Recent blog posts about Spoon from music blog aggregator, Elbo.ws http://elbo.ws/artist/spoon/ 2012-02-14T01:30:18+01:00 text/html 2012-02-12T18:22:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4055847/soundtrack-from-season-1-chuck/
Unfortunately for all of us who have fallen in love with Chuck , we now grieve in the wake of the show's grand finale. But let's take some time to happily reminisce, andremember how he captured all of our hearts in the first place. NBC's Chuck is one of the few comedy-action-drama spy shows that will forever take your breath away, either by laughing too hard or the show's constant twists, turns, and cliffhangers. It followed the life of Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi), a "nerd-herd" computer whiz recruited by the CIA and NSA after all of [...]]]> text/html 2012-02-08T16:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4046437/soundtrack-from-season-1-part-1-friday-night-lights/
With the weekend's Super Bowl now over, what better way to celebrate the season than with a playlist from a show not only about football, but with one of the greatest indie soundtracks to go with it. NBC's Friday Night Lights is a show about a small, western Texas town, where every Friday night during the football season the town shuts down to cheer on the Dylan Panthers football team.With the bright lights of the football stadium, it's easyfor the various characters to get lost in themselves as they deal with handling pressure, serious injury, drug [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-31T14:30:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4026742/january-soundtrack/
# of unique albums played from beginning to end: 33 Albums broken down by decade/year: 2012: 0 2011: 7 2010: 3 00s: 14 90s: 1 80s: 1 (Chopin recording) 70s: 3 60s: 2 50s: 2 Albums broken down by genre: Indie: 21 60s rock: 2 70s rock: 2 Ambient: 2 Children's: 1 [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-27T05:47:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4017512/my-ideal-2012/
This is a very quiet time of the year when it comes to new music. Most major bands dont start releasing material until February or March, so January can be seen as a reflective time. 20112s Top 50 list took me quite a while to finish, but I must say that Im pretty happy with it overall. Now I find myself wondering what I should be looking forward to in 2012. If the Mayans are to be believed, the world shall be ending sometime in late December. This only leaves 11 more months of new music until mankind is lost [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-25T19:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4013984/mixtape-twenty-years-of-noise-pop-podcast-269/
Mixtape: Twenty Years of Noise Pop (Podcast #269) In February, the Noise Pop Music Festival turns twenty by gathering over one hundred local and touring bands from across the indie spectrum for a week of exciting concerts all over the City. Two decades of championing independent music is an accomplishment worth celebrating, and this mixtape collects twenty bands that have performed at Noise Pop events in years past. As you'll hear, a whole bunch of big names graced Noise Pop bills before achieving fame, as past festivals [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-23T21:49:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4008701/mp3-spoon-i-could-see-the-dude-demo-january/
New Bonus Track from Spoon Great news! Spoon kicked off 2012 with a new bonus track , this time treating fans with an old demo of Soft Effects ' "I Could See The Dude". For the full list of Spoon bonus tracks, go here . Check out this month's bonus track below. MP3 :: Spoon - "I Could See The Dude" (demo) (January '12 Bonus Track)]]> text/html 2012-01-11T18:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3981256/why-2012-is-going-to-be-a-great-year-for/
2012 is poised to be one of the greatest years in music in awhile. Why? Well, I'll give you a hint: it isn't because Justin Bieber is set to have an album coming out. In fact, I don't even know whether that's true or not. It's exciting because Phoenix, Spoon, Delta Spirit, Mumford & Sons, P.O.S., Passion Pit, Animal Collective, The Shins, Brother Ali, Dr. Dre, Miike Snow, Lana Del Rey, Andrew Bird, Sleigh Bells , and the xx are poised to release albums. That's not even including all of the new or smaller bands that will [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-10T21:15:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3979048/i-turn-my-feelings-on-inside/
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The cover for the Soft Effects vinyl 10" We're always stoked when Spoon drops a new track in their "Bonus" section, but this month we were particularly thrilled. Culled from the demo sessions for one of our favorite Spoon records, the Soft Effects EP, the demo for "I Could See The Dude" is a real treat. Much like the final studio track, the demo is built around a looped guitar riff overlaid on a bass line that manages to craft the song's chord changes all [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-09T18:15:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3975972/something-to-look-forward-to/
A selection from Saturday's page from A Year Of Sunshine . The grand essentials of happiness are, something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Chalmers I would also add - something to look forward to. Things I'm currently looking forward to: the Features at Mercy Lounge this Saturday, the release of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close on the 20th, SXSW and spring! Spoon - " Something to Look Forward To " (from Kill [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-07T22:33:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3985719/the-ark-of-the-quarterback/
