Video: Crooked Fingers - New Drink for the Old Drunk

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Tonight's tune comes to us from the Denver, Colorado indie-rock band Crooked Fingers . The band is led by front man Eric Bachmann from the now disbanded indie-rock group Archers of Loaf . New Drink for the Old Drunk is the second track from the band's self-titled debut album, released in January of 2000. The band's first two albums were released by the independent label Warm Records before releasing their next two via Merge Records . Merge Records is of course the label responsible for one of my favorite albums of all [...]

A regrettable part of being a music journalist is the inevitability that you WILL miss the boat on a lot of great bands, and a lot of great musicians. If you think about it, there's no way possible to keep up with it all, and I've taken in the past few years the route of the "classics" - mainly '70s and early '80s punk rock and late-'60s folk and psychedelia. It's embarrassing to engage in discussions about a lot of bands who've come out in the last five years and have no idea what I'm talking about; or even bands [...]

Thursday, September 18, 2008 Are you wonderful people still out there!? I haven't seen a single comment since I got back, and the hits have been down a good a bit. Come back to me, my dear readers. We can have all kinds of fun. I promise. OK, with that bit of frazzle out of the way, I can get on with sharing a spectacular new track from Crooked Fingers. Personally, I've never really taken the time to [...]

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