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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Matthew Good: iTunes Single of the Week

Had to post this from afar - Sweet Oblivion favorite Matthew Good's new song "Born Losers" is the FREE iTunes single of the week. Please go support this amazing artist by downloading the tune for free here.

Back in a couple of weeks for regular posts.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Time Off

I'm taking a few weeks off, so for now you can satiate your need for MP3 goodness by trolling through the old posts here or by checking out the blog roll on the right side of the page. I ought to be back on August 13th or so.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Repost: Richard Ashcroft 03-07-06

By request, I've re-upped this show that went down when EzArchive went over to the dark side.

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Sunday, July 15, 2007

Matt Nathanson: WXPN Free At Noon 07-13-07

Sweet Oblivion fave Matt Nathanson played WXPN's free show on Friday. He rocked the crowd with a set comprised of new songs from his forthcoming release, Some Mad Hope. He had to temper his usually blue stage banter for the sake of being on the radio, but he was still his hilarious self in between tunes. After the main set, he came back out off-air to play an encore. He told us that his drummer had only two days of rehearsals, so he needed to do the encore by himself. He played "Suspended" without his guitar plugged in and without a mic from the edge of the stage, encouraging the crowd sing along with him. He harmonized off the audience, who knew every word to the song, as artist and fans brought the song to a close together. It was a very cool moment.

The new songs sounded fantastic, and I hope this record really helps his career take off to the next level. So go preorder Some Mad Hope now while you wait for the show to download.
Matt Nathanson
WXPN Free At Noon
07-13-07


Intro
Car Crash
Gone
Come On Get Higher
To The Beat of Our Noisy Hearts
Interview
Wedding Dress
Detroit Waves
Bulletproof Weeks
All We Are
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Suspended (unplugged) - not broadcast, so it isn't included here

Download the show here.
Buy Matt Nathanson's music here.

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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Jim James Repost

By request, here's a repost of Jim James' performance at WXPN's All About The Music Festival from last year. This year's festival kicks off next week, so go check it out here.

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Friday, July 13, 2007

Cover Of The Week: Velvet Revolver does Nirvana

Man, I seem to have a lot of recordings of people covering Nirvana tunes... Anyway, since Velvet Revolver's new record just arrived in the mail, I thought I'd post their version of Nirvana's "Negative Creep". Happy Friday.
Velvet Revolver - "Negative Creep"
Buy Velvet Revolver's music here.

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Previous Covers Of the Week:

M.A.C.C. - "Hey Baby (Land Of The New Rising Sun)"
Gov't Mule - "30 Days In The Hole"
Veruca Salt - "My Sharona"
Soundgarden - "Come Together"
Pearl Jam - "I've Got A Feeling"
Gomez - "Getting Better"
Muse - "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"
Cast - "The Seeker"
Manic Street Preachers - "Been A Son"
Steve Earle - "Breed"
Sheryl Crow - "Keep On Growing"
Nine Inch Nails - "Dead Souls"
Kathleen Edwards - "A Face In The Crowd"
Catherine Wheel - "Spirit Of Radio"
Stanley Jordan - "Stairway To Heaven (live)"
Stereophonics - "Something In The Way"
Mark Kozelek - "If You Want Blood"
Blake Babies - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
Kristen Barry - "Don't Cry"
Buffalo Tom - "All Tomorrow's Parties"
RATM - "The Ghost Of Tom Joad"
Turin Brakes - "Breaking The Girl"
Brandi Carlile - "Hallelujah"
Screaming Trees - "Tomorrow's Dream"
The Black Crowes - "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"
Uncle Tupelo - "Effigy"

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

B-Side Of The Week: The Seahorses

Out of the ashes of The Stone Roses came guitarist John Squire's short-lived band, The Seahorses. Lots of fans of the former really didn't like the latter, but I really liked this b-side from their first and only album. It's an acoustic track that they used to include in live sets.
The Seahorses - "Moving On"
Buy The Seahorses' music here.

