Eye Candy

Bronson-Purpose from French Camp Records on Vimeo.

Great track from Bronson. His debut album came out November 29th, you can grab it here. Expect this on the next indie mix.

Alexander - Truth from Alexander on Vimeo.

Alexander Ebert is the front man for Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros. He is stepping out into the solo spotlight for his current project, aptly titled...Alexander. Love the groove on this song, the cadence and flow of his delivery, it's so rhythmic. Look for a couple of his solo songs to be on the upcoming Indie mixes.


Throwback video of the day. Rock that turtle neck and scotch guard looking jacket Al!! Dude is flawless though.


A$ap Rocky- Purple Swag.


A Christmas song from phantoms of a childhood long vanished. Mutant turtles who dwell in the sewer serenading you with a yule time lullaby. Ohhh 90's you were kind of horrible, but I loved you so.


From BoingBoing, this is Nina Simone's cover of, "Ooh Child." Originally off of her 1971 LP "Here Comes the Sun." The album also has covers of Bob Dylan, Paul Anka, and one of my favorite Beatles songs and the title of the cover album, "Here Comes The Sun." The album was just reissued on 180 gram vinyl by 4 Men With Beards who do great work re-issuing awesome albums. I have one of their Otis re-issues and it's one of my favorites. Grab "Here Comes The Sun" here.

Make It Whistle

I hope everyone had a magical Christmas.  I come bearing belated goodies for everyone. 

I enjoy me some whistling.  I saw a pbs special on dogs and the Shepard had a crazy number of different whistles to communicate with the dog.  He even had a whistle that meant turn back you missed one of the sheep.  It made me realize that my fondness for whistling may perhaps just be a sub-human primitive response to past animalistic instincts.  I also just saw something on tv and the gang on the show used a whistle to notify the other members of their position when separated in the dark.  Crazy, anyway I guess I still like whistling, it's the caveman in me.

Advertisers know this as well.  There was two commercials in a row and they both had whistling.  The first one came on and I thought wow that's a coincidence I am making a whistling mix.  Then the second one came on and I realized the advertisers had my number.  So I immediately bought some Gerber Baby food and a Subaru Legacy.  You won this round corporate consumption.  Your sweet whistle was like a Siren's song.  It's like that number 23 movie where once you notice it, it seems to be everywhere.  Not sure why that was a bad thing, because I never saw the movie and it's just a number but that's ok, you freak the fuck out about it Jim Carey.

So to celebrate this addiction I made a mix of songs that all feature whistling.  During my "research" (shout out to google) I found that many people feel the same way and were way ahead of me in terms of compiling lists and asking questions like what is more gimmicky whistling or children's choirs?  Most of them had similar songs, so I had to research even further (scroll down farther) and try and find some less famous whistling songs. 


I also googled whistling to find a picture for this post and the dude above came up.  Apparently it's a still from a documentary about a whistling competition in North Carolina.  Sounds like a scenario for a Christopher Guest film.  I am kind of interested in seeing it now.  Especially since it's called, "Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling." 

Download the mix behind the jump.

Indie Mix 4

At one point there was a new hip hop mix up that didn't suck.  We got in trouble for that one and it was removed, that kind of sucked.  I blame T.I. for snitching on us to try and reduce his own prison sentence.


 

What did I tell you about licking things you find on the ground Clifford?

I have been spending some time in the studio, formulating a diss track in retaliation.  All I have so far are comments about Tiny and how he could do much better.  Which isn't really an attack on him so much as a statement of my disappointment in his life choices.  The hook is, "Class it up Clifford, eww she gross" repeat four times...it's still a work in progress.


If anyone missed the hip hop mix and would like to "discuss" their disappointment about that, they can send us an email at stereofattenings@gmail.com. 

But that's all in the past.  This post is about an indie mix.  Join me behind the jump.

Upcoming Shows

One of the best things about living in a major metropolitan area, besides the abundance of hookers, is the fact that when people go on tour they usually pencil us in for a little session.  Just think about those poor people who live in places like Ekalaka, Montana, population 410.  Do you think the Backstreet Boys ever think about them when they are making their tour schedules?  I think not!!!  Yet they do think about us, and thank God for that.  We get two shows!!  How many does Ekalaka get?  I am going to guess a big fat zero, and that's just not fair to the good people of Ekalaka.  I would glady give them one of our Backstreet Boy shows, shit I will be even more generous and give them both of them.  Without that one that is missing it's just not the same.  Free (whoever is missing)!!!  Or R.I.P. or Good decision to not cling so pathetically to your past glory!!!  At least their groupies are legal now.  Go get em boys!!

There are always a ton of great shows in the Bay Area, despite the aforementioned BSB (That's how the kids say it right?) show.  After the jump some real shows that are worth attending.