5 shows in 6 days. So it's not technically a week straight of concerts but anybody that goes to lots of shows consecutively knows it can be draining and exhausting...and all you're doing is listening to music. So that's what I'll be doing. I figured I should highlight some of the music that I'm going to see in Denver this upcoming week. I might also be bragging a little bit about all the bands I get to see. Tonight is Horse Feathers, a great folk band from Portland. Here's their song Belly of June . [...]
Celebrities are used to having things like sandwiches, streets or drinking games named in their honor, but there have only been a chosen few that have had a spider named for them. Today news surfaced that a new genus of the velvet spider has recently been named Loureedia, "in recognition of the fact that this velvet spider lives underground," in honor of the Velvet Underground front man Lou Reed. The spider, which is described as having a "dark and shiny" appearance and is known to live in Africa, Asia, Europe and Brazil. Reed joins both Frank Zappa and [...]
Last week, May 16th, was my one-year anniversary of my move to Seattle. I wanted to write about what my year here has been like (magical, hard, beautiful, terrifying), and I knew I couldn't tell my whole story like the narcissist in me wants to do- so I am going to focus on a wonderful [...]
First off...a big happy birthday to my Mom. Days off are fun. Here was the playlist for my time away from work this week. It was good. Free mp3: Heartless Bastards - Only For You [...]
Seattle folk-pop ensemble The Head and the Heart may be headlining three consecutive shows at The Fillmore next week, but it has not wandered too far away from its street busking, house party origins. Don't count them out as the entertainment at a pizza parlor, drummer Tyler Williams said during a recent chat from his native Virginia. Even after they were well established in Seattle, the six-piece still played unusual performing spaces, such as a local pizzeria or a high school classroom in Kansas. "We still enjoy doing those kind [...]
More new tracks from Jhameel ? This guy never lets up! The first time I heard Jhameel I fell in love; control, intensity, skill that is reigned in rather than boasted gave me an overwhelming urge to share his music with every single person I came across regardless of their choice genre. When we first introduced you to what is still my favorite track of his, " Shut Up ," he had 83 followers on Facebook... as I'm typing this he has 6,681. I realize that is [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Of Monsters and Men, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Head and The Heart Song: Bodies of Water - Like A Stranger [download here ] [...]
When you head into the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco on May 18 to hear Milo Greene, snap a rocking shot of the band for Instagram and/or Twitter, and you might see your work on their blog!
Seattle singer/songwriter Bryan John Appleby has more to offer than the usual acoustic folk.
Ten days shy of the one-year mark from the Saturday morning in March 2011 when we recorded our very first fledgling chapel session ever, my friends in The Head and the Heart made a special trip south to meet me at my house one Friday so we could head into the chapel again. I'd left my door unlocked for them, and walked in to them eating the leftover Cuban black beans I'd mentioned in the fridge, with a Townes Van Zandt documentary on the television, and the Alabama Shakes advance album doo-wopping [...]
Josiah Johnson of The Head and Heart tells The Owl Mag what they're working on now and what it's like to live in Seattle.
You see, I was only supposed to be here for a week, five shows to be exact, but somewhere around Louisville (show number three), I realized if I didn't do everything I could to stay for the whole tour, I'd regret it for the rest of my life. I'd never been on tour before, (unless [...]
The Pacific Northwest has a long and awesome music history that still continues to churn out incredibly talented musicians.
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I have a demanding day job that has me flying around the country regularly. Conversations with strangers at airport bars or on flights lead to the "what do you do for a living?" question, usually uttered within 5 minutes of meeting someone. 20% of the time the conversation lasts long enough for me to mention that I moonlight as a music blogger. The general reaction is "Oh, like a music critic?" My typical response back is "No, more like a music evangelist." Unlike critics, we operate under the "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say [...]
As usual with big fests, the headliners are disappointing. But who cares? The undercard is always where the action is. Here's who's playing, with MP3s where I could find them. See you in Chicago, August 3-5, 2012. Afghan Whigs Alabama Shakes (MP3: I Found You ) Aloe Blacc (MP3: You Make Me Smile ) Amadou & Mariam Ambassadors (Soundcloud: Unconsolable ) Anamanaguchi Animal Kingdom (MP3: Tin Man via Magnet ) At The Drive-In Avicii Band of Skulls (MP3: Sweet [...]
Who: The Head and the Heart in the Mojave Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Amiable. Memorable Because: They're so amiable. What I'd Tell My Friends Who Were at tUnE-yArDs: You got something against amiable? — K.B. (Photo by Bronson)
Ever heard of Dover, Delaware? You know, the capital city of that first U.S. state, located just under Pennsylvania and New Jersey and cut off from Maryland by one clean eastern border...The one with Dover International Speedway, Silver Lake, a quaint, down-home feel... And Firefly Music Festival ? In late July of this year (the 20-22, to be exact), more than 30 of the most prominent indie/alternative artists of today will be meeting up in Dover, Delaware, to play the young music festival known as Firefly. Firefly is akin to most [...]
[Blog Tapes] - Coachella from metrojolt on 8tracks . About a year ago, some of us blogger folk decided to band together for a series of Monday Mixer playlists. We've proudly joined forces again to restart the series - bigger and better than ever before. Blog Tapes , the new mixtape collective featuring our favorite music blogs on the Internet today, kicks off today with its very first mixtape: 8 hand-picked songs from artists that are all playing at this year's Coachella festival. Give it a listen above! [...]
[Blog Tapes] - Coachella We've joined up with a whole host of our favourite music blogs around the world to start putting together a regular mixtape series - Blog Tapes . With Coachella festival starting this weekend in the US, for this first mixtape we've all picked one of our favourite acts playing this year and rolled it all together into a mixtape on 8tracks which you can play above. DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt It's rare in music for something to completely transcend the strict [...]
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