<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.5" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>floodwatchmusic.com - Punching the Sky Since 2006</title>
	<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:45:50 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Beneath the Feet of the City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It all started, casually enough, when my wife remarked, &#8220;I&#8217;d bet Underworld would make for good workout music,&#8221; during a discussion of what to stock the iPod Shuffle with before heading to the gym. I don&#8217;t remember much after that, as synapses immediately began firing and I became lost in my own wild, mixtape-obsessive thoughts, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2010/01/beneath-the-feet-of-the-city/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>A Year-End List for a Content-Free Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Provided my memory is still relatively intact 50 years from now, I imagine that when I look back at a lifetime’s worth of music consumption 2009 will best be characterized as The Year My Tastes Finally Narrowed. Up until now – for the past 20 years, actually – I’ve strived, often with some difficulty, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2009/12/a-year-end-list-for-a-content-free-year/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Charm of the Successive &#8220;Z&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still under a spell of hibernation while I continue contemplating about the future of this little corner of the internets.
In the meantime, do yourself a favor and pick up Behemoth&#8217;s Evangelion (2009), a fine piece of no-frills, epic-in-scope, phenomenally-executed death metal that has been melting my face on the daily.  (And in a year overflowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2009/08/the-charm-of-the-successive-z/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Another Year, Another Year-End List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get this out of the way, shall we?


20. Elzhi
The Preface
Fatbeats 2008
The Preface (2008) is a Detroit dream-team pairing unlike anything in recent memory.  Elzhi currently holds my vote as the finest traditional lyricist working today, and Black Milk’s chunky, crackling beats – which never made much of an impression on me until now, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/12/another-year-another-year-end-list/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Five Recent Jazz Platters Worth Checking Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The résumé of trumpeter Steven Bernstein reads like an all-star list of collaborations in not only the downtown NYC jazz scene, but popular music as well: Aretha Franklin.  Marianne Faithful.  Rufus Wainwright.  Yet Bernstein is perhaps best known for his work in John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards as well as his own Sex Mob, whose Sexotica [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/11/five-recent-jazz-platters-worth-checking-out-3/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Hallow&#8217;s Eve Redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was hoping to drop another installment similar to last year&#8217;s &#8217;scary music for Halloween&#8217; post with six more blood-curdling pieces of music, but decided otherwise when I realized that I couldn&#8217;t possibly top those original selections.  So here&#8217;s the re-up for those that slept the first time around:
Six Frightening Pieces of Music for Hallow&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/10/hallows-eve-redux/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Dispelling the Myth: The Smiths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Easy, Smiths fans and Morrissey acolytes, you can sheathe those daggers.  I’m not going to court vitriol by penning a cheap tirade claiming The Smiths as “overrated” or by lambasting the hordes of Moz followers for their miserable, mopey dispositions.  It’s been done to death and truth be told, it would be dishonest of me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/10/dispelling-the-myth-the-smiths/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Modern Audiac Cuisine: Chicken Noodle Soup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a cold, rainy Sunday afternoon in November and your stomach is aching for some sort of comfort food.  French onion soup would certainly do the trick, but try this unique take on homemade chicken noodle soup instead.  I found the basis for this fennel-fueled recipe online about a month ago and have been tinkering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/10/modern-audiac-cuisine-chicken-noodle-soup/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Song of the Week: October 19-25, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[





Eric Sermon feat. Keith Murray
&#8220;Hostile&#8221;
No Pressure
Def Jam 1993




During this time of year, when the temperatures begin to slide closer to freezing and daylight gets progressively shorter, I tend to gravitate toward the more rugged, bare-bones style of hip hop production best exhibited by Buckwild, Da Beatminerz, the DITC crew, and of course, Erick Sermon.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/10/song-of-the-week-october-19-25-2008/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Beat Dissection: Pete Rock, Vol. 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mentioning of AZ’s Doe or Die (1995) a few weeks ago when presenting a handful of hip hop-related conversation-enders sparked a recent reawakening of my appreciation for the album, despite its front-loaded nature and hit-or-miss production.  Today I thought I’d tackle one of Pete Rock’s two productions on the record, the Nas-assisted “Gimme Yours,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/10/beat-dissection-pete-rock-vol-2/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Soundtracking My Mundane Daily Activities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most music-geek acquaintances of mine have entertained an aspect of the imaginary life-as-film concept where almost every action is scored by their composer of choice: Star Wars obsessives invariably choose John Williams for example, Wu diehards would nominate The RZA, and some of the uber-serious might prefer Bártok or Stravinsky.  Personally, I would select &#8217;60s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/10/soundtracking-my-mundane-daily-activities/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Ten Questions for Marco Benevento</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lucky for us, Brooklyn&#8217;s own Marco Benevento seems to enjoy inhabiting his own sound-world.  On his debut Invisible Baby (2008), it&#8217;s a place where chalky acoustic pianos collide with bursts of drum accents, a banjo rubs shoulders with globs of distorted electric bass, and using an old film projector for amplification seems right at home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/09/ten-questions-for-marco-benevento/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Zilla Rocca: Running this Rap Ish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stopped reviewing mixtapes on this site a long time ago for two primary reasons: my Inbox is already cluttered with enough PR bullshit on a daily basis, and why compete with the best in the business?  That being said, it would be near impossible for me to let Zilla Rocca&#8217;s new disc, Bring Me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/09/zilla-rocca-running-this-rap-ish/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Five Recent Jazz Platters Worth Checking Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I’m normally not one to get hung up on genre restrictions, but cataloging the latest from pianist Marco Benevento, a trio record titled Invisible Baby (2008), under the umbrella of “jazz” is one of the more liberating uses of the term that I’ve come across in quite a while.  Benevento made waves last year with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/09/five-recent-jazz-platters-worth-checking-out-2/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Norman Whitfield: 1940-2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Songwriter and producer Norman Whitfield was the godfather of psychedelic soul.

