Still metabolizing the last bits of barley, hops and potato salad from Saturday's incredible Bay Brewed , I somehow managed to crawl to the Starry Plough the very next afternoon. It was an increasingly rare chance to hear Scott Miller. His band Game Theory helped get me through the 80s, plus they slept in my college living room in '89! Their 1982 debut album, Blaze of Glory (recorded in his bedroom in Sac) and 1985s Real Nighttime remain my favorites, but Big Shot Chronicles from 1986 does contain several brilliant tunes [...]

Virginia singer-songwriter Scott Miller is playing Schubas Tavern next Wednesday with Chicagoan Vince Cook , and we've got your tickets. Co-founder of The V-Roys , Miller blends folk and rock with powerful storytelling. After bouncing around local bars and clubs, Miller and the Commonwealth got the chance to spend a full year as the house band for WB's "Blue Collar TV". Now having founded F.A.Y. Recordings and having released a number of incredible records, including 2009's For Crying Out Loud , its clear that there [...]

Today's selection of free and legal - because: official - downloads... Robert Moran - Trinity Requiem: In Paradisum Mayer Hawthorne - A Long Time (Chromeo Remix) Scott Miller - Lo Siento Spanishburg WVa El-P - Drones Over BKLYN (Uncensored Mix) Torae - Do The Math (Produced By Large Professor) Lovely Hearts Club Presents: Team Genius - Love and Love Songs Matt & Kim, Soulja Boy and Andre W.K. - I'm A Goner Wale - The Eleven One Eleven Theory mixtape STS (ft. Yelawolf) – Hello Sunshine Deer Tick [...]

I am a Virginian. You know the joke about Virginians? "How many Virginians does it take to screw in a light bulb? Five: one to screw it in and four to sit around and talk about how good the old one was." That's pretty much straight on. So when people talk about the new craze over vinyl, it always makes me sad. Sad that in the previous years when EVERYBODY was going crazy about compact discs, the sound quality, the ease and the ever increasing sample rate of ones and [...]

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You probably know by now that we do things kind of different here. For example, we rarely ever post just one or two songs and call it a day. Instead, we regularly publish at least five to 10 songs per post, and often many more. Every month - and especially during the past year and [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
"Lo Siento, Spanishburg, WVa: A Story Of The Real Americana" is the first single from Scott Miller's forthcoming solo album, the follow-up to 20092s Crying Out Loud. As you probably gather from its title, the former V-Roys frontman wrote the song about Spanishburg, W.V. According to Miller, the town has "not yet (been) discovered by [...]

Joe Jonas joined Scott Mills and his BBC Radio 1 team to create and perform a brand new song using headlines from real life gossip magazines. Sounds like a good time, doesn't it? With lyrics such as, "I ... paint... with my boobies," and "I'm so fat I broke the toilet, six toilets actually," laughter ensues. I love how he looks into the camera, when singing [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Cult of Youth : "Lace Up Your Boots" [mp3] from Cult of Youth search for more Cult of Youth posts at Largehearted Boy The Echo-Friendly : [...]

Scott Miller , one of the founders of the seminal roots rock band The Vroys, will be performing at Ashland Coffee & Tea on Saturday, June 4 in a show sponsored by WNRN. Scott Miller - Appalachian Refugee

Had plans for a lengthier post this morning before being caught up in Sunday night's big news . Here's what I had written before the news broke... *** ...And let's start this post off with some live music from Brandi Carlile. Carlile's new CD, Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony comes out tomorrow, and is currently streaming over at Paste's website . Better hurry if you want to hear it... these things tend to go [...]

I was on vacation last week, and didn't really spend much time on writing. As a result... here are some notes to kick off the Spring. ***Spring means it's time for the Spring Fundraiser at WDVX . As a non-commercial, independent radio station, listener support is absolutely essential to everything we do. We get support from other avenues such as grants and underwriting, but without a little love from our fans, we don't stay on the air. Period. [...]
No real theme holding things together this week... just a few vids I've been enjoying. I posted on Rebecca Pronsky's upcoming album earlier this week. Here's a clip of her performing "Hard Times" from the album at The Loveless Cafe. Here's one from Over the Rhine's new album as performed for the good folks at Music Fog . Finally, here's another video from the Cayamo Cruise. This one features Scott Miller & Will Hoge doing a John Prine tune [...]

I mentioned Owen Temple's upcoming album Mountain Home earlier today in my ReviewShine feature. That album contains a song called "Old Sam" about the great Tennessee and Texas statesman Sam Houston ( wiki ). That song got me thinking about Scott Miller's "Say Ho" ...also about Sam Houston. I was listening to those songs and decided to do some research on Houston. As it turns out, today is his birthday. He was born on March 2, 1793. Owen Temple: Old Sam ( Buy Album [...]
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Some of you asked what happened to the S-25 Mix for this past Sunday. Sorry, folks, we've been so busy with the holidays that we had to skip the S-25 for this past week. Hopefully, this collection of new Christmas songs, most of which are original or covers of traditional Christmas songs, will make up [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

One of my favorite Christmas themes is homecoming. The concentrated call for togetherness, whether wistful or wanton, is tied tightly to the seasonal trend towards family and friends, the desire for closeness around hearth and heart, a ward against the chill and the commercialism. The intimacy that results - just us and the tree, or perhaps the crowd brought into the home - frames a set of a songs that celebrate being home, or express a longing for it, depending on the narrative stance. But in all cases, the motif [...]
It's that time of year again... time to make my year end "Best of" list. I should start rolling out my Top 20 list sometime over the coming week. Until then, you can go back and read up on my favorite releases of 2009 , and relive some of that music with the following YouTube clips... #1 - Noble Beasts by Andrew Bird #2 - One Foot in the Ether by Band of Heathens #3 - Tarpits [...]
Due to the holidays (and subsequent lack of new mp3s), we skipped last week's mixtape. But we return the first Friday of December with a bang, offering you a rather plentiful selection of new singles and remixes, along with covers provided by partner site Cover Me. So please enjoy, especially since it's officially December and there's no real reason to go outside aside from buying Christmas gifts, and since you can now do that here , there's really no good reason to go outside. So listen: NEW Singles: "Swim [...]

Not that I'm gloating or trying to be a smug git, but this year I am Mr. Organized , three weeks plus to go until Christmas and I'm done with my shopping, for the first time ever I'm sorted with no sign of a panic or last minute dash to the shops in sight, so Christmas stress levels should be at an all time low, leaving me to spend hours pouring over my best of 2010 lists and I've started thinking about putting together this years and immediately procrastination reared it's combative head and left with the usual dilemma of what to [...]