COMMUNICATION. Linking consonants to vowels

    Not understanding can be  a good reason to disconnect, both in daily communication and in life. The clues in the gap- fill exercise fo...

The War on Drugs//Best Night

An album I've been really loving lately is the new one by The War on Drugs. Although it sounds more like a Kurt Vile album than any pre...

THE LOGICAL SONG FOR SYLLABIC CONSONANTS

This post is dedicated to all those Spanish State Teachers, colleagues of mine, who  are suffering the consequences of the regional governme...

Zoo Kid//Out Getting Ribs

Have you heard of Brit School , the Croydon arts & tech. high school that's churning out many of today's most talented musicians...

The Strokes//New York City Cops

Yo, OSSers. How's it? I've been feeling pretty conflicted lately. On one hand, in the words of the great Jackson Browne , "All ...

Fool's Gold//The Dive

I am getting married in one month minus one day. At this moment, my life roughly breaks down into these percentages: 30%: Doing Wedding Shit...

tUnE-YarDs//Bizness

Hello and good Tuesday to you. It seems like we all survived the great 405 shutdown of 2011. I spent the weekend mixing bizness with wedding...

Amadou & Mariam//Ce N'est Pas Bon

Continuing in yesterday's tradition of bands with ampersands, I've been hearing about Amadou & Mariam for a while now. Although...

Iron & Wine//Sodom, S. Georgia; Naked As We Came; Walking Far From Home

Have you ever noticed how many Iron & Wine songs are about death? I mean, honestly guys, it's a lot. Here are three of my favorites....

Red Tail Ring//Talk About Suffering/Going To Cairo/The Road Is My Skyway

Friday Shout/Chant: Local Music Friday What's up with Local Music Fridays? Dear old friend and general mountain-of-a-man Michael Beauch...

Midlake//Roscoe

Wow. Between now and last we spoke, I rode some roller coasters and turned 28. Well, that wasn’t all…but those are the highlights. I’ve also...

Anni Rossi//Land Majestic

A Jam Majestic and Untamed: Local Music Friday What's up with Local Music Fridays? Guys, I am just going to stop making promises about ...

Fabolous//You Be Killin' Em

I'm not sure how this one slipped through the OSS cracks, but this song was IT right around when I was leaving NYC. I first heard it whi...

Kreayshawn//Gucci Gucci

OK, dudes--you have to forgive me. This is a TOTAL guilty pleasure situation, but I just can't get the sample from this song out of my h...

Micky Dolenz//Beverly Hills

I can't thank my good pal Tash enough for introducing me to this amazing set of comps, LA Burnout and LA Burnout 2 . I've become com...

The Beach Boys//Fun, Fun, Fun

A situation came up tonight that reminded me of this song. In fact, it's probably a bad sign that there are a few ongoing situations in ...

Joy Zipper//Check Out My New Jesus

OK, so I know I'm a few days late on this...ok...a week and a half. But I really wanted to post this song in honor of Easter. Because I ...

IF YOU WERE A SAILBOAT. CONDITIONAL SONG. Vowels and diphthongs

The song If you were a sailboat composed and interpreted by the  Georgian-British singer, songwriter and musician  Katie Melua, will help us...