Friends of Distinction

I usually listen to this song when I feel a little bummed. Without fail, it always gives me a delightful kick in the bum.

Dark Day

ex-DNA's Robin Crutchfield's solo work. On his current website he has a pointy hat and elfin ears-what happend? Anyway....

RA podcast: Louderbach

goth, new wave, techno. 35 tracks warped together into a seamless mix. gibby was the singer of a crap band when i lived in boston (and my friend heathers ex boyfriend). now he lives in LA and is the singer of the best gothno duo to have graced the earth. troy pierce is the other half. he did the actual mix.

click here

holy fuck! NMH as high school musical

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is considered by many to be one of the most amazing and beautiful albums ever made. Jef Mangum's fever dream/ode to anne frank, the holocaust, and his personal take on religion is arresting and can dominate ones life and listening habits upon first listen. amanda palmer (dresden dolls-blechhh) together with her high school drama teacher and his drama dept at lexington high school in the boston area wrote and produced an ensemble piece based on the album. here is a recording of a performance of "With the Needle that Sings in her Heart". It starts with a weird vaudevillian intro unrelated to the story.

Stefan Goldmann’s “Voices of the Dead” project

for all you nerds out there, check out this podcast including live recording of voices of the dead set by goldmann and other pieces he likes

amazingness here

gothno four

gothno three

the best song on this ep is actually called "stella called", but the ep was badly marked and people confused that song with the one below. HERE IN ALL ITS GLORY is a sample of the real stella called. a track i havent taken out of my playlist rotation for 2 years.

horror inc

i really wanted to put up "in my garden" to me the end all and be all of gothno, but its no where to be found on the interwebternet. here is a small sample from phonica:

HERE

gothno two

gothno one

Spector Protector

San Francisco dark synth band. They played at my house when I lived in Portland. It was a pretty crazy party. I remember I woke up the next day to find that somebody had stolen my bike.

Chris & Cosey

SPK

Makes me wanna watch Mad Max and Road Warrior again.

Blank Dogs vs. Orgy

My housemate gave me a copy of one their records randomly and I dug it. I played it during a Dj set at this punk show and this guy asked me if I was playing Orgy. Also, I was bummed when I finally saw them live, it dispelled the whole weirdo dork vibe I had created around them just from their records. It was very "we're just another rock band" kind of show. Do they sound like Orgy?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdV2oxqT5SI (the embedding has been disabled but cut and paste the link for some pretty hilarious stuff).

iceland part two

the all female band amiina playing on an icelandic tv show.

iceland part one

Rude Bwoy get Right!

i spent many a early teen day walking around in a suit and various semi-silly hats listening to the first album by the specials on cassette. the 3rd wave of ska was a nightmare to those of us who loved the actually good music ska was in its first wave and some of its second.

Alice

Lets get African

This is a link to a long mp3 from the blog "awesome tapes from africa". its a style of music that stems from historical war dance called agbadza.

get with the drum heavy chanting!

hylozoists

Arthur Russell is a very important part of both of our lives here at this bloguh. This song is one of the most accessible songs he ever did, its a good start for people to leap off the precipice into total insane fandom. Arthur Russell is in the top 3 musicians/artists/humans in modern times. I cannot say enough positive things about him.

This Was In My Top 10 when i was an electro dj

kooky scientist meets 60s dancing teens