HEADS UP The Fold presents… a Benefit for Haiti featuring Pete Yorn Tim Kasher (Cursive) Craig Werden (Shudder to Think) + Special Guests Wednesday, February 10 Bootleg Theater Tickets & Info The event will be hosted by Nick Kroll ( this guy), David Wain and Nicholas Shumaker and more. Proceeds to benefit Happy Hearts , an organization that specializes in secondary response efforts. Photo of Tim Kasher [...]
Best Coast's Bobb Bruno & Bethany Cosentino Hello everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Far too many exceptional shows last week including last night's NO CANCER! Benefit show with No Age , Vivian Girls , Best Coast , Graham Forest , Darker My Love and more. I do believe Bethany from Best Coast 's performance as one of their most entertaining yet. [...]
Yay! One of the most awesomest songwriters you may or may not have heard of, Josh Ritter , has just announced his sixth album, So Runs the World Away , will be released on May 4th in the U.S. This will be his first since 2007's The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter , and it will also be yet another awesome album coming out in 2010. But I won't swoon too much this time. Here's a brand new song, "Change of Time," for your listening pleasure. And a short teaser video with a [...]
Old news, you guys: Sunny Day Real Estate played some shows a while back! I probably heard it was going down when the band announced it months ago, but I had never really been a fan of the band, so I didn't care too much. Now, I'm not going to say that this video you're about to watch converted me or anything, but instead solidified my growing adoration for the Seattle group. This particular performance is from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from late September 2009, and, excuse my French, but I quite like it. The band's not [...]
Young Sinclairs - "Tribe" (electronically ampli?ed pop-art) 1986 - "Undertow" (featuring members who have played with Bishop Allen, The Rosebuds, The Gutter Twins, Cursive, or Okkervil River) The Heligoats - "Fish Sticks" (delirious art craft and song wit by ex-Troubled Hubble member) King of Prussia - "Waitin' for Something" (country-western indie rock) Sideways Reign - "Oxygen" (part Citizen Cope [...]
1986 "Everybody Is Whatever I Think They Are" Giorgio Angelini and Cully Symington, collectively known as 1986 , are releasing " Everybody Is Whatever I Think They Are " on March 9th. 1. Fantastic Lion 2. Habits 3. Arrows 4. Undertow 5. Black Spring 6. Aunts Marching 7. Fictional Song About A Real Girl 8. Jesus (Is on the Phone) 9. Loud/Soft RIYL: Bishop Allen, The Rosebuds, The Gutter Twins, Cursive, Okkervil River
När jag som yngre herre först började lyssna på riktig musik, som inte var radiotrams á la NRJ - shit music only, då lät det lite som 1986 . Jag får alltså feelings. Gruppen utgörs av Giorgio Angelini och Cully Symington, två musiker som tidigare spelat och turnerat med Bishop Allen, The Rosebuds, The Gutter Twins, Cursive och Okkervil River. Deras kommande album, Everybody Is Whatever I Think They Are (9 mars), har kommit till mellan turnerandet och spelandet och är en skiva som de båda alltid velat göra, och det hörs rätt tydligt att influenser hämtats [...]
När jag som yngre herre först började lyssna på riktig musik, som inte var radiotrams á la NRJ - shit music only, då lät det lite som 1986 . Jag får alltså feelings. Gruppen utgörs av Giorgio Angelini och Cully Symington, två musiker som tidigare spelat och turnerat med Bishop Allen, The Rosebuds, The Gutter Twins, Cursive och Okkervil River. Deras kommande album...
Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn will perform at the Bootleg Theater on Feb. 10, with proceeds benefiting Happy Hearts' Haiti relief effort. The Happy Hearts Haiti Benefit also will feature Tim Kasher of Cursive, Craig Wedren and other special guests. The event...
I was not sure quite what to make of Peasant (Damien DeRose) when I was first sent a song of his last year, for whatever reason something was missing for me, and however much this site is about supporting new artists and music, liking what you hear has to be a key part of any endorsement. OK so you have guessed what happened next, but I will state it anyway, was I surprised and delighted when I received a copy of his forthcoming album! His record companies promo actually states "While the last album [...]
When people think of Winnipeg, thoughts undoubtedly drift to the Golden Boy, Louis Riel's home and frigid winters. Thanks to talented song writers like John K. Samson , we all have vivid mental images of a city most have never even stopped in; the music we love has made their stories our stories. We've all been on that bus or alone in that shitty apartment. We've all spent cold nights with broken hearts and broken dreams, trapped in The Gateway to the West. Undoubtedly, we've all hated or loved the Winnipeg Jets and muttered, "I Hate Winnipeg" with more [...]
