Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Doctor Steel

Dr. Phineas Waldolf Steel is a mad scientist/toy designer/musician who is bent on world domination. I'll leave the description at that.

vids 1-3 show the man, vids 3-4 show the tunes

I like the song in video 4 best.







Friday, July 2, 2010

SomethingALaMode feat K. Flay

I first came across K. Flay while listening to MC Lars a few months ago. She did a guest verse on "We Have Arrived" along with Lars and YTCracker and it stuck with me. I recently stumbled across her collaboration with a french duo called "Something A La Mode". They make interesting use of classical string instruments. I like seeing an actual cello being played rather than just another synth.

anyway, here's 5 am by Something A La Mode, featuring K. Flay. Enjoy.

Purpose of this blog

Let us face it... most of you listen to horrible music. It's not your fault, you simply listen to what you're exposed to. You don't have the time to go looking for interesting tunes, so you end up with an iPod full of auto-tuned, over-produced, MTV-friendly, 4-chord, cookie cutter music. "This album sold 500k copies... it must be good". Windows ME sold millions of copies... it's still garbage (no offense to the band "Garbage").

The purpose of this blog is as a repository for whatever music I stumble across and find interesting. Some of the stuff I post here you may really like, some of it you may despise. Either is okay. At some point after posting, I'll probably hate a song or two I've posted here. I guarantee however that you'll broaden your musical horizons. Give each tune a listen. Let me know what you think. Maybe look up some other songs by the same artist. Above all.. keep an open mind. Don't discount a tune simply because "that's genre X, and I don't like genre X"

updates will be haphazard and ill-timed.