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TSURURADIO Presents… And She Was Born In A Bottle Rocket, 1929 Mixtape!!!

February 12, 2010
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Photography “Born In A Bottle Rocket” by Tsuru, Model by Isabella Misery

Well it’s time for the weekend.  Finally, right?  Can I get a high-five?

Sweet.

What you doing this weekend?  Looks like more snow here, so my riding will be relegated to The Tank.  BUT, if that good lard’s a-willin’ and the creeks don’t rise, Tuck and I will be driving out the route for April 3rd Super Awesome NO-FRILLS Bike Ride for Breast Cancer!

Keep an eye out for an update for a start location and route if all goes well!

WOOT!

I’m so excited for the ride.  No idea how many will show up.  But even it’s just a handful of people, it’ll be great and, of course, SUPER AWESOME!  Haha!

Okay…  got a little Friday mixtape for you today.  Kept it old school, just built a nice collection of songs in the order I’d like to hear them.  No “mixing”, no necessity for gapless play (though, I recommend it anyway because, well, those 2 sec gap things are just stupid).

This one was inspired by so many things.  Matt obsessing over Rural Alberta Advantage, gud giving us a Tom Waits New Orleans song down in the Society, catching Velvet Underground in a movie the other night, or like when Colin Meloy was having his mind blown by Besnard Lakes. Just little things like that, “Ghost”, of course, appears due to the photo at the top of this post, plus our discussion of The Greatest Song Trilogy Of All Time, & my desire to have the lyric tattooed on my arm ASAP.

So yeah, it’s the little things that seemed to hook onto me, latching to my brain.  Feels good, feels right.  And after all this #musicblogocide2k10 madness going, I wanted to end this week on a good note.  So, I’ll shut up and let’s just get to it.

Have a wonderful weekend, bundle up, and keep riding!  Oh, and by the way, got a “special valentine’s day” treat for you this weekend, well, maybe more of an anti-valentine’s day treat, by way of our good friend Neil.  Keep an eye out, should be ready by Sunday!!!  Okay, let’s do this as…

TSURURADIO Presents…


And She Was Born In A Bottle Rocket, 1929!!!

Full Zip – REMOVED.  Sorry kiddos, Broken Bells has hired the Web Sheriff to make sure you don’t hear the album until they are good and ready.

SIDE A
01 The High Wire – The Midnight Bell
02 Miles Kurosky – Pink Lips, Black Lungs
03 The Beatles – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
04 Sophie Madeleine – You Are My Favourite
05 Lightspeed Champion – I Don’t Want To Wake Up Alone
06 Beach House – Silver Soul
07 Shabby Rogue – My Future With You
08 Midlake – Acts of Man
09 Sambassadeur – Stranded
10 Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way

SIDE B
11 The Rural Alberta Advantage – Frank AB
12 The Besnard Lakes – Chicago Train
13 Electric President – Mr. Gone
14 Clem Snide – Forgive Me, Love
15 Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes
16 The Ruby Suns – Oh, Mojave
17 She & Him – In the Sun
18 Broken Bells – Citizen – REMOVED via Web Sheriff request.  Please insert you own more-awesome track here & enhance this mixtape by 10%.  Thanks!!
19 Neutral Milk Hotel – Ghost
20 Tom Waits – I Wish I Was In New Orleans

WOOT!  Hear something you like?  Go to your local record shop and buy it, dammit.

Cheers!

Tsuru

Twofer Thursday! LOVE. LIFE. UKULELE by Sophie Madeleine & Last Hero of the Western World by The Society Islands…

January 28, 2010
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Photography by Christine Day Lorico

Man, did you hear about that iPad thing?  What a hot mess.  No multitasking? No flash? No USB?  Etc, etc, etc?  Ugh.  All that hoopla for a big ass iTouch.  Though, I found it very amusing that iTampon was trending higher than iPad or Apple Tablet or Steve Jobs yesterday.  lol.

