You know those bands that you know you're supposed to like? Those are always bad for me because I end up just assuming I will like them, and never actually listen to them. This is exactly the case with Clem Snide and Eef Barzelay's solo work for me. About a year and a half ago I finally bought Moment in the Sun and End of Love, and am better for doing so. Once I finally gave these a good listen I was shocked at the quality of music being made by these four fine fellows. There [...]
Volume one: Nashville, Tn. [mp3] David Mead - Nashville.mp3 David Mead is a local favorite but a national success. He releases his folky rock songs on the Nettwerk Collective. This particular song is an acoustic number featuring bits of instrumentation here and there. It is a lovely listen and proves to be a very fitting anthem for the city it name checks. [mp3] Imaginary Baseball League - From Arkansas, With Love.mp3 IBL were local favorites, until they [...]
Monday Morning comes in a few hours friends. Here are some songs to help you through your morning commute, walk across campus, or whatever it is you have to start doing again tommorow. [mp3] J ens Lekman - Maple Leaves.mp3 How anyone could listen to this song and not be hapy, is beyond me. The cleverness of the lyrics alone is enough to warrant a chuckle, but the delightfully strange toms, the chimes, the oohs, the strings. It's like the Flaming lips but really lo fi. "She [...]
It's been rainy and overcast in Nashville the past few days. These are the songs that have been in constant rotation in my car. I really love the sound of winshield wipers wiping rain away. I really like the visual aspect of it to, it's like your window on life is new every 4 seconds, it's a pretty cool thing to think about.... [mp3] Styrofoam & Ben Gibbard - Couches in Aleys.mp3 Gibbard's voice gets an interesting treatment, slightly modulated and tuned by the genius that is styrofoam. Everything blends [...]
Very Busy, no time to write, here are some great covers for you to enjoy though! [mp3] Andrew Bird - Oh, Sister (Bob Dylan).mp3 Lovely in every way, this is truly one of the better covers in the past few years. There is a delicate balance found here between keeping the song in tact, and making it his own, it works in every way. The violins are of course breath taking, because Andrew Bird is playing them, the guitar is present but not overbearing, and the harmonies are a thing of great [...]
(Photo Cred.) Hello friends, Do you know what I am doing today? Nothing. I am spending time with music, and making a Christmas list for my mother per her request. I don't know if you realize this, but Christmas is 71 days away. Seventy-one days is not long at all, so make your list and check it twice, and in the mean time go here for some Christmas cheer . On to buisness, here is what I have been listening to today. [...]
New Broken Social Scene video released today for Major Label Debut . The video is super cool and made entirely of BSS shot footage from the road, and even features a suprise sing-a-long at the end of a tune by one Mr. McCartney! The song is off the bands most recent and self-titled album released on Arts & Crafts . The version you hear in the video however, is an alternate mix (I believe it is simply called the fast drums mix) which appeared on "EP To be You and Me" a limtied edition EP, which was [...]
The Decemebrists. Beacon of hope to Olde English loving, sea fairing, overly literate indie rockers everywhere. Additionally, they are the proud owners of a great new album which came out one week ago today, entitled The Crane Wife . This being their first album on Capitol Records, the transition from small indie label Kill rock Stars to the Majors has been pretty seamless for Meloy and co. I'm not gonna talk your ear off about how good the album is because I know you have read about it in 176838 other blogs. (Not an [...]
I was just looking at the weather forecast, and saw that Thursday the high here in Nashville is around 50 with a low of 35, and the rest of the week was around the same! There is something about cold weather that I really love, gray skies, cold winds, they make certain music better, I don't know why but they do. All of these songs are songs that I had this experience with, that I either never liked all that much until I heard them on a cold gray day, or I never really [...]
David Bazan of Pedro the Lion and Headphones fame, and also the namesake of this blog, is releasing his fourth annual christmas 7'' on Suicide Squueze Records with Pre-orders begining today, and shipping on October 25! The single is Away in a Manger with a b-side of Oh Little Town of Bethlehem . There will only be 1000 copies pressed, and only 200 will be available online, so order yours soon if you want one! By the [...]
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Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
