Two Song Shot – Ep 26: Deerhoof & A Fulfilled Song Request

Hear Deerhoof’s latest, a new SuBBrilliant News report, and the custom-made song “Death to Apple ^_^”!

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On this show:

– ‘The Merry Barracks’ by San Francisco band Deerhoof off their new album Deerhoof vs. Evil.

– SuBBrilliant News from Greg Whitney, aka Tom Merritt.

– Aric Mellott, aka Phatemokid requested a song titled ‘Death to Apple ^_^’, asking that it incorporate Pop, Electronica, Acoustic, Prog, New Wave and Rockabilly. He directed “Think natural disaster meets 5 minute roller coaster that ends with a clear vision of the Pacific ocean.” Hear how The New Old Men fulfilled his request. (Note: No Macs were harmed in the making of this song – in fact, two Macs were used to create it.)

– Like Aric, you can 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 26: Deerhoof & A Fulfilled Song Request

Hear Deerhoof’s latest, a new SuBBrilliant News report, and the custom-made song “Death to Apple ^_^”!

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On this show:

– ‘The Merry Barracks’ by San Francisco band Deerhoof off their new album Deerhoof vs. Evil.

– SuBBrilliant News from Greg Whitney, aka Tom Merritt.

– Aric Mellott, aka Phatemokid requested a song titled ‘Death to Apple ^_^’, asking that it incorporate Pop, Electronica, Acoustic, Prog, New Wave and Rockabilly. He directed “Think natural disaster meets 5 minute roller coaster that ends with a clear vision of the Pacific ocean.” Hear how The New Old Men fulfilled his request. (Note: No Macs were harmed in the making of this song – in fact, two Macs were used to create it.)

– Like Aric, you can request your own custom-made song! Listen to other custom songs we’ve made for listeners so far.

Email us at music@mozomedia.com

Mozomedia Music Podcast – Ep 11 (Enhanced)

An alt-country tale of romantic redemption, a requested song about a plucky dog and possessed play-do, an intricate piano-cello-viola improv by a mystery trio, SuBBrilliant News from Tom Merritt and more!

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On this show:

- 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 music@mozomedia.com. For each podcast, we’ll pick some of the requests to turn into real songs that’ll be featured on show. Read more about song requests.

- Custom song made for Joanne Fong. Joanne sent us this photo and challenged us to make a song about it. The New Old Men decided it was the first scene of a story about a dog and some dark magicks at the local corner store, naming the song ‘Dog Saves the Day’.

- ‘The Ballad of Johnny Ray Pierre’ is wistful lo-fi alt-country from Pookie.

- The mystery members of the piano-cello-viola Trio Elusive perform the improvisation ‘The Broken Bough’

- Greg Whitney (aka Tom Merritt) of SuBBrilliant News gives a shocking report.

- ‘Baste Beast’, a tasty yet deranged bit of off-kilter splunking from Kitchen Sink.

- Nux Vomica & Voice of Eye collaborate on ‘Sixty Four Hexagrams’ from their CD Invivo.

- Avijit improvises an indie rock instrumental tribute to John Hughes nostalgia with ‘Molly Grows Up’.

Email us at music@mozomedia.com

See you in a month! Send those custom song requests in!

MOZOMEDIA MUSIC PODCAST – EP 11

An alt-country tale of romantic redemption, a requested song about a plucky dog and possessed play-do, an intricate piano-cello-viola improv by a mystery trio, SuBBrilliant News from Tom Merritt and more!

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On this show:

- 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 music@mozomedia.com. For each podcast, we’ll pick some of the requests to turn into real songs that’ll be featured on show. Read more about song requests.

- Custom song made for Joanne Fong. Joanne sent us this photo and challenged us to make a song about it. The New Old Men decided it was the first scene of a story about a dog and some dark magicks at the local corner store, naming the song ‘Dog Saves the Day’.

- ‘The Ballad of Johnny Ray Pierre’ is wistful lo-fi alt-country from Pookie.

- The mystery members of the piano-cello-viola Trio Elusive perform the improvisation ‘The Broken Bough’

- Greg Whitney (aka Tom Merritt) of SuBBrilliant News gives a shocking report.

- ‘Baste Beast’, a tasty yet deranged bit of off-kilter splunking from Kitchen Sink.

- Nux Vomica & Voice of Eye collaborate on ‘Sixty Four Hexagrams’ from their CD Invivo.

- Avijit improvises an indie rock instrumental tribute to John Hughes nostalgia with ‘Molly Grows Up’.

Email us at music@mozomedia.com

See you in a month! Send those custom song requests in!

MOZOMEDIA MUSIC PODCAST – Ep 5

Episode no. 5 brings you the epic Sword and Laser rock song, new music from Karl Eifrig and Auricular Records, a scintillating SuBBrilliant News report, and much more.

