Thom Yorke: The Eraser Remixes

XL Recordings released three separate 12" vinyl records remixes of tracks from The Eraser in early 2008. These remixes, are pretty sweet. It's funny too because I have had them for so long but I have not had time to listen to them, as whack as that sounds but with 6838 songs I'd imagine it would be difficult to listen to everything in your i tunes, and if you continue to get more and more music. So here I am tossing you something good, so maybe do me the favor by checking out Thom Yorke's work with Radiohead which I presume that most of you know? If not even the original "The Eraser" record is great. 

Last and not least which none of you fucking care about, on the original album over, a linocut by Stanley Donwood, depicts a figure in a black hat and trench coat standing in imitation of King Canute, trying and failing to command the ocean. Around him are iconic London buildings that have been swept away by the Thames, including the Tower of London, the House of Parliament and the Thames Barrier. Donwood included this picture and other images seen in The Eraser booklet in his art exhibition London Views, prior to the album's release. The images were inspired by a large flood Donwood and Yorke both witnessed in Cornwall in 2004. The CD packaging of The Eraser is unusual for a high profile release in that it is made of carboard but unlike a digipak, it does not contain any plastic. However, Yorke said in an interview that he did not have his CDs certified as carbon neutral, agreeing with British environmentalist George Monbiot's assertion that the practice is pointless.

Thome Yorke: The Eraser Remixes

1. "And It Rained All Night (Burial Remix)" - Thome Yorke

2. "Skip Divided (Modeselektor Remix) - Thom Yorke

3. "Analyse (Various Remix)" - Thom Yorke

4. "Atoms For Peace (Four Tet Remix)" - Thome Yorke

5. "Black Swan (Cristian Vogel Spare Parts Remix)" - Thome Yorke

6. "Black Swan (Vogel Bonus Beat Eraser Remix)" - Thome Yorke

7. "Harrowdown Hill (The Bug Remix)" - Thome Yorke

8. "The Clock (Surgeon Remix)" - Thome Yorke

9. "Cymbal Rush (The Field Late Night Essen Und Trinken Remix)" - Thom Yorke

http://www.sendspace.com/file/gzhhxw

A Bike Ride To Nowhere...

A bike ride to nowhere is a playlist for this amazing beautiful weather that we have been getting and that I appreciate more then anything ahaha. So take advantage of it, cause before you know it this summer will be over and done as sad as it is to think about it, so download this get on your bike, skateboard, scooter, car (if you are lazy), rollerblades or whatever the hell you do and enjoy!

Almost Crimes Present: A Bike Ride To Nowhere

1. "Glock Nines" - Ratatat

2. "Y Control" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3. "Red Light" - The Strokes

4. "Fire Eye'd Boy" - Broken Social Scene

5. "Parklife" - Blur

6. "Rebellion (Lies)" - Arcade Fire

7. "Cat Diesel" - K-oS

8. "Recommendation" - Mirah

9. "Swimmers" - Broken Social Scene

10. "He War" - Cat Power

11. "Good Song" - Blur

12. "Jack-Ass" - Beck

13. "Heaven Only Knows" - K-oS

14. "Nausea" - Beck

15. "Where Happiness Lives" - Magnet

16. "Old Man" - Neil Young

17. "Hold My Hand" - New Found Glory

18. Steve Biko (Stir It Up) - A Tribe Called Quest

19. "New Years Eve" - The Walkmen

http://www.sendspace.com/file/dbkafw

For Cold Months

Man does it seem like forever, since I have posted on here and damn is it still cold out side here in snowy Canada. Since the weather seems to be on and off so is this playlist, and let me present you Almost Crimes first playlist of the month of April "For Cold Months". I'd like to dedicate this to a special someone who I unfortunatly am not with right now, but am by their side forever, I love you.

"For Cold Months" Almost Crimes Playlist Series

Here is the track list and order, I'll be posting same as last time, maybe adding some more videos or two for you all.

1. "Smoke Signals" - The Magnetic Fields 

2. "Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worrin' Bout That Girl" - The Kinks

3. "Somebody That I Used To Know" - Elliott Smith

4. "Monument" - Mirah

5. "Boy With A Coin" - Iron & Wine

6. "Sparks" - Coldplay

7. "Windy Road" - The Constantines

8. "Edward Appleby (In Memoriam) - Mark Mothersbaugh

9. "Movie Theme" - Beck

10. "Faust Arp" - Radiohead

11. "Hold Your Terror Close" - The Go! Team

12. "Gatekeeper" - Feist

13. "Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased)" - Radiohead

14. "Let's Move To The Country" - Smog

15. "Part One" - Band Of Horses

16. "Midnight Swim" - Incubus

17. "Rue St Vincent" - Yves Montand

18. "No Name #2" - Elliott Smith

19. "It Ain't Me, Babe" - Bob Dylan

http://www.sendspace.com/file/f1sugx

I hope you all enjoy and appreciate the songs! more to come.

