There are many reasons why I love the internet, but the most important for me is the randomness of discovery.
The last few days I’ve been jiving on lots of garage, mod, protopunk and 60s pop. Reading about protopunk took me to discover and download some music from a band called ? The Mysterians. They were [...]
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I can see for miles and miles.
Posted in history 101, playlist, tagged ? and the Mysterians, garage rock, Haiti, protopunk, punk, The Book of Negroes, The Sonics on November 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
my girl’s in tha next room / sometimes I wish she was you
Posted in playlist, tagged Asher Roth, Blink 182, Chevelle, Hellyeah, Hinder, Hollywood Undead, Howard the Duck, Nickelback, Rev Theory, Rise Against, Shinedown, sum 41, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus on August 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Where is my red baseball cap? The playlist I am listening to right now makes me want to punch a clarinet player.
The Mega D-Bagger (some choice cuts)
Rise Against – “Savior”
Shinedown – “Devour”
Three Days Grace – “Time of Dying”
Hollywood Undead – “No. 5″ (yeah that just happened, MySpace music circa 2005)
“Lets take some shawtz!”
Rev Theory – [...]
Plant Sand Animals
Posted in ...this is your father speaking, playlist, tagged BC Day, Cage the Elephant, Foals, Friendly Fires, Hadoukan!, Jeep, Lake Cowichan, Phoenix, Plants and Animals, playlist, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Yeah yeah Yeah's on August 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I have this Plants and Animals t-shirt that I love love love. Whenever I wear it out in public, people always come up to me and say, “Plant Sand Animals… ha ha, nice.” I just nod and smile, its not worth correcting them.
I had one of those magical weekends filled with family, friends, sun and [...]
Top of the Pops 01
Posted in playlist, tagged Bat for Lashes, Dave Clark Five, Flo Rida, Four Seasons, Katy Perry, Madcon, Phoenix, Sirius Hits 1, The Beat 94.5 on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Inspired by Sirius Hits 1, The Beat 94-5 and this article from Sean Ross, here is a fun mix of some top 40 tracks (and a couple poppier indie rockers, for the audio fibre) to soundtrack a summer drive, a run, or drinks with friends.
Download my Playlist off iTunes (or don’t I don’t get a [...]
The Sasquatch Playlist
Posted in playlist, tagged Sasquatch Music Festival on May 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
An epic selection of Sasquatchi bands for your drive to the festival.
Beard Lust
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head
Sleepyhead
Passion Pit
Believe E.S.P.
Deerhoof
Not Exactly
Deadmau5
(How Can I Keep You) Outta Harms Way
King Khan and The Shrines
Skinny Love
Bon Iver
Panic Switch
Silversun Pickups
Your Hand In Mine
Explosions In The Sky
The Lion & The Tea Cup
Bishop Allen
Summertime Clothes
Animal Collective
Black and White Town
Doves
The Greatest Sum (Electric)
The Avett [...]
My Favourites This Week
Posted in playlist, tagged Airborne Toxic Event, Flo Rida, James Taylor, Japanadroids, Peter Gabriel, Phoenix, Pinback, Reverend Horton Heat, Ringtones, Silversun Pickups, The Dudes, The Replacements on May 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
01) The Dudes
02) Japanadroids
03) The Airborne Toxic Event
04) The Replacements
05) Peter Gabriel
06) James Taylor
07) Phoenix
08) Reverend Horton Heat
09) Flo Rida
10) Pinback
Some of my faves spinning on the home hard drive according my Last FM page.
The new Dudes song “Pretty Lies” is so darn good, it has inspired me to fire up [...]
On Heavy Rotation at the Baker Homestead
Posted in playlist, tagged Bat for Lashes, Cage the Elephant, Machester Orchestra, Silversun Pickups on April 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
and I wanted to include the Silversun Pickups but they did not want to be included as they “disabled embedding by request.” c’est dommage Silversun Pickups.
Coffee Shop DJ
Posted in playlist, tagged 9 Crimes, Damien Rice, Starbucks, The Black Ghosts, The Frames, Twilight on March 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Floating woman balloon head on a string? check… cue up Damien Rice.
oh c’est dommage, those bloody kids sling shotted her!
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In another life I used to sling coffee for the Starbucks corporation. Oddly, one of my favourite, favourite things about the gig was the music. Man, I wanted to work for Hear [...]
West! To Jordan River
Posted in playlist, tagged Jordan River on March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It was a rainy, windy Sunday afternoon. No better time to slap together some turkey sandwiches, bundle up Mads and load the Jeep full of friends for a journey west, to Jordan River err, River Jordan.
It takes about an hour or so (depending if you stop in Sooke for a nuk-nuk and some peanut butter [...]
The Week in Music
Posted in playlist, tagged The National, MGMT, Mission of Burma, Frightened Rabbit, Sonic 102.9, The Killers, Last FM, New York Dolls, All State Champion, Layne Mitchell, Rick Lee, The Animals, Metric, Flo Rida, Dead or Alive on February 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Some music getting some play on the home stereo over the past week here at the Baker homestead.
01) Frightened Rabbit
02) New York Dolls
03) MGMT
04) The National
05) All State Champion
05) Mission of Burma
07) Metric
08) The Killers
09) The Animals
09) Flo Rida
Flo Rida? I know right…. but I bought this new single of his that features or samples [...]
