Today, we announce the release of Long Hair, Joey Sweeney's debut record for La Société Expéditionnaire, in collaboration with BITBY Records & Tapes. Long Hair is a Laurel Canyon-inflected singer/songwriter record for sure, but it's also a party of unlikely collaborators: Grammy award-winning salsa/tropical producer Aaron 'Luis' Levinson mans the controls, and mindbending rapper/producer Lushlife (aka Raj Haldar) penned string arrangements for the string trio that appears on the record. Long Hair drops on October 29, 2013.

About Joey Sweeney: 
Joey Sweeney has been writing songs and prose since he was a teenager in the 1980s. Over the years, he has fronted the groups The Barnabys and The Trouble With Sweeney, as well as recording and performing as a solo artist. Meanwhile, he's also written for a wide array of publications, including Salon.com, Philadelphia Weekly, the Philadelphia Inquirer and his daily perch, Philebrity.com, the cityblog he established in 2004 after a decade-long run as a rock critic.

His songs and records have received widespread critical acclaim over the years; of his last record with The Trouble With Sweeney, Fishtown Briefcase, Pitchfork said:

"[Sweeney] mixes autobiography and fiction against the group's 70s-inflected indie pop, resourceful- and unabashed- enough to digress into an E Street interlude or an AM-rock guitar coda." - Pitchfork.com

He's also garnered curse and praise as a writer of prose, having won the "AAN Award for Music Criticism" and appeared in Best Music Writing 2002.

From 2004 through 2010, Sweeney mostly shied from performing and recording, focusing instead on his role as Publisher & Editor of the website Philebrity.com. In 2011, however, Sweeney stepped back into his old role of singer/songwriter, this time fronting the rock band Arctic Splash. Joey Sweeney Your Life Is Calling compiles the best of everything before the Splash.

In early 2013, Sweeney went on to record Long Hair; he is also currently working on a novel and other prose projects.


Joey Sweeney online:
joeysweeney.tumblr.com/
www.facebook.com/veryrealjoeysweeney
@joeysweeney
la-soc.com/joeysweeney.html

When You Say My Name

Deep Blue Three

"The Spirits Are Busy" from Luka Kuplowsky is out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. (World, ex-Canada) & Next Door Records (Canada). Stream/save/share here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/mb063

/// Credits:

Written by Luka Kuplowsky
Recorded at Aytche Studio
Engineered & Mixed by Christopher Shannon & Nathan Vanderwielen
Mastered by Heather Kirby (Dreamlands Mastering)
Artwork by Sonia Beckwith Cole

/// Players:

Luka Kuplowsky - Voice 
Jason Bhattachyara - Drums, Percussion
Thom Gill - Electric Guitar, Wurlitzer
Josh Cole - Bass
Felicity Williams - Voice
Ian Daniel Kehoe - Synth

/// Lyrics:

Where is my freedom?
Is it in your embrace?
There are angels all around us
Yet they rarely leave a trace
Even in the teardrops
Measuring the pain
Can you find heaven in pillars of fate?
Didn’t you hear?
The spirits are busy

I held onto believing 
I saw a different world
And all that was unfolding
Was only partially told
You may know the destination
But it makes no difference
When you’re up above the clouds
It’s just shapes of circumstance
Didn’t you hear?
The spirits are busy

Why give this gift
And take it away
God fell to earth and slept for a day
Wake up in clothing
Of skin and of bone
I’ll be your prince if you give me a home
Didn’t you hear?
The spirits are busy

The Spirits Are Busy

Luka Kuplowsky - The Spirits Are Busy

https://soundcloud.com/cosmobaker came through Eavesdrop Radio to help @recordbreakin & @lildave celebrate 10 YEARS of rockin' the airwaves with the finest soul, jazz, funk, hip hop and beats.

Cosmo's computer was on the fritz, so he brought two huge bags of records with him and threw down in our studio like the pro that he is.

