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Berkeley Place
A little bit of BK in the VA
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WHERE'S BERKELEY PLACE?
"Berkeley Place” is about 6 blocks of Brooklyn real estate, emerging from Sackett St. and ending at Banana Hill, a small park that grows a foot each year from accumulated dog crap and dead rats. Though its denizens have gotten wealthier over the decades, Berkeley Place still houses folks of all backgrounds with interests in, well, everything. -
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1. We will listen to all submissions of entire albums (e-mail me to submit). Our preferred format is to receive a CD in the mail, but we also welcome .zip files. See submission policy, below. 2. We will review (post on) only those submissions that we can recommend. So don't submit to us if you will be offended by not getting a review. 3. With rare exceptions, will not promote material protected by the RIAA--we will do so only when the band is small, top notch, provides legal links to permitted material, and is on a small, imprint distributed by a major label. So Sony, BMG, etc., don't start sending me crap. Until you call off your dogs, I'm not interested. - BERKELEY PLACE WELCOMES ALL SUBMISSIONS.
- SUBMISSION RULES:
- 1. HOW TO SUBMIT: (1) Send me an e-mail with an attached zip file of your material; or (2) Send me a CD through snail mail (e-mail me for my address). DO NOT SEND ME MYSPACE LINKS.
- 2. If you just send me a website address, I cannot guarantee that I will have time to go there and figure out how your specific site offers music.
- 3. If you just send one or two mp3s, it is unlikely that I will review them. We're about albums here. However, we make exceptions for music that knocks my socks off.
- 4. Please indicate if you DO NOT want me to offer your music for download. Otherwise, if you send it to me, I'll assume that you do. If I like what you send me, I will feature your work.
- 5. E-mail address to tell me to remove something. I'll take it down within 24 hours.
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February 20, 2007 at 1:29 am
Hello
I’m a music fan just like you, with a bit of OCD I think, also just like you.
I’m writing to you about one of my favorite bands. They’re called The Lightning Bug Situation.
The main guy in the group is also Jolie Holland’s guitar player and is all over her last three albums. He’s the real deal. Now I know you don’t like MySpace but this page actually has no music on it yet:
http://www.myspace.com/thesolarisbugsituation
Yes, I swear there is a correlation just like frickin Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of Oz and I think once the new album comes out AND you listen to it while watching the 1972 Solaris with the sound off you will be blown away. Much like I was. And maybe by the time the album comes out the band will admit to there actually being a correlation–I mean, c’mon–there totally is!
Thanks for reading, you’ve got a superb blog.
Brent
February 20, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Ek -
There is this guy I know who just cut an EP. I work with him. Really ought to check him out. He’s a 1 man musical band. He’s cut the whole EP solo. The name he goes by is Astrobotica Supra’ De Nova. Google it. It’s just simply music. No lyrics, but still something incredible about it.
Signed,
The Wiz
February 23, 2007 at 12:11 pm
don’t know how else to say this… but i’ve been listening to can
since 14 (24 now) and i finally made something i think is good enough.
and i figured you might dig it.
it’s here: http://tago-mago.net/music.htm
remixes of the streets, marvin gaye, mos def, b-52’s, cocteau twins, more
hope you like it
April 3, 2007 at 6:08 pm
I am a novice to WordPress. I am setting one up for an 11th grade English class. 2 questions have arisen from the teacher that I cannot anwser. How do I load pictures to the site, is there any way to comment on a comment to get a thread going between say 2 or 3 students. Where is a good place to go to find out this info for someone who is WP challenged.
June 12, 2007 at 9:11 am
Chip-
I didn’t answer your questions before, did I?
There’s a button to upload pictures on the page when you are posting.
As for comments, you just commented and now I’m commenting. Not sure exactly what you mean.
July 2, 2007 at 9:58 pm
My name is Paul and I and a couple of other guys run Exit Stencil Recordings in Cleveland. Our website is http://www.exitstencil.org
We are particularly excited about a couple of our bands -
Blake Miller who is young but incredibly prolific. His music gets better every day it seems.
http://www.myspace.com/burntape try “long hair” this will be on his next release.
The New Lou Reeds have been making some waves with “Bury Me with My Bong”. This is NOT a drug glorification song - one look at the band and the message is clear “kids, stay away from drugs!”
http://www.myspace.com/thenewloureeds
Julian Cope says:
I gots to say the English summer got off to an appalling start what with the downpours throughout the Solstice and the iron gauntlet with which the fuzz chose to police Glastonbury and Avebury. Even for we locals, Avebury was impenetrable as hoards of boys in blue did everything in their power (and more) to keep ye heathens at bay. Instead of hanging at the stones with the revellers, I chose to stay in and get para-munted with The New Lou Reeds’ amazing ‘Bury Me With My Bong’ playing on endless rotation.
Paul Murphy
July 27, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I stumbled across your blog this morning. I love it. I like how you write. I like that you like covers, I love covers. I like that you love boobs. Good for you. Have a great weekend and I added you to my RSS feed so I can get a daily dose of lots of stuff I like.
XOXO Christine
September 1, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I’ve been looking for good BLOG sites lately and came across yours today, through a link on Doctor Mooneys 115th Dream. Just wanted to say how much I like it and thanks for the great tunes. You’ve got a lot of people I’m into on here, keep up the good work,
Rog
September 12, 2007 at 9:34 pm
i downloaded the J Dilla/Q-Tip mix from your front page and was wondering what application would play it? it’s an .rar? file? i’m sure i’m just ignorant. can you help me out?
joe.
September 13, 2007 at 9:09 am
You need to open the folder with winrar. Google it, you should find it.
November 20, 2007 at 1:24 am
Hey EK,
You gotta listen to this newly formed unsigned band from LA. They are pretty awesome. Let me know what you think.
http://www.myspace.com/crashcutiecrash
Cheers,
-ER
December 6, 2007 at 2:39 am
MF Doom should do mad shit with supernatural both your styles are so amazing i would love nothing more than to see you two colab on an epic album thats never heard before. i think it would be idalized for years to come! i love your styles, dank MC’s!!!
January 17, 2008 at 6:03 am
quite a nice little site with quite a few bands i haven’t heard of. that is a good thing. i have
the hardest time listening to any type of mainstream music. I see there are bands that i do like myself, Modest Mouse , The Pixies, and The EEL’s. favorite EEL’s song used to be
I Like Birds. I guess that must be the perv in me., but after watching The Great White i must say that I Want to Protect You is pretty good too.
keep up the good work