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Maps & Routes, Mini-Vacations, and TSURURADIO Presents… Eileen I’ll Hum This Tune Forever Mixtape!!!

March 11, 2010
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Alright my friends, it’s about time for this bird to take a day off and go see Mama & Sister Tsuru down in Flo-Ri-Da!  But before I do…. RIDE UPDATE!

Did you see that the TSURURADIO SUPER AWESOME NO-FRILLS BIKE RIDE for BREAST CANCER on APRIL 3RD has been updated with Maps & Routes???  That’s right!  The routes are solidified!  Here’s what we’ve got….  We’ve got a lovely riverside bike path 10 miler, a slightly more challenging 20 miler, then the epic 50 miler for the experienced and seasoned riders!  Going to be EPIC!!!!  Are you riding with us? I hope so!!!  If not, then wherever you are, get some friends together, bring $10, $20, whatever a pop, put it in a pot, go for a bike ride and send it to your favourite charity!  That’s the whole point!  Anyone can do this.  You don’t need to wait for a Lance Armstrong to show up, or the American Diabetes Association to put on a ride or a run or a whatever, you can do this anywhere and at any time!  BUT, if you are in Columbus on April 3rd and you got a bike, I sure hope to see you at mine!

Now unfortunately for these gams o’ mine — NOTE: need to sing a parody of Guns & Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” but cycling version that goes “Sweet Gams O’ Miiiiiiine” at my next group ride — there won’t be any riding this weekend for me as I’m not about to try to pack my bike for a tiny 3 day trip to Tampa, but seeing the family (including my snowbird Canadian in-laws (two birds, or make that about 5 birds, with one stone!)) more than makes up for it, eh?  I think so too.  Time off tomorrow means a busy day today, so what do you say we get right on to los musica, my little going away present to you, and man it’s a doozy!  2.1 hours, 26 songs of new, less than new, and pretty darn old songs that have gotten stuck in my mind, my ears, and in my heart, all laid out in proper listening order, packaged up, labeled up, zipped up, & uploaded just for you.

*smooch*

So let’s do this! Get ‘er loaded up on her player of choice and have a wonderful weekend!  I’ll see you all on the Twitters, the Facebooks, &/or our Society this weekend but if all that’s not your cup o’ tea, well, then, I guess I’ll see you back here on Monday.  Until then, enjoy as…

TSURURADIO Presents…

Eileen I’ll Hum This Tune Forever Mixtape!!! (Full Zip)

01 The Morning Benders – Excuses
02 Lightspeed Champion – Midnight Surprise
03 The New Pornographers – Your Hands (Together)
04 Portugal. The Man – All My People
05 The Bird And The Bee – Kiss On My List
06 A Weather – Winded
07 Jason Collett – Lake Superior
08 Born Ruffians – Sole Brother
09 Flight Of The Conchords – Ladies Of The World
10 Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazelwood – Summerwine
11 Josiah Wolf – That Kind Of Man
12 Super Desserts – Yr Heart
13 Dexys Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
14 Carolina Chocolate Drops – Hit ‘Em Up Style
15 The Decemberists – The Perfect Crime #1 / The Day I Knew You’d Not Come Back
16 Daniel Lindlöf via I’m from Barcelona – Lower My Head
17 Noah And The Whale – 5 Years Time
18 Madness – Our House
19 Kaki King – Communist Friends
20 Broken Social Scene – World Sick
21 Titus Andronicus – A More Perfect Union
22 Apples In Stereo – Told You Once
23 Toro Y Moi – Blessa
24 The Pass – Colors
25 Tunng – Hustle
26 Joanna Newsom – Does Not Suffice

Like what you hear?  Well get yer ass down to the record shop this weekend and buy it!!!

Cheers,

Tsuru

Holy crap! It’s Friday! How about a twofer? Genuine Negro Jig by Carolina Chocolate Drops & Ya-Ka-May by Galactic!!!

February 19, 2010
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Photography by PriCipEssa

Holy crap!  It’s Friday!  Uh-huh-uh-huh!  The sun is out, the roads are clear, I even got to ride my road bike… OUTSIDE!  I know, crazy, right?   Check out a quick mobile pic I took on the ride in, the last stretch:

Oh sure, it was cold & there was a little black ice to avoid, but screw it.  I needed to get back on my bike!!!

