
The Love Language Lalita Tenement Halls Plenty Is Never Enough The Shins Plenty Is Never Enough Since the Walkmen seem to have lost the plot (along with a bag of hooks) and the Rockateens have... Well, I don't know where they've gone (oh yeah, Tenement Halls !), but where is one to turn in the quest for fuzzed out, sepia-toned melodies hammered [...]

One of our favorite labels, Merge Records , has compiled a great set of covers as part of their subscription series SCORE! Unlike the rest of the series, Merge will be offering up this series of covers to the masses, but only a limited amount will be released. Not to mention, all proceeds will go to the charity of the curators choice! Good tunes and humanitarianism? Count us in. Head over to pre-order the album now. And in the meantime, check out this new Shins [...]

Ah, surely there is no better combination than your favourite artists and bands covering your favourite artists and bands, AND for the proceeds of said album going to your favourite charities! Merge have created something truly special here, so go out and buy buy buy it! Score! 20 years of Merge Records: The Covers! 01 Quasi: "Beautiful Things" (3Ds cover) 02 Les Savy Fav: "Precision Auto" (Superchunk cover) 03 The Shins: [...]

Chris Lopez ' Tenement Halls with some newer tunes. Track 1 - Plenty Is Never Enough Track 2 - Charlemagne Track 3 - On An Ink Black Sea Track 4 - When The Swifts Come Home Track 5 - Track 6 - Track 7 - Track 8 - Track 9 - My Wicked Wicked Ways [...]

What a glorious thing. I had one of those I Love Portland times after work when I went up to the Chapman School and watched over 10,000 vaux swifts spiral and organize and dodge through the air and then spin against the sunset into their decommissioned chimney and autumn lodging. Just like last year . And I have to post the same song again because I love it so much. All manner of Portlanders were there with picnic baskets, splits of pinot, piles of bicycles, splayed across the hillside overlooking the [...]
I'm way behind in posting my weekly Sirius radio playlists. The last one I posted was Week 8 . Here's the playlist from Week 11 (8/15/2006). On this show I played all music that came out on Merge Records , and all music that happens to be available in MP3 format... 1) Superchunk - Becoming a Speck 2) And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Mistakes and Regrets 3) Pipe - Chula 4) Dinosaur Jr. - Forget the [...]
Kimones 2005 release The Mill was one of my favorite of that year. The band is from Boston and get brownie points from me because of their location. However, it does not stop there. The music is extremely ethereal and intense, combining chiming guitars (love those) and swirling keyboards. Lyrics may be excessive at times, but come from issues about life. This is a great band and one to keep an eye on in the future. Chris Lopez is the singer-songwriter behind the now-defunct Rock*A*Teens, and the new Tenement Halls. "Knitting Needles and Bicycle [...]