Dry Grass & Shadows - Alela Diane
Helping me ease my way back into enjoying rock music again have been Dead Confederate whose album 'Wrecking Ball' has been on the Moose playlist for many months now alongside the likes of Band of Horses and Arizona. They play in Portland this Wednesday Feb 18th at the Crystal Ballroom and tickets are only $9.47 [...]
When I Grow Up from Fever Ray on Vimeo.
I inadvertently set off quite a debate this week when I posted a few slides from a presentation that I often use when I speak at music conferences. I wrote a post entitled 'How Bands Can Make More Money By Not Putting a Price on a CD'. Of the 44 resulting comments the majority of [...]
Exclusive Video of Lykke Li Covering Kings of Leon Live in KNRK studio from Dave Allen on Vimeo. Lykke Li dropped by the KNRK studios for an on-air interview on the Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour. Show host Squid and me chatted with her for a while and then she played an acoustic version [...]
Black Lips This is another Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland's 94.7FM. You can hear me on air every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM and you can also stream the entire show and the show archives here. This episode features an interview with Lykke Li and two in-studio acoustic songs from her. And as [...]
Lykke Li dropped by the New Music Hour show last night for an interview with host Squid and myself. She was her usual charming self and played us two acoustic songs - a Kings of Leon cover and her own 'I'm Good, I'm Gone.' We chatted about her new dress, purchased for her appearance at [...]
Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies I recently posted about discovering a wonderful band called Arizona. I found them while attending PopAsheville in January and I wrote - "I was invited to give the keynote speech this year. I spent an hour reminding the musicians in attendance that they are no longer in the music business, [...]
The Thermals - Now We Can See
That's right. Lily Allen's new album 'It's Not Me, it's You' available today, February 10th only for $3.99. Here's the link.
Radiohead - 15 Stepby Alisvideo
I'm not sure the music industry knows what it's doing. In December I got a takedown notice from the Web Sheriff for posting an Andrew Bird MP3 and then today Amazon offers up the entire album as a MP3 download for $1.99 Noble Beast on Amazon Web Sheriff Says: December 18th, 2008 at 3:51 am e WEB SHERIFF Protecting [...]
Alela Diane has always struck me as a child of Civil War-era America who figuratively wanders across a modern world that is deaf to her ministrations. The Woman Who Fell To Earth. She sings not of what is but everything "that has been"; she's a messenger channeling the past. "There are things that I have seen [...]
Found on COED Magazine, Bands Who Twitter via LargeheartedBoy. [Although I'm not actually a band...]
fever Ray This is another Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland's 94.7FM. You can hear me on air every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM and you can also stream the entire show and the show archives here. And as always, if you like what you hear you can click on the Amazon banner [...]
Mykonos by Fleet Foxes on Vimeo.
All pics ©Nilina Mason-Campbell.
Click image to watch and listen. I'm fairly coherent in this one...