Being a consumer of the blogosphere myself, I have an abundance of single songs from bands – without any memory of where I got it, or what the band is about. This makes for some hidden gems while I’m skimming through my collection; songs I’ve owned for an unknown amount ...

This was a weekend of long-overdue fresh starts and spring cleaning: Time to retire old Jack, I'd say. And (!!) yesterday afternoon I sat in a coffee shop with a local illustrator/designer and discussed my concepts to redesign this site. He's making me a nifty new custom header image, and I think I am going to move Fuel/Friends over from Blogger to Wordpress. I would welcome any suggestions you may have for redesign, or help with the conversion process if you're a web-type because I am in the slow class when it [...]
Free Shows: (stillt he most unbeatable price on Earth!!!) Wednesday November 7th - Grizzly Bear @ Virgin Mega Store Union Square 6:30pm Grizzly Bear - "Alligator (Choir Version)" Monday November 12th - She Keeps Bees @ Knitting Factory She Keeps Bees - "Revival" Saturday November 10th - Rahim @ Sound Fix Records 8pm Rahim - "Forever Love" Thursday November 15th [...]
Battleship : "Song for Lucy Stone" [mp3] @myspace | other music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Countless Others : several tracks [mp3] @myspace | other music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Honeydogs : 2007-04-06, Chicago [mp3,ogg,flac] "Devil's Advocate" [mp3] @myspace | other music blog posts: @lhb [...]

Aside from being friends of mine, the Walkup have been one one of my favorite local acts for some time now, showing a lot of promise over the past year and a half or so that i have been following them and checking them out live. so imagine my excitement when frontman Alex brandished their long awaited full length album while we were down at SXSW and placed it in my free hand (that one that wasn't holding a glass of spardka most likely). Their newly updated sound is fresh and full of great hooks [...]