Brooklyn's The Honorary Title will be making a stop at the Triple Social Club along their journey from the west to east coast in September. The band's particular brand of pop rock reminds me a bit of both Pete Yorn and U2, but singer Jarrod Gorbel's vocal style is more youthful. In actuality, not so [...]
Slobberbone plays two reunion shows this weekend.Let's do this. First, as always, the shows we've already discussed.The biggest show tonight's probably the first of Slobberbone's two nights of reunion... Continue reading "Good Friday: Slobberbone, Shibboleth, Austin Brown Sounds, Cory Branan, PVC Street Gang, Chris Holt, Salim Nourallah, Mount Righteous, Teenage Cool Kids, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Oso Closo, Tesla, Gov't Mule and Slider Pines" >

Famous Centro-matic front man Will Johnson is making another solo stop in Austin at the Mohawk on Thursday night. Tickets for the show can be bought now for $8 . Music is set to start around 10pm with a set by Cory Branan followed by The Monahans . If you want to get an idea of what goes on in Will's head, check out a recent interview we posted with him during Fun Fun Fun Fest. Download: Centro-matic - Flashed and Cables [MP3]

I have a new crush. Have you ever seen The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson ? You haven't? Oh, you should. He's sooooooo cute. And funny. And delightfully silly and self-deprecating. I'm willing to bet that if you watch him you'll fall for him too--man, woman or child. Honestly, he's that endearing. Did I mention he's from Scotland? Yep, he is. Now try to resist him! I've always had a thing for goofy guys (Will Ferrell, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, [...]
I would like to dedicate this mix to a friend back in DC. This mix is just as crazy as she is, covering all ends of the spectrum. It will be good to be back in town for the weekend. Have a great one. The House of Love - I Don't Know Why I Love You Cory Branan - Tall Green Grass Fred - Running Woven - Trumpeting Strength Magnetic Morning - At A Crossroads, Passive Mobius Band - [...]

Cory Branan - "Tall Green Grass" - mp3 Cory Branan - "Crush" - mp3 While we've been listening to Cory Branan for years, our first time seeing him live was this summer in Nashville, and as we wrote previously , it was well worth the trip. Although his tours are often sporadic and mostly in the South, word just came through that he will be coming to NY on October 12th to play for us yankees at the Cake Shop as part of a large national tour. While unassuming [...]

Thursday feels like the real first day of the festival, which is no surprise really, considering the fact that there are fifteen different showcases for you to choose from, or hop in between. Yes, FIFTEEN. It's enough to make your head spin, which is one of the main reasons I decided to do these showcase-by-showcase preview posts in the first place. This is going to be a night of tough decisions no matter what your tastes in music veer towards - you've got several different brands of rock and singer-songwriter stuff to choose from. [...]

If Ben Nichols writes about you, you're probably pretty OK. In "Tears Don't Matter Much," easily one of our favorite Lucero tunes, off "That Much Further West," Nichols canonizes a few of his songwriting pals — Matt Bradley, Doug Deluca , and Cory Branan . The song poignantly captures the very nature of being a fan — and a man like Nichols, who wields a dangerously pithy pen, can't help but succumb either. Witness: Matt Bradley's got the broken teeth He wears a jean jacket with a bullet in the sleeve [...]
Here are the tracks we talked about: Bean Pickers Union - Photograph Motel Motel - Pedal Steel Motel Motel - Coffee Octoberman - Run From Safety Octoberman - Once in a Blue Octoberman - Temptation Is a Bloody Mess Octoberman - Run From Safety (Live) Octoberman - Elbow Room (Live) [...]

tashi delek, schmoopy! i was pretty psyched to find out that the sonic slop of mudhoney's superfuzz bigmuff is being reissued, with all the expected extra goodies, by subpop on 5.20. more info can be found here . not only that but they gots a new record, being released ont the same day, entitled the lucky ones . cant wait for these two. in case you have never found yourself confronted by the music of mudhoney now's your chance. dig it... sonic infusion off since we've come translucent the straight [...]

sup, gaywads? hope everyone had a loverly weeks end. mine was just fine. nothing too exciting, just lots of sierra nevada and rogue dead guy. oddly enough, no hangovers like i reported later last week. friends of captains dead, the line of best fit have a very cool comp for download made available from the fine folks at something in construction records . the comp features the likes of loney, dear, sambassadeur, sons of noel and adrian, the leisure society, and a bunch more. clicky to visit and download. admittedly, i get a [...]

Over on the Lucero Message board, we have ushered in 2008 with one of our best comp efforts to date. I advise you to download it, pour yourself a whiskey drink while it comes down, then sit back and let the musical goodness wash over you like a warm buzz. You can head over to the Lucero Message board to see who submitted each track and a brief description of why they chose that specific track. You can even download it here for the next 2 weeks or so. If you enjoy it, sign up for the [...]

Cory Branan 's latest album, 12 Songs , is a throwaway album. Not because the songs aren't good, or because they are not fully realized, but because it's a collection of songs that are mostly three or more years old and the album was thrown together by his former label in order to fulfill his obligation of putting out another record on Madjack. It's filled with songs that most of his hardcore fans knew every word to before the record ever came out. It's one he wasn't too excited about when it was released back in March. But the [...]
OK... so people are starting to send in their confessions and mp3's... and I've got word from some people that they're working on theirs and will send them in later. If you're just coming in off of a link from Hype Machine or Elbo.ws ... you can see the two posts below this one to see what started all of this. I'm just going to post these in batches as they come in. The first post comes from Craig @ Songs:Illinois : I had a crush [...]