Ohmpark Mixtape #21: The Dawn Of Summer

Young Again : “Skin The Arms”
Panda Bear : “Alsatian Darn”
Here We Go Magic : “Backwards Time”
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun : “Old Monster”
tUnE-YarDs : “Bizness”
Mother Mother : “Simply Simple”
Feast Of Violet featuring Featureless Ghost : “Doomsday”
Beachtapes : “Santa Maria”
Places : “Sweet Melinda”
Dark Room : “Stutter”
Easily Suede : “Movie Night”
Radiohead : “Lotus Flower”
New Animal : “Out There”

Live Show: Thom Yorke (7/19/09)

Thom Yorke
2009-07-19
Latitude Festival, Southwold, Suffolk

01 Intro
02 The Eraser
03 Weird Fishes/Argpeggi > Atoms For Peace
04 Harrowdown Hill
05 Follow Me Around
06 Everything In Its Right Place
07 The Present Tense
08 Cymbal Rush
09 Black Swan
10 Videotape
Encore:
11 There There
12 True Love Waits

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Live Show: Radiohead (The Golden Unplugged Album)

Back in ancient times, I used to do lots of CD bootleg trading. One of my favourite bootlegs was a collection of really old Radiohead cuts, and I honestly don’t even remember where I had got it from. I listened to it incessantly until it was so scratched up that I couldn’t even play it anymore. I eventually sort of forgot about it, but not too long ago someone put it back in the torrent circulations, albeit a slightly different version than the one I originally had. I feel like this is an essential for anyone who likes Radiohead in the slightest, so check it out:

Radiohead
The Golden unplugged album

01 – Lozenge Of Love (non-album track 94)
02 – Subterranean Homesick Alien (non-album track 95)
03 – Killer Cars (live 93)
04 – Wish You Were Here (from “Come Again” 97)
05 – Creep (KROQ Studios L.A. 95)
06 – Black Star (from “Johnny Walker Show”, BBC 95-06-08)
07 – Street Spirit (from “Johnny Walker Show”, BBC 95-06-08)
08 – Wonderwall (CBC Studios, Vancouver, 96-03-22, feat. The Posies)
09 – Blow Out (CBC Studios, Vancouver, 96-03-22, feat. The Posies)
10 – Lucky (live in Rockville, Maryland 96)
11 – High & Dry (live in Rockville, Maryland 96)
12 – Fake Plastic Trees (live in Rockville, Maryland 96)
13 – How I Made My Millions (non-album track 2000)
14 – Bulletproof (from “On The Edge”, L.A. 94)
15 – Banana Co. (from “On The Edge”, L.A. 94)
16 – Yes I Am (from “On The Edge”, L.A. 94)
17 – Life In A Glasshouse (from “Later” TV-show, 01-06-09)

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A Random Mp3 Trilogy: Dirty Projectors & David Byrne, Jaydiohead, Illinois


The Dirty Projectors

The people who brought us classic compilation albums of my youth like Red Hot and No Alternative have a new edition that is looking ridiculous. It is entitled Dark Was The Night and will drop February 17. It is produced by the kids from The National and features two discs of the hottness:

Disc One:

1 Knotty Pine – Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
2 Cello Song (Nick Drake) – The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez
3 Train Song (Vashti Bunyan recorded, written by Alasdair Clayre) – Feist + Ben Gibbard
4 Brackett, WI – Bon Iver
5 Deep Blue Sea – Grizzly Bear
6 So Far Around the Bend – The National (arrangement by Nico Muhly)
7 Tightrope – Yeasayer
8 Feeling Good (popularized by Nina Simone) – My Brightest Diamond
9 Dark Was the Night (Blind Willie Johnson) – Kronos Quartet
10 I Was Young When I Left Home (Bob Dylan) – Antony + Bryce Dessner
11 Big Red Machine – Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner
12 Sleepless – The Decemberists
13 Stolen Houses (Die) – Iron and Wine
14 Service Bell – Grizzly Bear + Feist
15 You Are The Blood – Sufjan Stevens
Disc Two:

1 Well-Alright – Spoon
2 Lenin – Arcade Fire
3 Mimizan – Beirut
4 El Caporal – My Morning Jacket
5 Inspiration Information (Shuggie Otis) – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
6 With A Girl Like You (The Troggs) – Dave Sitek
7 Blood Pt 2 (based on original song “You are the Blood” by the Castanets) – Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)
8 Hey, Snow White (Destroyer) – The New Pornographers
9 Gentle Hour (Snapper) – Yo La Tengo
10 Another Saturday (traditional song) – Stuart Murdoch
11 Happiness – Riceboy Sleeps
12 Amazing Grace (traditional song) – Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues
13 The Giant Of Illinois (Handsome Family) – Andrew Bird
14 Lua – Conor Oberst + Gillian Welch
15 When the Road Runs Out – Blonde Redhead + Devastations
16 Love vs. Porn – Kevin Drew

Below is the opening track, a collaboration where The Dirty Projectors have taken some ancient David Byrne lyrics and built a new song out of it. Also, the original version (before it was on the Grizzly Bear EP) of Daniel Rossen’s “Deep Blue Sea” that is featured on this compilation has surfaced on the Internet and you can track it down here. For more info on Dark Was The Night here.

