Saturday... all day without a post, and then I realized that I only have 11 days to get five more mixes up, so here it is #17. Mixed on a flight between Houston and Charlotte. Blogophilia 17 – Mixed in a Cramped Coach Seat Ripped @ 320kbps VBR Songs gathered from blogs – March 1 – April 7, 2010 Download All Tracks in One Zip File Track list: [...]
Thinking outside the box can be really difficult. Some people get paid to do exactly that. Geniuses. Inventors. Savants. Think Tanks. The writers of DUL (just kidding!). I'm sure it's exhausting and takes a certain type of person and personality. Ben Sollee is that person. Ben Sollee must have that personality. Armed with a incredible sense of song and a cello (among other instruments), Sollee crafts genre-hopping music that is both beautiful, complex, and ear-catching. He thinks outside the box. He thinks outside the cello. Maybe he doesn't "think" at all - it [...]
Even though 2010 is over, it's not long gone. So, we feel okay about sneaking in a couple of more Recent Releases We Almost Missed editions containing an eclectic array of tracks from 2010 albums, EPs and many of which were largely overlooked in comparison to the quality of music [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Welcome to The New York Rockmarket's end of the year list spectacular. This is when I talk about how lists are fun but ultimately meaningless, and apologize for not posting the last few days because I've been compiling my lists. This is also where I talk about favorites as opposed to best, like I did last year . All of those things still apply. I'm making two lists this year: Favorite Songs and Favorite Albums. I'm going to attempt to skew my albums list a bit more towards the critical, but this songs list is just straight-up about fun, [...]
Top 21? But weren't there 25 last year ? Well yes. And it was only 15 the year before that . In case you haven't noticed, we're not that rigid around here - all we really care about is letting you know what we're loving right now and that's about it. If we only fall for one record next year then you can probably expect "WiAC's Top 1 Album of 20113. It'll be a good one, though. We promise. That said, this year was a great year for music. But it was great in a different [...]
Top 21? But weren't there 25 last year ? Well yes. And it was only 15 the year before that . In case you haven't noticed, we're not that rigid around here - all we really care about is letting you know what we're loving right now and that's about it. If we only fall for one record next year then you can probably expect "WiAC's Top 1 Album of 20113. It'll be a good one, though. We promise. That said, this year was a great year for music. But it was great in a different [...]
Editor's note: I wrote this weeks ago. I'm so over the situation like you would not believe but who am I to let a great mix go to waste?! Oh, how easy it is to play the martyr. And no matter how many of my friends proofread the scant words I've written on my emotional well being as of late, I can't help but feel like I'm dragging the other party through the mud. I realize I'm not. If anything, I'm being all too cordial about the situation becuase no matter what way you slice it, [...]
So... you may not know this, but music is awesome. It's amazing how sometimes a song will not even catch your fancy one moment, but perhaps when your circumstances change, you might have an aha moment and find yourself thinking ," So THAT'S what the song meant." I had one of those moments with this song. We've posted about Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore previously. I had listened to their music many times and while I certainly enjoyed it, nothing really jumped out and spoke to me. And then … my circumstances changed. My wife and I found out we wereexpecting a baby girl. As I continued listening [...]
I have a confession: I love duets. Not all duets, mind you, but I do have a weak spot for a couple of indie rockers getting together and making magic. The National and St. Vincent? Talk about perfection! Grizzly Bear and Beach House? Yes, please! So when I heard that cellist Ben Sollee was collaborating with folkie Daniel Martin Moore, my interest was piqued from the beginning. Of course, then I heard the record and boy howdy! It was everything I dreamed and more - In particular, the track "Something, Somewhere, Sometime". Every element of Ben Sollee [...]
( fishing trawler by Bob Jagendorf ) A stellar list of linkage for you on this frosty Friday night... I Am Fuel You Are Friends: Talking To Josh Ritter In Telluride Hear Ya: Horse Feathers Live Session #74 . This mini rant about other people touching your ipod gave me a little chuckle too. We All Want Someone To Shout For: Best Songs of 2010...So Far Yerbird Records: Folk Music For What Lies Ahead [...]
