In January, the marvelous website couchsurfing.org brought us a terrific set of houseguests: a couple from the beaches of California asked to stay in my home while they came to Colorado to pick up the due-any-day baby that they had just been chosen to be the adoptive parents of. For two weeks we got to host them and their brand new little guy, all wide eyes and stretching fingers. It was, in a word, magnificent. We forget that they make people that little, that new. Light as air and just about perfect. As I am wont [...]
10. The Shivers – More More reads like a series of vignettes with a common theme of love. Or, more specifically, lost love. A musically diverse batch of songs that draws on soul, garage and a little electro-pop, but all with a gritty NYC edge. The Shivers - Irrational Love [...]
11. William Elliot Whitmore-Field Songs : Songs about working and struggling and grasping to the only piece of fucking dirt that yours and some SOB trying to cheat you out of it. Thanks WEW. I'm taking bullshit handyman work over the winter just so I can afford to eat Burger King and drink a couple of Miller High Lifes every once in a while, so I'm a disciple of these songs. I wonder what the farmers in Iowa do in the wintertime to survive. Is the suicide rate higher then? He's singing about [...]
After seeing many of my favourite music bloggers start the annual ritual of listing the "Top Songs of the Year", I decided I would give it a go as well. I originally tried to narrow it down to my top 20 tunes but alas, 12 hours later, I present to you the first instalment of my list...songs # 51 through #60 . Just remember, these are just MY favourites...there were so many awesome albums released over the past 12 months. Make sure to go out to live shows, buy records and remain open-minded to all genres of music. I sincerely [...]
Words // Brian Hodge Much has been made about David Wax Museum on this site - and many , many others - along the band's ascendant rise to indie darling-ship. But setting aside the donkey jawbone (always awesome), going beyond the multi-instrument Mexi-'Mericana musicianship (continually impressive) and looking past their zealous marketing efforts (OK), and here emerges an undeniable authenticity in their act. Authenticity is often-sought, rarely obtained and difficult to describe without sounding [...]
Our Pick: Boston Live Set of the Week: David Wax Museum at the Arlington Street Church Saturday 12/3 - Doors at 7pm - Tix available . David Wax Museum - Born with a Broken Heart Song of the Year: 2011 Boston Music Awards [...]
Good afternoon and thank you for reading. You have many choices to make for your web reading and I'm thankful that you chose to spend these next few minutes with me. Blah, blah, blah... I'm as big a fan of three guitar and a life of crime or the old sad songs as anyone around nine bullets but sometimes I need something a little different. Maybe it's a Sunday morning where I just don't want to get out of bed or a Tuesday evening when work has been too much and I'm exhausted and want [...]
Earlier this year, VV favorites David Wax Museum released Everything Is Saved , their third full-length and an album I called " a lovingly-crafted masterpiece ". For the record, I stand by that statement and it's still one of my favorite albums of the year. To celebrate it's release the band threw one hell of a party at Oberon in Harvard Square - complete with trapeze artists, confetti, scorpion-s Save & Close haped bass guitars and splintered jawbones (donkey jawbones, that is). Since then [...]
October means we're happily knee-deep in baseball, surrounded by seasonal pumpkin ales, and, regrettably, wrist-deep in the slimy insides of jack-o-lanterns. Music has been my quiet oasis. I figure it's high time I stop futzing over my autumn mix and share it already. The fall mix is one of my favorites to make. In addition to being generally hyperaware of everything around me in life, especially subtexts and undercurrents, I notice an acute sharpening of my senses every time the seasons change. It's why I make you guys these seasonal mixes: as everything in the natural world [...]
En la música, cuando se echa un vistazo a los años ya depositados en el baúl del pasado, vemos bandas que definieron momentos específicos de la historia con un impacto tan contundente que nos cuesta creer que a la par de ellas alguien más hubiese hecho algo. Resulta hartamente [...]
