Hey, Your Ant's On The Phone

Summer has a thorough grip on us here along the Texas Gulf coast. The dogs are too hot to chase cars. Only the mosquitos are staying busy, working hard as ever. The rest of us are moving much more slowly. We are accompanied day and night by an insect symphony with a lot on the program. Sounds like Summer, alright.

I've been enjoying this summer's bug broadcast so much that I went poking around for more:

• Insects sounds from the forests of Northern Thailand


• Bugs are sounding off at the Iowa State University Department of Entomology


• Richard Mankin brings out hidden insect sounds


• Cicada sounds from Borneo


• Folkway's the Sound of Insects


• There's a whole.zip full of bugs at Meanrabbit

There hasn't been a cricket in the house in ages. Well, at least, I didn't think so. While playing sounds from these sites, a crickety chirp started rasping out from behind the couch. Hmmmm, I wonder if playing some bat sounds will make those mosquitoes nervous.

Random Collections and Recurring Themes

:: Collections ::

1. Kiad.net presents Robot Songs

2. UFO Series Home Page presents Barry Gray - A Music Sampler

3. WFMU presents VA - Wild and Wooly Vocal Stylings

4. WFMU presents American Song Poems, MSR Madness vol 5-6

5. Zoom.nu presents Gunnar Wiklund

6. Space1999.net presents Music from Space 1999 and Other Sci-Fi Programs

7. A Best Truth presents VA - How To Kill A Cop

8. Shanghai Soup presents Zhou Xuan, Shanghai's Golden Throat


:: Recurring Themes ::

1. Soul Sides presents VA - 13 Covers of Apache

2. Secret Spain presents VA - 32 Covers of Ghost Riders in the Sky

3. Ethereal Code presents VA - 15 Versions of Pipeline

4. Amasté presents VA - 27 Covers of Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog

5. Madman's Realm presents VA - 60+ Covers of Sukiyaki

Super Sounds

A New Super Sounds collection has been posted at Oddio Overplay to bring you hours of enjoyable free and legal music. A great pick for a happy weekend is Fanny Alger, a fun band who describes themselves as "good-times punk rock able to smile at itself."

Tutorial on Chinese Punk Rock

From Jesse Luscious at KALX Berkeley: An awesome Chinese Rock 'n' Roll Special
stream it or download at Maximum RockNRoll Radio Specials

Here's to REVOLUTION!

Nuggets

Nugs.net, the source for live jam concerts online, now has a weekly downloadable show made up of songs performed by various artists.

The current show features artists performing at last month's Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee. They have got Galactic's Krewe de Carnivale featuring Leo Nocentelli - original member of the Meters who defined New Orleans funk, members of The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins, Boyd Tinsley from The Dave Matthews Band, and American Idol's Bo Bice. Next Particle brings out a full gospel choir to blow through the Sly And The Family Stone catalog, O.A.R. (Of a Revolution) plays a crazy game of poker, and John Prine serenades us with a Bonnie Raitt classic.

Older Nugcasts are archived, too!

M.Ace - Steel-String Flat Top Sedition

M.Ace - Steel-String Flat Top Sedition is a new web album of "primitive acoustic guitar instrumentals" from M.Ace of Ookworld fame. M.Ace was also half of Narthex.

Dia de la Independencia

Dia de la Independencia - Independence Day, a new EP by the infamous Lanark of Argentina, is available for free on his site.

4th and 9th of july are close enough. why not celebrate then, together, the independence of the united provinces of south and the united states of the north? that's what I did, in the form of a handful of patriotic marches, a little changed.

Strike up the Band

July brings Canada Day, United States of America Independence Day, Bastille Day in France, and probably many other celebrations of nationality. A classic Sousa record has been added to the Oddio Overplay site for the festivities. For other marching band type music, check out these sites:


1. The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps
2. Canadian Military Music
3. Danish and German Police Music
4. USCA Band Here's to America CD
5. USAF Band 42 marches