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Test Week

Men At Work - Cargo

Twenty Years Ago: Hold Your Fire

Rush - Hold Your Fire

Enon: Grass Geysers…Carbon Clouds

Enon - Grass Geysers…Glass Clouds

Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala

Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

Tunng: Good Arrows

Tunng  -Good Arrows

Late To The Party: Gwyneth Herbert

Gwyneth Herbert

Jesca Hoop – Kismet

Jesca Hoop - Kismet

Band Of Horses: Cease To Begin

Band Of Horses: Cease To Begin

Big Room Drama

At last, I’ve solved a long time music mystery. I’ve ID’d a mystery track that’s eluded me for a long time. Four years ago I pick up a copy of one of Pete Tong’s Essential Mix radio programs. The guest for that night is Mr. John Digweed, who proceeds to lay down one of my […]

SFX: Electric President

Occasionally I’m scrolling through the music folder on my hard drive and I come across something that I just don’t recognize. It happens this morning as I’m loading up the ol’ Rio Carbon for the drive north to Santa Barbara. “Electric President?” WTF? Who the heck are they? I run a quick check on allmusic.com. […]

SFX: Rainer Maria

It’s Monday. You know what that means. Time to share with you all my new favorite song. Way back in the mists of early 2006, Rainer Maria released their first new studio thingy in years. It’s called, “Catastrophe Keeps Us Together.” It takes me until now to actually listen to it because, well, sometimes I’m […]

Joy! Noel! Ding! Dong!

Christmas is here. It’s hard to tell, here in Hollywood, except the sparkly illuminated stars stretch down Santa Monica Boulevard from La Brea to Doheny. I love those. They always seem to magically appear one night, like presents under a tree. One day, it’s just plain ol’ Santa Monica Boulevard, the next it’s the Avenue […]

SFX: Buffalo Tom

Man, I love Buffalo Tom. And I’m only posting about them because I want to test out another music streaming plug-in. This one’s called PodPress. I think, with a little tweaking, it could work put better than the last one, which is a tricky pilfering of the Google Video interface I read about here. The […]

SFX: Julian Jabre

Several months ago I’m returning home from Amoeba. As usual, it’s late and Nocturna is on KCRW. The tune spinning across LA is called “Swimming Places” by Julian Jabre. I find it that night on eBay and place an order. It arrives a few days later, warped, but still playable, from a record shop in […]

SFX: More James Holden

A couple weeks ago I waxed enthusuastic about the new offering from DJ Sandra Collins. But that was before I picked up the new James Holden comp. People who know me (some of them, anyway) know that I adore Mr. Holden’s work. It’s complex and intricate, and as dance music goes, inaccessible and relatively obscure. […]