Speaking of, oh I don’t know, let’s say, uh, good times, sure.  Guess what?  One of you guys bought a “What’s A Teh-Soo-Roo Anyways” shirt last night!

Say what?  That’s fucking awesome!  Now this is through Zazzle, so I made $1.30 off the shirt (all of which will go toward the continuation of the TsuruNation Domination Actuation plan), but more importantly, one of you crazy music geeks is going to be getting some rather interesting looks as you strut (and you BETTER strut) that shirt down your ‘hood!

Think I might have to pick one up, not just for me, but maybe as a giveaway soon, eh?

But anyways, to our first buyer, to the first brave soul who challenged conformity to wear a very un-hip ironically-hip but not really-hip shirt, I got a little something for you. Go ahead, push play:

WOOT!

Hey… Dir-tay…

What?  Not your cup o’ tea…. Fine, how about this?

Yeah, it’s Kanye, but man, that song is all things Mmm….

Anyways, to the purchaser of the shirt, I guess what I’m (poorly) trying to say is, “thanks!”  You made my evening last night.

Speaking of delicious, doesn’t a drink called “Carolina Chocolate Drops” just sound amazing?  Unfortunately, the booze will have to wait til tonight, but I got something that sounds fives times as nice, Genuine Negro Jig!

This should be a nice transition from yesterday’s old-timey sound as these guys basically take a banjo, a violin, and play something from dimension.  Part O Brother Where Art Thou, part modern hip-hop/R&B.  Yeah.  Seriously.  What?  I know.  It works.  Fucked up, but works.

Now, these guys are on Nonesuch & Nonesuch scares the shit out of me so let’s just share my favourite song on the album, “Hit ‘Em Up Style”.  But be warned… It will floor you.

1. Peace Behind The Bridge
2. Trouble In Your Mind
3. Your Baby Ain’t Sweet Like Mine
4. Hit ‘Em Up Style
5. Cornbread And Butterbeans
6. Snowden’s Jig [Genuine Negro Jig]
7. Why Don’t You Do Right?
8. Cindy Gal
9. Kissin’ And Cussin’
0. Sandy Boys
11. Reynadine
12. Trampled Rose

Chocolate Drop love!  Official | Buy

It’s a twofer today, so let’s keep the love going with something COMPLETELY outside my wheelhouse yet still on track with our semi-rap-focused post.  This time with the rap-dance-funkish stylings of Galactic’s Ya-Ka-May!

Really can’t explain this (outside what of what I just wrote), we’ll leave that to the genuine music crickets out there, but I can say this.  You WILL put this on and you WILL shake your ass and You WILL feel good.  That’s all there is to it.  It’s fun and I can’t think of a better way to send this ass-kicking week out, can you?

I didn’t think so.

Here we go!  Enjoy!

1. Friends of Science
2. Boe Money (featuring The Rebirth Brass Band)
3. Double It (featuring Big Freedia)
4. Heart of Steel (featuring Irma Thomas)
5. Wild Man (featuring Big Chief Bo Dollis)
6. Bacchus (featuring Allen Toussaint)
7. Katey vs. Nobby (featuring Katey Red and Sissy Nobby)
8. Cineramascope (featuring Trombone Shorty and Corey Henry)
9. Dark Water (featuring John Boutte)
10. Do It Again (featuring Cheeky Blakk)
11. Liquor Pang (featuring Josh Cohen and Scully)
12. Krewe d’etat
13. You Don’t Know (featuring Glen David Andrews)
14. Speaks His Mind (featuring Walter “Wolfman” Washington)
15. Do It Again (again) (featuring Cheeky Blakk)

Some Galactic love!  Myspace | Official | Label

Have a great weekend everyone!  Have fun, go riding, and I’ll talk to you soon…

Cheers,
Tsuru

VIDEO: Carolina Chocolate Drops performing “Hit ‘Em Up Style”…

February 18, 2010
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Holy shit.  Listening to the new Carolina Chocolate Drops album and this song comes on and blows me away.  Here’s a live performance that is pretty damn close to the studio version.

Just wow. Wow, wow, wow. Well, wow and hot.