New Jennifer O'Connor Video - "Always In Your
Mind"

Jennifer O'Connor's just your average singing/songwriting type, getting called up to cover Dylan at Lincoln Center here, knocking out an album with producer John Agnello in 12 days there. Her new album Here With Me's out this week via Matador, and on its first official video, director Zacarias Bezunartea plays out the tune full of relationship stalemates with the relatable stress, and mental and spatial chess, of sitting stranded in the kitchen with the one that's always in your mind but never really there. And this is Brooklyn, so don't say that "she could always just live alone." Do you know how high rent is here?

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#49 aspidistrafly - moonlight shadow

the album i’ve been listening to most this week is aspidistrafly’s i hold a wish for you, released last month on their own kitchen label. a beautifully crafted record that communicates on varying levels of consciousness, it pieces together fragments of meticulously arranged field recordings and lovingly sculpted soundscapes in what emerges as an evocative, [...]

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Inside Lou Barlow's iPod

Shuffle playlist stuff can be lame, but (surprise) Lou's well listened and has opinions. You'll learn a thing or two (and add some to your download queue) after parsing. Check it at A.V. Club.

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iHHF.net - FuseBox Radio Broadcast w/ DJ Fusion &
Jon Judah #116 August 20, 2008

This is the FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the week of August 20, 2008 with some new and classic Hip-Hop & Soul music, news and commentary. This week we had a on point interview with author Douglas A. Blackmon for his book, "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II" (now currently out on Doubleday Books), which "brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history?when a cynical new form of slavery was resurrected from the ashes of the Civil War and re-imposed on hundreds of thousands of African-Americans until the dawn of World War II" by throwing Black Men, Women and Childresn into prison in the South for labor purposes under false pretenses to be arrested. Feel free to hit him up the official book website, http://www.slaverybyanothername.com. Due to the interview, there is no new segment of Black Agenda Report and no Direct EFX segment (due to summer break for colleges). FuseBox Radio Playlist & Charts for Week of August 20, 2008 Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) 1. GZA feat. Masta Killa & RZA/Pencil/Babygrande (Played Live) 2. CL Smooth/Dripped In Champagne/St. Nick Ent. (Played Live) 3. Busta Rhymes feat. Show Money & Reek Da Villian/Give A Damn/Flipmode, Aftermath & Interscope (Played Live) 4. Mary Mary/Get Up/Columbia (Played Live) 5. Nappy Roots/Tinted Up/NappyRoots.com (Played Live) 6. Lil' Fame of M.O.P./Security/Clockwork Music (Played Live) 7. Chokloate/Incredible/Hustle Hard (Played Live) 8. DJ Revolution feat. KRS-1/The DJ/Duck Down Records (Played Live) 9. Ben Jacobs/Hundreds (I Know This)/Dellarock Ent. (Played Live) 10. Lil' Sci & Carlos Nino Present What's The Science?/The Right Song/Shaman Work Recordings (Played Live) 11. Elzhi feat. Royce da 5' 9"/Motown 25/Fat Beats (Played Live) 12. Jim Snooka/Hammertime/Never So Deep Records (Played Live) 13. Precise/It's On Me/MySpace.com White Label (Played Live) 14. Paris/Don't Stop The Movement (inst.)/Guerilla Funk Recordings (Played Live) 15. Beeda Weeda/You Can't Hear My Tummy (inst.)/Clearbeat Records (Played Live) 16. Statik Selektah feat. Cassidy, Saigon & Termanology/To The Top (Stick 2 The Script)(inst.)/Showoff Records (Played Live) 17. Big Boi feat. Mary J. Blige/Sumthins Gotta Give (inst.)/LaFace & Zomba (Played Live) 18. Vistoso Bosses/All I Want/Collipark Music (Top Song Requested) 19. U.R.B.Z./Inside Outside/H.A.T.E. Klub & C.O.E. (Top Song Requested) 20. K-Salaam & Beatnick feat. Young Buck & Sizzla/Babylon Must Be Mad/VP (Top Song Requested) 21. Dallas Austin Experience/Exasperated/Rowdy & Universal (Top Song Requested) 22. Bishop Lamonte/Grow Up/Aftermath & Interscope (Top Song Requested) 23. Ces/Summer Breeze/BCMG (Top Song Requested) 24. J. Bully/Cock It Back/Mogul City Music Group (Top Song Requested) 25. Santogold, Julian Casablancas & N.E.R.D./My Drive Thru/White Label (Top Song Requested) Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast): 1. Large Professor/Hardcore Hip-Hop/Gold Dust Media 2. Young Jeezy feat. Nas/My President/CTE & Def Jam 3. Cool Water/Unlucky Lotto/CoolWater101.com 4. Qwote feat. Plies/808/Slip-N-Slide Records 5. Robin Thicke feat. Mary J. Blige/Magic (NYC RMX)/Star Trak & Interscope 6. Brandy/Right Here/Epic & Koch 7. Lady Day feat. Stinky Dink/Roc With Me/Teddy Bear Records 8. DJ Khaled feat. Kanye West & T-Pain/Go Hard (inst.)/We The Best Music Group 9. Hustle Boy/It's Nothing (inst.)/Swagg Team Ent. 10. Slo-O feat. Brian Casey of Jagged Edge (inst.)/Without You/Checkmate Muzik Flashback Joints On Blast On The Air This Week (Put Together By Jon Judah & DJ Fusion of The FuseBox Radio, some joints we haven't played in a while on the show - weeks, months, years - or just wanted to reminisce on): DJ Fusion Flashback Tracks: Xhibit/Paparazzi/Relativity PLUS Special Extra Tracks in A Secret Jon Judah Master Mix w/ Old School Classics and more MySpace.com Independent Music Finds

