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Thursday playlist: Ringing singing all the way

1. Django — Modern Jazz Quartet
2. Tahquamenon Falls — Sufjan Stevens
3. Blue Stamp — Anderegg
4. Bells 1 — Born out of Moonshine
5. Suite No. 6 in D, Prélude, by J.S. Bach — Mstislav Rostropovich
So I spent last week and most of the week before that at a ten-day silent meditation retreat of the sort so […]

Thursday playlist: Palm Springs Record Camp

Thanks to Bryan “Johnny Recordseed” Waterman, who led the West Coasters down the Record Club path two summers ago and taught us the importance of strict rules, the LA Record Club is still going strong. As Jen noted yesterday, the club met in Palm Springs this past weekend, supposedly for some hard-core listening. […]

Thursday playlist: Detouring America with horns

1. Arbos — Arvo Paart
2. Underground — Hungry March Band
3. Soul Bowl — Memphis Horns
4. Cold Sweat - I Can’t Stand It — James Brown
5. Funkin Fever — The Delta Rhythm Section
6. Fidel Castro — The Skatalites
7. Contrasong — Egg
8. Send in the Clowns — Lorez Alexandria
9. Elephant Gun — Beirut
Hmm, what theme will let […]

Thursday playlist: Meta

I’ve reached a bad place when it comes to finding new music. Mostly I rely on a handful of friends to play stuff for me. When I’m feeling ambitious, I go online. E. Tan recently found a couple more music blogs, which we’ve added to the sidebar: Cassette from My Ex and Fluxblog. I can’t […]

Thursday playlist: Muxtape edition

My friends tell me that I have a bad habit of making impossible to listen to mixes. So here’s my answer:
http://popmusic.muxtape.com
1. Big Blood - She Said Nothing
2. Animal Collective - Water Curses
3. High Places - Head Spins
4. M83 - Kim & Jessie
5. Atlas Sound - Ativan
6. Ermasse - Courez Courez
7. El Guincho - Palmitos Park
8. […]