We took a drive last weekend and came across a field with acres of gourds drying in the sun. You would not believe how big these things are.
What’s happening on the blogroll:
Count Me Out notes that both Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and the Handsome Furs will have new releases early in [...]
Electronica Wednesday? Well, maybe this week anyway. And I see another post has been gobbled without notice and for no reason whatsoever–last Monday’s “True Colors” cover by Ane Brun, which was provided to me legally for posting.
Solid Gold
Minneapolis “ghettotech” band Solid Gold have released their full-length follow-up Bodies of Water to their earlier [...]
I know people liked that cover of Radiohead’s “Idioteque” from last Finally Friday. Now listen to a couple of this new Sand Diego outfit’s own tunes from their new album Mirror, out now.
Calico Horse is the new album and project of the collaboration between Emily Neveu (frontwoman of A Clockwork Army) and producer Pall Jenkins [...]
Cincinnati’s Heartless Bastards played at Spaceland last Friday night, and I am really bummed that we did not go. Unfortunately, both of us are really busy right now. However, Uncle T, a big fan who is responsible for introducing me to them in the first place, did see them at Austin City Limits [...]
Change is good.
Marcy at Lost In Your Inbox threw herself into the Obama campaign, so it’s no wonder that now the job is done she’s experiencing withdrawals with a beautiful song by Nina Nastasia and Jim White.
Music Is Art features a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness and prevention called Keep A Breast Foundation.
To Die By [...]
I am really into the ladies recently.
Swedish songstress Frida Hyvönen, who has toured with Jose González and Jens Lekman, releases her second album, Silence Is Wild, this week. This song has grown on me ever since I found it while looking for songs for a mixed album for a friend. Beautiful [...]
“President Obama!” What an amazing day this is. Somewhere I picture John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, Martin Luther King, and another ground-breaking President from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, cheering because the ideals that they lived and died for have brought us to this incredible day.
“America, we have come so far. We have [...]
Tracy Shedd comes on like a mix of Suzanne Vega, Liz Phair, and Laura Viers on her brand new second album Cigarettes & Smoke Machines, released in September. Like those other ladies, her songs have a tough spine underneath a glowing softness. These should make you want to look up the rest. This [...]
This beautiful Cyndi Lauper cover by Stockholm’s Ane Brun is exquisitely tender and touching, but there are other wonderful tracks on her new album Changing Of the Seasons as well. Her delicate voice, accompanied by either simple guitar or piano on tunes like “The Puzzle” and “Linger With Pleasure” will haunt you. And you [...]
The best man isn’t going to win without your vote, and I’m not hiding who I think the best man is. And Californians: please vote NO on Prop 8. The purpose of the state constitution is not to tell people what they can’t do with their personal lives.
I know Frank Hoier is an [...]
