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Category: rock and roll it
song share: the head and the heart – shake
After several listens, I think I’m pretty into the new Head and the Heart song. I am definitely into the bass line. But Adam and I are still talking about it, so I will probably have more feelings later. That’s why you should have good friends who are also music nerds: you can talk out…
that little girl, so hot she’s scalding
Don’t worry, I’m just having my semi-regular Ha Ha Tonka related head injury. This time prompted by their upcoming new record, which is still two months away from being in my hands, a fact that is currently driving me up a wall. The version of ’12-Inch 3 Speed Oscillating Fan’ from last year at Bristol….
video share: kingsley flood – sigh a while
Kingsley Flood’s Battles is one of my favorite records of 2013, and one of the most overlooked. Watch their latest video, for ‘Sigh A While’, below, and if you’re going to be at Newport this weekend, catch them on July 26 at 2:30pm on the Fort Stage.
from the archives: holy ghost tent revival – the blood beneath
Back in 2008, I met a bunch of kids from Greensboro who called themselves Holy Ghost Tent Revival, and with whose music shep. and I immediately fell in love with. Over the next two and a half years, we saw HGTR play probably upwards of 50 times, all over the Southeast. We drove to Norfolk…
video share: frank turner tiny desk session
Someday I’m going to tour Europe with Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls, and when I get back, I will die happy. Tiny Desk Session: Recovery; The Way I Tend To Be; and a version of Photosynthesis that seriously made me so happy at work that I did that thing where I hiccup, make a…
video share: the julie ruin – ‘oh come on’
Kathleen Hanna has been one of my idols since I was a teenager, and this video for the first real single off the Julie Ruin’s upcoming full length debut just makes my heart glow with happiness. A glorious new one from the original queen of brat punk. Look for an interview with Julie Ruin guitarist…
playlist: i think i love you (but only in the summertime)
Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course. — Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing For me, the summer is…
video: first aid kit – waitin’ around to die
Some things, like your job, are soul-crushing because they are terrible. Other things are soul-crushing because they are so astonishingly beautiful. Via Adam, this video of First Aid Kit covering Townes Van Zandt’s ‘Waitin’ Around To Die’ is the latter, which is good, because today was really the former.
song share: pixies – bagboy
It’s the summer of 1997, and the first boy I ever loved put “La La Love You” on a mix tape for me. It’s the summer of 2013, and he’s married (and he lives in Hoboken, to boot, so if you Google yourself, Tim Catts, you could email me), and I’m single (but I get…
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