Music from '99-'03

Buffalo Tom.

This alternative indie rock trio's success peaked in the early-mid 90s with the release of Big Red Letter Day. You may remember their hit "Late at Night". This was a band I stumbled across in a record store - back in the day when you would actually go to a shop to rummage through used CDs. Though I started listening to them post-popularaly, their tunes clicked for me. Their sounds combined straight ahead rhythms with soulful coos and melodic solos. Honestly, just simple stuff for a time of high school/college naivety.

After taking a good 5+ year break, they are back touring and recording. This video is somewhat new. It's from their 2007 release Three Easy Pieces. This song is a great homage to their earlier work. myspace here

My Morning Jacket's New Album!

MMJ's Evil Urges is coming out 6.10.08!



Listen to the whole album exclusively on myspace

One of Gary's All Time Fav Albums

Bill Evans Trio's Moon Beams, recorded in 1962, is a collection of cooler than cool jazz ballads. It features 8 tracks of reflective melancholy using just piano, drums, and bass. To note, this album marked one of the first albums of many put out by the trio. Below is a live rendition of "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" - the first track off of Moon Beams. The recording is from a Rome concert in 1979 (a year before Bill Evan's death).

On Gary's Playlist As He Types...

Hmm...not sure if this is a guilty pleasure, however I stumbled across Cobra Starship on the web. I'm digging them. Their sound combines (not necessarily in this order) electro-pop, 80s synth, indie-rock, power-pop and hip-hop. "Kiss My Sass" off their Fall '07 release ¡Viva La Cobra! is currently stuck in my head. Check out the youtube clip below (note: audio only).

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NIN: Ghosts I-IV



To help promote their new 36-song album Ghosts I - IV, Nine Inch Nails is offering the first 9 tracks off their website for free. I've not listen to their stuff in a while, however this album is purely instrumental fitting in nicely with my current music interests. The tracks are ambient soundscapes - often very bleak and void - mixed with occasional heavy industrial rock fills. It's definitely an experimental project for them - Trent Reznor said himself - which I welcome with open arms. There are subtle hints of their past songs, however I think this album conceptually and musically transcends their earlier work. Check it out, yo.

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For $5 you can buy the rest of the album.

Kids from the 90s: Blood on the Asphalt

OK. Going geeky on you all. Check out "Blood on the Asphalt" - a collection of DJ remixed battle stages from Super Street Fighter II Turbo. If you gamed in the 90s, then Street Fighter was on your top five - no doubt. Download it here for free (use mirror 1).

My Favs:

Rock the Asphalt - by Jivemaster

Mercenary Boxing - by Malcos

Know Your Now! Music Videos:

Coheed and Cambria - "A Favor House Atlantic"



OK, technically this is a couple of years ago. This song is just fun. It gets stuck in my head all the time! Doesn't the lead singer look like Hugo from "Lost"? Or Rubeus Hagrid from "Harry Potter"? Better yet, their bastard lovechild!!!?

they move on tracks of never-ending light...

"They move on tracks of never-ending light" is a melodic ambiance written by the indie rock quartet "This Will Destroy You." Their song titles snapshot surreal themes that kinda make you space out for a second...hehe. It has a nice blog-title-ring so I choose it- nothing more to it than that. Anyways check them out here.


If you dig them, then check out Explosions in the Sky and Godspeed you Black Emperor! - two other bands that I heart.

Minute Music Review: "28 Weeks Later"

The Soundtrack to "28 Weeks Later" by John Murphy is worth stimulating your ears with. It's an eerie journey that uses no more than strings, guitars, electric beats, and piano to symphonically paint the horror that unfolds as the "infection" breaks out...again.

Simply said - It's an ambient masterpiece.