Archive for November, 2009
Call it Stormy Monday!
Well, it pi… sorry, rained heavily last night and today is not looking too good either, so let’s take any feeble excuse to play 2 of the greatest blues guitarists, Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan (RIP). The video starts to run ahead of the sound after a bit, so just close your eyes, simple [...]
Podcast 31
New Music November 28 – 09 New music from Denmark, the UK & the US Aaron Jentzen (Pittsburgh, USA) – EP Great Inventors -Great Inventors / Magnetic West Juliet Gough (Copenhagen, Denmark) – CD Rays Around the Sun – Rays Around the Sun / Melt into your Heart’s Beating Drum Daz Nez (Manchester, England) – [...]
Alan Weisman – Liminality
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”[1]) The liminal state is characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy. One’s sense of identity dissolves to some extent, bringing about disorientation. Liminality is a period of transition where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are relaxed – a situation [...]
New. Order.
This is for my friend Dave, who is grappling with the subject of ordering tracks. Hopefully, a few more of you will find it interesting as well. This is where I’m going to be showing my age quite a lot, but that’s not such a big deal And, yes, I am beginning to like this [...]
Monday Morning, by Kupek
Image via Wikipedia aka Bryan Lee O’Malley, award-winning Canadian cartoonist and brains behind the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels. For more music, go to RadioMaru and then look for this page, where you can download his music for free!
Podcast 30
Podcast 30 – Kiss Mars – David&Josh – Paradise St New music from the UK & Ireland Kiss Mars (Scotland) – EP Lost Days -Lost Days / Let Go David Mackenzie & Josh Johnston (Ireland) – CD Notes Home – The Latecomer / Place Carnot Paradise Street (England) – CD Catharsis – Coming Up for [...]
Just because it’s Monday – 1 – Fats Domino
It’s a surprising (and ultimately useless) fact that there are over 230,000 videos on YouTube with the tag Monday. So that should keep us busy for a while Here’s a cool classic from Fats Domino – Blue Monday
The Bad Shepherds
While finding out a bit about bands for last week’s podcast, I looked up The Bad Shepherds, who did a version of the Sex Pistols‘ God Save The Queen. It turns out that the band is the brainchild of Adrian Edmondson, the punk from the classic BBC series The Young Ones (as well as many [...]
Kind Of Blu goes live!
Welcome to Kind Of Blu! This is the blog of Mondo Blu Radio first and foremost, but I wanted to include all the things that go into making the station and the podcasts, so that includes videos, bands, sites and software that we like and hope you can find useful. As this is the first [...]