RHYMES AND LAUGHS!

So lately, I have no made many posts or anything. I have been up to nothing but non-sense, even start up raping and rhyming again and prank phone calling people as if I were 13 all over again. I am recording an E.P. with 8 tracks and what not, but I am mainly doing it for myself cause I've always wanted to. I'll put up a video re- to this. Check out the prank phone calls on http://www.myspace.com/laughanddestroy   I called a drunk help line and stuff, and mimicked or at least tried to mimic Barney Gumble from The Simpsons (springfields lovely drunk!). Want to check out my raps and more and my music, www.myspace.com/youarehiphop

Almost Crimes Presents: If I Were Eric Perez Part Two

I forgot if part one was good, and I don't really honestly care if it was good. But this one is rad, and I get supper stoked whenever I hear any of these tracks, and in this order. (By the way when you upload these playlists to your i tunes or whatever, make sure you are listening to them in order/formation or it completely ruins all the songs.) One of my personal favourites on this is "Tonight We Fly" such an amazing song. I hope everyone enjoys this!

Almost Crimes Presents: If I Were Eric Perez Part Two

1. "Que Pena (Ele Já Não Gosta Mais De Mim)" - Gal Costa

2. "La La La Zoom Zoom Zoom" - Incubus

3. "Success" - Iggy Pop

4. "Maggie May" - Rod Stewart

5. "Against The Grain" - City And Colour

6. "Danke Schoen" - Wayne Newton

7. "Sept" - Japan Air

8. "Wish You Were Here" - Sparklehorse

9. "Person Person" - Mirah

10. "Got A Feeling" - Mamas And The Papas

11. "Profissao Ladrao" - Tom Ze

12. "Miserere Nobis" - Gilberto Gil

13. "A Bicyclette" - Yves Montand

14. "Monument" - Mirah

15. "Tomorrow Comes Today" - Gorillaz

16. "Tonight We Fly" - The Divine Comedy

click here to download

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ALMOST CRIME$; ERIC PEREZ PART TWO

Sloan

Sloan are happy to be hosting a label showcase at this year's Canadian Music Week to promote our exciting new spring line-up on murderecords. Sloan have owned and run murderecords over the past 16 years.

The night will feature showcase performances by new murderecords artists: Will Currie & the Country French and Pony Da Look. We will also be joined by our friends the Meligrove Band. Sloan will be performing a showcase set of mostly new material from their forthcoming album due to be released on murderecords later this spring.

Advance tickets are now available for $13 through Ticketbreak . A limited number of tickets have been held for fans to purchase in advance using the special promo code CMWSLOAN. There will also be limited tickets available at the door for $15, and CMW wristbands will be honoured as space allows.

9:20 -- Will Currie and the Country French
10:20 -- Pony Da Look
11:20 -- Meligrove Band
12:20 -- Sloan

And unfortunatly I wont even be able to attend since it is a 19+ event, boo hoo right?

The Carps

The Carps are from Scarborough, a pretend hood in Toronto. They are a duo that plays music for human ears. Having two people in a band can be a liberating thing, as it has been seen. Such a shame they are so young - had they come around any earlier they could've taken credit for more than a few novel ideas. With the EP the Young & Passionate Days of Carpedia, the two ragamuffin soul rockers deliver the promise to set themselves far apart from elephants, swirly red and white candy, beards, brothers and sisters, and Phil Collins. The Carps stand alone. They sound like nothing you could imagine, and everything you'd like to.

The Carps thrive on ingenuity and vicissitude. Newness always! Therefore the captain of the ship, Neil White, wielding his disheveled bass and a wonky synthesizer, steers this raw emotion into a palatable and progressive direction. All this while never leaving his "mindless self-indulgent" duct tape Punk Rock days far behind him. Perhaps the jungles of Sri Lanka still run through his veins, though he could never lose the class and distinction that only he, as a real British bloke, could carry.

Jahmal Tonge is the soul junkie. Growing up on asexual legends like Michael Jackson and Prince, it was sifting through his father's record collection that exposed to him to Motown, Stax, Soul music! These are the sounds that are at the heart of The Carps. From behind his drum kit, or with his guitar strapped and his MPC drum machine at his side, Jahmal soulfully screams his soulful, soul-catching, soul-baring soul in a raw way... It's the only way he knows. It was Bold, Black, Christian women that led him that direction. Discernibly, the sight and sounds of the Caribbean still stick. Hearing the tropical wind blow through an open church tent as a woman cries out to God, tearing her vocal cords from the deepest part of her being, will change a temerarious young boy. 

