Tuesday morning? Ugh. Let's be honest here: working sucks. There is not point in dredging that up every week. We all wish we didn't have to wor...
Gerade geistert es durch die befreundete Bloglandschaft ( HIER , HIER , HIER ) - die australische Gitarrenpop-/Chamberpop-Band The Lucksmiths veröffentlicht dieser Tage auf Matinée die 45 Songs umfassende Doppel-CD «Spring a leak» mit Bonustracks, B-Seiten und Unveröffentlichtem. Wer auf gepflegten Indiepop steht, kommt an dieser Musik nicht vorbei! Link zur Band-Website Link zur Bandseite bei Myspace MP3-Download The Lucksmiths «Once again» MP3-Download The Lucksmiths «Rushes of pure spring»
Wow. This is some fantastic news to get while you're trying to stay up two more hours to catch your flight to Austin. Indie-pop kings the Lucksmiths just announced information about their new album, and it looks to be a whopper. Spring a Leak is a two-disc, 45-song compilation of ...
As described in his blog yesterday, Jonas and I have recently been sending messages back and forth discussing music in general. One of the major conclusions has been that music IS oxygen, which I think would be the perfect tagline/phrase to headline the blog. So unless you've noticed it already the description at the top of the blog has changed! I originally went to the concert in Helsingborg last night, because I wanted to see DAYS playing live and I definitely wasn't [...]
Free Downloads : The Chapter In Your Life In San Francisco 09/21/2007 @ El Cid, Los Angeles, CA 09/02/2007 @ Red's Espresso, Santa Barbara, CA 09/23/2007 @ 12 Galaxies, San Francisco, CA 09/24/2007 @ Crocodile Café, Seattle, WA 09/25/2007 @ Holocene, Portland, OR 09/26/2007 @ Schubas, Chicago, IL 09/27/2007 @ TT The Bear's, Cambridge, MA 09/28/2007 @ Knitting Factory, New York, NY 09/29/2007 @ Europa, Brooklyn, NY 09/30/2007 @ DC9, Washington, DC 10/01/2007 @ Duke Coffeehouse, Durham, NC 10/02/2007 @ [...]
South San Gabriel (aka Centro-matic) - Proud Son Of Gaffney The Lucksmiths - Great Lengths 3 Doors Down - Duck & Run Ben Gibbard - Soul Meets Body (Piano Version) Silverstein - If You Could See Into My Soul Tori Amos - Turn The PAge (Cover Bob Seger) Coldplay & Michael Stipe - In The Sun (Cover Joseph Arthur/Live @Austin City Limits) Polaris - She Is Staggering
For awhile there I broke into an unintentional lack of musical updating fever. I was engulfed by the spreading collegiate plague, a disease that hit me with hoards of side effects; celebrating with friends, collecting syllabi, buying books, adding and dropping classes, reformatting my circadian rhythm, and taking attentive notes that will dwindle to childish doodling within weeks. They've found a cure, though. It's a process, like a slow release pill that works over time. It's the type of remedy that would give those with OCD an anxiety attack. It's starting to work for [...]
I'm sorry I haven't posted much lately. I went from being unemployed to being very employed and now it's almost fall. I want to clue you all in to my favorite band (that's still together – though Rockets and Bluelights, Boys Life, and Jawbreaker would be competition were they still together), the Lucksmiths, from Australia. Despite the domain of this blog, they aren't really punk, but they're fantastic. The Lucksmiths are forever overly concerned with the weather and always prone to puns. Here are two songs, as an introduction. "I prefer the twentieth century" conveys the sentiment [...]
My Singles Collection, vol. 13 There's a bit more info about the new Lucksmiths record, which is a compilation of non-album tracks that will fill the holes in your Lucksmiths collection. It contains no less than 45 songs and totally raids the vaults. It has everything including the kitchen sink on it, check out the track list over at their new Australian label, Lost and Lonesome . There are tracks from out of print 73 singles, excellent cover songs, some unreleased stuff, radio sessions, remixes...my god what [...]
