Big Carnivorous Feast for 11/25/2009

What with my 10th anniversary on WXDU fast approaching, AND holiday eating season underway, my radio show has a new name! Henceforth please enjoy "The Big Carnivorous Feast"!

The name was taken from a hilarious song called "Let's Get Mesolithic" that opened the show on the day before Thankgiving. The playlist is posted HERE along with the usual comments...

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Back Up & Push 11/11/2009

This week's playlist is right here!

I'm continuing to dig the new Big Star box set, and gotta think about springin' for that thing. This CD "Radio" by Exile is one of the coolest mash-ups I've heard in awhile (along with the Ethiopium I played last week...). James Hand is the Best in brand new old-style hardcore honky tonk. Dolly Parton has a new box set (plenty of gems on there amongst the cheeezy). Damn, folks, we even played a bit of opera from Wagner! And plenty o' good new local music.

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Rock your face off

Best ass-shakin', rock your face off song I've heard this year:

C L I C K H E R E, B U C K L E S E A T B E L T

This one is sure to become a permanent part of my listening life. The band is Monotonix, a trio from Tel Aviv. The rest of the album holds a lot of promise too, but this it the one that kills me. If my 224,000-mile 1990 Toyota still had a *functioning* tape deck, I'd be playing loud in the car for the next few months, I'm sure.

Download link above is all kosher (and I woulda said that even if they weren't from Tel Aviv)... they made the track available to the blogosphere.

Sadly I missed their pass through NC a couple weeks back. At left is their tour date poster from up the road in Richmond.

More on the band and the album right here:

http://eastmeetsleft.com/p/2009/09/drag-citys-monotonix-tour-body-language/monotonix

Back Up & Push 08/26/2009

Greetings everyone. The playlist for my 8/26 show is HERE, complete with comments.

Among other things, the show featured (clockwise from top left) the excellent new Birds of Avalon album (from NC), Agitation Free (Berlin 1972), a fine request for CSNY (1970), a great

Chicago jazz group called Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble, Amon Düül II (more Krautrock), and a new archival release collecting the late 20's-early 30's music of North Carolina's own Red Fox Chasers.

Links take you to sound files or video files. Crack a beer and go enjoy!

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Beach photo collages

Welp, way back when I started this bloggoventure, I speculated (see title) that I'd be posting photos.

I gots lots of that to post, but as you can see, my music-mania has been the dominant theme.

Finally here's some photography! These here are two collages I through together of photos I took earlier this month.

On top: Wrightsville Beach, NC. Particular fascination: Robert's Groceries.

On bottom: Carolina Beach, NC. Particular fascination: best donut shop on Earth, Britt's Donuts (since 1938 or something like that).

Kiila: Finnish folky spacy rock

Really liking this new album from Finnish group Kiila.

Just to give you an idea, one writer sums it up nicely thusly: "Different traditions of folk, psych and pop music intermingle with electronic music and improvisation, tones and sounds."

I hear some overlap with current-day Phila. band Espers and with 1969 Fairport Convention... Others have dropped Vetiver and Incredible String Band onto their comparison lists.

Best listen for yerself. Go to Fonal Records website (Finnish DIY label). Click on either of the songs marked "listen" -- especially my fave, the 8-min.-plus Portaissa. Clicking will take you to the Fonal Jukebox where all manner of other label offerings can be streamed.

Back Up & Push 08/19/2009

James Luther Dickinson passed away on August 15th. On this week's show, a tribute. See full playlist with comments HERE.

Read more about Dickinson in this excellent blog post, which also links you to a great interview film clip. Wanna be blown away by a resumé? Check out Jim's HERE or HERE.

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