Tracklist after the jump.
Continue ReadingWell, I noticed a gap in my listening to Central American music so here is some quick hits from Honduras.
I thought this metal from Meaning of Life was actually quite good. Very serene for metal.
I’ve been in a girl pop kick of late and this album from Isabella Lovestory really met that niche pretty well.
The experimental sounds of Bestias are an acquired taste but relaxing, enjoyable.
If you like the world music thing, Aurelio does it well.
How about some punk with an electronic industrial edge? This is good.
Some jazzy electronica. Solid.
OK, 3.5 hours of Christmas Music for you! Split into two parts.
Part 1
Part 2
| Band | Source | Song |
| The Four Corners | Kindercore Records Christmas, Vol. 2 | My Gift to You (It’s Me) |
| Howard Hughes & David Tattersall | Christmastime, Approximately | There In Bristol After Christmas |
| My Bubba | Christmas Slam Dunk: Paul DeGeorge’s 2023 Holiday Mix | Champagne Drops |
| aeseaes | Christmas Songs (2018-2022) | Carol of the Bells |
| The Doubleclicks | Christmas Ain’t About Me | Wherever You Are |
| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone | Christmas Resistance: Paul DeGeorge’s 2016 Holiday Mix | Cold White Christmas |
| The Flirtations | Paul DeGeorge’s Christmas 2009: More Sleigh Bell | Christmas Time is Here Again |
| Slow Club | Christmas, Thanks For Nothing | Christmas, Thanks for Nothing |
| Lydia Liza & Josiah Lemanski | Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Single | Baby, It’s Cold Outside |
| Various | A Very Cherry Christmas 17 | The Snow Is Falling |
| Phallus Über Alles | Riot Grrrl Christmas | Father Christmas |
| Eux Autres | Another Christmas At Home | Merry Xmas Everybody |
| Bad Religion | Christmas Songs | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen |
| Laura Hocking | For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2010 | I Am Christmas |
| Eden Brent | An Eden Brent Christmas with Bob Dowell | The Christmas Waltz |
| The Dollyrots | A Very Dollyrots Christmas | Because I’m Santa |
| Furnace and the Fundamentals | A Very Furnace Christmas | You Shook Me All Night Long (Christmas version) |
| Colin Clary | Paul DeGeorge’s Christmas 2009: More Sleigh Bell | Meow Meow |
| Tacocat | Merry Christmas, The President is Terrible: Paul DeGeorge’s 2018 Holiday Mix | Snow Day |
| Matagot | Riot Grrrl Christmas | Christmas Wrapping |
| Deer Tick | Holy Shit, It’s Christmas! | Christmas All Summer Long |
| Vista Blue | Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas (Volume III) | I Want New Ramones Songs For Christmas |
| watch out for rockets | 13 days of xmas | drummer girl |
| Janet Devlin | December Daze | Happy Holidays |
| Meg & Dia | December, Darling | Lights Blown Out |
| Cyndi Lauper, The Hives | A Christmas Duel | A Christmas Duel – Cyndi Lauper, The Hives |
| The Happy Somethings | DON’T MENTION IT! (ALBUM) | Nothing’s Just For Christmas |
| Major Handy | Santa’s Funk & Soul Christmas Party 4 | I Won’t Be Home For Christmas |
| Nervous Twitch | Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas (Volume III) | Snowball |
| Cynthia Lin | Cozy Christmas | Winter Wonderland |
| Brown Bird | The Brown Bird Christmas Album | Merry Christmas, Baby |
| Jenny O. | The War on Christmas: Paul DeGeorge’s 2011 Holiday Mix | Get Down for the Holidays |
| David Carswell and Megan Barnes | Countdown to Christmas 2008 | I Wanna Kiss You This Christmas |
| Kincaid | Kindercore Records Christmas, Vol. 2 | Summer Is Half a Year Away |
| The Futureheads | Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas (Volume III) | Christmas Was Better In The 80s |
| The Rosebuds | Christmas Tree Island | Melt Our Way Out |
| Wild Child | Christmas Mixtape: Volume II | Last Christmas |
| The Brixton Riot | Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas (Volume III) | Lockdown Holiday |
| Rachel Sermanni | For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2012 | Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas |
| Jennifer O’Connor | Here With Me | Xmas Party |
| Iggy Pop | Punk Rock Christmas | White Christmas |
| jesu | Christmas EP (Remaster+) | Christmas |
| Girlfriend Material | Christmas Slam Dunk: Paul DeGeorge’s 2023 Holiday Mix | Winter and Construction |
| Busytoby | Kindercore Records Christmas, Vol. 2 | Hyun’s Snowy Night |
| Places To Hide | Getting Old EP | Christmas |
| Partner | Spent a Fortune on Nuts: Paul DeGeorge’s 2021 Holiday Mix | Santa is Real (Live at the House of Strombo) |
| Sufjan Stevens | Songs For Christmas | Hey Guys! It’s Christmas Time! |
| Ingrid Michaelson | Ingrid Michaelson’s Songs for the Season Deluxe Edition | Christmas Time Is Here |
