Two Song Shot 29 – Karl Wears Heroic Jeans & X-Ray Spex
May 6, 2011 by jjsonick
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Karl Eifrig fulfills a listener request for a song about casually-dressed heroes, and covers an X-Ray Spex song.
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On this show:
– Heroes in Jeans by Karl Eifrig
Jessica Christian from Virginia requested a song titled either “Dress Down Heroes” or “Heroes in Jeans” that would encourage faculty and staff at the school she works at to participate in “dress down” weeks. Staff can contribute $10 and get to dress casual for the week, and the money goes to Relay for Life, a cancer research charity. To craft this epic ballad, Karl enlisted Ryan Murphy on drums, Grant Sutton on bass, Sean Shipley on lead guitar and Josh Lawrence on brass keyboards/lyric tweaking.
– Like Jessica, you can have a song made for you! Request your own custom-made song and listen to other custom songs we’ve made for listeners so far.
– I Live Off You by Karl Eifrig
Karl made this cover song in tribute to the recently deceased X-Ray Spex lead singer Poly Styrene. Get the song on Soundcloud and Styrene’s last album, Generation Indigo.
Email us at music@mozomedia.com
Two Song Shot 28 – Pixies & Grateful Dead covers
April 21, 2011 by jjsonick
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It’s synthy cover-song time! Neil Milton covers the Pixies’ Wave of Mutilation and our own Karl Eifrig covers the Grateful Dead’s China Cat Sunflower.
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On this show:
– China Cat Sunflower by Karl Eifrig — this cover song’s also available at Soundcloud.
– Wave of Mutilation by Neil Milton — from the Valentine Records comp Doolittle, which features covers of every song from the 1989 Pixies album.
– We’ll make a song for you! Request your own custom-made song! Listen to other custom songs we’ve made for listeners so far.
Email us at music@mozomedia.com
Two Song Shot – Ep 18 (Enhanced) – Mystical Waltzing & Forgetful Karl
September 29, 2010 by jjsonick
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Hear a mystical waltz from Sweden and a fulfilled song request full of drugs, do-wop and forgetting by Karl Eifrig.
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On this show:
– ‘Vilse’, a cover song by the Swedish band Symfoniorkestern, highlighted by Bad Panda Records. Hear the original song by Slutet.
– Music trivia from This Day in Music!
– ‘Forget It’ by Karl Eifrig — Karl fulfilled a custom song request from panchitah in LA, giving a strong pharmaceutical spin to the song’s a capella do-wopping.
– You can request your own custom-made song, just like panchitah did! Listen to the custom songs we’ve made for listeners so far.
Email us at music@mozomedia.com
TWO SONG SHOT – EP 18 – Mystical Waltzing and Forgetful Karl
September 29, 2010 by jjsonick
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Hear a mystical waltz from Sweden and a fulfilled song request full of drugs, do-wop and forgetting by Karl Eifrig.
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On this show:
– ‘Vilse’, a cover song by the Swedish band Symfoniorkestern, highlighted by Bad Panda Records. Hear the original song by Slutet.
– Music trivia from This Day in Music!
– ‘Forget It’ by Karl Eifrig — Karl fulfilled a custom song request from panchitah in LA, giving a strong pharmaceutical spin to the song’s a capella do-wopping.
– You can request your own custom-made song, just like panchitah did! Listen to the custom songs we’ve made for listeners so far.
Email us at music@mozomedia.com
MOZOMEDIA MUSIC PODCAST – EP 12
June 29, 2010 by jjsonick
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Murderous intentions from Tiger Bones, melodic Chicago punk, a custom song about D.I.Y. electronics, a sample of Auricular freebie downloads and more!
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On this show:
– ‘Kill Them’ by Tiger Bones
Catchy and ominous indie rock from the Chicago band’s upcoming Go Over Here E.P. More Tiger Bones.
– ‘We’re the Opening Band’ by Lynyrd’s Innards
Chicago punk-pop band (which includes regular Mozomedia contributor Karl Eifrig on vocals and guitar) with their take on life on tour. Lynyrd’s Innards on MySpace.
– ‘Grab Your Solder’ by The High Country Low Lifes
A fulfilled custom song request for John Bork, who asked for a song about soldering electronics that included accordion accompaniment. Submit your own custom song request! Hear more High Country Low Lifes stuff.
– Greg Whitney (aka Tom Merritt) of SuBBrilliant News gives a shocking report.
– ‘New Toy’ by Karl Eifrig
Karl’s new solo song throbs with twangy guitar energy and spacey atmospherics, surveying gadget-y lust.
– ‘Dancing Chic to Chic’ by Andrez Bergen
Bergen’s gleeful syncopated electronic thrashing invades the old classic in a highly entertaining way. From his album Hackneyed Record Crate.
– ‘Lines on the Island of Utopia (excerpt)’ by Nux Vomica
Auricular Records has re-released this 1991 album of ambient explorations as a free download, get it here.
Email us at music@mozomedia.com
See you in a month! Send those custom song requests in!
Mozomedia Music Podcast – Ep 6 (Enhanced)
July 30, 2009 by jjsonick
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Our July podcast serves up a beautiful pop song about a jerk’s car alarm, an instrumental made on an Apple II computer, new Kitchen Sink music, a SuBBrilliant News report from Tom Merritt, an invitation to have us custom-make songs for you, and much more.
Take a listen:
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On this show:
- An Annoucement: We’ll make a song for you! Send a song title and a description of how you’d like the song to sound (you can be as vague or specific as you please) to mysongidea@mozomedia.com. Each month we’ll pick one submitted suggestion to turn into a real song that’ll be featured on the next podcast. So start bossing us around already and send those suggestions in!