Movin’ on…

I’ll tell you, I hope you like our new home because I’m quickly learning to love it!  Yeah, wordpress is a strange beast compared to blogger, but like all things, I’ll get used to it.

OH, to all our RSS subscribers out there (a surprisingly high number)… make sure you update your feed to:

http://tsururadio.com/feed

Otherwise, you’ll be missing out on all the goodness you seem to enjoy!

Change is bad good!  Keeps the blood flowin’, keeps you on yer toes!  So, for today and tomorrow, I got some special goodness to break in the new digs.  For tomorrow, well, you are just going to have to tune in and see, but for today, it’s Thursday and that starts with “T” so how about we do us a twofer!?!??!

Uh, hell yeah!  WOOT WOOT!

First up, the adorable and super talented Sophie Madeleine and her latest LOVE. LIFE. UKULELE.!

First off.  Talk about indie hawtness?  Okay, okay, sorry, don’t mean to objectify her but dang.  She ain’t Canadian is she?  Okay, like I told you yesterday, I bought this gem on purty red vinyl Tuesday night…  I mean, look at this thing!

How can you NOT buy this?  Well, it came with the mp3 version of the album and I’ve been enjoying the hell out of it since I loaded it into my iPad iTouch iPhone iToilet iPod!  Yeah, that’s it!

Okay… first song, “Take Your Love With Me”, you hear it, you think you just stumbled on the next adorable Apple commercial (man, sensing a theme today) or that awesome kindle ad, and maybe, being hardened and desensitized from the inundation from your TV, you roll your eyes and get ready to move on to the next album, but WHOA NELLY!  Hold yer horses man, ‘cuz “I Just Can’t Stop Myself” gets going and yeah, that adorable voice is still there (of course it is), but we got ourselves a genuine fully fleshed out song, with multiple instruments & harmonies & everything.

It continues on with “The Knittting Song” and on and on, and by the time the folky-esque “Hurry Locomotive” wraps up, you found you just listened to a lovely gorgeous album by an unbelievably talented songwriter.

And that’s a good thing, no?

1. Take Your Love With Me (The Ukulele Song)
2. I Just Can’t Stop Myself (From Writing Love Songs About You)
3. The Knitting Song
4. Who Will Buy?
5. Not Worth The Pieces
6. You Are My Favourite
7. One Kiss Too Many
8. When New Year Comes Around
9. Wave Goodbye
10.Hurry Locomotive

Some Sophie Madeleine Link Lovins…

Bandcamp | Myspace

But then we move over to a very different gem of an album that came to me via Marcy over at Lost In Your Inbox, The Society Islands with Last Hero Of The Western World!

Sorry, biggest photo I could find…

First of all, thanks for the heads up Marcy, never heard of these guys, and now I have and man, quite nice.  Reminds me of Pulp for some reason, and maybe a little David Bowie, and maybe, just maaaaybe a hint of a flavour of a waft of some prog?  Meh, probably just on crack.

The vocalist pours it on thick, but it feels right for the vibe these guys are giving off.  I’ve only given this a few goes but I’m loving it.  Sounds almost like it’s a concept album, but maybe a little more research and a few more listens will help me sort that out.  Concept album or not, it kinda feels like one, like there’s a story going on here.  Love it.

1. Last Hero of the Western World
2. Free Ride
3. 50,000 Gallons
4. The Feud
5. Fuck Bunny
6. Brother
7. In Cold Blood
8. Don’t Ya Rile ‘Em
9. No Place Home
10. Filing Cabinet

The Society Islands Link Love…

Facebook | Official

Nice.  So what do you think?  Our first “tsururadio.com” post-post proper style??  Not bad, eh?  Not bad at all.  I think I’m going to like it here…

Remember, stay tuned tomorrow, got a special treat from Society member Nelso that I think you’ll be diggin’…..

Cheers,

Tsuru

Sophie Madeleine limited edition print, LP, and download package???? Uh, yeah!

January 26, 2010
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Want & want, please!

Cheers,
Tsuru