Check out this video for my picks of the top 10 albums of 2008: Here are some full-length versions of some of the songs you just heard on Justin's Top Ten presentation. Conor Oberst - Souled Out!!! Greg Laswell - How the Day Sounds Dr. Dog - My Friend Samantha Crain - The River TV on the Radio - DLZ The Silent [...]

So ends another year. Another notch in the calendar and a time to look back and reminice on the year and look forward to what's coming next. This year has been one for the books. Mysterious medical conditions, family deaths, identity crises, making new friends, reconnecting with old friends, losing friends, world travels, doing what I absolutely love for a living, falling in love with the wrong person, finding out who I am, coming to terms with who I am and an assortment of other things. But I do believe all those things, whether I liked [...]

Many albums that didn't make our Top-30 list for the year, reached lofty places on other sites' lists. As our motto is, we won't saturate you with music we don't think is worth mentioning. The albums below were all quite good, but just fell below the best of the year. MP3: Eureka Birds - Mars ( buy ) MP3: Daniel Martin Moore - Stray Age ( [...]
If for some reason I thought it was hard last year to decide the top ten albums then this year has been a nightmare compared to that walk in the park. Quite honestly this year has produced a veritable slew of brilliant albums. From up and coming acts to bands on their forth or fifth album 2008 has seen some incredible music released. Here is my personal list of the top ten albums of this past year. If you're still looking for a gift for someone special I suggest snagging few of these albums and stuffing their stockings with the [...]

This time of year, I'm usually in the Bah Humbug spirit. I try to avoid Christmas like the plague and always end up getting blindsided and having a miserable season due to this reason or that. So this year I decided to boycott Christmas. No decorations. No presents. No goodwill to all men and that other stuff. It worked pretty well. I've managed to avoid all the crap that usually comes with the season - traffic, annoying people, screaming kids, way too many lights than your house can handle, etc. I put the holidays in the back of [...]
Donde Esta Santa Claus? - Augie Rios [mp3] Jingle Bells - Barbra Streisand [mp3] (itunes)O Holy Night - Nat King Cole [mp3] (itunes)Driving Home, Christmas Eve - Frontier Ruckus [mp3] (myspace)Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms [mp3] (itunes)Little Drummer Boy - Greg Laswell [mp3] (myspace)Someday At Christmas - Jack Johnson [mp3] (itunes) (myspace)

As a Hotel Cafe alum and with the 2008 release of new album Firesight , Jesse Baylin is going to be huge. With her first visit to Lawrence, Kansas, Baylin took some (and by some, I mean a lot) of his time there to speak with Joshua about her album, Hotel Cafe and even astrology. Check the interview here: Jessie Baylin : So this is Lawrence, Kansas. Joshua Hammond, Popwreckoning : Have you never been here before? JB : I've never been here. PW : This [...]

Greg Laswell , one of our featured artists we wrote about a little over a month ago has extended his tour by adding shows with friends Ingrid Michaelson , Jenny Owen Youngs (again) and Jesca Hoop , along with a handful of other solo shows. Out of the bunch, a new face on the scene as of a year ago is Jenny Own Youngs who will be playing in Philly on the 17th of this next month with Greg at the Tin Angel . Her performance features her single "Fuck Was [...]

It's been a while since I posted a cover song on here and boy do I have a great one for you today. My good friend Justin first introduced you all to Greg Laswell a little over a month ago with his most recent video starring none other than Elijah Wood, the hobbit himself. If you haven't seen that yet you gotta check it out . This cover is exactly what a cover song should be. Taking the basics of another artists song and then molding it to fit your style of music. Now this only works [...]

