June 2009 - BK

Ok here's my first posting. This things a bit of an experiment, basically feeling the loss of MixTapeMassive, feeling the distance from my L.A. crew, my N.Z. crew, and as I've long felt that communication is best done via music or the internet or preferably both at once, I thought it'd be nice to stay up with what's what by telling people what tunes are stuck in your head recently. So it's not intended to be an outcooling each other contest with knowledge of obscure sh*t or whatevs, in fact quite the opposite, more like a 'haha Can't Get You Out Of My Head has been stuck in my head all month, how embarrassing, plus I just heard this great tune by Johnny Cash that I'd never heard before' kind of deal. Not that there's anything wrong with obscurity and coolness either..

SO. The only rules are to post no more than once per month, and to post no more than three songs per post. The idea is to have a wide variety of voices, and not to overwhelm people with content. As an experiment, and as extra for experts, it'd be cool if you could also upload the actual mp3s, and point a link on your posting to direct people there (I like to use http://www.boxstr.com/). I'm not sure how long that'll last, but I figure an mp3 here and there is not gonna kill any artist, to the contrary I strongly believe that a site like this will encourage people to explore more music and discover new artists so if any artist or the people at Blogger think differently please contact me first before suing me or taking down this blog! (brendankayes at gmail)

So, recently I've been listening to a bunch of random stuff. My favo(u)rite three tunes of the bunch are probably, in no particular order:

My Boyfriend's Back, as performed by the Paper Dolls

Learned to Surf, by Superchunk

and, Love Against The Wall, by Gyptian

They can be downloaded here:

http://boxstr.com/files/5608178_hzbrq/BrendanJuly2009.zip

churs,b

P.S. I'm not sure if a single .zip file or three mp3 files are easier for people to manage? (please let me know..). The individual mp3s can be downloaded here:

http://boxstr.com/files/5608136_xt6ul/18%20my%20boyfriend%5C%27s%20back.mp3

http://boxstr.com/files/5608137_x7bvy/01%20Learned%20to%20Surf.mp3

http://boxstr.com/files/5608135_2nitb/05%20Love%20Against%20The%20Wall.mp3

(you can right click and 'save as' them if using a pc. If using a mac, I'm not sure - mac users please let me know whether you're able to get the songs to play either from the .zip file or the individual files, or both)

P.P.S. Also let me know if there are other people you want me to invite to join as contributors. I think we can have up to 100 people..