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Syclops - Mom, The Video Broke from I’ve Got My Eye On You (insound / amazon CD / amazon mp3 / itunes)
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I like this guy. He knows what an album is for. Voice Of The Seven Woods’ primarily instrumental debut takes you on a well-paced journey — mostly on the back of an acoustic-folk hay wagon, but sometimes you get dragged through the middle of a freakout vortex or along the ocean floor.
That’s life.
Voice Of The [...]

Here’s a nice twitchy asswiggler from some local boys done good. This was available at 128kbps (with the mp3 Genre tag “Don’t call it Lazer Bass”) at XLR8R, but the Mob had mercy on music lovers and put it up on their own site at 320kbps.
Numbers numbers blah blah SHAKE IT!!!
Nalepa - Monday (The Glitch [...]

Bless you, Bil Bless!
Son Of The Electric Ghost - The Christian Logic from Your Creator Knows Your Name (available on CD along with other SOTEG goodness through addictech, or download from amazon mp3 or itunes)

When my wife and I went to the Country Music Hall Of Fame maybe ten years ago, there was an associated tour of “RCA Studio B.” I wasn’t too sure about this side trip, which necessitated a bus ride and seemed a little dollar-grubby.
When we arrived at Studio B, my cynicism seemed validated. There [...]

This post originally started with a little bit about the amount of primarily instrumental music that’s out there these days. But as I was writing it, I kept listening to the album today’s song comes from and now all I have to say is:
HOLY FUCK IS GREAT
Holy Fuck - Royal Gregory from LP (insound [...]

No, not like Satan — like the coffee shop on Valencia. (For those of you outside SF, Ritual Coffee Roasters is this cafe full of young indie types and they’re usually playing some good music.)
So here’s my typical Ritual story, which really happened. I’m waiting for my Americano (tasty, thank you) and there’s this [...]

Just close your eyes and listen to this until the start of the 2012 season, and it should be all over by then.
This is a Vince Guaraldi time of year, but instead of a Christmas track, here’s something from the first Peanuts album Guaraldi did. It was written for a documentary about Peanuts in 1964 [...]