We Used To Wait Music Video

Quite possibility to coolest interactive video I know.

http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

Music I Wish I had in 2009: Part 3

Mos Def- The Ecstatic

I've always liked collaborations that involved Mos Def, especially with the Roots and Gorillaz, so for me to like his album doesn't surprise me. I had always noticed rave reviews for this album, but it didn't hit me to actually get it until now.


Life In Marvelous Times


Priority

Music I Wish I had in 2009: Part 2: Jazz Themed!

As summer is nearing an end, I've been getting slightly sick of listening to new [dare I say hipster?] indie music all the time, so I thought I would try to diversify my blog a little bit more by posting Jazz related articles. Now as we all know, fall season can sometimes suck. School goes back in session, just as you forgot everything taught last year. The big summer vacation just ended and you forgot to function on a work schedule. Shit starts falling from the sky and you retaliate by smashing your neighbor's pumpkins on their stoop. And then even worse, Winter shows up. So under all the enmity against fall, Jazz will help sedate the notion of the various fluid colors enveloping your lawn.

Vijay Iyer Trio- Historicity

Probably the most "mainstream" appealing Jazz album of 2009. If you want just one good Jazz album from 2009, I suggest you start with Vijay Iyer (My favorite from here: Mystic Brew).


Galang (trio riot version)


Mystic Brew


Well if you enjoyed y first Jazz album I wish I had, then check out this list of the Top 10 Jazz Records of 2009 by NPR, especially Allen Toussaint, Ran Blake, Buika & Chucho Valdes, Diego Barber. That list will surely convince one to find a red leather couch by an open fire while holding a novel in one hand and brandy in the other.

New Sufjan Stevens EP

Sufjan Stevens came out with a new EP titled All Delighted People EP after a long hiatus of new music. Well I can attest that this EP satisfies the break, including two lengthy 10+ minutes songs All Delighted People (Original Version) and Djohariah. The EP can be purchased at Sufjan's bandcamp site for $5, on Amazon (below), or you can wait for the physical CD later.

Also check to see if you can find any recognizable people on the cover. My favorites are Leonardo DeCaprio and teenage Sufjan Stevens.

All Delighted People EP

Listen to streams of !!!'s and Ra Ra Riot's New Albums

!!! NEW ALBUM STREAM

Ra Ra Riot The Orchard on NPR

Living Rooms- House Kid

It may not be an amazing find like Yellow Ostrich, however Living Rooms is another band with great free songs available for free download. If you are a fan of anything Animal Collective, this is very much similar.

Heart Music Group

This is taken from their band camp site:

"This EP was a collaborative effort between Heart Music Group and all the artist involved. All the tracks are previously unreleased.

Heart Music Group is a full service music company specializing in artist management, consulting, marketing and branding.

We currently represent:

Fol Chen
Kárin Tatoyan
Baths
Hard Mix
COOLRUNNINGS
Wise Blood

Add us on facebook and stay in the loop... Heart Music Group- Facebook"

If you haven't heard of many of these band names, you will know them very well from my blog. I should mention these bands a few more times in my next future posts soon.

Yellow Ostrich

Hello everyone! It's been a long time since I've posted, so consider those 10 days my vacation. And also I finally have my first follower! Woo!
Now I know there are more people that do follow, but may not have a Google account (which they should because Google rocks) so I will show you how to make an RSS feed for my blog. On Firefox, go to bookmarks, subscribe to this page, and then choose RSS. Then once you are at the window asking to subscribe using live bookmarks click "subscribe now." And then choose "bookmarks toolbar".
If you have a browser different than Firefox and you can't figure out how to subscribe, then go get a Google account and follow!!!

Now back to music. I found this band out today called Yellow Ostrich. They have three EPs out, The Serious Kids, The Morgan Freeman, and Fade Cave, for FREE! After listening to the first EP, I think its safe to say that all three EP should be awesome. Then again, why would that matter when its FREE music? I hope you agree with that statement and take a listen.

[UPDATE] All three EPs are incredible! Who knew an EP of everything Morgan Freeman would be this awesome? All it needs is his buttery voice and it will be an epic.






You can check out Yellow Ostrich's Bandcamp site here.

August Playlist 2010

Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist, an excellent music discovery site (one I use regularly) has uploaded their August 2010 playlist via torrent, multiupload, and stream.
You can listen to stream of the August play list here. Stream August 2010
Or if you want to go straight to downloading it to your computer, go here. August 2010 Playlist page