Ear Candy: Classical Edition

Gustav Holst, The Planets, Mars

This is my favorite piece from Holst's The Planets. It inevitably is compared to The Imperial March from Star Wars, but it was written first and is decidedly better (not to knock John Williams at all; I love his work).

Please to enjoy my ruling planet, Mars.

Ear Candy: Keane

Keane, Hamburg Song

Ear Candy: Gossip

GODDAYUM I love this fucking betch. She would be my best friend, if I could track her down long enough to enchant her with my enchantingness.

This is Gossip's Standing in the Way of Control



Be on the lookout for my upcoming love fest/culture investigation on Gossip at The Music is the Message. And just go check it out, because the writers there are eff bomb fucking awesome.

Kisses!

Boo

Ear Candy: Rasputina

Here is an incredibly beautiful cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here by one of my favorite bands, Rasputina.



Also, be on the lookout for new posts back on The Music is the Message, coming soon!

Ear Candy: Get Out, Get Out of My Life

Thanks Jules. This fits my mood exactly today. And I don't know whether you like the Supremes version better or not, but I need a bit of 80s attitude with my music today.

Kim Wilde, You Keep Me Hanging On

Ear Candy: NIN

This is for my cyberlover, PissBoy. I hate you. Like, a lot. And I want to cradle your organs in an Easter basket at Thanksgiving dinner.

Please to enjoy Closer.



Call me when you wanna blow up something.

Ear Candy (?): Europe

This is for you, Jules!

Ear Candy: Movement

This song is irrevocably stuck in my head for the foreseeable future.

LCD Soundsystem's "Movement"

Ear Candy: I'm Afraid of Americans

David Bowie, I'm Afraid of Americans (featuring Trent Reznor)

Ear Candy: Between the Buried and Me

A new metal post on the music blog, y'all.

Here is Between the Buried and Me, Prequel to the Sequel.

Ear Candy: Backyard Betty

HAPPY AMERICA!!

I hope you all get a little backyard action this holiday weekend. Oh yeah, you know what I mean.

To kick off my first post at Music is the Message, here is Spank Rock's Backyard Betty.

NOT safe for work, y'all.

Ear Candy: Say My Name, Say My Name, Say My Stupid Name

Ah, The Bird & The Bee.

Enjoy Again and Again.

Ear Candy, Kinda

Grab your middle school make out partner and sway to this one, mugs.



Sorry. I couldn't help myself...

The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had...

Ear Candy: The Raconteurs

I feel exactly like this today. Video and all.


The Raconteurs -- Salute Your Solution






And just because I totally love this song and this video, and I was reminded by G. Michael on American Idol last night, here's Freedom, and a never hotter Linda Evangelista.

Ear Candy: Hooverphonic

Big thanks to my super hip, super gorgeous friend N. McConville for turning me on to Hooverphonic.

This is 2 Wicky.

Ear Candy: Spank Rock

Dirty, sexual, electronic, bumpin'.....

I can't NOT dance when I hear this.

Featuring: Spank Rock
Song: Backyard Betty
Album: Yoyoyoyoyoyo

Tonight Only!

In the Asheville area? Enjoy local live music? Have a hankering for whiskey, tits, and beer? Is your name Buck?

Come see the country-heavy honky tonk stylings of the Two Dollar Pistols. Knowingly cared-for and loved in my drunken wandering days (i.e. "college").

Be Like Herbie and Hand you a Cock

Well, it's about fucking time.
Not that the Grammy's are any big shakes, but I just want to give a congrats to my man, Herbie Hancock, and say that—aside from having the coolest fucking name in history—he can now claim a Best Album Grammy for his latest release, "River: The Joni Letters."


Either the academy has lost their fucking minds, or have finally acquired some taste. I'm thinking it's a temporary release from their usual state of fuckitude.

Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the strangest music video ever to be put to celluloid (and really, the strongest testament to the fact that the 80s were a complete waste; gotta love 'em!!).

Herbie Hancock's Rockit



And from the winning album, "Court and Spark," with Norah Jones.

The Only Thing I Liked About A Knight's Tale Was You...

Please, do yourself a favor and watch this Ben Harper music video, directed by Heath Ledger. It is a gorgeous song and a beautiful video, and strangely captures in music how I feel about Ledger's death. And then do yourself another and go to this amazing woman's blog and read her personal touch with this man.

Rest peacefully, HL.

Ben Harper's Morning Yearning