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Please, please: If you are making renovations on a home, exercise good taste in your choices of materials.

I have just spent hours removing pink ceramic tiles, which are textured to try to emulate natural stone. (I suppose there might be some planet where you might be able to mine a milky-pink stone which repeats THE EXACT SAME PATTERN every 12 inches, it is an infinite universe, after all.) But in the interest of saving our planet, please don’t waste our resources on crap that’s just going to have to be replaced.

Sigh. Not that you would. And I’m sure the lady that lived in our place before us doesn’t read this blog or listen to this show. My ears are still ringing from the sound of hammer on crowbar, and I needed to vent. I’ll post some before and after pictures of our place here soon.
artist - song - album :: extra info

Bears Repeating - Wet and Rusting :: Menomena cover
(website | myspace)

The Dimes - Watching the Wheels (Lennon Cover) :: unreleased
(website | myspace)

The Heavenly States - Lost in the Light - Delayer
(website | myspace)

Boy Eats Drum Machine - The Crack in the Sea
(website | myspace | haystack.com | in-studio on my show)

Jim Noir - Don’t You Worry - Jim Noir
(website | myspace)

Wolf Parade - Call it a Ritual :: forthcoming tba
(myspace | @ Sub Pop)

Mackintosh Braun - Good So Far - The Sound
(myspace | @ last.fm [free album!])

My Brightest Diamond - Inside a Boy - A Thousand Shark’s Teeth :: out June 17
(website | myspace | last.fm | @ Asthmatic Kitty)

Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You (Pocketknife’s Considerate Eagle Scout Remix) - Tambourine Dream
(myspace | last.fm | fan site)

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal - Sun Giant EP
(myspace | @ Sub Pop)

Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head - Anywhere I Lay My Head :: out May 20
(website | myspace)

Santogold - Starstruck
(myspace)

Emerald Park - A Higher Loss
(website | myspace)

Michael the Blind - Moontips - Days & Days :: out soon
(myspace | Portland Mercury audio interview)

Mantis - Hole in the Sky - Travelogue
(website | myspace | @ Portland Mercury | @ Local Cut)

They Might Be Giants - Ooh La! Ooh La! - Here Come the 123s!
(website | other website | myspace | fan Wiki)
mp3s:

Jim Noir - Don’t You Worry
Wolf Parade - Call it a Ritual
Mackintosh Braun - Good So Far
My Brightest Diamond - Inside a Boy
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Emerald Park - A Higher Loss

 

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So, the exciting news: I am finally returning to the land of my birth! I went to college in the 90’s in the southwestern corner of Canada, went back to Portland after, then returned to marry my Canadian sweetheart and start a family. We’ve decided that now (despite all the bad news about the American economy) is the time to move our family to Portland and start building our life there.

I have missed Portland badly over the last five years, and kept doing my show on KPSU (recording it at home & sending it online to the station) in anticipation of moving back there. That time will come at the end of this month! I’m really looking forward to doing more interviews with both local and touring bands, going to shows and independent films (I’ve had to wait & rent most of the good films I’ve seen, as I’ve been living in the suburbs exurbs… and forget about seeing live music), seeing my family more (most of them live there), and enjoying the architecture and scenery of what Popular Science magazine named America’s Greenest City.

The downside to this move is that there will be a lag time between when I move, and when Jenn and Sydney come to join me. I miss both of them after only an 8-hour shift at work, and I’m not looking forward to being apart from them for an extended period of time. I’ll also miss my job. I’ve been working in a small store, just over the US border in Sumas, Washington. It’s been the hardest work for the least amount of money (and career momentum) that I’ve ever done, but the people I’ve worked with over the last two years have made it worth it.

