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Hall & Oates do Mercer & Burton

Monday, December 6th, 2010 | musiX | 1 Comment

No one was injured during the making of this video by Matt McCormick and Bryan Boyce, who set Broken Bells’ “The Ghost Inside” to the video for Hall & Oates’ “Private Eyes.” However, James Mercer did provide the “stunt mouth” for the shoot. Just in case. The end result is seamless—if not slightly creepy. John Oates’ mustache, on the other hand, not creepy at all.

Via End Hits.

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Tags: "Private Eyes", "The Ghost Inside", Broken Bells, Bryan Boyce, Hall & Oates, Matt McCormick

Getting Chummy: TDoL Summer Mix 2010

Monday, July 26th, 2010 | musiX, pdX | 3 Comments

Summer is finally here in Portland … at least for a few days—’tis the season for barbecues, tubing down the river, bottomless ice chests and summer jams (Jams? JAMZ!).

TDoL spent countless hours in a dark room assembling your summer soundtrack for 2010, a mixtape filled with singalongs, un poquito de español, noise (Noise? NOIZE!), a few breezy numbers, a handful of Portland cuts, and loads of hand claps … we’re talking more clap than a state school fraternity house. Most of the music on this compilation has been lovingly featured on The Days of Lore. You should totally buy the records.

Grab the full mix in a convenient zip folder by clicking the link below. Pairs well with road trips, good barbecue and cheap beer, as well as bad trips, good times and cheap friends.

TRACKLIST:
1. “Guadalajara” - Pepe Guízar
2. “Girlfriend” - Ty Segall
3. “Too Young to Burn” - Sonny & the Sunsets
4. “Free Association” - These Hills of Gold
5. “Better Surrender” - Far
6. “Beverly Kills” - Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
7. “Flashes” - International Waters
8. “Miss Metro” - The Knuckles
9. “Starting Over” - Typhoon
10. “The Ghost Inside” - Broken Bells
11. “Bad Buzz” - The Mint Chicks
12. “Get Around Town” - Revolver
13. “Juniper” - Y La Bamba
14. “Evening Star” - Blitzen Trapper
15. “TAOS” - Menomena
16. “La Barra” - Montañas
17. “Cars and Explosions” - Kevin Dunn
18. “Doesn’t Shake Me” - The Goodnight Loving
19. “Floating Vibes” - Surfer Blood
20. “Atom Bomb” - The Apples in stereo
21. “Sidepain” - Sea of Bees
22. “A More Perfect Union” - Titus Andronicus

DOWNLOAD: Getting Chummy: TDoL Summer Mix 2010 (117 MB ZIP)

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Broken Bells vid is a sexy beast

Monday, June 7th, 2010 | musiX | No Comments

The newish (ancient in blog years) album from Broken Bells has been a fun, somewhat brief listen here at TDoL HQ. I do like “The Ghost Inside” (the handclaps!) … even though it sounds like a Gorillaz song. Read my two cents on the record here.

The sexy, new, big-production video (again, ancient in blog years) features what’s-her-name from Mad Men, which should get every red-blooded male in the world excited. I know I’m excited. Can’t you tell I’m excited?

Tags: "The Ghost Inside", Broken Bells, video