Is it me or does it seem "homemade" videos that look like they could be on Youtube are all the rage right now. I feel this phenomenon started with the Fat Boy Slim, "Praise You" video and the ball seems to be rolling faster and faster. Youtube has become the place anyone can get their 15 minutes of fame, and it amazes me just how many hits some videos seem to get. I know Ok Go can attribute a l...
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Anyone want to see a pasty-white Ben Kweller shirtless? Kweller skins down to his knickers in his new video "Fight" and reels 'em in, and I'm not talking about the ladies. The song is off the Texans new country album Changing Horses on February 3rd. Why country? "Country music was the soundtrack to my life," Kweller says. "It's still a big part of who I am. When Garth Brooks or Alan Jackson com...
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BK covering Rob Van Winkle....quality is so-so, but i thought it was worth posting...word to your mother
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My digital camera does not function so well when the operator(me) has had several big 32oz beers...so here are two of the pictures that actually look like something from last night's Ben Kweller show. Good show, big fun...and the fact that he did an acoustic cover of 'Ice Ice Baby' made my week!!
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Every Christmas is usually spent away from home. Usually we drive down to Fresno, where I was born and raised, to celebrate the holidays with my family. My parents, long since divorced and remarried, are patient as we celebrate the holidays twice, opening gifts, not necessarily on Christmas day, and eating our fair share of goodies and treats. In fact this Christmas Day was spent in transit ...
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On June 19, Ben Kweller will keep fans up Late Late Night with an appearance on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Kweller will be performing a song from his latest album, Changing Horses.originally posted on SonicDissonance.com
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On his new album Changing Horses (out Feb. 3rd), indie popster Ben Kweller returns to his Texas roots with his first all-country record.From the first chords of Hank Williams-style "Gypsy Rose" it becomes obvious that this will be the "wife ran away with the dog" kind of country rather than the slick new country.If Matthew Sweet and Ryan Adams were to have a bastard lovechild he would pen songs
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(for when you have spring fever) Sorry about the delay. Today's song comes from Ben Kweller, a Texas singer-songwriter. He currently has four studio albums out, his most recent being Changing Horses which came out in February. Not too bad for a guy who's only 27 who just got married and had a kid. Mr. Kweller also has a legendary Austin City Limits appearance under his belt in which he pla...
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Here's the daily OM Music review of Ben Kweller and a link to his Myspace page with music.http://www.myspace.com/benkwellerJanuary 31, 2007Ben KwellerBen Kweller 2006Ben Kweller became interested in rock music before he entered kindergarten, thanks to his dad being friends with Bruce Springsteen's guitarist Nils Lofgren. Kweller was playing guitar and writing songs by the time he was eight and ...
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Not really sure why, or how to go about this in particular. Just really don't want to work on this paper anymore. BAH!
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i'm not a HUGE fan of benny k and everything he does, but i really like this song (and there's a few more gems hidden in there as well). funny story: ben was here a few months ago and played a live in-store at sonic boom. he played a fun and interesting performance and afterwards, leaving the store my friend almost literally ran into him. hes a nice guy though. we also had an interesting discus...
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Forget, if you must, that it's a showtune, that it trails characters glittery and bizarre. Ben Kweller strips it of these shiny trappings of birth and leaves you with wide-eyed honesty, all youthful & so sorry: You'll never find love faster than when you're sharing schemes of prisonbreak; there's no harder fall than learning the escape was never meant for two.
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After flirting with country music throughout his solo career, Ben Kweller embraces his Texas roots with Changing Horses, an earthy record filled with pedal steel guitars and honky tonk storytelling. Kweller's southern pedigree has always made itself known--in the twang of his acoustic guitar, in the lilt of his voice--but Changing Horses shines a spotlight on those nuances, replacing the heartl...
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Ben KwellerChanging Horses[ATO Records; 2009]Links: Ben Kweller | ATO Records | Purchase on InsoundPosted by Elias Isquith on 28 July 2009Ben Kweller’s always been an artist I’ve found to be disappointing. Disappointing in the sense that, on each record, is a handful of very good pop songs, surrounded by dull, impersonal and forgetful nothingness. In [...]
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I went to see Ben Kweller and the Watson Twins at the Mod Club in Toronto on Sunday. You can read my review here.
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