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Crush On Moms

8 Tracks cover art
8 Tracks cover art (Photo credit: ▓▒░ TORLEY ░▒▓)

It’s a special Mother’s Day episode of Crush On Radio!  What makes it so special?  EVERY ONE OF OUR PICKS HAS BEEN LISTENED TO BY A MOTHER.

Presumably.

We also talk about the idea of the New Michael Jackson, Sunn O))), pretentious and terrible band names, dance punk, pop, Timbaland, Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, racism of the allegedly ironic variety, Track 8 (the app, not the track), Pink Floyd, and Andy Ithnako.  Whose name is really hard to spell.  Did I do it right?

Picks this week: !!!, Justin Timberlake, Wax Fang.

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Crush on Radio Shirt!

Crush On Radio Tee
Crush On Radio Tee

No new Crush On Radio episode this week — we’ll have one next week for you — BUT there is a bit of news!  Mainly that we’ve got a new Crush On Radio Shirt available via Tee-Spring!  It’s $15 (US), plus shipping (which when I ordered 2 shirts was only $4.10 (US, again).  So that’s not too bad at all.  What better way to proclaim your love of a music-based podcast!  (… or, perhaps a certain Visqueen song, but yeah, let’s go with the podcast thing.)

And if you want Kittysneezes stuff — no shirts yet, but you can still get some swag!  Information is here on getting buttons/magnets/stickers for $5 (US – including shipping).  So check it out! Continue reading →

A Platonic Crush on Grimes

Crush (OMD album)
Crush (OMD album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It’s been a little bit due to schedules, but there’s a BRAND NEW CRUSH ON RADIO!  Whooo!  This week, we talk about feminism, feminism, feminism, seeing Sparks live, feminism and Grimes’ recent post cancelling her tour and expressing her dissatisfaction with the music industry!  Also, feminism.

Picks this week are: Harry Nilsson, Kurt Vile and OMD!

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Crush on Zappativland

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andrew (Photo credit: Ben McLeod)

Crush On Radio is back!  I think it’s only been three weeks instead of the normal two?  But it feels a little longer.  It’s kind of funny how that works.  ANYWAY, not only are we back, but Andrew is back with us, making it a full on three-by-three episode that makes things great!  AND apparently the iTunes feed is working again!  (I guess it was busted before.  I believe Rich has some opinions on FeedBurner.)  SO HOORAY!

Anyway, the picks this week were:  Magazine!  Frank Zappa by way of Larry LaLonde! and Negativland!  Check it out!

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Crush On Radio Episode IV: A NEW DOPE

Uncut Dope: Geto Boys' Best
Uncut Dope: Geto Boys’ Best (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today is my dad’s birthday! And to celebrate, Rich and I recorded a new episode of Crush On Radio!  That’s the worst birthday present ever!  But it’s a pretty good episode!  Andrew couldn’t join us (he’ll be here next time!), because he needed to eat lunch.

“OOH LOOK AT ME I’M ANDREW I NEED FOOD TO LIVE WHOO HOO HOOOOOO”

ANYWAY: Rich and I ended up talking about our picks, bitched about Google Reader going away (seriously, what’s the deal) and talked a whole bunch about the new David Bowie record The Next Day, because, um, IT’S DAVID BOWIE’S FIRST RECORD IN A DECADE OF COURSE WE’RE GONNA TALK ABOUT IT.

Picks this week were Bodyparts and the Flying Lizards!

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Kittysneezes Swag!

kittysneezescWell, for minor levels of “Kittysneezes Swag”, anyway.  (And I mean that in the “stuff with our name on it” sense, not the “swagga” sense.  Because you know and I know that Kittysneezes has NONE of that.)  Anyway — if you’re interested in owning some combination of 1″ buttons, 1″ magnets, or Kittysneezes stickers, just reach out to me via the contact page!  They’ll be 5 dollars (‘Murikan) to cover postage.  (You’ll get a handful of everything, so you can keep some, then hand them out to your friends and or enemies!)  The buttons come in a variety of colors and feature our lovely logo as seen here to the left — designed, of course, by the super-talented Janet Bruesselbach.  The stickers come in two varieties – one with our kitty friend there with the Kittysneezes slogan, and the other that’s based off the Kittysneezes video logo (as can be seen in any of these “fine” works of video “art”) designed by the equally super-talented Lee Hughey.

And if Crush On Radio is more your bag, check out the Crush T-Shirt!

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Crush On Radio – Pleasant in the Moment

English: Iman and David Bowie at the 2009 Trib...
English: Iman and David Bowie at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Moon. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In this week’s episode of Crush On Radio, we ask the musical question “Whither The Remix?” And then we realize that question is either musical nor really sensical and so we change it to “what do you think about remixes” and I take the opportunity to ramble on about They Might Be Giants a bit, as is my wont.  We also talk about Tony Visconti, Greg Kurstin, Stickiness, Sorry Sticks and the Sleazy Sounds Of The Seventies.  And DEVO, of course.  Can’t not mention them!

Picks this week are: eels, David Bowie and The Shins!

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Soundtrack Crush

Simon and Garfunkel popularized "El Cóndo...
Simon and Garfunkel popularized “El Cóndor Pasa”, with new lyrics composed by Paul Simon (above) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It was a difficult record with Skype seemingly kicking me off every five minutes, but apparently Rich was able to make a show out of the dribs and drabs of audio information!  It probably sounds pretty good and you probably can’t tell, so I should have kept my mouth shut!  Anyway, this week’s Crush On Radio theme is MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS, and our picks this week are Garden State, The Royal Tenenbaums and The American Astronaut!  Or, I guess if you want artists, Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Simon and The Billy Nayer Show!  (The back-to-back Simons wasn’t planned.  Otherwise I probably would have picked a soundtrack that had Paul Simon on too.)  So go, check it out!

Oddly enough, as I write this, I’m listening to Broadcast’s soundtrack for Berberian Sound Studio.  Funny how that works out.  (It’s pretty cool, by the way.)

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SEASON TWO of CRUSH BEGINS!

iTunes includes visualizers. Shown here is a v...
iTunes includes visualizers. Shown here is a visualizer first delivered with iTunes 8, including black orbs and moving specks of light. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Whoo!  Crush On Radio goes officially bi-weekly with this episode in which we look at Debut Albums… which is appropriate as this is the DEBUT EPISODE of SEASON TWO!  Neato!  We also talk about iTunes and games and other podcasts and all sorts of things.  Including a conversation of how I’d screwed up the tags for my pick.  WHOO!

PICKS THIS WEEK: DEVO, Teitur and They Might Be Giants (finally)

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Crush on Radio Presents Best Of 2012!

sport
sport (Photo credit: Ilja)

Super in-depth show about FIFTEEN SONGS, five from each of us, and it’s long, but it is worth it!  (And probably the last show of that length!  SO GET WHILE THE GETTING IS GOOD)  Anyway, it was probably worth the two weeks off!  So we RETURN!  And I am tired. SO THERE YOU GO.

PICKS THIS WEEK: Well, you’ll just have to listen to hear, since it’s a best-of-the-year show and to list the picks would kind of give the game away.

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