GO AWAY FOR X-MAS

Posted on December 13th, 2009 by ekko

A few Christmas shout outs today!

Cover Me is tweeting a Christmas cover every day for each of the 25 days before the big day!

Cover Lay Down covered some snow songs.

Suburban Sprawl has a shitload of free Santa tunes here, like this Holiday classic: Santa Just Crashed Into My House and He’s Drunk as Fuck-Arranged Marriage.

And finally, with the purchase of certain featured new releases at independent record stores, you will receive a free RED Best of 2009 sampler CD. The albums that come with the sampler aren’t independent, but some of them are pretty good. They include Cage The Elephant, Passion Pit, Phish, Phoenix, and The White Rabbits (4th best album of the year!). The sampler isn’t new stuff, it’s stuff from some of 2009 albums. Still, it’s free, so buy someone White Rabbits for X-Mas and keep the sampler for yourself!

BONUS: One of rap’s most talented underground MCs, Elzhi, is offering a free street album, with production from the likes of Black Milk and others.  Go here for details.  Here’s a sample:

Red Black and Green-Elzhi (Produced by Black Milk)

Tags: Go away, Hip Hop, Picture of the day, X-Mas

VIDEO OF THE DAY

Posted on December 12th, 2009 by ekko

Tags: Boobies, Video of the day

MERRY CHRISTMAS . . . Let’s get this pagan shopoliday started right!

Posted on December 12th, 2009 by ekko

Yesterday’s live show was just the beginning . . . Berkeley Place will continue its Christmas coverage for the rest of the Holiday season, with at least one X-Mas song every day.  It’s gonna more fun than a barrel of monkeys!

And I’m starting with The Greatest Christmas Song Of All Time . . .

Santa Claus Has Got The A.I.D.S. This Year-Tiny Tim

(mediafire link)

Come back tomorrow and bring your friends!

Tags: Monkeys, Picture of the day, X-Mas

THE GREAT NEIL YOUNG GIVEAWAY

Posted on December 11th, 2009 by ekko

Who doesn’t like Neil Young?

Even if you’re a right winger, you have to admire the grit of a musician willing to go up against MTV back in the 1980s, the longevity of someone who sold records back when they are records and continues to move digital downloads, and the skill of a man who can craft pop songs, protest songs, and ballads that make you want to kill youself. And he walks the walk, too, with his work for the Bridge School and support for various other charitable and political causes.

Plus, he makes some damn fine music that everyone can love. Don’t like the heroin-induced desperation of “Helpless” or “Needle and the Damage Done”? Then turn to fast-paced rockers like “Mr. Soul,” “Like a Hurricane,” or “Rockin’ in the Free World.” Want something gentler? There’s “A Man Needs a Maid” and “Comes a Time.” Prefer your music protest-folky? Then he’s got “Ohio” and “Southern Man.” Want more violence? Check out “Down by the River” or “Powderfinger.” Prefer something that sounds more modern? Check out “Let’s Roll,” “This Note’s For You” or even “Cinnamon Girl”—an old song that’s timeless. Face it, I could spend a page writing about the man’s music.

It’s about giving you something really cool. Like a copy of “Dreaming Man,” a concert of Neil’s classic Harvest Moon album, drawn from solo acoustic shows of his 1992 tour. If you’ve never had the chance to hear him acoustic, it’s a treat. I’ve seen him twice and heard countless boots of it, and the ’92 tour is among his best work. Plus, the actual studio album relied on The Stray Gators band, but here you get to hear Neil working the songs out solo. I have two copies to give away. It’s in celebration of the 17-year anniversary of Harvest Moon.

Here are some .mov files from the label:

Dreamin’ Man

One Of These Days

Purchase Dreamin Man here.

But the grand prize is Neil Young’s Archives, Volume 1. It’s 8 CDs recorded between 1963 up through 1972 (when he released Harvest—one of the greatest rock albums of all time). There’s stuff from Buffalo Springfield, CSN&Y, and plenty of Crazy Horse material. No, you’re not imagining this. I really have one to give away. I haven’t been blessed to hear it yet, but I’ve been told that the sound quality is a vast improvement over the original releases (much of the boxed set contains material that has previously been available elsewhere).

It’s like a starter-kit for a Neil Young fan who doesn’t own a lot of his early stuff—or who only has it on vinyl or audiotape (guilty!).

Another .mov file from the label:

Harvest Moon

HOW TO WIN:

Drop a comment with your e-mail and your favorite Neil lyric. Winners will be chosen at random in one week, and will be contacted by the e-mail in the comment. So if you leave out your e-mail, you can’t win. And if you don’t check your e-mail within 24 hours after I send you the “winner” notice, I’m moving on to the next guy. I’ve got one archives and two copies of Dreaming Man to offer, so your odds are looking pretty good here.

And how about a few covers to tide you over—or console you if you don’t win the giveaway?

Heart of Gold-Bettye Lavette

Neil Young-Dana Carvey

Splendid Isolation-Neil Young and Warren Zevon (direct link)

Mr. Soul-Uncle Tupelo

Rockin in the Free World-Drive-By Truckers (direct link)

CONTEST CLOSED

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Tags: Classic Rock, Covers, Free Album!

