By Rebekah Goode-Peoples My band was recently asked to play a show at the Drunken Unicorn with this band from Ohio, but we were already playing in Athens on the same night (this Saturday). I went ahead and checked out the band, The Lighthouse and the Whaler , and, as a big fan of Lost in the Trees and Fleet Foxes , their sound did some serious come-hither business with me. It batted its ridiculously long eyelashes, and I haven’t stopped listening since. [...]
By Rebekah Goode-People and Ryan Peoples Our best of half list wherein we reveal our musical crushes. The National - High Violet I know many of the music bloggers say The National isn’t cool anymore, but Matt Berninger’s sexy-as-hell vocals will never get old for me. I skip the last few tracks, like “Vanderlyle Crybaby [...]
By Rebekah Goode-Peoples Whenever I eat sweet and sour bean curd, I vacillate between wanting to drink Thai iced tea and, well, beer. I usually end up going for the sweet, creamy taste of a cool Thai iced tea. So, I guess it is no surprise that I find myself attracted to the pretty pop sound [...]
By Rebekah Goode-Peoples Murder By Death like their alcohol. Listening to Good Morning, Magpie, issued by Vagrant, is sort of like going out with the band on a Saturday night bender in the Old West. The first shot of the evening: a thirty-four second track called “Kentucky Bourbon.” Like its namesake, it goes down quick and smooth [...]
By Rebekah Goode-Peoples & Ryan Peoples The first track on Soulo’s third album, Sun Valley on Plug Research Records, starts out with intermittent studio chatter, the nuts, bolts and aggravations of recording music, the underbelly of the polished finished product. Gradually the melodic finished layer takes over, growing from chaos into song. And the song “Up [...]
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