I only met Mark Mulcahy once. It was on the night that Mark and Ken played the North Star with The Mountain Goats who were on tour with Bowerbirds. This is the first night that I was lucky enough to have met my friend Ken Maiuri (an amazing musician and person, bar none , as they say). This was also the night that I received the most amazing hug in the World from John Darnielle, who come to think of it: should go down in history as a man with a Gift of Hug. It was a magical night. [...]

A falta de pocas semanas para que acabe 2009, no tengo problema en destacar a Epic Handshakes and a Bear Hug , el primer álbum de Wild Honey (el nombre del grupo, título de un álbum de The Beach Boys, es toda una declaración de principios) como uno de los mejores discos del año. Guillermo Farré realiza un trabajo de pop delicado, elegante y cuidado al detalle. Grabado en su casa y mezclado en Nashville con Brad Jones (Josh Rouse, The Shazam), el disco está disponible en su web desde hace algunas semanas en formato [...]

Josh Rouse le dedico una preciosa canción a Altea, Quiet Town , y ahora le toca el turno a Valencia . Cantando en castellano y con playas y paella incluidas. Es el tema principal de su nuevo Ep, sólo en versión digital y adelanto de El Turista , su próximo álbum que se publicará en Febrero de 2010. * Josh Rouse-Valencia (vía Vanity Fair)

Three weeks ago I posted a list of my 50 favorite albums of the past decade. You can catch up with that here , here , here , here , and here , if you'd like. While drafting the list I found that I rediscovered plenty of albums that were and are still worthy of more attention, even though they ultimately weren't included on the finished product. It was extremely difficult to cut many of them, especially those made by lesser-known artists. So starting last week, continuing today, and for the next 2 Mondays I'll [...]

Llega el LP debut de Wild Honey, el proyecto de Guillermo Farré. Grabado hace un año en su piso de Madrid y mezclado en Nashville de la mano de Brad Jones (Ron Sexsmith, Josh Rouse), 'Epic Handshakes and a Bear Hug' es el do-it-yourself elevado a su máxima expresión. El niño bonito resultado de muchos meses de trabajo sale al mercado, sin el apoyo de ninguna distribuidora, por venta directa desde su web. La edición física del LP incluye también su versión en CD. Un impecable diseño realizado por Pablo Serret (Grande Graphix) que consigue fusionar lo tradicional con lo [...]

I was about to say that I don't even remember anything about 2003, but I think I blocked it out. My one image of that year is breaking the phone in absolute frustration and anxiety. So dramatique. But about the music, 2003 was a great year: I was passionately obsessed with every song below, all of them. More than any other year in the 00s. The top three are, by the way, truly the top three songs. XO's Favorite Songs of 2003 Turin Brakes [...]
Josh Rouse has a new album coming out called El Turista, out February 16. Check out this new tune via Vanity Fair. Right now, he's got a 4-song EP out now with this song on it...Valencia - Josh Rouse

(photo) Just because the hype of Halloween simmered down doesn't mean TBT* does the same. And to prove that I'm back with 36 tracks to keep you preoccupied and your ears buzzing for some mo'! Enjoy the playlist. *GOT THE LINKS FIXED! :: The Big Pink - Crystal Visions :: Groove Armada - I Won't Kneel (Bloody Beetroots Remix) [...]
Tennessee-by-way-of-Philadelph ia singer-songwriter Matthew Ryan has very quietly built up quite a prolific back catalog since the blue collar hard-folk of 1997's Mayday . Since then he's slipped out stark, stripped-down records, like 2001's underrated Concussion , as well as a few that dip their toes into more ethereal, modern sounds, such as 2003's Regret Over The Wires and 2007's From A Late Night High Rise . Though his gruff vocals have always seemed, to me, tailor-made for hard driving folk songs about heartache and hangovers he's never been one to rely on that [...]

Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors are playing a show up in NYC next week ( Monday Nov 9th) to be exact. Drew and his wife Ellie create wonderfully crafted songs. It is basically what I think Pete Yorn was wishing that Scarlett Johansson would've done with him but alas they are not all a love connection. That being said I know that Drew always puts on a good show so I encourage all my NYC readers to go out and support live music! Tell them I sent you and you will probably be recieved with open arms. [...]

