Friday Morning Music Shuffle - Lost Some Kindness Mix

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Well - we made it through another week of shuffles.  Let's blow it out and go out and live our weekends... shall we?


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Band of the Month Results - Vinyl Thief

Congratulations to Vinyl Thief.  They pulled down the most votes to become our Band of the Month for July 2012.  That means they have earned an automatic bid into our Band of the Year Poll which will get underway in just about 4 months!  Here's the band killing it live at the Tin Roof.  If you are in or around Nashville tonight, Vinyl Thief will be celebrating their Band of the Month victory* with a show at Mercy Lounge.  After that, they will begin work on their follow-up to Rebel Hill!

So as of now, the following bands have earned a guaranteed spot in the Band of the Year Poll:

December 2011:  In Cages

January 2012: MAKAR

February 2012:  The Gypsy West

March 2012:  Northbrook Garage

April 2012:  The Disappointment

May 2012:  South of Ramona

June 2012: Skeletons in the Piano

and July 2012: Vinyl Thief

The following bands are in contention for a coveted "Wildcard" spot:
The Dead Exs, The End Men, Sci-Fi Romance and Nikki Sue and the Bad News.  

And finally a new month means a new list of Featured Artists.  Stay tuned, we have  that list for you soon!

No Voter Suppression Here!

VOTE NOW!  We're going back to the previous method which means the Band of the Month poll is located on the sidebar.  It also means one vote per computer (you can vote for more than one band).

Also, we're adding a new way to vote.  Please comment below with the name of your selection for Band of the Month. 

As always, be sure to check out all of the bands, even if you're just here to support your favorite band/kid brother/spouse/neighbor.  Here is a condensed voting guide.  Remember details of all of our Featured Artists are located to the left.

Why should I vote for:

Lawrence Welks and Our Bear to Cross:  Because they are doing the Lawd's work...

Justin and the Salty Dogs: Because they are salty.

Brian Bergeron: Because he's Mr. Nice.

Big Wilson River: Because Don Ryan told you to.

The Raindoggs: Because you love Tom Waits and you love Snoop Dogg, and you never thought to put them together.

Francis Bowie:  Because you are intelligent and you love pop music.

The Shake: Because maybe a win will convince them to get back together.

Vinyl Thief: Because they have vinyl in their name.

Wolf and Cub: Because they come from "down under" and probably have those cool accents.

FallsStart: Because they originated in Hawaii, and you've always wanted to go there.

Dean Fields: Because you want to help assuage my guilt for leaving him off the June Band of the Month Poll.

That's it: Go Vote!

Featured Friday Music Shuffle - Jason Vorhees Mix

Time to offer up our weekly selection of music from our Featured Artists of the Month.  Today the shuffle takes us on a musical journal from Burlington, Vermont to New Jersey by way of Nashville, Tennessee. 

Lawrence Welks and Our Bear to Cross - this band first came to our attention through an Area Code feature on Stereogum.  The song today, is one I download from that article: Psalm 39 from their Lawrence Welks Does God release.  I find it very hard to explain what it is I like so much about this whacked out bunch. So, I try not to think too much about it...

Here is LWandOB2X with a different Psalm....

Vinyl Thief are up with the title-track from their latest release - Rebel Hill. By the way, the name Vinyl Thief makes me think about this theory Rex Silo and I came up with back in the day. After watching Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart and Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva is close proximity to each other, and (from my poor memory) both movies are set in France and have scenes where someone steals a jazz album), which lead to our theory that "The French love Jazz, but they don't like to pay for it.) Whew, a long way to go for a connection which is probably not at all what the band had in mind.  Anyway, Rebel Hill! Check it out:

  

And finally, we close with Big Wilson River with the lead off track from their Octopus album which came out late last year. Eighty Dead Armadillos has a impressive mescaline influenced western/rodeo/deserty feel.  Pretty good for a New Jersey band.  Grant it, by now, nothing surprises me about the awesome music coming from the Garden State.

 

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Featured Artists (July) - Did you know? Part B

Did you know....

...that I do not have any formal training in music blogging?  Unlike like all those other Music bloggers you see on the web, I never went to school to become a music blogger... Interesting isn't it?

...that I still get excited when a musician likes my posts or friends me or retweets? I'm still pretty star-struck sometimes, and that includes you - cause, you're a star in my book!

...that featured artist Francis Bowie released a new song yesterday? It's called It's hard to see... and we have it here.








...that featured artist The Shake have broken up... best to them for what comes next.'

...that featured artist Vinyl Thief played the Summer Kick-off for Nashville's best shake and soda food truck - Moovers and Shakers. Cool on so many levels!

...that featured artist Wolf and Cub have two drummers, have been around for about ten years, and are on 4AD Records?  Now you do.

...that featured artist FallsStart posted a new song to their ReverbNation account?  And lo and behold, it is Happy Song which was our first and so far only Ear to the Ground Mystery Song of the Day!

Featured Artist for July - Videorama (Vol. 2)

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Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle - Elevator! Going Up! Mix

Thus and so... busy day yesterday as we celebrated our 1st year of Ear to the Ground, Announced the Band of the Week and Announced the results of the Band of the Month polling. 

Today, we are just going to ease on into a shuffle - 

First up we have Faces from the Rebel Hill EP by Nashville based Vinyl Thief. 

   

Next 7& 7 from Oklahoma based Country/Americana band Turnpike Troubadours. It is off the band's 2010 album Diamonds and Gasoline. Neither Seagrams nor the 7-Up company have contributed to this blog post.

 

And finally, we have At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be) it's a mouthful, and it's by fun. off their Aim & Ignite album.

 

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