I started with this blog only about eight months ago; I moved to my very own domain just after Christmas. Now I think I need to say goodbye. This whole experience has not been what I hoped it would be, and it’s created a bit of a monster. Essentially, I failed in creating the kind [...]
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A goodbye post which is entirely too long
Tight Knit…finally
Pardon, gentles all, for having neglected Vetiver’s totally worthy new release, Tight Knit (Sub Pop Records), for so long. I’m only now beginning to digest it, even though their jaunty little love song, “Everyday,” has crossed my radar numerous times since before the album’s release. Vetiver’s music has been described as “dreamy, gentle songs that [...]
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Country alert
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But good country. Mike Auldridge: Trains Make Me Lonesomeofficial / iTunes
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Off with his head, man, off with his head, man
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A still from the amazing “Paranoid Android” video, which you can see on YouTube here.It’s the Paranoid Android post! So much Radiohead lately, I know, but that’s what I’ve been listening to. I never said this blog would be balanced. My girlfriend, who’s an actress, is doing a performance piece entitled “Radioheaded,” which uses the [...]
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In this town television shuts off at two
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Loudon Wainwright III: Motel Bluesofficial / iTunes
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Three for the air
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—Inspired by my random journeys on Wikipedia.The Avett Brothers: I’ll Fly Awayofficial / iTunesDavid Bowie: Something in the Airofficial / iTunesArnold McCuller: Freebird (Skynyrd solo acapella cover)official / iTunes
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A long-overdue submissions post
I’ve had these sitting in the queue for ages, but I haven’t been in the right frame of mind to be digging through new music. Sometimes you just need to go back to the classics, you know? Anyways, I get a rather large number of music submissions–not as many as bigger, more popular blogs, of [...]
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Foo Fighters talking about next album
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Okay, so they’re not working yet, but it’s still exciting. From Spin:“We’ve gotten together and minced ideas already,” Hawkins told NME.com of the band’s follow-up to 2007’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. “Just basic ideas and we’ll probably do that over the next year until we have a log of ideas… I’d say maybe by [...]
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Andrew Russo, et al doing “Street Spirit”
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Pretty darn cool. I ran across this while trying to find a YouTube vid of Radiohead’s performance on the Grammys. (Apparently they’ve all been taken down?) “Street Spirit” is one of those that’s built for the classical cover.On another note, I updated my Wordpress and now the categories are all messed up. Don’t know what’s [...]
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The Soul Post
Soul is one of those genres I don’t know intimately well, like I do jazz or Inuit throat singing. (Actually, scratch the latter.) But I still love it every time I pick it up - there’s something about the pure emotion exuded by soul singers that I think is probably unmatched in the rest of [...]
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Songs for a flagging energy
Hola, Tannerinos — I know it’s been a long time since I’ve rapped at ya, but I was preparing for a trip out of town, and then I was out of town. But now I’m back in my quiet little redneck mountain town and everything is as it should be. Today, just a few of [...]
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New music from Filligar and Gregor Samsa
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Filligar playing live in NYCJust got a copy of Near or Far, the fifth offering from once-Chicago/now-New-England-based pop-rockers Filligar (that’s FILL-uh-grr, with a hard G). Having played all over Chicago and a few in Madison, too, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about them already. They’re young guys (still in college) but their solid writing and [...]
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Missed the boat on Delta Spirit
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Delta Spirit's Ode to Sunshine So I totally missed the buzz on Delta Spirit back in August when their debut album, Ode to Sunshine, hit the streets. Sorry 'bout that. I randomly ran into them yesterday on Metromix Denver's site in an article called Blowin' Up in '09: Like a sexier, groovier Cold War Kids (whom [...]
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Quick review: East Hundred’s Passenger
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Philadelphia's East Hundred Got my eagerly-awaited copy of East Hundred's Passenger today. (Thank you, Canada Post, for failing to tell me that you had been trying to deliver it for a week before giving up and taking it to the post office at 7/11. Well done.) It's a cool album. It's rather short - only 9 tracks [...]
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Another Obama post - with music!
— I'm not going to endlessly rhapsodize about today's inauguration and about what it means to my country. No doubt you've read enough about that so far today-or if you haven't, it's because you don't have much interest in the first place. But I did want to share music from today's festivities. These are ripped from [...]
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New Elvis Perkins on its way
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… Elvis Perkins (he of "Weeping Pilgrim," which you oughta scroll down and click right now if you haven't heard it) has his new In Dearland project coming out with XL Recordings on March 10. They've got three songs to stream on the website; as other bloggers have also said, I've been listening to them on [...]
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New Decemberists - “The Rake’s Song”
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The Decemberists Hot on the heels of their Always the Bridesmaid single set comes the Decemberists' new album, The Hazards of Love on March 24th. They've got one song from it available for free download on their website - or here, too, if that's what you'd prefer. Seems that they're following the same type of storytelling [...]
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Stream the new M. Ward album on NPR
Courtesy of Matador RecordsNot satisfied with leaving us alone to soak in the new Andrew Bird, NPR has come through yet again with a free, full preview of M. Ward’s upcoming album, Hold Time (to be released February 17). From NPR’s site:The songs of singer-guitarist M. Ward seem to drift in on the crackling radio [...]
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New Blitzen Trapper video - Furr
Seems like a lot of bands are doing stop-motion or papercraft animation or something similar with their music videos lately. (See Fleet Foxes’ “White Winter Hymnal,” Lovely Sparrows’ “Year of the Dog,” Donny Hue’s “Good Time Happening,” and a score of others I can’t remember off the top of my head right now.) Jumping into [...]
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East Hundred’s Passenger
PassengerGot an email the other day announcing the upcoming release of Philly five-piece East Hundred’s first full-length album, Passenger. I don’t have a review copy in my hands, so for now I’ll have to go on the single they’ve released to the public, “Slow Burning Crimes.” It’s a cool song. Beril Guceri has sort of [...]
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