2011 was the year of the record for me. Not a single collection of songs, but rather a physical entity and a format. When 2011 started, my record collection fit in a corner of a bookshelf. As 2011 ends my collection fills three full shelves, three empty boxes of cat food for 45s, organized by [...]
There are few things in the world as calming and invigorating for me than digging through the used bins of my favorite local independent record stores. The act alone turns me into an explorer and when my thumb flips to the record I've been hoping to find, that buried sonic treasure, my creaky knees and [...]
We'll be the first to admit this list is arriving, oh, at least a month late. On the other hand, 2010 was an expansive year for Northwest music in many regards and worthy of chronicling one last time with thoughtful and focused intention. So we hope you will see that the extra time we've given [...]
Damien Jurado ::: photo by Abbey Simmons Our big, written properly, not just a list of The Top 25 Northwest Albums of 2010 is coming soon, really, WE PROMISE. But today I wanted to share my personal favorites of 2010. Also, my number one most listened to local album of 2010 was basically a "Best [...]
Since I'm later than everyone else and am expounding (and have expounded) elsewhere plenty on 2010 I'll keep this one short. The following is a list of the most compelling records I heard in 2010. Not coincidentally these really were the records I actually listened to most. To my mind, every one of my choices [...]
right off the bat, i'll give credit for this post to slowcoustic ...the self-titled album from hoquiam is on their list of ' favourite albums of 2010 ' (i didn't misspell favorite...slowcoustic is canadian). anyway, i wasn't even aware that damien jurado had a little side project, but i loved the song that slowcoustic shared so much that i immediately shot over to amazon and bought the album (which is all-around great). as i said, hoquiam is (half) damien jurado...on this project he's joined by his brother drake, and they make exactly the kind of music i love. laid [...]
Sharon Van Etten "Love More" ::: photo by Josh Lovseth If my 2010 was a mix tape (or a couple mix tapes as it were), these would be the tracks. These were the songs that were my most frequent and adored companions of 2010. They're the songs I'll know the words to for the rest of [...]
Here we are with my favourite albums of 2010, and again I'm Canadian so I am too polite to put 'best' like I did last year for fear of it upsetting someone! I am just a guy with a music blog telling you what he thinks is good music. And it is good music (possibly the best...wait, I said it...). None the less, below is a list of fantastic albums for whatever reason I have given each in my head (there is just no "explaining" the internal ranking system). Endlessly thinking and trying to decide on each album's importance to [...]
If you hadn't gathered, we go to a lot of shows here at Sound on the Sound. For the past four years, I've been at shows more nights than not and with the surge of amazing music happening in Seattle, I could truthfully go to two or three shows a night and still miss something [...]
If you hadn't gathered, we go to a lot of shows here at Sound on the Sound. For the past four years, I've been at shows more nights than not and with the surge of amazing music happening in Seattle, I could truthfully go to two or three solid shows a night and still miss [...]
Hoquiam ::: photo by Abbey Simmons Few musicians have been more prolific than Damien Jurado in 2010. Not only did he release the stunning Saint Bartlett, a new song every week in the months leading up to the album's May release and a cover album with Bartlett producer Richard Swift, he also released a pleasantly haunted [...]
The song is called Zombies of the Sea , and the video is about zombies of the sea. Genius. Seriously. Hoquiam - Zombies of the Sea
Hoquiam ::: photo by Abbey Simmons As a child growing up in Seattle in the '80s, my family would drive every summer to the Peninsula. With our suitcases haphazardly strapped to the top of my parents old Subaru we would make the drive through the damp cedar forests of Western Washington and the small towns that [...]
SIDE A 1. Phosphorescent - The Mermaid Parade 2. Band Of Horses - Factory 3. The National - Afraid Of Everyone 4. The New Pornographers - Crash Years 5. Hoquiam - Zombies Of The Sea 6. Matt Pond PA - Starting 7. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang SIDE B 1. Josh Ritter - [...]
Former slugger Cecil Fielder said he won't try to renew his relationship with his son, Prince, until the Milwaukee Brewers star treats him with more respect . "He's going to talk to me like he's my son, not like I'm a man out on the street. I let him know, at the end of the day, if you ever talk to me like that again, you're going to see me in front of 40,000 people trying to get after you. That's just not how it's going to go down," Cecil said. [...]
It can be hard to keep up with Damien Jurado's prolific nature and harder still to stomach some of his beautifully gut-wrenching writing. Your dedication is almost always paid in full, though – witness the outstanding 2008 album Caught In The Trees . Jurado is set to follow that up with Saint Bartlett , produced by the Jason Woodbury-approved Richard Swift and due out May 25 on Secretly Canadian . Damien's wife, Sarah, wrote a thoughtful preface to the album, [...]
Last Friday Damien Jurado played a rare Seattle show to a packed house at the Sunset Tavern. That evening Damien treated the audience to new and old favorites alike, from Caught in the Trees, his forthcoming Secretly Canadian album Saint Bartlett, and three new songs that he has (or will be) featuring on his myspace [...]
I don't want ruin the surprise, but we'll be unveiling something rather massive on Monday. (If you follow us a Twitter , you've probably read a few hints). So as a sort of thank you to our current setup, we wanted to cap things off with a bang by putting together our best Friday Mixtape yet. Of course, we stuck to the newest and best mix of singles, remixes, covers, but, this time around, we tried to pack in as many as possible. Please enjoy! We'll see you on Monday! NEW Singles: [...]
Feb 24, 2010, 12:41pm
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Hoquiam - "Zombies of the Sea" From the brotherly Damien and Drake Jurado collaboration's self-titled Hoquiam LP, out now on St. Ives , in an limited-edition of 500 with hand-made covers.
Damien Jurado heeft een flinke productie. Vanaf 1999 brengt hij bijna jaarlijks nieuw materiaal uit. En zeker de laatste jaren zijn Jurado's albums zonder uitzondering van hoge kwaliteit. Tussen al die opnamen en het touren door vond Jurado toch nog even de tijd om samen met zijn broer Drake zeventien nummers op de band te zetten. De broers noemen hun gezamenlijke project Hoquiam , naar een kustplaatsje in Washington State. De songs hebben opvallend de zee en de oceaan als thema. Hier vertelt Damien Jurado over het project. Ook al was de totstandkoming van [...]
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vocal nerd rodeo
Slowcoustic
BUZZGRINDER
Captain Obvious
Subservient Experiment
So Much Silence
Consequence Of Sound
Ketelmuziek
Hot Chip - Night & Day
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
The Bee Gees – Tragedy (Equateur Remix)
Saint Motel
Knickers - My Baby's Just A Baby EP review
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