20th century boy

I just learned that this song did not appear on an album. It was a single only.



such a great fuckin song.
 

Cory Chisel

I thought I had posted these before, but I don't see them here so I must have just favorited them on youTube.

Stoked to see these guys tonight at Metro. 







 

movies to see

I saw a couple of great trailers before Marley movie I watched on DVD.





 Magnolia pictures chooses some great stuff to release

and then followed a Tumblr tag trail from Perks of Being a Wallflower, to Melanie Lynsky and found this new film she's in that also looks fun.


 

Joanie

The visit to the library today had be reaching for Joan Osborne's Pretty Little Stranger which I had borrowed once before but failed to spend much time with.
I loved Brokedown Palace, Time Won't Tell and Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends, but today I listened to the CD all the way through and found myself digging the whole thing.

She is hit or miss for me. After watching her in Standing in the Shadows of Motown, I really wanted to love her, but sometimes the "soul" sounds forced to me. Breakfast In Bed hits me both ways: sometimes really sounding "out of the pocket" and other times killing me with heartbreaking emotion.

I checked through a couple of the albums that I hadn't heard before: Relish with "One of Us" is supposedly so great but I didn't enjoy it much but I bought a few tracks off her soul record How Sweet It Is (seriously...Everybody Is A Star is fantastic) and a couple off the newest record Bring It On Home. 

According to the Chicago Reader she has a monthly residency at City Winery which I need to look into since it seems she has Megan Reilly as a guest one night soon and I would love to see them both.

Also hoping she does this one from the new record...




oh my.
 

Nick Straker

Great video here from Christopher Andrew and Stoptime 341. I used to help Chris and Audrey with video setups in some clubs a few years ago. They did visuals at a bunch of shows here in Chicago for a while but as to their current status/gigs...you'll have to check their site. 

Looks like they did the set up for the Silver Room Block party and besides shooting visuals to use in the day's displays, edited the footage together into a a great video.



I had heard and forgotten about the track behind the vid, Nick Straker Band's "A Little Bit of Jazz" but after this went looking for it again.

I found a Shep Pettibone edit for download here: 

Johnny Mathis-Gone Gone Gone-Appo refix

Who knew Johnny f'n Mathis could groove like this!?

riding the train

Since I first heard her debut Spilt Milk on Blue Note (thanks Monterey International) Kristina Train has left her label and moved to the UK. She had some rough tracks up on Soundcloud for a while, but I found this video today and LOVE IT.



 

Let's have a party not a kiki

The Scissor Sisters track I posted not long ago makes me think of this



 

Another Woman's Dream

I've had the first Edie Brickell solo album on my desk for a few weeks now...or rather, a compilation that I made a few years ago with the songs that I liked off the album. I'd pulled it out meaning to listen to it on the way to work. Today I've been cleaning off my desk and popped in into iTunes as a soundtrack for the day.

I totally forgot about how good this song is.



mostly because it reminds me SO much of this:




Tomorrow Comes always got more plays off the Edie album that anything else since it's about 120bpm and I could play it at The Wave in between band sets, but damn...this is a jam. I wonder if I could put together an edit of this to make it longer.