THE MY MORNING JACKET X-MAS PARTY!

Posted on December 11th, 2009 by ekko

And so begins Christmas at Berkeley Place . . .

12/25/2001

Santa Claus is Back in Town
X-mas Curtain (jazzy version)
O Holy Night (shoes interruption)
Christmas Time Is Here Again (Bring Out the Joy!)
Silent Night

1/30/02

One Big Holiday

Tags: Bootleg, Indie rock, X-Mas

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Posted on December 10th, 2009 by ekko

Is it sick that I find this sexy?

Tags: Bestiality, Picture of the day

BREAKING BATMAN NEWS

Posted on December 10th, 2009 by ekko

I just read that Grant Morrison is writing Bruce Wayne’s return.  Bruce finds him not dead after Final Crisis but actually thrown through time, and he’ll be trying to get back to his place in time.  Holy Captain America rip off, Batman!  Except that at one point, he’ll be a pirate.  Holy Fantastic Four rip off, Batman!  I just don’t get the appeal of most of Morrison’s work.  Final Crisis was incomprehensible and Batman R.I.P. was mis-titled and incredibly confusing.  It’s like it had good elements of a story, but no actual narrative.

Tags: Grant Morrison Sucks, The Caped Crusader

THE CURE COVERS . . . A to Z

Posted on December 10th, 2009 by ekko

When I was in college, all the hot girls had the Cure singles collection. If you wanted to make time, you had to be willing to sit through Cure albums. Over time, the Eurosadness grew on me. Hence, today’s tribute . . . There’s a zip file included in the alphabet, as always. If you like this, please drop a comment and Digg/Stumble/etc.

A is for A Forest and B is for Bat for Lashes.  When you see B4L, you pretty much don’t need to ask any questions.

C is for Charlotte Sometimes-Lesbos in Love.

D is for Dinosaur Jr.-Just Like Heaven.  Not great quality, but it’s Dino J!

E is for Elk City-Close to Me.  I really dig this one, for some reason.

F is for Friday I’m in Love-Counting Crows.

F is also for the fat lesbian in the picture to the left . . .

G is for is for David Gray’s take on Friday I’m in Love.

H is for Hired Hands-Close to Me. The James Brown funk/R&B version. Interesting.

I is for the inhumanity in David Sugar’s electronica version of Just Like Heaven.  Brrrr!  So cold!

J is for Just Like Heaven-Equaleyes. Kind of a Counting Crows take on the much-covered tune.

K is for Friday I’m In Love-Kurtis Peoples.  I know he spells it with a “C” , but I’m desperate for a K.

L is for Love Song-Death Cab for Cutie

M is for A Forest-Mood Doculators. Very long, trippy jam. The Cure does lend themselves to jamband covers, oddly enough.

N and O are for NO songs for N and O.

P is for Love Song-Proper Gander. There’s a bit of crowd noise on this one, but it’s still very clear. I really enjoy this take on the song. It takes it into the “classic rock” sound, out of mope rock.

Q is for quirky Tori Amos doing Love Song.

R is for Razorlight-Boys Don’t Cry.

S is for So Human (Cure remix)-Lady Sovereign

T is for Just Like Heaven-Tristan Prettyman. A very sweet acoustic take. Love this version.

V is for Vengeance . . . Close to Me (Vengeance Mash Up)-Lil’ Wayne vs. The Cure.

W is for Just Like Heaven-The Watson Twins.  Don’t miss this slow, sad version.  Hot stuff.

W is for Why?’s cover of “Close to Me.”  They’re going for a creepyslow thing here.

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Tags: A to Z, Covers, Indie rock

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Posted on December 9th, 2009 by ekko

Tags: Bears, Chainsaws!, Picture of the day

REAL T@LK-Mo’ Better Mixtape

Posted on December 9th, 2009 by ekko

I heard of this tape through Smoking Section.  I don’t really see the connection between this tape and the Spike Lee film, but who cares?  Authentik Made is a stellar street producer, and the unsigned Chicago rapper Brandon “Real T@lk” Williams is the real thing.  He won a mention The Source’s unsigned hype column, if that means anything to anyone, but, more importantly, he’s fucking fiya!

Taste it:

Little Bit

R.A.W./Shimmy Shimmy Ya

Get it! (zshare)

And now, as a bonus, one of the best mixtapes of all time!

NAS and DJ GREEN LANTERN-The Nigger Mixtape

Here’s the tracklisting, but unfortunately, it’s all on one track.

1 Intro 0:35
2 Gangsta Rap Rmx 1:41
3 Cops Keep Firing 3:23
4 Hero 4:26
5 Black President feat. Johnny Polygon 4:51
6 Association feat. Stic.Man 5:37
7 Legendary (Mike Tyson) 3:06
8 Ghetto Rmx feat. Joell Ortiz 3:22
9 Seen It All 1:29
10 Esco Let’s Go (Full Song) 3:53
11 N.I.G.G.E.R. (Slave And Master) 4:19
12 Be A Nigger Too Rmx feat. Dante Hawkins 3:19
13 Surviving The Times 3:34
14 Nas Timeline 8:48
15 Outro feat. Richard Pryor 0:55

Get it.

Tags: Hip Hop, Mixtape