Ear Candle Radio's Top 20: October 2011

1. The Zombies - Care Of Cell 44 - Odessey and Oracle
2. Monty Python - Galaxy Song - Monty Python Sings
3. Harry Belafonte - Lead Man Holler - Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean
4. Echo & The Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace - Crocodiles
5. The Experimental Bunnies - Open Your Mouth And Say OM - Bunnies On Fire
6. Vivian Girls - You're My Guy - Everything Goes Wrong
7. The Tornadoes - Telstar - Telstar/The Original Hits
8. Siouxsie and the Banshees - 20th Century Boy - Downside Up
9. Roger Miller - Space Is The Place - Oh
10. Neil Young - Love And War - Le Noise
11. Ken Nordine - Faces in the Jazzamatazz - The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1
12. Heartless Bastards - All This Time - All This Time
13. The Experimental Bunnies - Power Source - Music For The Integrity Tone Scale
14. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Sweet Sweet Bulbs - Trout Mask Replica
15. X-Tal - Smells Like Smoke - Good Luck
16. Tall Dwarfs - Michael Hillbilly - The Sky Above, The Mud Below
17. The Small Nambas - Famous In Santa Cruz - Live At The Santa Cruz Art Center 5/5/80
18. The Quails - Your Heart Is A Muscle The Size Of A Fist - Atmosphere
19. Prickly - Hedgeclipping Song - The Long Secret: A Harriet Records Compilation
20. Love - Nothing - Four Sail

Enetrtaining the troops

The Conspiracy Of Beards performed for the demonstrators at Occupy SF on Friday, October 28, and Davis Jones was there to capture it for Ear Candle Productions. Solidarity in song. "Everybody knows the deal is rotten!"

We were there

Thanks to Terri Weist for the picture.

Tangle of matter and ghost

The Conspiracy Of Beards, with guest vocalist Amy Tobin, do a breathtaking rendition of "The Window" at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival on Oct. 2 in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Davis Jones and Hilary Fielding ran the cameras, Davis did the editing, and J Neo Marvin tweaked the audio a bit.

Eternal flame

O Canada

Checked into our Tunecore account to discover that we sold a ton of copies of Crashing Into The Future by the Granite Countertops through iTunes Canada. Thank you for your support, o hip and wise citizens of the great white north. Hope you dig the sounds.

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20, September 2011

1. Systemwide - The Sound Of The Sun - Sirius
2. Ruby Howl - Joey - Heaven Hides There Too
3. The Soulsations - Funky Nightclub - Eccentric Soul: Mighty Mike Lenaburg
4. The Magnetic Fields - Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin - 69 Love Songs
5. Jon Langford - Sentimental Marching Song - Skull Orchard Revisited
6. Iggy Pop - Life Of Work - Zombie Birdhouse
7. Coyle & Sharpe - Maniacs In Living Hell - Audio Visionaries: Street Pranks & Put-Ons
8. Alice Cooper - Living - Pretties For You
9. Vivian Girls - The Other Girls - Share the Joy
10. The Sons Of Champlin - 1982-A - Love Is The Song We Sing - San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
11. John Trudell - Rich Man's War (Album Version) - AKA Grafitti Man
12. The Clash - Justice tonight-kick it over - Super Black Market Clash
13. The Aislers Set - Jaime's Song - Terrible Things Happen
14. Wire - Please Take - Red Barked Tree
15. Karen Mantler - Arnold's Dead - Farewell
16. David Bowie - I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spacecraft - Heathen
17. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Masengo - Mojo Presents;Africa Rising
18. Ken Nordine - Faces in the Jazzamatazz - The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1
19. Anne Briggs - Living By The Water - Anne Briggs
20. Syd Barrett - Bob Dylan Blues - Wouldn't You Miss Me