So I haven't been around these corners much, and Adam has been ably stepping in to provide you with sweet tunes coverage these past few weeks, but I'm determined to return. There may possibly be a Johnny Whopper mixtape in the works, and you should be excited about it, but for now, I have to post this absolutely unbelievable track from Barcelona's Hermanos Calatrava. It's a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," but it turns it into equal parts psych-pop freakout and globalization commentary. It's not new - it's part of Finders Keepers' Absolute Belter comp, but it's every bit as fresh-sounding today as when it was released in 1974.
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May 27, 2011
Covers Watch
So I haven't been around these corners much, and Adam has been ably stepping in to provide you with sweet tunes coverage these past few weeks, but I'm determined to return. There may possibly be a Johnny Whopper mixtape in the works, and you should be excited about it, but for now, I have to post this absolutely unbelievable track from Barcelona's Hermanos Calatrava. It's a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," but it turns it into equal parts psych-pop freakout and globalization commentary. It's not new - it's part of Finders Keepers' Absolute Belter comp, but it's every bit as fresh-sounding today as when it was released in 1974.
February 12, 2011
Compilation Watch
"There's a world outside this blanket, but right now we're all that we have."For a city that routinely weathers snowstorms several orders of magnitude larger than the ones that have shut down most of Arkansas several times this year, Chicago was thoroughly humbled by last week's record-breaking blizzard. So while most of us in the South know the feeling of being snowed in, unable to go anywhere, it's a relatively uncommon occurrence in the Windy City.
Enter Chicago DIY institution Ball Hall, which has put together a a free two-disc compilation of songs Chicago musicians wrote on their snowed-in day. Entitled Deep Shit Vol. 1 and Deep Shit Vol. 2: Deeper Shit, they're a great window into the varied and talented Chicago music scene. Vol. 1 runs the gamut from spoken word to thrash-punk and airy electro-synth (with everything in between), while Vol. 2 showcases more long-form drone and ambient compositions.
Grab Sheep Numbers' Pavement-inspired "All We Have" and The Humminbird's beautiful and creeping vocal performance on "Adorned With Feathers" below, or better yet, head over to Ball Hall's blog and download the whole thing for yourself.
Cover art by Pizza Gang.
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