raw almonds

2009-09-02T20:37:00.000-07:00

i don't think anybody goes on this anymore, but if you're here then this is for you. a plainly heartbreaking, japanese, bluesy-jazz number for you.

asakawa maki - 浅川マキ - さかみち

say goodbye

2009-05-08T08:40:00.000-07:00

i liked "april" by benji cossa a ton and i found an album of his on the internet so i will put it on here. it is really sweet, even though it is flecked with songs sung in really high falsetto which remind me of clowns and "april" still wins. get ready to feel good, though.

benji cossa - between the blue and the green

I'm gonna take your heart and put it in my pocket.

2009-04-06T17:25:00.000-07:00

I saw these guys at Cafe Du Nord last summer, and then unwittingly played a gig with them at Amnesia. They're from Portland, and they're fun.

The Builders and The Butchers

Hi, I'm Becca.

music, school, or music school?

2009-04-02T18:55:00.000-07:00

micachu - jewelery

i guess this is a promo version with a couple extra tracks scattered in there; i don't know. sounds good though!

Did we do this to them?

2009-03-10T14:43:00.001-07:00

I don't know if they're crazy, but their music is.

yximalloo - unpop

I felt like it was spring

2009-03-10T00:07:00.000-07:00

Somebody sent me this single song about two years ago and i've since been searching for full albums. I've found some other single songs, some things on LastFM, but not much else.

Sweet, lo-fi, and the perfect song for the coming season.

Benji Cossa- April

2009-03-09T09:17:00.000-07:00

Musician from Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Philly, w/e. Way sick and one of my favorites.

The Windswept Stars- Christopher Hunt's Album Computer

There's this thing, too. It has more links to splits, side-projects, and previous albums:
www.myspace.com/thewindsweptstars

An album for everything

2009-03-02T21:35:00.000-08:00

Field recordings, guitar, and hums all mixed together with a computer.

Greg Davis- Arbor

Fall asleep, take a drive, or lay down on your floor with the window open.

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2009-03-02T00:53:00.000-08:00

the robot ate me - they ate themselves

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2009-03-01T02:43:00.000-08:00

try it out i was taken buy it

matt sweeney and bonnie "prince" billy

there's never anything like background music in my films

2009-02-23T16:08:00.000-08:00

There's this artist, Bibio, and he makes an awesome blend of electronic and folk music with lo-fi production qualities. Three albums by this artist, Bibio:

Vignetting the Compost (2009)

Hand Cranked (2006)

Fi (2004)

"songs that everyone would want to hear on guitar"

2008-12-16T03:56:00.000-08:00

i'll sing along to all of these, i promise.

blind willie mctell - atlanta twelve string

some anticon stuff:

2008-12-15T18:58:00.000-08:00

dosh - pure trash

odd nosdam - burner

odd nosdam - pretty swell explode (disc 1 and disc 2)

i wish i could have lived in new york in the 80s

2008-12-14T22:47:00.000-08:00

this is an ep from a feelies offshoot

the trypes - the explorers hold

i have spent time with unspoiled birds

2008-12-14T21:15:00.000-08:00

diane cluck is the perfect medicine for how cold it's feeling in here and how dark it's been out there. she is haunting and tender and, please, s her well-deserved play count's fat d.

diane cluck - oh vanille

tote sillz

2008-12-04T00:55:00.000-08:00

ave sangria - ave sangria

all i really want is your ghetto love

2008-11-28T16:07:00.000-08:00

twenty-four/seven we'll be making love
(in such a coy and swedish way.)

florian - florianopolis

you can drive my impala and learn the kabbalah, too

2008-11-17T22:32:00.000-08:00

phoenix love god.

eddy detroit - jungle captive

oh oh oh, caress my back

2008-11-16T23:56:00.000-08:00

snuggle with this album because it is so cozy that you will not really have a choice anyways.

l.a.k.e. - oh the places we will go

breezy

2008-11-16T23:37:00.000-08:00

this is super nice.

tsegue-maryam guebrou - ehtiopiques 21

this is the opposite of robot planes

2008-11-16T01:26:00.000-08:00

london based free improvisation from 1968 comprised of john stevens, evan parker, kenny wheeler, derek bailey, and dave holland.

spontaneous music ensemble - karyobin

this past week, and all i've got to show:

2008-11-13T20:31:00.000-08:00

sunset - pink clouds

the end of isolationism

2008-11-09T13:42:00.000-08:00

kahimi karie is shibuya-kei, which means that she's from the shibuya district of tokyo. but there's no more tokugawa shogunate and sakoku's over. on k.k.k.k.k. she collaborates with many other artrists (momus!); on once upon a time she works with the olivia tremor control.

kahimi karie - k.k.k.k.k.

the olivia tremor control and kahimi karie - once upon a time

2008-11-05T22:26:00.000-08:00

this is some jazz i got from kevin.

the art ensemble of chicago - certain blacks

ghosts

2008-11-03T17:13:00.000-08:00

phil played last night at a release party for this book with songs. he said he had trouble talking about the book, which he described as being the bile from which these songs were distilled, and he hoped no one would try to talk to him about it. but it's so personal, and he's so good at sharing....

mount eerie - dawn

2008-11-03T00:40:00.000-08:00

holy shit = ariel pink + matt fishbeck

holy shit - stranded at two harbors

2008-11-01T22:59:00.000-07:00

"They turned to the right and immediately to the left, and something miaowed under the sidewalk, so they stopped to see what it was."

nico muhly - mothertongue

raw almonds

2008-11-01T14:19:00.000-07:00

raw almonds are delicious and fleshy. plus, they taste the way almonds should.