They've been on tour for a while now all over Europe and the U.K. and man, when I heard/found out today that The Carps are coming back to town I thought, "yeah boii!! back again!". Every time, I've gone out either with Neil, or to his shows it's always something new and nuts going on, wether it's sneaking into a club, or Neil falling to the floor during the "Compton To Scarboro" performance. Either way, it's always a fun time, eating sushi, drinking beers, scouting out for hunnies or whatever it may be. But it's not always fun and games, aside from the laughs and jokes you have to have show  your appreciation to The Carps for there dedication to making something that isn't a garbagey media piece of crap, time and effort has been spent and even while your on the dance floor shaking it, there's always a message. There newest and latest single titled "Veronica Belmont" is up on there myspace for y'all to check out (www.myspace.com/thecarps) and dropping April 8th is there new E.P "Waves And Shambles", which I'm stoked, and looking forward to hearing. Coming out of "snowy Toronto" I'm putting my hands down and giving it up for The Carps and there success and what's to come.

Almost Crimes Presents: Arts & Crafts

Arts & Crafts is an independent record label based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In January 2006 Arts & Crafts opened the Arts & Crafts Europe office in a partnership with City Slang Records. Arts & Crafts was founded by members of its flagship group Broken Social Scene. The Most Serene Republic was the first band unrelated to Broken Social Scene to sign to Arts & Crafts. In Canada, Arts & Crafts are distributed by EMI Music Canada.

Almost Crimes Presents: Arts & Crafts

http://www.mediafire.com/?eyuyzlm3n1u

1. "I've Got You, And You've Got Me (Broken Social Scene Remix) - New Buffalo

2. "Petit Mort" - Stars

3. "Rally" - Phoenix 

4. "I'll Bring The Sun" - Jason Collett

5. "Skinny Boy" - Amy Millan

6. "Emergency Performance Art Piece" - The Most Serene Republic

7. "Stars And Spit" - Broken Social Scene

8. "One Evening (VV Mix) - Feist

9. "Inside (The Corrections) with Jens Lekman" - New Buffalo

10. "The First Five Times (Russian Futurists Remix)" - Stars

11. "Long Distance Call" - Phoenix

12. "Brownie Hawkeye" - Jason Collett

13. "In Places, Empty Spaces" - The Most Serene Republic

14. "Lonely Lonely (Frisbee'd Mix) - Feist

15. "Baby I" - Amy Millan

16. "Major Label Debut (Fast)" - Broken Social Scene

If I Were Dallas Green (COMING SOON!)

If I Were Eric Perez

If I Were Eric Perez: My Playlist
http://www.mediafire.com/?0fhijbnmwmu
1. "Summer In Siam" - The Pogues
2. "Boys Don't Cry" - The Cure
3. "Between Clark And Hilldale" - Love
4. "Damaged Goods" - Gang Of Four
5. "Miserere Nobis" - Gilberto Gil
6. "Come And Buy Me Toys" - David Bowie
7. "New Years Ever" - The Walkmen
8. "Gatekeeper" - Feist
9. "The Lines You Amend" - Sloan
10. "The Dogs Of B.A." - Mirah
11. "Leave The City" - Spookey Ruben
12. "Got A Feeling" - Mamas And The Papas
13. "All My Little Words" - Magnetic Fields
14. "Swisha" - Ratatat
15. "Date With The Night" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
16. "Better All The Time" - Scene Creamers
17. "Waiting..." - City And Colour
18. "Ceremony" - New Order
19. "Sometimes" - My Bloody Valentine
Almost Crimes; If I Were Eric Perez

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Arts & Crafts

There comes a time in people's lives, where we loose or gain. And then there are times when we think. I am quite unsure of many things but never unsure of myself, and what I think I am capable of doing. It's late and I wont discus or share much with readers on here anymore, but here are some songs... I guess you could say these might be some what of reflections and words of how I myself feel and such. Arts & Crafts is the label of these Canadian artists/bands they are both amazing, one of the most recent adds to A&C is one of my personal favourites The Constantines! An amazing alternative/indie band from Guelph (Ontario), they have just finished the recording of there fourth record titled "Hard Feelings, Easy Money" anyways visit www.arts-crafts.ca

Stars - "Your Ex Lover Is Dead"


Feist - "I Feel It All"

"The Next Big Scene: Montreal"

Old News, Is Good News!

Perez, Rodrigo. "The Next Big Scene: Montreal". Spin. February 2005.

A while back my older brother Rod wrote an article on the Canadian music scene in Montreal for Spin Magazine, that I'd love to share with everyone, to read. Here It is, and along with it I'll be making soon'r tonight a playlist of the bands spoken of in this article. Several douchebags ragged on the written article for lack of exposuer to actually Montreal bands and such you can read about online if you search for the article. Here is the article and a review for you.

