When I started posting my 42 Favorite Finds of 2008 over at WNEW , I declined to say what I thought were the best records of the year. Instead I decided to write about my favorite listens of the year. That means anything from any year could be included thereby freeing myself myself from writing the gratuitous, overplayed, phone-it-in "Best Of" list. Then Rolling Stone released their list of Records Of The Year . Clearly, a bunch of caffeine-swilling, underpaid, cubicle-inhabiting , self-aggrandizing weenies sat around the Starbucks one day and [...]
We're not just about the classic tracks here in F45 Land. We like them crazy young'uns and their rock and roll, too. Michael Franti And Spearhead with Cherine Anderson - Say Hey (I Love You) I've loved his message since I first heard Stay Human while walking through Virgin Records at Union Square. Are we praying with him for change in this country come November 4th? Hell, yes. Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Camper Van Beethoven : 2008-09-12, Pioneertown [mp3,ogg,flac] "New Roman Times" [mp3] other Camper Van Beethoven posts at Largehearted Boy Carolina Chocolate Drops : 2008-09-30, Philadelphia [mp3,ogg,flac] "Memphis Shakedown" [mp3] other Carolina Chocolate Drops posts at Largehearted Boy Grace Potter : 2008-09-28, Montreal [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]
Don't let the pedal steel fool you...these guys can rock. I hear Buck , the Byrds , a touch of Doobies here and there, a whole lot of New Riders of the Purple Sage , some Los Lobos (and I'm only halfway through the record). LOVE IT! Downloaded Hallowed Ground from eMusic last night. Please take a listen and then go buy it, too. I See Hawks In L.A. - Carbon Dated Love [...]
Lookee here at this week's new artist parade: The Bridges For those who like : Matthew Sweet, The Lemonheads We have a real family affair here with this sisters-brother-cousin act. Their debut full-length Limits of the Sky was produced by the master of hooks himself, Matthew Sweet. www.myspace.com/thebridgesmusi c [...]
We're so confident tonight's show at Mr. T's will be such a joyous affair that we've already pre-posted Monday's post-show raves on how joyous it was. And we're so excited we've made buttons and posters for everyone. Well, not for everyone. Maybe two people... But we do see that tonight is very busy as Fridays tend to be so if you can't make it to our little show do get yourselves out to see...
Gram Parsons has been dead for roughly 35 years, and yet he can still be heard all over Hallowed Ground , the latest Big Book Records release from I See Hawks In L.A. Hallowed Ground is precisely the "Cosmic American Music" Parsons would have loved. The band effortlessly blends the three-part harmonies, fiddles and weeping steel of country/roots music with the driving drums, heavy reverb and fiery licks we associate with more rock-oriented offerings. Flavor the whole mess with zydeco, Tex-Mex [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Grace Potter : 2008-02-23, Portsmouth [mp3,ogg,flac] "Down by the River (Neil Young cover)" [mp3] Grace Potter : 2007-09-07, Boston [mp3,ogg,flac] "Southern Man (Neil Young cover with Gov't Mule)" [mp3] other Grace Potter music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws I See Hawks in LA : 2008-04-01, Los Angeles [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]
sup, dudes? hey have you heard about this pretty cool new service called muxtape? its one of those why the hell didnt i think of it deals, which sadly happens quite a bit. anyway, its pretty much a service that lets you upload 11 or 12 songs and create a mixtape to share with your peoples. here is the official captains dead muxtape . i can see this being kinda addicting. if you've made one, please do share it with the class. hey a new tilly and the wall song from their forthcoming record simply entitled, [...]
HEADS UP I See Hawks in L.A. @ The Echo Sun 6/8 I See Hawks in L.A. @ Pappy & Harriet's (Pioneertown) Sat 6/21 New track from our own I See Hawks In L.A. today: "Gettin' Home Tonight" is from the forthcoming release Hallowed Ground , recorded in Echo Park & slated for a May 20 release on Big Book Records. The first ten seconds will have you preparing for a serious Gordon Lightfoot "Sundown" moment; stick around a few more bars and the song becomes [...]
Dan Bern : 2007-11-28, Santa Cruz [mp3.ogg,flac] "Witness" [mp3] other Dan Bern music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws I See Hawks on LA : 2007-11-18, Los Angeles [mp3,ogg,flac] "California Country" [mp3] I See Hawks on LA : 2007-11-17, Culver City [mp3,ogg,flac] "Heavenly Houseboat Blues (Townes Van Zandt cover)" [mp3] other I See Hawks in LA music blog posts: [...]
I See Hawks in L.A. - Don't Bury Me Artist: I See Hawks in L.A. Album: I See Hawks in L.A. Don't Bury Me, 192kbps 44kHz Stereo MP3 2:54 Take a walk up around the Hollywood Reservoir and you really will see hawks, so I See Hawks in L.A . is not some made-up name conjured up on some desert psychedelic freak-out, or [...]
This post is about a month old. I think that makes it a record. The longest period after a show until I finally got around to posting about it. Oh well, I'm sure I'll break it someday. One of the many cool things about living in Vermont is that it doesn't look like the rest of the country. While the rest of the US has lost a lot of it regional uniquities with homogenous development, Vermont has made a large effort in preserving it's older buildings. And not preserving them as museum pieces [...]
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