I’m not sure how I missed this band, but amongst the break-up of the Format, one of my favorite bands, comes a new band called Fun. It has Nate Ruess, former singer from the Format, Andrew Dost, multi-instrumentalist from Anathallo, and Jack Antonoff, lead singer of Steel Train. They’ve released one demo so far and spent all winter recording a new album which has a tentative Spring release
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I’ve been meaning to write up a review for Manchester Orchestra’s new release, Mean Everything to Nothing, which is just fantastic and was definitely worth the long wait, so look for that review soon, but in the mean time, the band are releasing a video for each song on the album one at a time until the album’s release on April 21st. They already premiered the first video at Absolute Punk,
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The guys from Bossasaurus emailed me a few days ago, and I just had to write up a little post on them. Not only are they super talented dj’s, pumping out tunes the like of DJ Shadow, they’re also goofy as hell. Just watch the promo video below and you’ll see. Here’s a link to one of their mixes, which I’ve actually listened to a few times through today and really enjoy. I’m in
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CoralinePerch Score: 9.324/10Coraline is the brainchild of Neil Gaiman, whose children’s novel the movie is adapted from. He’s best known for his comics and various graphic novels throughout the years, many of which have already been made into films such as Stardust, Mirromask, and Coraline. While he wrote Coraline and had a big part in the film, it is really the director’s film, Henry S
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Surfing through the digg main page today led me to this wonderful stop-motion video for Oren Lavie’s “Her Morning Elegance”. I’ve never heard his music, but after seeing this great music video and hearing the amazing song behind it, I’ve gone on a one man mission to find out more about this guy. Very Nick Drake sounding and I love what I’m hearing so far.Her Morning Elegance [mp3]T
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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 interned there in '06. I guess not anymore eh?But the real reason I wrote this post was to upd...
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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 nothing but a whirlwind of business since we took LemonDrop Records live and took on more bands. That le...
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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 makes strange, eeiry cartoons, then his music as Locust Toybox would undoubtedly be what you h...
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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 on. But you know what I'd say? It's damn good…what.
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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 from It All Started with Carbon Monoxide 's top 50 songs of the year list. I'll update this post with the final part once they po...
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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 late and I'm dead tired. Multiply that by 5, and add weekend nights that usually don't end until 3am or so, and you...
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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 too. Man, I love Thanksgiving. But seriously, here's a huge thank you to each and every one of my readers for making the Perc...
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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 like me, finding two albums randomly on a sidewalk that I d...
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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 great hip hop, but when searching for new tunes, things usually work out more in the indie rock direct...
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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 bet you've got a great story to tell us, right? I was just bored tonight and I...
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I'll make a halloween Perch Mix if I have time today, but for now, I'll let you admire my costume for this Halloween and enjoy some Ryan Adams.Ryan Adams - Halloweenhead
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In my boredom tonight, I randomly came across a new Andrew Bird song from his upcoming album Noble Beast , which is going to be released January 2009 on Fat Possum. It's called "Oh No" and it's pretty good. And since I know the majority of you are Andrew Bird fans, I just had to share it. After you're done listening to it, head over to Andrew Bird's music blog over at the NY Times. Yeah, ...
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Phillip and Will from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin were recently in Austria and the great live video blog "They Shoot Music Don't They " got them to sit and play a few songs. Most of you know of my love for SSLYBY, as they're from right here in Springfield where I live and I hung out with them while in Seattle as well, but it's kind of ironic that I put Pershing , their 2008 release...
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My roommate and I were on the floor practically crying last night after watching this. Sure, I felt bad, but the girl posted the video herself, so I imagine she was laughing at herself too. I'd skip to the 2 minute mark and watch from there.Scarlett takes a tumble And this guy's reaction while watching the video is just as priceless.-Funny reaction video
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Ra Ra Riot - Dying is Fine Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire Sunfold - Shrinking the Sphere Owl City - Sky Diver Minus the Bear - Guns & Ammo Flight of the Concords - Business Time Apollo Sunshine - Money Vetiver - The Swimming Song The Weepies - Wish I Could Forget Port Blue - Mr. Chen, Sailmaker It's been over a month since my last Perch Mix, and quite frankly, that's ridiculous. Like usual, these...
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