Garfield minus Garfield

http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb. 

Shmu ~ Pictionary

Shmu is Sam Chown, who you might know from his other project Zorch. (What can I say, the guy loves naming bands after made-up words.) Under this guise, Chown builds math-rock shoegaze epics with his sampler and a drum kit. It’s visionary stuff that sounds like heaven and hits like hell. “Pictionary,” from Shmu’s upcoming album Shhh!!!!, grounds the violent percussion and frantic arpeggios of Hella in the breathless dreamscapes of My Bloody Valentine — or rather, it streamlines those unwieldy tempos and instrumental spasms into something more like a tidal wave. There is masterful, inventive musicality at play, but the songwriting is front and center.

http://www.stereogum.com/1829254/shmu-pictionary-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

David Seville -- Gotta Get To Your House

Machtdose podcast, August 2016

http://machtdose.de/podcast-august-2016.html

Nice Pop / Guitar tunes at the beginning, nice House tunes/ Beats at the end. (And the middle isn’t too bad either).

1. Circarama – Sweet Shining [Yes No Wave Music yesno079] 
2. The Hollow Horse – jealousy 
3. Carsie Blanton – To Be Known 
4. Carsie Blanton – Hot Night 
5. Coastals – Nervous 
6. Assets – Stargazing 
7. Camp Shy – Crimson Nirnroot 
8. Reflector (Madrid) – Carreta y banda 
9. Mihassan – Estoy muy guapo 
10. F ∆ U X E – Zen 
11. Alaplaj – satisfied 
12. PLC – too low (diss track) 
13. Just Muz – Expensive Coffee 
14. Jeff kaale – For love 
15. skrittzy. & wildsters – novocaine 
16. WANDERTALK – S Y N T H C H A S E R 
17. Infinitefreefall – Gutted [Collected Recordings CR27] 
18. A Himitsu – Reminisce 
19. Oudeis – Near Spaces 
20. Counterfly – city of thoughts [broque brq110] 
21. redredred – how to overcome excessive demand [sonic moiré SOMO006] 
22. Chebov – Countdown To [Subwise] 

J Burn

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/J_Burn/
http://jburnmusic.com/

"Jay Burn is a singer, songwriter from the San Francisco Bay Area. With influences ranging from The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash to Neil Young, Tom Petty and more eclectic ones, like Sparklehorse. Jack Johnson and Foy Vance are a couple of the contemporary musicians he has been compared to."

Couch Gag from "Clown In The Dumps" | THE SIMPSONS | ANIMATION on FOX

This Simpsons couch gag video was created by Don Hertzfeld.

The Academy Award–nominated independent filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt has amassed a major cult following for his meticulously crafted animated movies, which includes the shorts Rejected (2000), The Meaning of Life(2005), Everything Will Be OK (2006), and I Am So Proud of You (2008) and the feature It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012). In September 2014, Hertzfeldt created an elaborate and surreal opening couch gag for The Simpsons, envisioning what the long-running series might look like in its eight hundredth season.

- The Criterion Collection
http://www.criterion.com/explore/225-don-hertzfeldt-s-top-10

Explone

http://blog.kexp.org/2016/08/26/song-of-the-day-explone-born-at-the-wrong-time/

Explone – Born at the Wrong Time (MP3)

Seattle rock group Explone has been making airy pop with a classic rock undertow with great success since 2005. The four-piece flaunts a guitar driven sound that lead man Patrick Porter explores with his lofty voice and uplifting hooks. It’s certainly music that brings an element of euphoria to its listeners, so it’s no surprise that Porter described their newest album as a “quest for joy.” However, it is surprising that Porter credits the inspiration for the album to a suicide fence on the Aurora Bridge – a not exactly joy inducing object. But while the music of Explone has always been about making joy tangible through music, it has been equally committed to drawing it from a place of melancholy. The sentiment certainly explains why and how Porter found joy in the dark connotations of the bridge, seeing beauty in the possibility that the fence could prevent a suicide and lead to someone possibly living a longer, happier life. The inspiration of the fence, and the theme of generating joy through its absence that it led to, is displayed seamlessly throughout the album as Porter has crafted ten songs full of melancholy laced lyrics that swell and rise with joyous melodies.

Today’s Song of the Day, album cut “Born at the Wrong Time”, captures the duality of the album excellently, as the song generates pleasant sounds while Porter sings “its never going to get easier for you.” The guitar driven track displays both the punch of punk riffs and the guitar driven melodies of classic rock while Porter’s voice climbs and soars. The song’s classic rock tint certainly displays why the group may have been born in the wrong time, and the lyrics certainly highlight what a tragedy it is, but Exploner surely isn’t offended by listeners finding joy in their melancholy.

- Geran Landen, KEXP

Meatballs - Official Trailer

Meatballs is a 1979 Canadian comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman. It is noted for Bill Murray's first film appearance in a starring role and for launching Reitman into a distinguished career of financially successful comedies including Stripes (1981) and Ghostbusters (1984), both starring Murray. The film also introduced child actor Chris Makepeace in the role of Rudy Gerner. It was followed by several sequels, of which only Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986) had any connection to the original.

• According to the DVD commentary, scenes of the first day of camp were the first day of actual shooting for Bill Murray. He was signed to do the film at the last minute because of his commitment to Saturday Night Live. His outfit, the Hawaiian shirt and red shorts, were the clothes he was wearing when he showed up on set.
• Harold Ramis said that Reitman did not know for certain whether Murray would be in the movie until he showed up for the first day of filming.^[3]

All About Free Music

https://www.mixcloud.com/whitemarketpodcast/session-304-all-about-free-music/

http://www.whitemarketpodcast.co.uk/podcasts/2016/08/04/session-3-04/

White Market Podcast
Session 3.04 – All About Free Music

With great records and amazing throwbacks, this week’s session was all about free music. We visited some of the best (in)active netlabels, played some records that were just sort ot out of the press and heard songs in Swedish, Ukrainian and Spanish. This on top of the usual English-sung tracks, of course. This was also a particularly rich session in terms of music genres, as we covered a hand-full of them: indie, rock, pop, house and even tango.

Youthless – The Beasts [Bad Panda Records] // CC BY-NC-SA
Tobias Borelius – Bokslut [23 Seconds] // CC BY-NC-ND
Strawberry Blonde – Young Days [Bandcamp] // CC BY-NC-ND
The Mythics – Love Me Like You [The Beehive Recording Company] // CC BY-NC-ND
Amanda Palmer – Smile (Pictures or It Didn’t Happen) [Self-published] // CC BY-NC-SA
Neon NiteClub – Fly [Jamendo] // CC BY
Mike B. Fort – The Summer Is Gone [FMA] // CC BY
Sykt Barn – Solemn Vigil [Mars Melons] // CC BY-NC
Crossworlds – Rain [Southern City’s Lab] // CC BY-NC-SA
Rowan Box –  Diverdance [M.I.S.T. Records] // CC BY-NC-SA
Push Against New Fakes – Let Me Drown [Stato Ellectrico] // CC BY-NC-ND
LAKEY INSPIRED – Memories With You [Soundcloud] // CC BY-NC-SA
Ancient Lasers – When Are We [Clinical Archives] // CC BY-NC-ND
Veronica Bozko – Nostalgias [Casa Rara] // CC BY-NC-SA