I like this album, beautiful folk. mp3: Only A Song Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore Dear Companion 2010 ( Sub Pop ) Amazon and eMusic I wouldn't make a sound if I wasn't so angry. I wouldn't be around if it wasn't so far to go. I wouldn't keep on [...]
To celebrate the end of June, The Duke will look at his 6 favorite releases so far in 2010. Two each day. Today, Tomorrow and Wednesday. Yes, there have been a lot of BIG NAME musicians and bands releasing albums this year (National, LCD, Nickelback, etc). But hopefully a few of these you haven't checked out yet and will do so NOW. First up in reverse alphabetical order is Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore "Dear Companion". I love Ben's voice and cello playing. I knew [...]
Two young Kentucky natives collaborate with producer Yim Yames to protest mountaintop removal coal mining. Don't worry--it's much prettier than that sounds. It's a bit of a surprise to hear a 2010 album on Sub Pop that's all about coal mining, but that's the concept for Dear Companion, the collaboration between young songwriters Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore with producer Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket. The three, all Kentucky natives, recorded the album to raise awareness of a destructive mining practice called mountaintop removal (MTR). All proceeds from sales to an organization called Appalachian Voices....
DOWNLOAD :: Digital Bang: The 2010 Sub Pop Sampler :: Track List :: 1. Wolf Parade - "What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had to Go This Way)" 2. Beach House - "Zebra" 3. Avi Buffalo - "What's In It For?" 4. Happy Birthday - "Subliminal Message" 5. Dum Dum Girls - "Jail La La" 6. Male Bonding - "Years Not Long" 7. David Cross - "I Can't Get Beer in Me..." 8. Foals - "Spanish Sahara" 9. Blitzen [...]
What do you get when two singer-songwriters team up? What about when one of them performs with a cello instead of a guitar? Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore may seem to only be related by the fact they're two of the more celebrated young indie folk artists in the last few years, but they're both from Kentucky and love mountains. Literally. Written in remonstration of the heinous form of surface mining known as mountaintop removal, Sollee explains in the liner notes how this type of [...]
Lo confesso: mi aspettavo un altro album stile "Stray Age" e penso di non essere il solo. Avete ascoltato questo capolavoro? Se la risposta è no, andatelo a recuperare, scoprirete un talentuoso cantautore che vi sarà di conforto nelle vostre giornate tristi. Ma mi tocca recensire l'ultimo lavoro di Daniel Martin Moore diviso con Ben Sollee , un discreto violoncellista dallo stile percussivo, anche lui alle prese con un songwriting folk e politicizzato. Questo è uno dei punti in comune tra questi due artisti apparentemente diversi, la passione per tematiche politico-sociali. E allora, dopo l'ultimo [...]
Dear Companion is a beautiful collaborative effect between three Kentucky-natives: Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore, who wrote and preformed the songs; and Jim James of My Morning Jacket, who produced the album. The central idea behind Dear Companion is to express the members' love for nature—in particular the Appalachian Mountains—and to protest/raise awareness of the issue of mountaintop removal coal mining (please go to iLoveMountains.org for more info.) I thought pretty highly of the album from the beginning, but reading that the basis of it is about saving mountains, my love for the [...]
De formation classique, le violoncelliste Ben Sollee s'est fait remarquer en 2008 au sein du "supergroupe" sino-bluegrass Sparrow Quartet aux côtés d'Abigail Washburn, de Bela Fleck et de Casey Driessen. La même année, sur son premier album Learning To Bend, Sollee débutait ses expérimentations autour de l'utilisation du violoncelle dans un contexte folk. On découvrait aussi une voix plein de
Lexington, KY native Ben Sollee has been a long-time favorite of CSV, and his latest project with fellow Kentuckians Daniel Martin Moore and Yim Yames (of My Morning Jacket fame) has got me excited. The new LP, titled Dear Companion , is a call to action regarding the Mountaintop Removal coal mining taking place in the Appalachians (a portion of the proceeds from Dear Companion will benefit Appalachian Voices , an organization devoted to ending MTR and finding a better way forward). But on to the album for now. Energetic and patient, frenetic and [...]
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