Jalpuna tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1 2012-05-15T03:46:27Z These words are mine, but only when they're in this particular order. Movable Type 3.34 Oh, Minxy tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2215 2012-05-14T09:35:36Z 2012-05-15T03:46:27Z I've been posting playlists of music from this year's SXSW for the last six weeks, ranging from pop and rock to mellow, etc. This week's playlist is of the batch. It's a bit more folky. More or less. Kind of, sort of. Rob jalpuna.com available to download here.
This torrent includes all the tracks that could be previewed on the SXSW website for SXSW 2012 as of March 6, 2012. This year's collection includes 1,219 files totaling 7.52GB
I've been posting playlists of music from this year's SXSW for the last six weeks, ranging from pop and rock to mellow, etc. This week's playlist is of the batch. It's a bit more folky. More or less. Kind of, sort of.]]> And with that, I've exhausted my collection from this year's South By Southwest. Whooo...]]> Mean To Me tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2214 2012-05-07T08:35:16Z 2012-05-08T04:44:29Z Here's yet another playlist of music from this year's South By Southwest festival. I wish our Musicfest Northwest would share music the way SXSW does. Then again, it might be a lot of the same music. Or not? I guess we'll never know. Rob jalpuna.com Here's yet another playlist of music from this year's South By Southwest festival. I wish our Musicfest Northwest would share music the way SXSW does. Then again, it might be a lot of the same music. Or not? I guess we'll never know. I still have one more of these SXSW playlists to post next week. Ben Kweller's 'Mean To Me' sounds like it could have easily been recorded twenty years ago. It reminds me of something so specific, but I can't figure out what. And it bugs me! :)]]> Cold Feet tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2213 2012-04-30T08:59:36Z 2012-05-01T19:11:38Z It's pure coincidence that this playlist begins and ends with feet, and it's even more of a coincidence that there are two artists with "No" names back to back. Rob jalpuna.com More music from this year's SXSW Festival. They provided a ton - and I do mean a TON - of free music for downloading, and I weeded through it all, dividing the good stuff into the series of playlists I've been posting lately. Here's another. It's pure coincidence that this playlist begins and ends with feet, and it's even more of a coincidence that there are two artists with "No" names back to back. I didn't realize either of those until I posted the playlist here. If you're interested - or really bored - you can find all of the free SXSW music here, hosted by Google. As I said, there's some really good stuff to be found, but wow is there a lot of garbage too. I think it's worth the effort though. I manage to find some really great music each year. I still have two more of these SXSW 2012 playlists yet to post.]]> I Believe Science Is The Art Of The Next Age tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2212 2012-04-23T08:55:59Z 2012-04-24T05:05:36Z I'm afraid silence is the song of the next age. Rob jalpuna.com It's funny. And it's predictable. On the first weekend of short-sleeve shirt sunshine, the entire city of Portland becomes unanimously chipper. I'm certainly not complaining. I just think it's funny. I'm still working my way through the tonnage of music from this year's South By Southwest festival as I break it down into smaller playlists. Here's music to be chipper to. Sort of. Some of it is, anyway, and the rest more or less fits in with the mood of the playlist. Sort of. "I'm afraid silence is the song of the next age."]]> Shoeboxes tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2211 2012-04-16T08:25:03Z 2012-04-24T04:56:48Z Why did I hang onto your pictures? Why did I hang onto that dress? Cuz it kills me to see you, but it kills me not to. It kills me to remember and it kills me to forget. Rob jalpuna.com The good people at the South By Southwest festival in Austin provide a ton of free music for downloading, from which I've compiled this soft playlist.
