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Playcast # 10

This being the 10th Ear Trumpet Playcast we went over the top with 51 tracks to tickle your eardrum.  We also added a new listening option on Spotify.  For those unfamiliar Spotify is a music service that allows one to search and stream around 15 million tracks from their computer & smartphone. You can fulfill almost every your musical want in a matter of seconds.

There is also a social feature on Spotify that syncs with your Facebook and LastFM allowing you to easily share tracks, albums and playlists with friends in one click or check out what they are listening to.  You can also stream music offline on your smartphone if you pony up for a membership which is well worth the $10 monthly, meaning you that you can kick out almost any jam on your next road trip or bike ride for that matter.  If you’re a music fiend like myself you should try it.

Enough of the sales pitch, on with the music…

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TRACK LIST

Plan B – Stay Too Long
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Maniac
Blood Orange – Sutphin Boulevard
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – FFunny FFriends
Dels – Trumpalump
Horse Feathers – Drain You
Winter Gloves – Dancing My Heart Out
Burning Hearts – Into The Wilderness
Everything Everything – Qwerty Finger
Cults – Bumper
Hail Mary Mallon – Meter Feeder
Massive Attack – Karmacoma
Ghostface Killah – The Champ
Wooden Shjips – Black Smoke Rise
The Seedy Seeds – The Push
Wooden Shjips – Home
Teddybears – Cobrastyle – Featuring Mad Cobra  Album Version
How To Dress Well – Endless Rain
Stephin Merritt – The Sun and the Sea and the Sky
Bad Veins – Fake Baby
Blood Orange – Forget It
How To Dress Well – Date of Birth
Nurses – Fever Dreams
Karen Peris;Don Peris;The Innocence Mission – Lakes Of Canada
Massive Attack – Future Proof
Jacuzzi Boys – Island Ave
Release The Sunbird – Always Like The Son
LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (Soulwax Shibuya Mix)
Apollo Up! – The Heartbreak Of Victory
HTRK – Eat Yr Heart
Radiohead – Lotus Flower (SBTRKT Remix)
Sbtrkt – Something Goes Right (feat. Sampha)
James Vincent McMorrow – Sparrow And The Wolf
Tallahassee – Gypsy Son
The Gourds – Country Love
UNKLE – Natural Selection
Banjo Or Freakout – Go Ahead
Bound Stems – Excellent News, Colonel
The Soft Province – Lazy Minds Die
Okkervil River – Mermaid
Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
Summer Camp – Round The Moon
Dels – Moonshining
Slow Club – Where I’m Waking
Wise Blood – Loud Mouths
Goldfrapp – Eat Yourself
Nerves Junior – Nails To Sratch With
Bad Veins – Good People
Of Montreal – Coquet Coquette
The Crystal Method – Play For Real (feat. The Heavy) – Dirtyphonics Remix
My Regrets – More Of This

XXXtra Beats Vol. 1

 

  Welcome to the first edition of XXXtra Beats, an eclectic mix of modern dance, electronic and dubstep.  On this edition you’ll hear tracks from Crystal Method, Dub-Boro, The Bloody Beetroots, Le Castle Vania, J. Rabbit, Steve Aoki, Skrillex and Pretty Lights to name a few.  Buckle up, it’s going to be a good ride.

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Track List:

Crystal Method – Born Too Slow
Crystal Fighters – Follow (Roksonix Remix)
Dub-Boro – Get Down
The Bloody Beetroots – Cornelius
Calvertron – Future Proof
LCD Soundsystem – Get Innocuous! (Soulwax Remix)
Chromeo – Night By Night (NEUS Dubstep Remix)
Le Castle Vania – Nobody Gets Out Alive
Scissor Sisters – Night Life
Steve Aoki – Licky (Work It Out)
Le Castle Vania – Zero Machine
J. Rabbit – Sexy Party
Flux Pavilion – Bass Cannon
Childish Gambino – Freaks and Geaks
Modestep – Sunlight
Fukkk Off – Rock Paper Scissors
FSkrillex – First Of the Year (Equinox)
Pretty Lights – Final Countdown (Live NYE 2009)
Claude VonStroke – Who’s Afraid of Detroit (Tanner Ross Remix)
The Whip – Trash (Crookers Remix)
Infected Mushroom – Eat It Raw
The Knife – Silent Shout (Wiliams Acidic Circuits Remix)
La Riots – The Toxic Avenger – Escape
Modeselektor – Hasir

 

Ear Trumpet Playcast # 9

Welcome to the 9th Playcast.  An eclectic mix of new music for you lushes.  We went a bit electric this time around, due mostly to my compiling tracks for a new segment for the blog entitled XXX Beats, featuring modern dance remixes and new electronic music.  Stay tuned for that.

Some artists off this playcast that I’m currently into include Crookers, No Surrender, Active Child, Little Scream, Das Racist and MEN.  I’ve been digging the band Honey Claws after hearing their track Digital Animals on Breaking Bad, which is off their 2008 EP Healer.  One thing that impresses me about Honey Claws is how contemporary their sound is, even though it was released almost 4 years ago.