Not only was he a composer of the highest order, but he pushed the boundaries of pop music like no other Soul producer at the time, on Barry Gordy&#8217;s payroll or otherwise.  Whitfield could expand a simple handful of notes on the bass guitar into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/09/norman-whitfield-1940-2008/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Four Hip Hop-Related Conversation Enders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I find myself in a particularly dreary environment – whether it’s some excruciating work-related function for my wife’s job or a social gathering where I do nothing but exchange pleasantries with complete strangers – my first impulse is to locate an individual who might have a few intelligent thoughts about music, then adhere to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/09/four-hip-hop-related-conversation-enders/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Reader, Meet Lazy Author</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past few weeks have not only seen the busiest time of the year for me work-wise, but have also been part of an affliction I suffer from known as &#8220;late-summer lethargy,&#8221; a seasonal affective disorder of sorts that prevents me from mustering any enthusiasm about nearly all music I&#8217;m exposed to.  I have about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/09/reader-meet-lazy-author/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>My Id vs. Ego on GZA&#8217;s Pro Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ego:  So I heard you actually visited your local record store and purchased a couple of CDs the other day.  When was the last time that happened?
Id:  I know, it’s been forever, right?  You thought I was going to sleep soundly knowing that there’s a new Stereolab release that I didn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/08/my-id-vs-ego-on-gzas-pro-tools/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>List: Ten Favorite Metal Vocalists of the 1990s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there was ever a “golden age” in the development of extreme, aggressive music during the latter half of the 20th century, it would arguably be the late ‘80s/early ‘90s, when metal’s orbit would come as close as it would get to becoming a staple in the masses’ consumption of popular music.  Scenes and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/08/list-ten-favorite-metal-vocalists-of-the-1990s/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Isaac Hayes: 1942-2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m really at a loss for a coherent eulogy right now, but I’ll give it my best.

It’s impossible to overstate how much Isaac Hayes’ music means to me.  He was my gateway into the Soul and R&#38;B of the 1970s, when I discovered a copy of Hot Buttered Soul (1969) in my father’s LP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/08/isaac-hayes-1942-2008/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Awesome Power of the Rawk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[





Melvins
&#8220;Youth of America&#8221;
Electroretard
Man&#8217;s Ruin 2001 



A smattering of interrelated thoughts after a dedicated half-hour of having my eardrums rattled by Melvins’ “Youth of America”:
•    This song simply cannot be played at a volume of less than 100 decibels; otherwise, 95% of its potency disappears.
•    To date, Melvins have yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/08/the-awesome-power-of-the-rawk/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>A Long-Delayed Requisite Summer Mix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me the other day that this is the third summer since this site’s inception where I haven’t featured some sort of “summer” mix here, which, given my predilection for crafting mixes of the utmost triviality, seems a little odd.  So when a friend recently asked me to compile a disc of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/07/a-long-delayed-requisite-summer-mix/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Seven Songs I&#8217;m Into at the Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This &#8220;list seven songs you&#8217;re into right now&#8221; idea has been circulating around the blogosphere for the past month now, and I couldn&#8217;t resist after an invitation from Invisible Oranges&#8216; Cosmo Lee.  Besides, unimaginative as the concept may be, a list is still a list, right?

From the desk of my hipper-than-thou alter-ego (I jest): [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/07/seven-songs-im-into-at-the-moment/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Dispelling the Myth: Faith No More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve found that in my few years’ worth of experience in listening, writing, and reading about music, there are always going to be a handful of bands or artists that possess a curiously elusive quality in regards to the unwavering devotion of their fanbases.  Bands that during the course of a conversation will provoke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/07/dispelling-the-myth-faith-no-more/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>A Favorite Album From Each Year of My Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because not only can I not resist a list-making exercise that underscores how old I&#8217;m getting, I also just love extracting every last shred of my mental faculty trying to remember a favorite record that was released in 1978 (&#8217;77 is another story altogether).  Idolator came up with this jewel of absurdity last weekend, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floodwatchmusic.com/2008/07/a-favorite-album-from-each-year-of-my-life/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
