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TSURURADIO Presents… Recently Volume 3 (Divided By 4 Times 2 Squared)!!! For all you do, this mixtape’s for you!

September 6, 2010
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Photography by me

Hello & happy Labour Day to all you states-side folks!  We may have Monday off from work but that don’t mean we can’t get the music a-pumpin’!!!  But first, do you see that cover above this paragraph?  Not only does it work as a bad ass cover for today’s mixtape, BUT…. It’s also a gentle reminder that you have until FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH to get your fan-sign photos in for a chance to win $30 cash moneys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Okay… it is Labour Day, it is our day off, so we are going to keep this short.  I will say, last night we had us a little BBBBBQQQQBBQ (the extra B’s are for boooooze and the extra Q’s are for Quality!) with some of our crafty peeps, local BFFs, and two bustown music bloggers – our friend Katie from Heavy Percussion & Jack In The Pocket & new Columbus transplant Jen from Tympanic Transplant, and it was all chill good times, full of drinks & grub & (as always) nipples!

Oh yeah… work it baby!

Not only was it a perfect time to hang out, meet up, and photograph nipples, it gave me the perfect opportunity to test out today’s epic — and I mean EPIC — mixtape!  You may remember a week or so ago when we shared Recently Vol 1 from 2006, well, the other morning Baby & I found & shaked our money-makers to a good portion of the finale to the woo-ing trilogy, Recently Vol 3, so much so, that I had, HAD, to share some of it with you.

Unfortunately, while some of the mixtape was booty-rumpadumpin’ good times, some was a bit too chill for booze & bbqin’, AND it was just too short.  So yesterday, I took volume 3, divided by 4, multiplied it times 2, then squared the shit out of it!

The results?  Let’s just say, the BBQ went long & I’m hurtin’ pretty good today!!!  So, here it is for you, for all your labours, enjoy as…

TSURURADIO Presents…

Recently Volume 3 (Divided By 4 Times 2 Squared)!!!

(Full Zip)

01 Nelly Furtado And Chris Martin – All Good Things*
02 Pussycat Dolls – Buttons*
03 Of Montreal – Our Riotous Defects
04 Plants and Animals – Bye Bye Bye
05 Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
06 Broken Social Scene – Ungrateful Little Father
07 Black Mountain – The Hair Song
08 Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar
09 Eels – Spectacular Girl
10 Matt & Kim – Cameras
11 Crooked Fingers And Neko Case – Your Control
12 The Killers – All These Things I’ve Done*
13 REM – Belong*
14 George Michael – Freedom! ’90*
15 The Shivers – American Girls
16 Delta Spirit – 911
17 The Pass – Trap Of Mirrors
18 Starfucker – Julius
19 Sufjan Stevens – I Walked
20 Freelance Whales – We Could Be Friends
21 Blonde Redhead – Not Getting There
22 Galactic – Heart of Steel
23 Cee-Lo Green – Fuck You
24 Busdriver – Split Seconds (Between Nannies And Swamis)
25 Lee Fields And The Expressions – Ladies
26 The Anniversary – Sweet Marie*
27 Johnny Flynn – Kentucky Pill
28 Lily Allen – Smile*
29 Liam Frost And Martha Wainwright – Your Hand In Mine
30 Eagle Seagull – You’re the Reason Why I’m Afraid to Die
31 Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows*
32 The Thermals – Only For You
33 Tame Impala – Lucidity
34 The Morning Benders – All Day Daylight
35 Neko Case – The Pharoahs
36 Yes – And You And I*

*From the original Recently Vol. 3 from 2006…

Like what you hear?  Then go buy their album here, here, here or at your local record shop already!!!  Ah, and before we say adieu for the day, I just want to say something…  We just found out we were the #1 blog again on Elbows last week:

And we here at TSURURADIO, the whole paper crane collective, just want to say a big fat and delicious thank you… thank you very much!  I hope you are enjoying what you are reading and spreading the good times yourselves to you and your’s.  We really appreciate you comin’ around, takin’ yer shoes off, and sittin’ a spell.  Until next time!

Cheers,
Tsuru

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

Happy Humpday with Big Echo by The Morning Benders!!! WOOT!

February 17, 2010
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Photography by si Jovy

Happy humpday to ya there, buddy… How the heck is your week going?

Besides the snow causing a whole bunch of indoor riding (yeah, this week is a complete bust for outdoor riding, I’ve accepted it, baa), it ain’t going so bad!  Spirits are good, body is good, life is good, projects are moving forward, HOOOO!

And, of course, some wonderful new music makes life only that much better, am I right?  Yeah, I’m right, otherwise, why would you be here?  Not for my “stellar writing skills”, that’s for sure.  So what album has been gracing my ears, coating my brain with delicious nuggets of love & melodies???  Why it’s Big Echo by The Morning Benders….

Beautiful album cover, eh?  Now, we’ve been a fan of Morning Benders here on the TSURURADIO since we heard Talking Through Tin Cans in June of 08 (ah, so nice to have the search function work, yeah blogger, don’t miss you a bit).  Last time we noticed a child-like innocence about the music.  Well, this time around, and maybe partially due to the production of a few Grizzly Bears, their sound has elevated into the mature and almost, though more off into the background, ethereal, almost like a fog.  If I was a more illustrative writer I’d chock it to a foggy beach setting somehow.

The Morning Benders are just creating really beautiful and layered pop/rock here, and it’s exciting!  Hard to explain why as there are no obvious gimmicks going on, just wonderfully crafted music that seeps into your hoodie as you wander along the chilly morning shoreline…

1. Excuses
2. Promises
3. Wet Cement
4. Cold War (Nice Clean Fight)
5. Pleasure Sighs
6. Hand Me Downs
7. Mason Jar
8. All Day Daylight
9. Stitches
10. Sleeping In

Some Morning Bender link lovins:  Official | Myspace | Label

Cheers,

Tsuru