View the t-shirts here!!! More on the organization below.... Yellow Bird Project is a Montreal-based, non-profit initiative. We collaborate with musicians in designing a T-shirt, we print and sell them on our website, and all of the money we make goes to charity. Which charity? Each of the artists gets to choose their own. We have three fundamental aims: 1) To make money for charities directly through T-shirt sales. 2) To raise awareness for charity organizations through artists' [...]
Part 2 of the ABC's of S / S. (Look how lazy I am, I won't even spell it out).. Check out letter B, it has a lot to offer. B : David Bazan - How I Remember Eric Bachmann - Carrboro Woman Bright Eyes - Lua Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left . Devendra Banhart - Fall [...]
I'm going to post something completley unprecedented throughout IGIF history - an entire weekday's worth of history mixery. There is no better way to get back in the groove of things than cracking my dorkishly delightful whip, eh? Time for a mixery with an emphasis on history - and what a week it's been. While baseball may be considered "America's national pastime", it's hard to argue any American sport is more popular than (the once) American-exclusive sport of football. With the pinnacle of football popularity hinging [...]
One thing I can't stand is the whole "singer/songwriter" genre, but for some reason I still end up liking Devendra Banhart. I saw him open for Michael Gira a couple of years ago at Spaceland here in Los Angeles, and when he came out, not only did he not have a shirt on, but he played on top of a folding table while sitting cross-legged. Just the sound of that makes me annoyed, but he ended up being good enough that I could look past all that. This song was recorded live by a friend of mine in 2004 at [...]
At one point or another I devoted an immense amount of attention, in some form or another, to each of these songs. I can't rightly tell you if I was obsessed with the thirteenth song I heard in March and I am not able to say if the tenth song is better than the [...]
Trafalgar Terrace is a tiny twitten (alleyway) in the North Laine, just below Brighton station, with terraced cottages dating back to the 19th century on one side and their tiny gardens on the other. It must also be a cat-free zone (bicycles are banned, obviously) as we saw a group of sparrows in one of the gardens eating merrily from a couple of bird-feeders. Didn't think there had been a
Two nearly forgotten artists from the 70s got some reissue love last week, courtesy of Light in the Attic Records . The once obscure works of folk singer Karen Dalton and Ska pioneer Jackie Mittoo have both seen a uptick in their awareness thanks in part to Devendra Banhart and Lily Allen , respectively. Karen Dalton 's In My Own Time (1971) was a collector's item fetching a pretty penny by music collectors. Back in the [...]
Be happy. It sounds simple, but you need good music. Press Play. Counting Crows (Adam Durtiz and friends) - Winding Wheel live (Ryan Adams cover) RARE and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Devendra Banhart - Little Petit Spider Ok Go - Here It Goes Again (Live on Letterman!) Glass Onion - The Beatles Black Crowes - My Heart is Killin Me (unreleased) The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The weather in London's been so temperate lately that I've not really though of it as being autumn. None of that classic seasonal morning chill in the air yet. So it came as a bit of a surprise to me to look out of my window on Saturday and see the tree outside was well on the way to losing its leaves. My first real sign of autumn. Then it got me thinking. Autumn songs. Here are some songs for autumn. Or at least songs with autumn in the title. A lazy post maybe, but the tunes are good at [...]
mp3 Autumn Sweater Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One mp3 Autumn Walker Jets To Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness mp3 Autumn Got Dark Portastatic - Autumn Was A Lark mp3 Autumn Shade The Vines - Highly Evolved mp3 Autumn The Czars - The Ugly People Vs. [...]
Princeton is an unsigned L.A. band that has been probably the most persistant about filling my inbox with emails over the last couple months. Their latest EP, A Case of the Emperor's Clothes , came in the mail more than a few weeks ago and finally worked it's way to the top of the stack this weekend. Note from the boys: " This record was made with one microphone, one acoustic guitar, a cheap keyboard, six pairs of hands, three sets of vocal chords, and one small egg shaker. [...]
I played a lot of ping pong and watched a lot of "Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air" last night, at times simultaneously, and I didn't really go to bed until like...2 in the morning. For those of you who think I have no life, well, you're probably right. And to further imply that assumption, I've decided to become an amateur DJ and remix the most unusual indie cult songs. Here's what I've come up with
The magazine, The Believer, put out a great compilation CD in the summer last year, a comp that came with the summer issue of the magazine. Containing covers and nothing but, you were treated to Devendra Banhart covering Antony and the Johnsons "Fistfull of Love", the Mountain Goats version of Silver Jews "Pet Politics", and Canadian Jim Guthrie (Mr "Hands in My Pocket" himself) doing The
So it's been a while since I've put together a little mix for all of you. I've been listening to a ton of great music lately, that I just haven't gotten around to posting about. So consider this an introduction. Let me know what you like/dislike, and make sure you put this all together on your little iPods while walking outside to the crisp Fall weather. It works perfectly with the temperature, trust me. Ennui - Time and Place Ok Go - Here It Goes Again [...]
Goed nieuws voor fans van Devendra Banhart! De hippie-folk-ster begintbinnenkort met het opnemen van zijn vijfde album. Hij begint hiermee inseptember. Na een beetje gok- en rekenwerk denk ik dat we ongeveer ditnieuwe album begin/eind januari 2007 kunnen verwachten. Ik hoop in ie-der geval niet veel later. Hoewel zijn nieuwe album voor een groot deel in de koudere periodes vanhet jaar wordt opgeno...
fuckin christ! thank god i don't live in maine - i don't care if this thing is or is not the androscoggin beast it's ugly as hell. from the seacoast online : Michelle O'Donnell of Turner spotted the animal near her yard about a week before it was killed. She called it a "hybrid mutant of something." "It was evil, evil looking. And it had a horrible stench I will never forget," [...]
Per chi volesse conoscere un aspetto inedito del giovanissimo cantautore questa è senza dubbio un'occasione imperdibile. Alla Galleria Mazzoli di Modena è in corso un'esposizione dedicata a Devendra Banhart artista visuale che si terrà fino al 30 settembre . La personale mette in mostra una serie di disegni inediti su carta a "tecnica mista" realizzati tra il ‘99 e il 2006; opere bidimensionali costruite grazie all’intreccio di linee, simboli e segni in un linguaggio onirico e visionario che ben rappresenta l'alter-ego inconscio del musicista. Devendra Banhart- We [...]
Untitled Document Its such a ridiculously hot summer that I wanted to listen to some music that would remind of sitting in my apartment when it cold and raining out. It usually means that the tracks are a little melancholic and laid back but I think we could all use a cold breather. By the way, I am going up to the lake this weekend and nature absolutely [...]
Arriving just in time to beat the “in-between-set†surge, the Liars took the stage under a summer sun, fronted by God’s giant magnifying glass. It is a wonder how Angus was able to march around barefoot on that black topped stage, amidst the slurring drum thuds, and drenched looping noise that his band mates were creating. But with Liars being otherworldly, it really is quite unnerving to know
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