Episode 4 - Cities and Places

Sounds from the Cornerstone: Episode 4 - Cities and Places by Pierre Massé on Mixcloud

Welcome to Episode 4 of the Sounds from the Cornerstone podcast! This week's (slightly more on time) theme is cities and places. These songs are about or imply a certain city or place "on this football we call Earth". And so I played:

"Machu Picchu" – The Strokes (Angles)

"J'aime plus Paris" – Thomas Dutronc (Comme un manouche sans guitare)

"Paris" – MSTRKRFT (The Looks)

"Fake Tales of San Francisco" – Arctic Monkeys (Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not)

"Spencer Park" – Matt Stevens (Echo)

"Lillo" – Ministère des Affaires Populaires (Debout la d'dans!)

"Alone in Kyoto" – AIR (Talkie Walkie)

"Rome" – Phoenix (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix)

"Putnam County" – Tom Waits (Nighthawks at the Diner)

"New Orleans is Sinking" – The Tragically Hip (Up to Here)

"Brooklyn" – Woodkid (Iron EP)

"Los Angeles, I'm Yours" – The Decemberists (Her Majesty the Decemberists)

I know there are many more cities and places to visit through music but I hope this was a nice diverse taste already! And as always, if you liked some, a lot of, or everything you heard in the podcast, go check out those awesome bands and support them!

Episode 3 - Dark Black Night

Sounds from the Cornerstone: Episode 3 - Dark Black Night by Pierre Massé on Mixcloud

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Sounds from the Cornerstone podcast! First I'd like to apologize for how late this is, considering I was supposed to do it Saturday and it's not going to come out until Wednesday because I only recorded Tuesday. But moving on, the theme this week was the dark black of night-time. So here are the sombre tracks I played:

"Black Treacle" – Arctic Monkeys (Suck It and See)

"This Dark and Twisty Road" – Abney Park (Lost Horizons)

"Cry of the Black Birds" – Amon Amarth (With Oden On Our Side)

"Back to Black" – Amy Winehouse (Back to Black)

"Dark Lotus" – a'tris (Lensing)

"When the Night Feels My Song" – Bedouin Soundclash (Sounding a Mosaic)

"Darkshines" – Muse (Origin of Symmetry)

"I Will Follow You Into the Dark" – Death Cab for Cutie (Plans)

"The Dark of the Matinée" – Franz Ferdinand (Angles)

"Ended With the Night" – Caravan Palace (Caravan Palace)

"Black Night" – The Dodos (No Color)

"One Minute to Midnight" – Justice (†)

I promise we'll cheer up next week with a less depressing theme... Hope you still enjoyed this, and remember: if you liked some, a lot of, or everything you heard in the podcast, go check out those awesome bands and support them!

Episode 2 - Animals

Sounds from the Cornerstone: Episode 2 - Animals by Pierre Massé on Mixcloud

Welcome to Episode 2 of the Sounds from the Cornerstone podcast! For this first themed episode I focused around animals because I had to start somewhere and my list of possible themes is pretty random indeed (as you'll see in future episodes). So, of all the songs I have which pertain to animals, here are the ones I played:

"Horse in the Clouds" – Alex Brubaker (Deconstructing the Temporal Lobe)

"Dangerous Animals" – Arctic Monkeys (Humbug)

"Peacock Tail" – Boards of Canada (The Campfire Headphase)

"Quoth the Raven" – Eluveitie (Everything Remains as It Never Was)

"Plane un aigle" – Grand Dérangement (Grand Dérangement Live)

"Beaver Rag" – Rod Anderson (Sophisticated Rag)

"Animal Rights (feat. Wolfgang Gartner)" – deadmau5 (4x4=12)

"La corrida" – Francis Cabrel (Samedi soir sur la terre)

"Sheep" – Pink Floyd (Animals)

"Stray Cat Strut" – Stray Cats (Stray Cats)

"Chasing Rabbits" – a'tris (a'tris EP)

"Lions" – Dire Straits (Dire Straits)

That's it for the animals this week. Hopefully I won't be behind schedule next week and this will actually be out on Saturday. Oh well. If you liked some, a lot of, or everything you heard in the podcast, go check out those awesome bands and support them!

Episode 1 - Best of 2011

Sounds from the Cornerstone: Episode 1 - Best of 2011 by Pierre Massé on Mixcloud

Welcome to Episode 1 of the Sounds from the Cornerstone podcast! For this opening episode I decided to run through my Best of 2011 – one song from each of the 12 albums I had ranked on my Best of 2011 blog post. Here is the track listing with links to each band's music. (Note: song titles link to YouTube videos [of either album versions or particularly awesome live versions] or other streams of the songs, band names link to official band websites or most prominent social network page, and album titles link to online stores where you can buy the album in either high-quality lossless or CD format.)

"Monday Morning" – Death Cab for Cutie (Codes and Keys)

"The Attic" – In Flames (Sounds of a Playground Fading)

"Töck's Taunt - Loke's Treachery Part II" – Amon Amarth (Surtur Rising)

"Reunion" – M83 (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming)

"A Year Afloat" – Steve Lawson (11 Reasons Why 3 Is Greater Than Everything Else)

"Rushden Fair" – Matt Stevens (Relic)

"Morning Mr. Magpie" – Radiohead (The King of Limbs)

"10x10" – The Fierce and The Dead (If It Carries On Like This We're Moving to Morecambe)

"Taken for a Fool" – The Strokes (Angles)

"Rox in the Box" – The Decemberists (The King Is Dead)

"Canon" – Justice (Audio, Video, Disco)

"The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala" – Arctic Monkeys (Suck It and See)

So there you have it. If you liked some, a lot of, or everything you heard in the podcast, go check out those awesome bands and support them!