today pitchfork announced the title and release date of the much anticipated follow up to wolf parade’s 2005 debut apologies to the queen mary. it’s called kissing the beehive and is due out june 17. assuming it’s not an early april fools joke, this is awesome news (pitchfork being the only one to report [...]
mp3: patrick wolf – the childcatcher [link expired]
“the childcatcher” was one of my favorite songs of the year back in 2004 when i first picked up lycanthropy, but i haven’t thought about it much since then. that is, until earlier today when i ate lunch across the street from this odd statue and couldn’t help [...]
mp3: stephen malkmus – hopscotch willie (acoustic) [link expired]
malkmus and the jicks are stopping by the 9:30 club tommorrow night, though it’s too late for you if you didn’t already know that… it’s sold out. i have yet to get into the band’s new album real emotional trash, but i haven’t given it much of [...]
mp3: the byrds – my back pages [link expired] ……………. [buy byrds play dylan]
mp3: bob dylan – my back pages [link expired]…………. [buy another side of bob dylan]
since i realized there are a number of people selling sweet used albums for like 2 bucks a pop on amazon i’ve been ordering stuff like crazy. i’ve [...]
i’ve been listening to the joos new album lookout mountain lookout sea nonstop all week, so i figured i’d type up the lyrics i’ve been enjoying so much. update: added the guitar chords. 1. What is Not But Could Be If2. Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer3. Suffering Jukebox4. My Pillow is the Threshold5. Strange Victory, Strange Defeat6. [...]
mp3: karl blau – lake king’s daughtermp3: karl blau – spring morning
this has been a great week for new music. besides the blessed leak of lookout mountain lookout sea, tuesday saw the release of some excellent albums… destroyer’s trouble in dreams, she & him’s volume one, and karl blau’s am to name a few. [...]
mp3: sondre lerche – human hands [link expired]………………. [buy duper sessions]i was on the phone with delta earlier today getting some plane tickets and i was surprised by how enjoyable their on hold music was. i heard an eels song, “chicago” by sufjan stevens and a pretty cool cover of elvis costello’s “human hands” [...]
as promised, destroyer is featured once again in the cover of the week. last week we had dan’s other band hello, blue roses doing a song off destroyer’s soon to be released album, trouble in dreams (it’s out tommorrow, buy it!). this week it’s destroyer vs. the new pornographers! dan has contributed about [...]
mp3: she & him – this is not a test [link expired]
i am not lucky enough to have gotten to go to sxsw but between tv and the internet i’ve been able to check out a number of awesome performances from the festival, like this one. she & him’s debut album volume one releases this [...]
songs by bands whose names begin with “ea” and are under appreciated, ordered by how much i like them. under appreciatedness levels were determined by last.fm listener data and may be subjective (the eames era are the most listened band on this list with 28,000 listeners, is that too many to qualify?). considering how [...]
