Music

Mon - December 6, 2004

Go Listen: Kaki King

New music nowadays seems to be an endless stream of commercial, derivative slop with a few shades of brilliance that pop up once in a while just to keep things interesting. So, when the shades of brilliance come along, you gotta ACT!

Don't walk, RUN and go buy Kaki King. Her fingerstyle guitar work is an amazing blending of styles you didn't even know about, let alone guess they could work so well together.

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Thu - June 3, 2004

New Music, Old People. Good Mix?

I remember thinking how lame it seemed when my parents, or anybody else over the age of say, 25, took a liking to whatever (what I thought was) avant garde music I happened to be listening to at the time.

Now that I fit the over (seriously over) 25 description...

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Mon - April 26, 2004

Jim's favorite artists: Master Cylinder

Did you like the music from the Jetta commercial a few years back? Well folks, Peter DuCharme aka Master Cylinder wrote Jung at Heart for it...

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Thu - March 25, 2004

Jim's iTunes Catalog

The music catalog isn't quite perfect -- I've got some ID3 tags to clean up and whatnot -- but it's a neat tool for letting folks get a good look at what you've been listening to, and like to listen to.

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Tue - October 21, 2003

Jim's Favorite Streams: P h i l o s o m a t i k a

Only the wildest, hardest, thumpingest, most psychotic electronic music can be found here: Psychedelic Trance, or GOA. Psytrance for short.

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Thu - October 9, 2003

Jim's Favorite Bands: Venus Hum

I got turned on to Venus Hum by Chris Cordle. He has a thing for great female vocals, and Annette has a great voice.

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Mon - October 6, 2003

Jim's Favorite Bands: Electric Skychurch

Electric Skychurch originally attracted attention performing at all-night raves in the desert outside Los Angeles. I got turned on to them from the rave documentary B3773R Living Through Circuitry. They also contributed music to the film π. BIG NEWS: They're touring again!

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