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We start with ‘Younger’ by The New Old Men, a sketch of two old friends sitting together on a train, surrounded by shimmering ambiances.

Next is the charming rustic calm of the almost entirely acoustic instrumental ‘Cansada’ by Kitchen Sink.  You can also watch the video on YouTube.

This is followed by the epic rock of ‘The Sword and the Laser’ by The Clive Royal Project and The New Old Men.  Clive Royal, inspired by the online science fiction and fantasy bookclub Sword and Laser, wrote his Sword and Laser song and then basically open-sourced it on his website – inviting others to download it, remix it, and add to it.  So The New Old Men did just that, adding guitar, drum loops, and keyboards around Clive’s vocals to create their own version of this mini-epic.

Next is a solo piece by Karl Eifrig called  ‘The Evening Bite’, an ambient instrumental that shifts through various beguiling sounds.  Karl is also known as ‘Eddie P.’, the collaborator with J.J. Sonick in the bands The New Old Men and Kitchen Sink.

Then we stomp along with ‘Fine as Wine’ by the lo-fi indie rock band Pookie.

‘She Brings the Rain’ by Giligadi off the Fissures in the Faithful album follows – a cover of the mellow, jazzy song of the same title by the legendary krautrock band Can.

Then we pause for a News report from SuBBrilliant News, covering Iranian protesters interaction with Twitter, the United States use of torture (against metaphors), and more.

Next we hear the fiery instrumental ‘Holes in Your Paper Stomach’ off the album The Noise Under the Eyelid by The Cat’s Orchestra, which is the project of Ukrainian composer/performer Nicolay Sirov.

Then we hear the grooving intergalactic improv of Avjit in their saxophone-trombone-bass instrumental ‘Solar Sail’.

And we finish with the ambient instrumental ‘The Bowls’ which finds Charlie Naked exploring a variety of resonant sounds made with Tibetan singing bowls.

Hope you enjoyed podcast number five, and see you next month!

Karl Eifrig

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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MOZOMEDIA MUSIC PODCAST – Ep 4

For May our DJ-in-orbit serves you a new song from J.J. Sonick, rocking consumerism from The New Old Men, languorous lust from White Mahatma and much more, as well as late-breaking stories from SubBrilliant News.

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First we hear ‘Never Get Clean’ by J.J. Sonick, an indie rock confessional with just a pinch of gospel in the chorus.

Next up is ‘The Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit of Negativity’ by G:Nome – piano and ambient atmospherics surrounding samples of David Lynch talking about his experiences with transcendental meditation.

Then we hear ‘I’m Going Shopping’, a rocking and absurd taunt made by The New Old Men.

This is followed by ‘Heat Alpert’, an appropriately toe-tapping Herb Alpert-esque instrumental by J.J. Sonick, for the skit Heat by the comedy group Come On, Scientists!.

Next is the smoldering, post-coital, off-kilter acoustic indie pop of ‘Wreckage of the Hudson’ by White Mahatma.

Then we hear the slightly psychedelicized gypsy instrumental ‘A Trip to Romany’, complete with rainstorm sounds, from The High Country Low Lifes.

SuBBrilliant News reports on GM’s hybrid car with horse and more.

The Food and Drug Administration Orchestra gives us an important lesson in the acoustic ditty ‘Dig a Little Hole’.

Biota is a band beloved by J.J. Sonick and Eddie P. for combining ambient and experimental sounds with beguiling song structures, so in the Kitchen Sink instrumental ‘Political Song for Biota to Sing’ they pay tribute to Biota with the music, and give a bonus fond nod to the Minutemen with the title.

Finally, we survey a portion of the epic, constantly shifting ambient instrumental ‘Oceans of Shattered Glass’ by Charlie Naked, off the album of the same name.

The New Old Men

The most recent indie-pop/indie-rock/genre-hopping song collaborations between Eddie P. (Karl Eifrig) in Chicago and J.J. Sonick (Josh Lawrence) in San Francisco.

The New Old Men plan to premier at least one new song a month on the Mozomedia Music Podcast.

Listen to Songs

‘What About the Daisies’ was a custom song request.
What About the Daisies –

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Crossed into the Void –

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Underwater in November –

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The following epic rock song was a collaboration with The Clive Royal Project. Clive Royal open-sourced his original song which was inspired by the Sword and Laser online bookclub. Here The New Old Men added guitar, drums and keyboards to Clive Royal’s vocal track.

The Sword and the Laser (with The Clive Royal Project) –

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‘Dragging My Rope’ was a custom song request.
Dragging My Rope Through the Cow Pasture –

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I’m Going Shopping –

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Younger –

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Geek Patrol –

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Write Down –

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