It is not every day that you can find a show of this caliber at a venue the size of Neumo's. But, on February 20, 2010, Alkaline Trio and Cursive, two bands that regularly sell out the Showbox at the Market, will take to the stage at Neumos to rock our faces off. Fresh off of starting their own record label (Heart and Skull), a joint venture with Epitaph, Alkaline Trio sets out on this tour to support that release, This Addiction , which actually comes out three days after this show. Alkaline Trio started out on Asian Man [...]
Horse Feathers It was a modest and older crowd at the Bottom of the Hill one Wednesday night in San Francisco, all waiting patiently for a special evening with the always wonderful Horse Feathers . TV Mike And The Scarecrowes Combining wistful, storytelling lyrics with folksy, jangling chords, shimmering and virtuosic fingerpicking, and deliberate gestures, TV Mike & the Scarecrowes invariably recalled the glory of an amphetamine-strained 70s folk rock movement. [...]
So I was trolling along YouTube this morning, just filling my normal quota of adorable animals being tickled *, when I came across Sigur Rós playing "Gobbledigook" live. Don't ask how I ended up there, busybody. I have my reasons. I always knew that performances of "Gobbledigook" were super fun affairs, with a billion (give or take) people on stage banging drums and such, everyone smiling and just enjoying life, man. And this video transmits that so well. The whole five minutes is complete joy, from Jónsi's moving around the stage, [...]
Hey Ya'll. The SCOPE Radio Show on KRUI is back in action! This semester it's from 1-3 PM on 89.7 FM. You can stream it HERE . This semester I have 3 lovely people joining me! Zac, Emily, and Pete. Hope you enjoy! Here are the tunes from last week... Bulletproof - La Roux I Think Ur a Contra - Vampire Weekend Say Please - Monsters of Folk Prison on Route 41 - Iron & Wine In the Now - Cursive Bohemian Like You - [...]
[mp3] The Myrnabirds: "Numbers Don't Lie" When Saddle Creek signs we listen. Next up, The Mynabirds . While we've only heard the above song from Georgie James' singer Laura Burhenn's new solo record What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood (April 27th) , the press release has sufficiently whet our appetite with references to Nina Simone and Cat Power. Burhenn's album promises soulful horn arrangements, husky vocals, honest lyrics and quality songwriting (she enlisted the help of ace writer/producer Richard Swift). [...]
Photo Credit: Audrey Leon It's that time again, we've looked ahead and started filling in our calendars with all of the awesome upcoming shows headed to Chicago in the next few months. Being the good guys and gals that we are, we're sharing our favorites with you, all of which will surely be not-to-miss performances of artists from around the globe that includes an impressive line-up of local acts. Check out below what we think are the hot Winter/Early Spring concerts, local acts are BOLD for easy access, and let us know in the [...]
Another week, another video I've somehow never posted. This is getting ridiculous. I know how much you all live and breathe every word I say (type), you know? What's that? Shut up, you say? I'm not that important, you say? Well, ha! Tell that to my supportive mother ! A little while ago, The National (a favorite of mine) played a new song, tentatively titled "The Runaway," on Q TV. For any fans of the band, this is pretty much perfect. I was watching some live Okkervil River videos before I re-stumbled upon this gem, and as [...]
Friday 22/1/2010 Playlist Guillemots - Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand) Goldspot - Float On (Modest Mouse) Final Fantasy - This Modern Love (Bloc Party) Arctic Monkeys - You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse) Bat For Lashes - Use Somebody (Kings Of Leon) Florence & The Machine - Addicted To Love (Robert Palmer) Candy Cane - Boys Don't Cry (The Cure) Cat Power - Wild Is The Wind (Johnny Mathis) Bright Eyes - Papa Was A Rodeo (Magnetic Fields) Of Montreal - Jimmy (MIA) The Da Vinci's - Paper Planes (MIA) Boy Least Likely [...]
It's back. After a wedding, php hack to my WordPress install that lead to Google blacklisting my site(update your install, kids!) and Christmas I've got things sorted out and will post a few songs that have been going through my ears lately. The Big Pink - Dominos I listened to this on repeat for about a week in early December. Similar to how Passion Pit took a few months to get picked up by stations such as KROQ and played to oblivion I predict this track will be [...]
Yeasayer – Odd Blood (Review)
TOUR: The Tallest Man On Earth Announces U.S. Dates
New Releases V2.9
[mp3] Joanna Newsom - "Kingfisher"
Hot Chip: One Life Stand
