Friday Morning Music Shuffle – Marching On Mix

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It’s a brand new month, and we move forward deliberately, haltingly and blindly into this odd numbered year, still early in the second decade of the still brand new millennium. Thanks to communication and technology, the world is smaller and yet still large and formidable. Yet another fiscal crisis in Washington. Isn’t there always one – these days at least. How is your world?  Are you experiencing a fiscal crisis?  I hope all is well with you. Here at Ear to the Ground, we are in a constant tension between the things we would like to do and the things he have to do and the constraints of time, money and energy.  That being said, March is shaping up to be a great month for music, and we will be here to share what we can.  I don’t know who exactly you are, but I am grateful that you’ve taken the time to read this far.  Stick around  a bit more, and I will wrap up with rambling discourse on nothing in particular and get to the music.  We have a four song shuffle today that covers quite a bit of ground: musically, geographically and chronologically. 

We’ll begin with the title track from Brooklyn fuzz-rockers Lightouts with the title track to their debut album which comes out March 5. Check it out:

And now to the shuffle after the jump:

  • “Please Be My Third Eye” by La Sera from Hey Sandy, We’re Still Here (A Hurricane Benefit) (2012)

La Sera is the latest project of Katy Goodman (Vivian Girls, All Saints Day). This is song on Sees the Light which was released last year on the Hardly Art label.  Please download the Sandy benefit album using the widget above. It’s $5.00, for a good cause and contains a butt-load of awesome NY/NJ music including some of our #E2TG friends.

  • “Chrono” by Kraftwerk from Tour de France (2009 Remaster of their 2003 album) 
 

Electronic music from the masters of that genre.

  • “The Death of Me” by Dex Romweber Duo from Is That You in the Blue? (2011)
 

Dexter Romweber was 1/2 of the seminal Chapel Hill, NC/Athens, GA band Flat Duo Jets.  Dex Romweber Duo currently features Dex and his sister Sara.  Is That You in the Blue? is the Duo’s second album which was released in 2011 on Bloodshot Records.

  • “Cardinal Wings” by Daniel Ellsworth and The Great Lakes from Civilized Man (2011)

Daniel Ellsworth and The Great Lakes are one of the hottest (and best) in a growing list of amazing Nashville based bands.  If you haven’t caught up with this great band, the time to start is now.

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Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle (and Non-Shuffle) – Fiscal Cliff Clavin Mix

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 “ It’s a little known fact that smartest animal is a pig. Scientists say if pigs had thumbs and a language, they could be trained to do simple manual labor. They give you 20-30 years of loyal service and then at their retirement dinner you can eat them.” – Cliff Clavin

Well, well, well… it’s 2013.  So far here, it’s been a rainy and cold new year, but this year is going to rock so hard…so there.  We have coming up our first Morning Shuffle of the new year… sort of… it appears on my new phone, when you “shuffle all” it really just begins playing at a random place and if the shuffle feature is not turned on, it just plays songs in alphabetical order from that point.  I discovered this in the midst of my morning commute, and turned the shuffle feature on.  So the first part of the list is not a true shuffle, but the last part is… you’ll figure it out… after the JUMP!



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1.   Song: Lookout  Artist: Dex Romweber Duo Album: Ruins of Berlin (2008) – (Dex and Sara Romweber from Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

2.  Song: Loose Talk Artist: The Purrs Album: The Purrs (2006) – (Seattle based Alt-Rock group)

3. Song: Loosen Up Artist: The Ugly Club Album: Songs from a 10th Street Apartment (2012) – (Different but tangentially related song by The Ugly Club on Amazon Widget – one our 2012 featured artists)
4.  Song: Lose It Artist: Austra  Album: Feel it Break (2011) – (Toronto based band)
5. Song: Loser Neck Artist: The Riverboat Gamblers Album: The Wolf You Feed (2012) – (Hard rocking band from Denton/Austin, Texas)
6. Song: Losercore Artist: Lou Barlow + the missingmen Album: =Sentridoh III (2010) – (Post punk and Dinosaur Jr. Co-founder + Mike Watt’s backing band. Song originally from Sentridoh’s Winner Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings (1994)
7. Song: Kelly  Artist: When Saints Go Machine Album: Konkylie (2011) – (Trippy music from Copenhagen)
8. Song: Dream Police Artist: Cheap Trick Album: Dream Police (1979) – (I don’t know where I come up with these obscure bands/songs…)
9.  Song: Pushover Artist: The Long Winter Album: Putting the Days to Bed (2006) – (Another Seattle band… what? There are bands from Seattle?)
10. Song: Fingerprints Artist: Creep List Album: ??? Facebook download ??? (???) – (link to Facebook Band Profile – fun band from Morningside Cemetary (sic) – possibly Montgomery, Alabama – song is not on the Amazon Widget)
11. Song: God Help Me Artist: Dead Rock West Album: Bright Morning Stars (2011) – (L.A. rock band – covering Jesus and Mary Chain)

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