Saucy Cross Promotion? Necessary.

When I moved to Pensacola, Fl, I joined roughly 60 bands. None of them worked out. Band #61 was perfect! Below, please find our first recording entitled 'See You Next Tuesday.'

Eerie Rockwell - See You Next Tuesday

Enchanting: Goldfrapp – Eat Yourself

I don't know what the song is about, but I am hypnotized.

Goldfrapp - Eat Yourself

Are we meant for cubicles?

Are we meant for cubicles? Were we born to click-click-click a mouse, and acknowledge that there is both a science and an art to whom you choose to carbon copy in an e-mail?

Should our moods be determined by how much flex our office chairs have? Why do the rings of our office phones cause the hairs on the back of our necks to rise?

We work toward our escape, whether it be the four conscious hours we have when we arrive home on a business day, itching to catch the predestined, anti-climatic tail end of the latest episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.' We think escape could be retirement planning. Escape could even be vacation planning. Escape could be 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.

While the above rant/quo/reality is food for thought of a universal mood on the current structure of the big-business American economic model, below please find 5 songs that will help sandpaper the edges of your daily checklists, weekly tasks and forever brewing and bubbling responsibilities:

- Cold War Kids - Hospital Beds
- Gavin Castleton - 2007 (lyrics)
- Mew - Introducing Palace Players
- The Dear Hunter - He Said He Had A Story (live)
- The Dear Hunter - The Tank

Enjoy,

- Echo

Mashup Mondays! DISCOVERY

OK, maybe it's not the most appropriate use of the phrase, but the alliteraton in "Mashup Mondays" was too good to pass up. So that's the name of the post... deal with it.

DISCOVERY is an indie-electro-R&B type project between Rostam Batmanglij, keyboardist extraordinaire of Vampire Weekend, and Wes Miles, vocalist du jour of Ra Ra Riot (a future post perhaps?). This album is deceptively catchy and I can't help but find myself thinking of fun, giggly-type things every time my iPod decides to shuffle one of their songs passed my ears.

-Notables include, but are certainly not limited too: Orange Shirt, Swing Tree, and I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.

-Dawk

The Beauty in Every Inch:

The All-Star Songs on ‘Jamie Lidell – Compass’

(...in very relevant order)
- Gypsy Blood
- Your Sweet Boom
- Completely Exposed
- Coma Chameleon
- I Wanna Be Your Telephone
- The Ring

Other Notables:
- Big Drift (feat. Feist)
- Enough's Enough (feat. Nikka Costa, Feist, Beck, every other cool musician)

Soundtrack of your life: Let’s ride motorcycles across the United States

I'm pretty sure everyone has thought about travelling across the USA at one point in their life. My parents did it in an old van on their honeymoon (that sounds gross). My college buddies did it on bicycle to support a charity (sounds even nastier). I will convince my brother and friends to do it on motorcycle. Here are the first few tracks of this epic adventure:

Skipping Girl Vinegar - One Chance

The Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running. (Yes, I understand that the title of this song is "Keep the CAR running" but whatevs.)

~Crescent Fresh

FACT: People Dance In Front of Red Backdrops to Roisin Murphy Songs

Truth or dare? Truth? Go fuck yourself, everyone wants you to say dare.

Dare? Good. I dare you to turn on a Róisín Murphy song while driving on a fatiguing road trip by yourself. Turn up 'Ramalama (Bang Bang)' before you jump into the shower. Play 'Ruby Blue' before (regrettably) sitting Indian-style to do laundry. If your car/shower/living room does not instantly turn into an all out well-air-conditioned-yet-still-sweaty dance explosion of eerie melodical arrangements and strong electro-tribal percussion, we recommend clicking here and making some calls.

For whatever reason, when a Róisín Murphy song is played, your entire world will turn red with passion and your dance moves will become infinitely sexier. People will likely record a digital video of it and post it to YouTube. These are facts.

Below, please find many a video of people dancing in front of red backdrops to Róisín Murphy songs:

Four Róisín Murphy songs to get you started:
- Night of The Dancing Flame
- Ramalama (Bang Bang)
- Sow Into You
- Ruby Blue

Enjoy,

- Echo

Hotvid Wednesdays! *Now safe for kids!*

First there was Manic Mondays... then there was Tubular Tuesdays... and now for your oculo-auditory pleasure there is Hotvid Wednesdays.

Whether you're going to or coming from someplace important, it's critical to have a song to strut to... Wyclef Jean and Co. - We Tryin' to Stay Alive

And for the more technically inclined, feast your eyes on this beast: Ok Go - This Too Shall Pass

And now for a limited time: *Bonus Time Wasting Material* - Here is Adam Sadowsky at an April 2010 TED Talk taking us through the making of Ok Go's Rube Goldberg music video madness.

Boosh!

RRRRRawk

Friday Mix: For The Weekend

St. Vincent - Marrow

Biffy Clyro - Mountains

The Roots - Water

The Black Keys - Next Girl

Florence and The Machine - Dog Days Are Over

Enjoy,

- Echo