Generationals: Angry Charlie (via cw484)

fun generationals video. their debut album out this week. they’re heavy on my summer play list.

Album of the Day: Franz Ferdinand - Blood

Just picked this up from the Chester County library and it is a very good background coding/writing/database-loading rub-a-dub groover. Enjoying it more than the earlier 2009 album that it’s based on. Posting it for BPMc3 in case he’s up doing more writing tonight.

Out for beers with PrestonLeadership yesterday and talking tunes and beers. He sent me this follow up this morning.

Assembly of Dust’s new album, Some Assembly Required is due out next week. Get a taste with 4 free tracks off the album.

Go to aodust.com to pick up your freebies.

Here’s the full list with special guests listed:

Some Assembly Required Tracklist
01. All That I Am Now - feat. Richie Havens AVAILABLE NOW!
02. Pedal Down - feat. Zach and Andrew Gabbard (Buffalo Killers)
03. Cold Coffee - feat. David Grisman
04. Arc of the Sun - feat. Mike Gordon (Phish)  AVAILABLE NOW!
05. The Second Song - feat. Keller Williams
06. Light Blue Lover - feat. Grace Potter and Tony Rice
07. Edges - feat. Béla Fleck AVAILABLE NOW!
08. Leadbelly - feat. Jerry Douglas
09. Borrowed Feet - feat. John Scofield
10. Revelry - feat. Martin Sexton and Tony Rice
11. Straight - feat. Theresa Andersson AVAILABLE NOW!
12. High Brow - feat. Al Schnier (moe.)
13. You Lay The Dust - feat. Jeff Pevar

1,000+ Zombies Walk the Streets of Manchester

My family has always been partial to the zombies. Perhaps we should do one of these as a family vaca one year.

Album of the Day: The Knack - Get The Knack

Was at long-time-Feed-The-Ogre-friend Lester’s house a while back and “My Sharona” came on his mix on the back deck. There was a one-hit-wonder comment and I defended the honor of the entire “Get The Knack” album. I made him a copy and just heard from him today:

While I had listened to it w/ half an ear shortly after you passed it along, I had some quality time alone in my car w/ my iPod yesterday and gave it a good once over after a long day. Totally sweet and great driving music.

This is one of those quintessential summer albums for me. It’s best listened to riding the handlebars or book rack on your friend’s beach cruiser on the streets of Ocean City, NJ at the age of 15 or 16.

But I guess your cubicle will do as well.

It’s hard to pick my favorite tracks but will go with:

Oh Tara - Selfish - Maybe Tonight - Frustrated

Free Amazon.com: Highschool Hoodlums: MP3 Downloads: The Datsuns

New Zealand’s The Datsuns have a few things going for them:

- they open this song with a digeridoo

- they are named after the former Nissan company, makers of such classics as the 240Z, one of my favorites from the 70s

- they rock hard in a garage with cool cars:

Sonic Youth In Concert : NPR Music

Mr. Preston sent this link along after seeing my tweet about the new Sonic Youth album. They played the album in full yesterday in D.C. and it’s available for you to listen to today. click link above.

I like that NPR is sponsored by PBR now.