Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Hey look! A blog!

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Sticking our heads in the door. Hey, this old house is still structurally sound! Let's fix it up! Updated posts on the old school Ear C...
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Saturday, March 12, 2016

Bag Of Hammers

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The newest video from the Granite Countertops. Eldritch abominations created in AfterEffects from raw material taken from the 2016 debates.
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Saturday, March 5, 2016

Fantastic Voyage

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The Granite Countertops pay tribute to the memory of David Bowie, in the form of a prophetic song he and Brian Eno wrote just before things ...
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Daredevil

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A visual realization of this track from PLANETS DON'T TWINKLE by THE GRANITE COUNTERTOPS, featuring Davis Jones and her GoAnimate avata...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for January 2016

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Important news: Live 365 is closing down and Ear Candle Radio has moved to a new home! Meet us at RADIONOMY! We need listeners, so join us ...
Friday, January 1, 2016

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for December 2015

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Happy new year, kids. Big changes are afoot. The fate of Live 365 is uncertain and we are looking into new solutions. But the top 20 continu...
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Saturday, December 5, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for November 2015

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1. McCarthy - Nobody Could Care Less About Your Private Lives - Banking Violence and the Inner Life Today 2. Systemwide - Earshot - Sirius ...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Visit the new Ear Candle Productions site

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Our new website is looking good. Come on over and dig it. Also, have you heard the Granite Countertops' Linda Smith cover yet?
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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for October 2015

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1. Dr. Spaceman - Jaded - Menno! 2. Andre Williams - Bacon Fat - Songs The Cramps Taught Us Vol.1 3. Naahant - Uhh...Yeah - (nei-haent) EP...
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

The Granite Countertops - High Definition

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The Planets Don't Twinkle video album is coming along nicely. Here is the latest video, featuring our new improved GoAnimate characters!...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for September 2015

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1. The Temptations - Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down - Psychedelic Soul 2. Doctor Pablo & The Dub Syndicate - Doctor Who? - Nort...
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Saturday, September 5, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for August 2015

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Jennifer Hall of Ovarian Trolley's new band Condorosa storms to the top of this month's charts. Also, several songs we added for a s...
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Sunday, August 30, 2015

The Tiger's Dream

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The fourth track on Bunnies At Large features just myself and Davis Jones. One afternoon we fooled around with instruments for hours in the ...

Falling Into Place

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A long one from MENNO! This took a lot of editing to get it to feel right. I decided to wipe out the bass on the first half so it would have...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Actually

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The opening track of the second Dr. Spaceman album. A little touch of dub to set the mood.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

The New Klondike Loop

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The third track on Bunnies At Large and the most recent basic track we put down. Now this one was a sweet moment of serendipity. I felt a ne...
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The Rooster's Dream

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The second track on Bunnies At Large is one of two that came directly out of Mark Altin's ProTools class at CCSF. The assignment was to ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

What's happening with Ear Candle Radio?

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It has come to our attention that Live 365 has disabled their widgets due to some hackers getting into their system, so the Ear Candle Radio...
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Brain In A Chair: The Video

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The official video for BRAIN IN A CHAIR by THE GRANITE COUNTERTOPS. Animated office drone avatars appear courtesy of Go Animate !

Move This Monster

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This is the opening track from the most recent Experimental Bunnies album. It began with a quasi-"township jive" groove we fell in...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for July 2015

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1. Chastity Belt - Joke - Time to Go Home 2. Solex - Pick Up - Pick Up 3. Ken Nordine - Reaching into In - The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1 ...
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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for June 2015

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1. Tom Heyman - Chickenhawks And Jesus Freaks - That Cool Blue Feeling 2. Sonic Rendezvous Band - City Slang - Sonic Rendezvous Band 7...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for May 2015

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1. Wendy Atkinson - Ukulele Shock - The Last Fret 2. Scrawl - Don't We Always Get There? - Nature Film 3. Viv Albertine - The Madness ...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for April 2015

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1. The Who - Waspman - Rarities 2. Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day - Bird Brain - Typical Girls Won't Pay More Than $3 3. Masonic - N...
Friday, April 3, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for March 2015

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1. X-tal - Basics 101 - Who Owns Our Dreams? 2. Run On - Half of Half - No Way 3. Junior Murvin - What Is This - Best Of Lee Perry & T...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

Just like spring rain

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Ear Candle Productions is busy with several things at once, just the way we like it! The second ambient electronic set by Dr. Spaceman, en...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for February 2015

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Posting the charts a little late this go-round. Tripped up by the shortest month of the year! Nevertheless, a great selection here. Thank yo...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for January 2015

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1. Donovan - Sunny South Kensington - Mellow Yellow 2. Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood Dream - Hollywood Dream 3. Tarika - Zotra (Transport...
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Sunday, January 25, 2015

"He was a man who was staunchly confused about most things, but in his role as head of the household, he felt compelled to have strong opinions."

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MECCA NORMAL Empathy For The Evil (M'lady's) When I read that Mecca Normal would be recording their thirteenth album with former...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

I've Always Been On Fire

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SPIDER HEART Dirt EP (Self-released) Rip Reed and I go way back. The second gig X-tal ever played, we opened for Trial, a Joy Division-i...

Coming up: Reviews of 2014

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I've been laid up with a nasty flu since the new year began and am finally starting to feel just a little bit better, so it's time t...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for December 2014

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1. Zap Mama - Africa Sunset - 7 2. Steve Mackay - Zombie Chevys - Sometimes Like This I Talk 3. Snapper - Cause Of You - Snapper 12...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Holocaust

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Finished the Alex Chilton bio. Holly George Warren managed to dramatically describe his death at 59 (right at the very moment he seemed t...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Exiles

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A 33 1/3 book on Liz Phair's Zeitgeist-seizing classic Exile In Guyville seemed like a sure-fire good read, so I added it to my Christm...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for November 2014

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1. Paleface - World Full of Cops - Paleface 2. Reverb Motherfuckers - Joe Of Arc - Route 666 3. Lost Cherrees - Escalation - In the Beginn...
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