for your * pleasure – fedora the explorer
By Kervin | March 8, 2010 | No Comments
well hey there, studly and stubbly muffins alike. i’m really excited to have the ball rolling on this feature, as it’s a great platform for me to share with you and not feel like a skeez or anything because hell, you’re realistically an abstract smudge concealed or congealed by a keyboard and the various switch-offs network-to-network on this wild-west, rootin and tootin thing we call the internet FOR ONE, and also because i’m going about this from the mindset that, “hell, there’s no reason for me to collect all these great bands just to hiss at other people enjoying them, so fuck it, i’ll share,” FOR TWO. so, anonymous patron of the blog, may i happily present to you another enthralling installment of what i’ll consider calling FOR YOUR LOWBROW AUDIOPHILE PLEASURE.
Better get started listening to this one now, as it takes a while to get moving. Know what, quickly grab your headphones and plug those suckers in, cause I’ll be the first to say that this group cannot be thoroughly enjoyed through crappy macbook speakers. ok, so you’ve got some 40mm drivers glued inside the cans strapped to your head with the volume turned up as loud as it will go. go ahead and click the link that says THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE and get ready to sleuth the fuck out.
Here Be Dragons - 2009
HERE BE DRAGONS is a fucking masterpiece like brick was a fucking masterpiece — under the radar and dark as hell. the band name is a misnomer, there’s less jazz here and more jazz club. if you can listen to this group and not instantly be assaulted with the image of a dimly-lit, blood-red brick wall, haze of expensive cigars, fine scotch, made men and dames ala my 1920s wet-dream back-door password-is-charlie-chaplin speakeasy, we’re not friends. or we just don’t talk as often as we should. i’ve said it before, and i’ll say it again: if it makes me want to don an expensive rabbit-wool fedora and .38 snubnose cautiously resting in a hand-crafted worn-in-from-time leather shoulder-holster as casual attire, i’m all for it.
Saturday Cool
By Anna | March 6, 2010 | No Comments
Arian Behzadi’s Flickr stream is delightful.
for your * pleasure – this one’s about drugs
By Kervin | March 3, 2010 | No Comments
hey there, kiddos and widows alike. welcome back to my lazily and, recently, lethargically assembled triumphica indieoso segment i like to call “FOR YOUR EARHOLE PLEASURE.” you will have to grin and bear today’s segment being two days late; i will not make excuses for myself, and it will probably happen again. but you’re here now and i’m here now and i’ve got a lot of lovin goin, so let’s just chill and let marbleize all smooth and polished-like. a’iiiiight.
as promised, i’m here to give you a review of albums i find entertaining or insightful or flat-out decent enough to put on in the background while you get wasted with your friends in your lavishly yet modestly ikea-furnished downtown loft. so i will, and so it goes, and so i will go and begin with TERRY SCOTT TAYLOR aka wump-a-dum-buh-dah-bum, a-ree-tee-teedee-tee.
Neverhood Songs
NEVERHOOD SONGS is delightful and delirious. yes, this is a videogame soundtrack. back when steven spielberg and the rest of the gang down at dreamworks realized they had so much money that they could sink a couple bil into the growing casual computer game market, they turned to microsoft and landed a partnership that probably failed a few years after its inception, but however, whichever, whatever. they had the means to give a group of acid-head artists fourteen tons of clay and a ridiculously far-fetched deadline to produce one of the finest point-n-click adventure games to hit the market, THE NEVERHOOD. so a vivid, dynamic and otherwise wild and weird universe was dreamed up, rendered in clay, viciously programmed, and most importantly scored. by TERRY SCOTT TAYLOR, which is where that whole tangent began and where it will soon follow. see, caps-lock and paragraph breaks really ease this whole speed-reading process. it’s good for you.
Saturday Cool
By Anna | February 27, 2010 | No Comments
Moving a little slow today, so here’s your cool, sorry it’s late. The rad shit should be up within the next few hours. Ooof, where’s my coffee!?
for your * pleasure – tutelage: addendum
By Kervin | February 25, 2010 | No Comments
what a great, gloomy windy day. i’m really enjoying it. no, seriously, weather like this is a fucking blast. i always need an excuse not to ride a bike. oh, hello. i didn’t see you behind that monitor there. welcome to the latest installation of the quite specific “FOR YOUR AUDIBLE PLEASURE.” i left off tuesday’s episode promising an explanation of the disposable music blog, so that’s where i’ll begin today.
we’re all familiar with blogger.com blogs, the livejournal, and sometimes, typepad or wordpress– all platforms designed so regular jagoffs can spew their opinions about the world with only 5 clicks. the great features of these free sites are a) anonymity and b) their disposable nature, so naturally a world of piracy will flock to this gray area.
for your * pleasure – beginner’s tutelage
By Kervin | February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
hello, hello. welcome to another hastily planned and poorly executed recurring feature; this one’s specifically called “FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE.” it exists because i listen to a lot of great music, and so should you. see, indie-scoff avoided. i’m a reasonable man.
keep in mind i will not be linking to any of the albums or songs mentioned, as this would be “illegal,” but i don’t want to keep you from enjoying the many jams to be cranked, so i will start off the feature with a great google query that will get you going in the right direction. use it with discretion, and as always, be prepared to get your pants sued off by gigantic corporations whose only aim is to make example of those unscrupulous people called “pirates.” oh, and please don’t play “pass the blame”– this query has been around much longer than i’ve known about it, and is here for educational purposes only.
so we want to try and find a song IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, yes? well, i like mozart. he’s been dead long enough that all of his copyright holdings have died too.
saturday cool
By Anna | February 13, 2010 | No Comments
Kenichi Hoshine is a painter I’ve been admiring lately. One day I’ll be a real painter….sigh.
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