Cataldo has a new album out and it's streaming for free on his website. I've had a religious conversion to the "music reviews are really pointless" school of thought so I'm not going to review it other than to say IT'S SOOOOO GOOD. GO RIGHT NOW AND LISTEN TO IT, FOOL. Also, I may or [...]
You may remember the album review I wrote about Son Lux's debut album a few months back. Well, as soon as I heard that album I knew it would be perfect for a project I was doing for my 20th Century Music class about the intersection of classical and modern independent music. I [...]
This is kind of old news, but Andrew Bird has been writing posts along with some other singer-songwritery type people for a New York Times blog called Measure for Measure which is about the process of songwriting. His posts are as eloquent as you would expect them to be and offer fascinating insight into his [...]
Bumbershoot sent out an email with a partial lineup this morning: Beck, Stone Temple Pilots, Lucinda Williams, Neko Case, Ingrid Michaelson, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Jakob Dylan, !!!, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Saul Williams, Joe Bonamassa, M. Ward, The Walkmen, Asylum St. Spankers, Dan Deacon, MIDIval PunditZ, Blitzen Trapper, Bedouin Soundclash, Tim Finn, Dale Watson, John Vanderslice, [...]
KUPS is involved in a deal with the Volcano (the Tacoma version of The Stranger, or The Source* if you live in Bend) in which one of our music directors writes an album review each week in exchange for free advertising. This week was my first time writing one and I had [...]
I realized yesterday that today is the 1st brithday of this here blog, which is insane, I can't believe I've been doing this for an entire year. In celebration I made a little mix for you all. In order to make this mix I searched the words "one" and "birthday" in my [...]
Mobius band has made a valentine's day love songs cover EP which they are giving away as a free download here. It was recorded at a band member's house in Massachusettes and features songs originally performed by The National, Bob Dylan, and Daft Punk among others. I'm not a huge fan of [...]
I can't tell you how excited I was to see this album sitting on the shelf last week at the station after a thoroughly frustrating day full of broken computers and broken dreams of seeing Barrack Obama. I've been waiting (not so) patiently for this album since I got Headlights' first album Kill [...]
Cataldo has posted 4 songs from his new album up on his myspace. I had heard all of these songs live and thought they were fabulous, but I was not prepared for how truly amazing the recorded versions are. There is piano! And cello! And trumpet! And back-up singers! [...]
Oh heck yes. So this is why they weren't letting people record shows on the Colin Meloy sings Shirley Collins tour. It comes out on Kill Rock Stars on April 8th and includes Decemberists, Tarkio, covers, witty banter, and two unreleased songs. I saw the Portland show of that tour, it was the second [...]
This song is thought to have been recorded with the Place Pigalle demos which went on to become Figure 8. I love how every few months we get a song or two of the rumored hundreds of his unreleased songs. It keeps his music fresh and every time something new comes out I get a [...]
Edit: MediaMax decided to mysteriously delete every single one of my files. Awesome. So none of the links in here were working, but I uploaded everything else to another, hopefully less crappy service so they should work now. Anything previous to this post won't because it's over 2 months old anyway and [...]
Seriously you guys, you need to go see Final Fantasy live. He's definitely one of the most awe-inspiring live performers I've seen. He uses a looping pedal like Andrew Bird, but where Andrew Bird has Martin Dosh to take care of a lot of the looping work for him Owen Pallet has...himself. At one [...]
I'm sure you've heard about it and have probably listened to it 392,304,294 times already and have read 40 other blogs about it, but I'm going to add my obligatory OH MY EFFING GOD NEW RADIOHEAD ALBUM!!!!1!!!!! post to the mix. Radiohead and I have a checkered past. And by "checkered past" I mean that I [...]
John Vanderslice? How had I not heard of him until I accidentally caught the last 2 songs of his set at Block Party? No matter how much time I spend searching for music there will always be that one really obvious person that I'm missing. In addition to being a fabulous musician, John Vanderslice is [...]
So, over the past week my visitor count has increased DRAMATICALLY (my "most visits in a day ever" doubled on Monday) and it appears that the vast majority of people are finding me by searching for Peter Bjorn and John. That's cool, but someone please enlighten me: what search engine are you using? Because I'm pretty sure you're not going [...]
Here are a lot of my pictures from Bumbershoot. It was my first time using a digital camera (I know, I know, what can I say? I love my circa 1986 manual SLR), so they aren't fabulous, I also don't know how to compress them without making them all blurry. Maybe I'll get better? [...]
Oh man, this video is so adorable and so...Andrew Bird. It also involves stoichiometry, which I'd say is a first for a music video.
Oh man, this video is so adorable and so...Andrew Bird. It also involves stoichiometry, which I'd say is a first for a music video.
Commodities of the Abstract Sort
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Nas - Daughters
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Shinichi Osawa – Big Beach Mix 2012