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Previous B-Sides Of the Week:

Centro-Matic - "Not Like Anyone Would Mind"
Nirvana - "Even In His Youth"
Radiohead - "Bishop's Robes"
Catherine Wheel - "Capacity To Change"
The Black Crowes - "Waitin' Guilty"
Jeff Buckley - "Thousand Fold"
Idlewild - "Good Times Wasted"
Foo Fighters - "Baker Street"
Muse - "Fury"
Screaming Trees - "Silver Tongue"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Loaded Gun"
Stereophonics - "Carrot Cake And Wine"
Oasis - "Let's All Make Believe"
Guns N' Roses - "Shadow Of Your Love"
Ryan Adams - "What Sin Replaces Love"
Chris Cornell - "Sunshower"
Feeder - "Bruised"
Snow Patrol - "Post Punk Progression"
Jeff Buckley - "Strawberry Street"
Rainer Maria - "Automatic"
Radiohead - "Coke Babies"
Gomez - "Shot Shot (Folk Shot)"
Foo Fighters - "A320"
Turin Brakes - "Balham To Brooklyn"
Pearl Jam - "Long Road"
The Black Crowes - "Darling Of The Underground Press"
Juliana Hatfield - "Girl In Old Blue Volvo Disowns Self"
Gemma Hayes - "Perfect Day"
Veruca Salt - "Sleeper Car"
Audioslave - "We Got The Whip"
Oasis - "Step Out"
Ryan Adams - "One By One"
My Morning Jacket - "How Could I Know"

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Monday, July 09, 2007

Monday Morning Live: Gomez

Your weekly dose of high quality live recordings (no audience boots here!).

It just feels like a Gomez kinda day today. Must be the craptastic summer heat that has descended on the Philly area. My kingdom for Seattle's summer weather here on this coast... Anyway, this is a rollicking live version of Gomez's "Ping One Down", the studio version of which is on the sweet, sweet LP In Our Gun.
Gomez - "Ping One Down (live)"
Buy Gomez's music here.

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Previous Monday Morning Live Tracks:

Alice In Chains - "Love, Hate, Love"
K's Choice - "Believe"
Soundgarden - "Beyond The Wheel"
Lucinda Williams - "Which Will"
Doves - "WWCF --> Pounding"
U2 - "Staring At The Sun"
Damien Rice - "9 Crimes"
A Perfect Circle - "Brena (acoustic)"
Juliana Hatfield - "Nirvana"
Ryan Adams - "New York, New York"
Tool - "Intolerance"
Idlewild - "Love Steals Us From Loneliness"
Josh Ritter - "Thin Blue Flame"
Radiohead - "Creep" + bonus tracks
QOTSA - "A Song For The Dead"
Son Volt - "Bandages And Scars"
Coldplay - "Everything's Not Lost"
Sheryl Crow - "No One Said It Would Be Easy"
Muse - "Stockholm Syndrome"
Steve Earle - "Hard Core Troubadour"
Neko Case - "Hold On, Hold On"
Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
Foo Fighters - "Stacked Actors"
Screaming Trees - "Caught Between/Secret Kind"

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Friday, July 06, 2007

Cover Of The Week: Uncle Tupelo does Creedence

This week's cover is a spot-on version of the Creedence Clearwater Revival track "Effigy", as performed by Uncle Tupelo. The version that I have was released on the fantastic No Alternative compilation in 1993. Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar sound great (as usual) singing the plethora of harmonies throughout the song, and, man, do they rock out on guitar at the end.
Uncle Tupelo - "Effigy"
Buy Uncle Tupelo's music here.

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Previous Covers Of the Week:

M.A.C.C. - "Hey Baby (Land Of The New Rising Sun)"
Gov't Mule - "30 Days In The Hole"
Veruca Salt - "My Sharona"
Soundgarden - "Come Together"
Pearl Jam - "I've Got A Feeling"
Gomez - "Getting Better"
Muse - "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"
Cast - "The Seeker"
Manic Street Preachers - "Been A Son"
Steve Earle - "Breed"
Sheryl Crow - "Keep On Growing"
Nine Inch Nails - "Dead Souls"
Kathleen Edwards - "A Face In The Crowd"
Catherine Wheel - "Spirit Of Radio"
Stanley Jordan - "Stairway To Heaven (live)"
Stereophonics - "Something In The Way"
Mark Kozelek - "If You Want Blood"
Blake Babies - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
Kristen Barry - "Don't Cry"
Buffalo Tom - "All Tomorrow's Parties"
RATM - "The Ghost Of Tom Joad"
Turin Brakes - "Breaking The Girl"
Brandi Carlile - "Hallelujah"
Screaming Trees - "Tomorrow's Dream"
The Black Crowes - "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"

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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

B-Side Of The Week: My Morning Jacket

A friend recently reminded me that I had some b-sides from My Morning Jacket's latest studio LP, Z, and it occurred to me that I should share one of them. This tune was on the "Off The Record" single, and it sounds much more like old-school MMJ than Z does in general.
My Morning Jacket - "How Could I Know"
Buy MMJ's music here.

