Saturday afternoon blues (and rock and disco and doo wop)

Don't forget to tune into Stu and Ben this afternoon if you're (like me) chained to your computer.

Barren Saturday

I'm down in the canyons of Wall Street this afternoon, putting my time in, and deciding when and where to go later on for the last day of CMJ. I was think of dropping by a couple of houses, and then seeing if I can get into Justice at the new Terminal 5. Amy and I (and Philip and Meredith (of Girl Robot fame) and John and lots of others) saw Ghostland Observatory at Webster Hall. I loved it. I have a write up ready (at least in my head!), but I can't post anything at the imeem site at the moment for reasons that are unclear to me. I did manage to put up some photos, and if the technical stuff sorts itself out, I'll have two nights of reports to file. I might just post them here, who knows. (You can at least see my photos here.)

In other news, Boring Liverpool were gifted a win at Everton, and Boring Bolton were gifted a loss at Arsenal. (Roll on next weekend, but I'll be watching on tape delay.) And Oklahoma is in the fourth quarter trying to beat the vaunted Iowa State Cyclones.

Mr. Rogers at Iceland Airwaves 2007

You all know Stu. He'd be here covering CMJ himself, if he weren't in Iceland covering the Iceland Airwaves festival for the second year running. This year they've really gone mega, and Stu is the official video podcast presenter for the festival. You can see and hear him here. And if you're in Iceland this weekend, you can see and hear him in person--he's scored a Saturday night DJ set!

BE PART

BE PART by Kocky (feat. Jens Lekman & Rosanna).

You may recall (I'm sure you do!) that last December we posted a podcast that Stu did with Jens Lekman over in Iceland. You can watch it again here. During their little chat, Stu asked Jens how his new record was coming along, and Jens said it was almost finished. Fast forward to today and it is quite finished (but hasn't yet been released in the U.S.A.). Definitely pick it up on October 9, it's excellent.

Jens was also talking about about how much he enjoyed collaborating with other artists in the podcast, and today's track is the fruit of one such collaboration. What little I've read about Kocky is his debut album was a big deal this summer in Sweden, and on the evidence of "Be Part" (aka "Be Part Of It All"?), the hype is deserved. It's pop electronic dance music not a million miles from Justice or Daft Punk. It's so good it has a video! Check it out below the fold.



LISTEN.

Photo: Ceiling cracks (2).

Valgeir Podcast

Hit the "Read More..." button to go to another podcast from Iceland Airwaves. Stu did this one with Valgeir Sigurðsson, who's done a lot of work with Björk in the past, and who gives an interesting, bouncy interview.


Three more songs to go on the mix, and we'll post the entire thing in a zip file around Christmas Day.

Jens Lekman Podcast

Below the fold, check out Iceland Airwave's latest podcast with Jens Lekman. Some of you may recognize our man Stuart doing the honors.


More here. Back tomorrow with more tunes!