Glide & Swerve's debut album, Bring Back Love, sounds much like their name. It's sleek, easy listening and feels like it's the perfect thing to zone out to while watching one of those Apple visualizers. The result is a fantastic down-tempo album that is perfect listening for a slow moment. Moreover, the album as a whole sounds 'cool'. The group has been compared to Zero 7, but I think it sounds...
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On Friday, the SyFy channel unveiled its latest addition from the Stargatefranchise, Stargate: Universe to high ratings, showing that the third series has a good potential at life for the newly relaunched channel. This new version is an enormous leap forward for the series, evolving characters, storylines and the entire universe in which the show is set to bring about what looks to be a very pr...
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Sia recently recorded a cover of The Church's fantastic song, Under The Milky Way, for a Lincoln car commercial, the same ones who got Cat Power to do her fantastic cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity. This song was up for a free download on their website. It's a pity CP's song wasn't up there as well, but give this version a listen - it's just as good as the original song. Under the Milky Way ...
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I saw Carbon Leaf earlier this week, with a fun lineup with Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, along with Dawn Landes. I didn't take down a set list, because I've done that quite a few times already, but there is one part of the concert that I wanted to pass along to the greater internet population. One of the new songs on their latest album, Nothing Rhymes With Woman, is called Pink. As Barry Pri...
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Chasing Pirates, the latest song from Norah Jones, is a bit of a change from her normal sound, and will be coming with her next album, The Fall. Due out in November, this album is touted as holding a new sound for Jones, who's breakout album, Come Away With Me has really yet to be matched by her followup albums, Feels Like Home and Not Too Late. Both were fine albums, but neither came anywhere ...
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Over the past couple of years, blues/folk/rock has become a bit more popular through the radio and listeners, partially due to an influx of artists such as Amos Lee and Ray LaMontagnge, who have released a number of fantastic albums in the past five years that have blended country-folk with rock and roll. The results are a series of better-than-average rock and roll songs that take the best of ...
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A couple weeks ago, I got to see a favorite singer of mine, Jonathan Coulton. Coulton is one of the leading singers in the small geek-folk/rock field. Like nerdcore music, this isn't any different than the overall genre, but he sings with a number of themes that fall within geek/nerd fandom. His concert, opened by Paul and Storm (who were in and of themselves quite funny), was a fun and highly ...
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Vampire Weekend, the indie-darlings of 2008, have announced their upcoming album in recent weeks, entitled Contra, which will be avaliable January 11th in the UK and the 12th in the US. I'm moderately interested to see if these guys can follow up with the same success with their first album. While they have a fairly unique sound, I've always been moderately turned off by the amount of critical ...
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When I first started this blog, I never thought that I'd these two up for a song. Today's duet is about the universe, a very fun remix with Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. Glorious Dawn (Cosmos Remix) - Carl Sagan and Stephen HawkingHype - Buy
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It's been a good couple months. Love You More - Alexi MurdochI'm In Love With A Girl - Big StarRe: Stacks - Bon IverComfort - Carbon LeafDream Girl - Dave Matthew's BandOrdinary Man - Gregory Douglass & Grace PotterHeartbeats (The Knife) - José GonzálezA Good Day (Morning Song) - Priscilla AhnYou Are The Best Thing - Ray LaMontagneEverybody Knows - Ryan AdamsDreaming - Sara WheelerLove Will Com.
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I never got around to formally reviewing The Decemberist's latest album, The Hazards of Love, when it was released this past spring, but when I saw that they were coming up Vermont, I elected to hold off until I'd watched them in person and kill two birds with one stone.The Decemberists is a group that I admittedly have a hard time with. They were largely introduced to me through a now-ex girlf...
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Last week saw the release of Stephen Kellogg and the Sixer's latest release, The Bear. It's been a couple of years since their last album, The Glassjaw Boxer, a fun listen, but with this release, there are some good indications of growth for the group. The Bear is easily their best album to date. The Bear was produced by Tom Schick, who has previously worked with acts such as Norah Jones, Ryan ...
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Last week saw the release of Stephen Kellogg and the Sixer's latest release, The Bear. It's been a couple of years since their last album, The Glassjaw Boxer, a fun listen, but with this release, there are some good indications of growth for the group. The Bear is easily their best album to date. The Bear was produced by Tom Schick, who has previously worked with acts such as Norah Jones, Ryan ...
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There is something that’s been bothering me on this day, and it’s something that I’ve noticed happening for a couple years now:“Remember 9-11!”This year, I’ve been seeing more and more of this, people pouring out a simple one or two sentences, sometimes all in caps, reminding me that I need to remember the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the thwarted atta
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There is something that’s been bothering me on this day, and it’s something that I’ve noticed happening for a couple years now:“Remember 9-11!”This year, I’ve been seeing more and more of this, people pouring out a simple one or two sentences, sometimes all in caps, reminding me that I need to remember the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the thwarted atta
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We haven't done one of these in a while. I just came across Adele recently with some radio airplay of her song, Right as Rain. It's a decent album with a handful of good songs, but there's one that caught my ears as a Bob Dylan cover, Make You Feel My Love. I think that this version is a geninue improvement over the original. Dylan is one of those artists that is hit or miss for me. He's certai...
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Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Mini! It's a fantastic little car, one that has been revolutionary in terms of engineering and marketing, with broad popular appeal. As usual with things like this, I've done a writeup here.I absolutely love my car, as I’ve written about before. The entire experience of driving it differs from anything that I’ve driven before, and I often will break out int
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This past Friday, a new SciFi movie called District 9 opened to theaters. I have to say, it's one of the better SciFi films that I've seen this summer, right up there with Duncan Jone's Moon. The plot, for those unaware, is about an MNU employee who is infected with an alien substance and is forced to go on the run. 20 years earlier, an alien ship arrived over South Africa, where a couple milli...
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This week, I'll be in the town of Gettysburg, working on a program for my college, developing what we call a Staff Ride, a sort of glorified field trip that examines battlefields in great depth. It's a fascinating way to explore history, and if you get the chance, I highly recommend attending one somewhere, should you be presented with the opportunity. Ashokan Farewell - Jay Unger Yankee Bayone...
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Battlestar Galactica has since come and gone from the airwaves, with the occasional exception of the TV movies that they're planning - the upcoming one is entitled The Plan, due out sometime this year - but the ending season's soundtrack has just been released, ending what is a fine tradition of outstanding scoring for the series. Battlestar Galactica has always had a soundtrack that's stood ou...
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