Hope springs eternal at the same time every year. This season, the arms race between the rare elite super quarterbacks of the NFL has your average irrational fan licking their chops and stewing in it. The rabid fan base of armchair quarterback's obsession with the "unicorn passer" is the equivalent to baseball's "field of dream" According to legend, if you bring him, championships will come. Do they though? This year, Dan Marino 's passing yards record [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-05T16:08:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3968277/polica-dark-star/
Lucky us! Minneapolis-based quartet Polica were set to release their debut album around Valentine's Day, but they dropped it 2 months early... That's right folks, when you totally dig the song I've included below, you can go out and buy Give You The Ghost to keep! And here's why you should get it (from our good friends over at Consequence Of Sound ): " Gayngs mastermind Ryan Olson co-produced Give You the Ghost with Spoons Jim Eno, whos widely acknowledged as one of the best drummers today, and the resulting post-prog-rock percussion and mellifluous [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-04T13:22:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3965095/playlist-hump-day-power-play-1-4-2012/
New-Year-Spoon Edition Lately, I've been on a huge Spoon kick, and I can't stop listening to one of the best indie rock bands of our time. So in the spirit of Wednesday, I give you a Spoon/Britt Daniel-inspired Hump Day Power Play . Sadly, Spotify does not have any Drake Tungsten or Skellington to choose from. Nevertheless, happy new year! Hear it by simply clicking here . Playlist is below. [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-01T19:51:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3965156/dang-vol-43/
DANG! VOL. 43 TRACKLIST: 1."Jamie Lidell"/More Than Lights 2. "Mona Lisa"/Atlas Sound 3. "Elephants and Time"/Come On Live Long 4. "Poor Misguided Boy"/Leatherbag 5. "The Kids Were Wrong"/Memoryhouse 6. "Everywhere We Go"/More Than Lights 7. "Open Eyes (Demo)"/The xx 8. "Stage Dive"/Sol 9. "Towner On The B-Side"/Spoon 10. "Blue (Da Ba Die) (Eiffel 65 Cover)"/Yellow Ostrich (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD "DANG VOL. 43) ALSO, CHECK OUT RAC's MIX OF THE TOP 50 [...]]]> text/html 2011-12-19T06:27:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3937853/musical-pairings-spoon-kill-the-moonlight/
Let there be no doubt: Spoon is easily one of the top five greatest contemporary rock bands. In fact, very few bands have ever managed to consistently release albums at the quality most fans have learned to expect from Spoon. They are that perfect "go to band": the one that you know you can go to in your record collection when nothing else sounds good. At least that is how I feel about them. I'll pull out Gimme Fiction , Girls Can Tell , Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga or Kill the Moonlight [...]]]> text/html 2011-12-06T01:58:02+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3909247/updated-best-albums-of-2010/
BAM! Bet you were expecting a Best of 2011 list, yeah? Well I don't got time for that (YET)! No...this is where I acknowledge all the great stuff I missed in 2010. 'Cause it doesn't get any more rock n roll than to talk about shit that's over a year old. Write that down in your How to Be Rock N Roll notebooks. Anyway, the last time I wrote this list , I spent quite a while talking about how there isn't enough time in one year to listen to all the potentially great releases and put [...]]]> text/html 2011-12-05T05:30:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3912828/movies-that-rock-horrible-bosses/
I have to admit that I wasn't planning to watch Horrible Bosses, but I do love Jason Bateman (did anyone else watch It's Your Move way back when?) so I thought it might not be the worst thing I could do to end a perfect lazy Sunday. While there were parts of the movie during [...]]]> text/html 2011-12-04T04:49:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3905782/mp3-spoon-towner-on-the-b-side-demo-december-bonus/
New Bonus Track from Spoon Spoon wasted little time between releasing bonus tracks, bringing us all some early holiday cheer in the month of December. This month's song is a demo version of the aMiniature (the "a" is silent) cover "Towner on the B-Side". During a recent move, lead singer Britt Daniel apparently stumbled upon an old cassette tape that was made in the pre- Sneaks years. Cool! Even cooler, a long while back I did a little write-up about [...]]]> text/html 2011-11-29T00:06:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3893837/free-okkervil-river-ep/
Okkervil River have given fans a Christmas gift a few weeks early. The Austin-based rockers released a free covers EP, Golden Opportunities 2, today. Download it here. The sequel to their 2007 covers collection of the same name, Golden Opportunites 2 is "intended as [gifts] to fans". It was recorded in one day using a]]> text/html 2011-11-28T12:57:53+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3892365/fenses-radio-show-november-25-2011/
Being sick is terrible. I've been fighting something nasty since Tuesday. Luckily the worst was out of the way fast - after recording a 101 degree temperature Tuesday night, the fever subsided and I've slowly returned to a state that's manageable. I was still a bit stuffed up on the 25th, but by 10pm all that was left was sniffling and the occasional cough - my regular voice was back. On November 25, I decided to do something a little different. Not only would I tell a few stories about [...]]]>