The Entroporium

Here’s another fave from this month, sent to me from the suburbs of Seattle. I don’t know a dang thing about K-Os, except that he’s from Toronto (minimal cred unless your name is “Hawtin“) and that he’s on Astralwerks (massive cred). The album jumps around many different genres, but there’s no doubt that this is [...]

(This entry follows my pattern of following up really angry posts with the lightest-heartest things I can find on the spur of the moment.) Readers who know me personally know about my affiliation with the CD Club, a little monster that Susie and I created two years ago. Each month a bunch of odd CDs [...]

I’m still new at this blogging thing. After a couple of weeks of directed topics, it’s hard to restart. But enough excuses and on with today’s show. Just when you thought it was safe to listen to mash-ups again, a whole new generation of goodies springs up. First up, many props to The Classical Album. [...]

[Soundtrack] M. Ward — Undertaker.mp3 More Swedish significance today. Last Saturday I attended a wedding at San Francisco’s Swedish American Hall, a bizarre little auditorium over Café Du Nord constructed after the 1906 earthquake with many Scandinavian touches. I’d only been there one other time, to see M. Ward touring behind “Transfiguration Of Vincent,” a [...]

[Soundtrack] Dandy Warhols – Every Day Should Be A Holiday.mp3 Apologies for the slow posting over the weekend. DSL is down at home until tomorrow night. Last week’s most popular download (by far!) was Brian Jonestown Massacre. In the interests of equal time for the Dig! candidates, here’s a track from their more-successful, less-interesting brethren [...]

[Soundtrack] William Shatner – That’s Me Trying (feat. Aimee Mann).mp3 Ben Folds has done the unexpected and made a terrific artist out of William Shatner. Anybody who’s heard his album from the 1960s, "The Transformed Man," seen his ridiculous self-parodying overacting since Star Trek shut down or his bizarre stints as the host of "Iron [...]

The Beta Band – Lion Thief.mp3 It almost passed unnoticed — almost no record company support and no US tour(?) — but the final album from the Beta Band is a great little piece of new century psychedelia. As on their best work (“The Three EPs,” natch), the songs are built up from little snippets [...]