It's been a busy last few months for Ben Gibbard . First there was that Jay Farrar collaboration on the Jack Kerouac soundtrack . And, of course, there's the Death Cab for Cutie song on that soundtrack for the shiny vampire movie. Plus, the man got married! Yet despite all this, Mr. Zooey Deschanel has once again made time found time to join an already all-star line-up for a killer new album. And this time it's not just for our entertainment. According to Spinner.com , Gibbard [...]
Contrast Podcast recently asked music bloggers like myself to submit our favorite 50 songs of the year for their annual "Festive 503 podcast. Our selections were then compiled into a shortlist and now we've been asked to recruit votes to narrow it down. For the curious, I've bolded the 10 songs I personally voted for. I really, really want "Nice Very Nice" by Kurt Vonnegut & Dave Soldier (from their album Ice-9 Ballads ) to make the final list. Not only because it's my favorite song of the year, from my favorite album of the year, [...]
Matter of Time mp3 The Leisure Society The Sleeper ..... ..... buy it Well, now this is getting interesting... Over at the Contrast Podcast , Tim's solicited everyone for their favorite 50 songs of 2009, remember? From all the responses he's compiled the top 155. I'm very impressed with the list! If you didn't submit your faves yet, you've still got a chance to get in the game at this point! Help us out, eh? (I"ve highlighted my top 10 in blue) Here's [...]
David Bazan - Please Baby Please (acoustic live) From David's latest album, Curse Your Branches , out now
COTV Tags: David Bazan , Please Baby Please
Animal Collective - My Girls Clean - In The Dream life You Need A Rubber Soul Wild Beasts - All the Kings Men Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks Faunts - Hurts Me All The Time Field Music – Measure [...]
When Pedro the Lion broke up a couple years ago, I figured it was more a function of just general disagreements between band members rather than something larger. See, it turns out that David Bazan felt like he couldn't continue the band anymore as he was experiencing a crisis of faith. He had also started drinking quite a bit, and given the very Christian nature of Pedro the Lion, it became necessary for him to take some time away from music in general. Bazan has since gotten his alcohol abuse under control, and now calling himself an agnostic, recorded an [...]
Modified Arts , an all-ages venue in downtown Phoenix that has been a staple of the local music scene and a vital venue for touring indie bands for nearly 11 years, will change direction and transform into a space focused mostly on art. (Read more here and here .) As such, I am collecting thoughts and memories from the musicians who played there and the fans who attended its many shows. This is less an obituary and more a celebration of a less-than-perfect but charming venue that, as we know it now, will [...]
The David Bazan Band ::: Photo by Josh Lovseth [In August, Abbey of Sound on the Sound sat with David Bazan for four hours for a feature story on Bazan and his new album 'Curse Your Branches' for Sound Magazine's final issue. Because four hours worth of interview cannot be contained in a 2,000 word feature, [...]
Another week, another Merucry music section to read while you dress your child like a hideous mutant . Correction: an adorable hideous mutant. David Bazan and Jesus used to be so close that they'd carve "DB + JC = 4EVAH" into the trunks of trees. But those days are no more. Bazan's wonderful Curse Your Branches recording chronicles his fall from faith. Does that mean he's a free agent? You hear that Jews? He could be ours! LISTEN: David Bazan - "When We Fell" [...]
The former Pedro the Lion frontman's fall from grace begets one hell of a solo debut. [BLANK SLATE] David Bazan doesn't know what to tell you about God. After nine Pedro the Lion releases, a decade as indie rock's scholastic defender of Christianity, and hosting theological QA sessions at every show—followed by a very public loss of faith, a couple years of blackout binge drinking and an album that buries, mourns and rages at everything he believed—Bazan has run out of answers. "It's like losing a lifelong imaginary companion," the [...]
This very Saturday (Nov 7th) @ Neumos David Bazan and his band will be playing songs from his new Album "Curse your Branches" It' his first full-length he's released under his name. On it Bazan describes his recent struggles with faith and addiction in language that makes it clear how far he's traveled since dissolving Pedro the Lion in 2005. If ever there was a spokesman for those suffering from the God-sick blues, David Bazan is it. Since the demise of Pedro the Lion, Bazan has been touring as just a man and a guitar, but for this record he [...]
You might know David Bazan as the bearded (former) Christian solider behind Pedro the Lion. Perhaps you know David Bazan as the man responsible for Curse Your Branches , arguably the best record of 2009 not named Bitte Orca . Or maybe you think Bazan was the man behind that song, "Like a Pimp," but you are wrong, that was David Banner . (I could stare at the photo all day long and it will never cease to amaze me.) Anyway, Branches is Bazan's breakup album with God-if you think [...]
Frank Schweikhardt is one of the many Bloomington artists I'm excited about. His debut full-length, Life But No More , is coming out on November 17th on Bloomington's Crossroads of America Records , and it's one of those albums that you feel intimately attached to after a few listens. Frank recorded the album with several seasoned Bloomington artists: Mike Adams ( husband&wife ), Tim Felton (husband&wife), and Zac Canale ( Morrow ). You'll find him on sporadic tours when he [...]
Singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston talks to the Scotsman . Clash Music interviews Dizzee Rascal . PopMatters interviews John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats . The A.V. Club has launched a monthly electronic music column by Michaelangelo Matos, called "Beat Connection." On sale at Amazon MP3: [...]
Vol. 1 Brooklyn interviews Jami Attenberg and myself about our new reading series, Largehearted Lit, which premieres this Sunday, November 8th, at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn with Lev Grossman and Libba Bray . Singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston talks to the Scotsman . Clash Music interviews Dizzee Rascal . The Associated Press reviews Michael Chabon's latest essay collection, [...]
Looking for something to do on Thursday night? Well, you can check out David Bazan (aka Pedro the Lion) and Say Hi, both Barsuk Records artists, at The Media Club (695 Cambie Street at Georgia ) Thursday, 5 November 2009 Doors at 8pm :: $14 advance +s/c :: Advance tickets on sale now at: Red Cat Records , Zulu Records , All Ticketmaster Locations Genre: ALTERNATIVE FOLK ROCK About David Bazan Listen - Bless [...]
REVIEW BY IAN HRABE I distinctly remember seeing Pedro the Lion CDs at the Christian bookstore in Olathe when I was a kid. My grandma used to take us there. I thought it was a cool band name, tho... Continue reading "Concert Review: David Bazan's Beard Rock" >
Chances are you haven't heard o f Koji . I hadn't heard of Koji until I bumped into two gentlemen at Kevin Devine's Metro gig on the 22nd who I got to chatting with. Ends up they were pals of this Koji fellow and they encouraged me to hit up Koji's house show at Summer Camp if I didn't have anything going on on the 24th. I told them I didn't and after hearing their description of Koji (A Hawaiian gentlemen with a huge fu manchu who plays the most unexpectedly [...]
Familiar names abound on stages this week, including Dirty Projectors, Dinosaur Jr., Langhorne Slim, The Mother Hips, David Bazan, Horse Feathers, and more. Plus, new releases on the way from Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, Pinback side project Systems Officer, a collaboration from Magnolia Electric Co.'s Jason Molina and Centro-Matic's Will Johnson, and the 20th anniversary deluxe reissue of Nirvana's Bleach. Whew! Questions? Comments? Requests? We're here all night, on Twitter (opbmusic) and at opbmusic@opb.org.
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Bobby B's Top 50 Albums Of The Decade (#25-21)
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
