Big Carnivorous Feast, January 27, 2010

Hello! Latest radio playlist and comments 'n' stuff can be seen HERE. Some related links for your entertainment below!

Featured in this episode of the Big Carnivorous Feast: warped 'n' wacky William Tell, hissing fauna delivers a promethean curse, July Flame, Golden Apples, Champagne in Seashells, Gator Bait, deep Ska, Karate Boogaloo from Funkadelphia. Grammy-nomitated Latin jazz! Doc Pomus extravaganza! Terrific South African laid-back jazzy bluesy trippy rock! Fire In My Bones! and more!

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Big Carnivorous Feast, January 6, 2010

Hey hey, 3 hours of radio yesterday. First episode of The BCF of '10. Had a blast as always. Playlist and comments right here!

'Twas the usual grab-bag: Sonic vile mazurka pipe-organ hi-fi fantasy. Thai shadows, Bollywood legends, mighty wurlitzer. 70s Japan rock with tape loops & chants. A dude with "prodigous talent for fusing traditional American song structures with raga influence." How 'bout a guy whose name is short for "emancipation" who could play it all: "ballads, reels, breakdowns, pop songs, children's songs, spirituals, waltzes, foxtrots, one-steps, two-steps, ballin' the jack, heel-and-toe polka, the cakewalk, the Charleston, the buzzard lope, slow drag, hucklebuck, and blues." Chicano protest, Dynamite Masters Blues Quartet, Alternative Tentacles version of Whole Lotta Love, Cleveland hardcore. Folk-rock UK '69. "Pick it, son." Psychedelic Iowa. Bar hoppin' with a daughter of Durham, '76. 9-year-olds from Arkansas! Silver, remix, Brazil gone Madlib w/Mamãoism (see this one too), smokin' Grammy-nominated Latin jazz. Flop & The Fall of the Mopsqueezer! Lost Love. And Loretta. Thanks for tuning in and/or reading this far!

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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).