Give a Listen : Discovery

The new LP by Discovery (the side project of Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot) is crucial summertime tunage. It's like a kooky mix of a white boy R&B singer and electro-pop. The "I Want You Back" MJ track is quite refreshing. The album dropped yesterday and is available on iTunes.

It’s Not My Fault (It’s My Fault)

So Insane

Discovery //on MySpace // Buy the music here

Summertime Tune

Back from Texas and in need of a tune for work time inspiration. This is working quite nicely.
Nickodemus: Sun People MP3

No Temperature Days

So this is my inner 70s dad moment. You know when the temperature outside is neither hot nor cold and you don't know whether to wear that jacket and be a little warm or just put on the t-shirt and be chilly? Well, here's the perfect solution...via the genius at A Time To Get: The Short Sleeve Sweatshirt! Just like my pops used to wear to embarrass the heck out of me when he picked me up from school. Ah, dad. Love you.

Do-It-Yourself Art Kits

Crafters (and those without any artistic inclination) unleash your inner bad boy/girl with IArtistLondon's make-it-yourself kits that deconstruct original works of art that may cost thousands even millions of dollars. These kits cost a fraction more than the sum of their parts. Hey, it's all about art for the people. My favorites include the kit 'for the love of god' by damien hirst and kit of banksy graffiti. Get one now and impress your friends. http://www.iartistlondon.com

Wall of Sound

In honor of the craz-ma-taze Phil Spector, who was recently found guilty of murdering a woman (umm, special), I wanted to post this amazing song by the Flirtations: "Nothing But a Heartache" –a perfect example of Spector's Wall of Sound, which Wikipedia defines as "a music production technique for pop and rock music recordings that has a number of electric and acoustic guitarists performing the same parts in unison, adding musical arrangements for large groups of musicians up to the size of orchestras, and then recording the sound using an echo chamber."

Guten Nacht Music

I think I am in need of some hot Texas nights sitting out on the back porch listening to songs like Karen Dalton's In the Evening and Merle Haggard's Warm Red Wine.

One of my most favorite places

Out in west Texas, life's little problems don't seem so bad. Click here to see a time lapse video of the night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. If you haven't had a chance to see how the stars at night are big and bright, make your way out there pronto.