975 live in Bremen)

"cooling weather..." so far, pretty decent jangle for Indian Summer is Saturday Looks Good To Me's Fill Up The Room (out Oct. 23), kind of like Morrissey with the keyboard guy from Spoon, plus a bunch of chambery but sufficiently rocking instruments (I think it's sufficient, but need to listen more)

right now wayne krantz - whippersnapper

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003RXC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

The Real Tuesday Weld's The London Book Of The Dead: Stephen Merrity as heck, but nice in that regard; he hasn't started whistling yet, but seems like he will, any second (a little A.Bird in there too)

that dude is no ian whitcomb, that's all i know.

http://www.picklehead.com/ian/Cap.jpg

whitcombmania footage:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ye4BYAhWGcA

even better, ian's version of be my baby on t.v.:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lshT7v5KSuw

but really, ian's finest moment. his rendition of this sporting life:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4UMzkTAyhyw

simply glorious.

Placebo, Meds -- it's been a while.

piana's newest record.

The Prodigy, Fat of the Land
Tego Calderon, El Abayarde: Contra-Ataca
Goodie Mob, Soul Food
Charlotte Hatherley, The Deep Blue
Nelly, Country Grammar
Amy Winehouse, Back to Black

Saint Etienne, Tales From Turnpike House
Ringo Starr, Photograph: The Very Best of

I've also been listening to Winehouse all of the sudden, courtesy of my wife's new obsession with her.

lou reed likes her...