Author: Jamie

12 Days of Christmas Music: Belle & Sebastian’s Live “Peel Christmas Party”

Back in 2002, our favorite Scottish band Belle & Sebastian recorded a Christmas set for some kind of party thrown by John Peel. What exists of it is a bootleg recording that puts other bootlegs to shame. The quality is awesome and the band is too. They play a bunch of holiday classics as well… Continue reading 12 Days of Christmas Music: Belle & Sebastian’s Live “Peel Christmas Party”

Cheetah Lady

Lets just take a couple minutes out of our day to appreciate Cheetah Lady, shall we? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drI4BRMpaJM] That’s right, she wants a home where she can eat tacos and drink wine. Nothing like those things she already appears to have in those plastic bushes. Just keep in mind she took time to buy that outfit… Continue reading Cheetah Lady

12 Days of Christmas Music: “A Very Special Christmas” (1987)

I know that this album is nothing new, and that by now a lot of the songs on it are considered cheesy or stale. But I think it’s an important landmark in the history of Christmas music, and besides, it has a legitimate Christmas rap song! The 1987 album was the first in a regular… Continue reading 12 Days of Christmas Music: “A Very Special Christmas” (1987)

Bionic Pixie

Straying a bit from Knox Road’s usual music selection is electro-dance-beat-maker Bionic Pixie. The woman behind the sound, Zoe Fleury (best name award?), comes from my favorite country in the world New Zealand and tears down the house. There’s hardly a second to stop and think with her songs. The harsh beats stand out from… Continue reading Bionic Pixie

12 Days of Christmas Music: Weird Collaborations

Day 5 of our Christmas music series goes to those bizarre collaborations that have happened this year. Seriously, I want to see the meeting where these people get together and say “You know what would be swell? Us making a Christmas song together!” “A Christmas Duel” The first track I came across was the duet… Continue reading 12 Days of Christmas Music: Weird Collaborations

12 Days of Christmas Music: Bright Eyes’ “A Christmas Album”

I’m not going to pretend that I like Bright Eyes usually. And that’s because I don’t. But when my good friend and Bright Eyes fan “Donnie” suggested their A Christmas Album, I decided I had to give it a try. As it turns out, it’s a fantastic album. Instead of overdone, sad covers, front man… Continue reading 12 Days of Christmas Music: Bright Eyes’ “A Christmas Album”

Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip Cover Vampire Weekend

Peter Gabriel just recorded a cover of Vampire Weekend’s “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” with Hot Chip. It’s funny because one of the lines of the chorus is “It feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel too.” Ha! How does the Genesis front man handle singing his own name? Well, you’ll just have to listen and see! It’s also a… Continue reading Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip Cover Vampire Weekend

12 Days of Christmas Music: “Christmas on Mars”

The Flaming Lips have been known to be a lot of things. Weird, confusing and insane are just a few. However, they’re also genius and I love them. Lead singer Wayne Coyne first started the ambitious movie/album project “Christmas on Mars” a few years ago, and everybody went crazy with anticipation. After finally being released… Continue reading 12 Days of Christmas Music: “Christmas on Mars”

MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden wrote a song in college about supervolcanoes. AWESOME.

So the story goes that back at Wesleyan College in 2005, MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden wrote a song about supervolcanoes for a class called “Hazardous Earth.” The track was first unearthed by Wesleyan college blog Wesleying and is now all over the place everywhere. He wrote it with some guy who isn’t in MGMT (boring) and… Continue reading MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden wrote a song in college about supervolcanoes. AWESOME.