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Previous B-Sides Of the Week:

Centro-Matic - "Not Like Anyone Would Mind"
Nirvana - "Even In His Youth"
Radiohead - "Bishop's Robes"
Catherine Wheel - "Capacity To Change"
The Black Crowes - "Waitin' Guilty"
Jeff Buckley - "Thousand Fold"
Idlewild - "Good Times Wasted"
Foo Fighters - "Baker Street"
Muse - "Fury"
Screaming Trees - "Silver Tongue"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Loaded Gun"
Stereophonics - "Carrot Cake And Wine"
Oasis - "Let's All Make Believe"
Guns N' Roses - "Shadow Of Your Love"
Ryan Adams - "What Sin Replaces Love"
Chris Cornell - "Sunshower"
Feeder - "Bruised"
Snow Patrol - "Post Punk Progression"
Jeff Buckley - "Strawberry Street"
Rainer Maria - "Automatic"
Radiohead - "Coke Babies"
Gomez - "Shot Shot (Folk Shot)"
Foo Fighters - "A320"
Turin Brakes - "Balham To Brooklyn"
Pearl Jam - "Long Road"
The Black Crowes - "Darling Of The Underground Press"
Juliana Hatfield - "Girl In Old Blue Volvo Disowns Self"
Gemma Hayes - "Perfect Day"
Veruca Salt - "Sleeper Car"
Audioslave - "We Got The Whip"
Oasis - "Step Out"
Ryan Adams - "One By One"

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Independence Day

From Matthew Good's blog:
The Ressurection Of Independence Day

Today is a day on which many Americans celebrate not the contents of the document that made the 4th of July an important date in US history, but rather an altogether different, and highly corrupted, view of their nation and their identity. It is one that has been inbred in them since childhood, one that is highly insular, and one that has warped the definition of what it means to be truly patriotic.

If anything, the events of the last few days should demonstrate to Americans just how little the Bush administration cares how it is viewed by most. In fact, it has been operating under that guiding principle for some time now, with little to no opposition. Looking at what it took for Richard Nixon to resign the Presidency, one only has to look at Mr. Bush’s disastrous two terms in office to see why he has little regard for public opinion. Given the lies of his administration, the scandals, and the unwillingness to heed popular opinion, were he a man of integrity that held the nation’s best interests above that of a cabal within the Republican Party, he would have resigned his office after the falsehoods that led the nation to war were revealed. Unfortunately, at the time, a largely complacent fourth estate gave Mr. Bush a free pass, and he remained.

Were I sitting in France, Germany, Italy, or the Netherlands, the transgressions of this government would be cause for massive public rallies. The streets of various cities would be filled with crowds demanding the resignation of the government, and they would most likely continue to do so until such change occurred. But that is not something that happens in North America, be it here in the US or at home in Canada. We have, for the most part, abandoned our sacred responsibilities with regards to keeping government in check, and because of it they have grown to bank on our apathy and complacency.

Prior to the invasion of Iraq we marched through the streets of Vancouver – mothers, fathers, children, people from all walks of life participating in the largest global protest of a conflict (that hadn’t even begun) in human history. Faced with such overwhelming public condemnation, the President of the United States chose to ignore the world and proceeded to illegally invade a sovereign nation, an invasion that has since taken the lives of over 3,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. A year later we marched again through the streets of Vancouver, Professor Chomsky addressed those in attendance at the conclusion of the march, and it seemed that many had not lost focus on what they felt must be stopped. But as the years have passed the marches have grown smaller, interest in them amongst those whose participation is paramount, the middle classes, has dropped off to almost nothing, and many have resigned themselves to the fact that nothing can be done to alter what the Bush administration set in motion in March of 2003. It has become, in many ways, a thing of fantasy to many, something that inhabits our television screens, reaching out only to steal the futures of those directly involved, their families, their neighbours and friends. The same can be said about Afghanistan, and we, as Canadians, should also be focusing more on the realities of our participation in that war than we do.