Image: Threadless ( buy it ) The Shuffle has been on a roll with almost a weekly showing. For some reason I really like putting these together. The songs are always a lot of fun, and the kind of music I want to kick back and relax to over a lazy sunday morning. That of which is exactly what i'm doing as i've finally finished moving all this shit into the new apartment. I swear there is so much junk that I have no clue as to why it's still around. It [...]
If you look at the mp3s posted below, you'll see that the title of this blog was graciously taken from a Lucksmiths song. The Lucksmiths are my second favorite band of all time (second only to Deerhoof ). This is because they have released countless albums of wonderfully catchy pop tunes through the years, although I must say I'm not crazy about their last album (same with Deerhoof ! Interesting...). The album from which "Under The Rotunda" comes, A Good Kind Of Nervous , is one of my all-time favorite [...]
Photo credit: a nameless yeast One picture, two EP-length, Lambchop-inspired playlists. What is he trying to say? You decide which one you think fits best. "I'm a Moody Fucker" Obviously the f-word is what captures the eye initially. It reminded me of the excellent Moody Fucker song by Lambchop and the guy in the picture certainly looks a bit grumpy. This is the more pessimistic list that only looks at the message that he is trying to express. [...]
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On this day of chocolates, of roses, of hearts, there are a those among us that are rather...singular, myself included. Whether our status of "single" be fresh or stale, it can be accounted that Cupid missed a few, and with the blindness of that cherub in hand, it becomes a delightful thought to some of us that St. Valentine was beheaded for his "meddling." So here, on this Singles Awareness Day , we revel as swingles and celibate celebrate... Musicupid Mix (all songs are right click - save as & [...]
Spoilt! The Lucksmiths are a very happy bunch out of Melbourne Australia. Tuneful and charming, they have been kicking around for a decade and they have a very playful and wry sense of language. Plus also not inconsiderably twee! I found refuge in the kitchen Discussing post-war US literature With a girl whose upper arm read "fiction" Like it might have been typewritten I asked her its significance She said she sometimes took reminding What she wanted to be doing Whether reading it or writing I admitted [...]
hace un par de semanas (coindiciendo con la última vez que tuve un rato para escribir por aquí, glups), se desataba cierta discusión al hilo de una entrada de karpov en la que ponía a parir a los niñatillos americanos que lo llaman twee cuando quieren decir clones de pose sosa . pues bien, el mismo certamen que dio pie al comentario, "la corte real del twee" de skatterbrain , ha publicado ya sus resultados . nada discutibles hasta el número seis, por cierto, porque en el site está tender trap [...]
The Final Top Ten! The results are in! First of all, I just want to thank all of you that contributed. I never expected to have that many nominations/votes, it was just fantastic! So thanks! But enough of that, below is the Top Ten you've all been waiting to see. You all chose these bands, and thusly, according to you, this is the Royal Court Of Twee ! If you're unfamiliar with these bands, or wondering why they , out of [...]
First of all, let me just say that I am in love with my History of Jazz class. Today was the first day back in session for UK and I couldn't be happier with my classes. So until I can ready a proper post later this afternoon, here's one of ...
And just like that, it?s over. I?m still reeling really, my body displaced, my mind still making the necessary adjustments. It didn?t feel real until I looked out the window, down at the grid of lights gleaming like sequins. There was New York City taking rapid shape. Squiggles becoming snaking highways, gold patches growing into districts, the grandeur of buildings suddenly poking at heaven?s underbelly. A year after moving out West, I was back home again. Back among the crunch of bodies and traffic, industry and noise. Back in the city that I spent two decades seducing. I?d [...]
You might have noticed that for most of this semester on Wednesdays, I've been putting up a mix, whether it be on Guitar Hero , Facebook , Bagpipes , or Thanksgiving . The mix today isn't as much of a theme/event mix but it's just songs that I've been listening to and enjoying lately tied together by two songs from The Good Life's amazing album "Black Out". The mix starts with the electronica sounds of the song "Beaten Path" before inheriting some Eastern European flair with Devotchka and then breaking down to pure folky [...]
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