Re/Creating Tampa

This is the final installment in the 12-part Music on Wednesday series. Next week I’ll start a 4-part series on summer reading.

As I write this I still haven’t conjured up a theme, so I’m just going to post some of my favorite songs.

The 1985 album “As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade” by Mark [...]

Some auto-tune goodness.

The original double rainbow video –

It’s the next-to-last post in the Music on Wednesdays series.

Joe V pointed me to the AV Club’s “25 Bands, 25 Cover Songs,” and I decided to jump on the cover bandwagon.

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I’m pretty sure everyone in the world is now familiar with The Gourds covering Snoop Dogg’s “Gin & Juice.” Nonetheless, it is terrific. If [...]

I saw West Side Story for the first time ever the other night. It was much, much better than I anticipated.

The slight dissonance of the percussion and the horns in the opening prologue…

…reminded me of the dissonant horns and percussion in the original Planet of the Apes theme.

Which in turn prompted me to think [...]

(Week 9 of the 12 week Music on Wednesday series.)

When I woke up this morning the song “We Didn’t Know” by Tom Paxton was playing in my head. I thought I’d start off today’s music post with that song and move on from there. Unfortunately, there doesn’t see to be a video version anywhere on [...]

Who doesn’t love yodeling? From the peaks of the Alps to the cricks and hollers of Appalachia, yodeling has been a from of musical expression for as long as people have been singing.

I’m guessing the best known yodeling for most of the US population is from the Ricola cough drops commercials. While the Swiss [...]

This is part seven in the 12-part Music on Wednesday series. Today is the JB edition. This is what Jennifer has been listening to lately.

The Shout Out Louds. Here’s their video for a new song titled “Walls.”

Shout Out Louds – Walls from Merge Records on Vimeo.

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Vampire Weekend. Here’s the video for their song “Cousins.”

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Wolf [...]

This is part six in the 12-part Music on Wednesday series. I skipped last week because I was off at an undisclosed location sipping sangria and listening to the soothing sound of the surf.

First up is Gogol Bordello’s “Immigration Punk” animated by some World of Warcraft machinima. Machinima is “animated filmmaking within a real-time [...]

This is the song that was playing in my head when I woke up this morning – “Honey Bee (Let’s Fly to Mars)” by Grinderman.

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Raymond Scott was one of the great American composers of the 20th century. You could probably hum his song Toy Trumpet right now. You know the song, you just don’t know [...]

This is part 4 of 12 weeks of Music on Wednesday.

Starting us off is Alice Cooper’s classic anthem – “School’s Out” in recognition of me finally getting out of school! Yay!! No more pencils, no books…

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Next up is the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet performing “Stalin Wasn’t Stallin‘.” I first heard the Robert Wyatt version, but [...]

This is the third part of R/CT’s 12 part Music on Wednesday series.

First up is this terrific MGMT cover done americana-style.

“The Ooks Of Hazzard live performance of Kids by MGMT featuring 7 ukeleles , an accordion and a cajon.”

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If I had theme music for my life I hope that it’d be half as cool as [...]

For no reason at all I decided that Music on Wednesday will have 12 installments. This is #2. Today I’m posting Bob Lind’s (in my mind super-creepy) “Elusive Butterfly” (of Love). Cher, Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton, and I don’t know how many others have covered Butterfly. I didn’t find the version I was looking for, [...]

The new Wednesday feature is Music on Wednesday. Hope you enjoy!

First up is Rock Hudson (with a totally not-gay mustache) and Bea Arthur singing Sniff, Swig, Puff.

Suicide performing Ghost Rider. I think this is circa 1981.

A live version of Lover by Devendra Banhart.

Hmmm, I think this officially broke my brain. Insane Clown Posse, known for their xxxx-treme-in-your-face, don’t-give-a-fuck, politically-incorrect-to-the-maxxxximum antics have released… uh, this video extolling the awesomeness of miracles.

Some of my favorite lines -

Are you a believer in miracles?
Pure motherfucking magic Right?
This shit’ll blow your fucking mind
Do you notice and recognize miracles?

I see miracles all around [...]

Perhaps the best Belgian Hawaiian song ever. The Cousins (sometimes known as the Continental Cousins) performing Kana Kapila.

The Cousins – Kana Kapila (1961)Uploaded by pomesu. – Explore more music videos.

Don’t know much about this band. Doesn’t seem to be much on the English-language Internet. Below is a better version of the song, but it’s just [...]

It’s the pop music viral video that’s sweeping the country. Of Kenya.

Plus, it’s autotuned!

via WSJ

“The video — with “Big-G,” “Godfrey and the Laydayz,” “Black Sahara” and others backing up Makmende — has drawn more than 24,300 hits in the week since its release and the success doesn’t end there. Kenyan bloggers and Tweeters have seized [...]

When he comes ’round they sing, I’m in love. What’s that song? I’m in love with that song.

The Replacements Alex ChiltonUploaded by Celtiemama. – Watch more music videos, in HD!

Thank you Alex Chilton (1950-2010).

I have mentioned several times my unnatural love of Auto-Tune. Here’s Know Your Meme explaining the history of Auto-Tune with Professor Al Yankovic.

Buzz Aldrin hooks up with Snoop.

My new favorite song.

A Kookie Little Paradise by Jo Ann Campbell

More Jo Ann Campbell music on iLike

“Jo-Ann Campbell was born in Jacksonville, Florida, July 20, 1938. In 1942 when she was only four years old she entered a music school and when she entered Fletcher High School in Jacksonville, she was an accomplished drum majorette, [...]

One of my favorite tunes by Devendra Banhart live.

The Flobots video Rise. (Thanks, NF!)

A little positive protest music from today’s youth.