For months now I’ve been awakened by a haunting and familiar sounds. It’s like emerging from a dream where you are wandering around a sad and emotional tropical carnival and you transition seamlessly into your dining room staring at your record player with mysticism. My boyfriend has been listening to Dub Side of the Moon, by Easy Star All Stars. Hearing this album for the first time was like seeing your mom after a Glamour Shots makeover, it’s familiar but strikingly different and a little odd. Like haunting images from my child viewed through a distortion mirror. Easy Star All Stars make Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon flow seamlessly with their creative dub reggae style. This amazing album has been on the charts since 2003! Easy All Stars also released cover albums of Radiohead’s Ok Computer, called Radiodread, and The Beatles’s Sgt. Peppers’s Lonely Hearts club band, called Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band, and their own o.g. album, First Light among other releases. I’m in love.
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24 AugGil Scot-Heron “Me and the Devil” off I’m New here
This song is beautiful, bluesy, and haunting. This album is amazing.
Throwback: Weezer, The Blue Album
24 AugToday I decided to subject my boyfriend to a quintessential album of my youth, Weezer’s Blue Album. Released in 1994, this album has carried me all the way from the middle school bus to rooftop college makeshift karaoke. I will always remeber the first time I heard “buddy holly” in the car, with my dad in Irmo S.C., and the druken dance Casara and I created in her living room to “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here.” Which ironically enough brought tears to my eyes today as I realized how soon my best friend will be leaving an empty space in Atlanta…for a new space in New York.
The blue album speaks to my rebellious youth, my nose ring, my first keg party, my everlasting friendships and in general my terrible affinity for karaoke. This album is a must-have for anyone who remembers the 90s or even if you don’t. Weezer created geek-chic and aided in the re-birth of punk-rock’s bastard son, pop punk, for which my inner child will eternally be grateful. The Blue Album is chock full o’ heavy guitar riffs, beautiful geek boy harmonies and heartfelt lyrics. On top of all this, I’m not the only one who thinks this album is great, lots of people who’s opinions matter do too, Google it.
Thanks Weezer!
Reggae Saturday
13 AugAugustus Pablo, East of the River Nile
East of the River Nile was released in 1977. This hypnotic album is organic and and beautiful. Young Augustus Pablo came on the scene playing a melodica and subsequently transformed the obscure instrument to a staple in the reggae sound. The amazing sound that bellows from Pablo’s manipulation of the melodica is a mix of dark, smooth and ethereal poetry that will allow your musical mind to travel to a alternate state of mind. The sound is haunting and moving, meditational and funky. Recorded in Lee “Scratch” Perrys Black Ark Stuido, the album features contributions from the likes of Robbie Shakespeare, Aston “Family Man” Barrett and Earl “China” Smith.
Listen to it will transport you to a mystical world where all the clouds are made of weed smoke.
My Morning Playlist
11 Aug- Outta My Mind, The King Kahn & BBQ Show
- Take a Little Bit , King Kahn & The Shrines
- Mongoloid, Devo
- Saltwater, Beachhouse
- In a Jar, Dinosaur Jr.
- The wagon, Dinosaur Jr.
- No More Runnin, Animal Collective
- Kisses Over Babylon, Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeros
- Dead, Pixies
- Dirty Boots, Sonic Youth
- Kooks, David Bowie
- Drops in the River, Fleetfoxes
- Summer Day, Coconut Records
- Lil Girl in the Woods, The King Kahn & BBQ Show
- No regrets, King Kahn & The Shrines
- Atlas, Battles
- Teenage Riot, Sonic Youth
- Tonight I’ll be Stayin Here, Bob Dylan
- Jade, Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeros
- Free, Cat Power
- Five Years, David Bowie
- Silver, Pixies
- Bluish, Animal Collective
- Parentheses, The Blow
- Kool Thing, Sonic Youth