San Francisco might be steep, but is it walkable?
the walkmen - “heaven”
Hamm & Eggs
“Down by the River” - The Dutch Rhythm Steel & Show Band
This has got to be one of the best (if not the best) cover of any Neil Young song I’ve ever heard. It was playing on the UC Berkeley radio station the other morning and I was all WOW. They are a steelpan band from Trinidad and Tobago and this was recorded in 1975. Part of me wants to say this is better than the original, but part of me wants to never say that ever.
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major lazer (ft. amber of dirty projectors) - “get free”
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Daughn Gibson - “In the Beginning”
Every season can have a song(s) and I look for it. It’s part of why I love music: to soundtrack my seasons, which in turn, soundtracks my life. It’s also a large part of what I take into account when I make mixes for friends. What season is it? Oh, it’s fall, hello lo-fi. (Note: lo-fi pretty much rules all year round but one can see how it fits nicely with the reds and yellows of autumn). So now it is springtime and the weather is warming. I think back to a mix I made April-ish 2007 living in Rochester. Songs like “Oh Yoko” and “Holland Tunnel” and “Ka Na’i Aupuni” and “Revelations” sang out as we drank beers and played cards porchside. Today I seek again and always those seasonal tunes or jams or dirges and “In the Beginning” may not capture everything I’m feeling for the weather or the sky or the warm, but it’s definitely a start.
what an adorable cover.
(Source: we-are-samizdat)
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arthur russell - “the letter”
