I first heard of Sam Roberts on a recent Paste Magazine CD sampler I received. 'Bridge to Nowhere' starts as a bouncy track, mixing acoustic guitar and keys that turns into what feels like a handclap sing-a-long, souding a bit Rogue Wave -ish. Soon after, I saw the grizzly haired lead singer and entire band give a good show on David Letterman and looked for a few more tracks. I ended up with the entire, new album from the band, Chemical City . A recent review explained that [...]
It’s a given that if something â€" especially music â€" comes from the Land Down Under, I will dig it. I hadn’t heard Sam Roberts before amelia and Jaylia requested this concert. Two and two are four. Now I dig Sam Roberts and you should, too. I’ll call these songs “acoustic-rock-a-rama-a- la-The Shins-meets-early-Wilco-while- at-an-antiwar-protest.†1 ~ Bridge to Nowhere 2 ~ Brother Down 3 ~
No pictures with this one, sorry. I'm on my work computer, which is so finicky these days. Do some searches if you're like me and love to have an image in mind of the person singing out of your speakers. There's a very particular theme between these three guys, but I'm not going to say what it is. Not that anyone will be able to guess, it's so specific and only applies to me. Mysterrrrrrry. (All songs are direct links to the mp3.) Don't Walk [...]
(NO IMAGE AVAILABLE)< LESS WRITING. MORE MUSIC. RE-ROOTING THE ROCK SOUND. Sam Roberts, The Gate. The Long Winters, Ultimatum. Zoe, Via Lactea. The Mattoid, Blue Suede Shoes.# Dirty On Purpose, No Radio. Headlights, Put Us Back Together Right. The 1900's, Bring The Good Boys Home. The Dears, Ballad Of Humankindness. SOMETIMES ALL WE CAN DO IS SUCCUMB. # Marathonpacks recommended.
I've always been skeptical of the idea of cloning, kind of worried about what would happen if one of those weird and scary sci-fi movies came true and people could create human clones at will. But after looking through the Bluesfest schedule, I would be all to willing to get my hands on something, anything, that would let me be in two places at once. The guide is split in 2, 5 days in each. Not sure how regualr blog-posting will go throughout.. a local Bluesfest performer profile here, a [...]
Play it: Sasquatch Music Festival 2006 The lineup and schedule is now all finalized for this weekend's Sasquatch Music Festival at the beautiful Gorge Amphitheatre . It's an incredible lineup, spanning three days, but I'm heading to Minneapolis for my nephew's bar mitzvah . While I'm doing a reading at temple Friday night, TV on the Radio will be holding their own temple on the Mainstage. While my nephew [...]
Play it: Sam Roberts Chemical City Play it: The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers Notice how most 'classic rock' these days is played by the classic artists? Oh sure, there's plenty of retro-rockers out there, but they're all very focused in mining specific territory (garage blues, led zep, etc.) I'm talking a more generalized classic rock here, and that's the ground that Sam Roberts ' [...]
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