July 18, 2008 by ocbeejay

A little re-cap of this week’s musings
- David Letterman’s Band Leader, Paul Shaffer, bought James Brown’s medical bracelet for $32,500 in a recent auction.
- Ratatat remakes an old Paul Simon Classic video into this.
- Britt, from eargoggles’ annual favorite Spoon, remixes last year’s “indie” favorite Fiest.
- Snagfilms launches and gives mad exposure to what should be truly watched. Documentaries.
- “F” Muxtape. Turntable Lab reminds us that mixtapes are still where it’s at.
- eargoggles made it through 14 of 15 innings of the longest All-Star Game EVER. We heard that the American League won. Now the Angels will have home-field in the World Series!
Posted in dvd, eargoggles, music, news, tv, video | Tagged eargoggles, james brown, muxtape, David Letterman, paul simon, Spoon, paul shaffer, medical bracelet, ratatat, fiest, fiest remix, spoon remix, snagfilms, documentaries, turntable lab, all-star game, baseball | No Comments »
July 17, 2008 by ocbeejay

Here’s what’s on for the rest of this week on all your beloved Television Sets! –Check out Austin City Limits!! Continue Reading »
Posted in news, tv | Tagged my morning jacket, austin city limits, tv, death cab for cutie, tonight show, jay leno, coldplay, Jimmy Kimmel Live, idiot box, justin timberlake, cool kids, late night with conan o'brian, dr. dog, minus the bear, made out of babies | No Comments »
July 17, 2008 by ocbeejay
Well it’s hot out there! I mean HOT! So, we here at earggoles did some research and came up with what else is gonna be hot this Summer. Below are quite a few, a lot, of Summer releses from bands you know and some you will. Some are LPs, some digi-LPs, some DVD, but all should be worth your while. Enjoy! and look out for the releases of Malendars…. Continue Reading »
Posted in dvd, mp3, music, news | Tagged cd, digi-lp, dvd, lp, malendar, music, must have, summer releases | No Comments »
July 15, 2008 by ocbeejay

capital records building
So, Los Angeles has approved the building of a new development near the almost iconic Capitol Records building. The condo development, planned for 6230 Yucca Boulevard, was part of some big hubbub earlier this summer. EMI–along with the everpresent Hollywood preservationists–worried that the act of constructing the building, including the planned underground parking garage, would damage the acoustics know for their “Magic Properties.” Continue Reading »
Posted in music, news, wine | Tagged beach boys, capital records, capital records building, cristal, eargoggles, emi, frank sinatra, green day, nat king cole, second street ventures | No Comments »
So, Last.fm, always on the verge of the new, launched their Artist Royalty Program back in January, allowing unsigned musicians to collect royalties when their music is loaded into Last.fm’s music brain and then streamed by it’s users; actually i think anybody can listen. Which may lead to some click fraud, but that’s just a theory flying around here at eargoggles. Continue Reading »
Posted in music, news | Tagged Artist Royalty Program, eargoggles, free-on-demand, last.fm, martin stiksel, unsigned bands | No Comments »
Here’s this week’s TV music Viewing
Thursday, July 10:
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live!: Lil Wayne (rerun)
NBC: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno: Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis (rerun)
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: The Game (rerun)
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Estelle (rerun)
Friday, July 11:
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live!: Cyndi Lauper (rerun)
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Dr. John (rerun)
FUEL TV: The Daily Habit: Circle Jerks
Posted in music | Tagged circle jerks, cyndi layper, Jimmy Kimmel Live, last call, lat late show, lil wayne, the game, tonight show | No Comments »
June 27, 2008 by ocbeejay
You’re sitting in your car driving somewhere or listening to your ipod walking through the streets of a familiar, or unfamiliar, place listening to a song, or a set of songs, and you feel like you’re in a movie; or you should be.
This imprompto soundtrack is spot on. The music, the lyrics, the cadence of the artists voice, the rhythm of the guitars, the snap of the snare, all of it puts you in the moment and you’re lost; to the music.
And that’s just the first track. Continue Reading »
Posted in free, music, news, video | Tagged eargoggles, Andrew Bird, los angeles, mason jennings, david ford, david gray, Songs For the Road, original signal recordings, bright eyes, conor oberst, the sunday times, the gaurdian, the sun, damien rice, the pogues, hotel cafe, youtube | No Comments »
June 21, 2008 by ocbeejay
Posted in music, news | Tagged Aural Apothecary, Beachwood Spark, billboard, eargoggles, Fleet Foxes, http://ogami.subpop.com/bands/beaclow, ian montone, iron & wine, James Mercer, mudhoney, sub pop, the helio sequence, the shins, wolf parade | 1 Comment »
June 19, 2008 by ocbeejay
Unlike most of the trendy-dance rock, flash-in-the-pan bands who “pay to play” on Sunset, these guys actually have some really fresh musical sense and weight to their music. They put together some noisy, abstract, energetic rock that would probably sound at home on both a label like DFAor some underground punk imprint from early 1990s Orange County. It isn’t something that will take hold right away necessarily, but as these scorching California Summer afternoons roll on, you’ll be in-tune with their trance well into daybreak–in California or otherwise; Indiana kids will love it.
more after the jump + music/video files Continue Reading »
Posted in free, music, video | Tagged 2007, eargoggles, 1970, 2008, la, los angeles, sunset strip, dfa records, orange county, health, crystal castles, acid girls, tigerbass, claws, pink skull, werner herzog, The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner, swiss, ski-jump | No Comments »
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