Cool for School is a collection of "school themed" songs by several artists, including Bright Eyes and First Aid Kit, who team up for a playful version of?
A day after news of an impending Desaparecidos reunion for Omaha's Maha Maha Fest , a secret show went down at Omaha's Slowdown featuring Conor Oberst and Co. They led off with a new song, "Left Is Right," to boot - watch that below. Read More...
I worship at the church of karaoke. The parishoners and I are there to confess and meditate, to feel welcomed by a community, to hear a good sermon or two, to perchance see someone speak in tongues and have the words of the Lord Bon Jovi be channeled through a mere mortal. And, of course, to have some drinks and venture to make complete fools out of ourselves. Karaoke exists in a vacuum of taste, where anomalies and exceptions always seem to arise and mess with my preconceptions. Maybe, like me, this is the only time you can really tolerate a Billy [...]
As I'm piecing together this weeks mix I'm sitting on the patio at Epoch Coffee it is 80 degrees with a breeze, I have a triple latte and a Camel Light sitting in front of me, all things considered life is good... just one more reason I'm falling in love with Austin at an alarming rate.
Alright so lately I've been getting into a lot more hip hop, checking out some new names I may have missed and more, and I've been lovin it. I've found a bunch of insanely talented new rappers lately, the first of which is Georgia based Vonnegutt. It's a full band including rapper and singer; it really captures the live band energy mixed blended with the fresh rapping For this track "Bright Eyes" it's got a guitar powered beat with a song talking about a girl the singer can't stop thinking about. It's got a catchy chorus, and verses. Check it out, snag the [...]
And so, with the bank holiday weekend nearly over, we reach the last of Adam Ant's friends. Terence Stamp - actor-turned-breadmaker; former flatmate of one of the other Friends (he shared with Michael Caine for a while); and voice of the Prophet Of Choice in Halo 3. Interestingly, Stamp's Wikipedia entry makes no mention at all of his Terence Stamp wheat-free bread product range The Stamp Collection; it seems to have vanished in the last couple of years although you can still get cookbooks under the name. What does get mentioned on Wikipedia - and, thus, [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Dear and the Headlights, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Bright Eyes Song: Margot & The Nuclear So And So's - Shannon [download here ] [...]
I now consider Destry 's existence living evidence of something I've suspected for a while-a direct line between yesterday's scream-in-your-face emo generation and today's indie-folk. Destry is a project formed from members of Straylight Run and Taking Back Sunday . These are, respectively, the saddest and loudest emo bands I can remember. And yes, they are now in a folk band. As someone who was in high school when both those bands peaked, I feel like I've been subconsciously along for the ride this whole time. Looking back, Elliott Smith [...]
M. Ward is back! Free of Zooey and his Bright Eyes co-conspirators, his new album, A Wasteland Companion, comes to us in April. A jaunty contrast to "The First Time I Ran Away," the album's sleepy first single, "Primitive Girl" shows off Ward's versatility with a sound strikingly reminiscent of James' iconic 1993 hit, "Laid." Enjoy the playful ode to a mysterious primordial dame below. STREAM: M. Ward - "Primitive Girl"
This one's kind of nostalgic, excuse the cheez. Andy Hull // stephanie the pilot The Appleseed Cast // a dream for us As Tall As Lions // 505 Bright Eyes // june on the west coast The Cinema // shes on my arm now CocoRosie // honey or tar Daphne Loves Derby // cue the sun! Dear And The Headlights // i just do Eisley // [...]
Happy Valentine's Day... or not... I am making the same post as I did a year ago: For those that ARE celebrating Valentine's Day, here's Bright Eyes' "First Day of My Life": "...this is the first day of my life / I'm glad I didn't die before I met you / But now I don't care I could go anywhere with you / And I'd probably be happy..." ... and for those that are NOT celebrating, here's [...]
09 As I currently reside in Colorado and have for some time now, I've always felt a bit of kinship with this song. It's a brilliant song from a brilliant album by one of my favorite bands. Then another band I'm crazy about covers it. Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun has been likened to Bright Eyes so it's especially apt. Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun - Landlocked Blues Bright Eyes - Landlocked Blues Thanks [...]
With the weekend's Super Bowl now over, what better way to celebrate the season than with a playlist from a show not only about football, but with one of the greatest indie soundtracks to go with it. NBC's Friday Night Lights is a show about a small, western Texas town, where every Friday night during the football season the town shuts down to cheer on the Dylan Panthers football team. With the bright lights of the football stadium, it's easy for the various characters to get lost in themselves as they deal with handling pressure, serious injury, drug [...]
Taking in a show at the Masonic Lodge located within the famed Hollywood Forever Cemetery is always a treat. It's a small room seating roughly 200, with tall ceilings, two hanging chandeliers and seated cushioned benches to the side. To keep it a little more hip, the walls feature film posters like A Clockwork Orange, [...]
Here are 50 songs that defined 2011 for me. Listen. Enjoy. Tell me what you think. And yep, that's my ugly mug on the cover. Given and Taken in Ink's Top 50 Songs of 2011 from gtimusic on 8tracks . Here's the playlist: 1. Wilco - One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) 2. City Reign - Anywhere Anyway 3. The Mountain Goats - Never Quite Free 4. Zaac Pick - Whitewater 5. Yuck - Holing Out [...]
Fim de semana, tempo de animação, felicidade... mas se o seu está um pouco mais cinzento que o normal, Conor Oberst tem um presente para você. O frontman do Bright Eyes passou pelo bar Krug Park, em Omaha, e apresentou um raro show solo, intimista, para os presentes no local, propriedade de um amigo do compositor. Parte dessa apresentação exclusiva foi documentada e liberada por Jonathan Tvrdik, e o resultado é um vídeo bem capturado e melancólico ao extremo que retrata duas faixas apresentadas por Oberst . A primeira é Lenders in [...]
Video: Conor Oberst (Live in Omaha) With Bright Eyes now a marquee act at high-capacity theaters the world over, opportunities to catch Conor Oberst performing an intimate set — like, say, this Halloween 2003 tribute to Elliott Smith in a bookshop — have become increasingly rare. Enter Krug Park , a new Omaha bar owned by an Oberst buddy who recruited his famous friend to anoint the small space last week. Thanks to videographer Jonathan Tvrdik (via NJ Underground ), we have a fine multi-camera peek at two songs from the show. Watch [...]
I want to take a moment to talk about Bright Eyes . I am not sure what I have been waiting for all these years. It is really a shame that I have missed listening to all of this great music for so long. I avoided it like the plague due to silly stereotypes and just being flat out stubborn. But I was oh so wrong. I dove in head first and fell head over heels in love and now I can't get enough. Thank you to a dear friend [...]
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Tweet I like to imagine that if Fleet Foxes had two younger sisters who spent summers in the country with their Auntie Neko Case , they would sound like First Aid Kit . Of course, no such familial ties exist, but musical ties certainly do. Most obviously: harmony. Johanna and Klara Söderberg spend much of "The Lion's Roar" harmonizing wonderfully through verse, chorus and bridge. The bright tonality and rich quality of their vocals are the true backbone [...]
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