Animal Collective vs Beach Boys – “I’m Waiting for My Banshee”

Just when the Porch thinks that Johnny Disaster has moved onto other adventures…he quickly pulls your pants down and runs away giggling. Check out his wonderful pairing of my favorite Animal Collective track, “Banshee Beat,” with the Beach Boys “I’m Waiting for the Day.”

::: DOWNLOAD > “I’m Waiting for my Banshee” by Johnny Disaster :::

This is also featured on Gorilla vs Bear!

NYC

For my final post, not ever, but at least as a regularly contributing member of the Porch, I give to you a short mix that combines a few NYC dwellers with a couple of songs set in NYC. I’m leaving NYC next Friday, and if I could I would like to speak directly to it for a moment, “Thanks for the run.” So, the reason I’m getting off the Porch is because at the end of this month I’m leaving for a 27 month stay in Ukraine, teaching English there through the Peace Corps. These are the facts, you can learn how I interpret them by clicking ‘Keep Reading’ below. I love each and every one of you, and will miss you individually. Though cyberspace cannot carry my tears, you must believe they are here on my cheeks. Thank you. You.

1. Excepter – In the Beginning there was Excepter
2. Suicide – Super Sudway Comedian
3. Tony Matterhorn – Big Belly Guns
4. Ad Libs – Boy From NYC
Mp3: 5. Jonathon Richman – Springtime in NYC

* *VA – NYC* *

Artwork: Will Bryant

Steel Away to the Country

1. Tom Brosseau ft. Sam Cooke – Boothill
*Mp3: 2. D. Charles Speer & the Helix – Fossilized*
3. Beachwood Sparks – Sun Surrounds Me
4. Vetiver – Busted
5. Moviola – Spanish Moss
6. Castanets – This is the Early Game

* *Steel Away to the Country* *

Digable Porches

Digable Planets are from my hood. They broke up in ‘94 after two albums of masses-acclaimed, jazz-laced hip-hop. With a little help from Tupac & Cornelius, the songs here live on – the ‘rebirth of slick’ if you will.

Mp3: 1. Digable Planets ft. Tupac – Where I’m From
2. Digable Planets ft. Tupac & Cornelius – Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
3. Digable Planets ft. Tupac & Cornelius – Pacifics

* *Digable Porches (zip file)* *

Spirituals

Starting right now, a special ‘Johnny Disaster’ week is beginning, for it is my last. I’ll be posting three other mixes besides this one later in the week, so check back often.

1. Pete Seeger – Oh Mary Don’t You Weep
2. Joseph Spence – Out on the Rolling Sea
Mp3: 3. Religioneers – Come & Go to that Land
4. D. Charles Speer & the Helix – Bright & Glorious Morning Star
5. Loretta Lynn – Peace in the Valley
6. Castanets – I’ll Fly Away

*_*VA – Spirituals*_*

SVZ: Summer Ah Sing (2008)

Thank you for coming to revel in our Summer Vibe Zone throughout the warm season. This micro-mix from last summer keeps the sunshine on your cheekbones and Godspeed in your heart.

1. M83 ft. Avey Tare – Birds
2. Yabby You – Conquering Dub
3. Flick Wilson – Rocking Chair
*Mp3: 4. Strwck – Waloo*
5. T. Rex – Mambo Sun
6. Peter Sarstedt – Frozen Orange Juice

*-*Summer Ah Sing (2008) [zip file]*-*

City Center on the Porch

City Center makes effects-driven experimental pop, the staple niche for many groups nowadays such as High Places and Animal Collective, but with more experiments, and less pop. Not a disadvantage by any means, rather each song seems to swim, and they realize this as well with their sea-centric artwork, through layers of indecipherable, yet warm sounds. Throw in some acoustic strumming or tribal percussion, hell sometimes even both, to pull it all back together, and you’ve got City Center at their best. Without further Delay, please check out the interview.

Mp3: City Center – Gladest

Themselves on the Porch

 

My first instinct when I get an interview back with no adherence to capitalization, punctuation, or sentence structure is to clean it up, fix the ‘errors,’ and in this particular case, rewrite the whole thing. Then I thought, ‘Wait, Themselves‘ music seems to mirror this interview-in-the-raw too well to lay the grimy hands of grammar on it.’ Below is an interview with the dudes that have long been known for letting their unbridled muse loose to thrash about inside their songs – now it is on the Porch.

 

Mixtape (zip-file): Themselves – FREEhoudini

Cold Cave on the Porch

Cold Cave plays gloom-synth-pop constructed from the thin air that floats between the hard-knock city of Philadelphia and the bright, dirty NYC. Wes, the central conspirator of Cold Cave, came by the Porch to ruminate about astrological signs as inspiration, beauty & sorrow, but the main reason he’s here is to practice his conversation skills.

Mp3: Cold Cave – Cebe & Me

Silk Flowers on the Porch

In only a few weeks Silk Flowers have embedded their morose pop carnival far enough into my psyche’ to make me think “Won’t children still want candy at the end of the world?” Silk Flowers are giving the sticky stuff away with a smile. On the Porch today they talk about their New York residence, dream dictionaries, and the all important aspiration to dull the isolation between us.

Mp3: Silk Flowers – Shadows in Daylight