| The Willows | For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2012 | We Three Kings |
| Slow Club | Christmas, Thanks For Nothing | Christmas TV |
| mooptheband | A Very Saint-Brooklynsburg Christmas! | rockin’ around the christmas tree |
| BROSS | Jesus’s bittersweet 2016 | Christmas Night In Harlem (Louis Armstrong cover) |
| The Birthday Girl vs Alexander’s Festival Hall | Christmastime, Approximately | Hey Santa |
| 45 Grave | Punk Rock Christmas | The Snow Miser Song |
| LIINES | Riot Grrrl Christmas | Lonely This Christmas |
| The Doubleclicks | Some Christmas Songs | That’s Family Christmas |
| Phil Awful and The Experiments | Maybe Next Year: Paul DeGeorge’s 2020 Holiday Mix | Merry Christmas? |
| Sad13 | All My Friends Are Snowmen: Paul DeGeorge’s 2017 Holiday Mix | Make Christmas Great Again |
| Low | Christmas | Just Like Christmas |
| Glam Chops | Countdown to Christmas 2008 | Countdown To Christmas |
| The Saturnettes | Commodore Xmas | Commodore Xmas |
| Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl | For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011 | Christmas In Hell |
| JD McPherson | SOCKS | Every Single Christmas |
| the Waistcoats | 50,000,000 Elves Fans Can’t Be Wrong | (I Wish You Could Be More Like) Santa Claus |
Tracklist and visuals after the break.
Continue ReadingMy first stab at posting a music mix. Mostly melodic stuff…
| Artist | Album | Song |
| Jordana | Classical Notions of Happiness | Crunch |
| The Ophelias | Almost | Lover’s Creep |
| Air Waves | Air Waves EP | Lightning |
| Korea Girl | Korea Girl | B-Side |
| Sarah Dougher | The Bluff | System Works |
| Kicking Giant | Alien I.D. | Town Idiot or She’s Real |
| King Princess | Hold on Baby | Change the Locks |
| Barbara Manning | 1212 | Isn’t Lonely Lovely |
| Leith Ross | Motherwell | Everyone I’ve Never Met |
| God is My Co-Pilot | Get Busy | I Cant Dance |
| Bitch Diesel | Hail | I Don’t Wanna Go Out |
| Reynosa | Clowning 7″ | Carinito (ORIGINAL BY LOS HIJOS DEL SOL) |
| Ohmme | Parts | Parts |
| Jessica Lea Mayfield | With Blasphemy So Heartfelt | Bible Days |
Now, we’ve always wanted to explore domestic music more and so why not bring the laser focus of the Slow Radio Shower to the States. Once again, we made a master list of US states (and Canadian Provinces because why not?), and then rolled the dice. The result: Kentucky!
No real rules, just look for music from Kentucky. And have fun! Here is a link to music from Kentucky on Bandcamp…
Tuesday, June 25 @ 2pm
Well, it took me a while to get started on this. So why not start with something familiar. Bonnie “Prince” Billy.
Friday, June 28 @ 2:30pm
This is some decent punk.
Quick Update
We will continue with Kentucky into July. Then for August we’ll return to the International Slow Radio Shower…
Tuesday, July 30 @ 11:45am
Some good Kentucky folk.
And of course my all time favorite album from Kentucky…
We enjoy exploring music from different countries. This June, we are listening to music from Finland, Europe. Join in by posting songs and thoughts about the music on this post…
So why Finland? There are nearly 290 territories and countries in the world. We created a master list of countries and territories and then rolled dice and that’s how we ended up with Finland.
So, how do you find music from Finland. One option is Bandcamp. You can use this link which will show all music tagged as coming from the country of Finland. In theory. However, take note, that people will tag their music based on a variety of factors so it’s good to verify it’s actually from Finland or if it is influenced by Finnish music or from a Finnish label. Anything is an acceptable contribution to this effort though. So if it’s from a Finnish label but it’s Lithuanian music – why not? Also I noticed that Finland has multiple tags so that’s just one of them. And you may want to search by certain cities as well, such as Helsinki.
You can use other sites too such as Spotify, Soundcloud, Last.FM or YouTube. However, most of those sites don’t have a geo-tag to search by. So it can be harder to find stuff. At the same time, most artists are on Spotify, but not everyone is on Bandcamp. And there is always Google searches. Since not everyone is on Bandcamp, it’s good to diversify how we find music.
Between now and the end of June, we’ll post music that we or others find and include appropriate commentary. Feel free to comment, suggest music to include, etc… This is most effective as a group effort.
Saturday, June 1 @ 1:30am
The first find in listening to Finnish music is the lovely Jazz from Linda Fredriksson.
