Still Corners - Fireflies

alex on February 28 2013

I have these moments which I think only someone who runs a music blog can sympathize with. It's a moment of pure blogging bliss (blogging bliss... really, alex??). It goes something like this -- I'm cruising around sound clouds trying to find a decent track. Oh a new Still Corners single?? Great! I press play. Within the first five seconds of the track playing I know I've struck music blog gold. I let out an audible BOOM! and quickly post the track. Generally the post goes live before the song is even done. .. In this case I still have 38 seconds to go.

Candy Empire - Lucky

chris on February 28 2013

The only thing I can figure out about these guys is they have a bandcamp and facebook page. Other than that... I like it. On a side note, I implore you to read Alex's previous post regarding the latest version of Left As Rain.

Youth Lagoon - Raspberry Cane

alex on February 27 2013

My whole world was just flipped upside down as I was writing this entry. I just now realized the word raspberry has a p in it. I've gone almost 30 years without that valuable nugget of knowledge. Spelling was never my strong suit

Let's talk about the new site. First off.. it's live! The 5th version of left as rain. I should be rolling out an update next week which adds more features to the audio player (volume). Secondly please bare with me while I troubleshoot bugs, I tested as much as I could by myself but need another set of eyes to find everything. One bug I'm aware of is the player stopping mid song, this seems to be a Windows Chrome bug and I swear upon all that is good and holy I will search this out and punch it in the dick. If you see something--say something .. to alex@leftasrain.com with "BUG" in the subject line. You are all my beta testing guinea pigs for the next month or so.

This was an absolutely massive project for me. I literally spent every free minute I've had since November to piece this together. I wrote a script that worked for about 30% of the album covers. The rest of the images I manually inserted.. that's finding and inserting around 900 album covers. I understand this is a huge departure from the list format but I needed a site that could support itself financially (banners/page views) after spending over $8,000 in hosting over the last 7 years. It's not cheap to stream 1 terabyte of quality audio to thousands of people a month with an average listening time of over 10 minutes.. Thanks for listening. Thanks for reading my post. Thanks for supporting our blog. Thanks for being a friend (travel down the road and back again).

Chromatics - Cherry

chris on February 27 2013

Genre names started to become a bit too specific and hard to keep track of. I call this Cool. The Chromatics are cool, Holy Ghost! is cool, Ratatat is Cool, Kavisnsky is Cool, Bob Seager is Cool.

Oliver - Mechanical

chris on February 27 2013

This EP on Fools Gold is nasty. Ey girl... you pretty nasty.

MÃ˜ - Pilgrim (MS MR Remix)

chris on February 26 2013

Rebirth can be a beautiful thing. You have something that's independent and unique, then you let it grow. Give it a shot. Left As Rain two point oh.

Young Dreams - Fog of War

Alex on February 25 2013

My man says "Athena, Athena take me there -- Waiting for my own Athena." This song must be about my dog because her name is Athena. Lay off my dog, dude.

Lemonade - The Place Where You Belong

chris on February 25 2013

So, on the way to lunch I passed the decapitated head of a pigeon with no body in sight. NY ammiright... Like the pigeon head, this guy is disgusting, but good disgusting, not vomitous disgusting.

Tickle Torture - Lie to Me

chris on February 25 2013

Funky fucking freak from Minneapolis.

Night Panther - Lioness

chris on February 25 2013

I read about Night Panther a few months ago and checked em out. Wasn't impressed. Saw this trailer and almost shit my pants due to it's badassness. It's a song cool enough to have a trailer.