Midweek Music Meanderings

NOVEMBER 2o11 NEW ADDITION:

Downloadable:

BIRP!

(so much free music here, you'll explode!)

Feb. 2011 NEWEST ADDITIONS:

Downloadable:

WXRT Radio

Downloadable:

Spinner

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I Guess I'm Floating

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Off The Radar

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Pretty Much Amazing

Ashley rockin' the 'phones, CATchy tunes are her fave.

Simply can't get enough, an addiction for sure... the need for more and more grows with every new awesome song I hear. M•U•S•I•C, you are my drug of choice. To share my dependence on this ear opiate I give you multitudes of options for getting hooked and staying strung out for days (insert evil but sweet laugh here).

Sites that love sharing and will help you get habituated too:

My Secret Playlist

Kitsune Noir

Arjan Writes

I Listen To Everything

Porch of the Mystics

FACT Magazine (thank you, Paul Chien)

RCRD LBL

You Are The Music

:.MusiqTrend.:

left as rain

stereomood

Playmix Group (thank you, Katherine)

Pandora

8tracks (thank you, Henry and Harmony)

First, for the next 90 days (or until there is a crack-down on my link) I have a yummy plethora of tunes consisting of most of my top rated tracks. DOWNLOAD AWESOME MUSIC HERE, be patient, 85 songs take a few minutes to download but days to consume, years to digest and a lifetime to forget; I promise they are well worth the wait. Enjoy!

♥ The High Road

Broken Bells "The High Road"

Great album, incredible song... I could listen to this on repeat all day... maybe just might.

Let It Be

Today's Mantra... and I'm finding it in all sorts of lovely places... just letting it "BE". :)

Discovering Sean Mahan

While catching up on friends' Flickr photos I came across Mike Burnett's new design, "Average Joe Schmoe", wooden DIY figures that are being produced by Bigshot Toyworks. Looks like a traveling custom show is coming up in November starting at Shoparooni Annex Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio.

The piece shown on the postcard for the show specifically caught my attention, it's by Jacksonville, Florida artist Sean Mahan. Sean's site doesn't reveal too much about him, but I did manage to learn that he had a show back in September at Brooklyn Collective in New York and that there is an interview with him in Give Me Back magazine, I'll keep a lookout.

His work is so peaceful and elegant. He works on luan wood with graphite and washes of acrylic. Young people seem to be his favorite subject matter and I love the simple colors and stylized lines of his juxtaposed flat and 3-dimenensional work. I am always a sucker for exposed wood and he does a fine job of letting nature shine through his work.

I am particularly smitten with the painting "Sewing" (shown above). The sudden use of bright dramatic patterns is wonderful! I hope to see more work by this Savannah College of Art & Design graduate and maybe one day have an opportunity to work with him. :)

Also interesting to note, Sean is a musician and heads his own band(s), "Verde/Kids on Bikes" and multiple other music ventures. Rock on Sean! Rock on. (cheesy I know, but I couldn't resist.)

Animation Fascination cont.

U2 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight from David OReilly on Vimeo.

Spotted this on Gallery Nucleus' blog. First time for me to hear the song and I'm not sure I'm lovin' it just yet... but the animation has me listening all the way through and more willing to give it some time. As the years pass it gets harder to love U2 the way I did in high school when I had their albums on cassettes. But there's a favorite now and again and their passion for music and creative vision is contagious.

Ear Candy $0.00

Stereogum.com has pulled some strings and had R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People (originally released 10/5/92) remade into a tribute album by a great collection of musicians, including one of my favorites Sara Quin, from Tegan and Sara. Get the all 13 cover songs free, download it here.

Free I tell ya!!! Do it NOW.