one of my favorite artists, who also happens to be severely under appreciated, anders parker, see record #29 here, releases his double disc, skyscraper crow, today on bladen county records. besides being a double disc its also, apparently a concept record and broken up into two sections: the crow portion which is acoustic folk stuff [...]
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oh glorious day off, i love thee. hope everyone, at least in the us, is having a lovely and unproductive day. i know i am, for the most part. another band i never really got into, although i never really tried is the boo radleys. that wont stop me from posting this black session recording [...]
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its a repost weekend! here is another one of my favorite shows, dbt performing their classic, southern rock opera, over the course of two evenings @ the zephyr in salt lake city on 1.18/19.02. thanks very much to the original taper!act I/night 11. days of graduation2. southern rock opera intro3. ronnie and neil4. 725. dead [...]
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every 6 months or so i like to pull this back out, aka repost, cause its paul and its awesome. here he is, once again for the third time, live at fantasy studios for kfog on 9.12.96.1. waiting for somebody2. valentine3. once around the weekend4. these were the days5. i will dare6. aint got me7. [...]
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evening, all. if you dont own sugar’s copper blue you’re a damn fool, especially since you can get it for a penny and a couple bucks for s/h by clicking that link up there. im not gonna advocate illegal activities, but if you dont feel like spending the dough, find it, download it, and bask [...]
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if you are in new orleans tomorrow, or maybe just feel like taking a road trip, project 30-90 is kicking off at 2 pm @ the new river city plaza right next to mardi gras world. tickets are $30 bucks and from what i gather its a cash only affair but there will be atm’s [...]
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honestly, i never got much into lush, but i had some friends, and people i have met along the way that were/are really into em. not too sure why either cause after listening to this, they sound like a band i could get into. maybe, ill go and check out their catalogue, which is only [...]
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photo by dino perrucciif you happen to be in the new orleans area tomorrow or sat night, head on over to the blue nile and catch marco benevento’s jazz not jazz stylings. i had never heard of marco up until yesterday, but apparently eric at can you see the sunset likes him enough to say [...]
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top of the early afternoon, late morning to y’all. may or may not have noticed but up over there to the left, but captains dead is now in the “presenting” game. yep, im presenting two shows here in new orleans. first being the soulsavers w/ mark lanegan on friday, 9.18 and then those darlins on [...]
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firstly, wow stereogum has embeddable videos? pretty damn impressive. secondly that up there is the video, which i cant recommend watching enough, for “we do what we want to” off o+s’s recently released ep of the same name. the ep features the title track, of course, this video and the video for “permanent scar” as [...]
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well shit this came up with the quickness, this being a new noise addict record featuring of course ben lee, but this time round also including mr lou barlow and crooked finger’s lara meyerratken. im six songs into it was never about the audience and its pretty awesome and as charming and catchy as anything [...]
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top of the morning to you all. two things: anyone see the knowing with nic cage? it wasnt actually as bad as i thought it was going to be, but damn that ending just ruined it for me. not gonna give anything away, but yeah it was pretty awful. secondly, last night the wife was [...]
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jim orso is silk lung, and he lives in brooklyn. he's got a 4 song ep, just a thread, up on his site that for a limited time you can download for free. of course i still stand by the fact that just cause its free doesnt make it awesome or even remotely listenable or [...]
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if i were to had come up with a top 50 of the decade list, i know for damn sure the mountain goats would have had at least 3 records taking up some space, most notably heretic pride, tallahassee and the sunset tree. i am still questioning my reasoning for leaving at least tallahassee out [...]
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im not a smart man, this has already been established, but what i lack in what one could call general intellect i make up for it in general bullshit knowledge. you know the kind smarts that wont make me any money, ever. sure, out at a bar i can impress some 22 year old co-ed [...]
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i dont know much about the ladies of heavy feather, other than they used to be known as jackpot city, they hail from athens, ga and they released a self titled record earlier this year. actually, the more i read (yay reading!) about the ladies of heavy feather, the more i am impressed with the [...]
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photo by james wilsonabout a year and a half ago, i was fumbling blindly through a seemingly endless number of myspace band profiles in search of something. that something i was looking for, i havent the slightest? i never really do that sort of thing, so maybe i was really bored or something? i did [...]
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well, hey here is the remainder of my top 30 records of the 00’s. is it odd that the truckers take up 4 spots out of said 30? that either says to me that i need to expand my horizons a wee bit more, or they happen to put out stuff that i love, a [...]
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hey-o! oh man its slow going today. the bride and i went out for our 9 year anniversary last night, and ripped the town apart as only two 30somethings with kids can do it. speaking of ripping shit apart, times new viking have a new record coming out on 9.22 which they have chose to [...]
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as the title suggests, here’s 11-20 of my top 30 of the 00’s. interestingly enough the middle of the pack was much more difficult to compile than my top ten. 21-30 will be up tomorrow….11. gordon downie.coke machine glowstarpainterschancellor12. the wrens.meadowlandsthe house that guilt builtthis boy is exhausted13. drive by truckers.southern rock operawallaceroad cases14. explosions [...]
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