By the time Indie Mom and I see Portishead, the British trio of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley, at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival at the end of April, their third album will still be a couple of days from release in the U.S. I didn’t want to wait; I wanted [...]
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B(oot)log shares some live Stars from 2005 and 2007.
Berkeley Place shows you how country can rock with some nice covers.
Can You See The Sunset writes some excellent reviews, including Murder Mystery and Aloha.
Start with the Daily Graboid at The Yellow Stereo and then keep reading.
Check out Song By Toad for a review of [...]
photo by Jacob KeinickeThe Fashion are a glam-new wave group out of Denmark who sent me an EP that I finally got around to listening to, and I’m glad I did. This fun, fast music that poured out of my car stereo had me awake and dancing on my way to work, which is [...]
from flickr photo setThis weekend I trolled my favorite local record store, Rhino Records, to see what I could find. I love their 99-cent bin, usually full of hidden treasures amongst the crap. Sometimes I find nothing, other times gold - and this time I was lucky. I picked up The Whigs‘ [...]
Indie Mom and I had the excellent good fortune to see Midnight Movies at the Troubadour in December 2006, just after we had started this blog. The band was impressive then, and they seem to have only grown in maturity and confidence, to judge from their latest release, an EP called Nights.
Of course an [...]
The big reason why I’m so fascinated with SXSW, even if I didn’t get to go, and even though it’s over for another year, there is still several months’ worth of music that remains to be discovered from it. Here are just a few of my picks.
The Dodos (photo above): JodiMySpace | [...]
“Peep Show” (source unknown)If you haven’t already seen these, check out Sarah Silverman’s birthday present to her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy’s response. (NSFW)
If you’re in L.A. tonight and you’re not going to see Nada Surf and Sea Wolf at the Glasshouse, then check out Say Hi at Spaceland or The Mae Shi at the [...]
Bluebonnets - Texas State Flower
I’m on vacation! Guess where! I have a few posts in the can for you during the week I’m away.
PlayRadioPlay!: Texas from Texas (2008) MySpace
Lyle Lovett: That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas) from The Road To Ensenada (1996)
Ferraby Lionheart: Under the Texas Sky from Catch the Brass Ring (2007)
No [...]
Hearing Buddy Holly’s delightful little “Dearest” on the Juno soundtrack prompted me to search for other jewels by one of the founding fathers of rock and roll. I much prefer the ones with less orchestra, the plainer ones with less production.
I was alive but not even a teenager yet at the time of his [...]
If you have not noticed how much I’ve mentioned the Glasgow, Scotland, band Sons and Daughters lately, then you’re just not paying attention! I have talked about them twice in conjunction with SXSW, and now I’m going to hit you with an album review of their debut full-length CD, This Gift.
It’s not too early [...]
