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Saucy Cross Promotion? Necessary.

Echo — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:25:33 +0000

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjxYwph5im0

Morning Jukeboxitis – A Lovely Disease To Have

Blue Halo — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:26:12 +0000

Some people hear voices in their head while others dulled by the world simply hear white noise. I am cursed (blessed!) with having a perpetual jukebox playing records in my skull all the live long day. In fact, even if I'm making eye contact with you during a conversation, instead of listening to your riveting story about your cat, there's a good chance all I hear is "Right Here, Right Now" by Jesus Jones.

In regard to what the invisible dollars are buying, I'm proud to admit that I'm a walking cliche. When someone asks me, "What kind of music do you like?" my immediate instinct is to answer "Everything!" But, since that's an annoying cop-out answer, I resist and respond instead with the infinitesimally more irritating, "Stuff." I know, sometimes I can't stand to be around me either.

Being the list whore that I am, over the past few months I've compiled the songs that are playing in my brain first thing in the morning. There have been more than what's below but I've been either (1) too lazy, (2) too forgetful, or (3) still drunk/hungover/on the verge of certain death.

Additionally, I've grouped the songs into two categories: Songs I Would Admit To Liking When Pretty Girls Are Around and Songs I Dance To In My Polka Dot Boxers When I'm Home Alone (and The Door is Bolted Shut.) I realize these are very long category titles. I should maybe lay off the emo-rock for a while.

Songs I Would Admit To Liking When Pretty Girls Are Around:

Lowlife - Scanners

La Breeze - Simian

This Tornado Loves You - Neko Case

Trigger Happy Jack - Poe

Superstar - Lupe Fiasco

Beetlebum - Blur

Ooh Yeah - Moby

Tired of Waiting For You - Green Day

Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys

Finally Alone - American Steel

Where Did All the Love Go? - Kasabian

Space Oddity - David Bowie

French Kiss - The Teenagers

Fight Song - The Republic Tigers

Kingdom of Rust - Doves

Endless Summer - Zwan

Cold Days From the Birdhouse - The Twilight Sad

The Re-Arranger - Mates of State

Denise - Fountains of Wayne

Always On My Mind - Phantom Planet

We're Looking For a Lot of Love - Hot Chip

The Flame - Cheap Trick

Amsterdam - Peter, Bjorn and John

This Fire - Franz Ferdinand

Window Bird - Stars

The Electric Version - The New Pornographers

Los Angeles Waltz - Razorlight

Refugee - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Dead Disco (Kylie Kills mix) - Metric

Friday I'm in Love - The Cure

Songs I Dance To In My Polka Dot Boxers When I'm Home Alone (and The Door is Bolted Shut) :

Fever - Starsailor

Take a Bow - Madonna

I'm in the Way - Jars of Clay

On Fire - Switchfoot

Take Your Time (Do it Right) - The S.O.S. Band

Blackie's Dead - Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson

She Is - The Fray

Sexual (Li Da Di) - Amber

It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday - Boyz II Men

Breathe - Toni Braxton

Birthday - Awesome New Republic

My Love - Justin Timberlake

Dust in the Wind - Kansas

Quicksand - La Roux

It Must've Been Love - The Roxettes

Enchanting: Goldfrapp – Eat Yourself

Echo — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:37:51 +0000

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

Goldfrapp - Eat Yourself

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFPMPLELTZU

Are we meant for cubicles?

Echo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:42:12 +0000

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

Rawkdoc — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:49:33 +0000

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWwXl7EC3A

-Dawk

The Beauty in Every Inch:

Echo — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:56:01 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKGw01Jqkr8

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

Echo — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:05:57 +0000

(...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

Crescent Fresh — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:39:10 +0000

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4zhuGlhuMk

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEZockGkEyY

~Crescent Fresh

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

Echo — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:16:13 +0000

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:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW8lfrO2JKc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKJAgd7G_qs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7TcSVLYMZQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjROtu0ajR0

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!

Rawkdoc — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:34:34 +0000

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPV1InMNUf4

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

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