LINKIN PARK, THE SOUNDS, GIRL TALK, DIPLO ADDED TO 2011 DELUNA FEST with WEEZER, JANE'S ADDICTION, THE SHINS, CUT COPY, CAKE, BIG BOI & MORE TICKETS ON SALE NOW DeLuna Fest and Five Flags Tourism Group are excited to announce multi-platinum Grammy winners Linkin Park, on their only Fall show date, as headliners at this year's festival and the band also announced their inclusion via an online video- see it here. Swedish sensations The Sounds, mash-up master/dance party starter Girl Talk and world renowned DJ Diplo are also confirmed to perform the [...]
When DeLuna Fest premiered in 2010, no one could have foreseen that it'd be during a period when the Gulf Coast region was ravaged by one of the biggest eco-disasters in recent history. Despite premiering a festival against those adverse conditions, the Pensacola Beach, FL-based festival proved a success with a lineup featuring Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and Ed Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes. For its sophomore year, DeLuna Fest now prides itself as a "resort destination festival" and boasts an initial lineup made up of musical heavy weights and up-and-comers. Set [...]

This Saturday, March 5th brings to the Mill Restaurant in Iowa City former V2 Records singer-songwriter Charlie Mars . Charlie is wrapping up a run of dates that started at the beginning of February of East Coast and Midwest dates in support of his latest album Like A Bird, Like A Plane which came out in 2009. The bio on Mars's site says that Like A Bird, Like A Plane is almost a "new debut." While this album is his 5th release dating back to his 1996 album [...]

Having a boyfriend is hard work. They eat your food, sleep in your bed, spend your money on cars and video games, occasionally find other people more attractive than you, and distract you from perfectly good movies with coitus. That's why Fuck Yeah, Ryan Gosling is such a dear part of our lives. A fantasy boyfriend who says all the right things, but you don't have to put up with his mantics. When you see those words, "Hey Girl," it's like a lavender bath for your brain. Don't you just hear him [...]
A steady tempo straight forward all american rock song that mentions Tom Petty? You can't go wrong.

I've posted about Griffin House before , and I'm sure I will again. At the time, I'm not sure I did Griffin justice, to be honest, calling his music songs sung by a man with a Bono-type timbre to his voice (but don't let that put you off). The song itself is, while not quite forgettable, one of many – similar to a lot of what is out there, but with an added element of something else, something to take it above the others. On repeated listening, "Homecoming", from [...]

I enjoy what I wrote as an intro to the July 4 post last year , so you're getting it again. Suckas! Same questions / feedback applies. Week In Review will be pushed back to later today or tomorrow. From Knox Road to all of you, Happy Fourth of July. For our non-US readers, thanks for stopping by regardless, and we hope you're feeling some country lovin' as well. *With this pause in regular action, we'd love to hear your feedback on how we're doing. Anything at all is helpful, whether it's in the comments, [...]

There are so many things to love about music. Sometimes you hear an album and just sink into a happy state of pure enjoyment. The album passes by track after track and you don't even realize how much your mood has changed since you put it on. This is what happened when I first put on the album "The Learner" from Griffin House . I hadn't heard of him before listening to this record but that makes me all the more excited. Griffin house has released several albums over the past decade so now I have some [...]
Laid back to a fault, House delivers a solid, but not spectacular, set of country-rock on his latest album. It's hard to write a song about falling for a lesbian without coming off a bit gimmicky. The first single off Griffin House's latest album, The Learner, is no exception. "She Likes Girls" shares thematic, though not stylistic, ground with Reel Big Fish's "She Has a Girlfriend Now" and Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl". When House sings, "I like girls, and so does she", it's done with the same wink-wink, nudge-nudge, aren't-we-naughty salaciousness that...
Nashville-based Griffin House singer/songwriter has never been about grand gestures and big statements. He doesn't pander, pout or play it safe. When you watch him play live or listen to any of his excellent, quietly profound albums, you realize pretty quickly that for House the song is king. A naturally insightful storyteller who always manages to find an unexpected and nuanced twist in his word and melodies -- one described it as "an arsenal of pitches that boasts both a wicked curveball and changeup" -- House has been garnering comparisons to Jackson Browne, [...]

As part of the April issue of Esquire, the almost 80 year-old men's culture magazine asked five singer-songwriters to take part in their Esquire Songwriting Challenge by inviting them to the Shack-Up Inn in Clarksdale, Mississippi to take part in a two-day fashion shoot with photographer Danny Clinch. The challenge called for each artist to write and record an original song with lyrics that included the phrase - Somewhere in Mississippi. Among those to participate was our slacker-rocker [...]
Asked to name one of the most underrated and underexposed singer/songwriters, certainly Griffin House would be in our Top 5. An exceptional storyteller with a marvelous way with both an acoustic folk melody and sharp lyrical turn, the Ohio-bred, Nashville-based troubadour finally got some decent distribution on most recent album, 2007's fine Flying Upside Down -- which gives us "The Guy That Says Goodbye to You Is Our of His Mind." Look for new project The Learner arriving May 25 via Nettwerk -- details and music to come... [...]

The Cranberries - "Zombie" - Live at Club Nokia - Los Angeles, CA - December 04, 2009. Lead vocalist for the Cranberries, Delores O'riordan, debuted a solo LP, No Baggage , back in August. Griffin House, a solo male artist from Nashville, who we have been listening to for several years, is opening for them in select dates this month. Sample Grffin House: The Cranberries [...]
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Tracklist: 01. Better Than Love 02. I Remember (It's Happening Again) 03. Let Me In 04. One Thing 05. The Guy That Says Goodbye To You Is Out Of His Mind 06. Live [...]
I've been listening to Griffin House ever since his "Lost and Found" album. There are several songs off that album that I still love but the one that initially captured my attention was "Waterfall" , it's such a beautiful sad song. Another one of my favorites was "Tell Me Lie" . It wasn't until this weekend when my iPod was on shuffle that I was reminded of him again. I was online today buying some music and ran across a review of Griffin's new album, so I ventured [...]
I always get excited when I find someone new I really like, and here he is. It was on NPR, on World Cafe, when I first heard his music. I went hunting and was able to download a few of his songs. This song is on two albums, Homecoming and Flying Upside Down. MP3 File
It is that time already...WFPK is back with Waterfront Wednesdays!!! Throughout the summer WFPK will host free concerts on the last Wednesday of the month at Waterfront Park. The first line-up is already set. On April 23rd, The Whigs, Wild Sweet Orange and Griffin House will kick-off the series. [...]
I just don't understand my own head and tastes at times. On a regular basis, I now find myself loving three, four, five similar artists - at times, almost indistinguishable from each other. But then I'll come across another similar artist whom I don't take to at all. It's not a change in tastes - I'll still return to my favourites - but sometimes, just sometimes, an artist I should love, I don't. At other times, I come across songs I like, and songs I love. Songs I put on repeat, and songs that [...]