This is not a picture of our current situation, as that would be incredibly cool. But, we are on the verge of being hit by all kinds of icy nastiness. I don’t have to work tomorrow, so that’s a good thing and will give me time to write more of my year end list. Hopefully [...]
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Ice Storm!
A few new songs to pass the time
I usually star the emails I get in my gmail that I want to talk about on here for sure, and those starred emails are getting super backed up because of my year end list, so I’m just going to post in between each installment of my list to keep you guys listening to music. [...]
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The Perch Top 50 of ‘08: 50-41
Ah, my year end list. Late as usual. Have to keep with tradition right? 2008 was an odd year musically for me. With my life getting twice as busy as my record label started taking off, I found myself having less and less time to search for and consume new music, and instead did something [...]
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The Perch Top 50 of ‘08 - Honorable Mentions
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Okkervil River The Stand-Ins Okkervil River are mood music. Meaning I have to be in the mood to listen to a whole album of theirs. So, it's no surprise that this new album finds the same fate. I've read that it's part two of the story that began with their last album, but I've never looked beyond [...]
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The Best of ‘08 Perch Lists Begin
I've been working on my year end lists all week, and by a combination of being super busy and our internet being the most shotty, hardly ever working thing ever, I wasn't able to post them all last week. So, this week the lists begin. Check back shortly for all the albums I loved last [...]
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Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard Engaged
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That's right. You heard it here probably dead last, but I figured I'd update everyone on this very indie engagement in case you hadn't heard. Sorry Kellen, you'll find your Zooey someday. It just won't be of the Deschanel variety now it seems. Gibbard was dating one of my bosses at Sub Pop when I [...]
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Merry Christmas from the Perch!
Merry Christmas everyone! I'm traveling home back to Kansas City for the holiday to hang out with the family and have a Home Alone style Christmas with my mom's side of the family, which includes 9 aunts and uncles and 8 cousins. I'm sure I'll be bored as ever sitting at home, so I'll try [...]
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Pitchfork Reveals Its Top Albums of 2008
Ah, the infamous list. I saw the link on someone's blog, gave a slight chuckle, then said what the heck, I'll check it out. I'm working on my list at the moment, and I can say it's drastically different from Pitchfork's, but that could be based on a variety of factors. My life has been [...]
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Mp3 of the Day: “I Am” by Novel ft. Ben Folds
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I don't know who Novel is, but apparantly he helped produce albums from Alicia Keys, India.Arie, and Joss Stone. None of which I listen to obviously, but I couldn't ignore the email I got today saying his new EP was about to come out, with the first single called "I Am", featuring none other than [...]
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Locust Toybox
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Locust Toybox is the musical stylings of one David Firth. He's an animator who is most known for creating the super weird Salad Fingers cartoon shorts. I was familiar with his cartoons, but had no idea he made music as well. If you could imagine what kind of music would come from an animator that [...]
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Perch Review - Honey Claws
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Honey Claws is a four-man experimental hip hop troop that I have one heck of a time describing. I'm looking at their one sheet and I'm seeing all kinds of phrases like "experimental hip-hop psychedelia", "robotic trippiness", "sexed up beats", "Panda Bear meets Madlib", "Playful, wild-eyed, stream of consciousness energy", and so on and so [...]
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And let the year end lists begin…
This is the time of year that I scour the blogs finding all kinds of music I missed on people's end of the year lists. Getting gifts at Christmas is fine sure, but the year end lists are the real reason I love the end of the year. Here's all but the top 10 songs [...]
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I’m Alive!
Wow, so many apologies for my week long absence. My days basically go from 8am to midnight or so every weekday, with work during the day, Lemondrop for 2 or 3 hours, then I get home and people are usually hanging out, or we go downtown. Then, by the time we get back, it’s super [...]
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Thanksgiving Mini-Perch Mix
Look! It’s a turkey Pelican! I want one of those in my front yard. Today is Thanksgiving my friends, and I figured I’d pay my many thanks to all of you guys before I headed off to stuff my face, watch football, sleep, and I’m sure I’ll go out and shop or see a movie [...]
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Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
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I found Emiliana while walking home from class a couple years ago. My solemn, cold walk home was interrupted when I noticed something shining on the sidewalk ahead. Are those cd's, I asked myself. Sure enough they were. Pedro the Lion's Achilles Heel, and Emiliana Torrini's album The Fisherman's Woman. For an indie music freak [...]
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Emancipator
First off, let me begin by saying that I am absolutely obsessed with The Sixty One. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s basically like Digg, except for music. You get points for listening to people’s music around the site, then you can spend the points to “bump” the songs you like. The more a [...]
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Are You Kidding Me? That’s a lot of Dominoes.
I guess yesterday was Domino Day. How I missed that is beyond me. I'm usually on top of Domino Day. But yeah, the point of Domino Day is to break a world record, and they did just that toppling 4.3 million dominoes in a way too over the top fashion. Some people just have too [...]
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The Knux - Remind Me in 3 Days
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You're probably saying "What?! A hip hop band on the Perch?" right now, and for the most part you'd be correct in the fact I rarely post any hip hop/rap on here. I should know way more than I do, considering Charlie, my LemonDrop Records partner, and his brother George have gigs upon gigs of [...]
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Now that the election is over…
Apparently now that the election is over, the news outlets can now report things they'd learned about Sarah Palin which they were previously prevented from reporting by the McCain campaign, as well as other bigwigs in power. I like John Stewart's quote towards the end when he asks, so when this Iraq war is over, I [...]
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Someone I Know Has Heard Andrew Bird’s “Noble Beast”
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Good friend to the Perch and one time co-Perch writer, Dylan, told me not five minutes ago that he'd recently listened to Andrew Bird's new album streamed from a super secret location. Forget the fact that for some reason the Perch wasn't invited in on this secret action (I'll hear it soon enough I guess), [...]
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