We're spending the week over at Breakthrough Radio , where the DJs pick the playlists, and the guestblogging runs Mondays through Fridays, one week at a time. Here's today's entry. (Warning: originals ahead!) In addition to blogging coverfolk at Cover Lay Down , I'm also an admin and regular blogger at Star Maker Machine , a collaborative blog which uses a weekly theme to evoke a diverse set of musical submissions from a group of about a dozen bloggers with very diverse tastes. [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Blue Eyed Blacks : "OK23" [mp3] from Black Eyed Soul other Blue Eyed Blacks posts at Largehearted Boy David Brusie : "Flyover State" [mp3] from Flyover State David Brusie : "Fort Wayne" [mp3] from Flyover State [...]
John J. O'Connor - Itchy Face [July 28] (2008 ) Another incredible music weekend sweeps through Madison with the early November cold front... My pick is to start tonight at the beautiful Majestic for a warm set by Over the Rhine (this time with Minneapolis' Haley Bonar), sprint over the Club 770 to meet up with homemade Best Friends and Best Fwends, and set your jeans on fire in [...]
Sorry for the slow posting over the last week or so. Actually I'm sorry that I probably won't have anything new after this post until next Monday. I'm leaving in a bit for a weekend out of town, job interview and car test drive included, and I doubt I'll be able to post something else before I'm back home. That being said I'm posting a brilliant song that should tide you over until I return. Born by Over The Rhine is the second song on their 2005 album Drunkard's Prayer ( amazon ) ( itunes ). [...]
Linford Detweiler y Karin Bergquist son los dos miembros fundadores de este grupo de Cincinnati, Ohio, los cuales llevan haciendo música juntos desde la primavera del año 1989, con un total de diecisiete discos a sus espaldas. Junto a ellos, completan la formación Jacob Bradley y Mickey Grima. Se mueven a medio camino entre el pop-folk y el country alternativo de corte melódico, siendo su sonido de lo más apropiado para esta época otoñal que se nos viene encima. The Trumpet Child, publicado en octubre del pasado año 2007, es su último trabajo hasta la fecha, [...]
...and now, even more coverage from last week's Newport Folk Festival. Prior to their performance AD sat down and caught up with Over The Rhine's Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist. Among other things, they give a shout out to, literally, my favorite burger in the U.S. Aquarium Drunkard: You named the band after your neighborhood [...]
Ever get the feeling that you need a bible scholar to decipher a well-written song? Well, someone with the proper background has gone in-depth on the lyrics to "The Trumpet Child" by Over the Rhine. It's worth reading if you like the song - quite a few of the thoughts in that series of blog posts are really interesting and non-obvious to us laypeople.
The Ohio band playing a cozy little bar in Dayton from their most recent tour... Over The Rhine 04-26-2008 Canal Street Tavern Dayton, Ohio 01 - Ohio 02 - B.P.D. 03 - Born 04 - I'm On a Roll 05 - I Don't Wanna Waste Your Time 06 - Motherless Child 07 - The Trumpet Child 08 - Who'm I Kiddin' But Me 09 - [cane story] 10 [...]
A long weekend of solo parenting while my wife headed off to Sonoma County for a long-overdue vacation has left me too exhausted for deep thought. Happily, thanks to reader emails, new releases and new discoveries, I've got plenty of material for yet another installment of our popular (Re)Covered series, wherein we recover songs that dropped through the cracks too late to make it into the posts where they belonged. A few weeks back, when my laptop went kablooie, Jamie -- host of the ever-miraculous coverblog Fong Songs [...]
As I said in my last post, I'm having to divide this in two... Saturday, April 19, 2008 My cousin has come from West Virginia to visit my grandmother because chances are very good that she won't go home again until we take her casket to be buried next to my grandfather's. Her health has been failing for a long time and the prognosis is not promising. I hadn't seen my cousin since before Cecily's born, since before his father, my uncle, died. [...]
