via jamie oliver.com
mp3: owen – in the morning, before work ……… [buy the ep (2004)]
i crave stale breadyou smell like tomato soup

mp3: karl blau – arco iris arledadore de la lunamp3: twig palace – december
anonymous monk has just put out a 2009-2010 spring calendar and compilation and as far as calendars go it looks like a pretty cool one… it’s a simple but beautifully designed poster-sized thing and it looks like it tracks lunar and solar [...]

mp3: nick cave and the bad seeds – avalanche
leonard cohen is coming to merriweather monday, may 11… somewhere towards the end of a series of shows that are apparently his first in this country in over 15 years. tickets go on sale february 27, but you can grab em tomorrow during the presale (here) from [...]

[buy defrocked and kicking the habit]
as promised, here are the lyrics for my favorite soltero album, defrocked and kicking the habit, currently sitting at #55 on my top 100 albums list. ironically, this was the only soltero album i didn’t physically own for a long time… my first exposure to soltero was [...]

mp3: dead heart bloom – hymnmp3: dead heart bloom – folsom prison blues
dead heart bloom will be shooting a video during their set at fight club in dc next wednesday (address and map here). pretty cool way to spend an evening on all counts… awesome local artist, nice intimate (is it weird to call a [...]

hearing this song in the car on the local classic radio station this past summer, i noted to my girlfriend that it was a fairly accurate representation of the dispute we had just been having over the a/c levels. and now, throughout the winter, it has occurred to me that the song works on this [...]

via flickr
very happy to find this in my email this morning.. a new st. vincent album is on the way! it’s called actor and will be released on may 5th by 4ad. annie clark was among my favorite new artists of 2007… and her incredibly playful, can’t take my eyes off her performance last year [...]

mp3: fruit bats – a bit of wind ….. [buy mouthfuls]
i’m a little burned out today (spending over 8 straight hours on a late-night conference call will do that to you)… but this song popped into my head as i was riding the escalator out of the metro this morning and has since pleasantly refused [...]

since it occurred to me that i could, this morning i made the events portion of my google calendar publicly accessible and added a calendar widget to the sidebar. this calendar will only list shows in the dc area that i am interested in attending, but it may be useful for those with similar tastes [...]

mp3: azita – i’m happy … [buy how will you?]mp3: azita – don’t let it bring you down
azita has got a new album coming out tomorrow, titled how will you?… i have not yet heard the record, but “i’m happy” suggests good things to come. at least as noteworthy as this new release though, [...]