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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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May 2008



A Little More Than All

05/30/2008 11:36 A GMT-05
 (photo via deadlydesign.com's Flickr)Lose your cool.There's been all this talk about "Where's our summer jam?" (as if the universe owed us one, sheesh).  Swallow yr pride and soundtrack your life with this:Local H - M

Negatively Charged Organic Matter, Time-Travelling Bunnies, Virtual Polar Bears

05/29/2008 10:28 P GMT-05
"So?"Um, sure, yeah.  While I'll feed these guys all the rope in the world, and while they can make just about anything compelling by phutzing around with the fourth dimension, is there really two years' worth of stuff left on

Woo

05/26/2008 5:44 P GMT-05
 Yesterday was a beautiful, easy pre-summer day, the sort that should be remembered before the air gets determined and thick.  Could there anyone better to help hold on to this weather than Al Green (myspace), the man who can make the seaso

The Exact Size of Belgium

05/23/2008 12:45 P GMT-05
Oh, right, you.Just a couple quick things, because it's way too nice out for long things.  (Cough, New York Times Magazine, cough.  And look who's coughing.)Muxtape had a meltdown, which afforded an opportunity to offer something su

That’s More Like It, New York

05/16/2008 1:35 P GMT-05
Was on my midday dash to the post office and passed a cordoned-off crime scene with clusters of cops and news vans and such.  I assumed they were filming another episode of Law & Order in my neighborhood (srsly, Chris Meloni should be chippi

“Too Kind of You to Be So Nice” (Stars of the Lid, Good Shepherd Faith Church, 5/2/08)

05/14/2008 12:43 P GMT-05
(photo by Benedict Kupstas)This isn't working for me.  Or at least I think it isn't.  Thinking might be the problem.Stars of the Lid (myspace) makes ambient music built on slow surges and recessions.  Their last CD, And Their R

Always 12AM Somewhere

05/13/2008 11:58 A GMT-05
 I bought myself another copy of Nothing's Shocking.  I replaced the Grace that might still be stuck in your goddamn car stereo, even if you've made me never want to hear it ever again.  Those and the others, they meant more to

Serena van der Woodsen: Not Even Cool Enough to Kill in Self-Defense

05/12/2008 8:00 P GMT-05
That's all the short-sighted Trachtenbitch had over you?  Fuck, babe, I've watched three people OD today.  I've got a subscription to Watch People Overdose and Die magazine.  I've got the complete collector's set of

No We Can't

05/06/2008 8:47 P GMT-05
What I learned from American Idol tonight:Apparently, it is morally wrong for a white dude with dreads to cover a song made famous by a black dude with dreads.Apparently, it's perfectly okay for some horrid white teenager to turn Ben E. King'

You Knew We’d Never Make it Anyway

05/05/2008 7:29 P GMT-05
There's a new free Nine Inch Nails record available for legal download!  My hard drive's full-to-bursting, so I made room for it by deleting the last free Nine Inch Nails record.*The only album in the world that matters, right now, comes

Ode Upon a Snooze Button

05/02/2008 10:23 A GMT-05
Rock and Roll is all about sex and drugs and the call of a comfortable couch.There's this thing called the "Contrast Podcast" where a gaggle of music bloggers gather 'round a weekly topic and offer playlists and blather and such.&nb

Lightning Struck Itself

05/01/2008 12:38 P GMT-05
While three long-promised final chapters languish in inspirational purgatory, this seemed an opportune time to regurgitate my Flickr account and do a bit of attic-cleaning.  Both to make room for the new - even with the Pool Parties and Siren TB