It’s weird how performers and writers live in separate worlds. The bands who give the best live performances seldom have remarkable songs around which to structure their sounds. People who can write great songs seldom get themselves into bands. Everyone knows it but nobody says it because they’re…pregnant?This is a legitimately well-written song. If it [...]
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In an interview with Aquarium Drunkard, Raconteur Brendan Benson talks about recording with producer Gil Norton as an arduous process, but well worth it in the end.“It was exactly what I wanted. I wanted someone to dominate – to make a lot of the decisions for me, really, and tell me what to do.”What has [...]
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Tom Lehrer is awesome. How many people in the world can claim authority on both music theatre and mathematics? Most of the music he is famous for was recorded in the late fifties and early sixties, some of it absurd and some of it as a social commentary, but mostly a mix of both.It’s so [...]
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Music Induced Euphoria snagged an interview with Austin band Voxtrot, who released their new single Berlin, Without Return a couple weeks ago. Austin has always been a dependable place to find bands who pay attention to how a song translates live. This track is powered by a nice “what do you know” and “you don’t [...]
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Les Paul died today aged 94. He singlehandedly invented the solid-body electric guitar, making possible all the guitar sounds we associate with rock music today. With his wife Mary Ford, Paul pioneered multi-track and close-range recording techniques that are ubiquitous these days. Les Paul is looked up to by anyone who has ever tried pushing [...]
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Hartford, CT band Bronze Radio Return have a shared enthusiasm for the type of songwriting that crafted the hits of yesteryear. They want you to dance (or feel like dancing) when they play, but this isn’t your typical shiny happy college band. Though they are uptempo, the songs on their first record Old Time Speaker are [...]
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Jenny McIntyre brings us some delicate Jenny Lewis-meets-Jewel vocals and a songwriting sensibility that uses a type of chord progression we’ve all heard a million times without making it sound cliche. Outside the Radio is a collection of songs that have a distinct “new songwriter” feel to them, but in a good way. [...]
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Nashville singer-songwriter Seth Wood once aspired to a career in making films. Perhaps he still does. In any case, a trip to Europe and a chance encounter with the perfect guitar convinced him to take a momentary detour into the craft of writing “simple and earnest” songs. What has emerged is the impressive EP Abraham, [...]
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To belatedly commemorate the fortieth anniversary of man walking on the moon, I’m featuring three tracks with moon-related themes. First is “That Moon Song” from Colorado singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov. This Empty Northern Hemisphere is his fourth record, and this track features a haunting call-and-response refrain that’s the perfect sing-along for driving country backroads on [
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, “Thus far and no farther.”-Ludwig van BeethovenArtistic types have a predictable tendency to get hung up on authenticity, to the point where they forget to define the word. Pure expression, they contend, has no need for a “theory” to back it [...]
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