Greg Laswell found his path into the scene by his sheer use of singer/songwriter talents, minus the glorifying 'I-make-song-to-get-girls' attitude. We enjoy listening to a male vocalist who seems to carry some grit in his pockets, while leaving all of the colorful clutter behind. Laswell's latest album, Three Flights From Alto Nido , marks his third solo album since 2003 and is just that; a great album without the clutter and filler we've seen from many solo artists this year. TFFAN is melodic, yet straight-forward as far as [...]
Breve post per aggiornarvi sui miei stronzeggiamenti settimanali. La salute c'è (detto ciò domani morirò tra atroci sofferenze), a lavorà se lavora (forse forse una persona con cui collaboro ha agganciato un cliente grosso, quindi incrociamo le dita), il mio sito profescioAnal - come direbbe Mr. Superfuffa - si aggiorna automaticamente ogni 5 minuti per cazzi suoi e la vita mi sorride. Cioè anche no, ma sinceramente in questi giorni non posso proprio lamentarmi. Ho saputo che Erol Alkan suonerà al Brancaleone il 22 [...]

Greg Laswell has been getting several heads up from his critics and of course fans for a long time now. Usually I would like to juggle an artist a few times because frankly you cannot trust alone the world wide web. But if there's anything else, he had proven himself to be worthy of all those critical acclaims and praises and had completely risen from cliches as well. Greg Laswell The mezmerizing soundscapes create a dazzling embrace, resulting in a lush tapestry that entwines music, mood and emotion. That finds [...]
I love Izzie. A lot. It's not the easiest thing in the world to do you know, to confront someone that you KNOW is going to be an asshole to you and show them genuine care and affection even though they're nowhere NEAR deserving it. Nope, not easy at all. I liked last night's episode for a lot of reasons but that scene between her and Alex really got me. Katherine Heigl is pretty much the
From the Album 'Three Flights From Alto Nido' YOUTUBE REVIEWS: "elijah wood is hot haha." -dreesy92 "His dad told me he goes to Target for all his suitcoats." -ntenufsun "great song =) reminds me of when MTV music videos had meaning..." -earthwisard2 Gettin' his fix - Tabloid Junkie.
Say what you will about singer-songwriter-multi-instru mentalist Greg Laswell, his rise from indie darling to superstar is nearly complete. Laswell's latest album Three Flights From Alto Nido has landed him - among other places - on the Billboard charts, on TV series ( 90210 , True Blood , Grey's Anatomy are the newest among a host of others), many critics best-of lists, and now on a co-headlining tour of the U.S. with Jenny Owen Youngs. Starting on November 3rd at Hotel Café in Los Angeles, this jaunt will follow recent tours with [...]
First thing I want to say about this video: for a guy that once played a hobbit, Elijah Wood sure is funny. Second thing: I cannot get enough of the opening shot in this video. Its not all that original, but it just sets the tone and feel of the video so effectively. Finally: Does anyone know who that 3rd fellow is? I am too lazy to do the research... Greg Laswell - How the Day Sounds Ears=bleeding.

Sometimes, when I hear something beautiful, my ears stop working and I'm unable to hear anything else. Today, that something comes from Greg Laswell , and from my friend Billy over at The World Forgot . It's called Comes and Goes (In Waves) and it's the kind of song that physically forces you to put your life on hold as you let Laswell's voice swing heavy like a huge, leafy branch of a redwood around your room for a few minutes. It's seemingly more trepidation than anything else, like the quivering and shaking needed after a [...]

Gossip Girl Music trumps 90210 's music for 3 weeks straight. I know the second season of Chuck has officially started - but I don't think I'll include it in the Music Showdown. So far, Chuck seems to be having some strange, twisted love affair with Huey Lewis - something I'm not really sure I approve of. Though Chuck is an excellent show; it's witty and pretty action packed. I recommend it to everyone. But now on to Gossip Girl ! Everyone who watches knows how essential music is to [...]
A few months back Greg Laswell impressed me with his cover of Cyndi Lauper's classic Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. At that time he had just come out with an EP and was dutifully slaving away on creating his latest album, Three Flights from Alto Nido ( amazon ) ( itunes ), which was quite awesomely sent out to me a few weeks after writing that first post. Here is the part of this post where I try to make up a clever reason why I haven't posted about this album in such a long time, [...]