I really could use a new graphic for Best of the Month. I'll get on that right after I kick my addiction to video games on xbox live. Honestly, it's been hitting me hard the last week or so. I apologize for the lack of new and brilliant posts, but you need to check out the live tracks I posted last week by Zach Williams . Honestly. For those of you who are just stumbling by this little blog today let me explain what the BOTM series of posts is. Every month [...]
Hi, I'm still staying faithful to the project. Here are 31 songs for the month of March along with the posts that I made with them. Also, there are some pictures for some of the songs, so hopefully they won't crash anyone's computer. They're not huge. As always, the month is posted here in backwards order because that is easier for me. :::: Monday, March 31, 2008 And thus ends the third month of my 365 Days of Song project. We'll [...]
"Not on your arm Not on your leg Not in the toast Not in the eggs Not on the carpet Nor the linoleum Just how'd your little brother get it smeared all over him..." -Over the Rhine - "The Poopsmith Song" The strains of preparing for a trans-continental move must be getting to me because I'm finding the ...
Over the Rhine performed at the Brown Theatre on Saturday. Initially the concert was set for February 29th, but due to an opportunity to tour with Ani DiFranco, a chance they were wise to take advantage of, the date was moved up. Opening the show was the ever brilliant Ben Sollee. I was a few minutes [...]
1. The Dodos - Fool - From the get-go, the drummer using the drum frame as much as the actual drums, indicating that he likes to have a good time. This plays like an immaculately recorded live performance, the musicians using your smiling reactions as fuel. [from Visiter (out 3.18)| buy ] 2. Mobius Band - I'll Keep it With Mine (Bob Dylan) - This song is quicksand. It's also one of the best Dylan covers I've heard in a long, [...]
You Should Know So, Captain Obvious has agreed to let me exploit him (not really all that uncommon) and let me post a brief political blog on his site. Although, I have agreed not to be biased pertaining to party or candidate. The thing is this, our nation has a very important election coming up. I am not even looking ahead so far as November; I am talking about now. It is rather easy to blow off the primary, thinking your vote does not determine who [...]
השבוע בעונג שבת או במשהו שמאוד מאוד דומה לו: ספירת עונג חדשה, שני אתרים חדשים במשפחת העונג, אובר דה ריין, קנייה ווסט, האחים כהן, באפי, קינג קאהן, שירים שנהרסו לעד, פי-ג'יי הארווי, סטיבן פריי, ט"ו בשבט, פנדורה חוזרת, ושני שירים חדשים של קאונטינג קרואוז! ווהו!
C'est avec émotion que je post mon 1er "Comme un dimanche matin", et en plus c'est aussi le 1er de 2008... J'ai vraiment pas le droit à l'erreur sinon je vais me faire incendier par mes compères de Streetkiss, mais bon, ca leur apprendra a partir à la montagne dévaler les pistes pendant que je reste de garde à Paris comme un malheureux. Je vous préviens tout de suite les morceaux ne sont pas à la pointe de l'actualité, mais je ne m'en suis toujours pas lasser même après des années d'écoutes et j'espère qu'ils vous plairont aussi. [...]
We finish this 6 week series with a look at some albums that didn’t fit any other “ Best Of ” list at The Late Greats . Each category is complete with an Honorable Mention. There is a complete recap of this series at the bottom of the post. ∞ Best EP: Anna Ternheim ~ Anna Ternheim EP I’ll Follow You Tonight Honorable Mention: Marla Hansen ~ Wedding Day EP Wedding Day [...]
I nearly did The Top 2007 Songs From 2007 (like this insane post from last year ). I decided to focus on 27 instead (2007 minus the zeroes). These are the songs I think are the most well-written , well-performed , well-done and well-worth a listen. 27. The National ~ Ada There is a great chance, if The Duchess and I ever have a baby girl, she will be named Ada. 26. Great Lake Swimmers ~ I Became Awake I always [...]
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