I know that this is the right move for us, and in the meantime, I will, as they say, “get by with a little help from my friends.”
artist - song - album :: extra info

Thee Oh Sees - Ghost In The Trees - The Master’s Bedroom is Worth Spending A Night In
(myspace | @ Tomlab)

Slug A - Something Like Gravity - Roots and Becomings
(myspace)

Annuals - Sore - Wet Zoo EP
(website | myspace | @ Ace Fu | Sore video)

El Perro del Mar - Glory to the World - From The Valley To The Stars
(website | myspace | last.fm)

Dosh - If You Want To, You Have To - Wolves And Wishes :: out May 14
(website | myspace | last.fm)

Matt Hinkley - Blue Grey - Matt Hinkley
(website | myspace | last.fm)

Headman - New - Catch Me
(website | myspace)

The Long Blondes - Here Comes the Serious Bit - ”Couples”
(website | myspace | last.fm)

Sun Kil Moon - Moorestown - April
(website | myspace | Mark Kozelek: website | myspace)

The Lovely Sparrows - Department of Forseeable Outcomes - Bury the Cynics
(website | myspace | @ Daytrotter | last.fm)

Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - I Think I Wanna Die - Pershing
(website | myspace)

The Breeders - It’s The Love - Mountain Battles
(website | myspace | @ 4AD)

Unicycle Loves You - Highway Robbery - Unicycle Loves You
(website | myspace | last.fm)

This is Ivy League - London Bridges - This is Ivy League
(website | myspace | last.fm)

Evan Voytas - We’d Be Good Together - Introducing Evan Voytas EP
(website | myspace | last.fm)

Sally Shapiro - Jackie Junior (Junior Boys Remix) - Remix Romance Vol 1
(website | myspace | last.fm)

The Heavy - Colleen - Great Vengeance & Furious Fire
(website | myspace)
mp3s:

Thee Oh Sees - Ghost In The Trees
El Perro Del Mar - Glory to the World
Headman - New
The Long Blondes - Here Comes the Serious Bit
The Lovely Sparrows - Department of Forseeable Outcomes
Unicycle Loves You - Highway Robbery
This is Ivy League - London Bridges
Evan Voytas - We’d Be Good Together
Sally Shapiro - Jackie Junior (The Junior Boys remix)

 

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Very soon, I’ll be moving back to Portland. More details to follow!

artist - song - album :: extra info

The Charlatans - Oh! Vanity - You Cross My Path
(website | myspace | FREE album download @ XFM)

The 1900s - When I Say Go - Cold & Kind
(website | myspace)

M83 - Graveyard Girl - Saturdays=Youth :: out April 14
(website | myspace | *updated: Graveyard Girl video!)

Voyager One - The Future is Obsolete - Afterhours in the Afterlife
(website | myspace)

Caribou - She’s the One (Kelley Polar’s Hughes Wilson Prom Night in Hell version) - She’s the One EP
(website | myspace)

Islands - Creeper - Arm’s Way :: out May 20
(website | myspace)

Clem Snide - I Love the Unknown - Rocket Science OST
(website | myspace | eefspace)

Kensington Prairie - Crooked Things Straight - Captured in Still Life
(website | myspace)

Langhorne Slim - Rebel Side of Heaven - Langhorne Slim :: out April 29
(myspace | @ Daytrotter)

The Apples in Stereo - Shine (In Your Mind) - Electronic Projects for Musicians
(website | myspace)

Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (ft. Antony Hegarty) - Hercules & Love Affair
(website | myspace | Blind video)

Yaz - Only You - Upstairs at Eric’s
(website | myspace | Only You video (1999 remix))

Laura Cantrell - Love Vigilantes - Trains and Boats and Planes :: out on April 15, also Body of War Soundtrack
(website | myspace | Radio Trift Shop)

They Might Be Giants - The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) - Apollo 18 :: features guest vocals by Laura Cantrell
(website | other website | myspace | fan Wiki)
mp3s:

The 1900s - When I Say Go
Voyager One - The Future is Obsolete
Islands - Creeper
Kensington Prairie - Crooked Things Straight
Langhorne Slim - Rebel Side of Heaven