This just in, get your own real-life, non-downloaded copy of Aaron Schroeder’s most recent CD, Black & Gold,  for just $5.99 shipped straight to your door.  I’ve only written briefly about his last album, Southern Heart In Western Skin, but it was quite amazing and is still a staple in my road trip selections, between Boston self-titled and Van Morrison’s Greatest Hits.  Anyways, I assure you it’s well worth your $6, so go get it:

Link: aaronschroeder.com

If you’re still not convinced, check out this song from the album:

MP3: Aaron Schroeder - “What We Don’t Know”

For those of you here in Champaign-Urbana, Santa will be making their triumphant return from abroad to release their new CD, My Bones , on March 7th at 10pm at Canopy Club.  Tickets are cheap ($5 in advance) and well worth your money.

And for those of you that can’t make it to the show, I’m delighted to be able to present one of the tracks I’ve got stuck in my head off of My Bones, enjoy.

MP3: Santa - Hashish

————-

Link: myspace.com/santamusic 

It’s been a long time since I have contributed to the Contrast Podcast.  For those who don’t know, it’s something of a meta-podcast of music bloggers.  If you take a look at the blogroll on the sidebar of the website, you can see just how extensive the list of contributers has become.  The theme of podcast #63 happens to be a song chain.  Three different podcasts were made, starting here, proceeding to here, and ending in our current episode.

If you haven’t caught on, Person A picks a song, Person B picks a song based off of the previous song, etc, etc.  The song preceeding mine was The Walker Brothers, “Deadlier Than The Male”, picked by ZB from So the wind won’t blow it all away.  While I know nothing of The Walker Brothers, whose music sounds like a theme song from a long lost James Bond movie, I do know of The Walker Brothers Pancake House, in the Chicago suburbs where I grew up.  My immediate reaction:  Jack Johnson’s “Banana Pancakes.”

While these podcasts are always unique and interesting due to Tim’s editing and the wide variety of music and contributers, this episode is particularily fun to listen to because of everybody’s explanation of why they picked the song they did.  Without further stalling, here’s what you need:

MP3: Song Chain Part 3

Contrast Podcast iTunes Subscription: Click Here

Contrast Podcast Website: Song Chain Part 3

After setting up camp and a little sprinkle on Thursday night, and then checking out some music at the Sunshine Stage, I closed the night out with Future Rock on the camping stage. If you’re the type to listen to Disco Biscuits, Sound Tribe Sector 9, !!!, or whoever else, this will whet your appetite for certain.  I recommend starting with an amazing opener, “Da Funk.”  “Airplane Traintracks” has a very solid jam after a cool Pink Floyd sampled intro.  “Die Junge Ein” has some great drumming at the start and jams through into “Gears,” which has a happier and majestic techno vibe to it.  “FM 1″ was a funky track off of their upcoming album.  “Torture” is an all around good song that was featured here a couple weeks ago in the Summer Camp Artist Series.  “Zipper Front” sadly ended early due to a power outage, but the band managed to pull it back into a drum solo to close the night.  Definitely a great set by the band, they’ve got me hooked.

Future Rock
May 24th, 2007
Summer Camp 2007
Camping Stage 9:30pm
Files via Archive.org
Taper: Matt Nicgorski

1) Crowd Noise
2) Da Funk
3) Pulsewidth
4) Airplane Traintracks %
5) Die Junge Ein
6) Gears
7) FM1
8) Torture
9) Broken Glass
10) Zipper Front*
11) Drum Solo / Crowd (After Power Failure)

% Pink Floyd sample for intro
* Power Failure

More downloads below, full download listing here.

New Archive.org downloads as of 11:30pm 05/30:

Assembly of Dust - Sunshine Stage 05/25 A
Brothers Past - 05/27 A
Future Rock - 05/24 A

New bt.etree.org torrents as of 11:30pm 05/30: 

ALO - 05/25 A
Galactic - 05/27 A
MMW - Day Show 05/27 B
MMW - Day Show 05/27 C
Tag Team - Late Night 05/25 A