Two Song Shot 30 – Oriental Blues & Scars & Flowers
May 31, 2011 by jjsonick
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Garth Knox summons Eastern blues from his viola d’amore, and Kitchen Sink brings forth a ghostly instrumental.
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On this show:
– Oriental Blues by Garth Knox — get the full album for free at Shsk’h.
– Scars & Flowers by Kitchen Sink — download the full album for free right here.
– 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.
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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.
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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 22 – Accordion Whimsey & Blue Electronica
November 3, 2010 by jjsonick
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Get your accordion on with the beautiful whimsey of Power und Beauty, then cool off with the enticing abstractions of Talvihorros.
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On this show:
– ‘Lavender’ by Power und Beauty, off The Gnome e.p. available as a free download from Peppermill Records.
– Music Trivia from This Day in Music!
– ‘The Blue Cathedral’ by Talvihorros from London. Download the song from Bad Panda Records.
– Don’t forget, you can request your own custom-made song – we’ll be featuring one sometime in October! 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
TWO SONG SHOT – EP 16
September 12, 2010 by jjsonick
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This week we bring you hip-hop about teaching junior high kids, Rock Around the Clock riots and a new wave pumpkin.
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On this show:
– ‘Jr. High’ – Hip hop slice-of-a-teacher’s-life from Ostensible Bushmen.
– Music Trivia from Thisdayinmusic.com!
– ‘New Wave Pumpkin’ by Avijit.
– Don’t forget to Request your own custom-made song – we’ll have a new request-tranformed-into-a-song up sometime in September!
Email us at music@mozomedia.com
TWO SONG SHOT – EP 15
September 1, 2010 by jjsonick
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Delicious Swedish pop, sci-fi illustration-inspired electronica, lung-collapsing music and angry Ultravox.
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On this show:
– ‘Please do not lie’ – collaboration between Swedish bands Boa Constrictor and The Honeydrips from the compilation Between Two Waves Volume A, put out by Eardrums Pop.
– Music Trivia for Aug 31 – Music can collapse your lungs!
– ‘Arka’ by Alphabets Heaven off the Peppermill Records compilation 2999.
– What Else You Listening To? The 1977 album Ha! Ha! Ha! by Ultravox!
– Don’t forget to Request your own custom-made song – we’ll have a new request-tranformed-into-a-song up sometime in September!
Email us at music@mozomedia.com
Mozomedia Music Podcast – Ep 12 (Enhanced)
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 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 10 (Enhanced)
April 7, 2010 by jjsonick
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Hear a Devo cover by Mexican Cheerleader, a custom song about a fish, a new collaboration between Nux Vomica and Voice of Eye, SuBBrilliant News from Tom Merritt and more!
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On this show:
- Indie rock shysters The New Old Men toss and turn on ‘The Fuzzy Couch’
- Malaysian band Space Gambus Experiment visits the intersection of anthemic instrumental world music and outer space in ‘Pulang Kakanda Bulan’, which is available on the compilation Auricular Audio Magazine 15, as well as the band’s first CD.
- 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 Breanne Kato. She 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 Eifrig obliged with ‘Pete, the Algae-Eating Aquarium Fish’.
- Chicago band Mexican Cheerleader kick spud boy ass all over the place with their rocking cover of Devo’s ‘Wiggly World’.
- SuBBrilliant News from Greg Whitney (aka Tom Merritt), giving us the lowdown on iPad delusions and LOST producers.
- ‘Made of Margarine’ is some melodic lo-fi shoe-gazing from Pookie.
- Nux Vomica & Voice of Eye collaborate on ‘Golden Elixir of Immortality’ from their new CD Fire of the Unitive Path, released by Auricular Records / Conundrum Unlimited.
- Improvising in pop song mode, Avijit unleashes some ‘Tender Mackin” on us.
Email us at music@mozomedia.com
See you in a month! Send those custom song requests in!
MOZOMEDIA MUSIC PODCAST – EPISODE 10
April 7, 2010 by jjsonick
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Hear a Devo cover by Mexican Cheerleader, a custom song about a fish, a new collaboration between Nux Vomica and Voice of Eye, SuBBrilliant News from Tom Merritt and more!
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On this show:
- Indie rock shysters The New Old Men toss and turn on ‘The Fuzzy Couch’
- Malaysian band Space Gambus Experiment visits the intersection of anthemic instrumental world music and outer space in ‘Pulang Kakanda Bulan’, which is available on the compilation Auricular Audio Magazine 15, as well as the band’s first CD.
- 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 Breanne Kato. She 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 Eifrig obliged with ‘Pete, the Algae-Eating Aquarium Fish’.
- Chicago band Mexican Cheerleader kick spud boy ass all over the place with their rocking cover of Devo’s ‘Wiggly World’.
- SuBBrilliant News from Greg Whitney (aka Tom Merritt), giving us the lowdown on iPad delusions and LOST producers.
- ‘Made of Margarine’ is some melodic lo-fi shoe-gazing from Pookie.
- Nux Vomica & Voice of Eye collaborate on ‘Golden Elixir of Immortality’ from their new CD Fire of the Unitive Path, released by Auricular Records / Conundrum Unlimited.
- Improvising in pop song mode, Avijit unleashes some ‘Tender Mackin” on us.
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.
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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
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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. 5 (Enhanced)
June 30, 2009 by jjsonick
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Episode no. 5 brings you the epic Sword and Laser rock song, new ambient instrumental from Karl Eifrig, new releases from Auricular Records, a scintillating SuBBrilliant News report, and much more.
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What we play on this episode:
- Younger by The New Old Men
- Cansada by Kitchen Sink
- The Sword and the Laser by The Clive Royal Project and The New Old Men. (Inspired by the online science fiction and fantasy bookclub Sword and Laser)
- The Evening Bite by Karl Eifrig
- Fine as Wine by Pookie
- She Brings the Rain by Giligadi off the Fissures in the Faithful album
- News report from SuBBrilliant News
- Holes in Your Paper Stomach off the album The Noise Under the Eyelid by The Cat’s Orchestra
- Solar Sail by Avjit
- The Bowls by Charlie Naked
- Hope you enjoyed podcast number five, and see you next month!
MOZOMEDIA MUSIC PODCAST – Ep 5
June 30, 2009 by jjsonick
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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!
MOZOMEDIA MUSIC PODCAST – Ep 4
May 27, 2009 by jjsonick
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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.
