There is no search party for a star gone dim. (Clouddead)

 

I was introduced to this experimental hip hop group in my freshman year of college, I wasn't really much of a hip hop fan beforehand but these guys definitely opened that door for me. Their self-titled lp and "Ten" became regulars on my ipod and pretty soon on all of my friends' as well. the group consists of hip hop experimentalists Does One, Why?, and Odd Nosdam, pretty weird names i know. If you haven't heard of these guys I would highly recomend you check out their album "Ten", along with all of their other work. Unfortunately they disbanded around 2004 due to growing tensions and a heavy workload. Here we have a live show of theirs in 2002, it consists of their earlier material and it is very weird, even weirder than their recorded material. So if you're not familiar with these guys yet, I would check out their 2 full lengths before indulging yourself in this, but do what you want, you might dig it anyway.


 Here is your link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?60r2bnn3ygd

Modest Mouse Origins

I was very lucky in my younger years to actually see Modest Mouse in my hometown a few years before they achieved mainstream success. I didn't know who they were at the time, I was there to see the band they were opening for, and they didn't put on that great of a show but it allowed me to discover their raw brand of indie rock. These guys are among the very few bands in which I like pretty much all of their albums (less so with their more recent mainstream releases). I figure this will only be of interest to the hardcore fans as this isn't great quality but the band recorded and released this on their own onto cassette tape in 1993, when they formed.  There were only less than 100 released which Issaac Brock (singer, guitarist) did all the art work by hand for. "Tube-Fruit, All Smiles and Chocolate" is only for die hard fans because it's of very poor quality, too long at times and has outbursts of pure madness but it's still a great gem showing us the beginning of one of the most recognized indie rock outfits of today. Hope y'all enjoy it now.

One for the collection:
http://www.mediafire.com/?emyunvhymr5

The One, The Only, The Beatles

I don't think there's any need for me to regurgitate information about these guys, I honestly don't know anyone who claims to not like the Beatles. My favorite Beatles recordings have always been the alternate recordings and/or rare tracks, they just have that rawer organic sound that I'm a sucker for. Also you're able to catch plenty of banter and sillyness between the four between the tracks. What's special about this bootleg album is that it's a compilation of recordings made at their own homes, and their friends', with a little bit from each year of the band's existence. There's even a cool recording from India. Ok, so enjoy the music!




Get it, Enjoy it:
Beatles - For No One (private recordings 1962-1969)

Burgess Meredith tells us of the importance bacon has in one's health

Growing up, I remember thinking Burgess Meredith would never leave this world, he just seemed invincible, he looked old in the first Rocky and that was in the 70s! I'm pretty sure they killed his role as Mickey in Rocky III because they were certain he wouldn't be around much longer. He certainly proved them wrong by surviving for 15 years after his last appearance as Mickey, excluding flashbacks in the later ones. Throughout the Rocky movies he's given us great inspirational speeches on life which we'll never forget, however, none of them compare to this one from one of the Grumpy Old Men movies where he talks about bacon's role in leading a long, healthy and prosperous life. Definitely a diet to live by:

 

PRIMAL DEAD - Jerry, Pigpen, and Bobby before they were Grateful Dead

Many of us, Deadheads, are under the misconception that the Grateful Dead first got together as the Warlocks, when in fact,  Jerry Garcia formed a jug band with both Ron "Pigpen" Mckernan, and Bob Weir called "Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, jug band music is a type of folk music, popular in the 20s and 30s, that uses traditional instruments like guitar, mandolin and banjo, along with home made instruments like the washtub bass, the washboard, kazoos, and jugs that were blown into as if they were brass instruments. Jug band music went through a resurgence as part of the American folk music revival of the 1960s. As you'll hear in Mother Mccrees, the jug bands of the 1960s often played popular music from the earlier jug band era along with more contemporary folk and blues songs. Many of the songs you'll hear on here are written by the Memphis Jug Band, personally my favorite jug band, I'll be sure to post some of their material in the future. The recording you're about to hear was recorded by Stanford University students Peter Wanger (whom you'll hear in the intro) and Wayne Ott. The recordings were played on the folk music show "Live from the Top of the Tangent", broadcast on Standford's FM station KZSU. The tapes were believed to be lost to history until they were found in Wanger's Mother's attic in 1997, after her death. Being what they were, the recordings were almost immediately mastered and released on cd. Despite it being released on cd, this is still relatively unknown which is why I'm posting it. Some songs you might recognize from later on Dead concerts are 'Overseas Stomp' (also known as 'Lindy'), 'Ain't It Crazy' (aka 'The Rub), 'On the Road Again', 'The Monky and the Engineer', and 'Beat It On Down the Line'. Enjoy!

Got 2 links for you:

Mother Mcree's via megaupload 

Mother Mcree's via rapidshare

Gimme that Bass!

Bassnectar is a scholar of raging and getting down, don't know any other dj that can get the crowd to move the way this guy does. Some people misconceive Bassnectar as a dubstep artist but there is so much more to it, sure he uses massive wobbly bass lines typical of dubstep artists but his sound is so eclectic and unpredictable, he'll go from a dreamy dub beat to a slayer remix and then to a old jazz swing beat in the matter of a few minutes, the entire time just filled with raw energy. Unlike a lot of electronic artists he's also constantly changing the tempo, something he calls 'omni-tempo maximalism'. There's a little something for everyone at a bassnectar show, hence why you'll see quite the eclectic crowd at his shows, everyone from deadheads to metal heads to bro dawgs. It's an incredibly good time, some describing it as a 'social mosh pit'. The show i have up for your listening pleasure is a Bassnectar show from 2006 at the Fox Theatre in Colorado, and it includes some live freestyling by souleye. Listening to this now and then going to a bassnectar show today, you'll notice that he's gotten a lot crazier and intense but this is still a good listen.

download:

Bassnectar (featuring Souleye) live