Ten years down the road I’ll be cleanin’ out my closet, getting rid of old clothes I reach behind my winter coat And I stumble upon shoeboxes filled with old ghosts Why did I hang onto your pictures? Why did I hang onto that dress? Cuz it kills me to see you, but it kills me not to It kills me to remember and it kills me to forget
- from 'Shoeboxes' by David Ramirez
The entire batch from the free (and legal!) torrents from SXSW 2012 are available for download here, hosted by google. It's a ton of music. Well over a thousand songs. Most are garbage... but when they're good, they're really good.]]> A Blue Raft On The Blue Sea tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2210 2012-04-09T08:13:31Z 2012-04-17T07:34:55Z She sees these visions. She feels emotion. She says that I cannot go, she sees my plane in the ocean. "And what about your friends, don't you love 'em enough to stay?" And I say "If I don't leave now then I will never get away." Let me be a blue raft on the blue sea, I'll blend right in. Rob jalpuna.com She sees these visions. She feels emotion. She says that I cannot go, she sees my plane in the ocean. "And what about your friends, don't you love 'em enough to stay?" And I say "If I don't leave now then I will never get away." Let me be a blue raft on the blue sea, I'll blend right in. That's from Maps by The Front Buttons, and it's the opening track on this playlist of tracks from this year's South By Southwest festival.]]> The entire batch from the free (and legal!) torrents from SXSW 2012 are available for download here, hosted by google. Be warned before you dive in. It's a collection of over 1,200 songs, most of which are crap... but when they're good, they're really good. I found enough gems that I'll probably end up posting at least five playlists worth. Maybe more. I already have a fun pop playlist ready for next week.]]> Go Away My Lover tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2209 2012-04-02T08:16:50Z 2012-04-10T05:26:37Z Oh I will give you one last kiss / If it will put your heart to rest / Go away, my lover / I think that would be best Rob jalpuna.com I've finally had time to chew through all of the music in the South By Southwest torrents. Each year, the SXSW festival posts well over a thousand songs on their website in massive download files. This year, the number of songs came close to 1,200. Yikes. That's a lot of music to go through, most of which was crap. But I managed to find over a hundred songs that are really worth checking out. And here's a playlist consisting of a batch of those, beginning with Elizabeth And The Catapult. It took less than five seconds of their song 'Go Away My Lover' before I was hooked - and that was before the whistling! Ooh, the whistling... If you want to dive deeper into all 1,200-ish songs from the free and legal SXSW downloads, here's where you'll find the files, hosted by google.]]> You're A Fraud And You Know It tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2208 2012-03-26T15:14:33Z 2012-03-27T06:37:02Z We're calling all bed-wetters and ambulance chasers. Poor picker-pockets, bring them in. Come join the youth and beauty brigade. Rob jalpuna.com Dear Monday; You're a fraud and you know it. We've got a gray rainy week ahead here in Portland, apparently, despite the beautiful sunshine today. With that in mind, here's a somewhat dark sounding playlist. Dark? Does music have color? I don't know... but these sound dark to me. I'm hooked on the new White Rabbits album 'Milk Famous.' Parts of it sound very different from their previous work. Usually, when a rock band begins experimenting with electronica, it's a sign that they've lost their way, but White Rabbits surprisingly make it work. On the opposite end of the spectrum is Radiohead, who've made a career out of mixing electronic sounds into their work. I'd love to hear what it would sound like if they put out a proper rock record.]]> Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2207 2012-03-19T09:20:07Z 2012-03-20T04:33:38Z Every time I hear old Modest Mouse, I can't help wondering what they're up to these days. It's been five years since they released a new album. Grumble grumble. Rob jalpuna.com Every time I hear old Modest Mouse, I can't help wondering what they're up to these days. It's been five years since they released a proper album. Grumble grumble. Lady Of The Sunshine is actually a solo project by Angus Stone of the brother/sister duo Angus & Julia Stone, which helps to explain why Home Sweet Home would have sounded right at home on their last album. So, if you enjoy this, you'll enjoy that. Darwin Deez is a band, not a guy, though there is a guy in the band named Darwin who goes by the name Darwin Deez even though his name is Darwin Smith. The entire self-titled Darwin Deez CD is ridiculously catchy. If you're looking for something uptempo and fun, I highly recommend it.]]> A Look Back At SXSW 2011 tag:jalpuna.com,2011://1.2153 2012-03-12T08:05:25Z 2012-03-20T04:33:30Z "What kind of animal are you? Do you take small steps, do you follow it through? Do you say 'How do you do?' Are you a burrower? Do you like the sun? When the wind starts to blow, do you walk or do you run? I'm just trying to figure out if you're the one." Rob jalpuna.com Free music is a blessing and a curse. The music is a blessing, obviously, but finding it can be a curse. This is true even when the music is given to you. Take, for example, music from the South By South West music festival which is going on now in Austin TX. The good people at SXSW freely give away tons of music. And I do mean tons. Each year, torrent files are created to make it easy for anyone to freely and legally download around a thousand songs by musicians performing there. A Thousand?!? Awesome! ...no, sadly. It isn't awesome. Though roughly 2,000 bands and artists perform during the annual SXSW festival, I'm going to assume that half of them won't allow their music to be shared online. And you know what that means. The half that DO allow their music to be shared do so because most of them suck. Most. But definitely not all. I whittled last years roughly 1,000 songs available online via SXSW down to 26. Of those 26, one was a song I'd already posted previously (I never post a song again if I've posted it in a previous playlist. It's an OCD thing). ...and here's the playlist. This year's 2012 SXSW torrents have been posted. It's basically two files, each with an absolute ton of music. If you want to dive in, go nuts. Here's where you'll find 'em. But don't say I didn't warn you. There's a lot of bad music to chew through in order to find the gems. Oh, but there are always a few gems to be found.]]