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David Byrne Does Bike Racks, Too

Mr. Byrne's Everything That Happens... LP collab with Eno is rather great and all, but this one's about the legendary Head's other love (no, not that one or that one or that one). As you've probably seen if you live in NYC, the guy likes to bike. He also to park his bike. And he's proving it all with a series of bike racks of his design, strategically installed all over the city (shaped like a $ at Wall St., like a heel outside Bergdorf's, etc.). See the full collection and location info at NY Times' City Room blog. (To complete the relevant link set: this is what David hears and sees when he's riding a bike.)

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The Walkmen - New Years Eve

This track is taken from their forth studio effort titled, “You & Me”. If you’ve picked up their previous albums, be sure to pick up this release — has more of the crooning, pop, and rock influences you’ve come to love from their previous releases.

Bio from last.fm:

The Walkmen are five New Yorkers who have played rock music since they were 10 years old. All five originally hail from Washington, D.C. where they attended the same high school and played in several bands. Over the years, and in their many ensembles, they?ve experimented with punk, noise, a lot of ?garage? sounds, ska, and rock.

After Jonathan Fire*Eater imploded, Walter, Matt, and Paul rounded up enough investors to rent a Harlem industrial space, and convert it into a 24-track analog recording studio. Dubbed ?Marcata Recording?, the new space became the birthplace, home, and virtual sixth member of the Walkmen. Joining with ex-Recoys, Walter?s cousin Hamilton and his friend Peter (who had for years been slaving away in the East Village for spots at the Continental and Luna as The Recoys), the lineup was complete by the summer of 2000. Over the course of the next year the band sedulously wrote and recorded late in the evenings after work. It was hot in the summer and cold in the winter. While adjusting to their new space and equipment, the band engaged in much experimentation with sound.

Their first show took place at Joe?s Pub in the East Village in September of 2000. Onto the tiny stage the band lugged an upright piano, a bass cabinet that was taller than the bass player, three amplifiers, an organ, a lap steel, two tape machines, three guitars, and a set of drums. The show was a great success, so they decided to stick together. Since then the boys have remained dedicated to their instrumentation, and even got their hands on an over-sized, rotting upright in London which nearly ruined the trip (one show was on the third floor).