He was even kind enough to send over a tracklist for all you trainspotters & diggers:
Bernard Herrmann - “Diary Of A Taxi Driver”
Beethoven - “The Funky Devastate Pt. 2 (DJ Format Remix)
DJ Spinna - “Dillagence feat. Phonte”
Slimkid 3 & DJ Nu-Mark - “Bom Bom Fiya”
Blue Boy - “Remember Me (Jim Sharp Edit)”
Jan Hammer Group - “Don’t You Know”
Surprise - “Sweet Love”
Bobby Franklin’s Insanity - “Bring It On Down To Me”
Big Daddy Kane - “Extra Raw (Monk One BDK Vs Greedy G Edit)”
B.Cause - “In The Sea”
James Brown - “Funky Drummer (Jorun Bombay Make Me Sweat Edit)”
Freqnik & WDRE - “Pass The Peas”
Take 6 - “Spread More Love (DJ Shepdog’s 45 King Re-Touch)”
Unknown Artist - “Rigor Mortis”
Sunlight Square - “I Believe In Miracles”
The Jackson 5 - “Dancing Machine (Big Trudy’s DOmecracker Dub)”
Sandra Richardson - “I Feel A Song (In My Heart)”
Jesse Anderson - “Swing Too High”
Rimshot - “Dance Girl”
Maggie Threatt - “Soupy”
King Coleman - “The Boo Boo Song”
The Diplomats - “I Can Give You Love”
Dee Edwards - “Why Can’t There Be Love”
Orgone - “Funky Nassau” 
Orchestre Du Bawobab - “Kelen Ati Len”
Gwen McCrae - “90% Of Me Is You”

Check out Cosmo's blog here >> http://cosmobaker.com/2015/03/all-45s-live-mix-from-eavesdrop-radio

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Cosmo Baker ALL 45s Mix | Eavesdrop Radio 02/27/15

Christophe aka DJ C.Y.S (TDA) et Anders (Le Mellotron) vous donnent un rendez-vous mensuel pour un cocktail sexy de jazz, soul, rhythm & blues, funk, disco et autres pioché dans leurs généreuses collections de vinyls.

Un instant intime de partage et de découverte pour parcourir selon des thématiques dédiées et précises à chaque émission l'éclectisme et la diversité du groove.

Tracklist › http://www.lemellotron.com/show/whisper-show-30-special-curtis-mayfield-curtom-records
Archives › www.lemellotron.com/whisper-show

Whisper Show #30 - Spécial Curtis Mayfield & Curtom Records

This land is your land, This land is my land

Though it has often been co-opted as a benignly patriotic campfire sing-a-long, "This Land Is Your Land" was actually written by Woody Guthrie in 1944 as a subversive protest song in biting response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." At my sister Samra's urging, we recorded our version in 2004, during the George W. Bush presidency, in an effort to re-establish it as a song about social justice.

Ironically, when Woodie Guthrie resided in Coney Island in 1950, his landlord was none other than Donald Trump's father, the infamously racist real estate mogul Fred Trump, about whom Guthrie composed his poem "Old Man Trump," including the lines:

     I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
     He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
     When he drawed that color line
     Here at his Beach Haven family project 

Using a dark re-harmonization of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as an intro, the Dap-Kings re-arranged "This Land" as a rough blues-y march, setting the tone for Sharon to tear into the lyrics of the song with the fiery gusto of a revolutionary. However, it was the inclusion of Guthrie's rarely-heard original verses that really enabled Sharon to reclaim the song as an urgent and unambiguous demand for equality and human dignity in a nation rife with social injustice and patriotic hypocrisy.

Today, as we inaugurate a rapacious billionaire to the highest office in the land, those original verses resonate with us as loudly as the day they were written:

     There was a big high wall there
     That tried to stop me
     The sign was painted
     Said 'Private Property'
     But on the backside
     It didn't say nothing
     This land was made for you and me

     One bright sunny morning
     In the shadow of the steeple 
     By the relief office 
     I saw my people 
     As they stood hungry
     I stood there wondering 
     If God Blessed America for me

We are grateful to Woodie Guthrie and to Sharon Jones, two friends of the people and bitter foes of the Trumps, who have given us an essential soundtrack to our struggle. When times get dark, let us not crumble in fear and bigotry. Let us honor the unbreakable spirit of those tireless fighters who have fallen before us. Let us rise to the fight, and let us help each other never to forget this noble truth:

    This land was made for you and me.

-Gabe Roth

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "This Land Is Your Land"

From the new David Nance record "Negative Boogie" out July 14th on Ba Da Bing Records. 