David Byrne and Dirty Projectors : Knotty Pine




In the latest remix news, New York’s DJ Minty Fresh Beats has created an album made up of mashups of Radiohead and Jay-Z songs. Considering the most memorable recent albums like this were Danger Mouse‘s The Grey Album and Amplive‘s Rainydayz Remixes, the appeal of this concept seems obvious. The album is available for free download here. It is a good listen, but the straightforwardness of the mixes and the fact that both of these artists have already been remixed billions of times previously sort of dilutes the impressiveness. Here is a track from it:

Jaydiohead : Change Order




Finally, Illinois‘ 2007 EP What The Hell Do I Know was brilliant enough for me to put it on my Best EPs of 2007 list, but i hadn’t really paid much attention to the band after that. It seems they wrote over 100 songs since then, and they are currently engaged in an onslaught of releases called The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe. Beginning in November of last year, they have been releasing a new EP and videos each month in an epic six part piece. It is hard for me to track down a master list of songs/releases from this thing, but if you are interested, check out their myspace. Here is a track from this month’s installment, Chapter 3:

Illinois : Are You Coming With Me

For a bonus, I didn’t realize this band got hyped up from their song “Nosebleed” being featured on Showtime’s Weeds, but here is a video of the “Brick Dance” with that Illinois song as the soundtrack:

A Random Mp3 Trilogy (Atlas Sound, Beirut, Diplo/Radiohead)

Yesterday instead of receiving my pre-ordered Microcastle LP, I was informed that the vinyl release is being pushed back to early December. Lame. But, I have a digital copy of it and Weird Era Cont. that i am listening to until then, so it’s ok. If you pay any attention around here, you know that I clearly love it already, but I will have a full review next week on the double album and the Halloween show in a Deerhunter super-post. For now, I give you one of two new Atlas Sound Halloween dances you can get here. See you Friday night:

Atlas Sound : Danse Macabre

A new Beirut single has appeared in blog land. While I do love some good European gypsy music when I’m in the right mood, I’ve never been able to fully jump on the Beirut bandwagon. I do like both full lengths, but that sort of stuff is a bit one dimensional and i can’t ever seem to stay interested for very long. This new single sees Zach Condon taking things in an electronic direction, which I’ve discovered is what he was doing pre-Beirut. I’m not sure if I’m completely sold on this direction either, but this single has certainly caught my ear:

(Correction: this single is a year old and I had missed it, but it’s still interesting)

Beirut : My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille

Diplo had a remix in Radiohead‘s “Reckoner” contest, but he wasn’t quite finished with it. So he recently reworked his remix. The result is very impressive. He has a new album out today and he’ll be at The Masquerade November 10th.

Radiohead : Reckoner (Diplo remix V.2)

Video Of the Day: Radiohead Covers Neil Young

They do “Tell Me Why”:

Our Coverage Of Lollapalooza 2008 Coverage


Photo by Cambria Harkey

This year there are a ton of music fests across the US, and unfortunately I can’t get to them all. But, there are still more music bloggers than festivals, so I can at least give you the scoop on the scoop. Lollapalooza is the fest I-most-wanted-to-go-to-but-couldn’t-make-it-to of the year. I think they had the best line-up of the major fests and on top of that, it is probably the only yearly festival on this continent to remain relevant for such a long span of time. The essentials from the weekend:

The biggest story seems to be the riotous crowd at Saturday night’s Rage Against The Machine show getting so crazy that RATM had to cut their set short. You can read a very long, but excellent and detailed account of the entire ordeal here from Chicago Sun-Times reporter Jim DeRogatis.

Grizzly Bear performed 4 new songs, two of which were debuted there. Stereogum had audio they recorded up of the new songs, but were asked to take it down. They still got good Griz coverage.

The biggest band at Lollapalooza, and in the world pretty much right now, was Radiohead and you can see the setlist and photos here. Friday marked the first time the festival has ever sold out a day (75,000) since adopting the Bonnaroo/Coachella model and basing the fest in Chicago in 2005. In fact the festival went on to sellout every day. With new national fests popping up weekly now, it seems music festival over-saturation hasn’t been a factor for Lolla. Of course having Radiohead on the bill doesn’t hurt, but I’m guessing the secret to their success was being the only fest in this country that didn’t have Jack Johnson come stink things up.

Atlanta’s Black Lips were there. They have tour dates. They were named by NME as one of the “Top 25 bands making America cool again”.

Former Uncle Tupelo member Bill Belzer played with Jeff Tweedy. Wilco played a new song that you should go listen to here. See Bloc Party vids and pics here. Kanye West‘s set went over better than his at Bonnaroo but he still said some douchey stuff. Yeasayer got interviewed. The widely circulated rumours of Barack Obama being there turned out to be false.

Largehearted Boy is keeping up with all of the live Lollapalooza downloadables here.

Next year hopefully I’ll bring you my own coverage. Below are some vids from Earfarm’s best of Lollapalooza video collection:
Radiohead:

Wilco:

Chromeo:

Video Of The Day: New Radiohead “Super Collider”

Thanks to You Ain’t No Picasso for being on top of this. They just dropped that new new last night at a concert in Ireland:

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