The Honored Guests have made their new EP, Into Nostalgia , available for free download from Vinyl Records . http://www.thehonoredguests.co m/
It was a good one, wasn't it? Hope your last weekend of the summer is as great as the first. Cheers! Bishop Allen "That Summer" (from the EP May , 2006) ++Bishop Allen >> official >> myspace >> hype machine >> elbo.ws The Honored Guests "Summer [...]
American Idol is thankfully winding down its season with Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis battling it out for this year's top prize, the Dollyrots have a new video attempting to tap into the growing American Idol backlash. Check out their Idol spoof "Because I'm Awesome" over on YouTube . The Donnas have remade the one-hit-wonder classic "Safety Dance." But, apparently their love for the 80s isn't all about the music. The lasses rockin' cover of the song will be broadcast into all of our homes in a VW ad. The ad begins airing June 1st. But, [...]
Hailing from Chapel Hill, NC, The Honored Guests first formed back in 2003 and released their uniquely titled first album, Iawokeinacitysleep , in 2004. According to the information that I've found on the band, it made a huge splash on college radio all across the country. Since I haven't been a college student in quite some time (I'm currently a Graduate student, but that hardly qualifies me as a college student - no dorm parties or visiting college bars with a fake ID) I'll admit that I didn't hear it but being a guy who [...]
The pick this week comprises an eclectic mix of mailbag contributions and the best of the blogosphere buzz. First off it appears that British group The Crimea, in an attempt to garner support from the crowds across the Atlantic (after being dropped by Warner), have released their third full length album for free on their website. That's right sports fans their whole album for download for free right here. Just to sweeten the deal the zip file is about 30M and is one of the fastest download sites I have experienced in a while. [...]
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. - Muhammad Ali Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. - Richard [...]
This week's foursome come from some acts who've been knockin' on the QBiM door lately. The Honored Guests are from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and bring a sense of experimentation and adventure to a multi-sensory sound style that makes you want to stetch out your hand and run your fingers through their melodies. I don't think I've even begun to scratch the surface to The Honored Guests music yet--each listen brings with it something unexpected and new that wasn't there [...]
The Honored Guests is a pretty cool new band from Chapel Hill, NC, which seems to be an indie music breeding ground. They describe their music as "love for textured simplicity along with sensible experimentation." Check them out at their website and on MySpace . Download these songs from their 2006 album, Tastes Change: Say You Will Summer Snow Download audio file (02-Say-You-Will.mp3) Download audio file (04-Summer-Snow.mp3)
Simply rock. It's a really good feeling when a band's not struggling to create something "new, original, and never heard before". It's natural and good quality music. The Honored Guests are one of these bands. With the album "Tastes change", they have really made my otherwise tiresome saturday, a bit more relaxed. This is rock you can kick back with and just enjoy. All the right chords at the
This band is from Chapel Hill, NC, and according to their MySpace page, they've been influenced by the likes of The Flaming Lips, Blur, and doves. *Disclosure* I love all of those bands. Is it any surprise then that I was hooked within about 30 seconds of listening to "Baby We're So Lost" on their page? I don't think so. I popped over to their website and snagged this track, along with "Summer Snow" and "Sharpened Tooth", all three from their latest full length, "Tastes Change". According to their bio, their previous [...]
Chapel Hill, NC The Honored Guests just released Tastes Change on the Chapel Hill based label Breakfast Mascot . They are playing a few dates in October and November so make sure and check to see if they're going to be near you! "Summer Snow" [...]
It is a precarious dance that The Honored Guests are leading us into, as they are attempting to do two things which so many bands struggle to do independently: they aim to produce rollicking rock songs, yet they still want to create a tonal atmosphere that will affect the listener on more than just the surface.
Their aesthetic is somewhere between that of Doves and The Beta Band, their guitars sound mollasses-rich like more recent Walkmen and French Kicks efforts, and their album is littered with its fare share of Abbey Road-era George Harrison guitar solos. Chapel Hill, North Carolina's Honored Guests do not so much break new sonic ground [...]
I just realized that all but 3 or 4 pairs of my laundered undergarments are at my parents' home an hour away. Shall I ... A. spend $1 to wash 3 or 4 pairs of panties, or B. just go buy a package of cheap ugly panties ? C. or just not wear any panties? I'm leaning toward option B. I need some more cheap ugly panties anyhow. Here are a couple of songs I'd like to dedicate to my estranged
Something about the Honored Guests ' music (previously mentioned here ) seems to render reviewers incoherent: Soon you find yourself reaching out to him, as the milk chocolatey riffs swell and wash over you, enveloping your mind and just short of drowning you in their steady, hypnotic pulse, like a musical undertow. Thus, an often pretty album's intriguing musicianship is undermined by the grip of its pervasive groove. ( Independent review) Then again, when drummer Andrew Kinghorn says , "I think we sound like if Tom [...]
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