> The New Alphabetical, Part Two tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2206 2012-03-05T08:46:22Z 2012-03-13T06:53:29Z I didn't realize how challenging it would be to make an A to Z playlist. I really had to dig deep for a Q... and the Z barely counts. Sure, it's Zwan, but it might as well be Smashing Pumpkins. Zmashing Pumpkins, perhaps? Rob jalpuna.com Last week, I decided to post an alphabetical playlist. I worked my way through the first half of my iTunes library, following the order iTunes lists artists in. In the old days (*cough*) an artist like Xavier Rudd would be listed by his last name, in the Rs. But with digital media, he's an X. So be it. Here's the second half of the alphabet, artist by artist, from N to Z. I didn't realize how challenging it would be to make an A to Z playlist. I had to dig deep for a Q... and the Z barely counts since Zwan might as well be Smashing Pumpkins. Zmashing Pumpkins, perhaps? Owen is the stage name for Mike Kinsella, and World Party is really just Karl Wallinger, whose 1990 album Goodbye Jumbo is excellent.]]> The New Alphabetical, Part One tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2204 2012-02-28T04:51:41Z 2012-02-28T04:55:49Z Everything's alright. Stuffed animals are always right. Rob jalpuna.com Surely, by now, you've noticed the New Alphabetical. It's kind of like the New Math, but with letters. Or not. Actually, it's the iIng of organization, where the first letter dictates an artist's place in a digital list. In the old days, Eddie Vedder was filed under V. Today, he's filed under E. Josh Rouse is now under J, and Portland's own Langhorn Slim is found among the Ls. You may be thinking "It ain't right" as you shout the kids off the iLawn... but, alas. It is what it is. Luckily, "the" is ignored, unless it's the The, in which case... well... it's still filed under the. I'm going with the new alphabetical, from A to M, in the playlist that follows. I'll get to the second half of the alphabet next weekish. Probably. Unless I'm feeling inspired to post something else. Butterflies Instead by K's Choice is such a sad but sweet song. Everything's alright. Stuffed animals are always right.]]> Oaaaa, nana na na... tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2203 2012-02-21T04:53:08Z 2012-02-23T22:02:42Z Oaaaa, nana na na, nana na na, nana na na... Rob jalpuna.com I'm working tonight. In an attempt to not be distracted by music, I've been listening to this. It's a playlist of instrumentals. More or less. ...? The words "Here we go" pop up during the beginning of 'Meet Me in the Basement' by Broken Social Scene, and there's a lot of "Oaaaa, nana na na" going on in 'Nine Acre Court' by The Charlatans... and who knows what's being said or not said in Eagle-Eye Cherry's 'Desireless.' I guess those don't count as instrumentals. Then again, the voice is an instrument, is it not? Oaaaa, nana na na, nana na na, nana na na...]]> It's In Keeping With Your Not Sleeping Around tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2202 2012-02-13T21:31:07Z 2012-02-15T06:18:40Z A playlist of love, though not necessarily for Valentines Day. Rob jalpuna.com A playlist of love, though not necessarily for Valentines Day. A few notes. #1: Yeah, this gets poppy toward the end, especially with Owl City, but COME ON! If you can't indulge in a little over the top sweetness on Valentine's Day, when can you? I'm rotting my teeth out with chocolate as I type this for chrisssssakes. "If my heart was a house, you'd be home." #2: Ned's Atomic Dustbin: "You keep saying I'm tired of you, but I'm just tired. While I keep saying you're sick of me, but you're just sick. It's in keeping with your not sleeping around. You only do it 'cause you can. You only say it 'cause you can. I'm supposed to take it like a man. What if I can't?" That's from a fun album from the mid 90's called "Are You Normal?" #3: I can't say enough good things about Donovan Woods. He's released two CDs: "The Hold Up" and "The Widowmaker." Both are excellent. This line, from I Ain't Saying... is absolutely heartbreaking: "I ain't saying she's better than you, you see. But she's just better than you for me." #4: Duncan Sheik "What am I waiting for?" ...for all of the geniuses (you don't really need to know every last detail)]]> Our Move Is Shake Shake Shake tag:jalpuna.com,2012://1.2201 2012-02-07T07:16:18Z 2012-02-07T08:09:35Z I am so ready for a second album from Phantogram. Sadly, who knows when we'll get one. Well, I suppose the members of Phantogram know, but that doesn't help me, now does it? While we wait for a follow up to their fantastic album Eyelid Movies, we have the short Nightlife EP. That's where you'll find Don't Move, which begins the following poppy playlist. Rob jalpuna.com I am so ready for a second album from Phantogram. Sadly, who knows when we'll get one. Well, I suppose the members of Phantogram know, but that doesn't help me, now does it? Late last year, they released the short Nightlife EP. That's where you'll find Don't Move, which begins the following poppy playlist. I say 'pop' in a good way. All of the sunshine we've been having here in Portland keeps tricking me into thinking it's almost spring. And then the cold wind whips by and I realize winter isn't done with us yet. ah well. I'll be looking forward to getting another album from The xx too. Supposedly, we'll get that one later this year.]]>