Here are photos taken at the Ottawa Folk Festival on Sunday August 28th. Part I will be focused on the the day shows that happened. Playing at the festival were: The Riot Police Anders Drerup Pepper Rabbit Royal Wood [...]
The last couple of weeks has been a whirlwind of activity for me and my family. It was our first vacation out East as a family - stops in Boston and NYC, and our first visit not only to the great state of Rhode Island, but to the storied Newport Folk Festival. Staying in town at the Newport Harbor Hotel, right on the water, made for an ideal location. Especially since it's located right across the street from the Newport Blues Cafe, where Deer Tick & Friends entertained all weekend . On Saturday, we took [...]
There is something truly indelible about George Wein's Newport Folk Festival . You walk the grounds and you walk through history; my father walked these Newport streets in 1965 to hear Bob Dylan plug in (the venue was different, but the streets were the same). The main stage looks out from Fort Adams State Park at the Pell Bridge stretching over glistening Newport Harbor with its fleet of sailboats, kayaks, and yachts, perfection in the setting sun. There's a feeling of ultimate unity - ultimate folkness - between audience and artist, both sharing in the warm knowledge [...]
The following is reposted from October 2010: My first introduction to The David Wax Museum was at the inaugural Kitchen Session back in March. I still remember showing up on that rainy Spring night knowing literally nothing about the band and leaving later in the night, CDs in hand, a fan. A polite golf clap turned into raucous applause over the course of the night as David Wax, Suz Slezak, Jiro Kokubu and Jordan Wax played an energetic set of Mexican-infused [...]
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In an effort to have the best summer ever, pretty much all of us from The Wild Honey Pie will be piling into a car and going to one of the world's most important and notoriously awesome festivals - Newport Folk Festival . Given that the event is curated so flawlessly, the choices we will be forced to make during that time will be epically tough. To make your life (and ours) a bit easier, we've gone through the lineup and highlighted our favorites. The What Cheer? Brigade [...]
Delta Spirit - The Flood Gillian Welch - The Way It Goes Justin Townes Earle - Black Eyed Suzy Brown Bird - Bottom Of The Bottle Trampled By Turtles - Wait So Long The Decemberists - Of Angels And Angels David Wax Museum - That's Not True River City Extension - Today, I Feel Like I'm Evolving M. Ward (featuring Zooey Deschanel - Rave On Elvis Costello (featuring Emmylou Harris) - Scarlet Tide Freelance Whales - The Great Estates The Head And The Heart - Rivers And Roads
A couple of good posts came out over the past few days from personal favourites, Music For Ants and I am Fuel, You Are Friends . Here are some of the standouts for me from both of those playlists. Make sure to pop over to each of their sites to check out the rest of the songs...there are a lot more gems. Free mp3: The Decemberists - Down By The Water Free mp3: Typhoon - Summer Home [...]
Another long weekend wasted away. I'm fishing around for a glimmer of accomplishment out of these past 3 days so it looks like I'll be devoting the rest of the afternoon to tidying the house and watching Californication. Here's what's on the playlist. Free mp3: Caveman - Old Friend Free mp3: David Wax Museum - Born With a Broken Heart Free mp3: Beach House - Used To Be [...]
This morning, my car sits packed to its dear 2001 Sentra gills. I am heading off into the southwestern climes of the United States, across six states with my seven year-old, a stack of good music and audiobooks, and a hankering for the open road. We'll hit Mesa Verde, see family in Phoenix, sun in San Diego, attend a Dodgers-Padres game (so I can teach him to properly boo LA), camp along the north rim of the Grand Canyon, and stay in various KOA cabins along the way. We plan on s'mores and stargazing, and maybe finding a swimming hole [...]
I got involved with some training for my new job and missed blogging the rest of the week. So here is a quick catch up of the last three albums. If you've been reading The Late Greats they shouldn't be a surprise. Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside ∞ I Swear David Wax Museum ∞ Born With A Broken Heart [...]
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