Next Time, I Won't Make That Mistake Again

It's well past the time that this town goes to sleep, and the heartbreak in this song is amplified by the surrounding silence.

Meredith Bragg - Next Time (mp3)





from Meredith Bragg's Nest

Half Man, Half Biscuit - National Shite Day (mp3)

You know what the best thing is about the first day of September? Neither do I. The days are about to get shorter, and next summer is staggeringly distant. Let's celebrate anyway, shall we?

Half Man, Half Biscuit - National Shite Day (mp3)

Male Bonding - Dig You Out (LIVE video)

The stage is about the size of a D.C. parking space, a few inches clearance from elbow to elbow, and if you're lucky, you can see the Male Bonding drummer when a beer bottle-sized space opens between standing members. You can't make out a single lyric, but you can do a poignancy check later with the headphones. There's not much air in the little room, and every single molecule of it is bouncing around like a pinball. These beautiful clustered moments only happen before bigger stages give a band more room than they know what to do with. May they long live on YouTube.



Endless Now
fuzzes like a bridge. For example: Male Bonding - Bones (mp3)

The Submarines - The Sun Shines At Night (Live Acoustic at Independent Records)

The Submarines - Live at The Phoenix (video)

Watch the full video at Baeblemusic.com

TV on the Radio - You - Electric Factory 04/08/2011

SXSW JackWhite SeasickSteve

Fang Island - Today (Smashing Pumpkins) (Live Video, Green Music Fest 6-27-10)

You're going to want to make this thing big.

Flesh Eating Night Dancers

"Night Dancers" depicts a contemporary belief in Uganda in abesezzi or night dancers. These are humans who become zombies after dark. They are said to strip themselves naked and dance feverishly in the slums or at the edges of the villages, their mouths filled with fire. They feast on the flesh of the recently buried dead. In Tabu-Flo's interpretation, two night dancers are confronted by the community after they eat a corpse. A struggle ensues and the night dancers are vanquished...

-"Hip-hop in Uganda: The Dance in the Night-Time," from The Economist.

ela orleans "light at dawn"

This is like sultry jazz from right around the corner of consciousness.

Just the thing.

Electric Owls - Magic Show, Live (With Band!!)

X (John Doe and Exene Cervenka), Live KEXP In-Studio, 12/31/10

Acoustic. Download or stream (mp3).

St. Vincent - These Days (Jackson Browne/Nico version)

St. Vincent risks another "these days." Her version stays.

Nada Surf - Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode) (video)

The Octopus Project: ‎"1 song recorded with 1 microphone for 1:11 seconds on 1/11/11 at 1:11pm"

You are the ones.

The Octopus Project - 1 song recorded with 1 microphone for 1:11 seconds on 1/11/11 at 1:11pm (mp3)

Nneka - Live on KEXP, 23 Oct 10 (mp3)

Thanks to the internets, there are endless choices of streaming live performances to enjoy, but thanks to the very same internets, the ears can tire from so much noise that sounds so alike. A few months ago, Nneka played an in-studio at KEXP. It stands above the noise.

Nneka - Live on KEXP, 23 Oct 10 (mp3)

Glee Cast (Chris Colfer and Darren Criss) - Baby, It's Cold Outside

Don we now....This is sure to keep those cockles warm. It's time to reconsider your "gayest Christmas songs" rankings (also time to update the holiday playlist!).

Girl Talk - This Is The Remix

And so it is.

Gap Band - Humpin'

'Tis Wednesday.

The White Stripes - Devil's Haircut (Beck)(live video)

I wonder what a limited edition two-tone 45 of this would fetch on eBay.



This also exists. There's no video, but who'd have thought...YouTube can actually be good for the imagination.