
My roommate, Andrew, turned 20 yesterday. He asked me if he could make just one post for the people. I stepped down from my throne to grant him his wish. Enjoy: The (New) Canadian Super-Group by: Andrew Seeing as how I recently left that period of my life known as teenagerhood behind, I’m ready to move onto bigger and better things. No more Kids Bop for me. Not that there ever was…. Anyway, Anathallo. I’m here to talk about Anathallo. I had the pleasure [...]

Isn't Sunday supposed to be a day of rest? Final day and what a day it will be. Starting at 11:45, labeled as a "marching band gone wild", Anathallo makes music using almost anything and have a sound that mixes the Polyphonic Spree with The Arcade Fire. If you are easy like Sunday morning, see Rocky Votolato , a Seattle based songwriter with a that you expect to hear coming out of your local coffeehouse. In the [...]
Gospel music and indie artists don't seem to go together at all. Nevertheless, a few artists from that scene have digged into the hymnals of yore. David Bazan of Pedro the Lion used to close his shows with a hymn. Anathallo released an EP called Hymns, and Sufjan Stevens recorded three Christmas albums that had it's fair share of gospel songs on it. Recently, Belle & Sebastian released a
Well, I can't be lame and obvious and post Sigur Ros, so have some Anathallo! Floating World , their newest CD, is based on a Japanese fable. You won't probably get much about the storyline from the CD alone--only enough to give you tantalizing hints, and the last song is in Japanese--but the CD packaging gives the full story and how all the songs fit into it. It's a CD that hooks you and pulls you in slowly, that fits together as an album One [...]
As Lollapalooza quickly approaches, these posts will be coming more frequently. Here are a few more from some of the artists that will be playing this year's festival. Lots of good stuff including the Chili Peppers covering The Ramones, The Subways covering TV On The Radio, and even a new Cursive song. I'm not happy about having to miss their set early on Friday, but I've seen them before so I guess I'll live. Oh yeah, Towers Of London aren't playing. MP3 | [...]

Hailing from Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, Anathallo is a seven-member band using instruments ranging from the guitar to the flugelhorn. With soaring lead vocals by Matt Joynt, happy-go-lucky riffs by lead guitarist, Danny Bracken, and a strong backbone provided by both drummer, Jeremiah Johnson, and bassist, Seth Walker, Anathallo's music is light, pleasant, earthy, and exceedingly creative. All members, also including Andrew Dost on piano and flugelhorn, Bret Wallin on trombone, and Erica Froman on clarinet, contribute to the vocal core of the band that makes Anathallo truly great (just listen to the " ah yeah yeah [...]