Tonight’s album: Toomorrow by Wagon Christ (2011)
Warm wax.
Sweet business.
Tough bass.
Heavy breaks.
Simple chords.
Would be.
Most pleasant.
Sometimes.
See. Toomorrow. Already. Coming.
I. Will see. Toomorrow. Thank you.
Tonight’s album: Sun Too Bright Turn It Off + Moonbeam Rider by Slugabed (2011)
A combined playlist of two EPs from last year. Jimminy Crickets can this kid ever craft some beats. Maximum appreciation again goes to @misuba for this one, and to This Is My Jam more generally, which is the site he used to deflect the track from the open web into the general direction of my ear-parts.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with that place lately. Clicking it on in the background while I’m doing dishes or whatevers, it reminds me of the best days of MTV or VH1. But even way better still, like a Total Request Live broadcast from the perfect universe where Carson Daly answers only phone calls from the people you follow on Twitter.
If you’d like to follow me there, I’m at http://www.thisismyjam.com/mwkelley
Tonight’s album: Trans-Continental Hustle by Gogol Bordello (2010)
Hey, remember when I had an album-sharing blog on Tumblr? That was good times. Let’s do that again.
Also, if you’d like to catch up on all of the things I’d posted over the winter, here are the last few months rolled up into one convenient playlist: I Will Now Sell 5 Copies of Winter 2012
Tonight’s album: The Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani (2006)
It was another impossible shiny bluebird day today. I think the temp hit 60F. So nice that it has me reaching for summer music in February. This time last year it had been raining in Bellingham for 20 soul-devouring days & the playlist was nothing but the Decemberists and Bon Iver from hell to breakfast.
Is this another terrifying harbinger of climate disaster? Likely. But tonight, for now, I can deal.
Tonight’s album: Where The Messengers Meet by Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band (2010)
Only thing I have to write for this one is thanks again to @wurmouroboros for lobbing this band into my collection via his HPX mix. I may have been subconsciously ignoring them before due to the we’re-so-indie ridiculousness of their band name. Okay, so maybe I have two things.
Tonight’s album: Caravan Palace by Caravan Palace (2008)
Was going to make it an all Mike Doughty week, but wanted to write something this morning (this) and so I went digging for something more instrumental. Frenetic, electro-tinged Parisian swing jazz? Yes please!
Tonight’s album: The Question Jar Show by Mike Doughty (2012)
Okay, STOP THE PRESSES. OR THE ELECTRONIC TUMBLR HOBGOBLINS or whatever, because today Spotify recommended this album to me, and for once Spotify was so right.
The concept: Mike Doughty (of Soul Coughing “fame”) and cellist Andrew “Scrap” Livingston perform a live show. Every few songs, they answer questions from the audience pulled from a jar on stage. They record and release this show as a double album. Shocking twist: This actually works and works well.
Go listen. Go.
Tonight’s album: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco (2002)
Got a couple of inches of heavy wet snow here in north country. Spent the day indoors. Now this is a snow day album, from the gray towers on the cover to the spooky crackly radio noise to the quiet warm familiar songs. Can you believe that this album is 10 years old? It still gets me. Every time.
Tonight’s album: Past Life Martyred Saints by EMA (2011)
The last holdover for now of the year-end pile of 2011 albums that I wanted to share with you. This is apparently the sort of music I crave a lot right now. Dissonant, minor key, slow-roll horror show pop rock music. I only picked this up in mid-December, off of someone else’s end-of-the-year list. I’ve been picking it up every couple of days since then. I promise I’ll be ready to get some easier, more cheerful music up in here soon.
I’m sorry, Gracie girl, you’re golden.
