On the recommendation of The Torture Garden blog, for the past several days I have been listening a lot to Wagonwheel Blues, the debut album by Philadelphia’s The War On Drugs that was released following their signing to Secretly Canadian last month.
Start with Arcade Fire, take out Win Butler and add [...]
map from the Library of CongressYesterday, we experienced an earthquake registered at 5.4 (or 5.6, or 5.8, depending on who you believe), the most jarring and longest that I’ve felt in a long time. Everyone I know is fine, and I don’t think there were any injuries directly related to the earthquake at all. [...]
photo from Vanity FairI know what you might be thinking: advertisements for AMC’s Mad Men are everywhere. But it really is a show that lives up to its hype. Last night’s season two premiere would probably have been tough to watch for anyone who didn’t watch all of last season. There was [...]
Rutledge, Trepagnier, Gould, and Crawford
The debut CD, Stalk That Myth, by NYC’s Bowery Boy Blue is unusual for being based on Greek mythology, as interpreted by Jean-Paul Sartre in his play Les Mouches (synopsis). As ponderous and depressingly artsy as that sounds, the album could not be further from either of those descriptions. [...]
I Guess I’m Floating has the new Devendra Banhart video, all Bollywood and starring his girlfriend Natalie Portman. I don’t think I’d ever listened to Devendra before, since I was put off by his oddness. Now I see that I was wrong - I like the song and the video is just icing [...]
photo by maga - from HSH myspaceHer Space Holiday, last featured here a couple of years ago, will release a new album on September 9. According to Marc Bianchi on the HSH myspace, XOXO, Panda and the New Kid Revival moves away from the sampling and electronic sound prevalent on previous albums. After [...]
Wolf Parade put on an unbelievable show last Saturday night at the Henry Fonda Theatre, making this the third time Alt-gramma and I have seen them play live. This show, at a larger venue from when we saw them last fall at the Glasshouse and the crowd, accordingly, was much larger and MUCH rowdier. [...]
I haven’t been talking much about Tim Young’s Contrast Podcast. I participate almost every week and it’s a great musical treat whether I’m there or not. If I don’t participate, it’s not because I can’t think of a song that fits the theme; it’s usually because I think of too many songs and can’t [...]
After Josh Tillman announced earlier this year that he had become a Fleet Fox, I thought of a lot of questions to ask him. When FF played their show at the Echo (see Fleet Foxes at the Echo) a few weeks ago, I asked Tillman if he would mind answering them for an interview. [...]
Fields
At our very first concert after we started this blog, Indie Mom and I were introduced to Fields, who opened for the Dears at the Troubadour back in October 2006. This post is also notable for our worst concert photo, taken with Indie Mom’s cell phone because neither of us thought to bring a camera. [...]