- Karl Eifrig reveals part one of his Chronicles of Suburban Ennui in the form of almost Simon-and-Garfunkley acoustic pop song ‘No One Gives a Shit About Your Car Alarm’
- D.J. Saunter cooks up some banjo and southern-fried rock laced with spacey shimmers and just a dash of riffing moog in the instrumental ‘Interstellar Trucking’
- Giligadi develops a dark cavernous landscape for multi-tracked trumpets to explore a beautiful and somber ‘Eclipse’, off the album Fissures in the Faithful
- Kitchen Sink brings on the heavy thump drums, grooving guitar riffs and space-y e-bow of ‘Psychedelicized Insane Quintet’
- Pookie mixes lo-fi punky-pop with lo-fi salsa rock in the culinary delight ‘Baby Wanted Pie’
- J.J. Sonick gets semi-medieval on your ass with the bucolic instrumental ‘Tears of the Blacksmith’ from the soundtrack of Come On, Scientists!.
- SuBBrilliant News reports on Harry Potter fans disappointed that the movies aren’t documentaries and more.
- J.J. Sonick goes 8-bit with ‘The Green Sheen’ – an instrumental made with an Apple II computer.
- Avjit unfolds some atmospheric free-jazz in ‘Now I Know It’s Raining’
- Finally, Charlie Naked combines a haunting little melody with ambient atmospherics in ‘Two Thoughts’ off his album Oceans of Shattered Glass.
Hope you liked what you heard, please leave comments here and rate us on iTunes! See you next month!
MOZOMEDIA MUSIC PODCAST – Ep 6
July 30, 2009 by jjsonick
Filed under Podcast - MP3
Our July podcast serves up a beautiful pop song about a jerk’s car alarm, an instrumental made on an Apple II computer, new Kitchen Sink music, a SuBBrilliant News report from Tom Merritt, an invitation to have us custom-make songs for you, and much more.
Take a listen:
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>> Download Episode 6 (right- or ctrl-click and select ‘Save as…’)
On this show:
- An Annoucement: We’ll make a song for you! Send a song title and a description of how you’d like the song to sound (you can be as vague or specific as you please) to mysongidea@mozomedia.com. Each month we’ll pick one submitted suggestion to turn into a real song that’ll be featured on the next podcast. So start bossing us around already and send those suggestions in!
- Karl Eifrig reveals part one of his Chronicles of Suburban Ennui in the form of almost Simon-and-Garfunkley acoustic pop song ‘No One Gives a Shit About Your Car Alarm’
- D.J. Saunter cooks up some banjo and southern-fried rock laced with spacey shimmers and just a dash of riffing moog in the instrumental ‘Interstellar Trucking’
- Giligadi develops a dark cavernous landscape for multi-tracked trumpets to explore a beautiful and somber ‘Eclipse’, off the album Fissures in the Faithful
- Kitchen Sink brings on the heavy thump drums, grooving guitar riffs and space-y e-bow of ‘Psychedelicized Insane Quintet’
- Pookie mixes lo-fi punky-pop with lo-fi salsa rock in the culinary delight ‘Baby Wanted Pie’
- J.J. Sonick gets semi-medieval on your ass with the bucolic instrumental ‘Tears of the Blacksmith’ from the soundtrack of Come On, Scientists!.
- SuBBrilliant News reports on Harry Potter fans disappointed that the movies aren’t documentaries and more.
- J.J. Sonick goes 8-bit with ‘The Green Sheen’ – an instrumental made with an Apple II computer.
- Avjit unfolds some atmospheric free-jazz in ‘Now I Know It’s Raining’
- Finally, Charlie Naked combines a haunting little melody with ambient atmospherics in ‘Two Thoughts’ off his album Oceans of Shattered Glass.
Hope you liked what you heard, please leave comments here and rate us on iTunes! See you next month!
Karl Eifrig
June 29, 2009 by jjsonick
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Karl Eifrig lives in Chicago, IL where he plays in the bands Lynyrd’s Innards and Mexican Cheerleader when he’s not inventing new ways to be punk. He also collaborates, under the name Eddie P., with J.J. Sonick (Josh Lawrence) in the Mozomedia bands The New Old Men and Kitchen Sink, and also played with that jerk Josh and the mysterious Madame Maenad in the early ’90’s band Pookie.
You can catch new stuff by Karl, solo or in the above bands, often on our weekly Two Song Shot Podcast.
Sample Songs
Jessica Christian from Virginia requested a song titled either “Dress Down Heroes” or “Heroes in Jeans” that would encourage faculty and staff at the school she works at to participate in “dress down” weeks. Staff can contribute $10 and get to dress casual for the week, and the money goes to Relay for Life, a cancer research charity. To craft this epic ballad, Karl enlisted Ryan Murphy on drums, Grant Sutton on bass, Sean Shipley on lead guitar and Josh Lawrence on brass keyboards/lyric tweaking.
Listen to Heroes in Jeans by Karl Eifrig
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Panchitah from LA, California submitted a custom song request for ‘a fun song to make me smile while I’m all borked and stuff. You know, “Dont worry be happy” style. Also, about how forgetful I am’. Karl says: ‘I may have missed the mark a little bit as far as the actual request goes, but I think I acheived a sort of Bobby-McFerrin-sings-Tom-Cruise’s-opinions-on-the-pharmaceutical-industry vibe, and hope this helps the executive producer feel less borked in general.’
Listen to Forget It by Karl Eifrig
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The Evening Bite –
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Breanne Kato from California requested a reggae song about Pete, her ‘algae-eating aquarium fish’ who ‘couldn’t care less that Skeletor the goldfish [his previous aquarium roommate] is dead.’ Karl obliged:
Pete the Algae-Eating Aquarium Fish by Karl Eifrig
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