Finally Friday

Jordan Geiger of Hospital Ships, Shearwater, and Minus Story
Quarterlife Party features clips of five tracks from the new Ryan Adams CD Cardinology. I think this album is going to take a few listens to get into.
Muzzle of Bees gives us a heads-up on the new Oasis album. NOW I’m interested!
Passion of the Weiss saw [...]

Time For Change

I don’t usually use this space to express my political opinions. As much as I support Barack Obama for President, I’m not making annoying phone calls (I hate getting them), and I’m not knocking on doors waving a survey. I’m using my own blogspace to speak my views on the coming U.S. Presidential election. [...]

Liz Durrett: Outside Our Gates

I’m taking a break today from Uncle T’s adventures at Austin City Limits so I can talk about this wonderful album I have been listening to.
Outside Our Gates, released in early September, is Liz Durrett’s third full-length album. Her papery-dry whisper of a singing voice has been compared to Cat Power’s, but there [...]

ACL 2008: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Uncle T wound up Day 2 at Austin City Limits with this dynamite duo and the legendary T-Bone Burnett on guitar. “Battle of Evermore!” Wowza! That’s one of my favorite Led Zep songs.
~alt-gramma~
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

I caught the last 30 minutes of this amazing set. They sounded magnificent; much more powerful than [...]

ACL 2008: Soul Sunday

Uncle T continues with Austin City Limits, Day 2, delving into gospel, RnB, soul, and funk. I hear a lot in the Lee Boys that reminds me of the Allman Brothers at their peak, and I’m aware that the Allmans took a lot of influence from black southern blues.
The Lee Boys
Alvin Lee of the [...]

Eulogies: New EP

from Eulogies’ myspaceAlso out on Tuesday was Eulogies‘ new EP, Tempted To Do Nothing. We last saw the band in a small setting, at LA’s The Echo. Check out this track from the new EP and one from last year’s self-titled release. Eulogies has a few dates scheduled this Fall, with The [...]

A Reckoner Remix

So how many of the nearly 1,000 Reckoner remixes (at the time of this writing) have you listened to? Speaking for myself, only very small fraction, and some of them I haven’t cared for very much.
Here is one that I do like. It’s by Brendan Merrick, a young Scotsman from the Glasgow area, [...]

finally friday

Bad news: as of this post, the website that hosts our blogroll (blogrolling.com) is down. I stupidly don’t have any of my favorite blogs bookmarked, depending only on the links on SoD to read them. So instead of going down the blogroll list, I went through Hype Machine. I vow to bookmark [...]

Minus the Bear: New EP

photo from MtB’s myspaceMinus the Bear released a new EP, Acoustics Tuesday, featuring acoustic versions of some of their most popular songs. The EP is available digitally only; the hard copies will be sold on their Fall tour (with Annuals) only.
Check out the single from the EP here:
minus the bear: guns & ammo [buy [...]

ACL 2008: Alejandro Escovedo

Today we have another installment of Uncle T’s Day 1 at Austin City Limits with one of his long-time favorites, Alejandro Escovedo and his band. These wonderful live MP3s are from Escovedo’s performance on September 8 at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA, except for “Sister Lost Soul” with its irresistible violin [...]