Canadian Rockers Shrug at Hype

Ask any music hipster in America — Montreal is officially cool. Now, if only Montrealers would agree.

By Jonathan Ages

Ask any music hipster in America — Montreal is officially cool. Now, if only Montrealers would agree.

The American music media are proclaiming Montreal the new musical hotspot. Spin magazine sparked the hype when it published its February “Next Big Thing” issue, and The New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine are just a couple in a long list of other publications perpetuating it through their coverage of bands like The Arcade Fire, The Stars and The Dears. But surprisingly, Montrealers aren’t uniformly embracing the attention. The response has been widely mixed, from apathy to outrage.

The musicians have been the ones typically feeling the apathy. They appreciate the recognition, but to them, it’s only a distraction from the music they love.

“Their reaction is typically Canadian. It’s polite,” quipped Jamie O’Meara, editor in chief of Montreal’s Hour magazine. “It’s like, ‘Thank you for noticing. And we’ll be on our way.’”

O’Meara said Montrealers don’t see the same “scene” that Americans think exists in their city. There’s no specific sound, style or fashion characterizing Montreal’s musical environment. Plus, it’s not as easy to find those hyped bands playing gigs in Montreal as many might believe.

“Anybody who came here looking to find this alleged scene is going to be sorely disappointed,” O’Meara said. “You could conceivably live up here for four months and not come across a single one of those bands.”

Montrealers are also miffed about being labeled “hot” in American publications. That moniker makes the city’s musicians appear to be part of a trend that will blow in and burn out. The current Montreal indie music scene (if it can accurately be labeled that) has been growing for at least the past 10-15 years and is rooted in a rich history of Quebecois music. It’s unlikely to be another flavor of the month.

“There’s always been a fantastic indie scene up here for years and years and years,” O’Meara said. “It doesn’t give it any more legitimacy just because someone is taking note of it.”

Fad or not, these bands are doing more than just crossing a political border; they’re also crossing financial borders. Arcade Fire, for example, is considered by music fans and industry executives to have the most growth potential. They’ve recently been listed on the cover of Rolling Stone, along with many other magazines. That kind of exposure typically assures increased record sales, and although they’ve only sold about 130,000 copies of their album “Funeral,” according to SoundScan’s April 13 report, that number will rise. It will take time before the impact of the media attention can be measured, but the exposure that Arcade Fire and many other bands are receiving will likely expand their audiences and alleviate some of the financial pressures these indie rock bands typically confront.

And though these bands are being recognized now and playing bigger shows, it doesn’t mean they’re basking in the glow of celebrity fame.

“Musicians, especially underground and indie artists, are really suspicious of the whole American cult of celebrity,” O’Meara said about the Canadian bands showcased in Spin. “That’s why there’s almost a bit of a coy or cold response. They are not going to let it go to their heads.”

However, many are on the other end of the spectrum, and they’re furious about the increased attention. To them, getting covered in major American publications like Spin leads to the assassination of a musicians’ street cred.

Local rocker and frontman for Bionic, Jonathan Cummins is one of those furious Montrealers. He denounced the coverage in a caustic column he wrote in The Montreal Mirror, another local weekly.

“Once Spin says you’re cool, it’s obviously s—t.”

Cummins’ primary supporters are the music fans. Many of them have flocked to Web sites, blogs and online chat forums to flare at Spin and the industry it represents. They have declared a sort of cultural warfare against the American music industry, fearing that the increased American attention brings the possible destruction of the city’s unique, artistic environment.

Many fans are afraid that Montreal could be mined for talent and left in shambles, like Seattle was after the 1990s grunge wave. One fearful posting read:

“Unlike Seattle, Montreal is an island where we can only hope to remain inaccessible and cut off from the mainland of Britney Spearsization. Montreal thrives in the music scene by doing what it does best — being different.”

Although most attacks are directed at Spin magazine or the American music industry as a whole, a significant number are directed at the author of the Spin article, Rodrigo Perez.

“The feedback from Canadians is lukewarm at best,” Perez said in interview. “No one likes to be called a scene, even when it is. Do you think Seattle liked it when New York told them, ‘Hey you’re cool. We’re validating your existence.’ Of course, someone is going to say f—k you!”

And the raised middle finger is pretty much what Perez has been receiving from Montreal music fans, even if American response has been almost monolithically positive.

Perez says he wrote the article because he’s a fan of the music being produced in the city, and he wants to perk up some American ears to the great sound coming from the North.

In the end, it doesn’t really matter if that sound is hot, cool or hip. The most important thing is that it’s going to get much bigger and more people are going to listen to it.

The Next Big Scene: Montreal
by: Rodrigo Perez

not finished for looking for original script. check back soon.