RIP

I'm sorry to say that Push Play Please is no more... But I have relocated virtual spaces. Try visiting me here. http://www.ashleycabulagan.com/category/blog/

Shock You Like You Won't Believe

I love cool bands covering other cool bands. Like The Kooks covering MGMT

MGMT - "Electric Feel" Music Video

This is what the world is for...making electricty.

Waiting for God...and a Train

Lets get all the hippest, newest artists in taxis all over the world and record them. Why? It doesn't matter, but cool? Cool. My friend Paul Gonzalez (whose music you should check out)showed me Black Cab Sessions and I'm into it. And I'm into Fleet Foxes (who are from Seattle). And I'm into taxis. So if you add it all up it equals a win, win...win.



Magic rings I made turned my fingers green.

Ill Keep Sewing These Seeds

A new local favorite, Sayde Price. Always want to support talented local artists as well as talented female artists.

DANCE DANCE DANCE

Love Bon Iver. Love Lykke Li. So what if they had babies?

Boots to the Moon

It took me a while to recognize the local scene in Utah but its pretty impressive. True story. Joe Castor released his solo album at the end of 2008. LOVE LOVE LOVE it. And love Joe.



For BOOTS click me

Etcetera Etcetera

How about my favorite dancer in the world, Thom Yorke? Grammy’s, Radiohead and USC's marching band. Can never get enough of this band and In Rainbows, which of course was nominated for 5 awards. Radio in la Cabeza maybe probably my favorite band ever.

Radiohead - 15 Step
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Sha Sha

Saw Ben Kweller on Friday. That’s a man I will never get tired of. I think I love him. Love all his albums, including his new one (Changing Horses), love him even more live, and I just love him. With all his popularity he has avoided the pretension and musical snobbery that most artists can’t help but adopt. Seriously love this man.

Shivers Down My Back

Today I bought “Furr” Blitzen Trappers album on vinyl. It’s been playing endlessly, because its one of those albums that can play endlessly without getting tiresome. I'm into that booming bass and, of course, the wailing harmonica. What could possibly be wrong with the recycled sound of old Bob Dylan slash Neil Young?


Favorite line- “But you better be sure if your making God a liar”

Blitzen Trapper is making there way out to Salt Lake City March 12th.

The Unlocking and the Lift Away

Bon Iver was one of my favorite artists of 2008. For a while For Emma, Forever Ago was playing constantly in all quarters of my existence. Downstairs on my computer, upstairs on my ipod, in my car and in my head. This is my favorite song on the album

Favorite line “Everything that happens is from now on.”

Pick Your Afro Daddy

See now Erykah Badu is all hip with the “cool” kids. (Whoever that may be these days). Her album New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) has made it on every year end top albums of 2008 list. And the “Cool Kids” are right. The album is smooth, soulful and intelligent. I’d want to listen to her in a smoky bar, the nostalgia of some Jazz speakeasy. I’d listen to her at the dinner table. And I’d want to rock Ms. Badu with my rattling, blown car speakers that sometimes cut from front to back.

Now I’m no cool kid and I never was but I was loving Badu back in my Middle School days when it was cool to stuff socks in your Adidas’s. (It actually was never really that cool).

What I’m trying to say is check out her new stuff… But please don’t neglect her old stuff. Old stuff like this:



When I listen to this I can’t help but stuff socks in my shoes.

I Know Your Hands Will Clap

A new favorite of mine, Lykke Li from Stockholm. My first thoughts: sexy electronic sound that had a baby with Neo-soul that had a baby with...Bjork? I love this video and the acoustic version of this song (featuring Robyn, Adam & Bebban from the Shout Out Louds).



I think Lykke Li is stinking sexy cool. Even cooler is her cover of A Tribe Called Quest’s “Can I Kick It?”