This is a new feature that will pop up on the weekends. It's a combination of (a) follow-ups on prior posts, (b) links to cool stuff I've recently found on other music blogs, (c) quick write-ups on submissions that have been sent my way lately, and (d) whatever-the-hell else I feel like rambling about. This week's edition is being typed while listening to Lambchop's Live At Merge XX , which - holy shit! - is awesome. - Just a couple days after I wrote about [...]
Understated, listenable and uplifting...a real gem. Steven Wesley Guiles' new album We will All Be Lifted is a real gem and may one of the best album's released this year that most people will not hear Musically understated, the album is in the same neighborhood as artists such as Bon Iver , Denison Witmer and early Pedro the Lion. There is an uplifting nature to theses songs that is often missing from albums in the genre. In a listenable [...]
Many bands play great music but manage to fly under the radar and only few people get a chance to hear them. Pushstart Wagon was (and is) one of those bands. I have their debut album "Squeaky Clean" released on BAI records and it showcased some great power-pop songs. Here is Open from Squeaky Clean. I had lost track of the band, but thanks to a nice e-mail from Steve Guiles I am pleased to learn that [...]
14 songs in 28 days is the challenge ! What's the story behind this unbelievable concept ? Back in 2003, Burr Settles a singer songwriter from Madison WI completed a short novel for National Novel Writing Month. Following this writing experience, Burr decided with 3 friends to transpose this creativity exercise to songwriting using a weblog to share compositions and comments. This 2008 edition is on and already more than 1000 FAWMers (understand FAWM participants) are already registered and gave birth to more than 2000 songs ! [...]
The Opening Acts
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You Crazy Dreamers
The Corner Laughers “Poppy Seeds”
Pictures Of Andre 3000 As Jimi Hendrix
Sasquatch Day Three: The Day Many Men Cried for the First Time In Their Lives…