A wonderful cascade of covers from a friend has turned my thoughts to covers of punk music this week. As Katie noted in her send-along, much of which appear below, "the thread that runs from folk to punk seems such a vibrant and easily spotted one to pull at", and that sounds just about right; I'd even go so far as to suggest that, like folk in the generation before it, Punk both served and sprung from the hearts of a discontented youth counterculture, and - as I noted about Rap rather tongue-in-cheek last year - [...]

a few covers that have been rolling around the web. Weezer - Please Let Me Get What I Want (Smiths cover) Emmy the Great - Where is My Mind (Pixies cover) Taken by Trees - My Boys (Animal Collective cover) Sia - Under the Milky Way (The Church cover) Banjo or Freakout - All I Need (Radiohead cover) Serena Ryder & [...]
New Recordings 28/10/2009 David Ford - Rescue Rooms Nottingham 20/10/2009 AA Bondy - Academy 3 Manchester 17/10/2009 Richard Hawley - Philharmonic Hall Liverpool 11/10/2009 Richard Hawley - Albert Hall Nottingham 24/09/2009 Otis Gibbs - The Maze Nottingham 24/09/2009 Chuck Prophet - The Maze Nottingham 16/09/2009 Richmond Fontaine - Academy 3 Manchester 16/09/2009 Al James - Academy 3 Manchester 13/09/2009 Josh Ritter - Bridgewater Hall Manchester 12/09/2009 Ray Lamontagne - City Hall Sheffield 10/09/2009 Okkervil River - The Rescue Rooms Nottingham 07/09/2009 Josh Ritter - Brudenell Social Club Leeds 06/09/2009 The Low Anthem - The Deaf Institute Manchester 04/09/2009 [...]

[photographie de Jeanette Beckman ] Les playlisters se sont mis sur leur 31 (octobre) pour cette 22ème playlist de play-list. Nous espérons que vous en ferez autant pour aller fouiller à l'intérieur : les filles en robe de soirée, les garçons en costume. Attention, la direction se réserve le droit d'entrée ! Musique : [...]
Every month I like to put together a collection of songs, a Monthly Mix, that I currently dig and or have caught my attention in one way or another. Unfortunately the whole Muxtape thing went downhill after a few months and then someone wasn't having the idea of me posting a zip file of my mix, so now the end result is hoping that you take the time to search out these songs and listen to them in this particular order. Thanks and enjoy. October Mix [...]
"Valencia" is the first single from the forthcoming album, El Turista , from singer-songwriter Josh Rouse , set for a February 16th release date. Just makes you want to shake your hips now, doesn't it? Valencia by Josh Rouse from El Turista EOI favorite, Eric Sarmiento has been working hard in the studio and will be releasing a series of singles in pairs on the Alchemist Records label, eventually amounting to [...]

If I had to pick between Josh Rouse and Josh Ritter, the latter would get the vote. But the former's latest offering pleases me with its Brazilian stylings. Rouse has a new album called El Turista coming out soon. Listen: Josh Rouse ∞ Valencia (via Vanity Fair )

SIDE A 1. Joshua Radin - Sesame Street (Joe Raposo Cover) 2. Bat For Lashes - Kangaroo (Big Star Cover) 3. Magnolia Electric Co. - Lawyers, Guns And Money (Warren Zevon Cover) 4. Califone - No Expectations (Rolling Stones Cover) 5. Wilco - True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel Johnston Cover) 6. Matthew Ryan - Something In The Night (Bruce Springsteen Cover) 7. M. Ward - Green River (Creedence [...]
Here are the tracks we discussed on HearYa this past week: Dan Mangan - Road Regrets Dan Mangan - Robots Lissie - Little Lovin Lucero - The Devil and Maggie Chascarillo Lucero - Darken My Door (Live) The Whigs - In The Dark Josh Rouse - Magdalena