Cinema with Mallory

Tonight I’ve got songs used in some of my favorite films, cinema-themed songs, original soundtrack, all fused together with quirky style and sense of melody, ranging from entrancing and gripping to chic and melancholy.

Jeanne Moreau - "Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves" (featured in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Querelle)

Come dressed as a movie character or as you are!

Move Theme Day/Night

Now showing! The Velvet presents, in glorious technicolor and panoramic sound: Celluloid Heroes. A day of music from the movies that are beloved by 5 DJs from 1pm to 11pm. Come in costume as your favorite cinematic characters (or not, up to you). Buy some popcorn with "delicious yellow sludge" (to quote Enid from Ghost World), don your 3D glasses and grab a frontrow seat today, Saturday, September 29th at the glamorous Velvet theater.

Schedule:
1-3pm: Wiseblood Wisent
3-5pm: Kanjena
5-7pm: Mallory Cerise
7-9pm: Paradox Messmer
9-11pm: GypsyDoctor Donat

Julie & the Carjackers - Mr. Williams

Hello all,

I was keeping this music in my backlog here, the rhythm embraces the bossa nova at least, which is very cool. It also like takes me to a 70's atmosphere on the south side of the American continent.

Cheers!
Lobito Brando

"The joy you find here, you borrow"

Just a quick thank-you to everyone who made it to my birthday set yesterday. It meant a lot to me to be able to share my all-time favorite songs with you, the songs that have a lot of significance in my life.

Marianne Faithful - "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams"

Birds & Batteries - Let The Door Swing

Hello you all,

To be on the dancing spinning side of the week, catch this from Birds & Batteries:

Have fun!
Lobito Brando

The Order Of Death

Life is very circular, cellular and granular.
What goes around inevitably smashes through your window in a speedboat.
This is the best thing and the most terrible thing in popular cultural form that I have seen this week, beauty and terror and fantastic music.

Best Youth - Honey Trap

Hiya all,

Although this is a 2011 release the Best Youth tunes are airplaying mostly during 2012. For me they are fresh, and I really love their cool sound:

Cheers!
Lobito Brando

Fading American Dream

For most of us, Labor Day has become the last big party weekend of summer. It's celebrated with picnics, not parades. Its connection to labor unions and the history of labor is all but forgotten.

Of course, we've never had an easy relationship with Labor in this country. International Labor Day is on May 1st - a day chosen in recognition of the Haymarket Riots in Chicago. If you think it's odd that the rest of the world celebrates a seminal event in American Labor history while we do not, it's not as odd as having our own Labor Day designated in honor of one of Labor's big defeats.

Our Labor Day is set in September in honor of the Pullman Strike - which was a defeat for Labor as the government stepped in and intervened on behalf of the Pullman company, forcing the workers back to work. Yet that is the event that is commemorated by the US Labor Day. It's appropriate, though, since our government has long had a hostile relationship with Labor.

Small wonder then that Labor is in decline and the American Dream is fading with it. In that light, then, I prepared a set with songs inspired by the Labor movement and by the state of the Worker. The music is is varied, as you can see from two samples from the set.


 

 Hazel Dickens was the voice of the miner's union. A bluegrass singer from a West Virginia mining family, she wrote the soundtrack to the history of coal mining. She has sung most of the great labor songs from Which Side Are You On and Fire in the Hole to Black Lung and Roll the Union On.


 

 Street Dogs is a Boston Punk band with a working class worldview and an activist heart. While their music is a world apart from Hazel Dickins, they are right beside her in spirit and heart.

Sunday Morning Jazz Goes to the West Coast

My usual 9 to 11 Sunday Morning Jazz set will stick to the West Coast this morning, but that's still a full plate of jazz served piping hot with your coffee. Among the best of West Coast jazz are Dexter Gordon, Zoot Sims, Chet Baker, Bill Evans, Cal Tjader, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis and many more. I was listening to Tom Russell's Hotwalker today and got inspired.

The Living and the Dolls.

For the enthusiasts of tension-driven indie sound, stranger arts, haunted dolls, and exquisitely dark imagery: a machinima with the music by M4sk 22 and John Hyatt, starring truly yours.