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8/8/2014

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This blog was started a few years back for a few different reasons.  Not least among these was a fondness for hearing ourselves talk, but more importantly the fact that our friends in large part appreciate our music finds/recommendations/and taste and we really enjoy sharing that with them and others.  These reasons and motivations still exist in 2014.  Radio seems to still be moving at a glacial pace when it comes to recognizing and playing new genres of music, new artists, not to mention the hundreds of bands whose music doesn't exist for radio play, can't be categorized and thus pigeonholed easily and never will.  The music still demands to be shared.  No more cheap, and easy music buffet that is today's popular culture, if you value the artistry that is a bit more varied, harder to define, and definitely more difficult to discover than what you know now, try this blog.

- Cool Breeze
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Posthaze is reborn.....new funk coming soon...

8/8/2014

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Favorite Albums of 2010

5/16/2011

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A little introduction.  At first I was going to come up with clever reasons and musically rooted discussions for why I found these albums to be the BEST of the year and then place them in order of musical achievement as the "best album of the year".  There would be some ranking system, etc.  But then I realized, you can't really do that with good music anymore.  It's not a genre, it's not similar enough to compare and rate against other music of it's "kind."  Even the genres themselves are hard to define.  Where does Yeasayer sit?  They aren't the same genre as the Black Keys, right?

I did some reading around of other "Best Albums of 2010" online.  Disgusting.  Kanye has the album of the year on all major sites?  Is this a joke?  Frustrated I moved on.  So instead, I came up with a list of my favorite albums of 2010.  And an appreciation for the musical genius behind the album was taken into consideration in my love of the albums.  Really you could say any album was the "best".  These are my favorites.

Two albums really spoke to me the last year.  You are lucky if a handful do in your lifetime.  I dedicated a lot of thought into my top album and why I loved it.  Here are my favorites in descending order.  Enjoy.  And if you haven't given these albums their due respect and listening hours, I highly recommend it. - Rocky Racoon

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someThoughtsOnNewMusic

5/16/2011

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decoded flux.
glitch. groove. what did you expect? what do you want?
it’s good. really good. but it sounds like radiohead.
whatever that means. it’s a radiohead album.
...it takes a few spins.
fragments surface and evolve...fluidity...multiplicity.
tension bubbles, tickling you from the margins.
it’s always becoming.
but within a structure of the band’s own making.
kid A was subversive.
king of limbs feeds the machine.
“bring something incomprehensible into the world.”
?
no, not today. you can dance, cry, and dance a little more. but the revolution will not be downloaded as an mp4. no, not today.  

enjoi

- Peyton Lee
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Favorite 13 Albums of 2010

3/23/2011

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I am a fan of music.  I grew up a fan of music.  As a kid, I spent plenty of time in my bedroom with  Adrock, my brother,  MXPX and a broom stick guitar.  I've always I loved the experience of isolating myself with a new CD, putting it on my discman and headphones, examining every pic in the album booklet, and reading every lyric and liner note as I listened.  Over the course of the last few years and thanks in large part to some of the most important people in my life, I became a good music fan.  By good music fan, what I think I mean is that my ability to independantly identify, consider, actively listen to music and really know what I think sounds good has evolved over the years, and has me listening and being interested by types of music I never expected.  Over the course of the last few weeks, I've been writing my favorite 13 albums of 2010 list.  This list is comprised entirely of the albums that I liked the most in 2010, the criteria for each album being it was released in 2010, and that I liked it.  Only  albums that are Breezily acclaimed.  That's pretty much it.  There will be more to follow, and I'll have others join me in some musical rants. This is my first rip at a music blog....so.....see you guys later.  -  Cool Breeze

13. Das Racist - Sit Down, Man

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Funk?  Three unassuming, atypically ethnic college rappers combine funny ass, clever, interesting, intelligent lyrics with funny ass, clever, interesting, intelligent phrasing and funny ass, clever, int...you get it....beats.  At times their flows sound like pieces of the all time greats, except for when they sound like no one else. But they are always smart, hilarious, and always rapping about really, really awesome stuff. 

Nugget!  This album is free online, so download it.  And they sampled and jamified the ay...yi...yii..ohiii...yiii..yaaaa song from like '87 ("Return to Innocence").  The one that had the video of the wierd indian dude dancing. Probably chosen because they are wierd indian dudes, and I think that guy is their grampa.


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