Best Songs Ever (of the Day)

In which I post links to songs that I feel are the best songs ever. No offense to your best songs ever.

Apr 6th, 2012 @ 12:15 pm

Design the label for I Come to Shanghai’s Eternal Life LP

We’re on the verge of having our new record pressed. We just have one difficult little detail: We need labels. Are you a designer? Are you interested in working for a music-based reward? We are taking submissions for label designs. The label will have to feature the following information:

1. It needs to incorporate the logo for our label (below) and be accompanied by “Texachusetts Records”

https://docs.google.com/open?id=1Q2VXez0CFy43LftN4pp1hlsTljaE292TtLB8z9-_Qzlbm7Bv-xkSXwyC_Tjz

2. Only one color can be used. The background will be white. So black and white, grey and white, whatever.

3. It needs to say “Eternal Life Vol. 1” (or 2) and feature the tracklast from the record (available here:www.icometoshanghai.com)

We’re thinking something classic looking like the image above, but we’re open to ideas.

The winning design, should one emerge, will gain its creator the following items: A copy of the LP, a copy of the super limited Visible Cow Sketches cassette, and (drumroll) an MP3 of an unreleased I Come to Shanghai song. This song will not be released. You will be the only person outside the band to possess it.

Tweet mock-ups to @robertashley

We’ll be checking out everything. Thanks for your help!

Mar 7th, 2012 @ 12:13 pm

“Another Holiday/My Favorite Drug” from our new album Eternal Life Vol. 2. Get it early by supporting us on Kickstarter.

Feb 20th, 2012 @ 12:37 pm

Cover image for I Come to Shanghai Eternal Life Vol 2, out soonish.

Nov 15th, 2011 @ 10:54 am

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A mixtape by I Come to Shanghai

NO DUGS DJ, a new mixtape by my band, I Come to Shanghai.

Tracklist:

Yellow Magic Orchestra “Behind the Mask”
Vera “Take Me to the Bridge”
Geinoh Yamashirosumi “Primordial Germination”
Gas “Untitled 2”
Tom Zé “Só (Solidão)”
Cocteau Twins “Lazy Calm”
Big K.R.I.T. “Highs and Lows”
Aphex Twin “Fingerbib”
Black Milk and Danny Brown “Zap”
White Noise “Hidden Dreams”
Robert Wyatt “At Last I Am Free”
Killer Mike “Ric Flair”
Deerhoof “Running Thoughts”
Walker Brothers “The Electrician”
James Carr “Dark End of the Street”
Led Zeppelin “Down by the Seaside”
Kraftwerk “Kometenmelodie 2”
Otis Rush “Violent Love”
Duke Ellington “Fleurette Africaine”
Broadcast “Where Youth and Laughter Go”

Download link (mediafire)

Jan 31st, 2011 @ 9:32 am

Mixtape: Deerhoof is Animals

In preparation to see Deerhoof (one of my favorite bands) this week, I decided to make an evangelizing mixtape for a friend. I’m the kind of person who gets sucked into things like this, so I went all out. This is the result. Deerhoof are on tour right now. You should see them if they get anywhere close to your home town. This is one solid file, no individual tracks. Tracklist (with Amazon links to the albums)

1. Dummy Discards A Heart (Apple ‘O)

2. The Eyebright Bugler, edited (Reveille)

3. Running Thoughts (The Runners Four)

4. No One Asked to Dance (Deerhoof vs. Evil)

5. Sealed with a Kiss, edited (Apple ‘O)

6. Flower (Apple ‘O)

7. New Sneakers (Milk Man)

8. Milk Man (Milk Man)

9. Hark the Umpire, snippet (Reveille)

10. Chandelier Searchlight (Offend Maggie)

11. Spirit Ditties of No Tone, edited (The Runners Four)

12. Adam + Eve Connection, edited (Apple O’)