Buying Music
With all the p2p programs out there, and internet radio, who buys music anymore?
I do!
Here are the latest albums I bought online (iTunes) that I recommend checking out:
Anyone have any recommendations that made them put their money down?
Labels: music
Love Psychedelico
Love Psychedelico played live today in San Francisco's Apple store, and I was there to enjoy the show. They played 4 songs in front of a tight crowd and succumbed to the applause to play a final 5th song before leaving. They were there to spread awareness of the launch of their first album in the USA.
I met up with them again later that same day in Japantown at the Kinokuniya book store.
From
their website:
LOVE PSYCHEDELICO TO PERFORM IN SAN FRANCISCO
Japanese indie-rock band Love Psychedelico will meet fans and sign CDs at Kinokuniya Bookstore on Saturday, May 17th, 2008.
The band's trip to San Francisco is in celebration of the release of This Is Love Psychedelico, out on HackTone Records on May 20th. The album is a mix of songs hand-selected by Delico's Kumi and Naoki, as well as the team at HackTone Records, to introduce a new audience to the band's music, influenced by 70's classic rock and the British Invasion. All of the tracks are completely re-mastered, and the band feels this is the best they've ever sounded!
They had a limited supply of 100 CDs available and fortunately I got in line early enough to snag one of them. I spoke briefly with Naoki (guitar/keyboard) and Kumi (vocal/guitar) congratulating them on their launch and wishing them success.
Unfortunately I always feel a bit like I'm wasting their time when I speak with these musical artists. After all the only message they probably hear is "blah blah, I like your music". I don't have anything else worthwhile to say to them to really express how I appreciate their music, or at least I don't believe that they would really bother to try to understand my opinion. It's not like I'm a music expert or critic.
Labels: California, music, San Francisco
Best of Bootie
Last year I stumbled upon
Best of Bootie, an amazing set of mash-ups that blew me away. Unfortunately, like the selfish rogue I sometimes conspire to be, I kept the 2005 album to myself. It was something to be enjoyed in private, like a fine king-sized Twix bar.
Suddenly I feel the need to share, so please take a listen to the following sample tracks, and
go here to download the whole set if you are so inclined, make sure to check out the 2006 album too - I'm downloading it now!
2005 Album:
Track 3 - Lovemakers vs 50 Cent - Shake Your AssTrack 5 - The Bravery vs M.I.A - An Honest M.I.ATrack 18 - L'Trimm vs Armand Van Helden vs Beatles vs Gary Numan - My Other Car is a BeatleLabels: music
Perfect Bird
I was listening to the Ambient channel of CBC's galaxie.ca service and heard this really cool track called "
Perfect Bird" from
Hexstatic. The album is called "
Master View" released through
Ninjatune.
I realize that is a lot of links. But if you click on the Perfect Bird link, you can actually listen to the song. I really like it, because I enjoy ambient songs with decent beats as well as that dream-like, relaxing laying back in some Raspberry scented water, drifting away listening to my heartbeat kind of vibe.
I think that the singer is singing in Japanese, but I wasn't really paying attention to the lyrics. The cool thing is that in that way it becomes part of the ambient nature of the song rather than
forcing itself down your throat in that it's-a-small-world-after-all-stuck-in-my-head way.
If only I could pick this up locally... very nice. Pass on the sweet tunes if you have some to share.
EDIT: The singer is known as
Guitar Vader and yes she is from Japan. Maybe I should check out some more of her stuff, wonder if it has the same atmosphere as this?
Labels: music
Push the button!
Well after a day at work, I came back to enjoy some chocolate soy beverage... and found this cool gem -
Galvanize! The game may not be the best (it's a promotional game), but the music is rockin'. It definitely makes me interested in The Chemical Brothers' new album. Their last one was a piece of work (Thanks Mike!) but this sounds amazing. Definitely check it out if you are into sweet bad beats. You can check out the music video for "Galvanize"
here.
If you click on that guy, I think you'll see a (poorly) animated version of him dancing. We'll see.
So now, its BF2 time!
Labels: music