Sunday, June 2 @ 12pm
Some Finnish post-rock from Tampere, Finland. This has an ambient touch to it. It’s very solid.
Monday, June 3 @ 1:30am
This is my favorite find so far. Some dreamy electronic indie pop.
Monday, June 3 @ 12:30pm
This is so interesting. Elokuu is inspired by Humppa – “Humppa is a type of music from Finland. It is related to jazz and very fast foxtrot, played two beats to a bar“. Enjoy! And thanks to Lorelai for this contribution!
Tuesday, June 4 @ 2pm
The music from Kauan is labeled as doom, folk, progressive rock, and ambient. And to be honest, it all fits. Plus this album has an associated RPG that you can get! Well worth the listen.
Wednesday, June 5 @ 11am
Teini-Pää is great. This music makes me so happy. Indie Pop that sometimes sounds like surf rock, sometimes like pop punk, and sometimes like Best Coast. Well worth the listen. All lyrics in Finnish.
Thursday, June 6
Today’s contribution comes from Eleanoora Rosenholm – a band from Pori that is probably best described as a weird bit of indie pop. This recent album is focused on a Soviet Union based storyline.
Thursday, June 6 @ 12pm
Today we get two posts. From the same Finnish label as Eleanoora Rosenholm we have Olimpia Splendid. Now I should have remembered how much I like them as I actually have a 7″ from them. But wow are they good! I guess this is Indie Noise? Who cares, I love it!
Friday, June 7 @ 11:30am
Today’s pick was described by Kim Gordon, “Islaja’s music is a dream, abstract and enchanted but grounded in the earthiness of a Finnish forest floor.” I mean, who am I to argue with Kim Gordon? Besides, she is not wrong.
Tuesday, June 11 @ 1:30pm
Jarse is interesting music. Sometimes melodic, other times experimental.
Wednesday, June 12 @ 12pm
Of course, Finland may be best known for its Metal. I am not an aficionado of metal. But I thought this was decent. I’ve barely delved into the metal yet though so don’t be surprised if I find much better.
@1:30pm
This post-rock is really good. Occasionally heavy, occasionally dreamy, always instrumental.
Thursday, June 13 @ 11:30am
Got some real good suggestions from my friend Julian yesterday for Finnish metal. Here are two of my favorites.
Friday, June 14 @ 12:30am
This is so good. Especially the first track. Maybe Tar meets Pissed Jeans? Whatever. It works.
Saturday, June 14 @ 12pm
This is interesting. I really like it. Definitely an indie sound, a bit electronic at times, experimental for sure. In the end it’s just interesting…
Whereas this one is straight up indie rock.
And this may be best classified as indie pop rock?
We enjoy exploring music from different countries. This May, we are listening to music from Guyana, South America. Join in by posting songs and thoughts about the music on this post…
So, how do you find music from Guyana. One option is Bandcamp. You can use this link which will show all music tagged as coming from the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. But you can use other sites too such as Spotify or Soundcloud though there isn’t a tag to search by. And there is always Google.
Between now and the end of May, we’ll post music that we or others find and include appropriate commentary.
ETA. Read about Guyana here. The Wiki on Guyana Music is interesting. Did you know Mad Professor is from Guyana? I did not know this.
Saturday, May 18 @ 11pm
The first music of note so far is Research Kitchen.
Sunday, May 19 @ 12pm
This calypso with the drums and jazzy sound is quite delightful!
Sunday, May 19 @ 1pm
If you like industrial I am actually quite enjoying The Vulture Drones…
Monday, May 20 @ 1pm
I wouldn’t say this is great punk, but I like that it exists. A split 7″ with bands from Guyana and neighboring Suriname.
Monday, May 20 @ 6:30pm
This I thought was going to be ambient but it’s something else. It’s a pleasant listen.
Tuesday, May 21 @ 10:30am
I’m trying Youtube music playlists to find music from Guyana. This playlist is of Guyana folk music.
Tuesday, May 21 @ 2:30pm
Creole Rock is an interesting project. Gavin Mendonca is the artist behind this pop punk infused Guyanan music. He also features in a heavy metal band I’m going to give a listen to. And he has a folk project as well.
Wednesday, May 22 @ 12:30pm
Death Metal from Guyana. I know I tend to like everything sometimes but I do actually like this and I’m not usually a big death metal person.
Wednesday, May 22 @ 1:00pm
Just some simple acoustic offerings from a guitarist in Guyana…
And here is some more traditional Guyana music…
Saturday, May 25 @ 10:30PM
This isn’t exactly my thing but it’s lovely in its way. Singer-songwriter Juke Ross from Guyana.
Sunday, May 26 @ 12:30am
I haven’t listened to Iron Maiden in ages so I was surprised how quickly I recognized this cover. Anyhow, some metal from Guyana from Ettu Brutus.
Tracklist after the break.
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