New York baseball Giants legend, Bobby Thomson, passed away this past Monday at the age of 86. You can read a nice obituary here . Thomson is much celebrated for having hit the most famous home run in baseball history, "the shot heard 'round the world" hit on October 3, 1951. It capped off a remarkable pennant race that featured a three game playoff to break a season ending tie between the Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. For someone born well after this event, this was always an abstract moment for me; that is until 1999. At that time, [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson would be proud of this little indie act from Brooklyn. The Shot Heard Round The World plays cute tunes that sound like everybody took some vicoden and just started jamming out for a bit. At times they seem to channel across the pond to take a little bit of the [...]
As a People : several tracks [mp3] "Henry James Rifle" [mp3] other As a People music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Astral : one track [mp3] other Astral music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Birds & Batteries : "Star Clusters" [mp3] from I'll Never Sleep Again other Birds & Batteries music [...]
Dirty Marmaduke Flute Squad : 2007-07-14, Baltimore [mp3,ogg,flac] "Don't Let Jesus Ruin Your Day" [mp3] other Dirty Marmaduke Flute Squad music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Ivy Mairi : several tracks [mp3 other Ivy Mairi music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Glass Candy : several tracks [mp3] other Glass Candy music blog posts: [...]
When history buffs and literary admirers hear the phrase "the shot heard 'round the world", most immediately identify with transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem, Concord Hymn. In Emerson's poem written in 1837, the last line in the first stanza echoed the now infamous quote that referred to the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. When one of Emerson's descendants discovered his legacy, he did not choose to write a poem, book, or create a documentary film. Instead, he created a band in tribute to his late descendant, naming it The Shot Heard 'Round the World . The band [...]
It got busy, so you get a half-assed post with one funny video, one funny song, and a few recent downloads/purchases that I've enjoyed. --- Shot Heard 'Round the World - "Dead on Night" : A noisy, poppy, fun little piece of music. Not sure how else to describe it, but I like it. Papercuts - "Take [...]
Emerson described the opening battle of the Revolutionary War as "the shot heard 'round the world", and a few centuries later a descendant would start an indie-pop band in Brooklyn and choose the phrase for their name. Really, their name is irony; the band is many good things, but revolutionary ain't one of 'em. Anti-revolutionary, maybe; this is pop that draws from can't-miss 60's influences:
The Dadada
eyes for indie
largehearted boy
Obscure Sound
Melodies rhapsodical and fair
Indiefolkforever
Azealia Banks - '1991' [Listen]
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