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Very Close to, if not actually in, the CD player:

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo - Echos Hypnotiques

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Whatever Brains - Trim-Jeans and/or Gross Urge Plus Ten CD-R

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Gene Watson - A Taste of the Truth

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Franco & le TPOK Jazz - Francophonic Volume 2

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Amerie - In Love & War

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Nirvana - Live at Reading

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Shakira - She Wolf

seen/heard   °  listen   ° preorder

Magneta Lane - Gambling with God

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Various Artists - Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

The xx - xx

seen/heard   °  listen °  preorder

Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another

seen/heard   °  listen°  buy

Rokia Traoré - Tchamantché

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Emmy the Great - First Love

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Superficial Gossip

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy








CONTACT

e-mail:  heartonastick (at) gmail (dot) com

MP3s that appear on this page are available for a limited amount of time; they are posted for illustrative or promotional purposes.  Everyone is encouraged to support the artists and buy their work.  If you are an artist or artist's representative and object to having the music posted, please contact me at the above e-mail address.

PR Reps/Labels/Bands:  At this time, I am not accepting any free product.  If I like an album, I'll buy it.  (Who would I be to recommend a CD I haven't bought myself?)  Links to album streams, MP3s, or myspace pages can be sent to the e-mail address above - though frankly I pay little attention to press releases and their ilk. Sorry.

 

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January 2008



Want to Smurf Around?

01/30/2008 3:01 A GMT-05
Sexist!That's American Idol comic relief moppet-cum surgically-enhanced country popstar Kellie Pickler, and I'm gonna pretend I'm not embarrassed to be enjoying this.  It's a one-joke song, but it don't overstay its welcome.&

My Powers Are Beyond Your Understanding

01/29/2008 5:47 A GMT-05
  I'd meant to have actual *content* for you guys, today, but things took a turn for the nutzoid.  That's okay!  Because Jake Johanssen was on Letterman last week, which made me happy because (a) it's good to know he's

My What an Excellent Moustache You Have There: Behold the 2007 Music Blog Zeitgeist (ex-Bloggregate)

01/28/2008 11:06 P GMT-05
The excellent folks at The Hype Machine have finished splashing around in y'all's milkshakes.  They've compiled 648 Top Ten Album lists from around the Interwhoozit into one shiny, clickable list!  It not only provides a blogger

Waxing Proctologically/Somebody Nicked My Motor

01/27/2008 4:23 P GMT-05
 Holy schnack there's a new Fleshtones (myspace) record.  Take a Good Look!  It's a blast, natch, the Queens-born band mixing jokes and rants and some matter-of-fact street balladry.  Dropping wisdom, trou.  In "

We Can Make Forever Last Forever (Apes and Androids, Mercury Lounge, 1/19/08)

01/25/2008 1:04 P GMT-05
 I was hoping I wouldn't have to pretend.It makes sense - it's on a stage, it's a performance, therefore it's theater, right? - that the audience at a rock show should have to engage a certain suspension of disbelief.  "

Taking a Trip to Gather Material

01/24/2008 3:24 A GMT-05
(original pic)"The authors are letting [website icon] Professor Happycat guide the reader through the different memes with brief definitions and context, while still capturing the absurd humor of the site."It's official:  Books are

I'm Calling in Heath-Ledger-is-Dead to Work, Tomorrow

01/23/2008 12:47 A GMT-05
Suddenly this is a Tumblr blog. Take my wife, please!

Most of My Time is Spent Hoping That Everyone is Wearing Pants

01/22/2008 3:52 P GMT-05
  (via) Yes, there are nominations, and they're respectable.  Every single Oscar is going to Daniel Day-Lewis, anyway.  Best Actor, Best Animated Short Subject, Best Drool, Best Milkshake, Best Bob Dylan, Best McLovin.  Sweene

You Will Not Be Able to Stay Home. You Will Not Be Able to Log on, Upload, and Sell Out.

01/20/2008 4:02 A GMT-05
Martin Luther King Jr. weekend serves up some irresistible irony, this year, and I'm not talking Barack v. Hill.  Gil-Scott Heron, the direct jazz poet who once told us that "the revolution will not go better with Coke," will

Everything Stinks of Ass

01/17/2008 3:43 A GMT-05
Let me apologize upfront to New People.  I get embarrassed - well, not embarrassed, but concerned in the way a host should be concerned - when anyone with a readership accustomed to more acceptable behavior sends their folks my way.  You co
Category: Whatever, Man

The Further You Drive Me Away (The Matchbox Blues Blues, Pt. 2 of 2)

01/14/2008 12:11 A GMT-05
History of Match Box Blues and Matchbox, sort of.

The More You Cry (The Matchbox Blues Blues, Pt. 1)

01/14/2008 12:10 A GMT-05
A history of the songs Match Box Blues and Matchbox.

I've Been Downgraded to a Giant Ball of Gas

01/10/2008 9:06 P GMT-05
The last - LAST! - episode of 30 Rock just aired.  WGA!  Production company organization whose confusing acronym includes several A's, at least one M, and possibly an L!  Talk!  Compromise!Don't you get it?  Now,

No One's Got it Like "Michelle" (Best Favorite Music 2007)

01/04/2008 7:01 A GMT-05
Best Albums blah blah blah.

Jesus Mother Fucking Fuck I Hate the Internet

01/02/2008 7:57 P GMT-05
"Yet hope is continuous. It doesn't end on December 31st at midnight; it stretches on through the year, despite all the forces at work to diminish or dampen it."Between this and hearing her do the patented NPR Schwetty Balls "Ooooo
Category: Whatever, Man

One Hundred Percent Guaranteed Foolproff Instant Hangover Cure!

01/01/2008 2:24 P GMT-05
Good MORNING!  Happy NEW Year!What's that?  Overdid it a bit last night?  KEEP MY VOICE DOWN?!?!  It's been years since I've had one, but my hangovers were real humdingers.  And the best way to deal with them, I f