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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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February 2008



Breaking: No One Gives a Fuck What Kris Kristofferson Thinks

02/29/2008 8:05 A GMT-05
(pic via) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  HEAVEN'S GATE STAR ENDORSES CANDIDATE, PROMOTES SELF, UNDERMINES MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY FATHEROne of the unfortunate hassles of having this here web page - soon, I promise myself, soon - is the incessa

Day Seven

02/29/2008 2:44 A GMT-05
- Painted Desert, Petrified Forest Natl Park, Arizona, 6-09-04

Everybody Here Will Evaporate

02/28/2008 8:02 A GMT-05
 A spring or two ago I saw a decent little doc called Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? (rent).The film itself, shot at the 2003 Cornerstone Festival, feels scattershot and slapped-together, but its subjects - featured talking heads

Day Twelve

02/28/2008 1:52 A GMT-05
 - Off Tioga Rd, Yosemite Natl Park, 6-14-04

Day Thirty-Three

02/26/2008 9:52 P GMT-05
- Alberta/Montana, 7-05-04

Gaydolf Titler Wuz Robbed

02/24/2008 1:07 P GMT-05
Holy crap.  Tilda Swinton, Marion Cotillard, The Coens, Once.They even brought the Czech chick out to finish her speech after they cut her off.This is respectable.  And running on time.  What show is this?

February April March

02/22/2008 8:29 A GMT-05
How awesome has my week been?  I managed to slice my face open while brushing my teeth last night.  So:  AWESOME.Here, this will help:  A playlist made up of some of the garagier efforts from noted retro-lovin' frog-pop chante

Day Eleven, Part Two

02/22/2008 4:31 A GMT-05
- Joshua Tree Natl Park/29 Palms, CA, 6-13-04

What’s Going on Thursday?

02/21/2008 9:35 P GMT-05
American Idol results vs. Pop-Up Video-style reruns of Lost:  The first program is a pathetic, hour-long timesuck that could easily be replaced by a press release, but at the end of it you have very tangible results.  The second program bus

Day Eleven, Part One

02/21/2008 1:15 P GMT-05
 - Joshua Tree Natl Park, CA, 6-13-04

Day Twenty-Eight

02/20/2008 4:25 P GMT-05
  - Points between Valdez and Tok, Alaska, 6-30-04

Day Fourteen, Part Two

02/19/2008 4:05 P GMT-05
Half Moon Bay, California, 6-17-04

Buried with a Donkey

02/19/2008 4:04 P GMT-05
Start the branding early, turn your childhood into viral marketing, this is basically an ad.  Whatever.  Just marvel at nifty cutting-edge video f/x, the endlessly bungled lyrics (that song has a lot of words!), and how snugly the content f

Day Fourteen, Part One

02/18/2008 10:15 P GMT-05
 - California, 6-17-04

Everywhere You Go (Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves/The Sweet Divines, Union Hall, 2/16/08)

02/17/2008 12:58 P GMT-05
Eli Reed (myspace) has a voice that could pop corn.Or bake a whole potato.  Eli "Paperboy" Reed's voice could season, stuff, roast, and carve a whole turkey, pour gravy over it, divvy up the leftovers, do the dishes, send you on yo

Day Thirty-Two

02/15/2008 5:41 P GMT-05
   Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada 7-04-04

Day Six

02/14/2008 6:03 P GMT-05
 New Mexico, 6-8-2004

The Twang

02/14/2008 1:46 P GMT-05
 Thought I'd take a break from working on my new website/artproject/lifestylechoice 73-Day Maury to wish you and yours (mostly yours) a happy Valentine's Day.  Here is my favorite Valentine's Day song ever:Luna - Slash Your Tire

Day Nineteen

02/13/2008 3:00 P GMT-05
The screensaver on my laptop is a slideshow that flips through the thousands of photos I have from my trip a few years back.  Not a good choice, as far as screensavers go.  A reward for not doing anything.  It's embarrassing that I

In Which the Internet Crawls Up its Own Asshole and Spits Itself Out, Again

02/13/2008 12:58 P GMT-05
 A few questions about the following clip (via S/FJ-corporate)where myspace-spawn Lily Allen (whom I still love, with an asterisk) welcomes YouTube-spawn Tay Zonday on her new television talk show Self-Mocking Reference to Andy Warhol's Theo

Public Displays of Affection

02/11/2008 11:36 A GMT-05
2008 (50th) Grammy Awards

Everybody Gets Everything They Want

02/07/2008 11:30 P GMT-05
New band from Rick Froberg (ex-Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu, Pitchfork) will be at Union Hall...

In Which You Went and Forgot About Me

02/06/2008 2:09 A GMT-05
 Gosh that's pretty.  No, not the suicidal Colorforms.  And the voice - this is Laura Groves, by the way, and people seem to be saying Joni Mitchell and a smidge of Joanna Newsome and a gnyürp of Björk - it's a bit sh