Initial press for their debut EP gave the Walkmen positive reviews but focussed mainly on the former notoriety of three of its members, all of whom played in the much hyped, short-lived Jonathan Fire*Eater. The band began to be judged on their own merit with the release of their debut album, Everybody Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone (2002).

It was with the release of their second album Bows + Arrows in 2004 that they truly came to the fore, after The Rat received heavy airplay on alternative radio in both the US and the UK.

The Walkmen?s third album, A Hundred Miles Off was released in the US on 23rd May 2006 and in the UK on 26th September 2006.

The band?s influences include, Bruce Springsteen, The Pogues, The Cure, Björk, The Smiths, Joy Division, Neil Young, and New Order. Primarily piano and organ provide the basis for each song, with dashes of a variety of guitars and tapes. The bass holds a steady, booming foundation, and the drums fluctuate from minimal to down right furious. The vocals range from strong and long-held highs to reserved falsettos and lazy lows. The songs can be light and playful, or huge and atmospheric.

The Walkmen - New Years Eve

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Lily Allen: 'I'm Not Giving Up Drugs'

Lily Allen has no plans to quit using drugs, despite recently vowing to cut back on her partying ways.[...] Read more!

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The AudioBus Experience In San Francisco--But
First...

... I would be remiss if I failed to mention that TLB was honored to receive a visit by Pauline Oliveros herself--the inventor of Deep Listening and the "quotee" of this blog's header quote. She asked me to clarify some comments I'd made, and we had a brief exchange in the comments section of my last post. I encourage you to check it out, and if Ms. Oliveros happens to stop by this post as well, thanks again!

N.B. Unfortunately the date in the email below will reveal that my previous post and this one were written quite a while ago. I hope you find them intriguing nonetheless.

No sooner had I written my post about comprehensive listening than I saw this email, forwarded to me from the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum (of which I am a member)....

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"...the coolest ride of the year...sure to permanently change the way you think about - and listen to - SF" - Nitevibe

"AudioBus create[s] unique participatory sound experiences" - Reyhan Hermanci, SF Chronicle 96 Hours

"...what better place to have a city music festival than on a bus...commuting takes on new meaning..." - Jennifer Maerz, Last Tango in Traffic, SF Weekly

MOVESOUND, SoundwaveSeries' third season, launches the first of five AudioBus events this Saturday July 12 at New Langton Arts. The AudioBus is a moving venue giving audiences an adventurous sonic experience like never before. The sound artists and musicians curated for the AudioBus compose their San Francisco route and perform live scores to the scenery moving past them.

We are also excited to announce Sennheiser has come on board to become a major sponsor of AudioBus suppling quality microphones and headphones for the series. Sennheiser joins CitySightseeing San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum as crucial support in making AudioBus a reality.


Saturday, July 12, 2008
AUDIOBUS: HUMAN STREET TEXTURES: Live Processed Sound on a Moving Open-Top Double Decker Bus by David Graves (San Francisco) and [ruidobello] (San Francisco)

Composer David Graves & sound artist [ruidobello] devise a tour route collecting live moving street sounds. David & [ruidobello] will mix, and manipulate the soundscapes into an alternate sonic reality for audiences equipped with headphones atop a CitySightseeing open top double-decker bus moving through the city.

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Sounds pretty cool to me! Almost makes me wish I lived in San Francisco.... (But not quite.)

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New Guillemots Video - "Kriss Kross"

Guillemots are all about branding. Much like the red-hued video for "Get Over It," there's lots of red in the video for "Kriss Kross" (the album's called Red, bingo). The dark-to-light kriss-krossing track came packing a typewriter riff and general prime-time-criminal-drama vibe as a free download a ways back. In its video form, it comes packing super saturated effects, oversized shades, and Fyfe looking like a bit like Jamie Lidell.

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Ali Azmat - Klashinfolk [2008-MP3-VBR-320Kbps]

DOWNLOAD ALI AZMAT - KLASHINFOLK [2008-MP3-VBR-320Kbps]DOWNLOAD:01. Klashinfolk Intro 02. Gallan 03. Mera Khuda 04. Tanha Hai Kyon 05. Yeh Kya Hua [...]

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