State Bird - Good Vibes From their EP, Holy Spirits , out now through the fabulous Record Machine . Listen to the rest of the EP here , then buy it for only 2 bucks. Related posts: Briefly, Because I'm Tired Brief Reminder Your Orchestral Live Album Round-Up
Via The Bay Bridged , here's Miles Kurosky in an impromptu reunion with the rest of Beulah : More videos and MP3's of the (highly recommended) session can be found here . Related posts: Best News I've Heard In A While Monday Afternoon Video Fun Random Video For Thursday
Darren Hanlon - The People Who Wave At Trains Related posts: Random Song For Thursday Random Song For Wednesday Darren Hanlon
Having enjoyed Carl's recent post about the commercialism of Record Store Day, I thought I'd share what I heard this morning on NPR while driving to work. Actually, since the segment is 10 minutes long and I only live 5 minutes from work, I didn't get to hear the whole thing until a few minutes ago. Gary Calamar and Phil Gallo are the authors of the new book, Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again and here they share some of their memories and discuss the [...]
Note from Tyge: Between starting up a part-time small business and flying to Nashville for a wedding, I've been remiss with my posts. With Carl's sabbatical apparently over, I hope mine is too. I think I have more Robyn Hitchcock CDs in my collection than any other artist. These range from The Soft Boys, Robyn with The Egyptians, his solo stuff, and of course his latest releases with The Venus 3. Despite The Venus 3's reputable line-up and guest musicians on the recently released Propellor Time , the CD [...]
From the album Sunshine And Other Misfortunes : We thoroughly enjoy The Candle Thieves , as evidenced by the fact that this is the third time we've posted something by them. The first two posts can be found here and here . More songs can be found at their Myspace page . Related posts: The Great Inbox Clearance Welcomes The Return Of The Candle Thieves The Great Inbox Clearance: The Candle [...]
[Because we are slowly - ever-so-slowly - working our way towards posting things here again, and because the time is right for it, and because I really enjoyed writing this one, here is a special Opening Acts Classic™ written prior to last year's Record Store Day. Enjoy.] I remember when Record Store Day was special. My sister would wake me up and say, "Carl, it's finally Record Store Day again. Let's go - I heard that Twin/Tone is offering a limited, split 73 featuring The Feelies and [...]
A band that knows how to reach my heart: Br'er - Irma (Magnetic Fields Cover) This song and many others can be found on a free compilation from Delicious Scopitone . Visit them here to download it. More songs by Br'er can be found at their Myspace page . Thanks to Darian at Edible Onion for sending this my way. If you want to listen to some more Magnetic Fields covers, then you [...]
From Suede's reunion show in Manchester on 21 March of this year. There's an old post somewhere in this site about how I've seen almost all of my favorite bands. This is one of those few favorites that I never ended up seeing. If they somehow keep this reunion going and make it anywhere near the States, I'm so fucking there. Related posts: Random Song For Thursday Random Song For Thursday Super-Late Random Song For Thursday [...]
Ed Harcourt - Something In My Eye Mr. Harcourt's new album, Lustre , will be out on 15 June. This is from an older album, and also my favorite song of his. Related posts: Random Song For Thursday Random Song For Thursday Random Song For Thursday
[We return from yet-another long break (sorry - we've all had other shit to do) with the second entry from our pal Ben's Slow Learner series. Read the first entry here . More of Ben's writing can be found at his blog, The Passing Buzzed .] Slint - Spiderland (1991) Brian MacMahan, David Pajo, Britt Walford, Todd Brashear in rock quarry First thing, this record is a [...]
A friend of mine posted The Smiths' video for "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" on her YouTube page on Monday. She accompanied that with a note: "It's Smiths weather out." It was a dreary, cloudy day, with the temperature hovering in the 40's throughout. I was not aware that this constituted Smiths weather - I would have called it Depeche Mode weather, but what do I know? Here are two of my absolute favorites doing their take on "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out". The Divine Comedy [...]
Josiah Wolf - Ohioho From his new album, Jet Lag . I didn't care too much for the album at first, but right around the fourth listen (and just as I was ready to give up on it), everything clicked. It's now one of my favorites from a year that's already overflowing with good music. Buy it here or here . Related posts: Jason's Random Song For Tuesday Random Song For Tuesday [...]
I'm going to see Miles Kurosky later tonight. As a massive Beulah fan, I'm pretty psyched for this one. Though it has taken more listens than expected, his new album is finally starting to grow on me. I can't wait to see how some of the more-overstuffed songs from the new album are interpreted in a live setting. Aw, who am I kidding - I'm just going in the hopes of hearing some old Beulah songs. In particular: Yeah, that's the stuff. Moving [...]
Today is Fragrance Day . *sniff* Paul Anka - Smells Like Teen Spirit If it was any other kind of day, I probably would have chose it instead, because there's just not a lot of songs about fragrances, smells, or odors. *sniff* I think I need to fire-up some of my Pine-Sol scented incense. It makes the room smell like somebody crapped a Christmas tree. Related posts: Your Weekend Holiday - Taking The Day Off [...]
Nothing could ruin my St. Pat's day except for finding out Alex Chilton has died. The former frontman for The Box Tops passed away this evening from an apparent heart attack. Alex Chilton - Singer Not The Song I saw Alex perform at Nashville's Exit/In many years ago. In addition to sounding great, he said to the crowd, "the management has asked that you don't throw your cigarettes in the urinals or toilets, as it makes them difficult to light." You can ask anyone [...]
A good part of me is Irish and even I agree that most traditional Irish music sucks. I can't however, pass this holiday up without plugging the foulest, most vile and sinister Irish band in Las Vegas . Darby O'Gill and the Little People - Got So Drunk I Crapped Myself Happy St. Pat's and here's hoping you don't wake up in the shite. Related posts: Some People Call It Shoegaze People Are Awful [...]
A couple months ago - after one of those nights at the bar where last call seemed to come too early - a friend of mine and I were invited to someone's house to continue our drinking. Upon arriving at this house, our host walked over to his laptop and chatted with us while trying to decide what music to play. This laptop was on the kitchen counter, opposite from where I was mixing a vodka and Sprite. With my drink satisfactorily mixed, I turned and leaned against the kitchen counter while he continued to scroll through [...]
I woke up on Saturday with this song inexplicably stuck in my head (as visualized in this equally-inexplicable video): Much later in the same day, I went to a show featuring a lovely local band called The Grayces (full disclosure: I consider all three of them to be friends). After their show, I headed off to my horrible, horrible overnight shift. As my tired ass drove home from work Sunday morning, I popped in their 3-song EP, which you can listen to and purchase here . By [...]
The Opening Acts
![[HD] 20 Suede - The 2 of Us (live at Manchester Ritz, Sun 21st March 2010)](http://cdn.elbo.ws/youtube/f0td_x5QrWg_130.jpg)
No Church In The Wild
Nas - Daughters
The Rains of Castamere by The National
CHROMATICS "THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME"
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
iamamiwhoami: kin - Teaser
Album Review: alt-J – An Awesome Wave
Azealia Banks – ’1991′ & ‘Van Vouge’
Big Boi & Theophilus London (feat. TRE LUCE) - 'She Said OK'
