The Existential Adventures of Tim Maia: Nobody Can Live Forever

Narrated by Devendra Banhart.

This is the story of Tim Maia, possibly the greatest (and craziest) soul singer you never heard of. Infamous in Brazil, Tim was a soul grenade that exploded in the 70s. He single handedly revolutionized Brazilian popular music and had the best time ever doing it. His story is one of humourous excess in every way imaginable and there’s something for all the family: drugs, women, money, guns and even a UFO cult thrown in. He REALLY lived the dream, always with a smile.

This animated film has been created in a close collaboration between SuperHeroes Amsterdam, ShopAround and record label Luakabop, to celebrate Tim’s album launch and introduce the world to a soul superstar. After a decade of legal wrangling, Luaka Bop’s Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia is a fifteen track survey of Maia’s 1970s recordings, completely remastered and packed with the sweetest warmest sun drenched soul you can imagine.

So don your white robes, drop a tab or two and get wild for Tim Maia’s first big worldwide release. VIVA TIM!

allisonweiss:

Allison Weiss - “I’m Ready”

Track 10 of my monthly series The Teenage Years is an old fan favorite, completely re-vamped by the one and only Bess Rogers (producer!!). It features guitars and bass by Chris Kuffner, drums by Zach Jones, synths by Joanna Katcher, more guitars and vocals by yours truly.

FOR A GOOD CAUSE: From now until Dec 1st, I’ll be collecting the proceeds from the sale of this song and donating them to Renegade Sandy Relief, a 100% direct action grassroots initiative working to assist in relief/rebuilding the most devastated regions of New York City post-Hurricane Sandy. I love what they’ve been doing and I want to help them out!

You can buy it for $1 or you can buy it for more. You can reblog this post and spread the word. Even if only 10% of you buy the song, we’ll raise a ton of money to buy supplies for families in need!! 

DOWNLOAD “I’M READY” AND HELP REBUILD POST-SANDY NY

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allisonweiss:

TODAY IS A BIG DAY

Hey world! I’m here to tell you I’ve officially signed to No Sleep Records. A year ago I launched a Kickstarter project with the goal of taking things to the next level. Since then I’ve been working day and night, putting together a team of people who believe in what I’m doing the way that I do. The time has finally come. Here’s what’s up:

+ “Making it Up” is the first single. STREAM IT TODAY at Spinner.com. They also had some really nice things to say about me, I’m BLUSHING.

+ Making it Up has its very own 7”, out in Jan 29 through No Sleep. Get an instant download of the song when you pre-order the 7” here!

+ The upcoming full-length is scheduled for a Spring 2013 release through No Sleep! I could tell you the title right now or I could make you wait! Isn’t this FUN?!

Everything is happening!

Thank you for being here for it.

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Depth Of Field Magazine presents

A CELEBRATION OF POP MUSIC COMICS!

Featuring an astounding line-up of artists, writers, and commentators, including Charles Soule, Avi Spivak, Jamal Igle, Elizabeth Keenan, Andrew Robinson, John Holmstrom, Ronald Wimberly, David Gallaher, Kieron Gillen, Joe Keatinge, Vivek J. Tiwary, and other special guests. 

Katie Mullins’ Second Album

Visit this young lady’s SoundCloud and get a better taste for her music, then help support this new album, then go see her live. She’s really quite extraordinary.

MyMusic: It Begins Again (Episode 1)

Do I hate that it’s based on trite stereotypes? Yes. Though the way they did it really was overt and works well with the comedic timing.

Plus, Grace Helbig. Go watch & subscribe.

bbook:

Five Albums You Should Be Listening to Right Now: Under the Radar

austinkleon:

Will Hermes, Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

I had a great time reading this. Hermes presents 1973-1977 NYC in a collage of stories about some of my favorite musicians: The Ramones, Television, Arthur Russell, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Brian Eno…all the snippets quick and loaded with great stuff, which means the reading is really fast (I read it in a couple of days.) Hermes was a teenager during those years, so he laces the narrative with personal stories and cultural context—pot shortages, movies at the box office, blackouts, political elections, etc.

Since I’ve been obsessed lately with “the notion of authenticity,” here’s a paragraph from a NYTimes review:

It’s interesting, in the wake of a ’60s counterculture that embraced (or claimed to) the notion of “authenticity,” how many of those making something new musically a decade later were also making themselves up — taking on names, getting their look down, buying instruments they didn’t know how to play. Tom Miller, a 19-year-old boarding-school bad boy, arrives downtown from Delaware, reads and writes poetry, starts calling himself Tom Verlaine, buys a Fender Jazzmaster and forms the band Television. A teen­ager from the Bronx quits the Black Spades gang, travels to the Ivory Coast and Nigeria, returns, and establishes a party-promoting community organization called the Universal Zulu Nation, with himself as the self-appointed “master of records” — Afrika Bambaataa, he starts calling himself, and begins mixing some of the earliest grooves of hip-hop. And then there were the unrelated kids from Forest Hills who all took on the surname Ramone.

(In the book, 1974 is labelled “Invent Yourself.”)

Some of my other favorite bits:

• The story of Springsteen writing “Hungry Heart” for The Ramones
• The New York Dolls on The Old Grey Whistle Test
• Arthur Russell playing cello on a cut of “Psycho Killer”

Best of all, Jim Higgins made a Spotify playlist to accompany the book.

Recommended!

papergardenrecords:

Paper Garden Records Best of 2011

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thallydraper:

“Crazy Clown Time” | David Lynch

Lynch put down an auto-tuned, Euro-pop-like ditty called ‘Good Day Today’ with the help of his sound engineer, Big Dean Hurley. What he came up with in the months after, however, was a stream of bastardised blues for the unhinged: songs of stalkers, psychos and scoundrels. The resulting Crazy Clown Time is Lynch’s first collection of sounds without long-time collaborator Angelo Badalamenti to guide his muse, though the album inhabits the same esoteric space as ‘The Pink Room’ (from Fire Walk With Me). As Lynch alters his voice between songs, he affects them for melodic monologues worthy of Blue Velvet’s Frank Booth and Wild At Heart’s Bobby Peru. The tracks unfold as scenes that spur your imagination into collaborating, driven on by the sound of the filmmaker’s creeping, reverb-heavy guitar, immersing you in that familiar journey to the world of Lynch.