New podcast: Slumberland Records

Thanks to Clicky Clicky and his “Tweet” for recommending us to Slumberland Record’s podcasts.  Their Summertime Soul Vol.1 mix is out of site. Just in time for those 4th of July get downs. Check the tracklist below:



  1. Billy Preston - Billy’s Bag
  2. Ramsey Lewis - Party Time
  3. Googie Rene Combo - Smokey Joe’s La La
  4. Cliff Nobles & Co - The Horse
  5. Harvey Averne Dozen - Think It Over
  6. Rose Batiste - Hit And Run
  7. The Contours - Just A Little Misunderstanding
  8. Willie Tee - Walkin’ Up A One Way Street
  9. The Poets - She Blew A Good Thing
  10. Gene Chandler - Nothing Can Stop Me
  11. Billy Butler and The Enchanters - Right Track
  12. Mary Love - You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet
  13. The Astors - Candy
  14. Barbara Acklin - Am I The Same Girl
  15. Fontella Bass - Leave It In The Hands of Love
  16. Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart
  17. The Five Stairsteps and Cubie - Stay Close To Me
  18. The Impressions - We’re A Winner

Download this podcast in the following formats

  • MP3 (Right click and save as then upload to MP3 Player)
  • XML(Just copy and paste this XML link into your favorite Podcast catcher)
  • iTunes(Just click on this link and iTunes will automatically open up the Slumberland podcast channel)

If you’re unfamiliar with podcasts and how they work,  it’s pretty simple.  It’s basically just a mix uploaded into a digital download or basically an MP3.  However, there are ways to capture these “online radio” formats automatically using iTunes and several other programs.  Learn more from this Wiki page.

Whoa: From nothing special to this?

Coachella East

(Disclaimer: if you didn’t figure this out already, the above image is not an official image and the festival will in fact not hold the Coachella name. It’s just a nice way to introduce the news in my opinion)

As most East Coast music lovers know, there are tons of summer festivals that happen with great line ups every year, yet they just don’t usually happen on the East Coast!! And we all know it’s the coast with the most. Well, at least it’s the coast with the most human beings in the United States. So it would make sense that the concert promoters would have at least one Bannaroo or one Coachella in our back yards. Well, that’s just not the case. Until now.

We now know that there WILL be two, that’s right, two large music festivals on the east coast in summer 2008. And it gets even better. They will be held in the same state. Where else but New Jersey. And it is looking like they may end up on the same weekend, August 8th -10th.

The first group we heard about was C3 Productions and their Vineland, NJ plans that they are calling the Vineland Music Festival (Download the official press release). Now we have another announcement, this time from the same group that put on Bannarroo and Coachella, AEG and Goldenvoice. Their festival is planned to happen at Liberty State Park, right across the pond from the Big Apple.

There are no official line ups for either festival but there are rumors that Radiohead and Jack Johnson will be headlining the Liberty State Park gig. That sounds pretty bogus. At least the Jack Johnson claim does. Radiohead did play Liberty State Park back in August of 2001 and according to Brooklyn Vegan’s readers it was a mind altering experience. And the picture that they have up at Brooklyn Vegan of the Liberty State Park concert setup with the Twin Towers in the background is quite a surreal scene.

So to celebrate the oncoming summer East Coast festivals, we decided to put a little mix together that for one reason or another makes us think big music festivals.

Yeasayer (Purchase music from Amazon) - “Germs”

Caribou (Purchase music from Amazon) - “After Hours”

Marah (Purchase music from Amazon) - “Coughing up Blood”

Black Lips (Purchase music from Amazon) - “Hippy Hippy Hurrah”

Human League (Purchase music from Amazon) - “Party”

Echo and the Bunnymen (Purchase music from Amazon) - “People Are Strange”

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