The war in Iraq is the high water mark of the Bush administration’s folly. It is a war that is in such disarray, that was planned with such carelessness and with such little forethought as to stupefy even the simplest among us. And yet it is allowed to continue. When the President makes speeches regarding it now he employs references to ‘al-Qaeda’ and ‘9/11’ as if they were still representations of the ‘political capital’ that he claimed he had gained in spades following his re-election. They are words meant to detract from the realities of the disaster that now exists in that country, words that still rely on falsehoods championed by his political allies as if they hadn’t been caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

Iraq is also a war about money, about the massive expansion of the private sector, and those who profit off of the misery of innocents. According to today’s Baltimore Sun, privately paid contractors in Iraq actually outnumber US forces there. There are, according to the article, more than 180,000 civilian contractors working under US contracts, be they Americans, Iraqis, or other foreign nationals. A single load of laundry costs the US government, via KBR, just shy of $100 dollars – what, in any house hold, would cost little more than a few dollars.

When war is that lucrative for your friends – what does the opinion of the American public matter?

The defense budget of the United States for the next fiscal year is in excess of $600 billion dollars, dwarfing that of the next closest country, China, which spends roughly $60 to $70 billion. The US defense budget is greater than all of the budgets of the nations that comprise NATO plus China and Russia combined, and it remains the most prolific arms manufacturer in the world. Ironically, it is also a debtor nation to Mexico, and owes the Chinese some $1 trillion dollars. In fact, one third of the US foreign debt is equal to that of the entire third world. And yet it continues to spend money as fast as it can print it on maintaining the world’s foremost military.

Look into the cost of a single B2 Stealth bomber and then equate what that money could do with regards to healthcare or education. Doing so will enlighten you to the massively imbalanced sense of priorities prevalent in America’s halls of power.

There was a dream that was a nation, a dream forged into reality on this day 231 years ago. Its intention was noble at its inception, a basis penned that would lead to the creation of a Constitution meant to protect the rights of Americans, most importantly their right to dissent against the inappropriate actions of their own government. It would be foolish to believe that the likes of Thomas Jefferson ever believed that the power of the federal government should, in any way, detract from the people’s ability to demand that those principles that they cherish not be honourably upheld by their elected representatives, and that if and when the powers entrusted the Office of the President were ever taken for granted, or abused, that they could rightly demand that the integrity of the ideals found in the Declaration Of Independence and the Constitution be vehemently protected to the last.

It is Independence Day here in the United States, and that being the case, cause not for mindless celebration, but rather a day on which to remember that independence from all forms of tyrannical behaviour, be it foreign or domestic, is the hallmark of the American dream. Not capital, nor social status, but the belief that this nation once exemplified something of promise that, over the centuries, has been lost.

It is time for the American people to take back what is rightfully theirs. And they should allow no man, nor his henchmen, nor the military infrastructure that has become so engrained in the modern American experience, to stop them. For if young men and women can be sent off to a foreign country to die in a senseless conflict, surely it is nothing to step outside of your front door and protest this administration’s abuse of the American ideal by flying the flag upside down. For in military terms, the presentation of the flag in such a manner signifies ‘distress’, and I can think of no better term to exemplify the state in which the United States now finds itself.

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Monday, July 02, 2007

Monday Morning Live: Screaming Trees

Your weekly dose of high quality live recordings (no audience boots here!).

This week's feature is a special treat from the Screaming Trees. They recorded this gem, a version of "Caught Between" that flows into "Secret Kind", for a Live At The Wireless performance back in 1995. Enjoy.
Screaming Trees - "Caught Between/Secret Kind (live)"
Buy Screaming Trees music here.

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Previous Monday Morning Live Tracks:

Alice In Chains - "Love, Hate, Love"
K's Choice - "Believe"
Soundgarden - "Beyond The Wheel"
Lucinda Williams - "Which Will"
Doves - "WWCF --> Pounding"
U2 - "Staring At The Sun"
Damien Rice - "9 Crimes"
A Perfect Circle - "Brena (acoustic)"
Juliana Hatfield - "Nirvana"
Ryan Adams - "New York, New York"
Tool - "Intolerance"
Idlewild - "Love Steals Us From Loneliness"
Josh Ritter - "Thin Blue Flame"
Radiohead - "Creep" + bonus tracks
QOTSA - "A Song For The Dead"
Son Volt - "Bandages And Scars"
Coldplay - "Everything's Not Lost"
Sheryl Crow - "No One Said It Would Be Easy"
Muse - "Stockholm Syndrome"
Steve Earle - "Hard Core Troubadour"
Neko Case - "Hold On, Hold On"
Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
Foo Fighters - "Stacked Actors"

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