lo-budge media library

YouTube – “Empire State of Mind” Jay-Z | Alicia Keys [OFFICIAL VIDEO].

Man, I’m getting old.  This song is like one of the biggest ever and I just heard it for the first time a week ago!  Sometimes I think I live in [...]

YouTube – Dinosaur.Jr – Muck (1991).

This has always been my favorite Dinosaur Jr song.   The three rhythm instruments sound great together, and the J Mascis guitar soloing doesn’t get too out of hand.  I need to buy this album again, it has been lost over the years.

They are expecting snow this weekend in Durham, and I [...]

YouTube – Old Black Dawning – Frank Black.

The audio quality isn’t great on this video, but it’s the only one I could find for this song.

Tonight I will finally have some time to update some of the pages that have old or erroneous info on them on this site, and maybe upload a few more photos [...]

YouTube – Kinski “The Wives of Artie Shaw”.

This is a great instrumental band from Seattle that I saw a few times when I lived there, featuring the phenomenal drumming of my acquaintance Barrett Wilke.

Gavin Rhodes sent me this article last week.  It’s The Cure’s Roger O’Donnell reminiscing about the making of Disintegration, and it was a [...]

YouTube – The Specials – Do The Dog – Edinburgh Corn Exchange 12.11.2009.

From Chris:

I saw the coachella band listing for 2010 and noticed the Specials are playing. They got back together in 2009 with the entire original line-up of the band including lead singer, Terry Hall, but without the original keyboard player, Jerry Dammers. I got a [...]

YouTube – Ride- Vapour Trail.

I have been searching for this song on YouTube forever, and finally somebody posted it.  I guess I should have done it myself rather than waiting around for somebody else to do it.  This song reminds me of Albuquerque.

Greg Golden and I traveled to Oxford after a summer in Spain when we [...]

YouTube – Cornelius – Mic Check.

This is another song I haven’t listened to since I lived in San Francisco – I almost forgot about Cornelius’ album Fantasma, but I’m glad I remembered it.

I started to go through Nick’s cassette tapes last night, but so far I have most of what he gave me up on the [...]

YouTube – The Beta Band – Dry The Rain.

This song will always remind me of Seattle.  The first time I went there, Greg Golden picked me up at the airport wearing full long-underwear grunge-gear (as a jokingly throw-back Seattle grunge-style slacker) and I didn’t even recognize him.  We listened to this song the next day on [...]

YouTube – Love tko teddy pendergrass.

From Chris:

Teddy Pendergrass died on Wednesday.
This is my favorite T.P. track.  I love [...]

YouTube – M.I.A. – Paper Planes.

I have been listening to this song enough in the past few months to warrant posting it up on here.  I think the sample of “Straight to Hell” by The Clash is done very well.

I forgot to mention that Nick gave me a stack of old tapes while I was in [...]