If you preorder before June 15th, include a note naming any album you like that you want Nance to cover. We will choose a submission at random and send all preorders a download of that covers record around album release. 

Preorder here: http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products?keywords=negative+boogie

David Nance "Negative Boogie"

West Bay native Tony Molina has been following a fascinating trajectory on his recent string of releases. Early entries like the "6 Songs EP" and "Dissed And Dismissed" LP combined the best bits of Weezer/Teenage Fanclub-style power-pop with Tony's smart, touching songs, shredding guitar pyrotechnics and ironclad DIY HC roots. 2016's "Confront The Truth" EP flipped the script in a big way, leaving the guitar crunch behind in favor of mostly acoustic arrangements that owe as much to "Horizontal"-era Bee Gees and the Fanclub's mellower moments as they do to Georges Harrison and Martin. It's a masterful record, packing more melodic flair and emotional truth into 11 minutes than most bands manage in an hour.

Now Tony is back with his brilliant, long-awaited album "Kill The Lights." The ten songs on "Kill The Lights" continue in his evolution towards stripping the songs back to reveal each one's emotional and melodic core. But where "Confront The Truth" was mostly acoustic, "Kill The Lights" adds back some full band arrangements to brilliant effect. Album opener "Nothing I Can Say" is a lovely 12-string pop tune that would sit snugly in The Byrds' songbook - it's that good. "Wrong Town" is gentle and subtly wrenching, recalling prime Elliott Smith in its simple truth. "Afraid To Go Outside" expands on some of the pastoral early Bee Gees/Kaleidoscope/Tomorrow flavor revealed on "Confront," aided by some great organ lines. "Now That She's Gone" features some gorgeous guitar finger-picking, while "Jasper's Theme" is a rootsy mid-tempo groover that leans towards Gram-era Byrds. 

Everywhere on "Kill The Lights" we hear Tony synthesizing his influences with great skill and intention; these classic folk and pop styles are being employed in the service of stellar songs and universal lyrical truths rather than just as aesthetic filigree. This is why beautiful, elegant songs like "When She Leaves" and "Before You Go" aren't really so far from Molina's punk roots -- they reflect a dedication to craft combined with an intense commitment to self-expression that transcends simplistic genre boundaries. The sonic palette may be shifting, but the tunes are all Tony and we should all be grateful for that.

Kill The Lights

Pre-order

Tony Molina - Nothing I Can Say

A live DJ mix of all the tripped out Pink Floyd bits that i love. 
I did this for the FM4 Liquid Radio Show sometime in the 90ties and just recently found the DAT of this. Download and Enjoy...

Peter Kruder Pink Floyd Mix

Ross Gay -  Poem To My Child, If Ever You Shall Be

Joey Sweeney has been writing songs and prose since the 1980s. Over the years, he has fronted the groups The Barnabys and The Trouble With Sweeney, as well as recording and performing as a solo artist. Meanwhile, he’s also written for a wide array of publications, including Salon.com, Philadelphia Weekly, the Philadelphia Inquirer and his daily perch, Philebrity.com, the cityblog he established in 2004 after a decade-long run as a rock critic. 

His songs and records have received widespread critical acclaim over the years; of his last record with The Trouble With Sweeney, Fishtown Briefcase, Pitchfork said “[Sweeney] mixes autobiography and fiction against the group’s 70s-inflected indie pop, resourceful— and unabashed— enough to digress into an E Street interlude or an AM-rock guitar coda.” He’s also garnered curse and praise as a writer of prose, having won the AAN Award for Music Criticism and appeared in Best Music Writing 2002.

From 2004 through 2010, Sweeney mostly shied from performing and recording, focusing instead on his role as Publisher & Editor of the website Philebrity.com. In 2011, however, Sweeney stepped back into his old role of singer/songwriter, this time fronting the rock band Arctic Splash. Joey Sweeney Your Life Is Calling compiles the best of everything before the Splash. 

In early 2013, Sweeney went on to record Long Hair, with Grammy award-winning producer Aaron ‘Luis’ Levinson, Lushlife aka Raj Haldar, and others. His current outfit, Joey Sweeney & The Neon Grease are presently in the midst of a run of singles inspired by neon, and grease.