Mixtape! Chanteurs!
This tape is so much fun. Murder ballads, saucy cocktail numbers, joie de vivre, lonely club strings from the 60’s. Traditionally a Chanteur is a french-speaking legend of song (loose English equivalent: chanter), but we’ll stretch that definition to include the American Judy Henske, and two Swedish vixens here. Pictured are Judy Henske and Jacques Brel, who are featured... Read More
Rainy night in Portland
Well this is as close to an Easter gift as I’ll get today! Amid an in-home work day, I was so thrilled to see Xlr8r posted a podcast dedicated to the City of Roses. From Xlr8r: In true Portland fashion, his A Rainy Night in Portland mix is completely off the wall and true to the city’s DIY spirit, juxtaposing noise and quirky dance numbers with leftfield pop, hip-hop,... Read More
Mixtape: Bring your Scantron
Our second tape! Hip hop from Scandinavians! I read on a Youtube comment last week that said “Scandinavians are killing it right now.” This isn’t anything new, but for some the idea of Scandinavian Hip Hop may be. All the hip hop artists in this mix are exclusively from either Norway or Sweden. The tape turns out to be optimistic, sunny, reflective, and appropriate... Read More
Fort Mixtape – #1!
This is exciting, our first mixtape! Having been inspired by the incredible bloggers that we follow often & the wonderful world of sharing music (Kitsune Noir + ISO50 + The Porch + Skull4Brains) I thought it was high time we contribute. So for this inaugural mixtape, the Fort has converted to the great teachings of Islam. Perfect timing, right? You were thinking about converting... Read More
Sword & Sworcery EP
I’m a sucker for a pixely 8-Bit flash video game. Might have something to do with the fact that I finally got a Sega Genesis about the same time that most of you were playing Golden Eye on your Nintendo64. Sword & Sworcery isn’t so much a game as a story that you can interact with which intrigues me. Friend of the Fort Vance Reeser who was kind enough to pass this... Read More
Metal in Iraq
Vice Magazine + VBS.tv just sent out their newsletter and in it was their documentary on Iraq’s only heavy metal band, Acrassicauda. If you’ve got 84 minutes, you’ll find cameos from Gideon Yago and a great perspective on youth culture in a violent setting. Vice did such an excellent job here on several levels. First of all the coverage of just getting into... Read More
New Dorks!
It probably helps that I love the original song, but come on, even my mother would love this. Thanks Rob, who shared it with Jelly, who shared it with me! Read More
Babe Rainbow
Skull4brains strikes again! This time close to home, with a musician from Vancouver, BC, just up the road. Ben and I were sitting in my living room watching these videos with our mouthes agape. We looked like total mouth-breathers. Haunting, cinematic, northwestern. Bonus: brilliantly filmed sequences. Popcommon audio clip: Shaved full video: The Shaved video incites so much... Read More
Jónsi Go Do
A friend of mine named Ryan from Alaska emailed me frantically as soon as this video was up on Jónsi’s website telling me I had no choice but to watch immediately. Since it was an emergency I ran out of the meeting I was in and watched the vid, thanks Ryan for the heads up. I’ve been doing hard time waiting for this album since I heard Boy Lilikoi on Kitsune Noir’s... Read More
Bay of Pigs
Alright so I found this playlist over at 160/90 called For Your Pleasure, 2009. One track in particular has been slapping me in the face for days now, I just can’t stop listening! Perhaps it’s the length, it’s 14 minutes. Which may mean no one is going to listen. For the one that does, just prepare for the equivalent of peyote in your ears. Listen, Bay of Pigs: (I’d... Read More