Jennifer O'Connor - "Tonight We Ride". Pavement - "Secret Knowledge of Back Roads" (live at the Cat's Cradle, 9/11/92). There's just a whole lot of sky. Buy Jennifer O'Connor's new album. Buy records by Pavement and The Silver Jews (who first performed this song). Have a good weekend....
Back to the insanely great lineup of the Troika Music Festival , which kicks off in Durham tomorrow night. Clearly, the notion of actually writing about each of the fourteen shows was utterly unrealistic. So let's try this: focus on one show each day of the festival, with maybe some other commentary thrown in. Wednesday's already covered , but I'll note that the other show that night is the one I'm excited about and planning to attend. I've written about each of the bands on the bill previously (Bull City/the Balance here , Maple Stave [...]
"You gotta be a Commie if you don’t like the PATH train." -- Tom on the only people that could possibly dislike the trans-Hudson pleasure cruise "I would puke my brains out." -- Spike on his reaction to Jay-Z performing with the Del Vikings "He’s a filmmaker, yet you’re telling me he wrote the song 'Misty'." -- Tom on the multi-talented Erroll Garner "No, I make them. And they’re not for sale." -- Spike on his prized mix CDs "He’s a trained martial artist, that [...]

Download : Hyzolists La Fin Du Monde Download : Leeroy Stagger Depression River Download : Mountain Goats Woke Up New Download : Jennifer O'Connor Today [ buy ] Download : Oxford Collapse Please Visit Your National Parks [ buy ] [...]

Jennifer O'Connor Over the Mountain, Across the Valley and Back to the Stars Matador Records After releasing two full-length records on a variety of miniscule independent labels, Jennifer O'Connor is finally getting her due. Having signed to Matador Records early this year, she was able to afford to put together the record we all knew she had in her. Her plaintive, country-tinged songs have always carried with them a stark immediacy that the small-time recording budget helped amplify, but even with a few extra dollars in [...]
Spin reports that Damien Jurado recorded a bunch of Nick Drake covers for bandmate Eric Fisher's birthday. Check out this eerily faithful cover of "Pink Moon", then never listen to it again. MP3: Damien Jurado - Pink Moon Today is your last chance to pre-order the Pernice Brothers' latest album with a sad-sack pun of a title, Live a Little, and get a bonus CD of demos and alternate takes

In House #1698 : Jennifer O'Connor's Over the Mountain, Across the Valley, & Back to the Stars O ver the Mountain, Across the River, & Back to the Stars is not just the third release from Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Jennifer O'Connor , it's also her debut for Matador -- no small detail given that the label's roster includes the likes of Cat Power , Belle & Sebastian , and Yo La Tengo . [...]

Hailing from Connecticuit via New York, singer-songwriter Jennifer O'Connor released her third album and first for Matador . Over The Mountain, Across The Valley And Back To The Stars last Tuesday. I haven't heard the whole record but from what I have sampled, her stuff has a definite, mid-90s college rock vibe to it whether it's an strummy acoustic folk song or an electrified full-band rocker. Whichever way she goes it's consistently rather spare and downbeat, though with just cause as this New York Press [...]

Someone asked me last week what exactly is a Graboid. Well my friends, i wasn't exactly sure it was anything as I stole the word from a website I like to visit. I just assumed it was similar to the word 'grab' so it made sense at the time. Plus the feature needed a title and I can never come up with anything clever. With that being said, I looked up graboid in the ever reliable and addictive Wikipedia (random article is too much fun) and this is what came up. [...]
Sigo teniendo algunos problemas para hacer updated en el blog, Savefile esta a la espera de un nuevo servidor que hasta donde he alcanzado a leer será de 5 Therabytes, cantidad que me provoca babear con tan solo pensar en ella. Me es dificil subir musica porque no me gustan los otros servicios, hay que registrarse o los archivos solo quedan durante una semana o una determinada cantidad limitada de downloads, en algunos casos te logran instalar spyware y la idea no es que ocurra ninguna de ellas. En otros casos hay que esperar a que a la pagina se [...]
DOWNLOAD: Portastatic - I Wanna Know Girls (MP3) " Portastatic , the long-running side project of Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan, will return on Oct. 10 with its next Merge album, 'Be Still Please.' The set was recorded earlier this year at Durham, N.C.'s Pox Studios, a site chosen so McCaughan could stay close to home while still logging hours at Merge, the label he co-founded in 1989." [ Billboard ] Portastatic are playing a few dates with M. Ward in September followed by a short tour with [...]
Erin Tobey : several tracks [mp3] Diana Jones : several tracks [mp3] "Pretty Girl" [mp3] from My Remembrance of You Georgia Anne Muldrow : "Requiem for Leroy" [mp3] from Olesi: Fragments of an Earth (out August 22nd) Hundred Year Storm : "Yesterday We Had It All" [mp3] from Hello From The Children Of Planet Earth Jennifer O'Connor : "Today" [mp3] from [...]
Some free MP3s we've been digging very much. (I promise we'll listen to yours soon -- tips at stereogum dot com.) Shearwater - "Seventy Four Seventy Five" (MP3) Teddybears (Feat. Iggy Pop) - "Punk Rocker" (MP3) The Purrs - "Get...

Festivus! : I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little exhausted after finishing back-to-back weekends of Pitchfork Music Festival and Three-day Lollapalooza 2006 in Chicago. Right on their heels starting this Thursday, is Midwest Music Summit here in Indianapolis! Wristbands are still available and this is the last week you can get them for only $20! That's as many of the 350+ bands as you can see over the three day period for only $20! Dang! Get on that! You can buy a badge and [...]
Hello, hello. Goodbye and goodbye. Hello. Goodbye. Hello Friday. 1. Exeter, Rhode Island - Jennifer O'Connor 2. Lily - Matt Pond PA 3. A Pillar of Salt - The Thermals 4. Undertaker - M. Ward 5. Wallpaper - Peppertree
Jul 6, 2006, 2:31pm
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For some reason, I thought I'd already posted Jennifer O'Connor. I remember looking at her website, and the older songs she has available for download there were already on my iPod. Ah well, my apologies to Jennifer and her fans, and here you go. If you work her song selection from the bottom up, you can see O'Connor's development from girl-with-acoustic-guitar to full-on rocker, especially with the track "Exeter, Rhode Island," off her next album, Over the Mountain, Across the Valley, and Back to the Stars , due in August on Matador. Until then, she'll [...]