The Bloody Beetroots are another electronic outfit I fancy and I warn you they are rather intense.  Their new album Romborama reminds me of Offspring’s album Smash, probably because both albums are total mayhem.  At any rate I hope I introduce you to something new.

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Here’s the Playlist…

1. Toys That Kill – Bang Bang Operator  -  The Citizen Abortion <2001>
2. MEN – Boom Boom Boom  Talk About Body <2011>
3. Miracle Fortress  -  Miscalculations  -  Was I The Wave <2011>
4. Crookers - Royal T  -  Ton Of Friends <2010>
5. The Features  -  Rambo  -  Wilderness <2011>
6. The Bloody Beetroots  -  Awesome  -  Romborama <2011>
7. PS I Love You  -  2012  -  Meet Me At Muster Station <2010>
8. Thao & Mirah – How Dare You  -  S/T <2011>
9. Voodoo Farm  -  Bangers & Cash  -  VOL. 1 <2010>
10. Active Child  -  Playing House  -  You Are All I See <2011>
11. Little Scream  -  Your Radio  -  The Golden Record <2011>
12. Winter Gloves  -  Ending Soon  -  All Red <2010>
13. Honey Claws  -  Lightning Kill Eye  -  Healer EP <2008>
14. Idaho  -  Skyscrape  -  Year After Year <2011>
15. Breathe Own Breathe  -  Leaf  -  Canadian Shield <2006>
16. Givers - Saw You First  -  In Light <2011>
17. Seapony – Dreaming  -  Single <2010>
18. Steve Aoki  -  Gravity’s Rainbow (Soulwax Remix)
19. Joanna Newsome  -  Baby Birch  -  Have One On Me <2010>
20. No Surrender  -  Silver Hall  -  Medicine Babies <2011>
21. Das Racist  -  Return To Innocence  -  Sit Down, Man <2010>

Ear Trumpet Playcast # 8

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I’m back with the eighth Ear Trumpet playcast.  I’ve been bummed to have taken hiatus from posting on Ear Trumpet while I traveled for the summer, but there were adventures to be had and friends to visit.  I have been listening to lots of music, giving myself as one friend put it, a soundtrack for my life, which is somewhat true.  Listening to music focuses my mind as I lose sight of distractions by paying attention to a track.  There is interesting study from Stanford University showing, “that music engages the areas of the brain involved with paying attention, making predictions and updating the event in memory. Peak brain activity occurred during a short period of silence between musical movements—when seemingly nothing was happening.”  Add the fact that the brain releases dopamine when you listen to music you like and it would seem that music is almost addictive.

This weeks musical selections are all over the map and you’re sure to hear something new.  Many of the tracks are from recently released albums such as SBTRKT’s self titled LP, Little Dragon’s Ritual Union, The Features album Wilderness and Handsome Furs third full-length Sound Kapital.  I promise you won’t be bored with what you’re hearing.  Enjoy.

Turn up your ears and play!

Here’s The Playlist:

Yeasayer – Wait For the Summer
The Features – Golden Comb
YACHT – Dystopia
Handsome Furs – No Feelings
Honey Claws – Digital Animal
Crystal Method – Born Too Slow
Bobby – Sore Spores
Paleo – In The Movies
Little Dragon – Ritual Reunion
Love Inks – Skeleton Key
Yuna – Come As You Are
Neon Indian – Fallout
Friendly Fires – Hawaiian Air
Com Truise – Air Cal
Austra – The Future
Starfucker – Death As A Fetish
Metronomy – My Heart Rate Rapid
Gillian Welch – Dark Turn Of Mind
Ty Segall – The Drag
Blueprint – My Culture
Dan Reeder – Clean Elvis
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – Skeletons
Eleanor Friedberger – My Mistakes
Underground Railroad to Candyland – Square Ball
Jenny Lewis – The Next Messiah
David Bazan – Wolves At the Door
Active Child – Hanging On
Pretty Lights – Empire State Of Mind Remix
Sbtrkt – Wildfire

Ps. I am still working on making the playcast’s accessible on smartphones.

Stay Tuned…

Ear Trumpet Playcast # 7

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Welcome to the seventh Ear Trumpet Playcast.  This week’s set has 28 tracks that act like a rad mix tape recieved from a good friend.  Some of my favorites include a version of LOS CAMPESINOS! Letters From Me To Charlotte with female vocals that makes me swoon as well as SARAH JAFFE‘s rock lullaby ClemintineMENOMENA is another band I have recently been digging (Thanks Lauren!) and I am really excited to see THE DODOS play the TLA this Saturday, and you should come check them out if your in the ‘delphia.

