Ed Schrader’s Music Beat Jazz Mind [Load; 2012] by Joe Hemmerling Rating: Wham City veteran Ed Schrader has teamed up with bass player Devlin Rice to produce one of the oddest albums to land on my desk this year. Jazz Mind , their 11-song, barely 20-minute debut, swings wildly between the apocalyptic rhythms of a stripped-down Swans and a kind of minimalist, new age psychedelia. The first two tracks pretty much stake out the poles that the rest of the album drifts between: the plodding, Pentecostal fury of “Sermon” and the sparse, watery psych of “Gem Asylum.” Schrader’s delivery ...

This remix by Oliver is a genius mix.  They’ve taken Foster The People’s track ‘Don’t Stop’ and turned it into an epic disco track that resembles Wham!’s disco version of  ’Everything She Wants’. Awesome with a capital AWE!!! Check it out!!! Plus, another goodie mix from Oliver below too!!!

by Jennifer Kelly Ed Schrader's Music Beat makes raw, minimalist post-punk out of feverish chants, a manic tom-tom and the occasional bass note. A veteran of Baltimore's Wham City collective, he started out as a solo act, just him and a drum and mic, before adding Devlin Rice on bass in 2009. Even now, even on... Read More

Did you read my headline? I said BOWELS! Hahahah! For realsies, though. One could only imagine what the bowels of Baltimore arts and music collective Wham City might look like. My guess? Lots of bright neon colors, remnants of chewed-up Crayola crayons, and bits of organic corn and gummy worms. Want more scatological humor? There’s more in the next paragraph! Ed Schrader’s Music Beat represents what those bowels sound like. Schrader, a partner of Dan Deacon’s (bowel master) Wham City collective, sings and bangs on the floor-tom with punk enthusiasm and abrasive vocals. Along with bassist Devlin ...

This week's top videos come from Jack White, Van She, Judson, David Lynch and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. We've got everything from swirling skulls, to a man walking around in a banana hammock. What more could you ask for? Some background info? We got that covered too as we tracked down some of the people involved with the videos. Enjoy. Remember, you can watch all the latest music videos in our TV section . Top 5 Videos of the Week Judson - 'Meet Me In The Morning' "The basic idea for the video was to explore one character's unconscious mind ...

Artist: Steamroller Wheelies Album: A Restoration Convoy Released: 2012 Style: Indie Rock Format: MP3 320Kbps / FLAC Size: 94 Mb Tracklist: 01 – Hang Glide 02 – Go Down Swingin 03 – Sideways 04 – This Land Is Your Land 05 – Walking On Ipe 06 – Crumblin Bones 07 – Beam Me Up Toto 08 – Short Circuit 09 – Wham Bam Boodle 10 – Hokey Pokey DOWNLOAD LINKS: RAPIDGATOR: [...]

Mike Gordon is releasing the compilation album Steamroller Wheelies: A Restoration Convoy . It contains tracks he laid down over the years in various collaborations. All proceeds will be donated to the restoration of Vermont, his home state that was hit hard by Hurricane Irene in 2011. The album is released on CD and various digital formats through Phish Dry Goods and LivePhish.com . Tracks: Hang Glide Go Down Swingin Sideways This Land Is Your Land Walking On Ipe Crumblin Bones Beam Me Up Toto Short Circuit Wham Bam Boodle Hokey Pokey Steamroller Wheelies: A Restoration Convoy is a compilation of ...

Phish bassist Mike Gordon has just released a compilation of collaborations with fellow musicians called Steamroller Wheelies – A Restoration Convoy to raise funds for Vermont Flood recovery. On this compilation, which is available for download at LivePhish.com  or on CD through Dry Goods , Cactus presents tracks from various projects he’s either developed or participated in over the years, beginning in 1999. The list of musicians who participated in at least one track is lengthy and varied. It includes Mike’s Phish band mates Page McConnell and Jon Fishman, Marco Benevento, Joe Russo, Chris Thile, Little Feat, Danny Barnes ...

Thanks for listening to Vamos A La Playa on WVUM 90.5 FM . I host a new show every Monday afternoon from 5-7pm . No radio? No Problem! Stream live online at wvum.org . I also post lots of tracks on my other blog NIGHTDRIVEMIAMI.COM Samanta Vien A Casa Electric Machine Re Bop Electronic Garcons Why (Extended 12" Version) Simon">Carly Simon Come Here HEION Blue (Armed With Love) Wham! The Dead of Night Mike Simonetti & Johnny Jewel Sea Crest (Sportloto remix) Chordashian Chase Lovesport In The Middle Of The Knight Giorgio Moroder Nuclear Baby (Gazeebo Remix) avanti Swing Star ...

A mash-up of *Relient K* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/relientk)'s "Must've Done Something Right" and *Wham* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/wham)'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" can be found here...

Released on a very, very special day in my overflowing calendar, Umberto Lumber makes a ‘Blue Velvet’ quilt for us all to wrap up in, makes George Michael sound even more better than he did back during his Wham! & “Older” LP eras … … Continue reading →

Released on a very, very special day in my overflowing calendar, Umberto Lumber makes a ‘Blue Velvet’ quilt for us all to wrap up in, makes George Michael sound even more better than he did back during his Wham! & “Older” LP eras … … Continue reading →

The choice of Blue Jeans seems a strange choice as the next single to be taken from Lana Del Rey’s sumptuously brilliant album Born To Die seeing as it has already been the B-Side to the Video Games EP. After all it’s not as if the album is lacking in quality; in our view it would have made more sense to pick one of the lesser known tracks such as the cinematic James Bond number Million Dollar Man or the string caressed Summertime Sadness to give those who are still sitting on the fence or have yet to ...

[ Originally Published : March 15] Welcome back Pete Mason of Phanart.net , who wrote a fantastic two - part retrospective on Strangefolk for us a year ago, to bring us up-to-date on the reunion of the band’s original members. Not having played together for the past 12 years, the original members of Strangefolk are hard at work, practicing and playing together where they started, northern Vermont. The band reunites for the first time in 12 years at Brooklyn Bowl on March 28, followed by performances at Higher Ground in Burlington on March 29 and 30 and a trip to The State ...

Allow Lemonade to reintroduce themselves. On both their ecstasy-spiked self-titled debut and 2010's Pure Moods EP, the Brooklyn-via-San Francisco trio presented themselves as scatterbrained hedonists. "Neptune," the first single from the band's forthcoming LP, Diver , is different. The song is a “Marvin’s Room”-esque vignette of post-party depression, where Callan Clendinen is left to sort out the hints, allegations and things left unsaid with whoever's on the other line. Tropical percussion and sleek synth pads lend “Neptune” an expensive-sounding yet fragile feel of a Wham! ballad, but the sound here is very much situated in 2012 ...