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this was kinda weird

Believin' the hype (a lil bit)

A pretty tasty moment excerpted for y'all from Tha Carter III. You can't go wrong with that Axe(lrod) sample though.
Lil Wayne - Dr. Carter

David Axelrod - Holy Thursday

How we ever gonna survive unless we get a little crazy?

Werner Herzog's majestic and hazily wise new jam about Antarctica, dreamers in "corrosive solitude", moon colonization, comedy and the apocalypse, Encounters At The End Of The Earth, is out. It is a supremely pleasurable and provocative jam.

At one point he kicks it with seal researchers, who lay down with their ears to the 6 foot thick ice to listen to the seals do this:



the meaning of their calls is completely unknown (to scientists) - they can't seem to link the sound to any physical actions. seals have a range of singing/hearing many, many times that of humans (up to 70KHz!!!!)

no electronics, delay or anything. the "cracks" are the ice shifting, and all the echo is pure OCEAN

Broken Strings

After years of us being broke, pressing plants freaking out, licensing problems, design problems, broken tape players, and occasional incompetence the Broken Strings LP is FINALLY HERE!!!!

Fourteen tracks of genius, cassette-damaged power-pop remastered by Weasel Walter and housed in a beautiful silver-foil stamped jacket. We are all so proud and so happy to be a part of sharing this wonderful music with the world. For some samples or to buy the record digitally go to Amiestreet.com. But if you want the vinyl, and you SHOULD want the vinyl, we've only got 300 copies so GET ONE NOW

Broken Strings- Eyes of the World

Jesucristo!

FREE Broken Strings Digital Single

BROKEN STRINGS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF AMIESTREET TODAY!!!

The Broken Strings LP is hitting the streetz June 15th! We are so happy this multi-year long melodrama (poverty, copyright issues, faulty tape decks, etc.) is finally coming to an epically positive conclusion. To celebrate, we've teamed up with Amiestreet.com to offer you a totally FREE Digital Single for "Eyes of the World". The single features an album cut ("Eyes of the World" mastered by Weasel Walter) and a totally exclusive and incredible awesome new song ("No No No")

Download it for free HERE
The album is also available HERE (currently for only $2.66)

Sorry

I apologize in advance but...

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Broken Strings now Available (for FREEEE)

The moment we've all been waiting for! For a limited time, Broken Strings S/T is available for FREE at Amiestreet.com. Until its official release on the 15th of June, Amiestreet.com is the only place to get Broken Strings in any format! So go, and please, mark it as a "rec" so many people can find out about this amazing album. The real vinyl version of the record is going to be available from our site on the 15th of June and in stores soon after that. YESSSS!!!!!!

Go to AMIESTREET.COM to download the album.

Broken Strings- Eyes of The World

Headstone Circus

I posted this video earlier in the morning, then realized it seemed familiar because I had seen the title image on this very blog a few months ago. That, coupled with the post below, in turn reminded me of this album...



Headstone Circus got heavy play around my household last winter. Somehow, now that I listen to it in the springtime with a violent storm rustling my neighbor's many tall, leafy plants outside the window, it has a strange tone. Kind of like the feeling of tuning a radio to a classic rock station on a remote beach, then wondering if the signals are crossing..?



Their sound could be compared to Neil Young & Crazy Horse, or even a psychedelic branch-off of Crosby, Stills, and Nash in "I Hear The Thunder" with lyrics such as,

"Someone tell me where the buffalo roam,
All I see is carcasses and bones,
How can you save them when there's nothing left to save,
In the land of the free, and the home of the brave"

...or a later-era Fleetwood Mac in "Reach Out," as the singer belts out "Reach out to a stranger, bring her into your life... (Come on on now,) Open your eyes and you can't go wrong," horns screaming in the background.

The description on the back of the record sums up in one way where these people were coming from:

"Around 1966... on Halloween night we went to an old cemetery, dropped some acid, and spent a very strange night amongst the tombstones. The tombstones appeared to be melting and taking on animal shapes. Some of us saw spirits, and I'm not sure what I saw, but it was disturbing. Afterwards we referred to that night as the 'Headstone Circus.'"



Headstone Circus - Reach Out
Headstone Circus - I Hear The Thunder
Headstone Circus - I Love The Wind

(The tracks above are taken from the self-titled album, originally recorded 1968-1970 and reissued in 2004 by ever-amazing Shadoks Music)

Deaths of Chess Players

Originally by Bill Wall
Some samples...
Georgy Agzamov (1954-1986) - Russian GM fell between some rocks at a beach and died
Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) - choked to death on a piece of meat in 1946
Vladimir Bagirov (1936-2000) - heart attack while playing chess in Finland
Claude Bloodgood (1924-2001) - lung cancer while in prison for life
Paolo Boi (1528-1598) - poisoned (murdered) in Naples
Jose Capablanca (1888-1942) - died after watching a skittles game at the Manhattan Chess Club in 1942.
Ed Edmundson (1920-1982) - died of a heart attack while playing chess on a beach in Hawaii
Aivars Gipslis (1937-2000) - stroke while playing chess in Berlin
Julius Perlis (1880-1913) - died in a mountain climb in the Alps in 1913.
Gideon Stahlberg (1908-1967) - heart attack during the 1967 Leningrad International tournament.
Abe Turner (1924-1962) - stabbed 9 times in the back by a fellow employee at the Chess Review office