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This Week’s Playcast

I also have news that I will be taking a hiatus from posting playlists for 2 weeks, as I am heading north to Northwest Ontario to open up and prepare a wilderness outfitting cabin for 30 people to run 6 weeks of wilderness canoe trips out of.  No internet access, no electricity and only one faint radio signal from the CBC.  Its my favorite place in the world and check back in July for pictures and other media from my adventure.  Also next week’s playcast will have a theme, Wilderness, to send friends off into the woods with good tunes running through their ears, and my hope is to make the next playlist streamable on your iphone through the 8tracks i-phone app.  Perfect timing for road trips or summer lounging.

Alright boys and girls, the weekend is almost here, so fill your head with some good music to talk about with your friends, or enjoy on your own in your room, or really anything under the moon.

- Mikey

Ear Trumpet Playcast # 6

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Welcome to the sixth Ear Trumpet Playcast.  This week’s playlist is hot, singeing your headphones with ripe tracks from Andrew Bird, Gorillaz, Autopilot Is For Lovers, Braids, Deerhunter, Guards, Other Lives, Cold Cave and Robin Pecknoid.  I also went back in time pulling up some Radiohead, Das Racist, Depeche Mode and Los Campesinos!

One of my favorites is the Givers track “In My Eyes” because of how the song intertwines contemporary noises without giving up a gritty drum and bass sound.  I would also like to point out that Tiffany Lamson, who does the female vocals also plays the percussion for the band, which in my opinion is just damn sexy.  I also put another Crystal Fighters track in the lineup because their album, Star Of Love is just such pure fun.

 

Alright kids, have a wonderful weekend, if your in Philly check out 4th annual Roots Picnic this Saturday (6/4/11) with acts such as NAS, Little Dragon, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Dismemberment Plan, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Man Man and many others playing the Festival Pier at Delaware Ave. & Spring Garden.  Tickets are a limiting $80 and the shindig starts at high noon.

Listen to Ear Trumpet’s Playcast #6

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E.T. 2011 Sasquatch Mix

   Sasquatch is almost upon us, and I thought it apt to turn this week’s playcast into a Sasquatch Mix.  All you festival go’ers have a plan for what bands you are seeing right?  Or maybe you’re just going to go with the flow, or find a crowd and anything else under the sun.  You can really do what ever you want there.  There are a lot of good acts to be excited about this year, and I’m jealous to not be in the gorge this Memorial Day weekend.

Sleigh Bells, Wolf Parade, The Radio Dept., !!!, The Thermals, Sharon Van Etten, Bonobo, Noah & the Whale and Basia Bulat would all on my must see list, and I certainly wouldn’t miss The Flaming Lips play The Soft Bulletin in it’s entirety, and I would definitely hit up Ratatat for some rave action.

But, in the event you don’t have a ticket have no fear, NPR & KEXP will be streaming acts from the main stage LIVE.  That’s right boys and girls, you can listen to Sasquatch almost anywhere, even on your i-phone through NPR or KEXP’s streaming applications.  Read more about this exciting development here.

Give this weeks mix of songs a spin and have a excellent Memorial Day weekend.  You deserve it.

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Ear Trumpet Playcast #4

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On this playcast you will hear new tracks from Those Darlins, Black Mountain, The One AM Radio, Younger Brother, Three Blind Wolves, Gus Black, and Agnes Obel to name a handful.  The first song, Work by Pittsburg duo 1,2,3, has a kickin’ entrance and I still cannot get the backbeat of Lykke Li’s Jerome out of my head.

Last night I caught The Antlers play the Church in Philly.  One of my favorite songs of the night was Corsicana, a song that has the capacity to almost stop time and ends with the amazing lyrics, “we should hold our breath with mouths together now.”

Alright kids, listen to some music and enjoy your day.

Ear Trumpet Playcast #4

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The Antlers are an indie rock band from Brooklyn, NY, fronted by Peter Silberman and founded in 2006.  Burst Apart is the band’s fourth full-length and was collaboratively written by the 3 band members.  The album was released May 10th, 2011 on Frenchkiss Records label, which represents such acts as Freelance Whales, Passion Pit, Suckers and The Hold Steady.

The album opening track “I Don’t Want Love” showcases The Antlers use of the muses of pop to suck you in and take you for a musical ride with bellowing vocals and a layered electronic tinge that pins you to your seat.  One of my favorite songs on the album is “Corsicana” which reminds me of looking up at a night sky, “Putting The Dog To Sleep” is another great track with a visceral and melancholy feel, and “Parentheses” which is the first single off the album is very phantom-esk, Massive Attack sound.

The Antlers are playing a string of shows on the east coast before playing Sasquatch and a handful of shows out west, and then heading back east through Texas, the midwest and eastern Canada.  They will be playing the First Unitarian Sanctuary in Philadelphia this Wednesday (5/18) and tickets are still available. Montreal’s Little Scream is the opener for the majority of The Antlers tour dates (including Philadelphia) and should not be missed.

Click the album cover above, or HERE to stream the album.  Enjoy your Monday and here are some links to various internet outposts of The Antlers

FaceBook | MySpace | Twitter | Online Store | Frenchkiss Records | Transgressive Records

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